New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Self-will and Stubbornness

• Forbidden 2 Chr. 30:8; Ps. 75:5, 95:8
• Proceed from
  • Unbelief 2 Ki. 17:14
  • Pride Neh. 9:16, 29
  • An evil heart Jer. 7:24
• God knows Isa. 48:4
• Exhibited in
  • Refusing to hearken to God Pr. 1:24
  • Refusing to hearken to the messengers of God 1 Sam. 8:19; Jer. 44:16; Zech. 7:11
  • Refusing to walk in the ways of God Neh. 9:17; Ps. 78:10; Isa. 42:24; Jer. 6:16
  • Refusing to hearken to parents Dt. 21:18, 19
  • Refusing to receive correction Dt. 21:18; Jer. 5:3, 7:28
  • Rebelling against God Dt. 31:27; Ps. 78:8
  • Resisting the Holy Spirit Acts 7:51
  • Walking in the counsels of an evil heart Jer. 7:24, 23:17
  • Hardening the neck Neh. 9:16
  • Hardening the heart 2 Chr. 36:13
  • Going backward and not forward Jer. 7:24
• Heinousness of 1 Sam. 15:23
• Ministers should
  • Be without Tit. 1:7
  • Warn their people against Heb. 3:7-12
  • Pray that their people may be forgiven for Ex. 34:9; Dt. 9:27
• Characteristic of the wicked Pr. 7:11; 2 Pet. 2:10
• The wicked cease not from Judg. 2:19
• Punishment for Dt. 21:21; Pr. 29:1
• Illustrated Ps. 32:9; Jer. 31:18
• Exemplified
  • Simeon and Levi Gen. 49:6
  • Israelites Ex. 32:9; Dt. 9:6, 13
  • Saul 1 Sam. 15:19-23
  • David 2 Sam. 24:4
  • Josiah 2 Chr. 35:22
  • Zedekiah 2 Chr. 36:13