Rejection of God

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Rejection of God’s authority

2 Kings 17:15 NIV

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

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Rejection of God in favour of other gods

Deuteronomy 32:15–18 NIV

Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior. They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear. You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

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Rejection of God as king

1 Samuel 8:7 NIV

And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

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Rejection of God’s ways

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Rejection of the covenant

1 Kings 19:10 NIV

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

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Rejection of the promised land

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Rejection of God’s compassion

Matthew 23:37 NIV

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

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Rejection of God’s word

Rejection of God’s instruction

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Rejection of God’s law

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Rejection of God’s messages

Isaiah 30:12 NIV

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,

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Rejection of God’s messengers

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Rejection of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ’s rejection was prophesied

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Jesus Christ as the stone the builders rejected (Ps 118:22):

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The rejection of his earthly ministry

John 1:11 NIV

He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

Jesus Christ is rejected in his home town of Nazareth:

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The rejection of Jesus Christ’s claims about himself:

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The Jews’ rejection of Jesus Christ culminates in his death:

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