Also confronting the realities of a rebellious heart:
Mark 7:21-23, “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasoning, adulteries, whoring, murders, thefts, greedy desires, wickedness, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these wicked matters come from within and defile a man.”
Jeremiah 5:21-24, “Hear this now, O foolish people without heart, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not: Do you not fear Me?’ declares יהוה. ‘Do you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, by an everlasting law, and it does not pass over it? Though its waves toss to and fro, they are not able; though they roar, they do not pass over it. But this people has a backsliding and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and gone away. And they do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear יהוה our Mighty One, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He guards for us, the appointed weeks of the harvest.” (spiritual meaning; latter rain and Shabuot)
Hebrews 3:7-12, Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways. As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest...’ Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Mighty One.”
Joel 2:12-16, “Yet even now,” declares יהוה, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to יהוה your Mighty One, for He shows favor and is compassionate, patient, and of great loving-commitment, and He shall relent concerning the calamity. Who knows – He might turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for יהוה your Mighty One? Blow a shophar in Tsiyon, set apart a fast, call an assembly. Gather the people, set the assembly apart, assemble the elders, gather the children and nursing babes. Let a bridegroom come out from his room, and a bride from her dressing room.”
Revelation 19:6-9,, “And I heard as the voice of a great crowd, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, “Halleluyah, for יהוה the Almighty Strength reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him praise, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife prepared herself. And to her it was given to be dressed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the set-apart ones. And he said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ And he said to me, “These are the true words of the Mighty One.”
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