Gloria Truesdale

Why did God harden Pharaoh’s heart? Exodus 4:8

Why did God harden Pharaoh’s heart? I will present why God decided to harden

Pharaoh’s heart during the time span when Moses was directed to lead his people out

of Egypt. God’s people were once highly favored in the land are now slaves. God is

about to set them free. In Exodus 3:1, God has seen the misery of his people in Egypt.

He heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and he was concerned about

their suffering. God sent Moses to Pharaoh to bring his people (Israelites) out of slavery,

Ex. 3:7.

God created Pharaoh and harden Pharaoh’s heart in order to uphold his own

glory. “But I have raised you up for this purpose, that I might show you my power and

that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth Ex. 9:16 (NIV).” The grounds and

means and condition of salvation are not by man’s will or effort, but by the grace and the

mercy of God, Ep. 2:8-9. God chooses to save obedient believers and reject the

disobedient and the un-believing. God is all supreme and he can choose to have

mercy, and compassion whom ever, Ex. 33:19.

God didn’t immediately harden Pharaoh’s heart. He did so through means, which

included the plagues to force Pharaoh to release his people. The plagues should have

softened his heart, but he didn’t so God cut him off. God harden his heart by giving him

the truth, but Pharaoh harden his own heart by rejecting the truth. “But when Pharaoh

saw their was relief, he harden his own heart and would not listen to Aaron and Moses,
just as the Lord had said, Ex. 8:15 (NIV)”.The gospel if offered to all. Those who accept

are blessed those who reject it are harden. God chooses to save them that believe.

Those who accepts God’s plan of salvation and continue to obey and remain

obedient are save, II Tim 2:11-12. Those who continue to reject him will be lost, harden

and rejected, II Thess. 1:7-9. God gives the plan to save all, but leaves each man free

to whether he will accept the plan. It is God’s will to have mercy on those he do and he

hardens (by the means of rejecting God’s plan of salvation). God hardens people after

they give up on him; only after they reject his offer of salvation. This is important to

someone who is not a member of the Church of Christ. The topic is relevant to me and

my classmates because if we continue to disobey him, he will harden our hearts.