Wild Heart (2)

21 And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”

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The Heart-

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Thoughts - This may seem complicated (HARDENING HEART) but it’s simple. Stubbornness

Pharaoh Hardens his own heart 8 times

God hardens Pharaohs heart 7 times

opposite of a hardened heart

English Standard Version Chapter 5

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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“God hardens no man’s heart who has not first hardened it himself. But we do not need to conclude that any inward action on the will is meant. Was not the accumulation of plagues, intended as they were to soften, a cause of hardening? Does not the gospel, if rejected, harden, making consciences and wills less susceptible? Is it not a “savior of death unto death” as our fathers recognized in speaking of “gospel-hardened sinners”? The same fire softens wax and hardens clay. Whosoever is not brought near is driven farther off by the influences which God brings to bear on us.”

Dunnam, Maxie, and Lloyd J. Ogilvie. Exodus. Vol. 2. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1987. Print. The Preacher’s Commentary Series.

Sister Text

English Standard Version Chapter 3

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

on the day of testing in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers put me to the test

and saw my works for forty years.

10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,

and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;

they have not known my ways.’

11 As I swore in my wrath,

‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

significance of the heart? Heart is ones inner- being, your will

Who hardens the heart?

Why do people reject God? Stubbornness, pride

Works Cited

Dunnam, Maxie, and Lloyd J. Ogilvie. Exodus. Vol. 2. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1987. Print. The Preacher’s Commentary Series.