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[saint701]

Hello Angeltears, All,

Blessings!

Thanks. The post took a turn I wasn't expecting. I left off scriptures on the benefits of chastisement. Sometimes we forget that our Lord also makes our lives writings of Himself that bear witness to His word.

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[5] And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
[6] For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
[7] If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
[8] But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
[9] Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
[10] For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure;
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but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

[11] Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
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nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised thereby.


Not withstanding, the purpose of our Heavenly Father in correcting us is two fold. He wants us to be holy, separated from the world to Him in love. His correction separates us from worldly living and much sin. When He is finished with us, we are His prize. We are clean before Him and in right standing. We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!


Blessings!
L,ICJ, Saint701.
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