A HARD HEARTGUARD YOUR HEART ABOVE ALL ELSE, FOR IT

DETERMINES THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE. – PROV. 4:23

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

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

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.

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