God hardens people’s hearts by His Word, the Bible. As someone has observed, His Word is like heat. And people’s hearts are like ice and clay. Ice is hard and gets soft by heat. Clay is soft and gets hard by heat.
God's Word softens some hard hearts.
Ezekiel 36:25-26 KJV
[25] Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
[26] A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
(God's Word is called water (Ephesians 5:26)).
God's Word hardens some people's hearts. Lifelong church people, who have been hearing the Bible all their lives, are some of the most hardened people.
John 8:45 KJV
[45] And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
John 7:7 KJV
[7] The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
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