The Battle Lines Are Set

Q: What does the Bible say about the hardening of Pharaoh's heart?

The Bible reveals that God hardened Pharaoh's heart to demonstrate His power and sovereign grace. In Exodus, God explicitly states that He hardened Pharaoh's heart to fulfill His purpose of delivering the Israelites from bondage while demonstrating His glory to the Egyptians and the world (Exodus 7:3-5). This hardening serves to reveal both the merciful compassion of God towards His people and the judgment He has on those who oppose Him, such as Pharaoh. It illustrates God's sovereignty over all hearts and His ability to accomplish His will regardless of human opposition.

Q: How do we know God's sovereignty is true?

God's sovereignty is evident in Scripture through His control over all events and outcomes, including the hardening of hearts. The sovereignty of God is consistently affirmed throughout the Bible, particularly in Romans 9 where it is stated that God has mercy on whom He will and hardens whom He will (Romans 9:18). This sovereignty means that God is not only aware of events but actively governs them for His glory and purposes. The example of Pharaoh serves as a clear illustration where God's sovereign plan unfolds despite Pharaoh's rebellion, revealing God's authority over both believers and non-believers.

Q: Why is God's grace important for Christians?

God's grace is essential for Christians because it is through grace that they are saved and sustained in faith. The concept of grace is fundamental in Reformed theology, particularly the covenant of grace, which demonstrates that salvation is entirely based on God's unmerited favor rather than human works. In Exodus, the deliverance of Israel showcases this grace, illustrating that God acts in mercy to save His people despite their failures (Exodus 7:4-5). Christians depend on this grace for their ongoing relationship with God, as it assures them that their salvation is secure in Christ. Therefore, understanding and embracing God's grace is crucial for a believer's life and faith journey.

Q: What does it mean to believe in God's promises?

Believing in God's promises involves trusting His faithfulness and sovereignty, as shown in Scripture. Believing in God's promises means placing full trust in His character and assurance that He will fulfill what He has declared. In Exodus, God assures Moses of His plans to liberate Israel despite Moses' weaknesses, which exemplifies trust in God's promises (Exodus 6:28-30). This belief is not based on human understanding or abilities, but solely on God's sovereign will and grace. Therefore, for Christians, faith in promises also encompasses the confidence that God will complete the good work He began in them, relying on His faithfulness rather than their own strength.

Let's turn to Exodus. And we're going to be in chapter 7 this morning. But before we go on there, I just want to note that some have said that the first six chapters of Exodus are the first division of that book. And so chapter 7 will begin a new division. And the first six chapters, if you'll recall, were focused the calling of Moses as the deliverer of God's people from their bondage in Egypt.

And chapter 6 closes with Moses still still complaining to God about his physical infirmity and basically saying to the Lord that he didn't believe, that he was faithless in trusting that God would be with him as God said that he would. And so verse 28, so Exodus 6, 28, it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord. Speak thou unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt, all that I say unto thee. And Moses said before the Lord, behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

And so Moses here is weak in the faith, which, of course, by nature, all men are. Man, this flesh does not produce the faith of God. This flesh is dead in trespasses and sins. And Moses is infirmed in his flesh, meaning he has a weakness. He has a sickness, which he complains of, saying, I'm of uncircumcised lips. I'm not a good speaker. I can't speak before Pharaoh. This is a ruler of the world. Who am I to speak to him?

What's being done here is that Israel's deliverance, it's going to be clear now that it's not because of Moses' skill, it's not because of the strength of his flesh or the gifts that he has in the flesh, and it's not because of his great faith. That gives God permission to do something in the earth. That's the way the world speaks. If you believe, then God can do something for you. And only if you believe, right? Well, no, it has nothing to do with Moses' faith. Moses is showing that he doesn't believe.

And yet the Lord is going to act graciously in the covenant of his grace. He's going to deliver his people from their bondage in Egypt. And so all glory to God. All the glory is God's, not man's. Now, it's against that backdrop of unbelief there that we see God's grace shine most brilliantly. most gloriously, that in spite of us, in spite of you, in spite of me, in spite of our unbelief, in spite of our inabilities and the failures of our flesh, that doesn't limit God or prevent God from accomplishing his glorious will in the earth. And that is a great comfort to you whose hope and confidence is in the Lord rather than in yourselves. It's a disappointment to hear if your trust is in yourself. It's a glorious good word to you whose hope and confidence is in the Lord.

It's in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so the Lord is going to have mercy and compassion. He's going to demonstrate that he will have compassion and be merciful to whom he will be merciful and compassionate. And in Pharaoh's case, he hardens whom he will harden. All right. And so that's what's seen. And he does this. He hardens Pharaoh's heart that his glory and power be shown throughout the earth. he's declaring his glory and hardening Pharaoh's heart.

So from this point forward, it's gonna be obvious that the Lord God is operating in his covenant of grace. There's a covenant of grace that God has established with his people and he's moving forward in it. In spite of the fact that man is just in unbelief, in darkness, unaware, yet the Lord is faithful to his word. He is always faithful to his word of promise. You can depend upon it.

Now, beginning in this chapter now, chapter seven, Exodus seven, We'll see what the Lord intends to reveal to his people, what he's gonna make known. He's making known his covenant. He's revealing his mystery here in what he's doing with Moses and delivering the people of Israel.

We're gonna see how that the Lord God, the Lord our God always triumphs. His enemies don't defeat God. God always triumphs over his people. Our Lord redeems his people. We're gonna see that. We see that the Lord redeems his people in spite of themselves.

And that all the enemies of God and his people shall be utterly thrown down. They shall be cast down. And so what the scriptures are showing us here is that there's a glorious battle. about to take place. There's a glorious battle. There's battle lines being drawn here, and God's people are going to be delivered. And every imagination of man that exalts itself against God is going to be thrown down, cast down, and our God shall be all and in all.

So here's the battle. The lines are being set, and that's what we're looking at in today's message. The battle lines are being drawn. They're being set here. And then we'll come back and we'll see how it unfolds. We'll see the actual details of the battle.

So firstly, Exodus 7 verse 1, and the Lord said unto Moses, see, I have made thee a God to Pharaoh, a little g God to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. And so here we are struck with this contrast. Moses just ended, but I'm a man of uncircumcised lips. I can't do this. And then we see God moving forward. He just goes right on through that.

I've made thee a God to Pharaoh. You're going to stand before Pharaoh. And we point this out here because The Lord has a way of bringing us to the end of ourselves. The Lord, he accomplishes his will in spite of us. We see his effectual power. We see his sovereign grace. We see him triumphing and glorying over all his enemies, including the enmity of our flesh by nature. He triumphs over that. And the Lord just brings his people to the end of themselves. He brings us to see that all our complaints are not stopping us. They're not preventing God.

And we have less and less confidence in the flesh by his power and more and more confidence in him. We grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We see the truth of his scripture being accomplished in our hearts and in our lives. And he does it in such a way so that we are stripped of the vain confidences of the flesh and encouraged and strengthened by his hand, by the Lord Jesus Christ, by him and his grace.

Now this phrase, see, I have made thee a God to Pharaoh. What does this mean? Why is God saying this of a Pharaoh? Well, what the Lord is saying to Moses is, Moses, you're going to stand before Pharaoh. And he's not going to see me, but he's going to see you. And he's going to see my power in you. He's going to see what I do in the earth. He's going to know and understand.

And Moses, he's going to hold the reins over Pharaoh. He's going to give God's word to Pharaoh, Pharaoh's going to disobey that word, and then Moses is going to punish him. He's going to bring on these plagues, as it were, to punish his disobedience because he doesn't receive the word of God. And then Pharaoh, when he is broken by that, he's going to go to Moses, and he's going to supplicate Moses.

He's going to pray, Moses, please be merciful. Pray that this plague be taken away. So he's going to have to go to Moses to ask for Moses' favor and kindness to remove the plague from him. And in that manner, Moses is made a god to him. Because all he sees is Moses. All he knows is that Moses is the one bringing these plagues upon him, and that only by Moses' intercession are these plagues removed. And so that's what he's learning.

And then God gave Moses a prophet to speak for him, saying, Aaron, thy brother, shall be thy prophet. And what does a prophet of God do? prophet of God is nothing except that he repeats or speaks the Word of God to those to whom the Lord sends him. If you look back in Exodus chapter 4 verse 15 and 16, the Lord was speaking about Aaron's purpose and he said, thou shalt speak unto him and and put words in his mouth, and I will be with thy mouth, Moses, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people, and he shall be even as even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him. instead of God.

And so that's how the Lord uses his prophets. He gives them his word, he sends them to the people that he's sending them to to preach, to make known his will and his word, and then they speak it according to what God has given them to speak. That's what the prophet does. That's what a preacher does. That's what the Lord does with his servants. Now, what the Lord is doing here by declaring his word through Moses and Aram is that he's drawing clear battle lines.

There's a reason why we read the scriptures and declare these scriptures. There's a reason why we declare the mystery of God being revealed in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The reason we declare it, and we don't want to change it, we want to declare it faithfully as it's declared here to us, And there's a reason why we make it known as plain and as simply as we can without trying to soften it or argue it away or render it useless. The reason why we declare these things is because this is what the Lord uses to make known who his people are and those who are not his people. This is what the Lord uses. This is what he gives is this word to make this thing known to us.

The Apostle Paul spoke of a warfare in his day, just like there's a warfare in the times of the Exodus here, when Israel was still in Egypt. He spoke of this, and he said to the Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 2, verse 14, now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the saver of his knowledge by us in every place." Now, that making manifest the saver of his knowledge by us, what he's saying there is, we preach the gospel. We're going about declaring the gospel of God's salvation. We are speaking of the Christ who was to come, who did come, and what he accomplished. We're making known why the Son of God came in the flesh. And so it's why we preach, it's what we preach, and we declare this word according to the word of the Lord.

And the result of the preaching of God's free grace in Christ follows in verse 16 of that same chapter, 2 Corinthians 2.16. To the one we are the saver of death unto death. and to the other, the savor of life unto life." And who's sufficient for these things? What he's saying is, in preaching the gospel, in revealing the mystery of God, declaring the Son, who he is, why he came, and what he accomplished in making this known to men. God reveals his people by giving them faith in their hearts that looks to Christ, that confesses Christ, that follows Christ in baptism, that believes him, and stays upon him, that needs him, and feels their great need of him. And at the same time, there's revealed in the hearts of others a hatred for God or an indifference.

I don't need that. that means nothing to me, they get nothing out of it. Or they either passively or they actively hate it. But they don't believe Christ and they don't follow Christ. They might be happy with the form of religion and the outward practice of religious things, but that doesn't mean that that man loves Christ and follows Christ and believes him.

And so the Lord our God reveals faith in them that are his and That hatred that is in the natural heart of man is brought out. It's revealed in them also. It's made plain, laid bare before all to see, or at least that individual to know whether they love the Lord or not through the preaching of the word. That's where the battle's taking place. And just by declaring it, the battle lines are being drawn, those who are the Lord's and those who are not the Lord's. It's that simple. It's what the Lord does.

And so what the Lord intends here with Pharaoh, by showing forth his glory and signs and wonders in Egypt, and the hardening of Pharaoh's heart to those signs and wonders, is that his glory will be made known in the earth. His word, his glory is going to go forth triumphantly, making known them that are the Lord's versus them that are not. And so he says in Exodus 7 verse 3, I will harden Pharaoh's heart. you're gonna go and preach this word, you're gonna do these signs and wonders before him, and I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. And so God's word is gonna be declared and displayed with these signs and wonders, and it's gonna magnify, it's gonna multiply through the hardening of Pharaoh's heart. so that God's word is going to keep going forth, and it's going to be laid out stronger and stronger and more gloriously so that the Lord is going to triumph over Pharaoh, destroying Pharaoh and his army, and all the world's going to hear it. All the world's going to know what God has done, that he is the Lord, and that there is none like him in all the earth. He's going to make it known.

And so these are very solemn words. to read in scripture, are they not? That God hardened Pharaoh's heart. They're solemn words. It regards the hardness of man's heart. And the scriptures tell us repeatedly that God hardened his heart. It's repeated multiple times in chapter seven. It's declared before that.

Back in chapter four, verse 21, he said, I will harden his heart that he shall not let the people go. And it isn't until chapter 8, verse 15, when we read, when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite or a break in the plagues, when the Lord took away the plague and he had peace again and rest from it, that he hardened his heart, that Pharaoh hardened his heart. Pharaoh hardened his heart and hearken not unto them as the Lord had said. And so again, what the Lord is doing here with Pharaoh is he's making clear to you that hear his word that he has a people and there's a people who are not his people. And he makes it known through the hardening of Pharaoh's heart.

Now understand, man is already by nature an enemy of God. So the fact that anyone believes is the mercy and grace of God. It's a demonstration that God is merciful to whom he will be merciful. He is compassionate to whom he will be compassionate. He shows grace to whom he will be gracious.

And our prayer, the prayer, the cry of the needy sinner is, Lord, please have mercy on me. Let me be one of your people that you be merciful to. Save me, Lord, don't harden my heart, soften my heart, break my heart. Lord, get truth in me in the inward parts. Do what you gotta do, but make me to know you. Make me one of your vessels of mercy, fitted for your glory and these good things, rather than making me a vessel of your wrath for your glory. Lord, let me be one of your people.

Have mercy on me. That's what he does. And you that cry that cry, you that beg God for that mercy and grace, it's because he is being merciful to you. He only puts that cry in the heart of those in whom he purposes to be merciful and gracious to. It's all his grace.

I mean, I'm trying to explain it, but really, who can explain it? We either bow before the Lord or we don't. We either fight against them or we confess, Lord, who am I? Who am I to hear such things and understand such things, Lord? Help me, Lord, have mercy on me. And so we don't complain about God hardening Pharaoh's heart because the Lord our God is just in whatever he does. He knows all things. He does as He pleases. He is God. We're His creation.

When you create something and make something, don't you do with it what you want to do with it? If you want to take from a pile of wood and make something nice out of it, you make it. And if you take other pieces and you make something for the use of slop and garbage, that's your choice. You do what you want to do with it. Well, can't God do the same thing? He can and he does. He does the same thing as it pleases him. And so what the Lord is doing is throughout scripture he's showing us that he is sovereign.

You and I, we're not God. Things don't go the way we want them to go. It happens all the time. We get frustrated, disappointed. We get taught a lesson here and a lesson there that we can't control the things that we think that we can control or want to control. Things happen contrary to what we want and what we would do. And it humbles us. And sometimes it shames us. And oftentimes it puts us in our place. And it corrects our bad attitudes a lot of times.

The Lord does it. He's God. And we learn to bow before Him and say, Lord, help me. Lord, have mercy on me. And the scriptures are showing us that God is sovereign, that man is unjust, and man is wicked. And God makes the abominable wickedness in man's heart very plain. He lays it out when it pleases him and glorifies him. And we see that except God be merciful and gracious to a man, that man is destroyed. It'll be made plain that he has no part in the Lord. Except God make it plain that he does. by His grace and His mercy.

And when God is merciful to His people, it's in the covenant of His mercy and grace that He's doing this. Not because you or I earned it, not because we merited His favor toward us. But it's a demonstration that God is faithful to His covenant promise in and by the Lord Jesus Christ.

And He shows His people that so that we bow and give Him all the thanks, all the praise, all the glory for what He has done. Because man isn't gonna believe God, man's not gonna bow before God except the Lord turn his heart, remove that veil of darkness and blindness, and reveal to him the glory of Christ. and give him a heart of love and hope and joy in the Lord Jesus Christ. But you and I, we're gonna want that. He's gonna give that cry to his people.

He shows us these things that we do cry out to him for grace. Now let's look at what the Lord tells us further on this matter over in Romans 9. Go to Romans 9. In verse 17, this is what I mean where the battle lines are being drawn. The Lord's making these truths known.

That's why he tells us, I will harden Pharaoh's heart. I'm gonna display my glory in the earth. That man's already a wicked man and the Lord's gonna make it plain that he's a wicked man. He's gonna make it obvious and so obvious that it's going to redound to the glory of God throughout all the earth. And he's going to make it known.

So Romans 9, let's pick up in verse 17. The whole chapter speaks of God's choice, of God's sovereign choice in choosing whom he will, such as with Jacob and Esau. He chose to be gracious to Esau, rather to Jacob. He was merciful. He loved Jacob, and he revealed himself to Jacob. And Esau, he left him in darkness. He passed right on by him.

Romans 9, 17, for the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. This man Pharaoh was made Pharaoh, inherited the throne of Pharaoh, and became Pharaoh for the purpose of glorifying God.

This is why there's no point in being envious of the wicked. and being envious when others seem to have everything going well for them, because for all you know, they're just set up for a greater fall, a more horrible fall. Be thankful for what you have. Be thankful for who you are. Be thankful for the experiences the Lord has given you that have brought you here to this day to see your need of the Lord Jesus Christ, that he would have mercy on your soul. Because if you have Christ, you have the greatest of riches. You have eternal riches which shall never diminish, shall never fade away, shall never be taken from you. So you can see, even if you don't have a lot in this life, you have everything in Christ. That's a mercy. That is a great mercy. So rejoice in that, that you're not Pharaoh. Be glad you're not Pharaoh. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardeneth.

Verse 19 of Romans 9. Thou wilt say then unto me, why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted God's will? How can he judge me and find fault with me? And Paul doesn't even seek to justify. Why God does this in hardening a man? He says, Nay, but, O man, who art thou that replyest against God?

Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had aforeprepared unto glory, even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. And so, we could try and soften these words and empty them of all meaning, and yet the Lord lays it out there very plainly, because by His sovereign grace, He takes that word, laying it to the hearts, in one sense, to the hearts of His people, who bow before Him and believe Him and cry out to Him for mercy and grace, and to others, it just hardens them.

It says, well, I can't believe a God like that. Well, then don't believe him. But you'll see that he is the true and living God. And I encourage you to believe him. I encourage you to cry out to him for grace and mercy, because that's what his word accomplishes. In the declaration of it, that God is sovereign, and I'm not, and he is Lord, and I'm not.

And we bow before him and say, but Lord, have mercy on a worm like me. Have mercy on a maggot like me. Be gracious, Lord. Please save me. Please be merciful to me. And so we can't even rebel against this word. If we despise this word, we're despising our own grace, the means of our own grace and mercy. And so we're made thankful. We're made thankful to know that God is able and he bows us humbly before him. And so we don't have to reconcile these words.

You don't even have to understand it. The thing is, we bow before it, and we say, Lord, but you know. But you do know. Even though I can't unravel it, and I can't solve it or explain it away, and I don't want to, but Lord, you know. Because you're good. You cannot lie. You're perfect in what you do. If you judge me and throw me in hell, Lord, you're just. You're just. But please don't. Please have mercy on me.

He gives that cry to the heart of his people. We're called to believe him, to believe his word. That's our responsibility, believe his word. Bow before it and trust him on the sufficient ground that it's his word. Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief. And he's revealed it in our hearts to believe him. And as he sows this word in the heart through the preaching of the gospel, plainly and simply by his spirit, He comforts the heart. He's the one, right? I can't give you comfort. Another can't give you comfort. The TV can't give you comfort. Nobody, nothing can give you comfort in this world.

But if God takes the word and lays it to your heart and gives it to you, he'll comfort you. He'll give you peace because he gives his Holy Spirit to his children and the Spirit will testify that you are the sons or daughters of God, that you're his people because you can't leave him. And you won't want to leave him. And even when you do, he'll overcome that foolish desire and keep you and preserve you and provide for you and grow you and settle you in the Lord Jesus Christ more and more.

He does it all. He does everything in the covenant of grace because he's a gracious, mighty, wonderful God. who keeps his word faithfully to his people. And he promised to save his people to the end, to the utter end, and to give them life eternal in his son. And so he gives this word, and it's made a saver of life unto life in his people. And to those who are not, it's a saver of death unto death.

It just falls out that way. It's a mysterious thing, but the Lord does it. He does it. And those you would think would believe it don't. And those who you think would never believe it are the ones that believe it. And God makes known his glory and power. And who of us can lay a finger to it or say we knew it or figured it out? We don't know nothing and we didn't figure anything out. God just does it as it pleases him.

Now, back in Exodus 7, verses 4 and 5, we look at the power of God being displayed in Pharaoh. He says, but Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you that I may lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth mine armies and my people, the children of Israel, they're picturing God's people who hear and believe the word, and I'll bring my people out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. The world is going to know that I am the Lord when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them. This is a glorious thing. God's going in and taking his people that are in bondage in Egypt, and he's going to pluck them right on out of there. They're going to go out. How?

They're slaves, they have nothing, they have no weapons, they have no strength, they have no ability or power, and yet God's gonna do it so that the world knows God has done this. And it is a picture of what the Lord does for us. By nature, we are in bondage, we are slaves to sin and in death and in darkness and in bondage to Satan. We're in his house, we're shut up and the strong man has us kept in. and keeps us in darkness and keeps us blind, and yet the Lord Jesus Christ, as a stronger man, went into that house and takes his people out, and the devil can do nothing about it. When Christ comes for his child, his child is delivered from that death and darkness. The Lord does it, in spite of what we think is impossible. And so the Lord does it.

Now, verse 6, we're told, Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they. So not only is their obedience in direct contrast to Pharaoh's hardness and unbelief, but the Lord makes Moses and Aaron careful to obey his word and careful to speak his word the way the Lord intends for them to declare. For example, if you look back at Exodus 5, verse 3, Exodus 5, verse 3, this is how they first spoke to Pharaoh when he hardened his heart. Exodus 5, 3, they said, the God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go, we pray thee. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey. They're asking permission of Pharaoh. Please let us go.

And the Lord says, I didn't say that to you. Don't say that to him. You're not asking him permission. I've made thee a god unto him. You command him. You go in there and you tell him the Lord of the gods said, let my people go. Now let them go. Don't ask permission. You're not asking permission.

And so that's what the Lord is showing here. The Lord commands his people, right? He commands them and he gives that word with power, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Don't delay. Don't try and figure things out. Don't hesitate. Run to Christ. Flee to Christ. Fly to him. And you that do, it's because grace gave you those wings to fly. It's because he gave it to you to believe him, and you give him all the thanks and praise for it.

And we see here, verse 7, the last verse, that all the power, all the glory, all the praise is the Lord's. It says in verse seven of chapter seven, and Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83 years old when they spake unto Pharaoh. So here's these aged men and they're suffering from various ailments and troubles and difficulties. And the suffering of the people was long while they waited upon the Lord. But now the Lord has visited his people. And he's bringing judgment, even with these aged men using old earthen vessels that are ready to break apart.

Why? That the excellency, the power may be of God and not of us. You're going to see flaws. You're going to see problems. You're going to see inconsistencies and hypocrisies in the people. but you'll see only perfection in the Lord our God who triumphs gloriously even over all our weaknesses and failures.

He still accomplishes his will in the earth to the praise and glory of his name so that we would know it's all him, it's all his power. That's why he can take a word which is offensive to the flesh that God is sovereign, and I'm not, and he can harden whom he will and have mercy on whom he will, and yet still bless that word to the hearts of his people so that they rejoice in him and give him thanks for their hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Our gracious Lord, we do thank you for your grace. We do thank you for your word and pray that you would make it clear in our hearts, Lord, specifically, that you would make us to bow before Christ that we would see our need, our thirst, and our hunger for his righteousness, and that we would find in him all that we need to stand before our God faultless, accepted of you in perfect righteousness, in grace, and in mercy, which you freely give as it pleases you. And Lord, we pray that you would count us among that number of your people covered in the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in His name we pray and give thanks. Amen.

The Battle Lines Are Set

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about the hardening of Pharaoh's heart?

How do we know God's sovereignty is true?

Why is God's grace important for Christians?

What does it mean to believe in God's promises?

Sermon Transcript

Comments

Articles

Featured Authors

Podcast

Sermons

Featured Preachers

Books

Browse by Format

Music

Recent Comments

About

Legal

Subscribe

Account

Articles

Featured Authors

Podcast

Recent Comments

Sermons

Featured Preachers

Books

Browse by Format

Collections

Music

About

Legal

Subscribe

The Battle Lines Are Set

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about the hardening of Pharaoh's heart?

How do we know God's sovereignty is true?

Why is God's grace important for Christians?

What does it mean to believe in God's promises?

Sermon Transcript

Comments

More from Eric Lutter

Related Sermons

Same Scripture

Articles by Eric Lutter

Suggested for You

Where this book stands in the tradition

Plato

Augustine

The Western Christian Tradition

This Book