From Darkness To Light - 3

From Darkness to Light

• Galatians 1:13

There is no darkness like religious darkness

• Matthew 6:22-23
• The man without any religion at all is in darkness
• But the religionist is hedged about with a darkness that surrounds a darkness. 
• Heathen: For God to be revealed to his heart required his darkness be penetrated by the divine revelation. 
• Saul of Tarsus: Before his natural unbelief could be dealt with, God had to deal with his false religion.

There is no darkness like religious darkness

• Matthew 6:22-23
• Here is a natural heathen. He knows nothing about the gospel. He is in darkness, the darkness of unbelief. He doesn’t understand. But if you bring him the gospel you don’t have to tear down anything to get to him. All you have got to do is get to him with the gospel. 
• But when you come to a religionist, he is in darkness. But the first thing you have got to deal with is not his darkness by nature, not his sin by nature. The Holy Spirit has to deal with is religious forts that he has built up. The Holy Spirit has got to deal with his religion.

There is no darkness like religious darkness

• Luke 7:36-40
• She knew she was a sinner and she needed help
• Luke 19:10
• But the Pharisees, although were as much lost as she was, but had hope in their false religion
• He has got to have his religion destroyed

There is no darkness like religious darkness

• Matthew 9:10-13
• Publican and sinners – people in natural darkness
• But Pharisees
• “We be not sinners”
• The first thing a man has got to find out before he seeks a doctor, he has got to find out he is sick.