Self-Will and Stubbornness

Self-Will and Stubbornness
Forbidden — 2 Chronicles 30:8; Psalm 75:5; 95:8.

Proceed from

  • Unbelief. — 2 Kings 17:14.
  • Pride. — Ne 9:16,29.
  • An evil heart. — Jeremiah 7:24.

God knows — Isaiah 48:4.

Exhibited in

  • Refusing to hearken to God. — Proverbs 1:24.
  • Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God. — 1 Samuel 8:19; Jeremiah 44:16; Zechariah 7:11.
  • Refusing to walk in the ways of God. — Ne 9:17; Psalm 78:10; Isaiah 42:24; Jeremiah 6:16.
  • Refusing to hearken to parents. — Deuteronomy 21:18,19.
  • Refusing to receive correction. — Deuteronomy 21:18; Jeremiah 5:3; 7:28.
  • Rebelling against God. — Deuteronomy 31:27; Psalm 78:8.
  • Resisting the Holy Spirit. — Acts 7:51.
  • Walking in the counsels of an evil heart. — Jeremiah 7:24; 23:17.
  • Hardening the neck. — Ne 9:16.
  • Hardening the heart. — 2 Chronicles 36:13.
  • Going backward and not forward. — Jeremiah 7:24.

Heinousness of — 1 Samuel 15:23.

Ministers should

  • Be without. — Tit 1:7.
  • Warn their people against. — Hebrews 3:7-12.
  • Pray that their people may be forgiven for. — Exodus 34:9; Deuteronomy 9:27.

Characteristic of the wicked — Proverbs 7:11; 2Pe 2:10.

The wicked cease not from — Judges 2:19.

Punishment for — Deuteronomy 21:21; Proverbs 29:1.

Illustrated — Psalm 32:9; Jeremiah 31:18.

Exemplified

  • Simeon and Levi. — Genesis 49:6.
  • Israelites. — Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 9:6,13.
  • Saul. — 1 Samuel 15:19-23.
  • David. — 2 Samuel 24:4.
  • Josiah. — 2 Chronicles 35:22.
  • Zedekiah. — 2 Chronicles 36:13.

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