Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. One of the most devastating effects

of sin is spiritual blindness. Not only are we blind, but we're blind to our blindness. In today's episode, we

continue our sermon series from the archives, the gospel according to Mark, as Paul talks about

the difference of being willfully blind and blindly willful. To hear more sermons from Paul,

visit paultrip.com slash sermons. Now here's Paul with today's message.

If someone were to ask you to list four or five of the most serious effects results of sin,

what would you put on your list?

You give you a moment to think about that. What would be on your list? You give you a moment to think about that.

What would be on your list?

Surely on my list would be this thing called spiritual blindness.

It is a devastating effect of sin.

You see, God has created human beings with two sets of eyes or two vision systems.

There are your physical eyes so that you can see physical things.

And spiritual eyes or the eyes of the heart so that you could perceive spiritual things. Sin blinds. And it so fundamentally blinds us that it blinds us to our

blindness. And this passage really is about this dynamic of spiritual

blindness. In fact, there are really two kinds of spiritual blindness that are exegeted in this

passage. Let me just lay out for you how the passage works.

You have four sections.

It's a rather lengthy passage that we're going to look at briefly this evening.

The first section really is a set-up event.

It sets up the middle two sections of the passage, And the fourth event summarizes the middle two

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