Separated from God: Spiritual Blindness and Confusion
Romans 1:21b,c (NLT)
And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.
Message
I. Spiritual Blindness and Death
When the first man and woman ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6, https://www.comnc.org/the-beginning-of-sin-refusing-to-worship-and-give-thanks-to-god), they were separated from God, the source of wisdom and life, and became spiritually blind and dead.
II. Darkness and Confusion
God said in Exodus 20:2-6 NLT,
2 “I am the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
3 “You must not have any other god but me.
4 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. 6 But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
God is spirit (John 4:24, 2 Corinthians 3:17) and invisible (Deuteronomy 4:15, 1 Timothy 1:17, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 11:27).
God wants us to acknowledge Him as the Lord our God and to remember His salvation (Exodus 20:2). That is, we should worship and thank Him.
However, they didn’t do so (Romans 1:21a). This shows that they were separated from God, the source of wisdom and life, and became spiritually blind and dead.
They began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like (21b). As a result, their minds became dark and confused (21c).
