Quotes about Disobedience

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

The law did not encourage obedience, rather it magnified disobedience. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.

Stay submitted to God by not becoming offended; resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7). We resist the devil by not becoming offended. The dream or vision will probably happen differently than how you think it will, but His Word and His promises will not fail. We only risk aborting them by our disobedience.

It is not that they looked in the ark and saw something that they should not have seen. That is not the point. The ark was a box. That is all it ever was. The point is that it was at the ark in the Holy of Holies that God met with His people. He is not meeting with them now. They have turned from Him. Their rebellion and blasphemy are revealed in their disobedience. Because of this, God brings judgment upon them.

But listen not to his temptations, warn Thy weaker. Let it profit thee to have heard, By terrible example, the reward Of disobedience. Firm they might have stood, Yet fell. Remember, and fear to transgress.

It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms "victory" and "defeat" to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms "obedience" and "disobedience.

Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

observant but not compulsive" and the absence of a belief in a God who would punish us for disobedience would go on to become cornerstones of my personal and professional life.