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Sovereignty of God II. God’s Influence on Human Will. THE Hardening, Blinding, and Opening the Heart. 1. Lydia—“The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul” (Acts 16:14). 2. The Jews—“Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive” (Matt. 13:14). 3. Pharaoh—“I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.” (Exod. 4:21).

Sovereignty of God II. God’s Influence on Human Will. THE Hardening, Blinding, and Opening the Heart. 1. Lydia—“spoke to the women who met there” (Acts 16:13) and she was judged to be “faithful to the Lord” (16:15). The Jews—“Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed” (Matt. 13:15). “The god of this age” having “blinded” the unbeliever “lest the light of the gospel” touch them and “shine on them” (2 Cor. 4:4).

Sovereignty of God II. God’s Influence on Human Will. THE Hardening, Blinding, and Opening the Heart. Pharaoh—“I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go” (Exod. 3:19). “He who feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and livestock flee to the houses. He who did not regard the word of the LORD left his servants and his livestock in the field” (Exod. 9:20-21).

Sovereignty of God III. Biblical References to God’s Will. THE God’s Determined Will (Acts 2:23; 17:31). God’s Revealed Will (Eph. 5:17). God’s Desired Will (2 Pet. 3:9; Psa. 7:9). God’s Permissive Will (Jas. 4:15). God’s Providential Will (Matt. 10:29; Prov. 16:33; Matt. 10:30; Ezek. 18:2-3).