Discipline: God's Method

Discipline: God’s Method
Hebrews 12.3-11

            Run…Resist…Remember…It is for discipline that you have to endure…

                           

A. SOME COMMON REASONS FOR DISCIPLINE

            1.  To correct us when we sin

            2.  To train us when we need maturity

B. SOME COMMON METHODS THAT GOD WILL USE

            1.  Financial loss 

                Genesis 13

            2.  Sickness and disease 

                Job 2;  Mark 5.25-29

            3.  Persecution 

                Hebrews 10.32-34

            4.  Alienation of family members 
           
                Matthew 10.34-39;  Job 2

            5.  Spiritual darkness 

                Psalm 13

            6.  Violence and unfairness 

                Habakkuk 1.1-4

            7.  War 

                Habakkuk 1.5-6

            8.  Death 

                1 Corinthians 11.27-32

C. SOME COMMON BENEFITS THAT WE CAN LOOK FOR

            1.  To draw us closer to Jesus 

                Genesis 15.1;  1 Corinthians 1.8-9

            2.  To strengthen all our spiritual graces 
           
                Romans 5.3;  James 1.2-3;  1 Peter 1.6-7

            3.  To help us to help others 
                2 Corinthians 1.3-4

John Olson