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Do Not Harden Your Heart

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Psalm 95:8

February 6, 2011

Rev. David B. Hanson

Deaf Liberty Baptist Church

Overland Park, Kansas

The Meaning of Hardening Your Heart

Refusing to hearken to God's commands

Showing a stiff neck and a hard, impudent heart

Rendering the heart insensible to the divine voice and admonition

Aaron’s Serpent Swallowed Up the Magicians’ Serpents

God Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart

Exodus 7:13And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

Why Was Pharaoh’s Heart Hardened?

Pharaoh refused to listen and obey God’s command.

• His pride

• His power

• His fame

• His god

The Jews Rebelled the Lord and Moses.

The Jews’ Hearts Were Hardened.

Hebrews 3:7-10

7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

 8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

 10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Why Were the Jews’ Hearts Hardened?

The Jews refused to believe in the Lord and His works.

• Their god

• Their unbelief

• Their comfort

• Their own way

Abby Johnson

Abby Johnson’s Change

Worked at the planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas for nine years

• A volunteer

• The director

• Her Duties: running the family planning and abortion programs

Saw the baby 13 weeks head to foot and this baby trying to move away from the probe on October 6, 2009

Has joined Coalition for life

Has written her new book, “Unplanned”