Kevin, Your posts are so full of the power
of the Holy Spirit. Thanks for your faithfulness, Izzy
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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Evil
& God hath he not done it?
Some confuse God and Evil with Immoral & cruel. This is
similar to the Mormons who have a hard time with the statement that God
REPENTED and God hardens hearts! Do not confuse a hard heart with God leading
into sin which He would never do. God saying He hardened Pharaoh's heart is
also not contradiction, because He did harden his heart, by taking away
the God Given ability (by Grace) to see or understand the truth. This was
God's judgment upon him, his wicked
heart became blinded. God's judgement on Israel is that "their minds were blinded"
2 Co 3:4 God did not make Pharaoh sin. He simply removed his hand of protection
so that Pharaohs heart became hard rather than soft. His heart was already
blinded, his understanding darkened as this is mans natural state. Why should
God reveal truth to those that do not want truth? The flip side is that, it is
God's MERCY that gives a heart of flesh rather than a stony heart.
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I
give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Pharaoh still had the ability to choose right. Pharaoh chose
wrong over right. God did not force that decision. It is not that God made him
do anything. God removed his restraining power & Pharoaohs wicked heart
took over. God merely allowed the hardening to happen. Pharaoh even knew he did
wrong but continued further in sin. See Exodus 9:27-34
God's mercy also restrains the evil in
mens hearts
Genesis 20:6 "..Yea, I know that
thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; For I also withheld thee from
sinning against Me: Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her."
Notice God "KNEW" the integrity IN his heart & God
in mercy witheld him from sin!
GOD TRIES MENS HEARTS
God hardens hearts in response to what is already in that heart. The God of the
bible knows all things & even can see in your heart. He also knows the
future and knew Pharoah would stiffen his neck. He tries mens hearts and
rewards them accordingly
"I the Lord search the heart, I
try the reigns, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to
the fruit of his doing."
Pharaoh recieved of the Lord according to his own doing!
Jeremiah 17:23 But they obeyed not,
neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not
hear, nor receive instruction.
JUST REWARD
Pharaoh recieved his just reward
Hebrews 2:1-3 "Therefore we
ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at
any time we should let them slip.For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast,
and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of
reward;How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation"
GOD WROTE THE LAW IN ALL HEARTS
Romans 2:15 Which shew the
work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness
James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him
it is sin.
Pharaoh went against God & his conscience. If you continue in
sin & ignore your conscience you will end up with a "conscience seared with a hot iron"
1 Timothy 4:2
GOD IS SOVEREIGN
Pharaoh thought that he determined the fate of God's people. God simply
determined to show his power to fulfill His purpose: Exodus 7 "But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that
I may lay my hand upon Egypt,
and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt
by great judgments."
"And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders
in the land of Egypt."
PHARAOH SINNED
In spite of multiple opportunities & witness, Pharoah hardened his own
heart Exodus
8:15,9:24
Pharaoh admitted he sinned. Exodus 9:27 I
have sinned this time
SOUNDS like JUDAS! &
Esau the sorrow of this world worketh DEATH!
And yet turned right around & sined more: Exodus 9:34 Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders
were ceased, he sinned yet more,
and hardened his heart,
he and his servants.
THE SOUL THAT SINS IT SHALL DIE
God avengenged the whole lot of them & drowned them in the sea. because
they gave not God the glory.
Exodus 14:17 And I, behold, I will
harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get
me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
EZek 18:14 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the
soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
GOD PUTS THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS
1Samuel 6:6 "Wherefore then do
ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians Hardened their hearts?
Mark 8:17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye
have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet
hardened?
God is SOVEREIGN
Romans 9:14-23 As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?
God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion So then it is not of
him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised
thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared
throughout all the earth. Therefore
hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted
his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou
that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay,
of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if
God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches
of his glory on the vessels of mercy,
which he had afore prepared unto glory,
HAVE YOU RECIEVED A NEW HEART & NEW
SPIRIT YET?
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I
give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
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