Rationalize Disobedience
“To rationalize disobedience does not change spiritual law or its consequences but leads to confusion, instability, wandering in strange paths, being lost...
“To rationalize disobedience does not change spiritual law or its consequences but leads to confusion, instability, wandering in strange paths, being lost...
“Some obey selectively because they cannot perceive all the reasons for a commandment, just as children do not always understand the reasons for their par...
“At times members may participate in “selective obedience,” claiming to love God and honor God while picking and choosing which of His commandments and te...
“We might ask ourselves a similar question: why do any of us choose to be disobedient when we know the eternal consequences of sin? The scriptures provide...
“Some obey selectively because they cannot perceive all the reasons for a commandment, just as children do not always understand the reasons for their par...
“At times members may participate in “selective obedience,” claiming to love God and honor God while picking and choosing which of His commandments and te...
“At times we may be tempted to practice what I call “natural man’s obedience,” in which we disobediently reject God’s law in favor of our wisdom or our de...
“He who said not only should we not break commandments, but we should not even think about breaking them. And if we do think about breaking them, we have ...
“These failures to follow Christ are too numerous and too sensitive to list here. They range all the way from worldly practices like political correctness...
“There are moral absolutes. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. These things do not change.” +22