The Hardening of the Heart of the Religious Leaders (TMF:2970)
Friday, September 25, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
And what is sin? How can we define sin? We can define sin as behaving in a way in anything of which God does not approve, in a way that goes against the very laws of nature. That which goes against the human conscience a lot of times. Some persons have indeed seared their conscience and don’t have much of one left. That’s called the hardening of the heart. We are going to get into that later in the Gospel of John. These religious leaders present, already had a problem before John appeared on the scene, and God was providing a warning to them through John. What was their problem of heart? What was wrong inside of them? The issue at hand was that they were practicing religion (in truth, were masters at it), but they weren’t practicing in a way that begot love toward God in their hearts. A mode of existing where one goes through the motions but with secret, ulterior motives. Whether they realized it or not, whether they were consciously aware of it or not, they weren’t serving God for the right reasons.