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Despising God's Word Brings Self-Inflicted Ruin - Illustration on divine law and natural consequence | IllustrateTheWord

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Despising God's Word Brings Self-Inflicted Ruin

By Joseph S. ExellSource: archive.org205 wordsAI-crafted by ChurchWiseAI

The Hebrew rendering cuts deeper than arbitrary punishment: "He that despiseth the Word shall bring ruin on himself." This reveals a foundational law of Biblical revelation—that destruction is not merely God's external penalty imposed from above, but rather self-ruin, a...