The Heart of Mankind - Part 3: The Hardened Heart
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Pastor Dean Odle warns that Christians can gradually harden their hearts through hidden sin, unbelief, rationalization, and refusal to hear God’s voice. Beginning with Jeremiah 17 and Ezekiel 8, he emphasizes that God sees what is concealed within the heart. Hebrews 3 then supplies the central warning: people addressed as holy brethren must take heed lest sin’s deceitfulness harden them and lead them away from the living God.
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Pastor Dean Odle warns that Christians can gradually harden their hearts through hidden sin, unbelief, rationalization, and refusal to hear God’s voice. Beginning with Jeremiah 17 and Ezekiel 8, he emphasizes that God sees what is concealed within the heart. Hebrews 3 then supplies the central warning: people addressed as holy brethren must take heed lest sin’s deceitfulness harden them and lead them away from the living God.
Pastor Dean Odle warns that Christians can gradually harden their hearts through hidden sin, unbelief, rationalization, and refusal to hear God’s voice. Beginning with Jeremiah 17 and Ezekiel 8, he emphasizes that God sees what is concealed within the heart. Hebrews 3 then supplies the central warning: people addressed as holy brethren must take heed lest sin’s deceitfulness harden them and lead them away from the living God.
Pastor Dean Odle warns that Christians can gradually harden their hearts through hidden sin, unbelief, rationalization, and refusal to hear God’s voice. Beginning with Jeremiah 17 and Ezekiel 8, he emphasizes that God sees what is concealed within the heart. Hebrews 3 then supplies the central warning: people addressed as holy brethren must take heed lest sin’s deceitfulness harden them and lead them away from the living God.
Pastor Dean Odle warns that Christians can gradually harden their hearts through hidden sin, unbelief, rationalization, and refusal to hear God’s voice. Beginning with Jeremiah 17 and Ezekiel 8, he emphasizes that God sees what is concealed within the heart. Hebrews 3 then supplies the central warning: people addressed as holy brethren must take heed lest sin’s deceitfulness harden them and lead them away from the living God.
The sermon presents hardness not merely as open rebellion but as spiritual dullness: forgetting God’s works, losing the fear of God, resisting correction, and remaining unmoved even amid blessing or revival. Odle urges daily exhortation, remembrance, confession, reverence, and obedience, closing with prayer for cleansing from selfishness, envy, lust, and deception and for a renewed, rightly ordered heart.
The sermon presents hardness not merely as open rebellion but as spiritual dullness: forgetting God’s works, losing the fear of God, resisting correction, and remaining unmoved even amid blessing or revival. Odle urges daily exhortation, remembrance, confession, reverence, and obedience, closing with prayer for cleansing from selfishness, envy, lust, and deception and for a renewed, rightly ordered heart.
The sermon presents hardness not merely as open rebellion but as spiritual dullness: forgetting God’s works, losing the fear of God, resisting correction, and remaining unmoved even amid blessing or revival. Odle urges daily exhortation, remembrance, confession, reverence, and obedience, closing with prayer for cleansing from selfishness, envy, lust, and deception and for a renewed, rightly ordered heart.
The sermon presents hardness not merely as open rebellion but as spiritual dullness: forgetting God’s works, losing the fear of God, resisting correction, and remaining unmoved even amid blessing or revival. Odle urges daily exhortation, remembrance, confession, reverence, and obedience, closing with prayer for cleansing from selfishness, envy, lust, and deception and for a renewed, rightly ordered heart.
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my desire. Anything that is not of you and is of me, I want more of you and less of me. Yes, we need more of you, Jesus. Lord Jesus, just receive our worship today, Lord. Holy fire, burn away my desire for anything that is not of you and is of me. I want more of you. That's all I'm Yes, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Let's sing it again. Empty, empty us, Lord Jesus. Holy fire. Burn away my desire of anything that is not of you. It is of me. I want more of you. Is less of me. Empty me. empty me and feel. Won't you feel me? And feel Won't you feel me? With you. With you. With you. With you. With you. With you. I want more. I want more. I want more. I want more of you, Jesus. I want more. I want more. I want more of you, Jesus. I want more. I want more. I want more of you, Jesus. I want more. I want more. I want more of you, Jesus. Yes, Jesus. In the name of Jesus, we just bind every demon that would be coming against us today. Every interfering spirit we bind in Jesus name. Every spirit that would come against this meeting today, we bind in Jesus' name. In the name above all names, empty us, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord.
- 0:03:12
I want more. Let's sing that again. Oh, I want more. I want more. I want more of you, Jesus. I want more. I want more. I want more of you, Jesus. I need more. I want more. I want more of you, Jesus. I need more. I want more. I need more of you, Jesus. Holy fire. Your holy fire. Create in me a clean heart. Oh God, and renew our spirit within me. Create me a clean heart, oh God, and renew right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord, and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and renew my spirit within me. and renew our spirit within me. and renew our spirit within me. Let's sing it again. Let's sing it again and mean it. You know, it's not about us. It's not about us today. It's about the Lord Jesus. Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew right within me. Create in me a cleaning heart. Oh God, and renew my spirit within me,
- 0:06:12
and cast me not away from thy presence, oh Lord, and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and renew a thy spirit within me. Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Praise you, Lord. Let's just focus on the Lord this morning. Amen. He's good. He's faithful. I'm so thankful for the blood of Jesus. Are you thankful for the blood of Jesus? Thank you, Jesus, for your blood. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Your blood speaks a better word and all the empty heard upon this earth speaks rightous for me. Jesus, it's your blood. Your blood speaks a better word. And all the empty speaks rightous for me stands in my defense. Jesus is your blood. What can wash away our sins? What can make us whole again? Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can wash us pure as snow? Welcome the friends of God. Nothing but your blood. Nothing but your blood. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. It's nothing but your blood, Lord Jesus. Yes, Lord. It's nothing but you. Yes. Thank you, Jesus. Praise. Praise your name, Lord Jesus.
- 0:09:15
We love you Lord Jesus. Your cross testifies of grace of the father's heart to make a way for us. We approach that earthly Jesus is your blood. It's your blood. Thank you Jesus. What can wash away our sins? What can make us whole again? Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can wash us pure as long? Welcome as the friends of God. Nothing but your blood. Nothing but your blood. King Jesus. We praise you for the blood. Yes. We praise you for the blood. We've been ransomed. We've been healed. We've been restored and forgiven. Oh Jesus. We praise you for the blood. Oh, we praise you for the blood. Lord, we praise you for the blood. We praise you for the blood. We've been wrestled. We've been healed. We've been restored and forgiven. What can wash away our sins? What can make us whole again? Nothing but your blood. Nothing but your blood. King Jesus. King Jesus. Oh, King Jesus. Your King Jesus. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Snake song. I like singing to Jesus. It's one of my favorites and I just like saying these words to the Lord.
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