Scripture says that God will discipline and chastise His children. Do Christians really know what that means? How does God discipline? How does God rebuke and chastises? Many know the word and concept but they do not know the way of God of how He deals with us in this manner
When God disciplines, does it mean he gets out a big paddle and spanks us? What methods do God employ to discipline us?
Hebrews 12:6-8 (Amplified Bible)
6For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes. 7You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline? 8Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God's children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all].
Revelation 3:19 (Amplified Bible)19Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude].
All we have to do is read the book of Job. The things Job went through are the methods employed by God to either jugde us or test us.
When our finances go down, we should ask ourselves, is God testing me or am I being judged. If we get sick, we need to ask the same question. If you have a terminal sickness, you are more or less getting judged. Job got sickness but it was not terminal. When our children are sick and dying, we better ask ourselves what has brought this on? Our children will either be blessed or cursed through the parents.
Instead of asking God to help us with our finances when they go down, we should be asking Him to search our hearts. Are we being tested or judged? If our health is deteriorating, we need to ask God to search our hearts to see if there is any sin in there that has given the devil a foothold.
Scripture says if we follow God's commandments and live upright, we will be blessed and our harvest will be abundant and our years will be lengthened. When things go wrong, do not think it is just coincidence. Everything is conditional and everything allowed has a purpose. Please read Job and see how God deals with us to discipline and chasten us whether we are being punished or tested.
Too many people waste their time on humanism. They spend their resources on cancer or other research and "awareness." I am not belittling their causes but that is all humanism. If you want the cure, you should spend the time and resources on God. If someone is on the brink of death or knows their time is limited, that person may give all they have to that research and development out of fear of death. Why won't they give it to God and trust Him. If they are going to give all of their savings to some Research and Development company, why not give it to God and cry out to Him. It is sad that even many Christians are waiting for a cure from their terminal diseases from man instead of God. They will do marathons and walkathons but where are the prayathons? When will they realize they must get on their knees and repent and cry out!
Too many of God's people are dying in our churches when it should not be so. Most live, look, and die like the world. Something is extremely wrong with that picture. Do you want to be cured? Start obeying and repenting!! This can be for your healing or deliverance. The healing or deliverance may not always come instantly but at least you are now on the road to doing the Father's will and road to recovery. Why will it not sometimes come instantly? God is still testing you. He has His appointed times.
Remember, Job's test on his health was not life threatening. He was being tested. He had not sin where he brought himself judgment.
What I speak is truth. Please ask God if what I speak is truth.
1 Kings 3:14 (Amplified Bible)14And if you will go My way, keep My statutes and My commandments as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days.
Leviticus 26:13-18 (Amplified Bible)
13I am the Lord your God, Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should no more be slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect [as free men].14But if you will not hearken to Me and will not do all these commandments,15And if you spurn and despise My statutes, and if your soul despises and rejects My ordinances, so that you will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant,16I will do this: I will appoint over you [sudden] terror (trembling, trouble), even consumption and fever that consume and waste the eyes and make the [physical] life pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.17I [the Lord] will set My face against you and [a]you shall be defeated and slain before your enemies; they who hate you shall rule over you; you shall flee when no one pursues you.(A)18And if in spite of all this you still will not listen and be obedient to Me, then I will chastise and discipline you seven times more for your sins
Proverbs 15:10 There is severe discipline for him who forsakes God's way; and he who hates reproof will die [physically, morally, and spiritually].
Proverbs 10:27 (Amplified Bible)27The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord prolongs one's days, but the years of the wicked shall be made short.
Isaiah 33:24 (Amplified Bible)24And no inhabitant [of Zion] will say, I am sick; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity and guilt
THe Glory to Him
Steve Kim
"Our children will either be blessed or cursed through the parents."
ReplyDeleteThat's not true at all.
Joh 9:1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind.
Joh 9:2 His disciples asked him, "Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind? Was it his own or his parents' sin?"
Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, "His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents' sins. He is blind so that God's power might be seen at work in him.
It can be much after they are born.
ReplyDeleteThank you for being bold enough to write this truth. I have asked a pastor what it means to be chastised by God and what were some of the ways that He had been chastised, and needless to say, I got a lot of jibberish and no concrete answer. People don't believe that God chastises us, They don't even think about these things first. Its doctors they run to for counsel.
ReplyDeleteWhat Jesus was saying is "dont focus on others wrongdoings as why this happened, but focus on the fact that God is capable of fully healing" see when we take our eyes off God and start worrying about pointless things our faith decreases. We havr to keep our eyes on God. Keep your eyes on God. Not the thing of this world.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Jesus meant exactly what was said. Don't add to or take away ANYTHING from the scriptures
DeleteThe bible clearly says that your children will be curaed or blessed. Period. The bible is pure truth and every word is true. Do not leat yourself be deceived by carnal thinking. Jesus did not say the boy is not cursed bc of sin he simply said his blindness has nothing to do with sin. Give satin no credit look to God for the healing.
ReplyDeleteThe bible clearly says that your children will be curaed or blessed. Period. The bible is pure truth and every word is true. Do not leat yourself be deceived by carnal thinking. Jesus did not say the boy is not cursed bc of sin he simply said his blindness has nothing to do with sin. Give satin no credit look to God for the healing.
ReplyDeleteVery well spoken, to many modern preachers, preach that God is not mad us and that Satan is responsible for all our problems. That is not completely true. All that prosperity and healing preaching does sell a lot of books and cd,s dvd,s but scripture tells us that God does indeed chastise us. We just need to seek jesus and he is faithful to hear us!!!
ReplyDeleteIsaiah 53:10 says concerning what God did to Jesus: "It pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has put him to grieve. When you will make his life an offering for sin. He will see his seed and prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hands". God intentionally bruised and put Jesus to grieve...that His pleasure may prosper in his hands...If he did this to his only begotten son who didnt even sin, why do we think he may not plague us when we sin?
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