Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. What if you're blind to the fact that you're

blind? Like being blind means you can't see things and that comes with

significant challenges but what if you are blind to your blindness? In other words, what if you couldn't see but

insisted that you could? That's a pretty scary proposition. There's a condition called

Anton Babinski Syndrome and it is a rare symptom that occurs when a certain part of your brain is damaged.

Those who suffer from it are blind but affirm quite adamantly in the face of clear evidence that they are capable of seeing.

Now this Anton Babinski syndrome, it is incredibly rare.

But something that is similar and far more common is spiritual blindness. When we are blind

to our spiritual blindness we have a lot of misplaced confidence. Think about

American Idol and in those shows at the beginning of the season they would do these auditions all over the country and people would line up because they thought they were going to maybe make it on the show and become famous.

Now, some of the people who are auditioning for the show

were terrible singers.

But the point wasn't just that they were bad.

I mean, I think I'm the worst singer ever.

It's that some of the people who are incredibly bad singers

thought they were very good singers. They couldn't see themselves accurately.

Revelation 3, you say I am rich, I have acquired wealth and I do not need a thing, but do you not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked? See they were very confident. They thought they were rich, they didn't need anything, and yet they were blind to their real condition.

So some people are blind to Jesus, like they see him as a man but not God. They see him as a teacher but not savior. Some people look at the cross and see it as weakness, not strength, as foolishness, not wisdom, as a means of execution, not as a means of salvation.

When you're blind to your own blindness,

that means that you don't know spiritual truth,

but you are very confident that you do.

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