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Have you ever experienced a disconnect where you thought you were connected, on the same page with someone, only to find out you were totally in the dark?
2. The same thing can be true spiritually. God is talking but you are not hearing what He is saying.
3. You think you’re connected, on the same page, only to discover you’ve been blind to the truth, walking in darkness the whole time.
4. Tonight, in our study of Matthew’s Gospel, we will discover valuable lessons that God wants us to understand so that we may truly see because the eyes of our hearts have been opened.
Matthew 20:29-34
Context
1. In Matthew 20, Jesus was traveling to Jerusalem.
2. By going to Jerusalem, Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and accomplished God’s plan for fallen humanity as Israel’s long-awaited Messiah.
3. But would Israel recognize and receive her King?
4. Israel was not in the dark when it came to Messiah’s person and work.
5. The Old Testament prophets had declared not only the signs which would confirm His identity but also the exact timing of His entrance into Jerusalem according to Daniel 9:24-27.
6. Why did God communicate His plan so precisely through the prophets and confirm it through so many miraculous signs?
7. Because God did not want Israel left in the dark when it came to their Messiah. He wanted them to recognize Jesus as their Messiah because He alone is God’s answer for a broken and blind world.
8. At this point, Jesus had already raised Lazarus from the dead, healed ten lepers, cast out demons, forgave a woman caught in adultery, healed the lame, opened the ears of the deaf, and confounded every religious leader who challenged Him.
9. Israel had all they needed to see that their Messiah had come. They were not in the dark, yet they remained blind.

I. God Wants to Open Our Eyes

• God wants to heal our lives.
• Now, physical blindness is one disability that many people deeply fear. They would rather lose their hearing or their ability to speak than lose their vision.
• Why? Because there is something terribly fearful about being cast into darkness.

A. We are all born into darkness
1. There is a physical blindness and a spiritual blindness. Frankly, spiritual blindness is much more dangerous because it has eternal consequences.
2. Remember the rich, young ruler who asked Jesus what he must do to receive eternal life? (19:16)
3. Jesus tried to open his eyes when He told him to sell his possessions, give his money to the poor, and follow Him. (19:21)
4. Jesus tried to show the young ruler the idolatry in his heart and the emptiness of his earthly possessions.
5. Unfortunately, the young man refused to see that he valued his earthly treasures more than the treasures of heaven.

APPL – There is something the Lord wants us to see here.
• The long-awaited Messiah was offering light and life to the young ruler, but he refused.
• Like him, there are many who refuse to see the Light of the world even though the evidence is right before their eyes.
• Why? Because we are all born into darkness.
• After Adam and Eve rebelled against God in the Garden of Eden, their descendants were born with a sin nature; born into spiritual darkness.

Ephesians 5:8, … for you were formerly darkness….

• Therefore, all our ways are of the darkness.

Proverbs 4:19, The way of the wicked is like darkness;
they do not know over what they stumble.

APPL – Why do people refuse the Light?

John 3:19-20, This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

APPL – And please note the enemy of our souls wants to keep us in an eternal state of darkness!

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