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John 9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

To know that is the question? When a person is gifted with a good mind they find it very hard not to know everything, or at least admit they don't! Human think having knowledge of everything is eternal life with God, this is of course a trap, and a deception of the proud of heart fall into.

1Cor.1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."{Isaiah 29:14}
1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1:21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

What God and Christ were offering mankind these Pharisee's could not know, without God's Holy Spirit. Christ or YHWH never gave us any other hope, they did not lie to us telling us: “If we study real hard we could understand them or the scriptures!” But why? Because if you think about it, life is a gift, not a demand! From the creation of man on earth it has always been a gift given by God from his love, it has not been a self-demanding right humans take. Life cannot be taken from God, nor for that matter anything else.

John 6:33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

John 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

These teachers of the law had earned themselves a right, a demand of respect, but not from God who gives gifts. But from other humans, so they were blinded to the truth of God, because they demanded the truth by their fleshly lives alienated from God. Yes, a person can have a thousand's bible, know every verse in their bible's and be alienated from God.

Luke 24:27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

John5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
5:41 I don't receive glory from men. 5:42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

Blindness is not removed by self-effort when it comes to knowing God and his love, it is a gift granted from above, not below. Christ himself was a gift from above, not below. Human make a big mistake they are born into life, then posses life, and believe they have ownership of their life, but not according to God the giver of life. People enslave themselves to this life, doing all they can to keep this life, while losing the next by this fault thinking.

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
4:14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 4:15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

Matthew 10:28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.{or, Hell.}

Luke 12:15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses." 12:16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
12:17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' 12:18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 12:19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 12:20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Hence, when they come in contact with any gift of God, such as his word, they take ownership of it, which causes them immediate blindness as these teachers had done with law slanderously accusing the sinless son of God of a crime! They were weeds, stealing the productive ground of God's gifts, the fruit is a gift, but the self-righteous take them as their own works. The air we breathe is a gift, the food we eat is a gift, but takers have possessed all things upon this earth doling it out as payment for profit, putting their names upon the item gaining power, control, and fame for self-glory charging it back to mankind as their property for profit.

Matt.13:10 The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 13:11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 13:12 For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. 13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

Matt.13:24 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
13:25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds{darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat, and went away. 13:26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
13:27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?' 13:28 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

God shares, God is a giver, we cannot own God's words personally, we must have a heart of giving to receive the truth of God, or we are blinded thinking we have a personal right to push it down others throat or interpret it anyway our unrighteous heart feels free to do.

Rev. 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely. 22:18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. 22:19 If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book. 22:20 He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I come quickly." Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus. 22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.

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