How important "Obedience" is?

[water]

I don’t want to make an assumption to all people, but I have seen quite a few who are really against Obedience - They seem to say “Between me and God and I don’t need to listen to anybody - as long as what I am doing is not against Him, I am fine.”

Let’s share, yes, using Scripture alone, where one person thinks he was doing it to honor God and it seemed like it was a right thing for him to do, yet God was upset and punish him for it."

Could someone help me out on this?

Many thansk!

 

[thistle]

I don’t want to make an assumption to all people, but I have seen quite a few who are really against Obedience - They seem to say “Between me and God and I don’t need to listen to anybody - as long as what I am doing is not against Him, I am fine.”

Let’s share, yes, using Scripture alone, where one person thinks he was doing it to honor God and it seemed like it was a right thing for him to do, yet God was upset and punish him for it."

Could someone help me out on this?

Many thansk!

CCC 1269 Having become a member of the Church, the person baptized belongs no longer to himself, but to him who died and rose for us. From now on, he is called to be subject to others, to serve them in the communion of the Church, and to “obey and submit” to the Church’s leaders, holding them in respect and affection. Just as Baptism is the source of responsibilities and duties, the baptized person also enjoys rights within the Church: to receive the sacraments, to be nourished with the Word of God and to be sustained by the other spiritual helps of the Church.

1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 5:15.
Heb 13:17.
Eph 5:21; 1 Cor 16:15-16; 1 Thess 5:12-13; Jn 13:12-15.

 

[paulCT]

I think p3s1c2a2 of the CCC may be helpful to you.

CCC 1900: The duty of obedience requires all to give due honor to authority and to treat those who are charged to exercise it with respect, and, insofar as it is deserved, with gratitude and good-will.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Note Saul offeriing sacrifice in 1 Samuel 13:8-13, or even more sparing a portion for sacrifice in 1 Samuel 15 [especially vs 22-26]
[26
4 But Samuel said: "Does the LORD so delight in holocausts and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the LORD? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission than the fat of rams.For a sin like divination is rebellion, and presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he, too, has rejected you as ruler."Saul replied to Samuel: "I have sinned, for I have disobeyed the command of the LORD and your instructions. In my fear of the people, I did what they said.Now forgive my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD."But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, because you rejected the command of the LORD and the LORD rejects you as king of Israel.”](http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/1samuel/1samuel15.htm#foot4).Also note the death of Uzzah for touching the
arc when he sought to keep it from falling - 2 Samuel 6.

 

[water]

great! thank you for providing the verses!

Another person did not directly obey to God was Moses. He knocked on the rock twice for the water to come out to save people from being thirsty. He was supposed to do it once.

Was it the result of this that Moses could not enter the Promised Land?