An Autopsy of Spiritual Blindness (Rom. 11:7-10)
Image from Pixabay The Bible doesn’t put every unbeliever in the same category. Though all unbelief in the gospel is sin, some species of unbelief are worse than others. However, what makes it worse is not so much the kinds of flagrant sins that we often associate with “being bad,” but the attitude a person takes towards the gospel. There is a kind of unbeliever who has resisted the gospel for so long that they have put themselves in a place where God has given them over to a state judicial hardening and blindness. And there is nothing left for them “but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries” (Heb. 10:27). The Bible warns us of this type of person because it is meant to stir up the elect to a godly fear and repentance and faith. When this warning is taken to heart, it is a means under God’s grace of preserving a soul from utter and eternal ruin. But for it to be a means, we have to understand the...
