1. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Hebrews 3:8 May 22, 2011 Rev. David B. Hanson Deaf Liberty Baptist Church Overland Park, Kansas

2. What does “Harden your Heart” Mean?  Hebrews 3:10  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.  Do not open your heart.  Do not yield yourself.  Increase your stubbornness.

3. Why do some People Harden their Hearts?  Hebrews 3:12  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.  Have unbelief (the deceitfulness of sin).  Reject God’s Word.  Refuse to have God as their God.

4. Pharaoh with His Hardened Heart

5.  Exodus 7:13  And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.  Pharaoh rejected God’s Word.  Pharaoh refused to accept the Lord as his God.  Pharaoh claimed himself as God.

6. Pharaoh with His Hardened Heart  Pharaoh: the god Horus  1 st Plague: Nile turned to blood: Hapi and Isis and Khnum  2 nd Plague: Frogs: Heqet  3 rd Plague: Gnats: Set  4 th Plague: Flies: Re and Uatchit  5 th Plague: Death of livestock: Hathor and Apis  6 th Plague: Boils: Sekhmet and Sunu  7 th Plague: Hail: Nut, Osiris and Set  8 th Plague: Locusts: Nut and Osiris  9 th Plague: Darkness: Re, Horus, Nut and Hathor  10 th Plague: Death of the firstborn: Min, Heqet, Isis and a god, Pharaoh’s son

7. The Jews’ Hardened Hearts

8.  Numbers 14:11  And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?  The Jews rejected God’s Word and miracles.  The Jews had unbelief.  The Jews left the Lord.

9. The Christians: Hear God’s Voice  Hebrews 3:7-8  7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,  8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

10. The Christians: Watch Out for Unbelief  Hebrews 3:12-13  12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.  13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.