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Spiritual blindness

Physical blindness is the inability to see anything including light. Physical blindness is caused by various things, however, that's not what we are going to be looking into today. Physical blindness can require the aid of someone else, the same can be said of spiritual blindness. Spiritual blindness is worse than physical blindness. It is a condition that makes it difficult for individuals to see or understand God despite the fact that God is working all around us, pursuing us and showing us his glory. The scribes and Pharisee studied the word to teach people, still, they were spiritually blind. Why? Because they claimed to know everything. However, when the promised Messiah came they couldn't see nor tell because they had been blinded by self-righteousness. Spiritual blindness is sometimes caused when one glorifies himself above God's word. In  2 Corinthians 4:3-4 . Paul says, if our gospel is hidden from people, it's hidden because the god of this world has blindfold

Two Kinds of Wisdom

Wisdom is based on our five senses, taste, smell, touch sight and hearing. Our human wisdom is dangerous and can even destroy us if we walk by it. Genesis 3:6 we see Eve working according to sense knowledge because he r decision came as a result of what she saw with her natural sight. The only way the devil was able to win over Eve was by making her see things in the physical realm,   that is to say, what she needed to do in order for her to be like God. Eve already had the wisdom of God within her but the devil shifted her eyes to fruit that was supposed to make her wise and that wisdom brought her nakedness.  When we walk in the realm of the flesh, sin is never far away and this could make us vulnerable to every attack of the devil. Genesis 3:7 says that they realised they were naked. Many people today walk in the wisdom of this world which is fully controlled by the devil. Earthly wisdom caused the builder in Matthew 7 to use the wrong foundation. T he foundation was tested and