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Jan 4, 2022 · Another word for “chasten” is “discipline.” The passage goes on to quote Proverbs 3:11-12, which says, “My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.” Proper discipline is a proof of love.
Many times, we are chastened as a result of our own sins. Just as an earthly father must discipline His children when they are disobedient, so God must discipline us when we are not resisting temptation or are living in sin. Many times, discipline is for our own safety and wellbeing; God sees the areas of danger that we ourselves cannot see.
Jun 6, 2023 · Following that principle, here are some reasons that we experience God’s discipline: • God disciplines His children because He loves them. • God disciplines His children to make them more mature. • God disciplines His children to increase their capacity for virtue. • God disciplines His children to keep them on the right path.
- Love and Discipline
- Financial Burdens
- Health Issues
- Shattered Relationships
- Losing Assurance
- Through Others
- Conclusion
To begin with, God is motivated by His love for us when He disciplines us. Discipline doesn’t feel good at the time, but it’s truly an act of love, because the opposite of love is not hatred, it is indifference or apathy. To not care is to not love, and when there is no love, there is usually little or no discipline, and the consequences are tragic...
I spoke with a couple who had been Christians for years and years, and they were facing a financial catastrophe like I hadn’t seen before, so I thought maybe they should cut down on their giving at church, but I vividly remember them both looking down at the floor and finally saying, “Well, we don’t give to the church…” That might have been the rea...
Jesus once rebuked those who thought the blind man had sinned and that was the reason he was blind. We can think the same way if we’re not careful, but one way God might chastise one of His children is to humble them with a “thorn in the flesh.” Health issues can quickly become financial issues too with the cost of health care. The Apostle Paul has...
When a marital relationship is shattered, so are two (or more) people’s lives. When children are involved, it is even more heartbreaking, because now there are innocent victims involved, and these children might even blame themselves. Divorces do more than shatter relationships; they can shipwreck a person’s life, even if they’re young when it happ...
Whenever a Christian is living in sin, they are often living with no assurance of their salvation. Sometimes they begin to have fears of hell and doubts start to creep in. Their minds can accuse them by telling them, “You’re a hypocrite…you’re a fake!” Of course the enemy can do that too, but the spiritual attacks may ramp up when you have lost you...
I believe that every Timothy needs a Paul, so everyone (including me) needs a mentor, so God may use others to see what you don’t see, and bring you correction, but clearly correction is something we all need, and is considered a loving thing to do. The most loving thing you can do is to be willing to offend a Christian acquaintance by correcting t...
When we see someone else going through a trial we must not assume that God is disciplining them. That would be like trying to accuse the Apostle Paul of having a thorn in the flesh because he is living in sin. The author of Hebrews wrote, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disc...
May 8, 2016 · The Bible has much to say about Chastening, and says it actually is VERY, very good for His children! AND, that if you are not experiencing it, you are not even in the family of God! II. Message . A. The Simple Fact Is… God’s Chastens His Children (Hebrews 12:5) 1. God is active in the life of a believer . a.
This is what Habakkuk had just heard—that God would discipline, chasten, correct His people by the wicked hand of Babylon. Paul says in Hebrews that if God does not chasten us, we are bastard children! The chastening, though unpleasant, is for our good. We may not like the humiliation of it, but we can patiently endure it because it is for ...
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known] i.e. known favourably, noticed, regarded: so Genesis 18:19, “I have known him to the end that he may command his children and his household after him that they may keep the way of Jehovah,” &c.; Hosea 13:5, “I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought”; Psalm 1:6; Psalm 37:18, and elsewhere. Israel was the ...
