01.15. CHARACTERISTIC 12

CHARACTERISTIC 12 Pharisees are spiritually blind

Jesus said, “They are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit” (Matthew 15:14).

Pharisees are great scholars of the Bible. But they are spiritually blind and so they don’t have any revelation on spiritual realities. And when these blind leaders lead other blind people, Jesus said “they will fall into the pit (of hell) themselves and those who follow them will also fall into the same pit” (Matthew 15:14).

Never follow a blind man, Make sure your leader/elder is a man of spiritual vision, who loves God’s people. Lack of love is what causes spiritual blindness and it leads to preachers preaching in a way that condemns people. A man who loves Jesus sees the Lord so clearly that he can lift Jesus up in His sermon and show Him to you. It is such a leader that you should follow and whom you should long to be like.