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07 21 2025 Who Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday. It's July,
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  Speaker 2: almost said May July twenty one, twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is who
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  Speaker 2: hardened Pharaoh's Heart? Did it? Who hardened Pharaoh's Heart? We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, we do thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that you've given us to see you, see your characters,
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  Speaker 2: judgment in your word. Please help us to live on
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  Speaker 2: the side of love. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. All right, Who done it? Who done it?
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  Speaker 2: Who hardened Pharaoh's heart? Now that is an overarching question
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of people's minds because they get caught
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  Speaker 2: up in language in the Bible. But let's just go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and begin with Signs of the Times article from
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  Speaker 2: March four, eighteen eighty, and it reads God gave Pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: opportunity after opportunity to reveal whether he would receive the light.
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  Speaker 2: It was Pharaoh's own pride and stubbornness that caused him
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  Speaker 2: to resist the evidence. Now let me just say this
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  Speaker 2: is just, this is in alignment with the character of God.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere you see in scripture, you see where people are
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  Speaker 2: given the opportunity. All of us, one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 2: us listening or watching, or who will ever listen or watch,
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  Speaker 2: have been given opportunity to either say yes to God
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  Speaker 2: or to continue down the pathway of sin toward eternal
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  Speaker 2: separation from God. Like that is an opportunity. It's a
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  Speaker 2: choice for all of us. And this is no different
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  Speaker 2: In the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight, God did not compel Pharaoh to be stubborn,
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  Speaker 2: but the monarch resisted every appeal, thus placed himself where
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  Speaker 2: God could no longer influence him without destroying his freedom
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  Speaker 2: of choice. That's the end of the quote. All of us,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it just one more time. All of
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  Speaker 2: us have the privilege to make the right decision. It
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  Speaker 2: is God that worketh in us both to will, that is,
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  Speaker 2: to have the desire to do God's will and to
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  Speaker 2: do and to actually accomplish it of his good pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: All of us have this privilege, and so we can't
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  Speaker 2: blame God when when humans decide to press against that
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  Speaker 2: and never do his will. In the end, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads and it talks about it. In Romans chapter nine,
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  Speaker 2: verses seventeen through eighteen, Paul says God raised Pharaoh to
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  Speaker 2: show his power, but his but this follows Pharaoh's rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: So God used him as a case study. This is
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  Speaker 2: the way not to go. It wasn't that God forced
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  Speaker 2: him to do the wrong thing. That would be ungodlike.
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  Speaker 2: And there's so much more, so much more. From Proverbs
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty nine and verse one, he that being often reproved,
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  Speaker 2: hardeneth his neck shall stubbornly be destroyed. So God is
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  Speaker 2: going to accept the choices that we make. And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, okay. And so the context for this is
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh lived in a world where he was worshiped as
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  Speaker 2: a god. We talked about that in the God versus
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  Speaker 2: God's Lesson. God sent clear signs through Moses, each giving
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh a chance to surrender, but each refusal deepened Pharaoh's resistance.
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  Speaker 2: So who done it? Eventually God's mercy reached a point
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  Speaker 2: where it could it would violate his own character to
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  Speaker 2: override Pharaoh's free will. At that point, God confirmed Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 2: hardened state as judgment. Okay, that's the way you want
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  Speaker 2: to go. That's the way it's going to be. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I could give you some examples of when when
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  Speaker 2: you know, our son Josiah was little and he made decisions,
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  Speaker 2: and I just allowed him as he decided. Nope, he's
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  Speaker 2: not listening to the correction. He's not deciding to go
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  Speaker 2: the way that mommy and Daddy were teaching him. In
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  Speaker 2: those moments, I just said, Okay, that's the way you
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  Speaker 2: want to go. I don't recommend it. Here are the
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  Speaker 2: options to go in the right direction. Here is the
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  Speaker 2: power to do the right thing. Until we get to
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  Speaker 2: the point where it's like, Okay, that's the path you're going.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to go all the way that way. That's you.
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  Speaker 2: You've made the decision. And he learned very early in
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  Speaker 2: life that that was not it. He didn't like the
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  Speaker 2: hard way, you see, all right? And so for our
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  Speaker 2: everyday application, though God speaks again and again, I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about now on this day in July in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: while you're listening to me, and while I'm speaking to you,
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  Speaker 2: God is still speaking. He's speaking again and again, and
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  Speaker 2: you can either I can either surrender or resist. It's
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  Speaker 2: my decision. It's your decision. If you keep pushing back,
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  Speaker 2: eventually you'll lose your ability to respond at all. Your
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  Speaker 2: heart does not just reject, it also becomes unable to hear.
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  Speaker 2: So God doesn't force people to be stubborn. That would
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  Speaker 2: be ungodly. He simply allows our choices to stand. That's
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  Speaker 2: why when God forbid, people will be destroyed in the
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  Speaker 2: end of all of these discussions, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: what we call time, but at the end of probation,
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  Speaker 2: and then Jesus eventually comes, and then after the thousand
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  Speaker 2: years are finished and people are ultimately destroyed. This is
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  Speaker 2: why it's a strange act for God. Because God did
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  Speaker 2: not come into the world through Christ to condemn the world,
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  Speaker 2: but that the world through him might be saved. God
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  Speaker 2: didn't send the prophets in the Old Testament to condemn
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  Speaker 2: the world, but that through the guidance that God was
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  Speaker 2: giving through each era of time, that they would be saved.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's a strange act for God to have
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  Speaker 2: to do this because humans have decided to harden themselves
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  Speaker 2: against God. So don't play with conviction. The Bible says
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  Speaker 2: God is not mocked. Whatever we sew, that's what we
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  Speaker 2: ultimately will reap. So don't play with conviction. The same
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  Speaker 2: sun that melts wax, I'm talking about the heavenly body
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  Speaker 2: called the sun, it melts wax, it also hardens clay. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I think somebody finally got it. Who done it? The
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  Speaker 2: same sun that melts wax also hardens clay. So the
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  Speaker 2: difference is in our decision making process. So let me
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  Speaker 2: run through a few a few action steps in this
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  Speaker 2: regard the danger of repeated refusal. Here is an action
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  Speaker 2: step based on Exodus chapter nine and verse thirty five.
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  Speaker 2: Take immediate inventory of areas that you are resisting God's will.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about right now. Get a pen and pad,
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  Speaker 2: get your two thumbs out with your device, and take
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  Speaker 2: an inventory where am I resisting God's will? And then
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  Speaker 2: respond with humility. God, I can't do this without you.
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  Speaker 2: I realize that I have been doing something that does
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  Speaker 2: not please you, which is show me how to live
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  Speaker 2: according to your will? Will you show me how to
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  Speaker 2: amend my ways? Respond with humility before resistance becomes rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, when God allows your will to lead, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to use based on Romans chapter one and verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight. Ask God to interrupt you. Ask him to
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  Speaker 2: interrupt you if you are headed towards self destruction, even
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  Speaker 2: if it is uncomfortable. And then finally, based on Proverbs
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine and verse one, except correction early. The longer
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  Speaker 2: you resist, the harder it will become to return to God.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: it a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah,