Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, July 10th.

Have you found yourself thinking that you are too busy to read God's word and pray?

Today's podcast helps you be aware 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?

In fact, hear it again and again and again repeatedly, very clearly explained,

and yet instead of becoming more and more soft and open to the gospel, they become more and more antagonistic until finally they tell you,

I don't want to hear it any longer, don't tell me anything else about your God, your Bible,

your Jesus, or your church. How do you explain that? Now what about those Christians,

for example, who have trusted Jesus Christ as their personal savior? And then after a while,

you see themselves 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 cover 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'm

to talk about in this message entitled, The Danger of the Hardening Heart. And I want you to turn, if you will, to Hebrews

Chapter 3. And what I want us to look at, first of all, here is what does he mean when he talks

about harden, not your heart? What is a hard heart? Well, if you look it up in the Hebrew and the

Greek, you'll find terms like firm and strong. It means a heart that

has become unimpressed by the word of God. It means a heart that is unyielding, unbending,

unwilling. It speaks of a heart that has steeled itself against the truth of God's word, a heart that has

become calloused and resistant to the word of God. When you resist God year after year after year

thinking that one of these days, when I get ready, I'm just going to trust the Lord Jesus as my

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