THE CONSEQUENCE OF WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE - Part 1

TOPIC: THE CONSEQUENCE OF WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE – Part 1:

SO I GAVE THEM UP UNTO THEIR OWN HEARTS' LUSTS 

MEMORIZE: "But My people would not heed My voice, And Israel would have none of Me. So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels."  Psalm 81:11-12.

SCRIPTURE READING: Proverbs 1:24-28.

“Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, 25 Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, 27 When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. 28 "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.” 

EXPOSITION:

Whenever men choose to willfully disobey God, after many warnings, God do give men the wish of their heart – which is called “the lust of their hearts”. Its consequence is that in the days of calamity, when they call unto God for help, He will not answer them –Proverbs 1:24-28. We have examples of many people who chose marital partner wrongly, when the storms rage and called on God for His intervention, He remained silent and unresponsive. 

Psalm 81:12: So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lusts, which would be more dangerous enemies and more mischievous oppressors to them than any of the neighbouring nations ever were. God withdrew his Spirit from them, took off the bridle of restraining grace, left them to themselves, and justly; they will do as they will, and therefore let them do as they will. “Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.” Hosea 4:17. It is a righteous thing with God to give those up to their own hearts' lusts that indulge them, and give up themselves to be led by them; for why should his Spirit always strive? His grace is his own, and he is debtor to no man, and yet, as he never gave his grace to any that could say they deserved it, so he never took it away from any but such as had first forfeited it: They would none of me, so I gave them up; let them take their course. And see what follows: They walked in their own counsels, in the way of their heart and in the sight of their eye, both in their worships and in their conversations. 

"I left them to do as they would, and then they did all that was ill;" they walked in their own counsels, and not according to the counsels of God and his advice.  God therefore was not the author of their sin; he left them to the lusts of their own hearts and the counsels of their own heads; if they do not well, the blame must lie upon their own hearts and the blood upon their own heads. 

Dear reader, that which you are doing today, it is the will of God? Did He approve it? If not what He sent you, then it will never gain His support and blessings. Learn form king Saul, when he chose the life of disobedience, he was rejected by God. He later sought God but could not find Him either through the prophets, dream or Urim and Thummim – 1 Samuel 28:6: “And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.” Examine yourself today and return unto the Lord in total obedience before it is too late. I pray it will not be too late for you as it was for King Saul In Jesus name.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, help me never to desert you for anything in my life in Jesus name.

ii. Lord, do not leave me alone to myself in any way in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Psalms 65-68.

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