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What we believe and teach - God’s judgements - |
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The
Scripture states that he who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves
him disciplines him promptly. Therefore, if an earthly father disciplines his
children for he loves them, how much more will our heavenly Father - who in
His great love did not spare His own Son but delivered Him up for us all - discipline us! If
God spared us His discipline, which we all need, He would not be a good
father but an evil father. Therefore God disciplines us by inflicting His
punishments on us, for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness
and we may not be condemned with the world. Let us see to it then that we do
not despise the chastening of the Lord. |
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God
inflicts His punishments on those who are outside too. He is a righteous
judge who expresses His wrath every day. His judgments are in all the earth. |