This document contains excerpts from the Bible discussing the sinfulness of presumption. Presumption involves trying to think for God rather than obeying His commands. It demeans God by elevating human thoughts above His. The Pharisees were guilty of presumption by adding to and taking away from God's word. Jesus strongly denounced them for rejecting God's commandments in favor of their own traditions. The consequences of presumption include being struck down, as with Nadab and Abihu, or being rejected by God, as with Saul. True obedience, like Noah constructing the ark, results in blessing. The document encourages self-reflection on whether one's actions honor or dishonor God.
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Be Careful to Do the Commandments
1. Careful
Commandment
“Be
to
Dothe
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Deuteronomy 7:11, CB OT p. 282
2.
3. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image”
Exodus 20:4, CB OT p. 114
4. Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God
has come to test you, that the fear of him may be
before you, that you may not sin.”
Exodus 20:20, CB OT p. 115
16. “that you may keep the
commandments of
Jehovah your God that I
command you.”
Deuteronomy 4:2,
CB OT p. 275
17. You shall not add to the word that I
command you, nor take from it, that you
may keep the commandments of Jehovah
your God that I command you.
Deuteronomy 4:2, CB OT p. 275
18. I warn everyone who hears the words of
the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds
to them, God will add to him the plagues
described in this book, and if anyone
takes away from the words of the book
of this prophecy, God will take away his
share in the tree of life and in the holy
city, which are described in this book.
Revelation 22:18-19, CB NT p. 459
19. Everyone who goes on ahead and
does not abide in the teaching of Christ,
does not have God. Whoever abides in
the teaching has both the Father and the
Son.
2 John 1:9, CB NT p. 426
20. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will
enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does
the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day
many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in
your name, and do many mighty works in your
name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never
knew you; depart from me, you workers of
lawlessness.’”
Matthew 7:21-23, CB NT p. 12-13
24. Constitutional Amendments
“ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the
Constitution of the United States of America, proposed
by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the
several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the
original Constitution.”
25. All Scripture is breathed out
by God and profitable for
teaching, for reproof, for
correction, and for training in
righteousness, that the man
of God may be complete,
equipped for every good
work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17, CB NT p. 374
26. 1. to take for granted, assume, or suppose:
I presume you're tired after your drive.
2. Law. to assume as true in the absence of proof to
the contrary.
3. to undertake with unwarrantable boldness.
4. to undertake (to do something) without right
or permission: to presume to speak for another.
Presume
27. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be
blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
Psalm 19:13, CB OT p. 852
Presumption
28. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be
blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
Psalm 19:13, CB OT p. 852
Presumption “arrogant, proud,
insolent, presumptuous”
— Brown, Driver, Briggs
29. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and
presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you
have rejected the word of Jehovah, he has also
rejected you from being king.”
1 Samuel 15:23, CB OT p. 443
Presumption
30. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and
presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you
have rejected the word of Jehovah, he has also
rejected you from being king.”
1 Samuel 15:23, CB OT p. 443
Presumption“be insolent, display pushing
(arrogance, presumption)”
— Brown, Driver, Briggs
33. Why Presumption is Sinful...
It demeans Jehovah.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, declares Jehovah. For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9, CB OT p. 1171
34. Why Presumption is Sinful...
It intrudes into the things of Jehovah.
“The secret things belong to Jehovah our God, but
the things that are revealed belong to us and to our
children forever, that we may do all the words of
this law.”
Deuteronomy 29:29, CB OT p. 318
35. Why Presumption is Sinful...
It is self-exalting.
I know, O Jehovah, that the way of man is not in
himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his
steps.
Jeremiah 10:23, CB OT p. 1217
36. Why Presumption is Sinful...
It is self-exalting.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end
is the way to death.
Proverbs 14:12, CB OT p. 1018
38. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
ADDING TO GOD’S WORD
“holding to the tradition of the elders”
Mark 7.3, CB OT p. 73-74
39. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
TAKING FROM GOD’S WORD
“you no longer permit him to do anything for his
father or mother”
Mark 7.12, CB OT p. 74
40. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
Jesus’ Denunciation...
41. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
You don’t honor God.
“This people honors me with their lips, but their
heart is far from me”
Mark 7.6, CB OT p. 74
Jesus’ Denunciation...
42. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
You worship God in vain.
“in vain do they worship me”
Mark 7.7, CB OT p. 74
Jesus’ Denunciation...
43. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
You leave the
commandment of God.
“You leave the commandment of God and hold to
the tradition of men.” Mark 7.8, CB OT p. 74
Jesus’ Denunciation...
44. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
Jesus’ Denunciation...
“You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment
of God in order to establish your tradition!
Mark 7.9, CB OT p. 74
You reject the
commandment of God.
45. The Presumption of the Pharisees
Mark 7:1-13, CB OT p. 73-74
Jesus’ Denunciation...
You make the word of
God void.
thus making void the word of God by your tradition
that you have handed down.”
Mark 7.13, CB OT p. 74
63. Am I guilty of
presumption?
“But doesn’t God want
me to be happy?”
64. Am I guilty of
presumption?
“He hates divorces”
NKJV, Malachi 2:16, CB OT p. 1532
65. Am I guilty of
presumption?
“But doesn’t God want
me to be happy?”
“He hates divorces”
NKJV, Malachi 2:16, CB OT p. 1532
66. Am I guilty of
presumption?
“And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except
for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits
adultery.” Matthew 19.9, CB NT p. 36-37
67. Am I guilty of
presumption?
“And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except
for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits
adultery.” Matthew 19.9, CB NT p. 36-37
“But doesn’t God want
me to be happy?”
68. Am I guilty of
presumption?
“addressing one another in
psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and
making melody to the Lord
with your heart”
Ephesians 5:19, CB NT p. 341
69. Am I guilty of
presumption?
“we make it our aim to
please him”
2 Corinthians 5:9, CB NT p. 316
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