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Good Morning, it is so good to be back with this morning, I was going stir crazy having to be shut up in the house last week after battling the flu but I want to thank you for your prayers it went all the way through our house and we are all doing much much better.

Turnwith me in your Bibles this morning to the book of wisdom, how many of you think we could use some more wisdom.

I know I could, WISDOM IS APPLIED KNOWLEDGE say that with me, wisdom is applied knowledge.

Wisdom is not the same as knowledge, wisdom is higher than knowledge.

Knowledge is you know something to be a fact, wisdom is you apply that.

I know that I shouldn’t drive without a seatbelt, so if I do I might get a ticket I could get in a wreck and it seriously injure me.... Thats knowledge.

The wisdom is put your seatbelt on.

God wants to give us wisdom and so were looking at the book of proverbs.

Obviously I can’t preach through the book of proverbs because if I tried none of us would be alive when we finished.

Its a long book, but I just wan to take a few and over the next few weeks look at some wisdom from God. I’ve never preached a series through it.

Now today were talking about a very serious topic and that is the discipline of the Lord.

As a father I find myself in situations where I need to discipline my son.

So when those times come I get down on his level which is the way God deals with us, and God talks to us and God lovingly disciplines us.

Let me just say this to you, if you are a child of God, God wants you to be in the center of His will.

Let’s just talk about the will of God.

This is where God wants you to be, the Bible says in that God’s will is good perfect and acceptable.

God has a perfect plan for your life.

But sin can interrupt that plan, sin can interrupt God’s plan for your life.

Sin and disobedience is not the will of God for you.

Some people say everything that happens is the will of God I beg to differ sin is not the will of God.

Now God may soverignly work even through sin taking things meant for evil and turn them around for good but sin is not Gods will.

Don’t blame your sin on God, when you sin you leave the will of God and guess where you go?

The woodshed of God- How many of you know what the woodshed of God is? It’s the place where you go to get a spanking… this is where you get disciplined.

Now let me ask you a question, when your parents disciplined you was it because they didnt love you or because they did love you?

They loved you

If they didn’t love you they would just let you go run crazy and do whatever you wanted to do and just let you run free out there and running wild.

But God loves you too much to let you do whatever you want.

When you and I sin I dont care who you are you will go to the woodshed of God, because He loves you.

But let me tell you the tragedy, when your in the woodshed you can either go back to the will of God, or you can continue on in your sin.

God is a patient God but there comes a time and only God knows where that line is, and only He knows where it is.

If you keep crossing that line if you keep on living in your sin, if you will not respond to the woodshed and you keep on sinning.

you will go to a third level which is called the wrath of God and look at me you dont wanna be there, thats when God really comes down with the hammer.

So the will of God, the woodshed of God, the wrath of God.

I want to be in the will of God, and when God disciplines me when I get sent to the woodshed I’m not just gonna keep on sinning I am going to repent and go back to the will of God.

I dont want the wrath of God on me and my family I want the will of God.

Which is good acceptable and perfect.

Now let’s look at

Notice first of all that:

The Discipline of the Lord is Real

It is real

King Solomon was writing these words talking to the people of Israel explaining the reality of the discipline of the Lord.

He said dont reject it, the discipline of the Lord is real, dont loathe it dont hate, dont disdain it, dont despise it, dont be angry when the Lord rebukes you, when He reproves you, when He cautions you.

When He warns you or reprimands you bc of your sin.

Dont get mad at God.

Solomon was telling them the Lord had been a good father to Israel, because of my Father David we have peace all around all the other nations bow down to us....

We have plenty to eat, we have money in the back, we have a roof over our head, clothes on or back and peace in our land.

God has blessed us Solomon was saying to his countrymen, beyond other nations.

He has every right if we sin, to discipline us.

Even as an Earthly Father has the right to discipline an disobedient child, Solomon said it plainly.

the discipline of the Lord is real.

You know Solomon knew about the discipline of the Lord because of how God had treated his own mother and father.

You see his mother had been married before, and she had been married to a man named Uriah the Hittite, He was one of Davids best warriors.

But the bible says in

do yuo remember?

David was not where he was supposed to be the army had gone out to fight but he stayed back in the spring of the year.

He went over by the window, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Look at me when your in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people your going to do the wrong thing.

He wasnt with the army, he wasnt where He was supposed to be.

So now he’s looking where he should never had been looking.

He would have never seen this on the battle field.

But in that day, women and men would go out and bathe on the rooftop, because nobody could see you on the rooftop except from one place, a kings palace.

We dont have to worry about king David the kings safe right?

The King looked out and he saw Bathsheba and the Bible says she was beautiful and he called for she came and they slept together she conceived and David tried to cover his sin up.

Rather than confess he tried to cover his sin up, and David brought Uriah off the battlefield had him over to eat, got him drunk sent him home to his wife, knowing he would sleep with her and they would think the baby was theirs instead of Davids.

But Uriah was such an honorable man he said I can’t go home and be with my wife while my men are out in battle.

He was a very honorable man.

David did it again, and so David put a note in his hand, to give to the commander of the army when he got back out on the battle field, He said you give this to Joab when you get back out there.

He was carrying his own death notice in his hand, the note said put uriah in the front of the battle where the feircest war is going on so he will be killed.

He had to be an honorable man he didnt even read the note on his way back.

He handed the note to his commander and he went to close and he got killed.

David thought he had covered his sin, but God had another plan.

god didnt like what happened, God sent to him a prophet named Nathan, Nathan came and said King I wanna tell you a story of something that has happened in your kingdom.

There was a man who was very rich, and there was another man, who had only one little lamb.

This rich man had come into town and rather than kill one of his many sheep, he went and took the only little lamb the poor man had.

David got furious, that man deserves to die, and Nathan pointed his finger right in the kings face and said your the man....

You had everything you have wives you have all these blessings and all this power Uriah had one little lamb and you took her, and you had a child with her God is going to pour out his discipline on you.

When David realized what was happening he hit the deck he repented and Nathan said your sins are forgiven, but God is still going to discipline you.

It doesnt matter who you are or where you are positioned and you sin God is going to discipline you.

The quicker you repent the better, to repent not only means to admit it, but to quit it.

dont just admit it, stop doing it.

Ask God to forgive you and humbly repent and dont return to it.

God spoke to the people of Israel under Moses leadership when they were wandering in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 4:36

Its not a matter of if God will discipline you its only a matter of when and how He will.

Sometimes God will reprove you with timeout, but sometimes God will give you a spanking you will feel like its lights out.

Can anybody in this room attest to the fact that God will discipline you if you sin?

God disciplined Moses he told him to speak to the rock the second time but he hit it, and God disciplined Moses.

God disciplined Moses sister miriam, She said were just as holy as you are and God speaks through us just like he speaks through you Moses.

god disciplined her with a week long case of leprosy.

God disclined king Saul when he sacrificed and it was only Samuel the judge who was supposed to sacrifice.

God disciplined Saul, and he disciplined Peter when he denied the Lord 3 times.

He confonted him 3 times and disciplined, it doesnt matter if your Moses or king David or the apostle Peter.

It doesnt matter who you are, if you sin you better repent real quick because the Lords discipline is real.

The Lord’s Discipline Should be Received

You say man I dont wanna receive that.

i dont like that part, oh its a good thing.

Proverbs

Do you remember when your parents told you that discipline was a good thing?

Dont reject it, receive it!

Don’t loathe His reproof becuase there are some thngs youll never learn without it.