Duane Sheriff Ministries - Messages
Sep 22, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
How can God's chastening be redemptive? Many believers misunderstand God's chastening. Some think sickness, poverty, and suffering are punishments from God, while others ignore the idea of God's…
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You have not, verse 4, you have not resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
So we see here in the laying of the foundation before we even get to chastening, the importance that with everything within us, temptation to enter into any kind of sin because sin harms you sin harms your fellow man sin harms our families etc etc he says after that verse 5 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're rebuked by him.
So chastening and correction are used interchangeably in the scriptures and now rebukes.
despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you're rebuked by him.
We're going to lay that foundation in this particular teaching and probably the next on how that God's chastening comes out of his love for us.
What do I mean by that? They live under this mindset that God is still relating to them based on old covenant law and that if or when they sin God's wrath is kindled against them when in fact the New Covenant, Hebrews 8, 12, God said, concerning your sins and iniquities, I will remember them no more and I will be merciful to your unrighteousness.
God is merciful to us in any unrighteousness, but He doesn't neglect unrighteousness in our lives and dealing with us over it.
He goes on to say in verse seven, if you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons.
For what son is there whom a father doesn't chasten? So before we go any further, if you endure chastening, God deals with you as sons.
You have not, verse 4, you have not resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
So we see here in the laying of the foundation before we even get to chastening, the importance that with everything within us, temptation to enter into any kind of sin because sin harms you sin harms your fellow man sin harms our families etc etc he says after that verse 5 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're rebuked by him.
So chastening and correction are used interchangeably in the scriptures and now rebukes.
despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you're rebuked by him.
We're going to lay that foundation in this particular teaching and probably the next on how that God's chastening comes out of his love for us.
What do I mean by that? They live under this mindset that God is still relating to them based on old covenant law and that if or when they sin God's wrath is kindled against them when in fact the New Covenant, Hebrews 8, 12, God said, concerning your sins and iniquities, I will remember them no more and I will be merciful to your unrighteousness.
God is merciful to us in any unrighteousness, but He doesn't neglect unrighteousness in our lives and dealing with us over it.
He goes on to say in verse seven, if you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons.
For what son is there whom a father doesn't chasten? So before we go any further, if you endure chastening, God deals with you as sons.
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