Published on Jun 14, 2012
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Let's open the Bible to Mark chapter 8...Mark chapter 8, so blessed to be back in Mark. Been waiting with bated breath to pick up the story where we left it off in chapter 8 verse 10, and we now come to verses 11 to 21.
Now the theme of this section from 11 to 21, I have identified as spiritual blindness...spiritual blindness. There's actually only one reference in the whole text, verse 18, to the issue of being able to see and not see. But that one little phrase sort of casts its shadow over the entire section. And to understand this section is to really understand the issue of spiritual blindness by virtue of two illustrations. The first is an encounter with Jesus and the leaders of Israel, the religious elite. The second is an encounter between Jesus and the disciples. They illustrate to us two kinds of blindness, permanent blindness and temporary blindness.
It has to be said at the very beginning before we look at the text itself that spiritual blindness is a universal malady, it is a universal human condition. Every human being born into this world since the Fall of Adam has been born spiritually blind. And it is not a superficial blindness, it is a profound blindness, it is a total blindness, it is a complete blindness. It is essentially living in the darkness with no light at all. That is the biblical diagnosis of the universal human condition....
Let's open the Bible to Mark chapter 8...Mark chapter 8, so blessed to be back in Mark. Been waiting with bated breath to pick up the story where we left it off in chapter 8 verse 10, and we now come to verses 11 to 21.
Now the theme of this section from 11 to 21, I have identified as spiritual blindness...spiritual blindness. There's actually only one reference in the whole text, verse 18, to the issue of being able to see and not see. But that one little phrase sort of casts its shadow over the entire section. And to understand this section is to really understand the issue of spiritual blindness by virtue of two illustrations. The first is an encounter with Jesus and the leaders of Israel, the religious elite. The second is an encounter between Jesus and the disciples. They illustrate to us two kinds of blindness, permanent blindness and temporary blindness.
It has to be said at the very beginning before we look at the text itself that spiritual blindness is a universal malady, it is a universal human condition. Every human being born into this world since the Fall of Adam has been born spiritually blind. And it is not a superficial blindness, it is a profound blindness, it is a total blindness, it is a complete blindness. It is essentially living in the darkness with no light at all. That is the biblical diagnosis of the universal human condition....
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