Spiritual Understanding

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Spiritual Vision And Understanding
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Spiritual Vision And Understanding

• Matthew 1313-16
• This is why I speak to them in parables "Though
  seeing, they do not see though hearing, they do
  not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the
  prophecy of Isaiah "You will be ever hearing
  but never understanding you will be ever seeing
  but never perceiving.

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Spiritual Vision And Understanding

• Matthew 1313-16
• For this people's heart has become calloused
  they hardly hear with their ears, and they have
  closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with
  their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with
  their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
  But blessed are your eyes because they see, and
  your ears because they hear.

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Spiritual Vision And Understanding

• Colossians 19
• 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

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Spiritual Blindness

• Ephesians 418-19
• 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 who, being past
  feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness,
  to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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Spiritual Blindness

• Psalm 825 They do not know, nor do they
  understand They walk about in darkness All the
  foundations of the earth are unstable. (NKJV)
• Proverbs 419 The way of the wicked is like
  darkness They do not know what makes them
  stumble.

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The Causes Of Spiritual Blindness

• 2 Corinthians 44
• 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.

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The Causes Of Spiritual Blindness

• Matthew 1514
• "Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the
  blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both
  will fall into a ditch." (NKJV)

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The Causes Of Spiritual Blindness

• John 319
• "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)

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The Causes Of Spiritual Blindness

• 1 John 211
• 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)

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The Causes Of Spiritual Blindness

• 2 Peter 19
• For he who lacks these things is shortsighted,
  even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was
  cleansed from his old sins. (NKJV)

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Spiritual Vision

• John 939
• 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)

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Spiritual Vision

• Acts 2618 '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.' (NKJV)

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Spiritual Vision

• Ephesians 118
• 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, (NKJV)

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Spiritual Vision

• Psalm 198
• The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing
  the heart The commandment of the LORD is pure,
  enlightening the eyes (NKJV)

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Spiritual Vision

• Psalm 11918 Open my eyes, that I may see
  Wondrous things from Your law.
• Proverbs 223 A prudent man foresees evil and
  hides himself, But the simple pass on and are
  punished.

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