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“The Hardening of a Human Heart!”

“The Hardening of a Human Heart!”. Exodus 7:1-7. Picture of one of the world’s first heart transplant recipient examining his diseased heart. This picture came with the caption: “Most Amassing Picture of the Century.”.

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“The Hardening of a Human Heart!”

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  1. “The Hardening of a Human Heart!” Exodus 7:1-7

  2. Picture of one of the world’s first heart transplant recipient examining his diseased heart. This picture came with the caption: “Most Amassing Picture of the Century.”

  3. Human heart beats average of 75 times a minute = 40 million times a year or 2.5 billion times in a 70 year lifetime!

  4. At each beat, human heart discharges 4 ounces of blood = 3,000 gallons a day or 650,000 gallons a year… Baptistry has approximately 500 gallons = 6 baptistries a day or 2,190 baptistries a year…

  5. What we’re going to look at in this text is not the physical side of the heart but the spiritual side instead…

  6. Purpose: to better learn that truth alone dispels doubt

  7. I What is the Hardening of the Heart? A. Consider the Case of Pharaoh

  8. Speaking through Moses and Aaron the Lord made abundantly clear His will = Pharaoh flat refused it…

  9. I What is the Hardening of the Heart? A. Consider the Case of Pharaoh B. Consider the Case of Any Person

  10. In Pharaoh’s case it took ten plagues that took place over a period of approximately one year…

  11. Connersville, IN, Fayette Co fair (1981) man was beating his wife/girlfriend…

  12. II How Can a Heart Be Hardened? A. God Was a Factor

  13. Effectively, the continued revealing of God’s will and the rejecting of that will drives the heart to the point of no return…

  14. II How Can a Heart Be Hardened? A. God Was a Factor B. Magicians Were a Factor

  15. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-9 “Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearing of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders.”

  16. The omnipotence of God displayed such energy even the magicians were covered with boils (Exodus 9:11).

  17. II How Can a Heart Be Hardened? A. God Was a Factor B. Magicians Were a Factor C. Pharaoh Was a Factor

  18. “Every person has two ends, An end to think with and An end to sit with. What we accomplish depends On what end we choose, Heads we win and tails we lose!”

  19. Bottom line, Pharaoh sinned by choice and continued to do so by choice until the moral law of God took effect resulting in a hardened heart. In Pharaoh’s case it got to the point of no return…

  20. III Why Concern Ourselves With Hardened Hearts?

  21. Romans 15:4 “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

  22. III Why Concern Ourselves With Hardened Hearts? A. God Calls Us to Hear/Obey B. God Calls Us to Study/Grow

  23. 2 Timothy 2:15 “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.”

  24. 2 Peter 3:18 “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.”

  25. III Why Concern Ourselves With Hardened Hearts? A. God Calls Us to Hear/Obey B. God Calls Us to Study/Grow C. God Calls Us to Make Disciples

  26. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who was a former pediatric surgeon, has always had a special compassion for the helpless. It was heightened in 1968…

  27. Conclusion and Summary: Such, I believe summarizes this entire issue of, how can God harden a human heart without removing human responsibility? That’s the point. God won’t unless by choice, we choose to rebel against His will; unless by choice we choose first to harden our own hearts…

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