2. Hearing, No Understanding, Seeing Without Perception
(Isaiah 6:9-11) And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.' "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed." Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered: "Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate, (NKJV)

3. “Seeing Without Perception”
(Isa. 6:9; Mat. 13:14; Mk. 4:12; Ac. 28:26)

4. (Mat. 13:9) “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

5. “Why Do You Teach Like That?”
(Matthew 13:10) “And the disciples came and said to Him, "Why do You speak to them in parables?"

6. Some Accept Truth, Others Reject It
(Matthew 10:14) "And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.

7. Foolishness to Those Who Are Not Spiritually-Minded
(1 Corinthians 2:13-16) These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ. (NKJV)

8. A Foolish Message (To Some)
(1 Corinthians 1:21-24) For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (NKJV)

9. Those Predestined…
(Romans 8:27-30) Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. (NKJV)

10. Those Predestined…
(Hebrews 4:12) “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

11. Those Predestined…
(Romans 8:27-30) Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. (NKJV)

12. Those Predestined…
(2 Thessalonians 2:14) to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (NKJV)

13. Those Predestined…
(2 Timothy 1:8-10) Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, (NKJV)

14. SEEK (Find) and Save
(Luke 19:10) "for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost

15. You Cannot Argue Someone Into to Being Saved!
(Titus 3:10) Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition, (NKJV)

16. Many Lost
(Matthew 7:13) "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. (NKJV)