Results of rejection of God

Rejection grieves God

God rejected as Creator

Genesis 6:6 NASB95

6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

God rejected as a husband

Ezekiel 6:9 NASB95

9 “Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

See also Je 2:2; Je 3:20; Je 31:32; Ho 1:2

God rejected as a father

Hosea 11:1–4 NASB95

1 When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. 2 The more they called them, The more they went from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols. 3 Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them. 4 I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love, And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws; And I bent down and fed them.

See also Dt 32:18; Je 3:19; Je 31:20

God rejected by Israel, his vineyard

Isaiah 5:4 NASB95

4 “What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?

See also Je 2:21

Rejection angers God and brings his wrath

Ezr 8:22; Jn 3:36

See also Le 26:27–28; 2 Ch 36:16; Zec 7:12; Ro 2:8

The results of rejecting God

Judgment

Je 1:16; Jn 12:48

See also Le 26:14–17; Ps 50:22; Pr 1:24–26; Is 28:22; Je 6:19; Je 15:6; Je 26:4–6; Am 2:4–5; Jn 3:18–19

God rejects his people

Dt 32:19; Ps 78:59; Ps 119:118; Je 6:30; Je 7:29; Ho 9:7

God rejects those who reject him

Ho 4:6; Mt 10:33

See also 1 Ch 28:9; 2 Ch 15:2; Lk 9:26

God hides his face

Dt 31:17–18; Dt 32:20; Ps 88:14; Is 1:15; Mic 3:4

God rejects the sanctuary and its worship

Le 26:31; 1 Ki 9:6–7; La 2:7; Eze 7:24; Eze 10:18–19; Eze 11:22–23

God’s people are removed from his presence into exile

2 Ki 17:18–20; 2 Ki 17:23; 2 Ki 23:27; 2 Ki 24:3; 2 Ki 24:20; Je 7:15; Je 15:1

Examples of others rejected by God

Esau:

Ro 9:13; Mal 1:2–3

Saul:

1 Sa 15:23; 1 Sa 15:26; 1 Sa 16:1; 1 Sa 28:15–16

Je 22:24–25 Jehoiachin

God’s rejection is not final

Le 26:44; Ro 11:15

See also 1 Sa 12:22; 2 Ch 7:14; Ps 66:20; Is 41:9; Is 49:21; Is 54:5–8; Je 31:37; Je 33:24–26; Zec 10:6; Ro 11:1; Ro 11:25–29