Village Bible Church - Naperville

it seems clear that the god of this age here is the devil, and he has blinded the minds of unbelievers. But lest we think that the minds of these unbelievers that these unbelievers are therefore just innocent victims, that's not what Paul is saying. The god of this world, the devil, the way that he blinds unbelievers is by offering them sin that they already want. So first John two sixteen speaks of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one's possessions. And the devil uses these things to blind unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the truth of the gospel.