Who Does Almighty God Reject?

Did you know that the Almighty God rejects certain attitudes and actions? Read the following Holy Scriptures to see what God says.

Psalm 50:16,17,21-23
‘To the wicked God says:’ What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Psalm 49:16-19
‘Be not afraid when a man becomes rich…For when he dies he will carry nothing away…For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed…his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.’

Proverbs 28:13
‘Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.’

Ecclesiastes 11:9
‘Rejoice, O young man in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.’

Ecclesiastes 12:13,14
‘The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.’

James 4:5,6
‘He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us. But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’

Proverbs 16:5
‘Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.’

Mark 7:20-23
‘What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.’

John 12:48
‘The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.’

Hebrews 10:30,31
‘For we know him who said, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay.’ And again, ‘The Lord will judge his people.’ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.’

So it is that to the humble and respectful God rewards his glorious favor, but to the self-centered and disobedient who turn their backs on him he sends to inhabit outer darkness for eternity. God cannot be holy without destroying unholiness. And he is the only one who can make men holy by writing his law in their hearts.