Disobedience

Disobedience enters people’s hearts for various reasons

Disobedience comes through greed and lust

Genesis 3:6 NIV84

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

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Disobedience arises from impatience

Exodus 32:23 NIV84

They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’

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Disobedience comes through fear

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Disobedience results from pride and arrogance

Leviticus 10:1 NIV84

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, contrary to his command.

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Unbelief is disobedience

Hebrews 3:12 NIV84

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

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Lack of love is disobedience

John 14:24 NIV84

He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

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Disobedience to God leads to punishment

Punishment is applied to individuals

Genesis 3:17–19 NIV84

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

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Punishment for the disobedience of unbelief

2 Thessalonians 1:8–9 NIV84

He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power

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Nations are also punished

Genesis 15:14 NIV84

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

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Disobedience, like all sin, can be forgiven

Romans 5:19 NIV84

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

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