I was told this week that a certain group of people were hard headed and to avoid discussing theological issues at length with them since they are set in their ways. This certainly baffled me that a Christian could say such a thing. After all, we are all (every single person) by our very nature hard headed, cold, deep in deception, having hearts of stone! It is God who takes out that heart of stone and gives us a heart of flesh! Salvation for a hard hearted person is not just difficult, it is impossible. However, God makes salvation not only possible, He actually saves, and saves completely!

Ezekiel was told to preach to a bunch of dead bones (see Ezekiel 37.) What could be a more hopeless audience? But he preached and God raised those dead bones to life. It is God who justifies, it is God who saves. No one is too hard for God!

The Lord says in Ezekiel 36:26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."