being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:17-18 NASB Ignorance – Biblical fools are not stupid. They aren’t uninformed either. If you thought Paul claimed that these people whose spiritual and moral sense has been dimmed, were excluded from…
“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:” Deuteronomy 28:15 NASB Curses – You’re cursed. Maybe you didn’t know it, but that doesn’t matter….
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Disobedient to parents – “Honor your father and mother” says the Law. But sometimes we need a word like goneusin to remind us why respect and deference are required. Goneusin is the Greek…
And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:18-19 NASB Unbelief – God closes the door to those who do not believe. They do not enter His rest. So…
according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience Ephesians 2:2 Working – We are quite familiar with this Greek word. It is energeo, our root for energy. Please notice that the focus is on activity, not cognition. The expressions of the ruler of…
