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🗓️ 30 October 2020
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0:00.0 | Well, one of the most asked about themes in the inbox is God's hardening of the sinner's |
0:08.7 | heart. |
0:09.7 | It's an incredible theme throughout Romans, and no chapter of Scripture has inspired |
0:14.7 | more APJ questions than Romans 9 has. |
0:18.6 | We now have over 400 emails on this chapter alone, loads of questions, including this |
0:24.8 | really good one from a listener named Nate. |
0:27.9 | Hello, Pastor John. |
0:28.9 | I was recently reading Romans 1 verses 24 to 27, and Paul seems to be saying that God |
0:35.0 | gave over these sinners to dishonorable passions as a consequence of their sin. |
0:40.8 | But then when I got to Romans 9 verses 1 to 29, Paul seems to indicate that God himself |
0:46.7 | hardened sinners in unbelief. |
0:49.5 | God hardens whom he wills. |
0:52.5 | That's chapter 9 verse 18. |
0:54.7 | So in the case of Romans 1, did God first harden these sinners before he gave them up |
0:59.8 | to dishonorable passions? |
1:02.4 | Which came first? |
1:03.4 | Did the sinners harden their own hearts, or did God harden their hearts? |
1:08.6 | In thinking back to the Old Testament, God first promised to harden Pharaoh's heart. |
1:13.2 | It's Exodus 4, 21, and 7, 3. |
1:16.5 | And then Pharaoh hardened his own heart, and Exodus 8, 15, and 32. |
1:21.7 | When God hardened his heart even more, and Exodus 9, 12, then Pharaoh hardened his |
1:26.0 | own heart even more, and Exodus 9, 34. |
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