2Corinthians
4:3-4
"But
if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:* In
whom ** the god of this world (Satan) 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."
*if
they are lost, they are in darkness. If they are in darkness,
they are blind, and it is just a vicious cycle, this is also the
state of those who are in the first estate. Oh, they have received redemption but yet the Bible is still a mystery to them, they have only the right to become a son of God. There remains a journey down the hill of despair and the revelation of how utterly sinful and bankrupt they are. Then there is the wanderings in the wilderness seeking for God and His righteousness. **those
that are lost? No, but those who profess to believe but don't know
just what it is they believe.
Do
you see how one feeds on the other. If the world can keep people blind, they
can not see the light. Oh, there are many a man who profess to have truth but truth is not Light nor is it Life eternal. If the world can keep them from seeing the light,
they are going to stay blind. And the end will never meet, until the
Lord moves in of course, and breaks this chain of blindness that is the
blinder in the mind and hearts of both lost and yes, even the
redeemed people alike. That is why we are given the Holy Spirit as a
comforter, trainer, teacher and guide. But He can be copied and the false spirit thereby lead many astray. All the while they believe they are in the state of redemption. And as we have seen and heard the warnings even those in Salvation can also become distracted or turned away.
We are going to read the next verse also. We have had it
happen, where some one said,
"Well, you make too much of the Apostle Paul." And the person from whom this was spoken floored me, because he was and still is a close friend our ours.
2Corinthians
4:5
"For
we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves
your servants for Jesus’ sake."
Always remember that when we are constantly emphasizing Paul’s
Apostleship it is only because Paul gives us the true view of the
finished work of the cross, we do not get it anywhere else. This
is why we spend as much time as we do in the Pauline Epistles.
We
are going to stay in Paul’s Epistles, because this is where we are
now. This is what we have to know today, this is what we have to know
to tell people how to get ready so they won’t be here for the Book
of Revelation. Tell you what, we sure do not want to be here
for that. We know the world scoffs at the Book of Revelation, because
they can not imagine that these things are going to happen, but they
are. We have been sharing in the Book of Exodus, and all the plagues
that happened there. People do not scoff at that because there is
enough valid proof that those plagues happened, but we say, if we can
believe the plagues in Egypt, we had better believe the plagues in
Revelation, because one is tied to the other.
We
are just going to keep sharing what Paul teaches because he is going
to be constantly putting us in the crucified, risen, and ascended
Lord, our union with Him. Back to Ephesians chapter 4, verse
19, and Paul is speaking of those people who are in darkness. He is
speaking of those people who the god of this world is keeping blind.
Ephesians
4:19
"Who
being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work
all uncleanness with greediness."
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