Tag: stubbornness
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Denial Is Stubbornness
1Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?” 2And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without…
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The Unpardonable Sin
22And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” 23And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25And if a house…
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Your Own Counsel
11“But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel would not submit to me.12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,to follow their own counsels.–Psalm 81 Asaph at times quoted God in this psalm. Here is one of those moments. What was God’s message? His people refused to do two things and so God…
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The Stubborn Heart
16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. So you don’t have to have a biology degree to know that the heart doesn’t have that anatomy. God was using a real ceremony that spoke of being obedient and set apart for him and making it a metaphor for the inner person.…
Joel M Bradshaw 