Table of Contents
Self-Will and Stubbornness
1. Forbidden. 2Ch 30:8; Ps 75:5; 95:8.
2. Proceed from
a. Unbelief. 2Ki 17:14.
c. An evil heart. Jer 7:24.
3. God knows. Isa 48:4.
4. Exhibited in
a. Refusing to hearken to God. Pr 1:24.
b. Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God. 1Sa 8:19; Jer 44:16; Zec 7:11.
c. Refusing to walk in the ways of God. Ne 9:17; Ps 78:10; Isa 42:24; Jer 6:16.
d. Refusing to hearken to parents. De 21:18,19.
e. Refusing to receive correction. De 21:18; Jer 5:3; 7:28.
f. Rebelling against God. De 31:27; Ps 78:8.
g. Resisting the Holy Spirit. Ac 7:51.
h. Walking in the counsels of an evil heart. Jer 7:24; 23:17.
i. Hardening the neck. Ne 9:16.
j. Hardening the heart. 2Ch 36:13.
k. Going backward and not forward. Jer 7:24.
5. Heinousness of. 1Sa 15:23.
6. Ministers should
a. Be without. Tit 1:7.
b. Warn their people against. Heb 3:7-12.
c. Pray that their people may be forgiven for. Ex 34:9; De 9:27.
7. Characteristic of the wicked. Pr 7:11; 2Pe 2:10.
8. The wicked cease not from. Jdj 2:19.
9. Punishment for. De 21:21; Pr 29:1.
10. Illustrated. Ps 32:9; Jer 31:18.
11. Exemplified
a. Simeon and Levi. Ge 49:6.
b. Israelites. Ex 32:9; De 9:6,13.
c. Saul. 1Sa 15:19-23.
d. David. 2Sa 24:4.
e. Josiah. 2Ch 35:22.
f. Zedekiah. 2Ch 36:13.