Sin Creates In Us a Harden Heart

Sin creates a cold heart that lacks compassion.  The more we steal the less we respect others property.  The more we do drugs the less we care about responsibilities.  The more we use pornography the less we see the quality of relationships.  Sin continues to hardens the hearts through hurt, pride, bitterness, and addictions.  A simple act turns into bigger and more perverse acts down the road (adultery, murder, stealing, covetousness) and eventually gains control over the individual, thus placing us into captivity to our sins.

Matthew 13:15 “For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’”  Matthew 19:8 “Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.” Mark 10:5 ““It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied.” Ephesians 4:18″They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.” Hebrews 3:8 “do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness” 

GOOD NEWS, GOD HEALS THE HARDEN HEART BACK INTO A HEART OF COMPASSION FOR OTHERS.

Ezekiel 36: 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

 

Additional Verses for study.

(Job 41:24 ESV)  His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.

(Eze 3:7 ESV)  But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

(Rom 2:5 ESV)  But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

(Exo 14:17 ESV)  And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.

(Jos 11:20 ESV)  For it was the LORD’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

(1Sa 6:6 ESV)  Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?

(Heb 3:8 ESV)  do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

(Heb 3:15 ESV)  As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

(Heb 4:7 ESV)  again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

(Exo 14:17 ESV)  And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.

(Jos 11:20 ESV)  For it was the LORD’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

(1Sa 6:6 ESV)  Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?

(Heb 3:8 ESV)  do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

(Heb 3:15 ESV)  As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

(Heb 4:7 ESV)  again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

(Exo 4:21 ESV)  And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

(Exo 7:3 ESV)  But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

(Exo 14:4 ESV)  And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” And they did so.

(Deu 15:7 ESV)  “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

(Psa 95:8 ESV)  do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,