Calloused

Heb. 3:7,15; Heb. 4:7, “To day if ye will hear his voice…” “…harden not your hearts”

Eph. 4:18, “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”

Prior to Christ, the heart is calloused. KJV says “blindness.” Blindness due to callousness. A callus caused by constant abrasion of the judgment of the self-imposed law written on the Gentile heart due to a defiled or non-purged conscience. A conscience that is aware of the judgment and guilt of the law. This hardening of the heart could potentially hinder the light of the word if that were possible. Self-condemnation seems to be the instigator of the ‘hardening’ on the heart or legalistic self-abrasion. Self beating up self. Rebuilding the things which were destroyed. Our justification is by His faith in us.

This is the effect of the Word on our hearts,

Heb. 4:12, “For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

The discernment of the Word is according to revelation, faith and grace in Christ by hearing and hearing the word.

His will is that our hearts be established by grace and that our hearts be unblameable,

Heb. 13:9, “Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.”

The effect of a heart established by grace,

1 Thess. 3:13, “To the end He may establish your hearts unblameable (irreprehensible) in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”

I believe His will is even to separate us from ourselves and the condemnation and even justification through self. He separates me from me to be who I really am in Him by righteousness, His nature and righteousness. So, this statement, “His will is that our hearts be established by grace and that our hearts be unblameable” could mean that our hearts are UNBLAMEABLE or irreprehensible even from ourselves!