DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012
DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD
by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011]

“Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; because they rebelled against the words of God . . . therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help" (Psalm 107:10-12).

They were bound in affliction because they rebelled against God and rejected His counsel (see verse 11). Beloved, could this be you? You have sat under godly preaching and the Holy Spirit has convicted you but still you are miserable and continue to sin.

When a person willfully disobeys the Word of God, his tendency is to hide and cower in fear. He may feel that it is all over, thinking, "God can't use me." When you are in that condition, the devil will whisper to you, "There is no deliverance for you. You're one of those people who never change. God has had it with you—your sin has caused Him to hide His face."

Satan will pound you with Scriptures, misquoting them all. When you sit in church, you will hear only judgment, not God’s mercy—because you are under such guilt, condemnation and fear.

I am not referring to people who hide from God because they love their sin. Rather, I am talking about Christians who have taken a fall but still have a sorrow and a hatred for their sin. Something inside them cries, "I have hurt God."

To this Christian, God's Word promises: "Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works. . . . For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder" (Psalm 107:13-16).

God never has—and never will—hide His face from a crying child of His. No matter how far you have fallen or how many promises you have made to God—and broken—He will always hear your cry for help and bring you back into close fellowship with Him.

One asks,

"Shouldn't we know what he's asked us to obey...What is he telling us to obey?"

God answers,

Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

In whom ye also trusted, after ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. Ephesians 1:13

"Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which hath been kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith." Romans 16:25,26

2 Thess. 1:7,8 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first beginneth at us, what will be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Galatians 3:26 For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Romans 10:3-11 For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, That the man who doeth these things shall live by them. But the righteousness which is by faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down.) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. For the scripture saith, whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Romans 10:16,17 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Galatians 3:1-3 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Galatians 3:6-9 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.