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| Pastor Comfort Luwei |
Rebellion could begin after knowing what is and is not obtainable,
and becoming discontented about it. But stubbornness remains the major reason
for many people going down the path of destruction. The Scriptures told us in
the book of Proverbs 16:25 that, there is a way that seems right to a man, but
the end thereof are the ways of death. I pray for you to have grace to withdraw
your steps from every way that seems right to you at the expense of God's
leading for your life in Jesus'' name. To an obstinate man, saying no to God is
always in advance of knowing what God's will for him is. He did not start
refusing or rejecting things just when orders are given. Even when there are
persuasions to do what is right, a stubborn man turns deaf ears, seeing nothing
at stake, whether as reward for obedience or consequences of disobedience. This
explained the words of the children of Israel in Jeremiah 44:16-17 when the
prophet tried persuading them in the name of the Lord.
As for the word
that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to you.
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out of our own mouth…
The mouth speaks
out of the abundance of what is in the heart. And it sets the whole course of
the body in actions that are lined up with the expressed thoughts (James
3:1-10). It is in this regard that a stubborn man or woman lives up to whatever
he or she had imagined in the heart to do and declared openly. Anyone who is
stubborn shuns every persuasion and conviction of the word of God. So you will
discover that such person is left to his own ways. He becomes too wise in his
own eyes to the point of destroying himself (Ecclesiastes 7:16). The Spirit of
God no longer rules and judges him in the way of God (Genesis 6:3). Then
idolatry results because man is devotional being by making. He has a creational
obligation to submit to something or someone, whether consciously or
unconsciously. This natural tendency in man either makes him submits to God or
get stubborn and so, initiate idolatry which is a lifestyle of seeking
alternative outside God.
Idolatry is a
blatant way of saying that you have no need for God and word in your life
whether you know it too well that man is a devotional being or not. We express
submission, either to God or the devils, with what we say, do and even think of
all the time. It is easy to know who and what every man is bound to by his
expression (Proverbs 6:2). Man, by making, must naturally devote and submit to
something or someone. And he ends up serving whomever or whatever he submits
to. So if not God, then it has to be the devil although the devil is no match
for God. This is one truth which Apostle Paul opened us to in Romans 6:16, 19
that: know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants you are to whom you obey…
…for as you have
yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity; even
so now yield your members servants to righteousness to holiness.
Disobedience is
not a virtue. And at the same time, it is not a mistake. A mistake for a sinner
may not be deliberate when he lacks the grace but his eyes will later open at
the fullness of time. But then, you should know that disobedience is different
from omission. It is rather a deliberate act, having every part of the soul in
consent.
Disobedience is
the starting point for idolatry and witchcraft as a fetish, secret art and act.
It strengthens the holds of satan in people's affairs.
Bishop David O.
Oyedepo often says that “a man remains in captivity, not because his captor is
too strong for him to break loose from. It is because he fails to know what
qualifies him in God for his liberty”. But how can a disobedience man ever know
and even access what qualifies him for deliverance in God when he would not
obey the word of God?
God has no
tolerance for disobedience. Anyone who disobeys God has a common destiny with
witches and idol worshippers. Disobedience is nothing to God but rebellion
which is as grave as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness which is as the sin
of iniquity and idolatry,
According to I
Samuel 15:23. many religious of the world may justify seeking alternatives to
their profession in the heat of trying situations but eh Christian faith is not
on the same plane with them. Any Christian indulging in stubbornness and
rebellion to the authority of God is fast settling for a life of multiple
sorrows but he is as good as a witch and idol worshipper. Psalms 16:4 vividly
confirmed that, their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another
God.
So this is a call
to do away with disobedience which is always a bid to manipulate or maneuver
God's firmness while God and His Word remain non-negotiable. But we are
rest-assured that the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for He is not
a man that He should repent (I Samuel 15:29).
The book of Hebrew
6:17, 18 even confirmed that wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to
the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
That by two
immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie…
In conclusion, to
disobey God is reject God and institute wickedness. In return, you earn His
rejection and have God in fierce contention with you in every respect. The
prophet Samuel told King Saul that, Because you have rejected the word of the
Lord, He also has rejected you from being King – I Samuel 15:23. David also
warned that God is angry with the wicked every day – Psalms 7:11
This is not your
portion in Jesus name! Nonetheless, know that god has zero tolerance for
disobedience as man does leprosy. It is a “but” – a leprosy which destroys
without remedy. Don’t disobey God under whatever justification.
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