P052 Blind To The Truth
Blind To The Truth
[2Cor 4:4]
You wonder how so many people these days can be so stupid about what is going on in the world. How can so many be so blind as to not see through the smoke screens of a stolen election, a bogus “president” with idiotic mandates, and news media liars. People take a mask mandate as “law,” and corporations enforce illegitimate rules that destroy their own business, and can’t even see it.
Just as there are degrees of physical blindness, there are various degrees or levels of spiritual blindness. One New Testament word, poroo (po-ro’-o) used five times in the KJV as harden, and blind, from the root word “poros” (a kind of stone). It means blind, blindness, hard, harden, hardening, hardness; to petrify, or to indurate (render spiritually stupid or callous), to harden. (Rom 11:7; 2Cor 3:14; Eph 4:18. Induration took place to cause a consolidation of sediments to make sedimentary rocks. (This reminds me of my own definition of concrete Christians—they are thoroughly mixed up and well-set in their ways.)
Another Greek word, typhlos (toof-los’) is the most used word for blind, or blindness, used 53 times in the KJV describing blind 44 times, and blind man 9 times. This word means opaque (as if smoky), i.e. (by analogy) blind (physically or mentally). You should look these up in your Bible, (Mt 9:27-28; 11:5; 12:22; 15:14; Rom 2:19; 2Pet 1:9; Rev 3:17).
Now in Second Corinthians 4:4 we see a variation of this word translated “blinded.” This is where we find the real type of blindness that causes people not to see what is happening in these last of the last days. It is amazing how folks can be intelligent in some ways and yet be totally blind to the truth.
2 Corinthians 4:4 (KJV) – In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Typhloo (toof-lo’-o) blind, blindness used in KJV only three times. It is from (tuphlos); to make blind. Figuratively, to obscure or blind. (Jn 12:40; 2Cor 4:4; 1Jn 2:11).
Paul used the word typhloo, here to say that the unbeliever’s minds are blinded by the devil. This is much worse than poor eyesight, or a difficulty in understanding. This blindness is not the result of an accident. This is not even a loss of physical sight, this is about not having any eyes to see with. These people have been intentionally blinded by someone else. They have no eyes!
Paul said that Satan “…blinded the minds of them which believe not….” The Greek word for “mind” here is noema, this word means more than nous, which is the physical mind. The word Paul used here was noema meaning the thoughts, reasoning, opinions, feelings, beliefs, or views a person holds. So you could say, Satan has “gouged out” the spiritual eyes of unbelievers.
There are spiritual powers at work in unbelievers to blind them to the truth of God’s Word. This is surely one area that we should take authority over when we pray for the lost to be saved. We also need to pray that God would send laborers across their paths with the Word of God (Mt 9:38).
There is a fierce spiritual battle going on behind the physical scenes to stop the light of the Gospel from shining in people’s hearts (Eph 6:12). This is why it is so hard to persuade some people with the Gospel.
This might lead some to think that those who have their minds blinded can’t be reached, but in the context of Paul’s statement, it is clear that God commands light to shine out of darkness into people’s hearts (2Cor 4:6). The glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ can penetrate the worst darkness the devil can produce.
Therefore, it is imperative that we continue to preach the true Gospel, for it is the power of God that breaks through this spiritual darkness and brings salvation (Rom 1:16). It’s the Word of God that produces salvation, not programs and socials. Any religion or religious activity that does not have Christ as the focal center of man’s redemption is a dead work that must be repented of (Heb 6:1) in order to receive the full benefit of God’s redeeming grace (Rom 11:6 and Gal 3:21).
God bless you my friend,