Title: Pharaoh's Stubborn Heart (Exodus 10:1-3)
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God loves me and you,
He is a God who loves us regardless of how we serve God and live righteously before God.
Even though we use the sea as ink and the sky as a scroll, we are living with a love that cannot be recorded in all of God's love.
The saints who live in gratitude for the joy of salvation have praise and thanksgiving in their hearts and lips, followed by service and devotion.
However, those who live without knowing the grace of God are living their lives without any hesitation in opposing God by complaining and complaining.
These are people who live in shameful things,
Therefore, as children of God who live by the love and grace of God, we must live as children of God.
We must live a life that bears the fruit of the Holy Spirit by repenting of the shameful behavior that we have not been able to escape from the world
Just as light shines brightly in darkness, children of God everywhere must live without losing their appearance as children of God.
It is the wisdom of life, the courage of faith,
A fool will say that there is no God, and a wise person will humble himself before the word of God.
It is about how God will use us throughout our lives.
Will you write like Moses?
Or will you use it as a tool for God's people, like Pharaoh who uses it and throws it away?
I hope that you will come before God boldly, believing without any doubt that God works for the people He loves.
Hebrews 4:16 “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
1, It is to make God known,
If you look at the years that God's chosen people, the nation of Israel, went down to Egypt, a foreign country that did not know God, and lived, they all lived only for the flesh.
They forgot their identity and lived 430 years of wasted time on things that had nothing to do with their faith, but they did not even think about where they would be rewarded for their time.
Not only that, they lived without even thinking about the existence of God,
It has been 430 years since I lived like an animal, repeating eating, living and dying without faith longing for my soul.
We need to bring this people out of Egypt and lead them to the promised land of Canaan. It was important to let the Israelites know of God's existence.
God decided to show Pharaoh's sign by hardening Pharaoh's heart in that way.
Exodus 10:1 “Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, so that I may show a sign among them.”
He created an opportunity for the people of Israel to see and learn who God is and what kind of power God is.
He hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the supreme ruler of Egypt, so that they could know the greatness of God by performing His power.
He hardened Pharaoh's heart so that the people of Israel would know that God's power, God's power, and God's power was a better God than Pharaoh, the supreme ruler of the world.
Pharaoh was used as a model to show God's power for his beloved people Israel.
2, so that the descendants can know God rightly,
When God raised Moses and caused the 10 plagues to fall in front of Pharaoh in Egypt, God showed His omnipotence so that we could know who the God who loves Israel is.
God had to make known the existence of God to his descendants because God needed to know someone to follow the people of Israel who had been living as slaves for 430 years without a single complaint, to lead them to the promised land.
We don't know much about the plundered life under Japanese rule,
The young people of modern times are not well aware of the history of the tragedy of kinship that occurred through the Six Five Wars.
Hearing the stories told by people who have lived through this tragic history, it breaks my heart and I have anger.
I live in the hope that there will never be a history of such tragedies again.
We will develop national power and build security,
This is the purpose of God's hardening of Pharaoh's heart in Egypt and performing wonders and miracles in Egypt.
Exodus 10:2 “I will tell you in the ears of your son and of your descendants what I have done in Egypt, the signs I have done in them, so that you will know that I am the LORD.”
Tell your son and your descendants all that you have done in Egypt, so that they may know that I am the LORD.
God used Pharaoh's hard heart as a way to make his descendants know God.
It is very important to inform the descendants of God right away,
3, in order for God's people to serve God rightly,
Blind faith to serve without knowing God is different from intellectual faith to know and serve God.
At least we should be aware of who the God I believe in, the God who loves me is,
Just as immature children follow the same color as their mother, knowing that they are mothers, there are often saints who fall into heresy because they do not know the existence of God and believe in God.
Exodus 10:3 "Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, How long will you not humble yourself before me, says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews? Let my people go, and they will serve me."
In all circumstances, God's righteous people live by serving only God,
It is not a child of God who is shaken by circumstances,
Even if it is a poor environment to keep your faith and faith, and to live, God will surely show the existence of God Himself to you who have become His beloved people.
Just as God protected the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were staying, from any disaster in the midst of the roar of God's plagues coming on all over Egypt, so He rules your environment and guides you on the path of stability and peace, receiving God's love.
Don't forget in your dreams that God's love for you, who sent the Counselor the Holy Spirit to help us in our weakness, to strengthen us in times of weakness and comfort us in times of trouble, and that grace is God's love for us in Christ Jesus. I bless you in the name of Jesus that you become victorious through praise, amen.