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JUDICIAL BLINDING AND HARDENING
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
John 12:37-50

Exodus 10:1-3

 

“He hath blinded their eyes,

and hardened their heart…”

 

JUDICIAL BLINDING AND HARDENING
 
Jesus throughout His public ministry had performed countless miracles to authenticate His Messiahship and Message. Yet the Jews believed Him not. Their constant, persistent, wilful and decisive rejection of Christ constituted an unpardonable sin which brought about God’s judicial blinding and punitive hardening.
 
Nevertheless, among the Jewish leaders, there were many who had believed but who did so secretly because of the Pharisees. Their faith though genuine was weak, “for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.”
 
Judgment will come upon those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ. They will be judged by the Father when He sits on His Great White Throne on that final day (Rev 20:10-15).
 
Jesus said that the Father’s “commandment is life everlasting.” Paul reiterated this in Romans 7:10 where He wrote, “the commandment … was ordained to life.” Life is in the Law for the one who keeps it perfectly. But as sinners, it means death, because “Sin, taking occasion by the commandment… slew me… that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful” (Rom 7:11-13). If sinners are to have life through the Law, it must come by means of imputation through a Perfect Law-keeping Representative who is none other than Jesus Christ Himself, the God‑Man.
 
THOUGHT: “Unbelief makes us rebels and deserters.” (Calvin)
PRAYER: Father, forgive me for the times when I have doubted or questioned Thee.

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