We've been blinded to our blindness.- Gandalf

     

We've been blinded to our blindness.- Gandalf

Background of the Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings books and movies have Biblical truth and ideas fluttered throughout the series. From the over arching story of Good vs. Evil, the over the top characters, and the wisdom and in-depth development of the lore. A humorous story about The Lord of the Rings, is that it almost did not exist at all. C.S Lewis took a gander at J.R.R Tolkien's manuscript for The Hobbit and Lewis pleaded for Tolkien to publish the book. But Tolkien said that his stories were just stories he wrote to read to his children and it would be past down generation after generation. Lewis decided to "barrow" Tolkien's copy of The Hobbit and Lewis forged Tolkien's signature and started the publishing processes of The Hobbit. So basically if Tolkien did not help lead C.S Lewis to Christ and Lewis did not commit forgery to publish The Hobbit, it is very likely the The Lord of the Rings would not even exist. So it is by the Grace of God that C.S Lewis started following Christ and that we have The Lord of the Rings, and oh how different the world would be if Lewis did not became a Christian and if we did not have Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. God is good all the time.

       

The Real Content

 Kurios Chirstos- Jesus is Sovereign or Jesus Christ is Lord  

"We've been blinded to our blindness" When watching the movie,"and I saw it twice", this quote sparked a dwelling thought in my head, the gears started turning.

I looked back the years before I decided to proclaim Kurios Christos, I thought I was a believer, but in the reality of my situation I was a enemy of the Gospel. I was blind to my hatred. I was a porn addict and the deeper I gave my self to sin the more I tried to cover it up and hide in darkness. But because I went to church, I knew the right answers, and could play the part. I thought I was fooling God. I even fooled my self. (God has conquered all remnant lusts of my heart and I am free from my old way of living and sin, Amen.)

 John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 
Romans 1:24-25 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 
 
Sin is deceitful and lures the lost even farther away form the Light. Man cannot overcome Sin (To be clear only Christos defeated Sin) and receive sight till they know the position that they are in. That fooling your self and thinking you are fooling God will be passed by on judgement day. Knowing you are blind is the first step to being able to See. Only by the power of The Holy Spirit can make the Initiative to even make it known to man how blind we truly are without Christos.

"The Prayer" leads more people to hell than every brothel in America 
 Paul Washer
  
Luke 6:39-40 He (Jesus) also told them a parable: " Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. 

When blind lead the blind it is never in the right direction. We have a common belief that if we get people to say a "prayer" they are saved. the so called sacred prayer in not even in the Bible. The Prayer has become the number one way to lead people to Christos, but it does not lead people to proclaim Kurios Christos. The sinners prayer does lead people it leads them to become deceived and leads them down a broad road to Hell. (you the reader are probably all fired up, just keep reading) Jesus calls us to people to Him and he will do the saving. When the sinners prayer is preformed it is the preachers way to briskly wrap up a sermon in a timely fashion, and not take the time to see that extreme care should be taken when sharing the Gospel. Let me rebuttal you the reader.

• The verse you are probable going to use is Romans 10:9 because if you confess mouth that Jesus is Lord and Believe in you heart that God raised him from the Dead you will be saved. 

             The cost of Believing in Jesus is Lord came with a cost, do you not know, only Caesar could be Lord. That in the Roman Empire to call anyone but Caesar Lord was to be hailed as Lord, to say other wise meant death. Think why would the Romans persecute Christians. They severed the poor, loved all people, Christians were persecuted for Believing for living out Jesus is Lord = Kurios Christos. The term Christian was originally a insult to followers of Christ. The prayer takes away from people the Lordship of Christ, and that life will be easy once you "accept Jesus in your heart". Man can't make Jesus Lord of your Life, I'm sorry, Jesus is Lord of your Life weather you think He is or not. Jesus is Lord weather you like it or not. 

• The sinners prayer portrays Jesus as a beggar who is just pleading with you to accept him, that Jesus need man's acceptance. When Blind men lead other Blind men it just causes others to stumble. How about instead of Jesus being the beggar, realize that you should be begging him to accept you, we are lost, hopeless, dead people without Jesus in our lives and leading our Lives.  When preaching the Gospel preach the whole Gospel, to short hand people is dangerous and actually damning. The overflow of your very being crying out for God to save you, and turing away from evil is how we are saved by His Grace. The driving force for God to save his enemies is His unconditional Love. Jesus saves not a prayer. Eternity is a long time to remain Blind forever and not know it. 

Take the words I have wrote, think and test it with Scripture for I need to hear this message just as much as the reader does, for I am just man. Be Humble, May Grace and Truth be with you always.