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Sometimes we need chastening for a specific presumptuous sin. We willfully take pleasure in it, imagining its bondage to be harmless fun, but God loves us too much to let us destroy our souls. So He chastens, and we immediately know exactly of what sin we must repent. Sometimes we also need chaste
Chastisement is the Lord's regular way of dealing with His church. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth" (Heb. 12) applies not only to individuals. It also applies to churches. I want to spell that out carefully here. Israel learned this lesson early in her history. Leviticus 26 (Leviticus was the 'c
For many of us, that might be hard to imagine, but there are always saints of God on the earth somewhere who are chastened in such a manner. The Lord sometimes chastens His saints through the persecution and hatred of the world. The Hebrew Christians whom the inspired writer of the, epistle to the H
Now that you are older, your parents likely no longer paddle your behind. Rather, they correct you by grounding you or perhaps by taking away your driving privileges. Yet there is more to the idea of chastening than rebuke or punishment. Both the Old and New Testaments connect chastisement with trai
“Because when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them who love Him.” Endure what? Chastening! “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.” Your persevering endurance is over against chastisement. What is chastisement? It is our Father’s p
It is the powerful doctrine of Hebrews 12, not only that the God Who loves us also chastises us, but also that it is exactly His Fatherly love that chastises: “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with son
I hope so, “for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth” (Heb. 12:6). Perhaps a certain sin leaves you plagued with guilt or a loss of peace. Sometimes God chastises our sins with tense or broken relationships, unpleasant circumstances, or spiritual laziness or
Both men recognized that to experience chastening is to know God’s love –“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” (Heb. 12:5-6). Our Father’s chastening takes diffe
Jehovah chastens as many as he loves: that is, all of his elect (Rev. 3:19). His chastening yields the fruits of peace or righteousness in its recipients (Heb 12:11). It ensures that they will not be condemned with the world (1 Cor. 11:32). Therefore, “My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord;
God only chastens those whom He loves. He desires them to walk in His ways and so at times He takes the shepherd’s rod and staff and brings us back into the ways of righteousness. Sometimes His chastening seems grievous, but we must realize it is for our profit. The church at Laodicea was chaffing u