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Bible Questions Answered:
“Pastor
is being stubborn a sin?...
Raleigh/
Winter Garden, Florida U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Yes, our Lord condemns it.
Biblical
Examples:
Genesis
49:5-6 KJV
5
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their
habitations.
6 O
my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine
honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in
their self will they digged down a wall.
Exodus
32:9 KJV
And
The Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is
a stiff necked people:
Deuteronomy
10:16 KJV
Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked.
Deuteronomy
17:12 KJV
And
the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the
priest that standeth to minister there before The Lord thy God, or
unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the
evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy
21:18-20 KJV
18
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the
voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they
have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him
out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy
31:27 KJV
For
I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against The Lord;
and how much more after my death?
Numbers
14:40-45
40
And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up into the top
of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the
place which The Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
41
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of The
Lord? but it shall not prosper.
42
Go not up, for The Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten
before your enemies.
43
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye
shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from The Lord,
therefore The Lord will not be with you.
44
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of
the covenant of The Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
45
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that
hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
I
Samuel 15:19-23 KJV
19
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of The Lord, but didst
fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of The Lord?
20
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of The Lord,
and have gone the way which The Lord sent me, and have brought Agag
the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the
things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto
The Lord thy God in Gilgal.
22
And Samuel said, Hath The Lord as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of The Lord? Behold, to obey
is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected The Word Of The
Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
II
Samuel 24:4 KJV
Notwithstanding
the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of
the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the
presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
II
Kings 17:14 KJV
Notwithstanding
they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of
their fathers, that did not believe in The Lord their God.
Nehemiah
9:16 KJV
But
they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and
hearkened not to thy commandments,
Psalm
32:9 KJV
Be
ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding:
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near
unto thee.
Psalm
78:8 KJV
And
might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation;
a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was
not steadfast with God.
Ecclesiastes
8:11 KJV
Because
sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the
heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Isaiah
46:12 KJV
Hearken
unto Me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
Isaiah
48:4-8 KJV
4
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron
sinew, and thy brow brass;
5 I
have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to
pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
6
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have
shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou
didst not know them.
7
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day
when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew
them.
8
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time
that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal
very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Jeremiah
7:24 KJV
But
they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah
11:8 KJV
Yet
they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the
imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all
the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they
did them not.
Jeremiah
44:16 KJV
As
for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of The Lord,
we will not hearken unto thee.
Zechariah
7:11-13 KJV
11
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and
stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
12
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should
hear the law, and the words which The Lord Of Hosts hath sent in His
Spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from The
Lord Of Hosts.
13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as He cried, and they would
not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith The Lord Of
Hosts:
Malachi
2:2 KJV
If
ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory
unto My name, saith The Lord Of Hosts, I will even send a curse upon
you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them
already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Acts
7:51 KJV
Ye
stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist
The Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts
15:36-40 KJV
36
And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and
visit our brethren in every city where we have preached The Word Of
the Lord, and see how they do.
37
And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was
Mark.
38
But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from
them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
39
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed
asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed
unto Cyprus;
40
And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren
unto the grace of God.
Hebrews
3:7-12 KJV
7
Wherefore (as The Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear His voice,
8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
temptation in the wilderness:
9
When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty
years.
10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
always err in their heart; and they have not known My ways.
11
So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.)
12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, in departing from The Living God.
Hebrews
4:7 KJV
Again,
He limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a
time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not
your hearts.
II
Peter 2:10 KJV
But
chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness,
and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self willed, they are
not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Prayer:
O Lord, help us to be a contrite people.
Job
23:16 KJV
for
God maketh my heart soft..."
Psalm
26:2 KJV
Examine
me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Psalm
32:11 KJV
Be
glad in The Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all
ye that are upright in heart.
Psalm
34:18 KJV
The
Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as
be of a contrite spirit.
Psalm
51:10,17 KJV
10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within
me.
17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm
139:23,24 KJV
Search
me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24
And see f there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting.
