Chastisement versus punishment
Rev. Jonathan Mahtani distinguishes between God's chastisement of His elect (motivated by fatherly love and grace) and His punishment of the reprobate (motivated by divine wrath), drawing on Hebrews 12:5-7. This pastoral exhortation encourages believers to respond to afflictions with faith and patient endurance, recognizing them as expressions of God's covenant love rather than condemnation.
"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him." Hebrews 12:5 Young people have forgotten, and adults along with them, the difference between chastisement and punishment. When a parent angrily smites and the child shrieks in rebellion during discipline, they have forgotten the difference. When a teacher berates his stubborn students, and teenagers murmur about the...
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