2. PHARAOH'S HEART GUIDED HIS LIFE
• GOD HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART – EX. 4:21, 7:3-14
• PHARAOH HARDENED HIS HEART – EX. 8:15,32
• ROM. 9:17-18 – “17 For the scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very
purpose I have raised you up, that I may show my power in you, and
that my name may be declared in all the earth.”18 Therefore He has
mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.”
• HIS HEART GUIDED HIM TO PICK A FIGHT WITH THE ALMIGHTY GOD
• HARD HEARTS ARE PRIDEFUL HEARTS THAT CHALLENGE GOD
3. SYMPTOMS OF A HARD HEART
• DO YOU REFUSE TO LISTEN TO OTHERS?
• EX. 8:15
• HAVE YOU LOST ALL SENSITIVITY?
• EPH. 4:17-19
• DO YOU WITHHOLD COMPASSION FROM OTHERS THAT HAVE OPENED THEIR
HEARTS TO YOU?
• EX. 5:1-4, 2 COR. 6:11-13
4. SOFTENING A HARD HEART
• FIRST CONVICT YOURSELF THAT YOU HAVE A HARD HEART
• FEAR GOD. GOD WILL HUMILIATE A PRIDEFUL HEART THAT CHALLENGES HIM –
OBADIAH 3-4
• 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
and though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says the LORD.
5. SOFTENING A HARD HEART
•LOVE OTHERS AND LOVE THE GOSPEL. DO NOT LOOK FOR
DISPUTES, BUT OPPORTUNITIES TO EDIFY. – 1 TIM. 1:3-7
•BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN AND WILL BRING YOUR HEART TO HIM!
GOD WAS EVEN ABLE TO BRING BACK A HEART AS HARD AS KING
MANASSEH’S. – 2 CHR. 33:10-13
