Disobedience

Disobedience enters people’s hearts for various reasons

Disobedience comes through greed and lust

Genesis 3:6 NASB95

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 desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

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Disobedience arises from impatience

Exodus 32:23 NASB95

“For they said to me, ‘Make a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from 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

Leviticus 10:1 NASB95

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.

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Unbelief is disobedience

Hebrews 3:12 NASB95

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

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Lack of love is disobedience

John 14:24 NASB95

“He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which 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 NASB95

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from 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 NASB95

dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

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Nations are also punished

Genesis 15:14 NASB95

“But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.

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Disobedience, like all sin, can be forgiven

Romans 5:19 NASB95

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

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