A Bible Study by Adam Osborne, Jr.
When We Sin, Will God Punish Us?
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- Isaiah 66:4 (NIV) so I also will choose harsh treatment for them and will bring upon them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”
- Psalms 81:11-12 (NIV) “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. 12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Judges 2:14 (NIV) In his anger against Israel the LORD handed them over to raiders who plundered them. He sold them to their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.
- Isaiah 65:12 (NIV) I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”
- Jer 4:4 (NIV) Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, circumcise your hearts, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done– burn with no one to quench it.
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- 1 Kings 14:15 (NIV) And the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot
Israel from this good land that he gave to their forefathers and scatter them beyond the River, because they provoked the LORD to anger by making Asherah poles. - 2 Kings 13:3 (NIV) So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and for a long time he kept them under the power of Hazael king of Aram and Ben-Hadad his son.
- 1 Chron 13:10 (NIV) The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
- Isaiah 47:10-11 (NIV)You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ 11 Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.
- Jer 5:7-9 (NIV) “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by god’s that are not god’s. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes. 8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife. 9 Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
- Jer 7:18,20 (NIV) The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other god’s to provoke me to anger. 20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground, and it will burn and not be quenched.
- Jer 12:17 (NIV) But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,” declares the LORD.
- Jer 14:10-12 (NIV) This is what the LORD says about this people: “They greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.” 11 Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people. 12 Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”
- Jer 16:6 (NIV) “Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no one will cut himself or shave his head for them.
- Hosea 9:17 (NIV) My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.
- Num 32:13 (NIV) The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
- 1 Kings 14:15 (NIV) And the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot
But, There Is Hope!
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- Prov 1:24-33 (NIV) But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, 25 since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you–27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.28 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. 29 Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD, 30 since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, 31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. 32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; 33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.”
- Jer 3:12 (NIV) Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will not be angry forever.
- Jer 4:1-2 (NIV) “If you will return, O Israel, return to me,” declares the LORD. “If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray, 2 and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ then the nations will be blessed by him and in him they will glory.”
- Matt 6:14 (NIV) For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- Acts 13:38-39 (NIV)“Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
- Eph 1:7 (NIV) In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
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- 1 John 1:9 (NIV) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
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- 1 John 1:9 (NIV) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
God’s Plan For Our Salvation!
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God Loves Us!
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- Romans 5:8 (NIV) But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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But We Are All Sinners
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- Romans 3:23 (NIV) for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
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God’s Remedy For Our Sin
Romans 6:23 (NIV) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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You May Be Saved NOW!
- Romans 10:13 (NIV) for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Last edited on New Years Eve, 12.31.21