Hebrews 12:4-11 Part 1

C.S. Lewis "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

-discipline = paideia = discipline, instructive discipline

1) Corrective

2) Preventative

-II Cor. 12:7-8

3) Educational

 

  I.  Continue resisting in the struggle against sin.

-resisted = antikathistemi = to stand in opposition against (as in on the battle line)

-striving against = antagonizomai = to struggle against

 

 II.  Remember the exhortation of Scripture about God's discipline.

-Ps. 18:33

   a.  Do not disregard His discipline.

-disregard = oligopeo = to think little of, think lightly, neglect

-MacArthur "It is usually because we take our problems too seriously that we take the Lord's discipline too lightly. Our focus is on the experience rather than on our heavenly Father and on what He wants to do for us through the experience."

   b.  Do not grow weary enduring His discipline.

-faint = ekluo = to release, grow weary or slack, give out

   c.  His discipline demonstrates His love.

   d.  His discipline demonstrates we are His children.

-scourges = mastigoo = to hit with a whip

-Prov. 23:13-14

-Theodore Laetsch "His plans concerning his people are always thoughts of good, of blessing. Even if he is obliged to use the rod, it is the rod not of wrath, but the Father's rod of chastisement for their temporal and eternal welfare. There is not a single item of evil in his plans for his people, neither in their motive, nor in their conception, nor in their revelation, nor in their consummation."