Heart Influences

Connections List
 * Calvinism
 * Freewill bin
 * The Fall
 * Proverbs 4:23
 * Predestination
 * Omnipotence
 * The Heart
 * Conversion
 * Regeneration
 * Testing
 * 1 John 3
 * Head to heart, guard
 * God cause sin
 * Gave them over
 * Freewill

Scope
 * How does a persons heart become hard or soft? Who has control?

Topics
 * Influences
 * Man verses
 * Command/man verses
 * God verses
 * Ambiguous verses
 * Other influencer verses
 * Both verses

Influences
 * Man - active conscious
 * Man - by actions, sins
 * God - hardening as an instrument
 * God - regeneration for salvation, strengthen for sanct
 * Other - e.g. sin, circumstances, ambiguous
 * Both - man asks God to change man's own heart

Man hardens his own heart: Man does something else to his own heart
 * Exodus 8:15, 8:32, 9:34
 * 1 Samuel 6:6
 * 2 Chronicles 36:13
 * Psalm 95:8
 * Proverbs 28:14
 * Hebrews 3:8, 4:7
 * Zech 7:11-12, also turned backs and stopped up ears
 * 1 John 3:17 if someone closes heart towards brother in need (not same word as harden from Heb 3:8)
 * 1 John 3:19 we assure our own heart of salv via mech/info/theo will you die, people of Israel?"
 * Ezekiel 14:4-5 elders come to Ezekiel with idols in their hearts, "When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophets, I the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry. I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols." so Ezekiel preaches 'repent!'. If they set up idol and inquire I will punish them. If a prophet is enticed (to utter wrong) then I the lord have enticed him and I will destroy him.
 * Eph 4:19 "Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality..." similar to Rom 1 where God gives them over to lusts.
 * Prov 16:1 humans devise plans in their heart, but God controls outcome

Commands to do something to the heart
 * Guard your heart proverbs
 * Do not hardne your heart as you did at the waters of Meribah
 * Ezekiel 18:31 "Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why"
 * Deut 10:16 "Circumsize your hearts, therefore..." (because God chose you).
 * Joel 2:12 rend your heart and not your garments

God hardens mans heart
 * Exodus 4:21, 7:3, 9:12, 10:1, 10:20, 10:27, 11:10, 14:4, 14:8, 14:17
 * Exod 30:6 "The Lord your God will circumsize your hearts..."
 * Deut 2:30 God made pharaohs heart obstinate, spirit stubborn
 * Deuteronomy 30:6 "And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God wilth all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live."
 * Josuha 11:20
 * 1 Samuel 10:9 God changed Saul's heart (at kingship). Cf 10:26 valiant men who's hearts God had touched
 * 1 Kings 18:37 mt. Carmel. Israel will know that you are turning their hearts back again.
 * Ps 33:15 "he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everthing they do"
 * Prov 21:1 "In the Lord’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him."
 * Isaiah 63:17
 * Jeremiah 24:7 I will give them a heart to know me
 * Ezekiel 11:19-20, 36:26-27 give undivided heart, replace heart of stone w/flesh. They will obey.
 * John 12:40
 * Acts 16:14 "...The Lord opened her [Lydia's] heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul."
 * Romans 9:17-18
 * Romans 11:8 give spirit of stupor
 * Rom 11:29 God has consigned all men to disobedience

God changes heart towards himself Other God actions towards heart God does other things to our hearts
 * 1 Thess 3:13 God strengthen your hearts so that blameless and holy
 * 2 Thess 2:17 may God and JC, giving love, comfort, hope grace, encourage and strengthen your hearts
 * 2 Thess 3:5 direct heart in Gods love and JC perseverance
 * Heart of stone, heart of flesh
 * Ps 33:15 he who fashions the hearts of them all (mankind)
 * 1 John 3:20 "...god is greather than our hearts..."
 * Lev 26:36 god will make hearts fearful if not obey
 * Lev 26:41 about Israel "when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin"
 * Deut 8:2, 1 Thess 2:4. God tests the heart

Actor Ambiguous
 * Proverbs 4:23
 * Jeremiah 29:13 - prophecy/promise that Israel will seek with all heart
 * Daniel 5:20
 * Mark 6:52
 * Mark 8:17
 * Ephesians 4:18

External influence
 * Gen 34:3,8 non-Israelite falls in love with Dinah. "heart drawn to".
 * Deut 17:17 heart led astray by many wives
 * Ps 36:1 "...transgression speaks to the wicked [from] deep in his heart" bracketed word added
 * Rom 16:18 false teachers decieve hearts. More heart deceit: Prov 6:14, 12:20, 26:24, Jer 17:9, Hosea 10:2., Deut 13:6

Both
 * John 15 fruits promise, not specific to heart
 * 1 Chron 29:18 Israel prays "...keep these desires and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you"
 * Ps 51:10 "create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me"