Transcript Spiritual Vision And Understanding

Spiritual Vision And
Understanding
Spiritual Vision And
Understanding
• Matthew 13:13-17 Therefore I speak to
them in parables, because seeing they
do not see, and hearing they do not
hear, nor do they understand.
• 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah
is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you
will hear and shall not understand, And
seeing you will see and not perceive;
Spiritual Vision And
Understanding
• Matthew 13:13-17
• 15 For the hearts of this people have
grown dull. Their ears are hard of
hearing, And their eyes they have
closed, Lest they should see with their
eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they
should understand with their hearts
and turn, So that I should heal them.'
Spiritual Vision And
Understanding
• Matthew 13:13-17
• 16 But blessed are your eyes
for they see, and your ears for
they hear;
Spiritual Blindness
Ephesians 4:18-19
having their understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God,
because of the ignorance that is in
them,
because of the blindness of their heart;
Spiritual Blindness
Ephesians 4:18-19
19 who, being past feeling,
have given themselves over to
lewdness, to work all uncleanness with
greediness.
Spiritual Blindness
Psalm 82:5 They do not know, nor do
they understand; They walk about in
darkness; All the foundations of the
earth are unstable.
Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked
[is] like darkness; They do not know
what makes them stumble.
The Causes
Of Spiritual Blindness
• 2 Corinthians 4:4
• whose minds the god of this age
has blinded, who do not believe,
lest the light of the gospel of the
glory of Christ, who is the image of
God, should shine on them. (NKJV)
The Causes
Of Spiritual Blindness
• 2 Corinthians 11:14-15
• And no wonder! For Satan himself
transforms himself into an angel of
light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if
his ministers also transform
themselves into ministers of
righteousness, whose end will be
according to their works.
The Causes
Of Spiritual Blindness
• Matthew 15:14
• "Let them alone. They are blind
leaders of the blind.
• And if the blind leads the blind,
both will fall into a ditch." (NKJV)
The Causes
Of Spiritual Blindness
• John 3:19
• "And this is the condemnation, that the
light has come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil. (NKJV)
The Causes
Of Spiritual Blindness
• 1 John 2:11
• But he who hates his brother is in
darkness and walks in darkness,
• and does not know where he is going,
because the darkness has blinded his
eyes. (NKJV)
The Causes
Of Spiritual Blindness
• 2 Peter 1:9
• For he who lacks these things is
shortsighted, even to blindness,
and has forgotten that he was
cleansed from his old sins.
Spiritual Vision
John 9:39
And Jesus said, "For judgment I have
come into this world, that those who do
not see may see, and that those who
see may be made blind." (NKJV)
Spiritual Vision
Acts 26:18
'to open their eyes,
[in order] to turn [them] from darkness
to light,
and [from] the power of Satan to God,
that they may receive forgiveness of
sins and an inheritance among those
who are sanctified by faith in Me.'
Spiritual Vision
Romans 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.
Spiritual Vision
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of
things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen.
Spiritual Vision
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes, that I may see
Wondrous things from Your law.
Spiritual Vision
Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God, so
that the things which are seen were not
made of things which are visible.
Spiritual Vision
Ephesians 1:18
the eyes of your understanding
being enlightened;
that you may know what is the
hope of His calling,
what are the riches of the glory of
His inheritance in the saints,
Spiritual Vision
Psalm 19:8
The statutes of the LORD [are]
right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the LORD
[is] pure, enlightening the eyes;
Spiritual Vision
Colossians 1:9
For this reason we also, since the day
we heard it, do not cease to pray for
you, and to ask that you may be filled
with the knowledge of His will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding.
Spiritual Vision
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent [man] foresees evil
and hides himself,
But the simple pass on and are
punished.