Father's Over Teachers

Loving Discipline

We are GOING to have some kind of discipline in our life.

2 Kinds of discipline:

- Self Discipline

-External Discipline

If we don’t learn self-discipline, we will inevitably encounter external discipline

(Police, Jail, Physical ailments due to decisions, Financial hardships, Harvest)

Hebrews 12:6 (NKJV)

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

Chasten = Train; Hit; Sting

Hebrews 5:8 NKJV

8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.

Without discipline that trained Jesus in obedience, He would not have been able to fulfill His God-given destiny.

Philippians 2:8 NKJV

8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

Discipline coming from the right heart is training.

No amount of gifts will ever be a substitute for training.

Father’s have to say, No sometimes.

We have to get over the idea that when our father says, NO, that He hates us or doesn’t want our success.

King David never disciplined his children (2 Samuel 13; 1 Kings 1) and they ended up being murderers and rapists & treacherous people.

Psalm 84:11 NKJV

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.

Hebrews 12:11 NKJV

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.

John 20:21 NKJV

21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

1 Corinthians 4:15 NKJV

15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

No podcast, no TED Talk, no life coach, no friend is a substitute, and no amount of information or knowledge is a substitute for Godly training and discipline.

Restoration over Condemnation

John 3:16–17 NKJV

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Luke 15:17–28 NKJV

17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’ 20 “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; 24 for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry. 25 “Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’ 28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him.

James 2:13 NKJV

13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.