Disobedience

Disobedience enters people’s hearts for various reasons

Disobedience comes through greed and lust

Genesis 3:6 ESV

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

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Disobedience arises from impatience

Exodus 32:23 ESV

For they said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

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Disobedience comes through fear

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Disobedience results from pride and arrogance

English Standard Version Chapter 3

10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

4 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. 3 Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

4 But it displeased WHOJonah HOWexceedingly, and WHOhe was angry. 2 And WHOhe prayed to WHOthe LORD and said, “O WHOLORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why WHOI made haste to flee to WHERETarshish; for WHOI knew that WHOyou are a WHATgracious God and WHATmerciful, WHATslow to anger and WHATabounding in steadfast love, and WHOrelenting from disaster. 3 Therefore WHENnow, O WHOLORD, please take WHOmy WHATlife from WHOme, for it is better for WHOme WHATto die than WHATto live.”

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Leviticus 10:1 ESV

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.

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Unbelief is disobedience

Hebrews 3:12 ESV

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

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Lack of love is disobedience

John 14:24 ESV

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

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Disobedience to God leads to punishment

Punishment is applied to individuals

Genesis 3:17–19 ESV

And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

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Punishment for the disobedience of unbelief

2 Thessalonians 1:8–9 ESV

in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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Nations are also punished

Genesis 15:14 ESV

But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

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Disobedience, like all sin, can be forgiven

Romans 5:19 ESV

For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

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English Standard Version Chapter 3

10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.