The Chastening of the Lord

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 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: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hebrews 12:4-6 (Please read on through verse 11) Chastened of the Lord. This passage assumes that we are involved in a great struggle with sin and that in that struggle we are...