{"id":8485,"date":"2025-09-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=8485"},"modified":"2015-08-19T09:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T06:43:08","slug":"the-goal-of-discipline-is-repentance-of-prodigal-sons-and-their-return-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/the-goal-of-discipline-is-repentance-of-prodigal-sons-and-their-return-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GOAL OF DISCIPLINE IS REPENTANCE OF PRODIGAL SONS AND THEIR RETURN TO HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"Grace and peace to you from our Lord Jesus Christ!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nYou are welcome to the pages of our \u201cDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe are still talking about why God allows pain and suffering in our lives; His goal is to draw our attention and draw us near to Himself to correct and to discipline us.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI want to make sure we understand the difference between discipline and punishment. We are going to talk about that right now. These two words are often used as synonyms, yet they are not the same. Punishment is a sentence pronounced by court after it has established someone\u2019s guilt. Punishment is a reprimand or a fine. Discipline, on other hand, includes some measure of judgment or punishment, but it goes a step further: discipline is meant to correct, instruct or cause changes in the life of a person that has been wrong\u00a0.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBesides, discipline requires some type of compensation or remedy that would prove that the guilty one has admitted his quilt and is deeply sorry. An offender might say: “I am sorry for what I did. Please, forgive me!” It is discipline that helps such a person to see that he is guilty and has offended other people and has caused damage to them.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0THE GOAL OF DISCIPLINE IS REPENTANCE OF PRODIGAL SONS AND THEIR RETURN TO HOME:\u00a0\u00abAs many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent\u00bb<\/em>\u00a0(Revelation, 3:19).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nRepentance is the right reaction to discipline!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSin never is just one\u2019s personal business, so to speak. Sin is not something you do to yourself; sin is something that inevitably affects others.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBased on the Word of God, allow me to say very clearly that parents should discipline their children and use spanking or \u2018a rod\u2019 as one of the method. It says in the Bible:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0“He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly\u00bb\u00a0(Proverbs, 13:24).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWe also read that:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00abFoolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of correction will drive it far from him\u00bb(Proverbs, 22:15).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nConsidering all this, we can make the following conclusion:\u00a0if love is the foundation or prerequisite of discipline, then if we punish our children by rod or spanking without love, we offend our children and abuse our parental authority.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe purpose of a rod is not to hurt a child for his bad behaviour. A rod is meant to teach the children to distinguish right from wrong. Do not spank your children in anger or when you\u2019re \u2018out of love\u2019.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen we understand that the basis and the necessary prerequisite of discipline is love we can see the goal of discipline:\u00a0it is to protect them from the difficulties and problems that come into a person\u2019s life as a consequence of sin and rebellion.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThrough discipline we as parents teach our children the truth that sinful pleasures are fleeting but have serious consequences. Through discipline we help them see that it is better to choose the life of obedience and righteousness, than to get all the riches of the world but be far away from God and His standards.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGod disciplines every one of us for the very same reasons.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe will continue on this tomorrow!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI wish you God\u2019s abundant blessings!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abAs many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent\u00bb (Revelation, 3:19).\r\nRepentance is the right reaction to discipline!\r\nSin never is just one\u2019s personal business, so to speak. Sin is not something you do to yourself; sin is something that inevitably affects others.","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pexels-photo-5896916-1024x682.jpeg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-en\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40160,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions\/40160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}