Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, July 9th.

What causes a Christian's heart to grow dull towards the things of God?

Let's recognize the warning signs in part one of the danger of a hardening heart.

How do you explain the fact that a person will hear the gospel over and over and over again,

understand it to some degree, be able even to tell you what they heard, and yet say no to the gospel?

How do you explain that?

Then what about those Christians, for example, who have trusted Jesus Christ as their personal savior. And then after a while,

you see them sort of drifting away and not just drifting away, but defending their lifestyle of sin,

rationalizing it away, explaining it away, don't go to church anymore, laid their Bible aside,

it's more dust covered than anything else

and yet these people once trusted jesus as their savior how do you explain those kind of reactions

well that's what i want to talk about in this message entitled the danger of the hardening heart

and i want you to turn if you will to to Hebrews chapter 3. And beginning in this seventh

verse, I want us to read through verse 19. So let me give you a little idea of what the right of

Hebrews is referring to here. You'll recall that when God delivered the Hebrews out of Egyptian

bondage that crossed the Red Sea and out into the wilderness.

And you'll remember that it wasn't very long after that.

And they began to moan and grumble and complain about bread and about water and everything else.

And their hearts became hardened even though they had just experienced personally a tremendous

miracle of God.

Then if you recall, when they got to the

promised land and Moses sent out 12 spies to view the land to be sure they understood what was

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