A look at an uncommon topic - the chastening hand of God. What it means and some ways he does it.

1. Chapter 12:5-11

2. Another Question to Ponder
Do you understand the role
of chastisement in your
life? (12:5-11).

3. The Bible Affirms that
God Chastens
You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man
chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens
you (Deut. 8:5)
Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach
him out of your law (Psalm. 94:12)
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD;
neither be weary of his correction: For whom the
LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son
in whom he delights (Prov. 3:11, 12)
Heb. 12:7, 8 and As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten:
be zealous therefore, and repent. (Rev. 3:19).

4. His Discipline is Done Verbally
• The prophets warned of
impending judgment
• Jesus’ personal rebuke to
the unbelieving Jews
(Matt 23).
• Also, his rebuke against
the churches of Asia
(Rev. 2, 3:19) stands out
as examples of verbal
discipline in the New
Testament.

5. His Discipline is Done
Corporally.
• Cast out of Eden.
• Global Flood
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Korah’s rebellion against
Moses.
• Ananias and Sapphira
• Elyamus blinded
• Jesus directive against
unrepentant brethren in
the church - It was used
effectively in 1 Cor. 5.

6. New Covenant Highlights the Future
Eternal Punishment of the Wicked
• Jesus rebukes James
and John
• The Day of Judgment
(Matt. 25:31ff)
• The Prodigal was spared
• Apostles preached about
the God of great
patience.
Those who persecuted
Christians and were
going to be dealt with &
The False Prophet cast
into a bottomless pit.

7. The New Testament puts a laser
beam on personal responsibility and
congregational liability
For the time is
come that
judgment must
begin at the
house of God:
and if it first
begins with us,
what shall the
end be of them
that obey not
the gospel of
God? (1 Pet. 4:17)

8. All of God’s
correction is
done out of
love.
Ebbing away of
worldliness makes one
become partakers of
holiness.
Its end result yields the
peaceable fruit of righteousness.

9. Two Things Chastisement Proves:
• God’s love toward us
• Confirms our relationship to him.
Three Things Chastisement Accomplishes:
• Corrects our faults
• Curbs our temperament
• Separates us for his purpose.

10. Three Ways the Redeemed Can
Respond Toward It
• Despise it.
• Faint under it.
• Accept it for its
intended purpose.