Abandonment MacArthur Topical NKJV

Psalm 73:27-28 For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.

But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, That I may declare all Your works.

Psalm 81:11-12 "But My people would not heed My voice, And Israel would have none of Me.

So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.

Hosea 4:17-19 "Ephraim is joined to idols, Let him alone.

Their drink is rebellion, They commit harlotry continually. Her rulers dearly love dishonor.

The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Matthew 13:20-21 "But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

'yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

John 6:5-6 Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?"

But this He said to test them, for He Himself knew what He would do.

Acts 7:37-43 "This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel,  'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren, Him you shall hear.'

"This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,

"whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts, they turned back to Egypt,

"saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

"And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

"Then God turned and gave then up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets; 'Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of your god Remphan, Images which you made to worship; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'

Acts 14:14-18 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out

and saying, "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the loving God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,

"who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their ways.

"Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.

2 Corinthians 11:1-3 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly--and indeed you do bear with me,

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ,

1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.