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NASB | Exodus 4:21 ¶ The LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 4:21 ¶ The LORD said to Moses, "When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders (miracles) which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and make him stubborn so that he will not let the people go. |
Bible Question: Does God lead us to sin? Math 6: - in the Our Father it states "lead us not into temptation" and in the Old Testament, I believe it is in Exodus it states the God hardened Pharaoh's heart. Again someone please help me to clear this up. |
Bible Answer: Hi chosen one, God is soveren in all things and berings about all things for his purposses to compleat His plan for man and the ultimate salvation of His elect. His sonergin hand can and does goveren the actions of men without jeprodizing the free will that he gives to them. "how can man, limited by a sin nature, ever choose what is good? It is only through the grace and power of God that free will truly becomes “free” in the sense of being able to choose salvation (John 15:16). It is the Holy Spirit who works in and through a person’s will to regenerate that person (John 1:12-13) and give him/her a new nature “created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24). Salvation is God’s work. At the same time, our motives, desires, and actions are voluntary, and we are rightly held responsible for them." http://www.gotquestions.org/free-will.html We must remember that all men are oposed to God and "desperatly wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9) and do not chose to obay Him unless He leads us to do so by the gift of faith and the leading (presence) of the Holly Spitit in the heart of the believer. Pharaoh's heat therefore was already predisposed to disobey God. "Ex. 4:21 I will harden his heart. The heart refers to the whole of the intellect, will, and emotions from which a person acts. The various Hebrew verbs used to describe the hardening of Pharaoh's heart all refer to a desire to act contrary to the Lord rather than in accord with him. (See chart.) The hardening of Pharaoh's heart is referred to throughout chs. 4–14 with the implication that Pharaoh is answerable for his own actions (e.g., 8:15). However, the Lord states here that it is his sovereign hand that ultimately governs the events. This is also indicated by the recurring “as the Lord had said” (see 7:13; 8:15, 18; 9:12, 35). Though one might conclude that, if God hardens someone's heart, the latter is not answerable for his actions, this is not the biblical view, and certainly here the narrative is also careful to point out that Pharaoh also hardened his own heart (8:15, 32; 9:34). The sinner remains responsible for his sin. Cf. Rom. 9:16–18." ESV study Bible notes John |