“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 3:11

“Jede Kette ist nur so stark wie ihr schwaechstes Glied.”

“Blindness cuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people.” – Helen Keller

There is not only physical blindness and deafness, there is also spiritual blindness and deafness.

PHYSICAL BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS.

The Bible tells us about physical inflicted blindness and the Bible tells us also about the healing of physical blindness.

In the Bible we are reading about physical deafness in:

a. Matthew 11:5; b. Mark 7:32; c. Mark 9:25

SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS AND DEAFNESS

Here are some examples of spiritual blindness:

a. Matthew 15:14; (Matthew 23:19) b. 2 Corinthians 4:4; c. Ephesians 4:18

In the Bible we are reading about spiritual deafness in:

a. Jeremiah 6:10; b. 2 Timothy 4:4

Just as physical blindness cuts us off from things and physical deafness cuts us off from people, spiritual blindness and deafness cuts us off from God.

Being cut off from things and people has only consequences for this present life, but being cut off from God has consequences for the future life.

In this world there are only two types of people. That’s what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches also that every one of us is born into the world as belonging to the world

The two kinds of people are:

A. THOSE PEOPLE WHO BELONG TO THE WORLD.

B. THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE NO LONGER OF THIS WORLD.

They are strangers. The Bible says so in First Peter 2:11 and Psalm 119:19.

They are sojourners. The Bible says so in Psalm 39:12. (Authorized Version)

They are wayfarers passing through this world of time.

And this is the question:

Do you still belong to the world or do you belong to those who are no longer of this world?

I am a stranger and a pilgrim. One man here in town called me “pilgrim” for some time.

“The hearts of saved people will always affirm that their conversion, or new birth, or renewal (different people use different words) was the work of God from first to last.” – J. I. Packer

“Meine Zeit steht in deinen Haenden. Nun kann ich ruhig sein, ruhig sein in dir. Du gibst Geborgenheit, du kannst alles wenden. Gib mir ein festes Herz, mach es fest in dir.” – Peter Strauch