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Self-will

 

SELF-WILL ;

(Stubbornness)

Forbidden - 2Ch 30:8; Ps 75:5

Proceeds from

• Unbelief
- 2Ki 17:14
• Pride
- Ne 9:16,29
• An evil heart
- Jer 7:24

God knows - Isa 48:4

Exhibited in

• Refusing to listen to God
- Pr 1:24
• Refusing to listen to the messengers of God
- 1Sa 8:19; Jer 44:16; Zec 7:11
• Refusing to walk in the ways of God
- Ne 9:17; Isa 42:24; Ps 78:10
• Refusing to listen to (obey) parents
- De 21:18,19
• Refusing to receive correction
- De 21:18; Jer 5:3; 7:28
• Rebelling against God
- De 31:27; Ps 78:8
• Resisting the Holy Spirit
- Ac 7:51
• Walking in the counsels of an evil heart
- Jer 7:24; with 23:17
• Hardening the neck (metaphorically)
- Ne 9:16
• Hardening the heart
- 2Ch 36:13
• Going backward and not forward
- Jer 7:24
• Heinousness of
- 1Sa 15:23

Servants should

• Be without
- Tit 1:7
• Warn the people against
- Heb 3:7-12
• Pray that the people may be forgiven for
- Ex 34:9; De 9:27

Characteristic of wicked people - Pr 7:11; 2Pe 2:10

The wicked do not cease from - Jud 2:19

Punishment for - De 21:21; Pr 29:1

Illustrated - Ps 32:9; Jer 31:18

EXEMPLIFIED

• Simeon and Levi
- Ge 49:6
• The Israelites
- Ex 32:9; De 9:6,13
• King Saul
- 1Sa 15:19-23
• David
- 2Sa 24:4
• Josiah
- 2Ch 35:22
• Zedekiah
- 2Ch 36:13
• See
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