You mustn’t think that the Father raises you like most parents raise their children and give their responsibility of parenting and nurturing to others and let their children make their own decisions and do whatever they want to do to keep them happy and satisfied. Many parents are too busy with their own lives. Therefore they don’t raise their children according to God’s will with Biblical principles and morals. They don’t discipline and correct their children as they should, because it takes a lot of patience and energy. Derudover, many parents don’t believe that correcting and punishing undesirable behavior of a child is of this age and doesn’t show that you love a child. Som et resultat, many parents allow their children doing their own thing and make their own choices. Many parents are more their children’s friends and life-coaches, who encourage them to succeed, so that they can show off to others, than their parents. Men sådan er Gud ikke. Because whom the Lord loves He chastens and scourges.
The Father loves His children
For whom the Lord loves He corrects; endog som en Fader den Søn, han har Behag i (Ordsprog 3:12)
God is a Father, Who loves His children and doesn’t want anything bad to happen to His children. The Father wants to protect His children and keep them from evil. Because evil leads to destruction.
Therefore the Father warns His children through His Word and His Spirit.
The Father cares for His children and leads His children into the truth and He instructs, retter, chastens (discipliner), and scourges His children so that they might be partakers of His holiness (hebræere 12:5-10).
This is not always pleasant and nice. But it is necessary.
It’s necessary to get rid of the rebellious, stolt, and sinful behavior of the old man, who always exalts himself above God, Hans Ord, og hans Ånd. (Læs også: ‘Den gamle mand’ og ‘Den smertefulde proces kendt som at dø’).
Hvem Herren elsker, tugter og plager han
It is not written in the Bible that whom the Lord loves and who belongs to Him, He let them be and allow them to make their own rules. It is not written in the Word, that it doesn’t matter how someone lives. Ingen, Ordet siger, that whom the Lord loves He chastens and that He scourges every son, who belongs to Him.
Og I har glemt den formaning, der taler til jer som til børn (sønner), Min søn, despise not thou the chastening (disciplin) af Herren, nor faint (be discouraged) when thou art rebuked of Him: For dem, Herren elsker, tugter han, og plager enhver søn, som han modtager. Hvis I udholder tugt, Gud handler med dig som med sønner; for what son is he whom the Father chastens not? Men hvis I er uden tugt, hvoraf alle er delagtige, så er I bastards (illegitimate), og ikke sønner. Desuden har vi haft vort køds fædre, som irettesatte os, og vi gav dem ærbødighed (respekt): skal vi ikke meget hellere underordne os åndernes Fader, og leve? For de tugtede os i sandhed nogle få dage efter deres egen fornøjelse; men han for vores gavn, at vi kan få del i hans hellighed (hebræere 12:5-9)
God’s love doesn’t consist of pleasant and soft words, patting on the head, og tolerance, but the love of God consists of confronting and sometimes hard words, tugtelse, and scourging of the flesh (Sæt den gamle mand af).
Hvis nogen siger, at (s)he is born again and belongs to God, but lives like the world and be led by his or her own will and the lusts and desires of the flesh and do the same things, which those, som ikke kender Gud og ikke tilhører ham, do and which are described in the Word as sin, without being confronted and without being corrected and chastened, så siger Ordet, that the person is a bastard and not a son of God.
Because the Father shall confront, korrekt, and chastise His true sons (hanner og hunner) gennem Jesus Kristus; Ordet og Helligånden, Who dwells in His sons.
He will not let you do those things, which you want to do, but goes against His will, but He shall confront you and call you to repentance and to remove those things, which are not according to His will, out of your life.
“Så mange som jeg elsker, Jeg irettesætter og tugter”
In the modern gospel you don’t hear these words anymore. Men dette er Jesu ord, which He spoke in Revelation 3:19, after His death and resurrection. These words are part of the life of the new man (ny skabelse), who is born again in Christ and belongs to Him.
Because these words are not always preached, these words are not always known among believers.
Derfor, many believers panic when they are rebuked or chastened.
They think it’s from the devil and that they are being accused by him, while in reality the rebuke and chastisement are coming from Jesus.
The Word of God reveals the works of the flesh and condemns the works of the flesh.
Through the knowledge of the Word and the power of the Spirit, the new man shall put off the old man and Sæt på den nye mand and walk after the Spirit and be a partaker of the holiness and the glory of God.
Så mange som jeg elsker, Jeg irettesætter og tugter: vær derfor nidkær, and repent”
Åbenbaring 3:19
The chastening shall yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness
Elskede, tænk, at det ikke er mærkeligt med hensyn til den brændende prøvelse, som skal prøve dig, som om noget mærkeligt skete for dig: Men glæd jer, for så vidt som I er delagtige i Kristi lidelser; at, når hans herlighed skal åbenbares, I kan også glæde jer med overordentlig glæde (1 Peter 4:12-13)
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, men ærgerligt: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised (trained) thereby (hebræere 12:11)
He shall not keep you for certain situations and things in life, but He will let you go through it. So that in those situations and through the things in life you shall be formed and die to the flesh and spiritually mature as a son of God after His image and learn to be fully obedient to Jesus Christ; the Word and live in obedience to Him and walk as son of God in His will.
'Vær jordens salt‘
