Do Not Harden Your Heart - [Hebrews 3]

Our Father in heaven how grateful we are again to be able to come into this place and we counted a great privilege. To be called the people of God. We know that it is all of your grace. It is all of what you've done.

With religion, it's do and with Christianity. It's completely done. It's finished the work of Christ and we're we're grateful for that. We're so thankful. We are we are your people the people of your hand the The the loved ones of your heart the apple of your eye and Lord.

We know that you love us and nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thank you for the day that we've had the things that we've experienced the fellowship. The rest the food the air that you've allowed us to breathe.

Well the clothes that we wear the homes that we live in. Now we come to a service like this where we can sing. To the praise of God we can be glad to do so Lord we can open up the Word of God the precious valuable gift that we have that we hold in our hands that That as our brother who had prayed earlier said the freedoms that we have not Not only just to be able to hear the Word of God preached to preach the gospel.

But to be able to gather like this to be able to meet as it were in the house of the Lord. We thank you for that so much. Thank you for your great care for us and we now ask that It might be so that you would shut us up in this place that we would hear your word and That Dave Jeffries would decrease and Jesus Christ would increase.

Lord that that you would hear. You would hear our cry this evening. That we might open up our mouths wide and be filled with the finest of wheat. Bless us we pray in Jesus name. Amen. As you if you would please turn to the book of Exodus and I'd like just to read a portion of the book of Exodus and the.

Hardened Heartedness in Pharaoh and in Us

The title of the message tonight is hardened not your heart. Boy, I must have the. I can you you can hear me pretty good. I can hear me. This must be the pastor Mike volume setting back there. This is like Sounds good.

Exodus chapter 8. This is the account of God delivering his people out of the clutches of Pharaoh the king of Egypt. I'm just gonna read the first 15 verses from the King James. Exodus chapter 8. Exodus 8 1 and the Lord spake unto Moses.

Going to Pharaoh and saying to him thus saith the Lord let my people go that they may serve me. And if thou refuse to let them go behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs and the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly which shall go up and come into thine house and into thy bedchamber and upon thy bed and into the house of thy servants and Upon my people and in thine ovens and into thine kneading troughs.

And the frog shall come up both on thee and upon my people and upon all thy servants. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying to Aaron stretch forth thine hand With thy rod over the streams over the rivers and over the ponds and cause frogs to come up from the land of Egypt.

Come up upon the land of Egypt. And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt and the Magicians did so with their enchantments and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said and treat the Lord that he may Take away the frogs from me and from my people and I will let thy people go notice. He said if you do it, I'll let him go. But they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.

And Moses said unto Pharaoh glory over me. When shall I entreat for thee and for thy servants and for thy people to destroy the frogs? From thee and thy houses that they may remain in the river only. Very strange reply from Pharaoh and he said tomorrow.

And he said be it according to thy word. Moses says that that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God. And the frog shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people.

They shall remain in the river only. And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh and Moses cried unto the Lord because of the frogs which had he had brought against Pharaoh. The Lord did according to the word of Moses and the frogs died out of the houses and out of the villages and out of the Field and they gathered them together upon heaps and the land stank.

And what you think at that time that everybody in Egypt would be doing this and Pharaoh would be doing this. And it's I'm gonna let Those people go. No. Verse 15. But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite or rest he hardened his heart and Harkened not unto them as the Lord had said.

I Wonder if you've ever met someone who was stubborn Self-centered who's always wants their own way and who is obstinate about what they want. God says that this person has a heart condition and he calls it hard heartedness.

As in Pharaoh's case here Pharaoh in verse 15 hardened his heart. I read in a commentary that a definition for hard heartedness is the ability to say no to God in spite of all the Overwhelming evidence to say yes repeat that again the ability to say no to God in spite of the overwhelming evidences to say yes.

We face this great problem in our nation. And we also face it in our homes in our relationships and in our churches. This problem has existed from the beginning of time. Adam and Eve should have said yes to what God had commanded them to from the beginning and they sinned when they said no.

And one of the keenest examples of this hard heartedness is This account of Pharaoh the king of Egypt. This man was told and shown the truth over and over and over again. This man had seen the power of God.

He had seen the hand of God as a matter of fact in chapter 15 here when the magicians could not repeat the lice the Dust being changed into lice. It says in verse 19 that even the magician said to Pharaoh.

This is the finger of God. God did this we can't replicate this they replicated some of the other things with their with their magic. But the one there they could not do and they they said to Pharaoh you have seen the finger of God.

You've seen God working doing something mighty in your midst and yet Pharaoh's heart still Would not soften. He heartened his heart. His life is an example of what happens to a person who refuses to submit to God and bend one's will in order to obey God's command.

And God has said gave Pharaoh ample warnings time and time again. Moses came before him with God's request to let the people of Israel go and there was in this case Plague after plague sign after sign miracle after miracle wonder after wonder and he still refused to obey God.

He kept still kept saying no. And the same thing happens today, doesn't it? People see the works of God. They see the handiwork of God in the local New Testament Church and God proves himself to be God.

God's truth reigns. God's truth is proclaimed. God's truth is evidenced in the lives of the of the conversions of those that are in the church. And yet people still say no to God in Exodus 15. In fact Exodus chapter 8 and in verse 15 It says that Pharaoh hardened his heart and if you read the example at the end of the chapter.

When it deals with the flies it says that when they were done done away with it says that verse 32 Pharaoh hardened his heart as. At this time also neither would he let the people of God go he hardened his heart.

He wouldn't listen to Moses and therefore he was not listening to what God had said. Or what God was doing in spite of overwhelming evidences. He said no and that is one of the things that we need to be careful about too today is in the in in the Evidence the overwhelming evidences that are around us that God is real.

That God is alive. That God is on his throne. That God's truth shall reign forever. But we can come to the place where we say no in spite of those evidences. What did Pharaoh see. Water turned to blood frogs out of the rivers.

The dust turned to lice flies? The plague of death upon the animals. The boils and blisters. The thunder in the hail and the Like fire running up and upon the ground. The locusts or grasshoppers. The complete darkness for three days.

And the death of the firstborn God repeatedly showed Pharaoh who he was. But Pharaoh would not bow to the Lord. Nor would he submit to God's Word? He refused to listen to God's warnings and when faced with all the awesome and overwhelming Evidences that he was wrong.

He still would not give in. They were refused to acknowledge that God was greater than he was. He refused to believe that God was right and he was wrong. This shows us his pride contributed to his hard hardness and I'll touch on that later.

He had to suffer the consequences. I Believe that we as Christians today and the day in which we live our homes on our jobs. The role that we play in the function that we have in a local New Testament Church if we are to be a wise people today.

Enlightened by the Word of God. I believe that we as Paul said in 1st Corinthians chapter 10 We need to look back on these Old Testament Examples and learn from them be warned from them be encouraged in the way that we ought not to go.

If we have read the Bible or maybe we as children. We're growing up in a in a Christian home where we hear the Bible taught and what God says about how we should think or speak. Or act then isn't it a dangerous thing to say no to God?

To fight against God. I mean I I think of the the New Testament Church preaching the gospel and you remember when they put him in prison and Gamaliel took the leaders aside and he said refrain from these men talking about the Apostles refrain from these men.

And let them alone. For if this council or if this work be of men it will come to naught. But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it lest happily you'd be found to be fighting against God. And I think of just lately I've been flipping through the channels and I see some of that crazy boxing or foot kicking whatever they're doing.

People are just pulverizing each other and and out cold with one hit. Anybody goes in the ring with God you're out cold. You're you're done. It's over. You might as you might as well throw the towel in before you even get into the ring.

You cannot fight against God. What Pharaoh did is not so far-fetched. I mean saying I mean if we think about it we look at it we look all through Scripture and we see people fighting against God and and Refusing in the spite of all the evidence and it happens today to we we can become stubborn and try to put our will before God's will and make our way seem more sensible than God's way and pride leads to stubbornness and stubbornness leads to hard-heartedness and hard-heartedness leads to judgment and destruction.

The consequences of sin. Proverbs 28 14 tells us happy is the man that always fears but he that hardens his heart shall fall into mischief and Proverbs 29 1 says he that being often reproved. Hardening his neck or we or we get mad and we we don't want to pay attention.

And and we just get a stiff neck like that those ones that you remember with Stephen in the book of Acts. He said you stiff neck generation. You won't listen to God people get a hard heart and a stiff neck.

The proverb there says they shall suddenly be destroyed in that without remedy. There's no way that you can stop the awful outcome of that downhill slide. We walk on a dangerous path if we do what Pharaoh did and refuse to submit to God's ways.

For our lives and after all we have believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ have we not. We've believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore if we have bowed the knee to Christ. We say that he is master and he is King and he is Lord not only it's easy to say that he's Lord of creation.

We sing about that. It's easy and maybe we come to the place where we say he's Lord of salvation. He does what he pleases there. But when it comes to our individual lives, there are some people say oh Don't touch my life.

I Like it just the way that it is. And I don't want any entrance there. Just don't upset my apple cart but Christ is Lord of our lives and Sadly to say like the place that I went to this morning to preach at I let them know that Christ is Lord of this church, and you don't mess with the Lord's possessions.

He rules and reigns over the church. He's the head of the church. The definition of a hard hard heartedness is to make your heart callous. To make your heart unfeeling. Or to be stubborn and Pharaoh thought he was.

Pharaoh thought that God was wrong and that he was right, but he was deceived and he developed a hard heart. Anyone who fights against God's Word or the Spirit of God the Spirit of God's ministry with the in the Word of God is headed for a calloused heart.

And we need to be careful. But we don't need to be completely in despair. God is so good to us. He gives us the Word of God. Lessons like this Recorded in Scripture people's lives so that we can look at this and we can see who God is and and what he thinks about things and what he thinks about how people deal with him and the word that comes to them the commands that come and we see and we see in Pharaoh's life that God through Moses God through Aaron is is commanding Pharaoh to do something and Pharaoh's refusing to do that and we see the consequences of that and ultimately with all of the plagues with all of the misery that comes upon that kingdom and eventually the the killing of the firstborn and the weeping and the wailing in that nation and then Pharaoh again hardens his heart even after He lets the people go and sends the chariots after him and they're all drowned in the sea.

Every single one of them and God's people went over the on dry land. It's an example of God warning us by showing us the direction not to go in isn't it. And that's just a tremendous mercy of the Lord.

The Lord is so good to us because He is leading us into the path that we need to take and listen to this to experience victory. Over the evil desire to assert our rights over God's truth. It is an evil desire.

It is wickedness. It is sin to want to assert our rights over God's truth and yet people do it day after day after day. I I Over the years in ministry, and I know the other pastors I know that you as believers as you're dealing with people one of the things that Breaks your heart more than anything is to be dealing with someone who knows exactly what they need to do and yet They refuse to do it.

I'm gonna give you some reasons why in a moment why I believe that they do that. But they harden their heart they stiffen the neck so to speak. But thankfully the Lord Allows us to hear a message like this To help us.

And it is good for us to remember that our Creator has all the rights Creation doesn't have the right to dictate to the Creator. He's the Potter. We are the clay he does with us as he pleases and we're hearing and studying this account this Evening so that we can be instructed in the way that we ought to go ought to live the way that we ought to apply The truth of the Word of God to our lives and this may sound so basic and so simplistic.

But the most practical things sometimes are the things that we overlook and it's a very practical thing I believe that we should never never never come to ever in a place in our lives where we say no to God.

Only a foolish person person would do that for it says in Psalm 14 1 the fool has said in his heart. And then you take out the italicized words there that that were put in the fool has said in his heart.

No God, no. No. Absolutely not. I Mean as a pet as a parent. One of the things that just kind of grates upon your soul. I like sandpaper is When you want your child to do something and you get that no.

And it might not be in words, but but it could be an action. It could be in an attitude. Facial expression. It's a no. And there isn't anything that grieves the heart of our father more than When he has commanded us to walk in a certain way he has given us the Word of God the truth that we can have it as a lamp on our feet and a light on our path and take it up and walk in it and We say no, and I know that Pharaoh is a lost man and he's dealing with it.

This is what he did. But I'm just a plaking that and applying it to us and hopefully so that we have a warning today and I'll go into Hebrews chapter 3 After a while also and show you a New Testament passage with a little bit different of a twist to it.

That will help us as far as as being of people who take heed to the warning harden not your heart. Do not harden your heart ever. The fullest person says no. And saying no to God, especially when we know he is right especially in the face of overwhelming evidences.

Just puts another crusty layer around our hearts. Well what I got. I need to have some points don't I because for those of you taking notes? I haven't gone anywhere. Just getting this thing off the ground.

It's just a just an introduction. You got to have some points to write down right. You're itching to have some points. Well, I have six signs. Of a hard heart. Six signs of a hard heart. We need to guard against these in order that we might keep our hearts soft before the Lord.

The first sign is stubbornness. The first sign is stubbornness. Fair. Pharaoh was stubborn and obstinate. But aren't we also guilty of this sometimes in our own lives? How many times have we said something like this and you're not gonna say it outwardly, of course.

How many times have we maybe inwardly we're thinking this. I know I shouldn't do it, but I'm gonna do it anyways. That Romans 7 battle. I Want to do good. I ought to do good and I don't do good. The things I ought to do I don't do and the things I ought not to do I do.

God speaks to us through his word. Maybe through a good counsel of a parent or a Christian friend or a pastor. We hear the truth over and over again. But we refuse to listen and we do it our way and want to do it our way.

Anyways, and our hearts are hardened by our stubbornness. Now if you would please turn to me hold your place here and turn with me to Hebrews chapter 3. Hebrews chapter 3 this this book written to Jewish people who are struggling with.

What it means to leave the ritual Ceremonial practices of the Old Testament and hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ and what it means to be saved by grace alone and Having those remnants and Christ is better and and all of that than the sacrifices in Hebrews chapter 3.

I want you to notice and I did not even see this until When I was last kind of refreshing and looking at this chapter, I want you to look in Hebrews chapter 3 I'll just show you these three in verse 8 hardened not your hearts and In verse 13 but exhort one another daily while it is called today.

Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin again the word hardened and in verse 15 while it is While it is said today if you will hear his voice hardened not your hearts as in the provocation.

Now what's really good and where I get off the hook here as far as summer in the Psalms. This verses these verses in this portion here is a quote directly from pastor Mike's message last week Psalm 95 verses 8 through 11, so I've done my I've discharged my duty.

All right. But seriously. This is this is from the Psalm if you if that portion of Scripture troubled you last week that pastor Mike Preached on beginning positive kind of the end the warning and the negative things and don't let allow this happen in your life.

The writer of Hebrews Is saying to these people who are on the fence there, they're not fully committing to Jesus Christ. They're they're on the fence and he is warning them and he's saying don't do what your ancestors did in the Old Testament.

And what did they do? What is it? What were the evidences in the life of the history of the children of Israel? Somebody tell me just give me some things and I'll repeat them onto the tape. What did God do with a mighty hand for the children of Israel Old Testament during this time?

Deliver. Deliver right. Is that what you said deliver them? Okay, he delivered them Out of Egypt and when he was doing that, what did he do? What did he demonstrate by power? He parted the sea he did that and they and I and I mentioned a little while ago and they went over on dry land.

What else did he do before the parting of the sea Bernard? Did you have some? 40 years manna and Along with that manna 40 years, which is an equivalent I've read someplace that it was equivalent of about 40 train boxcar loads per day of manna coming out of the sky.

Miraculous God taking care of them. Yes Jericho even afterwards right but what about even before the deliverance when I was reading the beginning? How did I begin the message the plagues the ten plagues?

Marvelous hand of the Lord. Anybody else. Yes, Justin. Well just to bring them to Egypt was a mercy of God to spare them from the famine at that time. Yes Lewis Destroyed the Egyptian army in the Red Sea the closing of the sea upon them in their chariots.

They were killed. Yes, so any one last one maybe Carol? Oh, what a segue. I mean, I didn't I didn't set her up either on this. No God Delivers them with the plagues out of Egypt and Then he he brings them to the Red Sea Mountains all around them on either side the ocean in front of them in Pharaoh's chariots coming after them and God puts himself between you remember the the cloud there and And and holds back the army so that they can get across on on dry land.

And then God moves and removes himself in Pharaoh and as the chariots come in and they are they are drowned in the sea and then and then afterwards when they send the spies into the land and there's the bad report and God is displeased with them in Spite of all the overwhelming evidences of what God had done.

They still would not trust God. They still would not believe God they still would not. And because of that God judged them and that whole generation was killed off and they did not enter into the promised land because Hebrews chapter 3 of their unbelief listen and look at this as we go down Hebrews 3 in verse 8 harden.

Not your hearts as in the provocation in the day and temptation in the wilderness when your father's tempted me now The Paul the I believe it's possible Paul. He's writing this here saying to these Hebrews.

Look you're on the fence. You've heard of Jesus Christ that he saves him and him alone. You need to leave the ceremonial Practices of the past the Old Testament sacrifices. It's not of works. It's all of grace you need to trust him, but they're they're not fully committed and He says you're not fully committed to Christ.

Don't do what your father's did in spite of everything that God has shown you they still would not believe and He says they saw it says in verse 9 when your father's tempted me proved me and saw my works for 40 years.

And God blessed them for 40 years. He took care of them. It says in verse 10 wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said they do always err in their heart and they have not known My ways, so I swear in my wrath.

They shall not enter into my rest. Take heed brethren. Lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from The Living God but exhort one another daily while it is called today. Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sins for we are made Partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end while it is said today.

If you will hear his voice Harden not your hearts as in the provocation for some when they had heard did provoke. Albeit not all came out of egypt by moses. But with whom he was grieved 40 years was it not with them that had sinned whose carcasses fell in the wilderness.

And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not. In spite of all the overwhelming evidences the people of god Would not believe and like pharaoh When these evidences were coming to him he Quickly got over his fear.

I mean for a moment there he's afraid God is doing these things and his king. His kingdom is getting decimated. And for a moment he's afraid. But then when it's removed His heart rises up. His stubborn heart rises up and he hardens his heart and he quickly Gets over his fear.

And just like that israel In spite of all of the evidences of god. And what god was doing? And how he could be trusted and how he would get them into the land and he would fulfill his promises to them.

They quickly got over their trust in god. And I think the same thing happens in the church of god today, and I think we need to be warned not In spite of all the evidences of the truth that comes our way and the way that god demonstrates his self in our himself in our lives by his Providential dealings with us and the way he takes care of us day in and day out and we see his mighty hand in our lives.

The lord is our shepherd and we never lack He takes care of us. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I Will dwell in the house of the lord forever. Our god is good to us.

And yet we come to the place where we quickly leave our trust. And we get hard-hearted. And I believe that the warning comes to us this evening that we need to be we need to be very careful. Not ever to be stubborn.

Well, secondly, what is another sign of a hard heart? It is a lack of concern for spiritual things. A hard heart Is also a dull heart. How many have ever had a callus ever had a callus? I remember back in 1980s a friend of mine taught me how to play the guitar and it had the the nylon strings with the Metal wrapped around it and just playing that guitar for for hours and hours upon end and one day Notice I looked down and there were calluses all on my fingertips and I would touch them.

And if you touch them, there's hardly no feeling in that area. You ever had a callus on your foot. It's insensitive. And a hard heart. As I said earlier do not harden your heart that means do not make your heart callous to the things of god.

Because a hard heart is a callous heart and a calloused heart Is one that loses feeling or when it comes to the things of god we become we become important and god no longer takes The preeminent place that he ought to we become big and god becomes small.

The hard heart wants god off the throne and self proudly sitting on it. And the stubborn heart refuses to obey god and the calloused heart Becomes dull to the things of god. Out of touch. Insensitive.

What is this all about? Why do I even come to church? What does this mean? I mean i'd rather be doodling on a piece of paper than listening to what he's saying back there. That brother dave and that brother steve, man, they they could keep going on.

What are they? What are they doing? I gotta get out of here. I got things to do. Insensitivity. A hard heart becomes callous. And that's something brethren. We ought to be always Always careful of because we know that the lord Desires for us to have what kind of a heart a soft heart.

One that is moldable one that is that god can take in shape in the way that he would desire to. But when we have a calloused heart. Our schedule for the week is more important than god's. Our work comes before worship.

I mean somebody with a hard heart will find. All kinds of excuses for not coming to church for not serving in the church for not seeking god as they should and you know. You know that you have and I kind of touched on this already.

You know that you have a hard heart or a calloused heart when you're in church and you don't want to be there. I mean you'd rather be someplace else. You can't wait till it's over. I mean this is boring.

It's you know, i'm just staring i'm yawning i'm i'm doodling. Um, I'm not saying that this gentleman had a hard heart. But when I was preaching this morning a gentleman came up to me afterwards and he handed me this.

That's me. I mean, he's a he sketches well, and uh, I was thankful. I was grateful. I mean, he made me look better than I that I do um but I don't know if what I was preaching was so boring that he needed to do this.

Uh, I I don't have any idea but I know that when i'm at work sometimes. When the topic it's just so monotonous and it's like they're dragging this thing out. I i'm I got the agenda before me and i'm drawing pictures.

You know, i'm really good. I can do the greek alphabet. I mean just I think I can do it backwards now. I just do the greek alphabet and greek words and and draw pictures and stuff but when it comes to the serious sacred Gathering of the people of god in jesus name.

How dear we ever have calloused hearts. And be insensitive to the things of god. We ought to come into this building and say as the psalmist said and he's he's going to open up his mouth. Feed us with the finest of wheat.

God, would you not rain down righteousness from above as the prophet would say? Lord would you not. Please deal with me because I know that I am in such great need help me help me. I was sharing this a couple weeks ago with somebody.

If you read through the psalms and you see oh. The cry of the psalm is oh Oh god. Early will I seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee my flesh longs for thee. The oh the oh. Sadly to say is missing in christianity today because I believe there's this idea that you can just have this simple easy Nickety split type quick abc type superficial salvation message.

And you can just kind of uh tag jesus onto your life. And it's just not real. It's not genuine. And it doesn't it doesn't affect the the whole being of the person. And then when god's word comes powerfully preached or you read the word of god and people look at that.

And I know what I know what god says there, but i'm not going to have any i'm just stubborn. And calloused and not listening and become insensitive to the things of god selfishness will creep in. And god's business crowds your plans.

You got other things that you'd rather be doing and you want to choose your way instead of god's way. Pharaoh did this and we? Cannot afford to be unconcerned with the things of god. I believe that whatever is important to our savior ought to be important to us.

And what's important what's important to him is the glory of his name the honor and majesty and the wonder Of his blessed name and we ought to be a people who uh as pastor Mike had preached hallowed be thy name that ought to be something stamped upon us.

That we want to be a people of god who honor him always and are with lip in life. The word of god is important to god. It's settled forever and it ought to be so dear and precious to us and we ought to love it.

We ought to submit to it. The people of god are precious to god and the people of god ought to be precious to us. And we ought to be willing to do the one anothering bearing one another's burdens and loving one another and caring for one another.

And so on the things that are important to god the things that the things that are Are in the forefront of the lord ought to be in the forefront of our minds, too. And if we if we find ourselves having a calloused heart, then we we ought to be praying that god would just strip it away.

Whatever it would take in our lives for god to give us a soft heart. That beats after god. Thirdly sign of a hard heart is ignoring the testimony of others pharaoh saw. The difference between the people of his kingdom and god's people israel.

There was a dividing line. I mean the plagues and the and all those things would hit pharaoh, but the land of goshen had rest. I mean, I can't remember but I can't remember the reading but it's it was almost like.

The saying was is like not even a a dog would bark that way. I mean, you know, it was just quiet. The lord took care of them. And there was undeniable evidence right before pharaoh's eyes, but he repeatedly ignored it all.

And this is a sure sign of a hard heart and i'm fearful. And I want to just kind of talk to the children today. I once in a while do that. I'll speak to the children here children in christian homes. Who have evidences they see things day in and day out.

They hear the word of god taught around the family altar family devotions the mom and dad quote scripture. They try to teach them and instruct them with scripture. They see god's blessings upon the lives of their parents.

They're they're you know children your mom and dad if they're believers. Weren't always the way that they are now. They used to be ferocious. They used to be uncaring. They used to be uh sinners angry with god.

And now they've been changed and you are witnessing what god has done in their lives. Their marriage is different. Maybe you've seen that difference. Because god has changed them. But i'm fearful for children because they hear Their parents instruction.

They see the testimony of god in their home. Yet they Repeatedly put their fingers in their ears sometimes and i'm not saying all children. But there are some who don't want to hear. I just don't want to hear this anymore.