I was just wondering what your thoughts were on Exodus 912.

Did Pharaoh have free will? Let's go to Exodus 912 together.

But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh and he did not listen to them as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

Absolutely. This is so great for an example of our social media world.

We tend to live in a world where we catch snippets of what people say and often out of context.

And then we misunderstand what they mean. This happens a lot.

And it's something we have to guard ourselves against. I have to guard myself against.

I hear a teacher say something and I go, well, that didn't seem right.

And I don't realize what the context was when they said it.

And so then I think they've got bad teaching and reality sometimes.

It's just like, I just got it out of context.

So here, let's put this in context. The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh.

Let me see if I can find the passages I'd like to share with you on this.

Okay, I'm searching for Pharaoh's heart being hard.

Because it occurs several times in the book of Exodus.

We were just in Exodus 9. Here's us in Exodus 12.

It says that Pharaoh's heart grew hard and he did not heed them as the Lord had said.

Okay, but Pharaoh's heart grew hard. That's interesting.

But that's not something that it says God did.

That's something that Pharaoh, his heart is doing.

So God's not directly doing this. This is important to recognize this.

Because this matters when we understand the causal nature of what happened to Pharaoh's heart.

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