Here's the issue. God hardens people. The scripture is really clear on this issue. God

actually does harden people. He hardens their hearts. That's what scripture teaches us over and over again. My question

is like what is meant by this? What is meant by the fact that God hardens people and does that make

us just mere pawns?

And so I've spent a lot of time researching and studying this topic,

looking at various passages that talk on the topic of God-hardening,

and I'm going to bring it all together tonight

and try to share it as much of it as I can with you guys.

So let me start with this.

This is a big topic.

It's an important topic and I could be wrong on some detail.

So I want you to notice the difference between what the

scripture teaches and my understanding of it. You should always do that. You should

always be letting scripture be the authority and me just be a person who's

commenting on it. I'm a commenter'm a commentator, just a normal potato. So I could be wrong, but this is my best understanding of the topic, and I'm trying to approach it with grace and wisdom. I'm going to be teaching you

as a lot of stuff and at the end I'm going to summarize nine truths about

hardening about God-hardening that we learn from scripture. So I'm going to go

through all these verses, pull out all these truths,

and then I'll summarize them at the end. So by the end you should be like, ah, click, but it'll take a while for

us to get there, so please be patient. and here we go. So starting with a quick review of

Romans 9 so far so we can understand the passage that's about to talk about

God-hardening. The quick review of Romans 9, there's a problem that he brings up in the beginning of

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