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“Do Not Harden Your Hearts!”
I.
False Professions of Belief—(v.23)
A.
Many Believed in His Name
At the Passover, Jesus performed miracles that are not given in detail in any of the gospels.
Because of these signs, many believed in Him.
1.
/Believe// /in 2:23 & /commit/ in 2:24, are the same Greek words.
a.
They believed in Him but He did not believe in them, they were “unsaved believers”
b. John 8:30-31—It is one thing to believe in His miracles but something else to commit oneself to Jesus Christ and continue in His Word.
2.
They believed because they saw the signs, which He did.
a.
Miracles & signs that Jesus did were important & John says that he even wrote his book to record these signs and to encourage his readers to trust Jesus Christ and receive eternal life (Jn 20:30-31).
b.
It takes more than believing in miracles to be saved!
c. Seeing the sign and believing is a great beginning, even the disciples started that way (compare John 2:11 and v.22).
Is “seeing believing”?
· “Seeing is believing” is not the Christian approach (John 11:40; 20:29)
· First we believe then we see.
· Miracles can only lead us to the Word (John 5:36-38) and the Word generates saving faith (Romans 10:17)
3.
Some were divided over the meaning of the miracles (John 9:16; 11:45-46)
a.
The same miracles that attracted Nicodemus caused some other religious leaders to want to kill Him (John 11:45-53).
1) They even said that His miracles were done in the power of Satan
2) The miracles were testimonies (John 5:36) giving evidence of His divine Sonship
!!! B. “He knew all men”—(v.24-25)
1.
God’s knowledge of man’s heart
a.
God “searches our hearts” (Romans 8:27) & “knows the heart” (Acts 15:8)
b. Everything covered shall be revealed one day (Luke 12:2)
c.
We should judge nothing before its time (1Cor.
4:5)
2.
What does God see when He looks into the heart of man?
a.
The Bible tells us that according to God the heart is filled with madness, mischief, and evil.
b.
It is impenitent, darkened, gross, hard, proud, blind, filled with lust, being far from God.
c. God says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?”
(Jer.17:9).
d.
When we begin to see the heart as God sees it, then we begin to appreciate the greatness of God’s love!
1) God loves you & me in spite of our sin and has proved His love by letting Christ die for us!
2) Romans 5:6-8; 2Cor,5:21
3.
The Deity of Jesus Christ — He knew what was in each person’s heart & mind.
/ /
/ //The Healing of the Paralytic/ (Matthew 9:1-4)
a.
Jesus knew the character of Simon (John 1:42)
b.
He knew what Nathanael was like (John 1:46ff)
c.
He told the Samaritan woman “all things” that she had ever done (John 4:29)
d.
He knew that the Jewish leaders did not have God’s love in their hearts (John 5:42), and that one of His disciples was not truly a believer (John 6:64)
e.
He saw the repentance in the heart of the adulteress (John 8:10-11) and the murder in the heats of His enemies (John 8:40ff).
f.
Several times in the upper room message, He revealed to His disciples their own inner feelings & questions.
/Verse 24 indicates that Jesus was looking for a genuine conversion rather than enthusiasm for the spectacular/
II.
The Hardened Heart – (John 12:37-50)
A.
Some refuse to believe
John tells us that Jesus had done many miracles before them, yet they did not believe.
1.
Why is it that some people refuse to believe in Jesus Christ?
a.
Jesus tells us that they love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil.
b.
Some are afraid of the cost.
· What they might be called upon to give up of their worldly ways.
· Jesus said if any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow Me.
c.
John tells us something rather frightening in verse 39 he tells us that /“they could not believe”/.
d.
He declares that God has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts.
2.
God had revealed His power to them.
Jesus had done many miracles.
a.
Sometimes we mistakenly think that if a person could just see a miracle, then surely they would believe.
Not so.
1) The Rich Man & Lazarus—/“if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent” /(Lk16:19-31)
b.
Many times miracles only lead to a hardened heart.
B.
The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart (Ex.
8:32 ff.)
I think of the Pharaoh of Egypt when Moses came with the demand for the release of God's people.
1.
He began to work miracles before the Pharaoh.
2. We read that the Pharaoh hardened his heart,
3. Again we read that he hardened his heart.
4. Finally we read that God hardened the heart of the Pharaoh (Ex.9:12)
a.
The Hebrew word used for /hardened/ when it declared that God hardened the heart of the Pharaoh, is different than when Pharaoh hardened his heart.
b.
When God hardened his heart the word literally means/ “made stiff the heart of Pharaoh”/.
“Many” – “Pharaoh” himself /“Could Not Believe”/ John 12:39
1.
You can over and over again harden your heart to the things of God but there finally comes the day when God will step in and make stiff your resolve against Him.
2. It is possible for you to come to a place where you /“cannot believe”/.
3. That means that you will be hopelessly and irretrievably lost.
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