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One of the most devastating effects of sin is spiritual blindness.

Not only are we blind, but we're blind to our blindness.

Today, we're going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the Book of Mark,

and in this message, Paul talks about the difference between being willfully blind and blindly willful.

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Now here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

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?

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

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