{"id":8516,"date":"2025-09-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2015-08-19T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T06:58:20","slug":"what-goals-gods-chasteningii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/what-goals-gods-chasteningii\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the goals of God\u2019s chastening?II"},"content":{"rendered":"Dear friend! How wonderful it is that God has granted us one more day for a productive living! I really want this day to be the most blessed and beneficial for you.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYesterday we started talking about what the purpose of God\u2019s chastening for His children. And we saw that God chastises:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>To give us reassurance, security and safety;<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>To express His love for us;<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>To show us He accepts us;<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>To encourage us to walk in His holiness;<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>To teach us how we should and shouldn\u2019t live.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBesides, God chastises and disciplines His children\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>To make us productive and useful:<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00ab&#8230;afterward it yields the peacable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it\u00bb\u00a0(Hebrews, 12:11).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe read that God\u2019s Word is profitable for the perfecting of the saints for every good work:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00a0\u00abAll Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work\u00bb\u00a0(2 Timothy, 3:16-17).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYet we can only gain something from the Word when we follow the instructions of the Scripture; otherwise God chastises us. In both cases the goal is one and the same: to prepare us for good works so that we could become instruments of God\u2019s power and love, &#8211; an experienced ministers of His mercy. God desires for us not to be filled with dry theory, but to be able to share with other people what we have experienced in our own lives.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGod also chastises us\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>To protect us from being condemned with the world:<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abFor if we judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world\u00bb\u00a0(1 Corinthians, 11:31-32).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSo God chastises His children not for His own pleasure, but for our correction and for us to participate in His holiness. God does that in order for us to bring forth the peaceful fruit of righteousness and not to be condemned with the world. God disciplines us not because He just wants to; He does it when we refuse to listen to the Holy Spirit and God\u2019s Word. That is what the following verses of Scripture talk about:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abFor the Lord will not cast off forever. Though He causes grief, yet He will show compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For He does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men\u00bb\u00a0(Lamentations, 3:31-33)<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abFor if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged\u00bb\u00a0(1 Corinthians, 11:31).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abAnd to the angel of the church of Thyatira write, \u2018These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: \u201eI know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the firs. Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works\u201d\u00bb\u00a0(Revelation, 2:18-23).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGod gives us more time to repent and judge ourselves according to His Word so that He would not have to do it to us. When we despise His warnings and the revelation of the Holy Spirit, God judges us Himself. He does it so that we would not be judged with the world.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTomorrow we will talk more about how God chastises and disciplines His children. But I also want to remind you that God\u2019s mercy triumphs over judgment and His love towards us is boundless!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMay God abundantly bless every one of you!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abFor if we judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world\u00bb (1 Corinthians, 11:31-32).\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSo God chastises His children not for His own pleasure, but for our correction and for us to participate in His holiness. 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