Spiritual Coma: The Slumber among us.

Think of it!

An entire race of people spent their lives looking for satisfaction, rest, and fullness; and they never did find it. Even to this day, only a small remnant of believers have found the grace and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. The rest of them are blinded! Paul said, emphatically, "God hath given them the spirit of slumber." They are absolutely blind and deaf to the gospel! There is not an evangelist or teacher on earth who can penetrate their darkness! Very few of them are saved. Paul called them "a remnant according to the election of grace" (Romans 11:5). Paul speaks of a day when "all Israel shall be saved... and the Deliverer shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob" (Romans 11:26). I don't understand all of that, but I do know there are Jews dying right now--in total spiritual darkness about Christ--going into eternity under the spell of a deep sleep.

So they stumble down the street, eyes full of adultery, minds closed, eyes closed, ears closed--going to hell in a deep sleep! Some preacher has made them believe they are going to be redeemed because, way back, they prayed a little prayer and made a public confession; but then they went back to their old ways. No power on earth can wake them up. They have been blinded by the deceitfulness of sin! They are under the spell of the spirit of slumber. I listen to street harlots, smiling in my face with a trick on their arms, boasting to me, "I am saved! I am just as holy as you are! Jesus loves me just as I am! I am on my way to glory!" And I say to myself, "What kind of blindness is this? How can one like this actually believe such a lie?" Then I realize they are asleep, in a spiritual coma, under the spell of a strong delusion!