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31 January 2016 – Overcoming Hardened Heart
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Scriptures ReferencedMark 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.”================================================= 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!================================================= 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.”================================================= 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.================================================= 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.================================================= 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.=============================================== 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)
5 Examine and test and evaluat
e 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.”
