Thank you Lord!
When a person knows that he has sinned but refuses to repent, the Holy Spirit will leave the person.
Take Saul in the Old Testament as an example:
1 Samuel 15:1-3, the scripture records: Samuel said to Saul: “The Lord has sent me to anoint you as King, rule over his people Israel, so obey the voice of the LORD. This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I have not forgotten what the Amalekites did to the Israelites on the way out of Egypt, and how they resisted them. Go and strike down the Amalekites and destroy everything they have. You will not spare them; you will kill them both man and woman, child, suckling, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey.'"
< p> God will judge the Amalekites who sinned and eliminate them from the world. As a result, 1 Samuel Chapter 15 Verse 9, the scripture records: "But Saul and the people had pity on Agag, and they cherished the best oxen, sheep, calves, lambs, and all the good things, and would not destroy them. Anyone who was lowly or weak , and killed them all.”Instead of leading the people to fear God and listen to God’s words, Saul joined the people in disobeying God’s orders, acting on his own initiative, and discounting God’s orders without authorization. Saul thought to himself: "O God, although your command says this, I have opinions and my own thoughts. I think my opinions and my thoughts are better." This matter greatly offended God, 1 Samuel Chapter 15, verses 10-11, the scripture records: The word of the Lord came to Samuel: "I regret that I made Saul king, because he has turned away from following me and has not kept my commandments." Samuel was very sad, and finally He cried out to the LORD at night.
Samuel was very sad for Saul, but what was Saul doing at this time? 1 Samuel 15:12, the scripture records: Samuel got up early in the morning to meet Saul. Someone told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel and built a monument there. Then he turned back and went down to Gilgal." Saul went to Carmel and built a monument to himself there. Not only did he not feel that he was wrong, he even built a monument to himself. The Bible says: "He turned and went down to Gilgal to offer a sacrifice to God there." He thought he had done a good job.
The text in 1 Samuel 15 goes on to say: Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you, for I have kept the commandments of the Lord.” “Truly. "What?" Samuel asked, "I hear the lowing of sheep and the lowing of oxen. Where did that come from?" Saul said, "The people brought this from the Amalekites, for they cherished the best. Cattle and sheep, you must sacrifice them to the LORD your God; the rest we will destroy." Saul found all kinds of high-sounding excuses to justify himself, but in his heart he simply despised God's word. When Samuel rebuked him, "Why did you not obey the command of the LORD and rob the property in haste to do evil in the sight of the LORD?"
Saul passed the responsibility to the people, 1 Samuel 15:20 -Verse 23, the scripture says: Saul said to Samuel, "Truly I obeyed the command of the LORD and went in the way that the LORD sent me. I captured King Agag of the Amalekites and destroyed the Amalekites. The people But he took the best of the animals that were to be destroyed and offered them to the LORD your God at Gilgal." Samuel said, "Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying his command? for sacrifices; obedience is better than the fat of rams; disobedience is as sinful as witchcraft; stubbornness is as sinful as idolatry, because you have rejected the commandments of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you as king. ”
What God hates is not only the sins we commit by defying His commands, but also our unrepentant attitude after committing sins. When Saul sinned against God and refused to repent, the Spirit of the Lord left Saul. When God withdrew His Holy Spirit from Saul, Saul's entire being was out of shape. His whole life went from bad to worse, and demons came to trouble him.
Please God not to let those He loves go their own way, be stubborn and rebellious, and let us repent in time, Amen!
Hallelujah!