WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE OF GOD’S PEOPLE

WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE OF GOD’S PEOPLE.

MEMORIZE: "But My people would not heed My voice, And Israel would have none of Me."  Psalm 81:11.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 81:8-12

“8 Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you! O Israel, if you will listen to Me! 9 There shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god. 10 I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 "But My people would not heed My voice, And Israel would have none of Me. 12 So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels. 13 "Oh, that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways! 14 I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD would pretend submission to Him, But their fate would endure forever. 16 He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat; And with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you."

EXPOSITION:

The key to a continuous relationship with God is obedience to His leading. Disobedience is always a willful action against God and His will. God asked the children of Israel to seek Him, but they refused. He charges them with a high contempt of his authority as their lawgiver and his grace and favour as their benefactor.  He had done much for them, and designed to do more; but all in vain: "My people would not hearken to my voice, but turned a deaf ear to all I said." Psalm 81:11.

Two things God complains of:--  

1. Their disobedience to his commands.  They did hear his voice, so as never any people did; but they would not hearken to it, they would not be ruled by it, neither by the law nor by the reason of it. 

2. Their dislike of his covenant-relation to them: They would none of me. They consented not in my word (so the Chaldee); God was willing to be to them a God, but they were not willing to be to him a people; they did not like his terms.

"I Would Have Gathered Them, But They Would Not."  They had none of him; and why had they not?  It was not because they might not; they were fairly invited into covenant with God. It was not because they could not; for the word was nigh them, even in their mouth and in their heart. But it was purely because they would not. God calls them his people, for they were bought by him, bound to him, his by a thousand ties, and yet even they had not hearkened, had not obeyed. "Israel, the seed of Jacob my friend, set me at nought, and would have none of me." Psalm 81:11. All the wickedness of the wicked world is owing to the willfulness of the wicked will. The reason why people are not religious is because they will not be so.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, forgive me of my act of disobedience and rebellion. Help me to obey you and prosper by it in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Psalms 61-64.

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