SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS
SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS
Carnality and Narrow Mindedness
One thing you will notice as you grow in maturity in Christ is the paradox of opposites being twisted and manipulated as being one of the same. Similarly to calling evil good and good evil is exactly what Satan does through his lies and deceptions.
Narrow mindedness is a carnal mindset of the soul and fallen nature of humanity resulting in spiritual blindness imposed and empowered by Satan since the fall of humanity. This mindset of narrow mindedness only believing what you have been taught, brought up in and appealing to you or your earthly life experiences. Jesus himself referred to this as “leaven in bread” which was of the religious leaders, better stated the teachings of this world. Surely dying to yourself to follow and be built up in Christ is not appealing to those who perish. As born again believers we must keep ourselves in the love of God which will draw us deeper into the very heart of God, Jude 1:21. Love that is NOT reciprocated does not grow in love or revelations of Christ Jesus.
Salvation is the initial “call” to Christ Jesus but are we being built up into a royal priesthood by Spirit and Truth? Spirit and Truth ONLY comes from the Lord by the indwelling Holy Spirit and not from the teachings of humanity or the wisdom of humanity.
1 John 2:27 (NKJV)
27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
As stated in my previous postings it was the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus that taught the disciples not the human, but the divine. This has not changed in any way and stands true today. Many people need to be “unlearned” so they can be taught, this is dying to yourself and to others and only seeking the Lord in Spirit and Truth. Everything written or spoken has a spirit attached to it. It’s either of the Lord, Antichrist or your own soul/flesh. This is why what you hear, see and read must be “filtered and validated” by the Holy Spirit. You must receive a spiritual witness from the Lord.
So in conclusion a carnal mindset is narrow minded but believes by deception that is is open and ready for a more “broader way/path of spiritual revelations of Christ Jesus”. Polar opposites in reality but the person never the less believes they are on the right path. Jesus said because you say you can see you are blind! This is narrow mindedness not being able to receive TRUTH because you are not open to truth. So this is believing you are on the NARROW PATH but you are on the WIDE PATH of destruction. I hope you see the paradox of opposites.
I believe the Apostle Paul’s reference that he died daily was not to sin but to carnality of thinking and believing. It was Paul who wrote in Romans should we continue in sin and crucify Christ again making a mockery of the Lord’s grace. If you reflect on Paul’s journey of faith it is absolutely incredible and heavenly how Paul preached. It was Paul who said he fed them milk because they were carnal and couldn’t tolerate solid spiritual food. Read Galatians 2:20 and Galatians 6:14 as these scriptures are for all of the saints so we may be the true image and likeness of Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 4:3–4 (NKJV)
3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
We know that the broad path leads to death and destruction and that the narrow path leads to everlasting life in Christ Jesus. Think of this contrast and reflect on it: narrow mindedness believing you are on the narrow path to salvation but actually the wide path to destruction. Verses a Spiritual mindset in Christ by self denial/crucifixion of the soul seeking revelations of all Truth in Christ Jesus from Spirit and Truth. By dying to your personal beliefs and seeking the Lord in Spirit and Truth you allow the Holy Spirit to bring revelations of Truth to your Spirit and renewing your mind in Spirit and Truth. Man’s wisdom will never stand against the Lord’s revelations in Spirit and Truth. Shortly after my salvation the Lord Jesus took me all the way through my childhood and revealed to me the spiritual attacks through people including family. While doing this I became aware the Lord was sustaining me without me even knowing. Without going into great detail this helped me in many ways understand the spiritual realm and the influences of Satan working through people. I was set free of all of my past so I could live for the future in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!
We need Spiritual Revelations which including both the way/path of salvation and the Godly wisdom to withstand the wiles of the enemy by spiritual discernment. In other words a “broad mind” or Spiritual mind/mindset which through the Spirit of God reveals all truth, the mind of Christ. This means submitting our thoughts to the thoughts of God by the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 139:23–24 (KJV 1900)
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart:
Try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.
Discernment is from the Spirit of God so if you are born of the Holy Spirit you should be growing in Wisdom and Revelation to be able to discern the spirits. Leaning on your understanding leaves you prey to the devil. Your wisdom won’t help you, you need Wisdom from Above.
1 Samuel 30:8 (NKJV)
8 So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?”
And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.”
There are NO shortcuts in making mature spiritual sons of God. The Israelites spent 40 years in the wilderness only to make idols while Moses entered into the presence of the Lord up on the mountain. We must pursue holiness by Spirit and Truth and this includes our mindsets so that we may have the mind of Christ in us. Paul said “let this” mind be in you. “Let” signifies the will of our souls to bow and surrender to Spirit and Truth.
Philippians 2:5 (NKJV)
The Humbled and Exalted Christ
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
Matthew 11:29–30 (NKJV)
29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Rest is no longer defined as keeping the sabbath it is the very person of Christ. Sure you can honor the sabbath but it is no longer a “remembrance” it is a life in Christ. Rest and peace is a positioning of our heart towards and in Christ Jesus. Read it for yourself. Peace doesn’t rest upon you it dwells in you as a born again Christian. Peace is a Spirit as Jesus is the Prince of Peace!
John 14:27 (NKJV)
27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)
14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
James 3:17 (NKJV)
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Colossians 1:9–13 (NKJV)
Preeminence of Christ
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
John 9:41 (NKJV)
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
Don’t be fooled my just taking the one scripture of calling evil good and good evil as you must apply this principle to all things pertaining to life and godliness. The only way to overcome is by true Spiritual Revelations by the Holy Spirit! If Satan can appear as an angel of light how do you come to the revelation that it is Satan speaking, by revelation from the Holy Spirit and NOT leaning on your own understanding. How do you determine a wolf in sheep’s clothing, by revelation from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 10:16 (NKJV)
16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Carnality and narrow mindedness portrays that you have all the wisdom and knowledge you need thus there is no dependency upon Christ Jesus or the need for Revelations of Spirit and Truth. This is the “pride of life” and the “lust of the flesh” determining what your desires of truth are and NOT what is Spirit and Truth from Christ Jesus. Self righteousness and pride are ungodly and the Lord resists the proud.
The whole earth is the “valley of the shadow of death” so we are surrounded by darkness and evil everywhere. See my post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/04/16/the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/
1 John 2:16–17 (NKJV)
16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Proverbs 3:5–7 (NKJV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
I am troubled when someone makes a statement like I follow pastor so and so because pastor so and so has not finished his race here on earth. Every single follower of Christ is NOT exempt from the wiles and schemes of the Devil. If you follow a pastor who has believed lies or false teachings from man’s wisdom you will be led astray by NOT SEEKING the Lord Jesus in Spirit and Truth! This is why I do not have any “likes” of ministries or pastors on my social media. I do not have availability 24/7/365 to vet them as not fallen from the narrow path and Spirit and Truth. Furthermore I do not exalt a man I only exalt Christ Jesus.
Stop believing the lies that you yourselves can not experience the true, pure and holy glory of God here and now. The resurrected Christ is available to all of us. Just be absolutely sure that the Holy Spirit in you bares witness to the Living God Christ Jesus as Satan masquerades and an angel of light.
I take the disposition that even when someone uses the terminology, Lord, God or even the name of Jesus I need to know who their Jesus is because it may not be the Jesus I know!
Acts 19:15 (NKJV)
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
2 Corinthians 11:1–4 (NKJV)
Concern for Their Faithfulness
11 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!
I was helping a pastor online who was struggling and he reached out to me so I spent over a half hour telling him things and encouraging him in Spirit and Truth. He replied what a sermon. I said it was not a sermon it was experiential life in Christ. Everything I stated was testimony not a sermon! Now reflect on the Apostles, Prophets, Saints gone before us considering everything they spoke was not only inspired by the Lord but experiential life in Christ Jesus. It wasn’t just belief it was true experiential life. Just as the Apostles witnessed and testified of Christ so can we through an experienced life in Christ Jesus. We are called to live the life of Christ here and now.
May the Lord continue to strengthen you in His Spirit of Truth and in revelations of Christ Jesus.