The unbelief of the people was prophesied in Isaiah 53:1. He also prophesied that God will blind their eyes and harden their hearts that they may not be converted and healed.
Why does God blind the eyes and harden the hearts of men? Does He not want them to see and be converted? Did not Jesus die for the sins of the whole world?
God must be against those He blinds and those He hardens. He is opposing them definitely otherwise He would open their eyes and soften their hearts so the they maybe converted and healed.
There is one unchanging principle in God; God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. James 4:6, 1Pet 5:5.
It is because the people are proud they God blinds them and hardens their hearts. If you are proud of anything, God will oppose you. It was pride that changed angels into devil's. We don't know how long they had lived as angels, but the moment they became proud, God opposed them and they became demons.
God has not changed; don't rely on your past life of how saintly you have lived in the past, the moment you become proud of anything you have that others don't have; God will blind you spiritually. the devil was proud of his riches, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, even bible knowledge, business, perfection in what you do, beauty, position, anointing...Ezek 28:3-15.
The things that the devil was proud of is the things that he tempts us to be proud of.
To overcome pride, we must learn to first acknowledge that whatever we have, God has given us. 1Cor 4:7.
We must also learn to compare ourselves with Jesus alone, what we have, our accomplishments and everything.
It is because we compare ourselves with others that we become proud when we are better than them, and become jealous when they are better than us or we become depressed when they are very far above us.
We are not to run the race fixing our eyes on others but Jesus. If your eyes are fixed on Jesus, we will never compare ourselves with any human being in anything. Heb 12:2
Remember if you are proud, God will oppose you no matter who you are, whether you are a preacher or whoever you are. Always Humble yourself.
Pride is the main cause of spiritual blindness in the lives of many christians.
There are people who believed in Jesus but they didn't confess them for fear they would be put out of their synagogues.
for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.
Can this be said of you?
Does it disturb you what people say or think of you if you become a bold witness for Christ?
Are you ashamed to be known as a christian?
Jesus says that whoever believes in Him, believes in the Father. whoever sees Him, sees the Father.
If Christ dwells in you, those who see you should see something of Christ in you.Yes you are not perfect, but they should sense something of God in you and that should increase as you continue walking with the Lord.
Jesus is the light of the world, whoever believes in Him should not remain in darkness.
If you are claiming to have believed but you still are continuing in the path of sin, you are deceiving yourself; you have a counterfeit faith. True faith brings you into the light. We know that the light is the life of Jesus
We must continually partake of this life of Jesus if we are still living in true faith in Jesus as the Son of God who died for our sins.
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