Have you ever wondered why some people readily accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ,while others seem be oblivious to its importance? Why do some believe and others have no clue what the fuss is all about?
The biggest reason for this disconnect is that a blind person cannot see. When the s ales are over your eyes, you live in darkness. And where do you suppose spiritual darkness originates?
WoW, I lived in darkness for most of my life. I had a horrible existence. I was blinded for so long. I often think wow hard I had to fight to escape the bondage Satan had over me. It was a hard 5 years. I felt like I was fighting for my life, and I was.
The apostle Paul penned the answer to the question: why do some people ready accept Jesus and other don’t? He answered “Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).
The “god of the age” is Satan. And make no mistake about it. Satan hates you and wants to see you suffer. He definitely wants you as far away from Jesus as possible.
While, we do not understand how Satan blinds the mind’s of unbelievers, Scripture reveals that Satan had the supernatural ability to block a person’s spiritual vision to see that the power of God is more powerful than Satan. He put lies in our heads constantly. He makes us feel that we are hated and unworthy. He drags us down so we are so weak, we will not be able to seek God.
But, we must understand that without God’s intervention, you and I wouldn’t stand a chance against Satan. But if we able to ask God for help He will. God is on our side. “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
There are various symptoms that surface when a person’s mind is blinded by Satan.
Here are 7 of the symptoms:
1. You Assume there is no God, or you assume you “good needs” will prompt God to accept you.
Atheists choose to blindly believe that something came from nothing. Ow compare their blind faith to the evidence- based faith of Christianity. Our Creator grants believers the eyes to see and ears to hear (Matthew 13:16),
Christianity is unique among all the religions in the world. In fact Christianity is not si much a religion as it is a relationship with a loving God. Jesus was not religious. He Prayed and spoke to His Father continuously.
Every other religion drives people to attempt to earn their way into heaven and providing the everlasting bliss. Only Christianity secures tho gift of everlasting eternal life in heaven.
Ephesians 2:8-9 says “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourselves; it is a gift of God; not by works, that no one would boast.
The moment you believe in Jesus and that He died and was born again you are saved, redeemed, born again, justified and forgiven. Repent of your sins, and turn away from them.
Those who have been blinded by Satan are living under the delusion that they can somehow work their way into heaven. Satan tells us we have to be perfect 100% of the time, and God Will punish us if we aren’t.
Only the death of Jesus on the cross provides the forgiveness of our sins, and this new life will enter your soul the moment you “repent and believe the good news” (Mark 1:15).
2. You assume you are not on the road to hell,even though you refuse to trust Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins.
God wants all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4) And yet the bottom line is that many people refuse to come to Christ to have their sins forgiven.
Jesus said, “Enter through the gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).
3. You reject the biblical doctrine of the Trinity, which states that God consists of 3 persons in one God.
The Bible reveals that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are equally God. I think of it like this we are Body, Soul and Spirit that make up each of us, as a whole being.
If someone ever tells you that the doctrine of the Trinity is unbiblical, you are talking to a person who has been blinded by Satan. Pray for that person and ask the Lord to reveal the truth through the Word of God.
Human reason alone is unable to accept the doctrine of the Trinity. It is a spiritual truth that can only be accepted by faith as a believer embraces what the Bible says concerning the nature of God.
4. Even though the dejected apostles were transformed into enthusiastic ambassadors as seeing Jesus alive you nevertheless refuse to believe the overwhelming evidence for Jesus’s resurrection.
If the Lord’s disciples had not spent time with the risen Messiah, Christianity would never have gotten off the ground. It would have been on arrival. Nothing but Jesus’s literal physical resurrection could have transformed these disciples into such bold witnesses after the met with their risen Savior.
A web of interrelated facts marks the resurrection of Jesus one of the best attested facts of the ancient world.
5. You assume that your good deeds can make up for your bad deeds in God’s eyes.
While a person tends to assume that their “good” deeds deliver some great contribution, this doesn’t mean that God views such deeds the same way. In fact the Prophet Isaiah tells us how the Lord looks a man’s sincere attempts to become righteous in God’s eyes: “All of us have become like one who is unclean and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6).
In other words. 1000 of our so called “good deeds” could never wash away the stain of even one sin. Only the blood of Jesus has that kind of power. This is why the Savior was sacrificed for sinners. it was the only way we could be saved period.
6. You fail to see and believe that only the blood of Jesus can wash away your sins. Charles Spurgeon, a well known preacher from England said, “Morality will keep you out jail, but only the blood of Jesus will keep you out of hell.
“In Christ we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace” (Ephesians 1:7),
7. You take coronavirus warning more serious than Jesus’s warnings that unless you repent, you will spend eternity in hell.
Jesus said, ‘This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous, where there will be gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 13-49-50).
If Satan has blinded you, it’s extremely urgent that you accept Jesus today.
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