The Descipline of the Lord

Descipline.

Psalm 94:12–14 (KJV 1900)

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, And teachest him out of thy law;

13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

The Hebrew Word “yasar” translated as Chastened means literraly descipline.

Here The one whom God descipines/ chasen is called blessed.

The Blessedness of God’s descipline.

Jesus Christ is our creator, he his our savior, our redeemer, he is also our Father.

As a Father, he desciplines his children.

God in many various ways deciplines his children. This descipline that God allows his children to endure is a blessing according to the scriptures.

Hebrews 12:3–11 (NKJV)

3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.

5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”

Corrrection/rebuke is a an spect of descipline but descipline is not an aspect of Corection.

Descipline is broad which in itself envelopes corecion/ rebuke.

A father correcting his child.

A father setting boundaries for his Child

A father witholding from His child certain this for his own Good.

A Father not saying Yes to everthing he asks or desire

A Father giving his child difficult task and work, to decipline his child.

Some people have a very wrong notion of what being Christians mean.

They think that once one become a child of God, everything will workout in thier life. Everything they ask or desire they will immediately have. Whatever they want to acomplish or do they will be successful, as every door will open to them.

They will cruise through life without any bumbs in thier way because Jesus is with them.

7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

God shows his acceptance of us by desciplining us.

A father who does not descipline his child, who is not involved in the life of his child, guding, correcting, setting boundaries is father who does not not only love that child but does not acccept him as one of his own.

All of God true children are partaker of his descipline.

What is required of us

To endure this descipline.

“if you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons”

True sons of the living God who will ultamely inhert his blessing are those who have endured his descipline.

If a child runs away from his fathers home because he does not like his fathers descipline, he cannot endure his father’s correction.That child will become an illegitimate child.

9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

One aspect of the blessedness of God’s descipline is we partake of his nature through that descipline.

We are not filled with the fruit of the Holy Ghost just because we are filled with the spirit of God.

Rather as we are led by the spirit of God into many differrent trials and tribulation and as we endure. The spririt of God in us using what we are going through will produce in our spirit the peaceble fruits of righteousness

Romans 5:1–4 (NKJV)

1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;

4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

A person who wants to go to heaven without Goding through God’s descipline, is a person who wnat to go to heaven without being like Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:17 NKJV

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

Deuteronomy 8:2–5 (NKJV)

2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.

4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.

Deuteronomy 8:14–16 (NKJV)

14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

15 who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;

16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—

Desciplines is neccessary to be the vessels that will carry the blessing of God.

The israelites were called to inherit God’s blessing which was the promise land. He brought them out for that purpose.

The generation that first came out but did not go through the chastening of God in the wildernes those 40 years did not enter the promise land.

Those who went through 40 years of descipline, inherited the blessing and when they did they did not descecrate it, they did not use it to disnohonour God, neither did they allow themesleves to be carried away by it so that they forget the Lord who gave it to them.

But they preseverved it, honoured God with it and fullfilled all that God reuqired of them while that blessing was in thier life.

Judges 2:7 NKJV

7 So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

What they learned in the wilderness,

They learned what is truly important, Keeping the commandments of God. Being faithful to God.

They learned that they can livebeing deprived from many things, but one thing they learned is that they cannot live being separated from God.

They learned to be patient, to be humble.

Example,

David and Solomon

David and King Saul.

Conclusion

What we endure now is what will enable us to be able to hand the purpose divine blessing that God will bestow and acomplish in us in the future.

in our future, When we look back we will acknowledge that the descipline that we have endured in the past is a blessing and is what has enabled us to stand where we are now.