CONSEQUENCES OF DISOBEDIENCE

 

Throughout the bible, God insists on this people obeying Him. The evidence that we love Christ is that we keep His commandments. John 14:15, 21. It is unfortunate the term obedience have been thrown away by many Christians claiming that in this time of grace, we do not need to obey God. Grace is taken as a license of sin as Peter and Jude warns. 2Pet 2, Jude 1

John explains that the evidence that we know God, and many claim so, is that we keep His commandments. 1John 2:3

We are also told in 2Cor 10:6 that we are only ready to punish all disobedience WHEN OUR OBEDIENCE IS FULFILLED.

Obedience is not an old testament word but rather is both a new and old testament word.

There are warnings that the bible gives concerning disobedience and we are going to see some of them.

Psalm 81:1316 exclaims; Oh that my people would listen to me and Israel had walked in my ways- I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their adversaries, the haters of God would submit themselves to them, and would have been fed with the finest wheat, they would be satisfied by honey from the rock.

We see that overcoming our enemies, for our case the devil, the lusts of the flesh, the world and sin is dependent on our obedience to God. Whenever we are constantly defeated by any of these four enemies, we should ask ourselves where we are disobeying God.

Honey from the rock may refer to the sweet experiences we have with God in the difficult situations we face in life.

Isai 48:18, 19 also exclaims; if only my people had paid close attention to my commandments, then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness as the waves of the sea. Your descendants would have been like the sand and their name would never have been cut off from My presence.

Here we see that the lack of constant peace and increasing righteousness in the lives of many believers is due to disobedience in some area. The lack of fruitfulness and backsliding of many converts also is due to disobedience. Therefore let us live in obedience to God and we’ll leave in constant peace and increasing righteousness.

Jer 5:25 boldly says, that your wickedness have deprived you of wonderful blessings and your sins have robbed you of all these good things.

I don’t think I can say it in any other way. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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