{"id":36373,"date":"2022-09-13T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-did-god-harden-the-heart-of-pharaoh\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:53:05","slug":"why-did-god-harden-the-heart-of-pharaoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-did-god-harden-the-heart-of-pharaoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did God harden the heart of pharaoh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Exodus 8:15 (NKJV), &ldquo;But when Pharaoh saw that there was <strong>relief<\/strong>, <strong>he hardened his heart<\/strong> and did not heed them, as the LORD had said.&rdquo;&nbsp; It was the <strong>Lord&rsquo;s mercy<\/strong> which caused Pharaoh to <strong>harden his own heart<\/strong>. Pharaoh didn&rsquo;t want to lose the Israelites&rsquo; slave labor. When relief came, he thought he could do as he wished. <strong>Pharaoh did not care<\/strong> that both the Egyptians and Israelites suffered in the plagues. He had a hard, greedy heart.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exodus 8:15 (NKJV), &ldquo;But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not heed them, as the LORD had said.&rdquo;&nbsp; It was the Lord&rsquo;s mercy which caused Pharaoh to harden his own heart. Pharaoh didn&rsquo;t want to lose the Israelites&rsquo; slave labor. When relief came, he thought he could do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-did-god-harden-the-heart-of-pharaoh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why did God harden the heart of pharaoh?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}