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Self-will and Stubbornness

 

Self-will and Stubbornness

Forbidden - 2Ch 30:8; Ps 75:5; 95:8

PROCEED FROM

• Unbelief
- 2Ki 17:14
• Pride
- Ne 9:16,29
• An evil heart
- Jer 7:24

God knows - Isa 48:4

EXHIBITED IN

• Refusing to hearken to God
- Pr 1:24
• Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God
- 1Sa 8:19; Jer 44:16; Zec 7:11
• Refusing to walk in the ways of God
- Ne 9:17; Ps 78:10; Isa 42:24; Jer 6:16
• Refusing to hearken to parents
- De 21:18,19
• Refusing to receive correction
- De 21:18; Jer 5:3; 7:28
• Rebelling against God
- De 31:27; Ps 78:8
• Resisting the Holy Spirit
- Ac 7:51
• Walking in the counsels of an evil heart
- Jer 7:24; 23:17
• Hardening the neck
- Ne 9:16
• Hardening the heart
- 2Ch 36:13
• Going backward and not forward
- Jer 7:24

Heinousness of - 1Sa 15:23

MINISTERS SHOULD

• Be without
- Tit 1:7
• Warn their people against
- Heb 3:7-12
• Pray that their people may be forgiven for
- Ex 34:9; De 9:27

Characteristic of the wicked - Pr 7:11; 2Pe 2:10

The wicked cease not from - Jud 2:19

Punishment for - De 21:21; Pr 29:1

Illustrated - Ps 32:9; Jer 31:18

Exemplified

• Simeon and Levi
- Ge 49:6
• Israelites
- Ex 32:9; De 9:6,13
• Saul
- 1Sa 15:19-23
• David
- 2Sa 24:4
• Josiah
- 2Ch 35:22
• Zedekiah
- 2Ch 36:13
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