Results of Hardening the Heart Against God

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Results of Hardening the Heart Against God

Today's Text: And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel. Exodus 14:8

The Message:      When light from God, strong and convincing, came to make known the great I AM, Pharaoh was compelled to yield. But as soon as the pressure was removed, his unbelief returned and counteracted the great light God had given. When he refused the evidence of the first miracle, he sowed the seed of infidelity, which, left to its natural course, produced a harvest after its own kind. Afterward the king would not be convinced by any working of God's power. The monarch hardened his heart, and went on from one step to another of unbelief, until throughout the vast realm of Egypt the firstborn, the pride of every household, had been laid low. After this he hurried with his army after Israel. He sought to bring back a people delivered by the arm of Omnipotence. But he was fighting against a Power greater than any human power, and with his host he perished in the waters of the Red Sea.      The despisers of God's law are practicing the same sin that Pharaoh practiced. They are hardening their hearts. The voice of God is rejected for human theories, for satanic suggestions and delusions. The Holy Spirit is resisted and set aside. The iniquities of the fathers are visited upon the children....      The Spirit of God keeps evil under the control of conscience. When people exalt themselves above the influence of the Spirit, they reap a harvest of iniquity.... Warnings have less and less power over them. They gradually lose their fear of God. They sow to the flesh; they will reap corruption. The harvest of the seed that they themselves have sown is ripening.... Their heart of flesh becomes a heart of stone. Resistance to truth confirms them in iniquity.... All should be intelligent in regard to the agency by which the soul is destroyed. It is not because of any decree that God has sent out against men or women. He does not make them spiritually blind. God gives sufficient light and evidence to enable them to distinguish truth from error. But He does not force them to receive truth. He leaves them free to choose the good or to choose the evil. If people resist evidence that is sufficient to guide their judgment in the right direction and choose evil once, they will do this more readily the second time. The third time they will still more eagerly withdraw from God and choose to stand on the side of Satan. And in this course they will continue until they are confirmed in evil and believe the lie they have cherished as truth.-Manuscript 126, 1901 (Sermons and Talks, 2:183, 184).

Commentary: My friend, there are many in the church today that are going down the same path as did pharaoh in the time of Moses.  Great light is being given them that they may awaken from the deception that they have come to believe, but rather than acknowledge their true condition before God, they resist the light and close their eyes to what it is showing them.  As such they are resisting the work of the Spirit of God upon their hearts and are hardening their hearts to its influence. The Scribes and Pharisees in the time of Christ resisted the plain evidence that Jesus was the Son of God and as such grieved away the Spirit of God and were left in darkness because they rejected the light given from above.  They rejected the light so much so that they attributed the mighty works of God to the working of Satan.  In the same way there are those in the church who are rejected the message of the One true God and are attributing it as from Satan, because it does not align with their cherished beliefs. We are living in the last days; the final test that will separate the wheat from the tares is soon to come upon the whole world and God is working to purify His church to prepare them to receive His Spirit that they may bring the last message of hope to a dark and dying world.  In order to do this He must have a people that can be filled with His Spirit, a people that know Him as the One true God and be sanctified by Him.  The belief in the false doctrine of the trinity does not connect us with God for it points to an altogether different god from the One true God of the Bible. In these last days, God is shining the light of truth upon this great deception and those who persistently refuse the light that is given are hardening their hearts to the working of the Spirit of God until they are left in perfect darkness. My friend, the Word of God is clear, there is only One true God which is the Father, and He has sent to us His Son as the only mediator between God and man.  That mediator is Jesus Christ the righteous.  To reject this message is to believe a lie.  1 John 2:22 says "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."  The title of Christ means the Anointed One, and always refers to the Son of God.  As such, to deny that Jesus is the true and natural Son of God is the spirit of antichrist.  The trinity denies that Jesus is the true and natural Son of God and as such also denies that the Father is a father.  This is the spirit of antichrist. May you open your heart to the Spirit of God today and not harden your heart to the truth that there is only One true God and He is revealed to us through His Son Jesus Christ. God bless,

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