Who Hardened Pharaoh's Heart? | Week 5
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Who Hardened Pharaoh's Heart? | Week 5
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Continuing the Exodus series, Pastor Ron walks through plagues two through seven: frogs, gnats, flies, the death of livestock, boils, and hail. He ties each plague to the Egyptian god it dismantles: Heqet, Geb, Uatchit, Hathor and Apis, Isis and Imhotep, and Seth. The point of the plagues isn't only to defeat false gods. It is to announce to the whole world that there is one God, Yahweh.
The message wrestles with the tension between God's sovereignty and human responsibility. Pharaoh hardens his own heart first, and only later does God harden it. Pastor Ron turns to Romans 9 to show that God is free to display his power however he chooses, and that we have no standing to put him on trial. He applies this to our lives: the tendency to negotiate with God's word, to repent only to escape consequences, and to come to worship while unreconciled with others. He also contrasts confessing God with truly fearing him. The message closes with the question Pharaoh's own servants ask, "How long?", and a call to surrender before our choices ruin the people around us. Pastor Ron also previews Sunday's message, "Why Does a Loving God Kill Women and Children?"
