Strongs Numbers. Hide Verse Numbers. These disasters will be with you until you die. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
You will build a house - but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard - but never eat its grapes. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. It has never been the will of God to destroy humans he created. The Scripture says: "it is not the will of God that we should perish. They will always be warnings and pleadings by God for humans to repent of their sins before He vents His anger for God hates sin.
His Holy eyes cannot behold sin and iniquity. We are at that point of time where Judah was before the fall of the empire.
America and her allies spend billions on war and arms instead of using the money to help their subjects, and create peace in the world. We are almost on the verge of Third World Nuclear War. Nobody is listening like in the times of king Manasseh. Nobody is listening to the Holy Spirit. The Church of God called to reach out to the dying world is silent: no evangelism in the churches, no strong prayer meeting to stem the tide of the enemy, no strong Bible study and discipleship.
Sin has crushed and denied the church the anointing ant the power of the Holy Spirit to do anything. Whenever I read this passage:. The "Deists" said God created humans and left them without any involvement. But here we are told God was moved by king Manasseh's prayer of confession of sin. That second chance given can be even greater in the future. What happened to king Manasseh? He was carried into Babylon. Our problems as Christians, today, is that we are willing to obey men rather than obey God.
Or maybe we see Him as a God of mercy who will always pardon us after we have disobeyed. We have forgotten that God though can bear t is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Obedience to God is the practical acceptance of the authority of God. This include submission to Him and expressing that submission in action. To be obedient is to be in agreement with God. Amos says can two work together except they be agreed? When you disobey God, you dishonor him. In 1sam , the children of Eli disobeyed the instruction of God as touching the sacrifice and God decided to kill them in Chapter 4 of 1 Samuel.
God rejects you. When you disobey God, you reject the person of God. Support the show. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children.
It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms,[fn] and it was like a daughter to him. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.
Luke ESV 7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. When you disobey God and someone points it out, what is your first inclination? Sin and repentance The Bible recounts plenty of situations where someone sinned and did not repent. I want to focus on what we should do when we sin. Or rather, immediately after we sin.
Nathan to the rescue Enter Nathan the prophet, stage right. God revealed to Nathan what David had done. Sin must be uncovered first David thought he had covered his tracks. When you have disobeyed God When you have sinned, the quicker you let your natural humility come to the surface in your heart, the sooner you can admit what you have done wrong and repent of it.
And if God has forgiven you, who are you not to forgive yourself? What is repentance anyway? That shift in perspective is what repentance is all about. It took me 15 years to repent of my selfishness But sometimes we are so reluctant to repent.
And then we see that as unworthy and that view of ourselves evolves into a very negative one. But actually the reverse is true. When you repent, the angels in heaven burst out singing. What to do when you disobey God Take a moment and think of a situation when you were disobedient to God.
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