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

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.

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.

Pharaoh with His Hardened Heart

Pharaoh with His Hardened Heart 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.

Pharaoh with His Hardened Heart Pharaoh: the god Horus 1st Plague: Nile turned to blood: Hapi and Isis

and Khnum 2nd Plague: Frogs: Heqet 3rd Plague: Gnats: Set 4th Plague: Flies: Re and Uatchit 5th Plague: Death of livestock: Hathor and Apis 6th Plague: Boils: Sekhmet and Sunu 7th Plague: Hail: Nut, Osiris and Set 8th Plague: Locusts: Nut and Osiris 9th Plague: Darkness: Re, Horus, Nut and Hathor 10th Plague: Death of the firstborn: Min, Heqet,

Isis and a god, Pharaoh’s son

The Jews’ Hardened Hearts

The Jews’ Hardened Hearts 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.

The Christians: Hear God’s Voice Hebrews 3:7-8 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:

The Christians: Watch Out for Unbelief Hebrews 3:12-13 12Take heed, brethren, lest there be

in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

 13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.