If you reject God’s commanding word, you will not receive God’s gracious word.
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point?
The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say that you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill, ” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. James 2:14-17
Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise. They grumbled in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Loin. Psalm 106:24-25
