Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
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… and chastises every son whom he receives. It is for discipline that you have had you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Beside this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them. But he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. For the moment, all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Don't resist the Father's discipline in your life. It is good to feel the sting of sin. It is good to feel, in a sense, to feel the pain associated with sin and its consequences because it shows us that we don't need to run back to it. …
… that discourage our kids? Hebrews 12, verse 7. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom a father does not chasten? Proverbs 19, 18 Chasten your son while there is hope and do not set your heart on his destruction Remarkable Powerful I'll leave you with this. God's instruction to us from his Bible is that we might live. Isn't it amazing today that God's word to us is that he wants us to be wise? Friends, you know what you're not going to hear in the book of Proverbs? That God wants you smart. Is there something wrong with being smart? Not at all. You can have all the smarts in the world, as Marty Getz says, smarts. If you don't have wisdom to live out that smarts, you're going to be a disaster. You're going to be the smartest convict, the smartest criminal in jail. and we as parents must do everything we can to instruct I tell you what we are going to be getting I probably shouldn't tell you this but eventually we're going to get to several chapters where Solomon is going to tell us how we should conduct ourselves when there's an immoral woman in the vicinity SD wow if your husband doesn't want to come to work come to work if your husband or your wife doesn't want to come to church that week you may want to ask them why watch out for this person when you hear her say this …
… Listen to this. Endure your trials as the discipline of God who deals with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? Good question. I mean, if you're a son of a father who never disciplines you, you're going to be dysfunctional son, believe me, right? You can specify it. What good father would ever refrain from disciplining his son? And then listen to this. Again, the psychological realism is striking to me. At the time it's administered, all discipline seems a cause for grief. but later it brings forth the fruit of peace and justice to those who are trained in its school. Dead right. Dead right. When you're enduring whatever it is, whatever darkness or difficulty or limitation, it just seems like dumb suffering. How, how, how could God allow this to happen? But in time and with retrospect, can we see, okay, you know what that was? It was a discipline, a learning, disciplina. It was a learning that I needed and maybe could not have gotten in any other way. …
… It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time, as seemed best to them. But He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness." And in the next verse he said, that discipline yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. So it's not punishment, it's discipline. As much as we want a congregation that's pure and holy and do what we can to work for that, the Lord of the church wants it far more. Number four in the features that John sees is found in the second part of verse 15. His voice was like the sound of many waters. …
A scourge was a rod. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. For what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all, that is, all true sons are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons. Furthermore, we've had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure, but He for our profit that we might be made partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. certainly it wasn't joyful when a sheep got its leg broken. But yet it brought peace and fruitfulness. What was the fruit? Look, no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of what? Of what? Righteousness. …