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Scriptures Referenced

Mark 8:16-17Amplified Bible (AMP)16 They began discussing this with one another, saying,
It is because we have no bread [that He said this].”

 17 Jesus, aware of this [discussion], said to them,
“Why are you discussing [the fact] that you have no bread?
 Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?

18 Though you have eyes, do you not see? And though you have ears,
 do you not hear and listen [to what I have said]? And do you not remember,

 19 when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?”
They answered, “Twelve.”

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John 8:43-44Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

43 Why don’t you understand what I’m saying?
Because you can’t bear to listen to my message.

 44 You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.
From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie,
he is speaking in character; because he is a liar —
indeed, the inventor of the lie!

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John 8:47Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

47 Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says.
But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.

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Luke 6:43-45New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

43 No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit;
 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns,
nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

 45 The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good,
and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil;
for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

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Acts 7:51New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
51 You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears,
you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.
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Proverbs 29:1Amplified Bible (AMP)

Warnings and Instructions

29 He who hardens his neck and refuses instruction
after being often reproved (corrected, criticized),

Will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

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James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 4:6  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”

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2 Corinthians 13:5  Amplified Bible (AMP)

Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves

Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience]
that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?

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Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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1 Corinthians 8:2  Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.

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Luke 10:26-28  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.

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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 31st January 2016 A Sunday. Overcoming hardened heart. Overcoming hardened heart.

00:11 Now why must we overcome a hardened heart? What is a hardened heart and why must we overcome it? First of all, why must overcome it? We better settle it here now to overcome it. Why must overcome it? Because in Proverbs 29 and again it is also
reflected in different ways in throughout the Bible. Proverbs 29:1.

00:31 I’m reading from the Amplified. He who hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved, corrected, criticized, will suddenly be broken beyond repair. Anyone who’s hardened his neck.

00:47 He says hardened neck. They’re referring to the hardened heart. Heart is hardened, stubborn, stubborn who are stubborn and refuses instruction after being often reproved.

00:56 Often reproved means corrected and criticized in bracket. It says preface. This reproof says corrected.

01:02 Then criticize people. Criticize you and say you’re wrong. Criticize is not wrong.

01:07 It’s not a bad word. Critical means you’re careful people. Critical levels, what is it? Careful levels.

01:14 So critical people. But there are also critical spirits. People just criticize, criticize, criticize.

01:20 Not even checking themselves, not taking the log out of the own eye. Of course there’s an another spirit. But here the Bible is talking about correctly critical, correctly criticizing, correctly correcting will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

01:32 So anyone who is stubborn and hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved, will suddenly be broken and beyond repair. That is why you must get rid of hardened neck. That is why you must get rid of stubbornness.

01:43 Stubbornness. They don’t get rid of it because of problem coming. Because there’s nothing.

01:48 The word of God will operate as it has said. And this is a warning. This is a good news to tell us.

01:54 Hey, look, children, don’t harden your necks or harden your heart and you suddenly be broken beyond repair. That’s a warning. Good warning.

02:04 A red light. It’s a good warning. Oh, the red light is a distraction to my driving.

02:09 It’s a hindrance to my driving. What nonsense is that? That’s why some people think the Bible is giving some hindrances and giving them trouble and giving them difficulties. No, I used to think something like that because I don’t know Christ.

02:22 I don’t follow Christ. So I’m doing my own thing. So I believe that Bible is a bit of a nuisance for me.

02:27 Oh, drunkards will enter not enter heaven. I fed up because I was a drunkard. But actually it’s a good warning.

02:35 To say, look here, drunkards will not enter heaven means you better wake up. But of course we didn’t know I was going. My own heart, my own heart desire.

02:45 That’s where the problem starts. Now, brothers and sisters, today let us look at this dishardened heart. You’ll be surprised.

02:51 You know the stiff necks, that’s how the Proverbs 29:1 says stiff necked hardened his neck. Some scriptures, some translations say stiff necked. I was surprised, you know, when years ago.

03:06 I’m talking about 15 years ago. I was studying another ministry whereby a healing ministry through the Net and through the videos I bought and all that, studying that. And they said, look, one of the problems of illness is the connection.

03:21 The connection between the messages from the brain don’t come to the heart. And all this is a connection problem. So we need to do the stiff neck people, especially neck problems.

03:31 One hand is shorter than the other because of muscle is tensioned up and all that. So they call it a neck thing. What will happen is one person will stand at the back of the saint that required to be prayed for and hold the shoulders, not the neck
shoulders is a upper arm hold tightly with their two arms.

03:48 They’ll be holding the sides of this person tightly. And another servant will hold the head of the person and tilt it slowly backwards. And while in the backward position, tilt left and tilt right and then bring forward again.

04:02 And while forward, trying to touch the chin towards the neck and again left and right. You will find that all this neck, stiff neck sound will be released. I was surprised, the muscles all relaxed.

04:13 So in the name of Jesus Christ, I command every muscle, every tendon, every ligament to lengthen and settle down and to be positioned properly in Jesus Christ’s name. And then you find that the back pain all goes off, you know. So we were doing
that.

04:27 But one day I was so shocked when I tried to move this head of this person. Suddenly it stiffened up so hard. And I said, relax brother, relax.

04:37 No, I’m relaxed, I’m relaxed. He’s saying. But his sudden stiffened up.

04:42 Then only I remember the scripture, God says stiff necked people. So I realized immediately, by God’s mercy, there was a spirit of stubbornness has caught this brother. And this had to go because the stubborn spirit will harm you.

04:54 So when you begin to do this thing suddenly now you find that science also comes along with it. And they have cranial manipulation and all this manipulation of the head and all to release the connectivity. Then you find others trying to connect the
meridian from the neck onwards down Onwards, they do all that now.

05:16 But here we are talking about the spiritual anger. So stiff. Then after, when I taught this to others and those brothers and sisters were doing for others, they suddenly come across this.

05:25 Suddenly it will stiff up. The neck will become so tough and stiff, the head can’t move like a stone already. So then we’ll tell the person, brother or sister, now you please say you don’t want to have stubbornness anymore.

05:40 You want to have a humble heart. You want to have a fleshly heart. You want God to give you a fleshly heart.

05:46 You want a humble heart. You don’t have a stiff neck. You don’t have a stubbornness.

05:49 And then when they say the prayer, I don’t want all this in Jesus Christ’s name. Then we cast out spirit of stubbornness, get out in the name of Jesus Christ. And we repeat a couple of times and then we repeat it.

05:59 And then suddenly you find the neck gone, pliable, soft, flexible. And I used to be amazed at this. Now, brothers and sisters, so stiff neck, when God says a word like stiff neck, it actually happens in the physical those days.

06:14 I came to realize this about 17 years ago. Suddenly, you know, with all this real experience, I realized when God says stiff neck, there is a purpose. That’s why he said, do not harden your neck.

06:24 Do not harden his neck. It says Proverbs 29:1. So now this hardening heart, hardened heart means hardened.

06:32 After neck will show up neck also hardened stubbornness. But remember this hardened heart, God is saying another scripture. You know that whoever belongs to God accepts what he says.

06:43 This is John 8:47. Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says because you don’t belong to God.

06:51 So whenever a scripture is given to somebody and they don’t accept it is because they don’t belong to God. Or at least not yet. Or at least not yet, I don’t know.

07:00 So we humble ourselves and move on. What to do? And we pray for them. We pray that their eyes of understanding will open and God will show them mercy.

07:07 That’s all. We could move on. Now there’s another scripture.

07:11 John 8. 43. Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message.

07:19 Complete Jewish Bible why don’t you understand what I’m saying? This Jesus saying, why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message. Some will say, because you don’t want to accept my word. You don’t accept
what I’m saying.

07:31 You don’t accept my teaching. So therefore when people don’t accept the scripture, when people are correcting them and tell them this is scripture, brother, this is future sister. They don’t accept the scripture.

07:44 Of course they won’t understand it. Then they don’t understand. Don’t understand.

07:48 I don’t understand. I don’t understand. You have a number of cases like this in Tamil.

07:48 I don’t understand. And all this goes on and then we find that it’s because they’re not accepting the word. So brothers and sisters, today, when you don’t understand this is a very important scripture for you.

08:03 It’s an escape. This is a fantastic revelation for you. If you don’t understand, you first accept the word of God.

08:09 Accept it as truth because Jesus is saying that and because it’s the word of God. And 44 John 8, 43 just I read, you don’t understand what I’m saying because you can’t bear to listen to my message or don’t accept what I’m saying. In 44 it says you
belong to your father Satan.

08:25 Can you imagine if you don’t accept the word of God, Jesus Christ immediately says you belong to your father Satan because you don’t accept what he’s saying. Do we really want to be belonging to Satan? I think not for anybody. Obviously I do not
want brothers and sisters because eternal killers will harm us and I will harm terribly.

08:43 So I do not want to get back there. So everybody better accept the word of God. The scriptures are given.

08:49 Accept it and then you will understand it and then you will follow and your life will get better. Now remarkably, even the disciples have got hardened heart. I’m talking about the apostles.

09:02 No, before they became apostles. Mark 8, 16, 17. They began discussing this with one another, saying it is because we have no bread that he said this.

09:13 Just before this, Jesus told them, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Beware of the eaves of the Pharisees.

09:23 And then the disciples couldn’t understand. And then they decided to discuss among themselves and they said, because we have no bread. I think that’s why he said this, because we know bread.

09:34 There is hardly any bread with them. It’s because we know bread. That’s what he said.

09:37 This then Jesus, aware of this discussion, said to them in 17 Mark 8:17, I’m reading for amplified. Jesus, aware of the discussion, said to them, why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread. Do you still not see or understand? Are your
hearts hardened? Are your hearts hardened? And why did he say this? Because in 18, next verse, though you have eyes, you do not see.

10:06 Though you have eyes, do you not see? Jesus asking, and though you have ears, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? Jesus saying, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? And do you not remember? And then in 19 he said, when I broke
the five loaves for 5,000, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up? The answer, 12. He had fed thousands with just five loaves. And now when he said, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, the disciples fell into the trap to think about
maybe because we have no bread of fire, he said this and then Jesus Christ immediately corrected them and said, why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Now important
factor.

10:51 He’s telling the disciples how your hearts hardened. Are your hearts hardened? He is telling the 12 are your hearts hardened? Though you have eyes, do you not see? Though you have ears, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? And do you not
remember? So this is a fact. When we don’t remember what Jesus Christ had done for us, when we don’t care to remember, we don’t care to list up.

11:10 We don’t care to think about it, don’t care to meditate about how many good things you have done. Your heart will become hardened. Your heart will become hardened because you do not consider and think about what Jesus Christ has done for you, your
family, your siblings or your people around.

11:27 In the congregation you see so many examples what Jesus has done. Prayers have been made in Jesus name and people have been healed. So you don’t think of all that and meditate and all that.

11:36 What will happen to your heart? Your heart will harden. And why? Your heart is hardened because you have eyes and you do not want to see. Because you have hears and you do not want to listen to what he has said.

11:47 So, brothers and sisters, it’s a very terrible thing. Heart should be hardened. When hearts are hardened means what will happen step by step.

11:55 Trouble. Trouble. Because hearts hardened.

11:57 Finally, stiff neck, stiff neck. Finally destruction beyond repair cannot be repaired. Can you imagine this? That is why one of the things we must do is keep remembering what Jesus Christ had done on the cross.

12:08 First to go to the cross. How he suffered for you. How he bought you with his own precious blood.

12:13 How. How he went to hell to Come. So that we don’t have to go.

12:17 How he was skin all like ribbons. Because he whipped him so much like ribbons. No form.

12:22 Already his face was torn. That’s what he had done for you and me. So you begin to look at that first.

12:28 And then you begin to look actually what he has done here. Because suddenly when you came to Jesus Christ, you got righteousness, peace and joy. Righteousness, peace and joy.

12:36 You got peace. All the troubles in the world were there. But you had peace because Jesus Christ gave you peace.

12:41 Now you keep on forgetting this. You keep on not going for this and keep not accepting. When words of God are shown to you, then sudden destruction without repair, suddenly destroyed without repair.

12:54 How can Rajitandan be broken without repair? We don’t want any of this to suffer to anybody. So please, please, please, I beg anyone with very easy one. So go humble yourself.

13:04 Go to a servant who can do the next thing for you. When you go to a servant, if you do not know this, call the grace of life or the power of Christ daily and ask the moderators and somebody will help you there. You can check your stiffness with
somebody else.

13:18 Is stiff neck. And then it becomes pliable. Now hardened hearts might not have also translated into a stiff neck yet.

13:27 So there may be hardened heart inside, but the neck can still be pliable or flexible. But it will be happening later. Because it’s a physical manifestation of a hardened heart.

13:36 So hardened heart. Now everything comes from the heart. From the abundance of our heart, our mouth to speak, from the good treasure of the heart to produces good.

13:45 No good tree bears bad fruit. And no bad tree can bear good fruit. This is in Luke 6:43,45.

13:52 But from the good treasure of your heart, heart will produce good fruit. So therefore everything comes to the heart. Our hearts are treacherously wicked.

14:00 So that is why if you are and this, what was the hardened heart here? Unbelief. Unbelief. This is what happened to the disciples.

14:08 So it can happen to me. It can happen to you. So please watch out.

14:11 We have to be examining ourselves and be careful and checking any word of God. Do I not believe? When he says this word of God and you’re rejecting it, you’re rejecting it. And when three giving of counsel, two or three get together and counsel you
and say, brother, sister, this is wrong what you’re doing.

14:27 This is how to do it. This is the word of God. No, I have my own understanding of Scripture.

14:32 Why you’re not understanding this, why you’re rejecting? To refuse to accept what Jesus Christ is saying through his word and through the servants who are telling you the scripture and telling you this and asking nothing from you. And if you keep on
doing this, stiff neck will come. But before that hardened heart will come.

14:49 When hardened heart comes, finally destruction comes. So why unbelief? Unbelief. When God says okay, for instance this word says, you stiff neck people uncircumcised in your heart.

15:01 In your heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit. This is Acts 7:51. You stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears.

15:09 You are forever opposing the Holy Spirit just as your ancestors did. This is a case where Stephen was arrested and told to justify. So he started telling a long history of how the whole thing started from Moses days.

15:24 And finally he said, you stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears. You are forever opposing the Holy Spirit. Ritualistic Christianity is not going to solve you.

15:34 You have to have a fleshly heart, a humble heart, a heart to obey Christ. A heart that is pliable. Uncircumcised means a skin has been torn sensitive to sin.

15:46 So where does hardened heart come from? Sin. What is the first sin that will come caused it? Pride. Why pride? You want no one to accept.

15:54 Your heart doesn’t want to accept. Now you are made of three parts, spirit, soul and body. Now the soul got heart and the mind your heart doesn’t want.

16:02 So don’t get personal about this. When you’re telling somebody your heart, tell them your heart sister. Your heart brother doesn’t want to accept the word of God.

16:09 You please make it accept. How commanding that in the name of Jesus Christ to accept. Because you are a spirit being, you are a spirit being, you can take and command.

16:18 Command my heart and mind to accept every word of God that I read. Every word of God that’s shown to me. I command my heart and mind to accept.

16:26 If you don’t do that, you don’t want to do that, then it’s pride and finally your heart should be hardened stiff night will come and sudden destruction. We don’t want anything to happen like this. Brothers and sisters, command your heart and mind to
accept every word of God.

16:39 In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray amen.

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