WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.399 Take your Bible, turn over to Hebrews chapter 12 this morning. 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:07.799 ! Hebrews chapter 12, as we'll take a few moments here as we look into God's Word, 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:12.820 as we consider the reality of being disciplined. 00:00:12.820 --> 00:00:17.620 I want you to understand, God judges nations, but He disciplines His children. 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:20.260 And He does that for a reason. 00:00:20.379 --> 00:00:22.100 He does it because He loves us. 00:00:22.740 --> 00:00:27.320 And we're going to look here this morning of how that even applies in our lives and in our families. 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:32.880 And that measurement there, but you know, the one thing that is definitely a reality is, 00:00:33.539 --> 00:00:36.480 I don't think anybody here likes being corrected. 00:00:37.659 --> 00:00:44.260 You know, just against our nature it seems like, to want to be corrected or to have to face correction. 00:00:44.980 --> 00:00:48.179 And we all know the reality is sooner or later you're going to be corrected. 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:52.280 And the question is, how are you going to respond to that? 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.000 You know, how do we respond when we're corrected? 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.119 You know, why do we even need to be corrected? 00:00:58.899 --> 00:01:02.820 You know, what's God's purpose in correcting us? 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.500 You know, that's an important element as we begin looking here this morning. 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:10.560 Because it's never comfortable to be corrected. 00:01:11.260 --> 00:01:13.219 Matter of fact, usually it's very uncomfortable. 00:01:14.099 --> 00:01:16.400 It's uncomfortable for the one doing the correcting, 00:01:16.620 --> 00:01:21.219 and it's uncomfortable for the one receiving correction in that. 00:01:21.219 --> 00:01:23.980 I mean, that's just a reality of life. 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:29.819 But we realize that discipline and being disciplined is part of life, 00:01:29.859 --> 00:01:34.359 whether it's a parent for a child or God towards his children. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.680 You know, Hebrews 12, we're going to look at here this morning for a few minutes, 00:01:38.780 --> 00:01:42.500 gives us a pattern and a purpose for discipline. 00:01:42.500 --> 00:01:47.680 Not only in our own lives between us and God as his child, 00:01:48.260 --> 00:01:55.180 but also for a father and mother in regard to their kids. 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:00.240 Because remember, everything, God gives us an example of how we ought to do things. 00:02:00.939 --> 00:02:04.840 And he presents that to us even through his word. 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:09.199 We see here that as we see the word used here in Hebrews, 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:11.080 we're going to listen to is chastening. 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:17.800 And I want you to understand the word chastening there is this concept of training for a desired outcome. 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:20.980 In other words, discipline has a purpose. 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:22.439 It's not just punishment. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:25.960 You know, oftentimes when you hear being disciplined, 00:02:26.620 --> 00:02:28.760 punishment is the first thing that comes to mind. 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.540 But I want you to understand the purpose of discipline is not punishment, 00:02:33.220 --> 00:02:34.900 but your betterment. 00:02:34.900 --> 00:02:41.140 To improve you and to put you where God would have for you to be. 00:02:41.760 --> 00:02:44.400 And so if you found Hebrews chapter 12 this morning, 00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:46.780 let's stand together and honor the reading of the word of God. 00:02:46.819 --> 00:02:50.420 And we'll pick up here in verse 5 and read down through verse 11. 00:02:51.379 --> 00:02:54.120 And we see this and it says in verse 5, 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:24.099 And it says, 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:53.280 Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous. 00:03:53.280 --> 00:04:02.099 Nevertheless, afterward it yielded the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 00:04:02.900 --> 00:04:03.560 Let's pray. 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.479 Heavenly Fathers, we come before you here this morning. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.539 Lord, I pray just have your hand upon each heart, each life here today. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.939 Lord, as we look at the reality of the privilege of being your child. 00:04:14.939 --> 00:04:16.759 Lord, what that means. 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:27.180 And Lord, we pray we just would understand the importance and the goal and outcome of being trained up properly before you. 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:31.040 Lord, that we might live holy and righteous lives before you. 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.980 Lord, we need to be guided and directed. 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:34.899 Lord, we just thank you. 00:04:34.899 --> 00:04:40.939 Even when it's uncomfortable, Lord, we know that those things take place for our benefit, for our learning. 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:43.419 And Lord, help us to learn the lessons. 00:04:43.479 --> 00:04:46.459 Even as we face chastisement from you in our own lives. 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.659 Lord, help us to learn and understand. 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:52.160 But Lord, even as we train up another generation. 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.620 Lord, that our objective might be as yours. 00:04:55.760 --> 00:04:59.980 Lord, to raise ones that have a fear of you. 00:05:00.140 --> 00:05:06.180 Lord, a healthy respect and understanding of what righteousness and holiness look like. 00:05:06.700 --> 00:05:09.800 And Lord, we pray just have your hand upon the message and the things here this morning. 00:05:09.860 --> 00:05:11.180 And each heart and life here today. 00:05:11.780 --> 00:05:13.720 Lord, we just give you all the praise and glory. 00:05:13.840 --> 00:05:14.760 In Jesus' name. 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:15.879 Amen. 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:16.699 May we be seated. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.600 You know, as we look here this morning, you know, we are going to examine this idea of 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:27.139 discipline or chastisement in shaping an individual. 00:05:27.540 --> 00:05:34.379 Because it's one of the tools that God uses to shape us, just as a parent uses that tool 00:05:34.379 --> 00:05:37.899 to shape their children into the right character. 00:05:38.420 --> 00:05:44.120 But we find here God wants to give us, shape our character all together. 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:47.259 So we have kind of a dual dynamic because there's nobody here that's exempt. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.860 Because if you're a parent here today, you can get a good example from God how to properly 00:05:51.860 --> 00:05:56.139 discipline and what the goal is for discipline in the life of your children. 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:04.540 But also, even as God chastises you, as God corrects you as an individual, as a child of 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:05.680 God, as his child. 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.120 And we're going to talk about a few of those things. 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.759 Because you say, well, why, preacher, do you need to be reminded of this? 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.519 Well, look at verse 5 here for a moment in what we just read. 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.480 Notice what the writer of Hebrews has to tell us. 00:06:17.579 --> 00:06:18.839 It says, and ye have what? 00:06:19.300 --> 00:06:24.519 Forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children. 00:06:25.099 --> 00:06:26.539 You know, he says, you know what? 00:06:26.579 --> 00:06:27.659 We do what we normally do. 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:28.219 We forget. 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:31.620 You ever notice it's easy to forget things? 00:06:33.379 --> 00:06:35.740 Or should I say it's easy to forget the right things? 00:06:35.740 --> 00:06:41.019 You know, sometimes it's hard to forget the things that we ought to forget. 00:06:42.220 --> 00:06:48.400 But the Bible also tells us that we forget or overlook the things that we ought to remember. 00:06:48.819 --> 00:06:51.100 You know, throughout the scripture, you'll find a very familiar word. 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:52.740 It's called remember, remember, remember. 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:54.600 Why? 00:06:54.740 --> 00:06:58.720 Because we forget that which is right, and we seem to hold on to that which is wrong. 00:06:59.400 --> 00:07:01.019 So we need to be lined out. 00:07:01.019 --> 00:07:03.680 We need to be corrected in that. 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:09.279 And this verse 5 points out the chastening of the Lord is not without reason. 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:11.620 You know, he speaketh unto us as children. 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:13.779 You know, notice here what it tells us. 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:19.759 He says, my son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. 00:07:20.180 --> 00:07:25.399 You know, it's easy to forget God's purpose of why he corrects us. 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:31.139 But this is a passage from Proverbs chapter 3 is what he's referring back to here in Hebrews. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:36.179 He's referring back to Proverbs chapter 3 in verse 11 where his word of God says this, 00:07:36.179 --> 00:07:41.159 my son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction. 00:07:41.699 --> 00:07:47.399 For whom the Lord loveth, he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 00:07:47.919 --> 00:07:54.379 You know, this reality of the Lord correcting his children, just as a parent ought to correct their children. 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:03.379 You know, today we have a misconception because oftentimes parents have been removed from responsibility of their children. 00:08:03.479 --> 00:08:10.139 But I want you to understand the Bible says every parent is responsible for their children to raise them up. 00:08:10.219 --> 00:08:12.839 They're the ones that are the oversight for your kids. 00:08:13.719 --> 00:08:22.560 Parents today, I want you to understand the importance of what you're doing in disciplining and raising up godly children. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:30.579 It's an important dynamic because just as the Lord corrects by disciplining those that are his children, 00:08:31.339 --> 00:08:35.059 a physical father is to discipline his children. 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:37.659 Why? Because you're his child. 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:42.799 But I want you to understand something important here because we have a lot of confusion in today's world. 00:08:42.899 --> 00:08:46.259 The devil loves to take half-truths and twist them. 00:08:46.259 --> 00:08:49.600 And makes great slogans. 00:08:49.740 --> 00:08:52.799 I mean, the original meme, you might say, was the devil. 00:08:52.899 --> 00:08:58.039 He takes the word of God and uses part of it and twists it and has a false representation. 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.799 And one of the things that's a false representation today, and you'll hear people say this, 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:04.720 well, we're all God's children. 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:08.679 I want you to understand you're all God's creation, but you're not all God's children. 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:15.479 Because the Bible makes it very clear, you become a child of God, not from physical birth, 00:09:16.339 --> 00:09:18.819 but by faith in Jesus Christ. 00:09:18.979 --> 00:09:22.879 When Jesus even told Nicodemus, he says, it's not your religion, 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.719 it's not the fact of the lineage you were born into physically. 00:09:26.299 --> 00:09:29.299 He tells him, he says, you must be what? Born again. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:33.000 There has to be a new birth into God's family. 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.580 And when we understand that we're physically born into a family, 00:09:37.700 --> 00:09:40.139 and you must be born again into God's family. 00:09:40.899 --> 00:09:44.720 You know, I want you to understand, you're not born into a church, you're born into the family. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.879 Another misconception we could spend some time on, 00:09:50.220 --> 00:09:54.659 that people get confused, and today people blend that and it causes a lot of problems. 00:09:56.379 --> 00:09:58.820 Because the devil is the author of confusion. 00:09:59.659 --> 00:10:02.940 He loves to get people confused about what God has said. 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.120 Think about what the first thing he did in the garden with Eve. 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.600 He says, hath God said. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.779 And he didn't speak a total lie, he spoke partial truth. 00:10:13.460 --> 00:10:15.259 He added unto God's word. 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:16.980 He added unto those things. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.759 And that same dynamic happens today. 00:10:19.860 --> 00:10:23.340 So we need to understand, who are we talking about when God corrects his children? 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:27.279 He corrects those who have called upon him as their savior. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:32.980 He called, it's a direct reality that we see here in the word of God. 00:10:33.059 --> 00:10:40.379 And we're placed, you're born into a family, but you're placed into a local church by the Lord to serve him. 00:10:40.379 --> 00:10:44.919 And, you know, we find that just as God corrects his children, he chastens them. 00:10:45.620 --> 00:10:52.600 Parents are to do the same by, with their children, in chastening their children. 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.759 Why? Because they are their children. 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.040 Why do they do that? Because of love. 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:02.340 Because the first thing we're going to look at here is discipline is an expression of love. 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:08.200 You know, today we have a misconception that, you know, if somebody corrects me, they don't like me. 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:09.340 Now you think about that. 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:15.240 It's like, well, if you don't like what I'm doing, if you think what I'm doing is wrong, you hate me. 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:18.879 That's really the devil's twist today. 00:11:19.379 --> 00:11:26.779 Instead of saying and evaluating, is what I'm doing, is the things that I'm doing, are they right or are they wrong? 00:11:27.460 --> 00:11:33.659 To evaluate that chastisement, correction, discipline, training is that same factor. 00:11:34.299 --> 00:11:40.620 And that driving factor behind correction, especially a father correcting his son, is why? 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.440 Because of love. 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:46.040 That dynamic of love is there. 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.800 Look at verse 6 in our text here. 00:11:49.220 --> 00:11:49.480 It says, 00:11:49.620 --> 00:11:50.560 For whom the Lord, what? 00:11:51.760 --> 00:11:57.080 Loveth, he chasteneth, and scourges every son whom he receiveth. 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:01.820 You know, I want you to see here, the driving factor is love. 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:06.200 You know, today I want you to understand, if a parent doesn't correct their children, it's not loving. 00:12:10.420 --> 00:12:11.780 We have a misconception. 00:12:11.779 --> 00:12:13.759 Well, we need to let them develop themselves. 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:19.500 I want you to understand, a child will never develop into a mature adult unless somebody guides them, 00:12:19.899 --> 00:12:25.279 constrains them, puts them in the right direction, sets them back on the right course. 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.240 Because we have a misconception that says, follow your heart. 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:35.560 That's the most dangerous statement anybody ever said. 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:38.159 The Bible tells us what? 00:12:38.220 --> 00:12:40.639 The heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? 00:12:41.860 --> 00:12:44.500 You know, your heart will take you places you ought not to be. 00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:46.980 Because your heart will lie to you. 00:12:47.060 --> 00:12:49.440 Your emotions can lie to you. 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.220 That's the reason we need discipline. 00:12:52.820 --> 00:12:53.900 And how do you get disciplined? 00:12:54.040 --> 00:12:55.220 By being disciplined. 00:12:56.280 --> 00:12:57.540 By correction. 00:12:57.780 --> 00:13:00.480 Learning how to control those things. 00:13:00.540 --> 00:13:05.100 To put them under subjection to the things of God. 00:13:05.100 --> 00:13:14.500 That child does not come to understand their discipline because they are loved and need to mature in their life. 00:13:14.820 --> 00:13:19.659 We see here the important reality is that we discipline because we want maturity. 00:13:19.779 --> 00:13:21.379 You know why God disciplines his children? 00:13:21.500 --> 00:13:22.639 He wants us to grow up. 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.100 God corrects us. 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:37.080 God allows and puts things and even dramatically emphasizes some things in our life to get our attention that we might produce the right fruit. 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:38.779 To produce the right thing. 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:44.039 To understand this important foundation of love is there though. 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:48.039 I want you to see here that discipline today has been brought that it's just punishment. 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:51.600 You know, we're going to inflict pain to get attention. 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:57.420 I want you to understand discipline sometimes inflicts discomfort and pain in your life. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:59.180 But you know what? 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.820 As people we respond when discomfort comes. 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.620 The reality is we mostly respond when things get uncomfortable. 00:14:07.259 --> 00:14:10.180 When things are comfortable we don't move much. 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:13.899 We like to stay in the comfort zone. 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:15.279 It doesn't challenge. 00:14:15.420 --> 00:14:16.720 It doesn't ruffle any feathers. 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:18.399 We just kind of can coast along. 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.840 But I want you to understand that God says that's not the right way. 00:14:21.939 --> 00:14:24.840 God gives us an example of correction. 00:14:25.980 --> 00:14:37.439 You know, the problem is we often view discipline through the lens of punishment instead of a tool to guide and prepare a child towards God's best for their life. 00:14:38.459 --> 00:14:41.039 You know, think about what Proverbs 13 24 says. 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:48.059 It says this, he that spareth his rod hateth his son, and he that loveth him chasteth him be times. 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:53.299 I want you to understand, oftentimes this is another misquoted verse. 00:14:53.599 --> 00:14:55.000 It's not about the rod. 00:14:55.299 --> 00:14:59.099 It's about the tool that's used to correct and the purpose behind it. 00:14:59.100 --> 00:15:08.980 I want you to understand it's not about just inciting pain, but it's the direction and the desired outcome. 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:14.240 Because, you know, correction involves discomfort. 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:19.720 If we're not involved, if there's a little discomfort, we'll never change. 00:15:19.940 --> 00:15:21.340 Let me give you a biblical example. 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:23.580 Look over to Jonah chapter 2 for a moment. 00:15:23.580 --> 00:15:28.660 You know, most of us know, I think, this morning the story of Jonah. 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:37.800 Jonah was told by God, he was a prophet of God, to go to the city of Nineveh and tell Nineveh that God was going to judge them if they didn't repent. 00:15:38.860 --> 00:15:40.740 If you remember, what did Jonah do? 00:15:42.680 --> 00:15:46.360 Jonah said, sure, God, I'm going this way. 00:15:47.379 --> 00:15:50.220 If Nineveh's that way, I'm going to go this way. 00:15:50.220 --> 00:15:54.440 Now, Jonah, we're going to find, was disciplined. 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:55.700 He gets on the ship. 00:15:55.800 --> 00:15:56.720 He gets out in the ocean. 00:15:57.040 --> 00:16:03.019 And remember that the storm comes and the sailors cast him over the side. 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:07.259 And the Bible tells us the big fish came and took Jonah. 00:16:08.500 --> 00:16:10.779 I imagine it was pretty discomforting in there. 00:16:11.060 --> 00:16:15.040 Dark and wet and all sorts of vile stuff. 00:16:15.139 --> 00:16:16.860 You know, you think about being in there. 00:16:16.920 --> 00:16:18.379 But look here in Jonah chapter 2. 00:16:18.420 --> 00:16:19.220 Look at verse 7. 00:16:19.220 --> 00:16:22.460 This is Jonah in the belly of the fish. 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:24.940 He says this, 00:16:25.040 --> 00:16:28.240 And when my soul fainteth within me, I remembered the Lord. 00:16:29.660 --> 00:16:31.040 You know, think about that. 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.399 It wasn't in comfort that he remembered the Lord. 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:39.300 It was in discomfort that he remembered whom he was to serve. 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.060 It was in that moment of correction. 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:43.860 Notice here. 00:16:43.860 --> 00:16:47.800 And my prayer came in unto thine holy temple. 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.639 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.259 You know, that's a loaded statement right there. 00:16:55.659 --> 00:16:56.399 You can process. 00:16:57.220 --> 00:17:00.759 When you ignore God's correction, you also ignore God's mercy. 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:03.440 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 00:17:03.539 --> 00:17:06.500 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. 00:17:06.500 --> 00:17:11.259 I will pay that I have vowed salvation is of the Lord. 00:17:12.259 --> 00:17:12.680 You know what? 00:17:13.059 --> 00:17:14.019 I want you to see here. 00:17:14.099 --> 00:17:17.759 It was in discomfort that Jonah was reminded he needed to be obedient. 00:17:18.180 --> 00:17:19.700 We don't like the discomfort. 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.579 But God allows and puts discomfort into our life. 00:17:24.259 --> 00:17:25.460 God is even intentionally. 00:17:25.460 --> 00:17:26.360 You think about that. 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:28.000 Jonah should have been dead. 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:31.259 He was thrown out in the sea in the midst of a storm. 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.240 God's mercy shows up and he ends up back on shore. 00:17:36.600 --> 00:17:40.660 But in the midst of realizing God's mercy, there was a lot of discomfort. 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:41.420 Why? 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:42.319 Because he forgot. 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:45.039 Discipline is to help us remember. 00:17:47.019 --> 00:17:49.319 To understand the things that we ought. 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:51.920 It was God's correction that led him to obedience. 00:17:52.860 --> 00:17:54.380 You know, I want you to understand today. 00:17:54.380 --> 00:17:57.480 It's the responsibility of a parent to correct their children. 00:17:58.060 --> 00:18:01.680 And that correction needs to be with God as a guide. 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:06.180 Just as our Father in heaven corrects his children, 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:10.760 we need to correct the children of this generation as parents. 00:18:11.760 --> 00:18:13.840 We need to understand as a father, 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:21.900 you're directly responsible for your children and their response towards God. 00:18:21.900 --> 00:18:27.340 Look down in verse 9 back at our text here in Hebrews chapter 12 for a moment. 00:18:27.580 --> 00:18:27.980 It says, 00:18:27.980 --> 00:18:57.960 It says, 00:18:57.980 --> 00:18:59.980 You know, 00:18:59.980 --> 00:19:00.240 You know, 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:00.480 Today, 00:19:00.660 --> 00:19:01.000 You know, 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:01.740 As you consider, 00:19:01.860 --> 00:19:02.960 As we look here at the beginning, 00:19:03.059 --> 00:19:04.220 This idea of love, 00:19:04.660 --> 00:19:09.559 Have you stopped to remember that God disciplines and allows discipline in your life? 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:11.960 He corrects you. 00:19:12.059 --> 00:19:13.339 He trains you. 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:15.900 Not because he doesn't love you, 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:17.160 But because he does. 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:20.640 It's out of love that God corrects. 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:24.480 It's out of love that a parent guides and directs their children. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.380 Now, 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.339 That's important as we're going to continue looking here, 00:19:29.420 --> 00:19:30.839 Because discipline, 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:32.000 We're going to see here, 00:19:32.099 --> 00:19:36.160 Shapes character and produces righteousness in our life. 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:36.960 That's the goal. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:43.299 God corrects us in the concept and the parameters of loving us, 00:19:43.299 --> 00:19:45.339 But he does it for a reason. 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.599 Just as when we are correcting our children, 00:19:48.740 --> 00:19:51.579 We should not do it out of frustration or anger. 00:19:52.099 --> 00:19:52.200 You know, 00:19:52.220 --> 00:19:53.240 That's part of the problem is, 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:54.700 As human beings, 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:55.159 Oftentimes, 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:59.579 Our own frustration and anger supersede what we ought to do. 00:19:59.819 --> 00:20:03.799 We might be doing the right thing in correcting your children if they're wrong, 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:05.940 If they need correction, 00:20:05.940 --> 00:20:09.720 But I want you to understand it needs to be done in the context like God does, 00:20:09.820 --> 00:20:10.840 Out of love. 00:20:10.900 --> 00:20:11.360 In other words, 00:20:11.460 --> 00:20:13.779 The objective is what is in view, 00:20:14.120 --> 00:20:16.000 Not the frustration of the moment. 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:17.720 Because you know what happens as individuals? 00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:20.360 Sometimes we get caught up in the frustration of the moment 00:20:20.360 --> 00:20:23.500 Instead of understanding why are we doing this. 00:20:25.320 --> 00:20:26.279 What's the goal? 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:27.279 What's the objective? 00:20:27.420 --> 00:20:30.120 What's God's goal when he corrects us? 00:20:31.660 --> 00:20:31.900 You know, 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:32.120 Today, 00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:32.900 Many people think, 00:20:32.900 --> 00:20:35.580 When God corrects or God sends things, 00:20:35.800 --> 00:20:37.340 It's because he doesn't love us. 00:20:37.460 --> 00:20:40.160 Because God just wants to inflict pain upon us. 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:40.759 You know what? 00:20:40.820 --> 00:20:41.300 God says, 00:20:41.660 --> 00:20:44.400 I chastise you because I want to train you. 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.019 I want to direct you for a purpose. 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:49.920 Look at verse 11 here in our text. 00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:52.259 We'll go back to verse 10 here in a minute, 00:20:52.360 --> 00:20:53.840 But let's look at verse 11 for a moment. 00:20:55.620 --> 00:20:56.660 Notice what it says, 00:20:56.660 --> 00:20:59.740 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be what? 00:21:01.180 --> 00:21:01.660 Joyous, 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:02.140 But what? 00:21:02.900 --> 00:21:03.380 Grievous. 00:21:04.380 --> 00:21:04.780 You know, 00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:06.880 I think we can all say a big amen on that, right? 00:21:07.620 --> 00:21:08.960 I don't know of anybody who says, 00:21:09.320 --> 00:21:10.480 I want to be disciplined. 00:21:10.860 --> 00:21:11.080 You know? 00:21:12.080 --> 00:21:13.019 When you were a kid, 00:21:13.100 --> 00:21:14.640 I guarantee you nobody lined up and said, 00:21:14.840 --> 00:21:15.540 When dad gets home, 00:21:15.580 --> 00:21:16.180 I get a spanking. 00:21:16.500 --> 00:21:16.680 You know, 00:21:16.700 --> 00:21:17.900 That's not something that's natural. 00:21:18.420 --> 00:21:18.620 You know, 00:21:18.620 --> 00:21:18.940 You think, 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:19.860 What's wrong with this kid? 00:21:21.860 --> 00:21:22.220 Why? 00:21:22.320 --> 00:21:23.540 Because it's not joyful. 00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:26.100 It's a grievous thing. 00:21:26.100 --> 00:21:29.880 It inflicts discomfort and sometimes pain in the moment. 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:33.360 But it's not about the discomfort and the pain. 00:21:33.560 --> 00:21:35.420 It's about what are you trying to direct? 00:21:36.560 --> 00:21:37.720 What's the objective? 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:41.080 What are you trying to accomplish? 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:45.240 That's important in discipline is to understand, 00:21:45.460 --> 00:21:52.419 How am I disciplining to get the objective that we're looking for? 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:52.759 You know what? 00:21:52.819 --> 00:21:56.240 God disciplines us always with the objective in mind. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:58.940 He corrects us for a reason. 00:21:59.099 --> 00:22:00.420 And look what it tells us here. 00:22:00.900 --> 00:22:01.480 He tells us, 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:03.420 It's not but grievous. 00:22:03.660 --> 00:22:03.940 Nevertheless, 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:05.720 Afterward, 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:11.720 It yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them that are exercised thereby. 00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:13.759 I want you to understand, 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:19.180 Discipline is there to produce the right fruit in your life. 00:22:19.180 --> 00:22:24.420 For God to correct and to remind and to guide you to say, 00:22:24.539 --> 00:22:28.299 No, this is what godliness looks like. 00:22:28.360 --> 00:22:28.480 You know, 00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:32.000 The Bible makes it clear that we have to be holy because He is holy. 00:22:33.580 --> 00:22:38.500 Well, how are we transformed in our life if we're not set back on course? 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:43.259 Correction is about being set on course. 00:22:43.740 --> 00:22:47.940 The Lord trains us to produce the right fruit in our life. 00:22:47.940 --> 00:22:49.299 When the Lord chastens us, 00:22:49.340 --> 00:22:53.279 It's to produce the correct fruit and not the unrighteous fruit, 00:22:53.460 --> 00:22:54.620 but the righteousness. 00:22:55.340 --> 00:22:58.980 The fruit of righteousness is the goal of discipline. 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:04.420 It's not going to be easy or enjoyable when it's happening, when it's active, 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:08.140 yet it is needed to instill the values, 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:13.700 self-control, and accountability needed to live godly lives. 00:23:13.700 --> 00:23:16.000 I want you to understand, 00:23:16.140 --> 00:23:18.759 A godly life doesn't happen by accident. 00:23:21.819 --> 00:23:25.080 A godly life is contrary to our nature. 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:27.779 But God says that if you're His child, 00:23:29.059 --> 00:23:32.980 the goal is to become more Christ-like. 00:23:34.100 --> 00:23:36.400 If you're going to become more Christ-like, 00:23:36.580 --> 00:23:37.460 what do you have to do? 00:23:37.460 --> 00:23:41.920 You have to become more righteous in your living. 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:46.259 You need to become more holy in your life. 00:23:46.840 --> 00:23:53.000 You know, God's correction always wants that dynamic of bringing us to Him 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:55.400 to shape character in our life. 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.559 You know, remember it was Nathan's correction of David 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:02.900 that led to David's repentance and restoration with God. 00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:07.460 Remember, David had committed adultery. 00:24:07.580 --> 00:24:08.600 He had committed murder. 00:24:09.040 --> 00:24:11.680 God sends Nathan and points the finger at David. 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:13.000 He says, thou art the man. 00:24:13.320 --> 00:24:14.620 David had a choice right there 00:24:14.620 --> 00:24:16.759 because Nathan came and revealed sin. 00:24:17.019 --> 00:24:19.420 He revealed something so atrocious that you say, 00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:21.259 well, how could a godly person do it? 00:24:21.300 --> 00:24:22.680 You know, I want you to understand, 00:24:22.780 --> 00:24:24.519 when we let our hearts guide us, 00:24:24.820 --> 00:24:27.680 you'll do things that you never even imagined you could do. 00:24:27.940 --> 00:24:29.620 People commit horrendous things 00:24:29.619 --> 00:24:32.299 because they get caught up in their heart's desire 00:24:32.299 --> 00:24:33.719 instead of God's desire. 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:36.599 But we find here, Nathan the prophet comes. 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:38.899 And I want you to understand, 00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:41.819 oftentimes we think God's correction and chastisement 00:24:41.819 --> 00:24:44.079 began and ended with Nathan. 00:24:44.139 --> 00:24:45.959 I want you to understand, Nathan just comes and says, 00:24:46.159 --> 00:24:49.159 David, you're going to face a lot of struggles coming up 00:24:49.159 --> 00:24:50.199 because of your choice. 00:24:50.419 --> 00:24:51.259 Because I want you to understand, 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:53.299 sometimes discipline takes a long time. 00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:57.819 Sometimes the consequences that we face, 00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:00.960 how God corrects us is there. 00:25:01.159 --> 00:25:04.680 You know, you think about that dynamic of even Paul 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:06.859 talks about that thorn in the flesh, 00:25:06.919 --> 00:25:09.319 but that thorn in the flesh kept his mind focused 00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:10.399 on the right things. 00:25:11.539 --> 00:25:14.039 You know, sometimes God allows things in our life 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:15.919 to keep us focused on the right things 00:25:15.919 --> 00:25:17.139 so we don't get distracted. 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.299 David would face a continuation of many things 00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:22.879 in his life. 00:25:23.220 --> 00:25:26.819 You know, 2 Samuel chapter 12 and verse 13 says this, 00:25:26.899 --> 00:25:28.240 and David said unto Nathan, 00:25:28.379 --> 00:25:30.079 I have sinned against the Lord. 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:32.059 And Nathan said unto David, 00:25:32.180 --> 00:25:34.259 the Lord also hath put away thy sin. 00:25:34.659 --> 00:25:36.139 Thou shall not die. 00:25:36.379 --> 00:25:38.460 If you take time to read the rest of that passage, 00:25:38.579 --> 00:25:41.139 he says, no, God's not going to hold you accountable 00:25:41.139 --> 00:25:42.159 for what you ought. 00:25:42.259 --> 00:25:43.059 That's the death penalty. 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:44.220 He murdered somebody. 00:25:46.059 --> 00:25:47.559 But he said, you're still going to face 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:48.339 a lot of correction. 00:25:48.339 --> 00:25:52.399 There's going to be some devastating results 00:25:52.399 --> 00:25:54.980 because of your choice. 00:25:55.299 --> 00:25:56.679 Have you ever wondered why later 00:25:56.679 --> 00:25:58.679 when David's son rose up against him, 00:25:58.779 --> 00:26:00.319 David responded the way he did? 00:26:01.699 --> 00:26:04.000 His son tried to usurp his kingdom. 00:26:05.339 --> 00:26:07.220 And David said, don't lay a hand on him. 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:07.659 You know why? 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:10.559 Because Nathan told him that God's going to allow 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:12.839 a usurper to come within his own family. 00:26:13.259 --> 00:26:16.079 David understood he was there because of his choices. 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:18.439 And he said, I'm going to respect and honor 00:26:18.439 --> 00:26:20.119 what the Lord would have. 00:26:20.179 --> 00:26:21.480 I want to do what God wants. 00:26:21.539 --> 00:26:22.939 I want to learn God's lesson. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.059 I need to trust the Lord no matter what happens. 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:29.139 The discipline that David faced 00:26:29.139 --> 00:26:30.799 would further develop his character 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:34.699 and accountability towards both the Lord and others. 00:26:35.939 --> 00:26:37.659 You know, think about in Psalm 51. 00:26:38.179 --> 00:26:39.859 Psalm 51 in verse 6, 00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:43.439 Psalm 51 talks about David's returning to the Lord. 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.340 David understood correction. 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:48.700 Notice what verse 6 says. 00:26:49.620 --> 00:26:50.840 David says this. 00:26:50.940 --> 00:26:51.279 He says, 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:53.160 Behold, thou desirest what? 00:26:53.299 --> 00:26:54.180 Truth in what? 00:26:55.180 --> 00:26:57.140 The inward parts. 00:26:59.299 --> 00:27:01.360 God's desire of discipline 00:27:01.360 --> 00:27:04.840 is to get truth within us. 00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:08.000 And in the hidden parts, 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:11.099 thou shalt make me to know thy wisdom. 00:27:12.159 --> 00:27:14.059 In other words, David understood. 00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:16.220 He said, Lord, I need to trust you 00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:19.619 and your correction because it's what I need 00:27:19.619 --> 00:27:20.759 because you love me. 00:27:21.619 --> 00:27:23.599 To get me to the direction 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:25.459 and point the direction that I need. 00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:28.159 He understood that the Lord disciplined 00:27:28.159 --> 00:27:30.379 not out of anger or revenge, 00:27:31.379 --> 00:27:33.119 but out of love. 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:34.379 You know, it makes a difference 00:27:34.379 --> 00:27:36.219 when we understand that it's out of love. 00:27:36.739 --> 00:27:39.039 Ephesians 6 tells fathers 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:40.979 not to provoke their children under wrath. 00:27:42.819 --> 00:27:44.819 You know what provokes a child to wrath 00:27:44.819 --> 00:27:46.119 from the correction of their fathers 00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:47.579 when it's not done out of love? 00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:49.159 Not looking at the objective. 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:50.679 Not looking at what ought to be. 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.119 Instead of being caught up 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:55.459 in our emotion of the moment, 00:27:56.239 --> 00:27:58.179 a love that ought to desire 00:27:58.179 --> 00:28:00.319 for them to live and to grow 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:02.399 and to be godly in their life. 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.820 As a mom or dad, you know, this morning, 00:28:05.300 --> 00:28:06.740 you know, think about chastising 00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:08.040 as God chastises you. 00:28:08.120 --> 00:28:09.940 If you're his child, God will correct you. 00:28:10.220 --> 00:28:11.100 Now, I want you to understand, 00:28:11.259 --> 00:28:12.720 if God never corrects you, 00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:14.920 you need to have a serious moment with God 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:16.320 because he makes it very clear 00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:17.640 if God doesn't correct you, 00:28:17.700 --> 00:28:18.800 means that you're not his. 00:28:18.980 --> 00:28:20.600 That's a very serious dynamic. 00:28:22.600 --> 00:28:24.660 To understand that you're a lost sinner 00:28:24.660 --> 00:28:26.880 who has rebelled and rejected the Lord. 00:28:27.180 --> 00:28:28.180 But if you're his child, 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:29.920 if you've called upon him as savior, 00:28:30.100 --> 00:28:32.000 God says, I love you enough to correct you. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.039 When God corrects us, 00:28:34.779 --> 00:28:36.539 it's because he loves us 00:28:36.539 --> 00:28:39.140 and because you belong to him. 00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:41.019 It's part of a reality, you know, 00:28:41.099 --> 00:28:44.079 because just as your earthly father corrects you, 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:45.700 and we ought to do the same 00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:48.380 in the lives of our children and our families, 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:50.980 that our discipline ought to be 00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:52.839 that our children might grow up 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.279 mature into godly adults. 00:28:56.500 --> 00:28:57.599 That ought to be the objective. 00:28:57.980 --> 00:28:59.039 You know, another one of those phrases 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:00.579 I don't like and I want, 00:29:00.659 --> 00:29:01.579 I'm going to raise children. 00:29:01.659 --> 00:29:02.779 No, you want to raise adults. 00:29:02.779 --> 00:29:05.180 You know, we have enough children running around. 00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:07.039 You know, we have 30 and 40 year old children 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:09.559 living in basements that don't want to get a job 00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:11.000 and want everything handed to them. 00:29:11.019 --> 00:29:11.879 You know what the problem is? 00:29:12.139 --> 00:29:13.700 You had parents who raised children 00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:15.220 instead of parents who raised adults 00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:16.180 because they want to be, 00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:18.519 have an objective of responsibility. 00:29:20.420 --> 00:29:22.839 You know, we need to correct for the same purpose 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:24.839 that God disciplines his children, 00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:27.899 that they might mature under righteousness. 00:29:28.059 --> 00:29:29.919 You'll look over to Psalm 19 for a moment. 00:29:30.500 --> 00:29:32.500 Psalm 19, look down here at verse seven. 00:29:33.859 --> 00:29:36.319 It tells us here, the psalmist says this, 00:29:36.379 --> 00:29:36.599 it says, 00:29:36.659 --> 00:29:38.379 the law of the Lord is perfect, 00:29:38.899 --> 00:29:40.000 converting the soul, 00:29:40.099 --> 00:29:41.579 the testimony of the Lord is sure, 00:29:41.659 --> 00:29:43.159 making wise the simple. 00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:45.419 The statutes of the Lord are right, 00:29:45.539 --> 00:29:46.539 rejoicing the heart. 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:49.139 The commandment of the Lord is pure, 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:50.759 enlightening the eyes. 00:29:50.899 --> 00:29:52.859 The fear of the Lord is clean, 00:29:53.019 --> 00:29:53.819 enduring forever. 00:29:53.819 --> 00:29:55.819 For the judgments of the Lord are true 00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:58.319 and righteous altogether. 00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:01.039 You know, I want you to understand 00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:04.099 the purpose of correction 00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:08.659 is that truth and righteousness might prevail, 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.480 might be the prominent dynamic. 00:30:11.659 --> 00:30:13.980 The focus of correction is not punishment, 00:30:14.439 --> 00:30:16.519 but to produce righteous fruit 00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:18.059 that endures in our life. 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:21.359 But to understand chastisement, 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:22.700 training, discipline, 00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:25.460 whatever term you want to attach to it 00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:27.700 often involves being uncomfortable 00:30:27.700 --> 00:30:31.920 or having things that you don't like happen 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.860 in your life to get you where God wants you to be. 00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:38.220 God brings us and allows things to happen for a reason. 00:30:38.620 --> 00:30:42.420 You know, God has a reason for what he does. 00:30:42.420 --> 00:30:47.380 The first reason God has is to bring people to repentance 00:30:47.380 --> 00:30:48.500 to call upon him. 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:51.620 God is not willing that any should perish, 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.320 but that all should come to repentance. 00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:57.180 I want you to understand God's first objective 00:30:57.180 --> 00:30:59.740 is everybody to have an opportunity to become his child. 00:31:00.100 --> 00:31:01.100 Once you're his child, 00:31:01.220 --> 00:31:03.420 the objective becomes conforming you 00:31:03.420 --> 00:31:06.240 into his image. 00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:08.960 Disciplining you, 00:31:09.420 --> 00:31:13.500 bringing you into the fullness of the image of Christ. 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.460 Understand he wants to transform us 00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:18.180 from the inside out. 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:20.620 But I want you to see something important here 00:31:20.620 --> 00:31:22.000 when it comes to discipline. 00:31:22.580 --> 00:31:23.860 There's an important element. 00:31:23.980 --> 00:31:26.980 Look back at verse 10 here this morning in our text. 00:31:27.100 --> 00:31:28.080 Notice what it says. 00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:51.099 Now verse 10 here brings a contrast. 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:52.359 As an earthly father, 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:54.079 you can't make your children righteous. 00:31:54.460 --> 00:31:56.159 You can direct them to the Lord. 00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:58.960 You can teach them right and wrong. 00:31:59.080 --> 00:32:02.240 You can build quality character within them. 00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:03.600 But I want you to understand, 00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:05.080 it's an individual's choice 00:32:05.080 --> 00:32:06.740 of what they're going to do with the Savior. 00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:10.259 You ought to be pointing them toward, 00:32:10.320 --> 00:32:12.160 you cannot make your children righteous. 00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:14.740 You only can be righteous 00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:16.180 when you put on the righteousness 00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:17.620 of the Lord Jesus Christ 00:32:17.620 --> 00:32:18.820 at the moment of salvation. 00:32:19.300 --> 00:32:20.600 But as an earthly parent, 00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:22.000 our goal ought to be 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.060 to point them that direction. 00:32:24.059 --> 00:32:26.779 To help them to understand 00:32:26.779 --> 00:32:27.759 who God is, 00:32:28.159 --> 00:32:28.679 what that is. 00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:29.399 Notice here, 00:32:29.460 --> 00:32:31.000 it tells us in the text, 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:32.259 it talks about the fathers 00:32:32.259 --> 00:32:33.879 according to their own pleasure. 00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:35.599 Now that word there 00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:38.220 is an older word 00:32:38.220 --> 00:32:39.599 that simply means this. 00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:42.000 It means for temporal improvement. 00:32:42.579 --> 00:32:43.159 In other words, 00:32:43.220 --> 00:32:44.480 for the present improvement 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.259 of the person. 00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:47.279 You know? 00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:49.619 You're in the store 00:32:49.619 --> 00:32:50.440 and your young kid 00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:51.899 walks over to the candy thing 00:32:51.900 --> 00:32:52.860 and takes a piece of candy 00:32:52.860 --> 00:32:53.759 and puts it in their pocket. 00:32:55.280 --> 00:32:56.000 As a parent, 00:32:56.080 --> 00:32:57.280 you have a choice to make right there. 00:32:58.700 --> 00:32:59.440 What are you going to do? 00:32:59.620 --> 00:33:00.860 A good parent's going to do what? 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:01.700 They're going to correct them. 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:02.800 They're going to teach them 00:33:02.800 --> 00:33:04.680 that taking what does not belong to you 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:05.180 is wrong. 00:33:05.300 --> 00:33:06.280 God calls it stealing. 00:33:06.800 --> 00:33:07.800 They need to understand 00:33:07.800 --> 00:33:08.960 that there's right and wrong. 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:11.320 Temporal improvement. 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:12.660 You know? 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:14.000 The things of this life 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:14.660 to improve, 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:15.440 to understand 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:16.820 that there's right and wrong. 00:33:16.940 --> 00:33:18.340 You're submitting to instill 00:33:18.339 --> 00:33:19.759 those things 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:21.379 that you need to instill. 00:33:21.779 --> 00:33:22.500 Because I want you 00:33:22.500 --> 00:33:23.240 to understand here, 00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:24.799 but notice what it says here. 00:33:25.099 --> 00:33:26.379 He says in verse 10, 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:28.459 but he for our prophet, 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:29.899 that's God for our prophet, 00:33:29.959 --> 00:33:31.079 that we might be partakers 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:32.699 of his holiness. 00:33:33.419 --> 00:33:34.519 Now I want you to see here, 00:33:34.679 --> 00:33:37.199 discipline requires consistency 00:33:37.199 --> 00:33:38.679 and grace. 00:33:38.939 --> 00:33:40.240 Because God doesn't just 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:41.740 one and done correct us. 00:33:41.980 --> 00:33:43.279 Let me ask you a question 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.179 and you think back in your life, 00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:46.759 how many times 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:47.720 does it take sometimes 00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:48.600 for you to be corrected 00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:49.720 before you learn the lesson? 00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:50.620 You know, 00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:51.440 I don't think there's anybody 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:52.160 in here today 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:53.080 that could raise their hand 00:33:53.080 --> 00:33:53.340 and say, 00:33:53.460 --> 00:33:54.279 I learned the lesson 00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:55.100 the first time 00:33:55.100 --> 00:33:56.220 perfectly every time. 00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:57.220 It'd be nice. 00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:58.440 But you know what the problem is? 00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:59.460 It talks about a little earlier, 00:33:59.539 --> 00:34:00.019 we forget. 00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:01.080 I want you to understand 00:34:01.080 --> 00:34:01.660 when you forget 00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:02.680 doesn't mean that you didn't 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:04.000 learn a lesson at the moment, 00:34:04.060 --> 00:34:05.220 you just forgot the lesson 00:34:05.220 --> 00:34:06.820 and the cycle begins again. 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:08.300 That's called consistency. 00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:10.940 Discipline is not one and done. 00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:12.760 It involves not only a purpose, 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:14.019 but a consistency. 00:34:14.019 --> 00:34:15.920 And when we train 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.059 for something important, 00:34:17.139 --> 00:34:17.860 we don't just spend 00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:18.480 a few minutes 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:19.820 to accomplish the task. 00:34:21.179 --> 00:34:21.420 You know, 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:22.280 anything you do, 00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:23.159 it's kind of like 00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:25.659 anything you want 00:34:25.659 --> 00:34:26.920 to accomplish in life, 00:34:26.940 --> 00:34:27.639 you don't do it 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:29.019 by just one time 00:34:29.019 --> 00:34:30.659 and now I'm an expert. 00:34:32.340 --> 00:34:33.179 Now, I don't know, 00:34:33.259 --> 00:34:34.199 maybe we have people today 00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:34.800 who think, you know, 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:35.440 I can read something 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:35.880 on Google 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:36.719 and become an expert. 00:34:37.579 --> 00:34:37.860 You know, 00:34:38.179 --> 00:34:39.739 I can watch a YouTube video 00:34:39.739 --> 00:34:40.400 and we're good. 00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:41.579 But we soon learn 00:34:41.579 --> 00:34:43.799 you might have received 00:34:43.799 --> 00:34:44.559 even if it was 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:45.460 good instruction 00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.699 doesn't mean we're going 00:34:46.699 --> 00:34:47.279 to learn all 00:34:47.279 --> 00:34:48.139 that we need to learn. 00:34:48.739 --> 00:34:49.719 It doesn't make us 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:50.299 an expert. 00:34:52.019 --> 00:34:53.420 There has to be consistency, 00:34:55.259 --> 00:34:56.000 a continuation, 00:34:57.179 --> 00:34:58.739 that expectation 00:34:58.739 --> 00:35:01.400 of a continual training 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.360 and to improve that. 00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:03.599 You know, 00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:04.259 it's like if you're going 00:35:04.259 --> 00:35:06.079 to go run a marathon, 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.219 you don't go run 00:35:07.219 --> 00:35:07.840 for one day. 00:35:08.299 --> 00:35:08.699 You know what? 00:35:08.699 --> 00:35:09.960 If you just run for one day 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:10.519 trying to prepare 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:11.139 for a marathon, 00:35:11.359 --> 00:35:11.679 guess what? 00:35:11.699 --> 00:35:12.559 You're not going to make it. 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:15.919 What's it take? 00:35:15.980 --> 00:35:17.419 It takes consistency, 00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:18.879 discomfort. 00:35:21.099 --> 00:35:22.399 It takes training 00:35:22.399 --> 00:35:23.819 your body physically 00:35:23.819 --> 00:35:25.119 to accomplish it. 00:35:25.819 --> 00:35:26.219 Spiritually, 00:35:26.279 --> 00:35:26.939 if we're going to become 00:35:26.939 --> 00:35:27.679 Christ-like, 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.480 it takes a day-by-day 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:32.679 constant direction 00:35:33.339 --> 00:35:34.719 and discipline 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:35.939 to get where God 00:35:35.939 --> 00:35:36.839 wants for you to be. 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:38.980 If you want your children 00:35:38.980 --> 00:35:39.880 to grow up 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:41.180 to honor the Lord 00:35:41.180 --> 00:35:42.160 and to understand 00:35:42.160 --> 00:35:43.440 what God says, 00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:44.900 it takes a consistency 00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:46.820 in your life. 00:35:47.180 --> 00:35:48.680 It requires consistency 00:35:48.680 --> 00:35:51.300 in not only expectation 00:35:51.300 --> 00:35:52.760 but application. 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:54.840 God is the perfect one 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:56.460 for correction. 00:35:56.640 --> 00:35:57.720 God understands things 00:35:57.720 --> 00:35:58.720 we don't as parents. 00:35:59.000 --> 00:35:59.700 I want you to understand 00:35:59.700 --> 00:36:00.160 as a parent, 00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:01.019 you're never going to 00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:01.960 perfectly correct 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:02.500 your children. 00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:05.139 But our goal 00:36:05.139 --> 00:36:05.920 ought to be 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:06.599 to put that 00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:07.460 in the context 00:36:07.460 --> 00:36:08.679 as God does us. 00:36:08.780 --> 00:36:09.980 To do it out of love 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:11.719 with the right context 00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:13.400 and the right application. 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:16.679 To have the right consistency. 00:36:17.380 --> 00:36:17.500 You know, 00:36:17.539 --> 00:36:17.940 oftentimes, 00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:19.039 lack of consistency 00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:19.980 is the problem. 00:36:20.340 --> 00:36:22.019 But God is perfectly consistent. 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:23.659 He's always there 00:36:23.659 --> 00:36:24.780 with the right purpose 00:36:24.780 --> 00:36:25.880 because it takes 00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:27.579 long-term involvement 00:36:27.579 --> 00:36:28.920 to produce 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:30.059 that which is profitable. 00:36:30.539 --> 00:36:31.579 To train children 00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:32.639 and equip them 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:33.719 takes a lot of time. 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:35.119 You know, 00:36:35.139 --> 00:36:36.019 think how many years 00:36:36.019 --> 00:36:36.719 we invest 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:37.739 in the life of the children 00:36:37.739 --> 00:36:39.059 to get them grown up. 00:36:39.179 --> 00:36:39.259 You know, 00:36:39.380 --> 00:36:40.759 you bring them home 00:36:40.759 --> 00:36:41.799 and everything's fun 00:36:41.799 --> 00:36:43.320 and then you realize 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:44.139 you don't get any sleep. 00:36:45.980 --> 00:36:46.539 And you say, 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:47.380 we just get through this 00:36:47.380 --> 00:36:48.299 and we'll get some sleep. 00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:49.579 And then they grow up 00:36:49.579 --> 00:36:50.360 and they leave the house 00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:50.779 and sometimes 00:36:50.779 --> 00:36:51.840 you still don't get any sleep. 00:36:52.099 --> 00:36:53.320 But I want you to know 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:56.179 that it involves 00:36:56.179 --> 00:36:57.099 a consistency. 00:36:57.440 --> 00:36:58.659 It didn't happen overnight. 00:37:00.059 --> 00:37:01.739 It took a day 00:37:01.739 --> 00:37:02.639 after day 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:03.259 after day. 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:04.059 You know what God does 00:37:04.059 --> 00:37:04.619 in our life? 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:05.960 He corrects us 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:06.860 and trains us 00:37:06.860 --> 00:37:08.639 day by day 00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:09.639 by day. 00:37:09.820 --> 00:37:10.579 We need to understand 00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:11.400 the purpose 00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:13.539 that He has 00:37:13.539 --> 00:37:15.099 is a consistent purpose. 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:16.219 It's to bring about 00:37:16.219 --> 00:37:16.860 holiness 00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:18.079 in the lives 00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:20.579 of those that are His. 00:37:22.420 --> 00:37:23.940 Look back at verse 11. 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:24.340 It says, 00:37:24.500 --> 00:37:25.980 And yieldeth the peaceable fruit 00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:26.880 of righteousness 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:27.519 unto them 00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:29.099 that are exercised 00:37:29.099 --> 00:37:30.639 thereby. 00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:31.299 You know, 00:37:31.339 --> 00:37:32.059 God wants 00:37:32.059 --> 00:37:33.019 with His consistency 00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:33.739 and grace 00:37:33.739 --> 00:37:34.759 is to produce something 00:37:34.759 --> 00:37:35.400 in our life. 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:36.480 Look over to Ephesians 00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:37.239 chapter 5 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:37.819 for a moment. 00:37:38.819 --> 00:37:39.699 Ephesians 5 00:37:39.699 --> 00:37:40.699 verse 26 00:37:40.699 --> 00:37:42.199 tells us this. 00:37:42.319 --> 00:37:42.460 It says, 00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:43.779 That He might sanctify 00:37:43.779 --> 00:37:44.559 and cleanse it 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:45.239 with the washing 00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:45.739 of water 00:37:45.739 --> 00:37:46.460 by the word 00:37:46.460 --> 00:37:47.759 that He might present 00:37:47.759 --> 00:37:48.380 it to Himself 00:37:48.380 --> 00:37:49.360 a glorious church 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:50.480 not having spot 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:51.599 or wrinkle 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:52.880 or any such thing 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:54.039 but that it should be 00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:54.519 holy 00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:56.039 and without 00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:57.480 blemish. 00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.480 God's objective 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:01.619 when He 00:38:01.619 --> 00:38:02.699 corrects us 00:38:02.699 --> 00:38:04.880 is to make us 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:06.500 more like 00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:07.400 Him. 00:38:09.019 --> 00:38:09.900 More like 00:38:09.900 --> 00:38:11.460 His character. 00:38:12.219 --> 00:38:13.219 To be holy 00:38:13.219 --> 00:38:14.260 and without 00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:15.079 blemish. 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:16.420 You know, 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:17.000 how does God 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:17.880 accomplish this? 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:19.099 It's by a constant 00:38:19.099 --> 00:38:20.340 application 00:38:20.340 --> 00:38:21.380 to draw closer 00:38:21.380 --> 00:38:22.719 to His image. 00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:22.980 You know, 00:38:23.019 --> 00:38:23.800 Colossians 1 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:24.579 22 says, 00:38:24.579 --> 00:38:25.099 in the body 00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:25.619 of His flesh 00:38:25.619 --> 00:38:26.099 through death 00:38:26.099 --> 00:38:27.239 to present you 00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:27.779 holy 00:38:27.779 --> 00:38:28.779 and unblameable 00:38:28.779 --> 00:38:30.279 and unreprovable 00:38:30.279 --> 00:38:31.400 in His sight. 00:38:33.420 --> 00:38:33.659 You know, 00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:34.400 in the Old Testament 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:35.179 you have a 00:38:35.179 --> 00:38:37.139 priest 00:38:37.139 --> 00:38:37.420 that 00:38:37.420 --> 00:38:39.159 messed up 00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:39.900 his family 00:38:39.900 --> 00:38:40.539 because of 00:38:40.539 --> 00:38:40.980 lack of 00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:41.960 consistency. 00:38:44.059 --> 00:38:44.639 You know, 00:38:44.699 --> 00:38:45.279 1 Samuel 00:38:45.279 --> 00:38:46.059 chapter 2 00:38:46.059 --> 00:38:46.400 and 3 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:47.219 tells of a man 00:38:47.219 --> 00:38:47.659 by the name 00:38:47.659 --> 00:38:48.079 of Eli 00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:49.639 and his sons 00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:50.579 rejected 00:38:50.579 --> 00:38:51.179 the things 00:38:51.179 --> 00:38:51.799 of God 00:38:51.799 --> 00:38:52.380 because he 00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:52.799 was not 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.600 consistent 00:38:53.600 --> 00:38:54.600 in correcting 00:38:54.600 --> 00:38:54.960 them. 00:38:56.300 --> 00:38:57.060 I want you 00:38:57.060 --> 00:38:57.460 to understand 00:38:57.460 --> 00:38:57.900 when you read 00:38:57.900 --> 00:38:58.120 that, 00:38:58.560 --> 00:38:59.320 it's not that 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:00.060 Eli didn't 00:39:00.060 --> 00:39:00.820 correct them, 00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:01.580 it's that 00:39:01.580 --> 00:39:02.280 Eli wasn't 00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:02.980 consistent 00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:03.580 in his 00:39:03.580 --> 00:39:04.100 correction 00:39:04.100 --> 00:39:06.320 because 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:07.120 consistent 00:39:07.120 --> 00:39:07.820 correction 00:39:07.820 --> 00:39:08.560 gets people 00:39:08.560 --> 00:39:09.019 on the right 00:39:09.019 --> 00:39:09.500 course. 00:39:11.120 --> 00:39:11.920 You don't 00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:12.519 stay on 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:12.940 course 00:39:12.940 --> 00:39:13.280 without 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:13.900 constant 00:39:13.900 --> 00:39:14.420 correction. 00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:16.840 You know 00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:16.980 what? 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:17.660 Life knocks 00:39:17.660 --> 00:39:17.980 you off 00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:18.280 course 00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:18.900 pretty quick. 00:39:19.180 --> 00:39:19.340 You have 00:39:19.340 --> 00:39:19.539 to be 00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:20.019 intentional 00:39:20.019 --> 00:39:20.440 to get 00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:21.019 back on. 00:39:21.019 --> 00:39:22.940 It takes 00:39:22.940 --> 00:39:23.420 intention. 00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:24.099 1 Samuel 00:39:24.099 --> 00:39:24.960 chapter 3 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:26.019 notice what 00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:26.659 it says 00:39:26.659 --> 00:39:27.460 in verse 00:39:27.460 --> 00:39:27.920 13 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:28.259 it says 00:39:28.259 --> 00:39:28.559 for I 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:29.059 have told 00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:29.360 him 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:29.960 that I 00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:30.139 will 00:39:30.139 --> 00:39:30.619 judge 00:39:30.619 --> 00:39:30.840 his 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:31.259 house 00:39:31.259 --> 00:39:32.119 forever 00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:32.579 for the 00:39:32.579 --> 00:39:33.280 iniquity 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:33.659 which 00:39:33.659 --> 00:39:33.960 he 00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:35.059 knoweth. 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:36.679 In other 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:36.840 words, 00:39:37.019 --> 00:39:37.719 Eli knew 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:38.059 what he 00:39:38.059 --> 00:39:38.360 should have 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:38.860 been doing 00:39:38.860 --> 00:39:39.199 and he 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:39.420 didn't 00:39:39.420 --> 00:39:39.880 do it. 00:39:41.179 --> 00:39:41.719 And notice 00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:42.019 what it 00:39:42.019 --> 00:39:42.179 says 00:39:42.179 --> 00:39:42.500 because 00:39:42.500 --> 00:39:42.880 his 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:43.280 sons 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:43.679 made 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:44.280 themselves 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:45.019 vile 00:39:45.019 --> 00:39:45.860 and he 00:39:45.860 --> 00:39:46.900 restrained 00:39:46.900 --> 00:39:47.659 them 00:39:47.659 --> 00:39:48.599 not. 00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:49.099 You know 00:39:49.099 --> 00:39:49.500 why God 00:39:49.500 --> 00:39:50.019 disciplines 00:39:50.019 --> 00:39:50.259 his 00:39:50.259 --> 00:39:50.619 children? 00:39:51.019 --> 00:39:52.000 Because 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:52.280 he's 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:52.840 consistent 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:53.199 and he 00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:53.440 loves 00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:53.679 you. 00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:54.179 Eli 00:39:54.179 --> 00:39:54.579 knew 00:39:54.579 --> 00:39:54.800 what 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:54.960 the 00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:55.280 problem 00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:55.619 was 00:39:55.619 --> 00:39:55.800 and 00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:56.139 chose 00:39:56.139 --> 00:39:56.440 not 00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:56.599 to 00:39:56.599 --> 00:39:56.780 deal 00:39:56.780 --> 00:39:56.960 with 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:57.159 it. 00:39:58.119 --> 00:39:58.300 It 00:39:58.300 --> 00:39:58.460 was 00:39:58.460 --> 00:39:59.079 Eli's 00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:00.000 inconsistency 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:00.699 and absence 00:40:00.699 --> 00:40:01.440 of discipline 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:02.079 towards his 00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:02.940 son that 00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:03.500 ultimately 00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:04.460 resulted in 00:40:04.460 --> 00:40:04.619 their 00:40:04.619 --> 00:40:05.340 destruction. 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:07.840 You know 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:08.259 really you 00:40:08.259 --> 00:40:08.619 could put it 00:40:08.619 --> 00:40:09.019 this way 00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:09.320 as a 00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:09.759 father he 00:40:09.759 --> 00:40:10.000 didn't 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:10.420 love him 00:40:10.420 --> 00:40:10.860 enough to 00:40:10.860 --> 00:40:11.139 do what 00:40:11.139 --> 00:40:11.480 needed to 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:11.880 be done. 00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:12.380 Because 00:40:12.380 --> 00:40:12.679 the other 00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:12.980 thing I 00:40:12.980 --> 00:40:13.219 want you 00:40:13.219 --> 00:40:13.679 to understand 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:13.940 if you 00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:14.179 love 00:40:14.179 --> 00:40:14.639 somebody 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:14.960 sometimes 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:15.519 it takes 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:16.000 intention 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:16.920 on your 00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:17.280 part. 00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:17.679 It takes 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:18.599 discomfort 00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:19.179 on your 00:40:19.179 --> 00:40:19.719 part going 00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:20.340 against what 00:40:21.019 --> 00:40:21.320 you do 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:21.960 and your 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:22.519 schedule to 00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:23.059 accomplish 00:40:23.059 --> 00:40:23.519 what needs 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:23.719 to be 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:24.159 accomplished. 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:24.759 You know 00:40:24.759 --> 00:40:24.980 we need 00:40:24.980 --> 00:40:25.239 to be 00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:25.920 consistent 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:26.679 like God 00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:27.000 is in 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:27.440 applying 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:28.000 discipline 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:28.940 with grace 00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:30.059 and love. 00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:30.699 It's essential 00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:31.119 that you 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.599 balance 00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:32.360 firmness 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:33.539 with kindness 00:40:33.539 --> 00:40:34.199 in correcting 00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:34.739 your children. 00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:35.000 You think 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:35.599 about David 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:36.440 when God 00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:37.179 corrected him 00:40:37.179 --> 00:40:37.579 it was a 00:40:37.579 --> 00:40:38.599 very difficult 00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:39.420 situation 00:40:39.420 --> 00:40:40.219 or with 00:40:40.219 --> 00:40:40.759 Jonah it 00:40:40.759 --> 00:40:40.980 was a 00:40:40.980 --> 00:40:41.639 very difficult 00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:42.440 situation 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:43.159 it was an 00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:43.539 uncomfortable 00:40:43.539 --> 00:40:44.179 situation 00:40:44.179 --> 00:40:44.480 but you 00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:44.820 know what 00:40:44.820 --> 00:40:45.619 even though 00:40:45.619 --> 00:40:46.079 God was 00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:46.539 correcting 00:40:46.539 --> 00:40:47.320 God's grace 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:47.900 and mercy 00:40:47.900 --> 00:40:48.639 were present. 00:40:48.639 --> 00:40:51.139 it was 00:40:51.139 --> 00:40:51.940 always there 00:40:51.940 --> 00:40:52.679 his forgiveness 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:55.279 the restoration 00:40:55.279 --> 00:40:56.359 though God 00:40:56.359 --> 00:40:57.299 always does 00:40:57.299 --> 00:40:58.119 it perfectly 00:40:58.119 --> 00:40:58.819 you and I 00:40:58.819 --> 00:40:59.539 need to rely 00:40:59.539 --> 00:41:00.099 upon the 00:41:00.099 --> 00:41:00.559 Lord 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:02.440 to accomplish 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:03.279 it properly. 00:41:04.940 --> 00:41:05.500 You know 00:41:05.500 --> 00:41:05.980 the fact 00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:06.319 that a 00:41:06.319 --> 00:41:07.059 loving father 00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:07.639 will correct 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:08.219 his children 00:41:08.219 --> 00:41:08.799 because he 00:41:08.799 --> 00:41:09.659 desires the 00:41:09.659 --> 00:41:10.039 fruit of 00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:10.579 righteousness 00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:12.039 in their 00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:12.420 life. 00:41:12.659 --> 00:41:13.099 I want you 00:41:13.099 --> 00:41:13.619 to understand 00:41:13.619 --> 00:41:14.079 God's 00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:14.500 correction 00:41:14.500 --> 00:41:14.879 isn't 00:41:14.879 --> 00:41:15.519 possible 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:16.219 unless you 00:41:16.219 --> 00:41:16.599 have put 00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:16.960 on the 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:17.460 righteousness 00:41:17.460 --> 00:41:18.380 by faith 00:41:18.380 --> 00:41:19.079 in the 00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:19.380 finished 00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:19.720 work 00:41:19.720 --> 00:41:19.880 of 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:20.139 Jesus 00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:20.699 Christ. 00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:22.420 Jesus 00:41:22.420 --> 00:41:22.860 is the 00:41:22.860 --> 00:41:23.159 one 00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:23.360 that 00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:23.659 paid 00:41:23.659 --> 00:41:23.880 for 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:24.119 your 00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:24.559 sin. 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:26.059 He 00:41:26.059 --> 00:41:26.480 became 00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:26.920 our 00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:27.500 righteousness 00:41:27.500 --> 00:41:29.639 and you 00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:30.099 become a 00:41:30.099 --> 00:41:30.619 child of 00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:30.940 God 00:41:30.940 --> 00:41:31.280 when you 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:31.940 call upon 00:41:31.940 --> 00:41:32.380 him 00:41:32.380 --> 00:41:33.240 as the 00:41:33.240 --> 00:41:33.539 one 00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:33.780 that 00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:34.240 paid 00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:34.519 for 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:34.860 your 00:41:34.860 --> 00:41:35.340 sin 00:41:35.340 --> 00:41:35.940 and 00:41:35.940 --> 00:41:36.420 offers 00:41:36.420 --> 00:41:36.639 to 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:36.900 you 00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:37.099 the 00:41:37.099 --> 00:41:37.340 free 00:41:37.340 --> 00:41:37.740 gift 00:41:37.740 --> 00:41:37.940 of 00:41:37.940 --> 00:41:38.579 salvation 00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:39.400 when 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:39.619 you're 00:41:39.619 --> 00:41:39.940 born 00:41:39.940 --> 00:41:40.380 again 00:41:40.380 --> 00:41:40.740 into 00:41:40.740 --> 00:41:41.079 his 00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:41.840 family. 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:43.519 It 00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:43.740 is 00:41:43.740 --> 00:41:44.179 then 00:41:44.179 --> 00:41:44.440 you 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:44.960 can 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:45.720 that 00:41:45.720 --> 00:41:45.880 he 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:46.400 can 00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:46.679 and 00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:47.000 will 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:47.380 begin 00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:47.539 a 00:41:47.539 --> 00:41:47.800 work 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:48.039 in 00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:48.380 you 00:41:48.380 --> 00:41:48.599 that 00:41:48.599 --> 00:41:48.739 will 00:41:48.739 --> 00:41:49.039 bring 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:49.340 forth 00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:49.559 the 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:49.739 fruit 00:41:49.739 --> 00:41:49.920 of 00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:50.480 righteousness 00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:50.920 in 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:51.039 your 00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:51.480 life. 00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:53.699 Ephesians 00:41:53.699 --> 00:41:54.300 2.10 00:41:54.300 --> 00:41:54.539 says 00:41:54.539 --> 00:41:54.880 for we 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:55.179 are his 00:41:55.179 --> 00:41:55.800 workmanship 00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:57.019 created in 00:41:57.019 --> 00:41:57.860 Christ Jesus 00:41:57.860 --> 00:41:58.460 under good 00:41:58.460 --> 00:41:59.019 works which 00:41:59.019 --> 00:41:59.699 God hath 00:41:59.699 --> 00:42:00.639 before ordained 00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:00.980 that we 00:42:00.980 --> 00:42:01.679 should walk 00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:03.380 in them. 00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:04.719 As his 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:05.780 child God 00:42:05.780 --> 00:42:06.340 says you 00:42:06.340 --> 00:42:06.739 are his 00:42:06.739 --> 00:42:07.420 workmanship. 00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:08.460 He is the 00:42:08.460 --> 00:42:08.860 one he's 00:42:08.860 --> 00:42:09.079 going to 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:09.500 correct, 00:42:09.659 --> 00:42:09.960 guide, 00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:10.280 he's going 00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:10.840 to discipline, 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:11.199 he's going 00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:11.760 to train 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:13.780 and prepare 00:42:13.780 --> 00:42:14.300 you for 00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:14.599 what he 00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:14.860 wants. 00:42:14.940 --> 00:42:15.019 The 00:42:15.019 --> 00:42:15.539 question is 00:42:15.539 --> 00:42:15.760 how are 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:15.940 you going 00:42:15.940 --> 00:42:16.460 to respond 00:42:16.460 --> 00:42:16.940 to it? 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:17.320 This 00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:17.840 morning it's 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:18.519 important are 00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:19.900 you his 00:42:19.900 --> 00:42:20.300 child? 00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:23.000 Because until 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:23.500 you make a 00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:24.119 decision to 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:24.699 call upon the 00:42:24.699 --> 00:42:25.099 Lord as 00:42:25.099 --> 00:42:25.420 Savior, 00:42:25.739 --> 00:42:26.159 you're not 00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:26.699 his child. 00:42:27.019 --> 00:42:27.460 But God 00:42:27.460 --> 00:42:28.099 still loves 00:42:28.099 --> 00:42:28.480 you and 00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:28.960 he says I've 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:29.400 made a way 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:29.880 for you 00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:31.699 to come 00:42:31.699 --> 00:42:32.059 to me. 00:42:32.260 --> 00:42:32.579 If you 00:42:32.579 --> 00:42:32.880 don't know 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:33.480 for sure I 00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:33.960 encourage you 00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:34.519 this morning 00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:35.179 to call 00:42:35.179 --> 00:42:35.760 upon him. 00:42:37.539 --> 00:42:38.079 Here in a 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:38.340 moment we're 00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:38.619 going to have 00:42:38.619 --> 00:42:39.199 an invitation, 00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:40.400 opportunity to 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:41.019 respond. 00:42:43.019 --> 00:42:43.500 Maybe you need 00:42:43.500 --> 00:42:43.940 to come and 00:42:43.940 --> 00:42:44.380 say I need 00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:44.960 to be sure 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:45.420 of where I 00:42:45.420 --> 00:42:45.940 stand with 00:42:45.940 --> 00:42:46.340 God that 00:42:46.340 --> 00:42:46.679 I'm his 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:47.079 child. 00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:49.500 When you have 00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:50.019 somebody share 00:42:50.019 --> 00:42:50.860 with you from 00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:51.659 God's word how 00:42:51.659 --> 00:42:52.440 you can know 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:54.760 not what the 00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:55.480 preacher says, 00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:56.059 not what somebody 00:42:56.059 --> 00:42:56.500 else says, 00:42:56.539 --> 00:42:57.059 but what God 00:42:57.059 --> 00:42:57.500 says. 00:42:59.380 --> 00:42:59.940 Because your 00:42:59.940 --> 00:43:00.679 faith needs to be 00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:01.220 in the Lord. 00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:02.139 But if you're his 00:43:02.139 --> 00:43:02.880 child, I want to 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:03.579 ask you a question. 00:43:03.679 --> 00:43:04.039 How are you 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:05.159 responding to his 00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:06.099 discipline, to his 00:43:06.099 --> 00:43:08.340 chastisement, his 00:43:08.340 --> 00:43:09.079 training and 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:09.940 correction in your 00:43:09.940 --> 00:43:10.320 life? 00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:10.820 Are you 00:43:10.820 --> 00:43:11.480 following your 00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:12.340 emotion and 00:43:12.340 --> 00:43:13.000 what you want? 00:43:13.080 --> 00:43:13.340 Are you 00:43:13.340 --> 00:43:14.080 following what 00:43:14.080 --> 00:43:14.559 God would 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:15.200 desire for 00:43:15.200 --> 00:43:15.460 you? 00:43:17.240 --> 00:43:17.760 To say, 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:18.160 Lord, I'm 00:43:18.160 --> 00:43:18.460 going to do 00:43:18.460 --> 00:43:19.100 what's right 00:43:19.100 --> 00:43:20.440 because that's 00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:20.820 what you would 00:43:20.820 --> 00:43:21.480 have for me. 00:43:21.680 --> 00:43:22.460 What about you 00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:23.519 today? 00:43:23.640 --> 00:43:24.000 As heads are 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:24.380 bowed and 00:43:24.380 --> 00:43:24.720 eyes are 00:43:24.720 --> 00:43:25.440 closed, what 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:25.880 about you 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:26.200 today? 00:43:26.460 --> 00:43:26.860 Maybe you're 00:43:26.860 --> 00:43:27.640 here today and 00:43:27.640 --> 00:43:28.180 you don't know 00:43:28.180 --> 00:43:28.840 for sure that 00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:29.300 you're a child 00:43:29.300 --> 00:43:29.860 of God, I 00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:30.380 encourage you 00:43:30.380 --> 00:43:30.820 to come. 00:43:31.080 --> 00:43:31.460 Maybe you 00:43:31.460 --> 00:43:32.700 need to ask 00:43:32.700 --> 00:43:33.280 God to say, 00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:33.960 Lord, I want 00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:34.480 to learn the 00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:36.480 lesson the 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:37.100 first time.