Isaiah - the Vision - Part Three: “Spiritual Blindness” Isaiah 29:9-14* At his inauguration Isaiah was warned that he was called to a prophetic office at a crisis point: Isaiah 6:9-10

Three Facts about Spiritual Blindness:

1. Spiritual Blindness is a Choice

• They were literally drunk in: Isaiah 28:7-8
• Now, it is figurative, a spiritual stupor.
• If you refuse to listen to God today, you may be unable to hear him tomorrow. Hebrews 4:6-7

2. Spiritual Blindness is Part of God’s Judgment

• Interestingly enough it is not the priests who are chiefly to blame for the blindness of the people; it is those who had access to God--the prophets and the seers:1 Sam 9:9
• Paul’s message escaped the grasp of the Philosophical elite: Acts 17:32-34
• The sheep are without shepherds: Mt 9:36

3. Spiritual Blindness leads to Manipulative Religion

• Manipulative religion is the very worst kind of pride because it attempts to make God our servant instead of recognizing that we are his servant
• This verse is quoted in part by Jesus to show the hypocrisy of the Pharisees: Mt. 15:8-9
• God will do a wonder that will destroy the wisdom and intellectualism of the world: Jeremiah 8:9
• True wisdom recognizes that the meaning of life is to be open to God, to give him freedom with us, and to live in radical trust of him: 1Cor 1:18-21

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