INTRODUCTION: The consequences for Egypt’s disobedience escalated. Yet, the heart of Pharaoh remained hard and indifferent. Regardless, God’s plan would come to fruition; He would deliver His people from Egypt’s enslavement and judge the gods of Egypt. I. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS (Exodus 10:1-20) A. The Warning Given (Exodus 10:1-11) 1. The Lord spoke to Moses (Exodus 10:1-2). a. The hardening of hearts (Exodus 10:1a) 1) The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart again. a) Mentioned ten times (Exodus 4:21; Exodus 7:3, 13; Exodus 9:12; Exodus 10:1, 20, 27; Exodus 11:9-10; Exodus 14:4, 8) b) However, Pharaoh hardened his own heart (Exodus 8:15, 32; Exodus 9:34). Evidently, the Lord only intensified the attitude already existing in the heart of Pharaoh. The Lord did not take someone open to God’s will and turn him against the Lord, but took someone who already rejected the Lord and increased the strength of that rejection for His own plan and purpose. c) The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart had absolutely nothing to do with eternal salvation (Exodus 4:21; Exodus 10:20, 27). 2) Other examples of God hardening hearts a) Sihon king of Hesbon (Deuteronomy 2:30) b) The kings of Canaan (Joshua 11:19-20) c) New Testament Jews (John 12:37-40); See the progression—“they believed not…therefore they could not believe” d) The apostles concerning Christ’s miracle (Mark 6:52) e) Those rejecting doctrinal teaching (Romans 9:13-24)
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