Effects of Disobedience

          In this blog I want to illustrate the importance of God’s Holy Word, The Bible and that by His Holy Word we are to live.  What if we don’t live by the Bible?  Are there repercussions that we will have to live with?  If we move away from the Word of God in active disobedience we will suffer the consequences.

The effect of our obedience or disobedience to God and His commands is huge.  Let us look at the pitfalls of disobedience as it is according to God’s Word.  Author  K.P. Yohannan (2013) The Reflections of Submission, retrieved from his book, Touching Godliness pg.116.

“God is not satisfied with just an outward appearance of obedience.  He knows that rebellion begins on the inside and is often concealed.  There is both passive and active rebellion.  Absalom, in the beginning, was passively rebelling.  Quietly he was going along, but on the inside, he was already a full-fledged rebel.  When someone is passively rebellious, he smiles at you and acts like everything is wonderful, but inwardly he is not submitting.  There the rebellion grows until finally it is exposed.”

Now Absalom was King David’s son.  Absalom rebelled against the authority of his father David, by this rebellion he actually rebelled against God Himself, for David was anointed by God for the Kingly duty.  Look what happened to Absalom in:

2 Samuel 18:9, 15 (ESV), 9“And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.”15 “And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.”    

Obedience to God’s commands comes from a life saturated with God’s Word.  The Scriptures are our guide to live holy and righteous in this world.  Here is a friendly reminder in:

1Peter 3:12 (ESV), “For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

As I researched for this topic there was a lot of material that could be added, but the only thing that rings true is that which accords with God’s Word.  So in this pursuit to identify the perils of disobedience a lot has been learned from the men of God who have lived the Christian life a long time.  Hear what Franklin Graham had to say about his father Billy Graham.

Franklin Graham (2013), Franklin Graham: America Has Turned Its Back on God, Retrieved from: http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/41370-franklin-graham-america-has-turned-its-back-on-god

“It became clear that all of the verses were about the cross. One said, “God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Gal. 6:14). The Lord had put it in my father's heart that if he ever was physically able to share a message again, he would speak about the cross, and he was determined to saturate his mind with the Scripture.”

            To conclude this blog we see that living without God’s commands in this world can and will bring consequences to the individual who lives without them.  These are matters of fact and not merely an individual’s opinion.  The effort here is to illustrate the effect of disobedience to God and His Word.  To disobey God’s commands is to disobey God; to disobey God will bring the consequences.

References

1. Franklin Graham (2013), Franklin Graham: America Has Turned Its Back on God, Retrieved from: http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/41370-franklin-graham-america-has-turned-its-back-on-god
2. K.P. Yohannan (2013) The Reflections of Submission, Touching Godliness, Carrollton, TX: gfa books