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God’s Chastening in the New Covenant

March 13, 2022February 23, 2022Leave a Comment

The chastisement of God is a mysterious and frightening thing for many people. Simply mentioning the word ‘chastisement’ conjures up thoughts of severe beatings, pain, suffering, and many other kinds of punishment.

Today we will be looking at God’s chastisement as defined in the scriptures in the light of the New Covenant in Christ. It is through Jesus that things can be clearly seen, and when dealing with something as intimidating as divine chastisement, it benefits us to have the clear perspective of Jesus’ atonement.

God’s Discipline in Christ

July 29, 2018February 21, 2018Leave a Comment

here are a lot of opinions about the discipline of God. Some believe that He discipline’s His children with sickness, disease, pain and suffering. That’s actually a very common idea among many Christians.

Other’s believe that God doesn’t discipline His children at all.

Which one is true?

Well, it might be difficult to come to an honest conclusion unless we start with the finished work of Christ. Because that absolutely must be the foundation of everything. As long as we start with Jesus Christ, we will have a proper perspective with which to examine this topic.

The truth of the matter is, neither opinion is correct in the New Covenant under Grace in Christ. God does discipline His children, however He does not discipline them with sicknesses, diseases or pain and suffering.

Having me just tell you that though, won’t mean anything unless you can see it for yourself in the scriptures; so today we will be taking a look at exactly how God disciplines His children today, and why you don’t need to be afraid of sickness, disease or pain and suffering as a result of it.

Jesus is the End of Your Punishment

February 7, 2016February 21, 2018Leave a Comment

How would you evaluate the current state of your life? It may seem pretty good right now, or it may seem like a total mess, or anywhere in between. Often times what we tend to do is take stock of our life and then use what we perceive as good or bad circumstances as a barometer for the love of God towards us. When things are good, we feel as though God is happy with us and loves us and we are on cloud nine; but when things are not going our way, we feel as though God is angry with us or that we have some kind of test to pass or a lesson to learn.

The truth though is that today God is not angry or wroth with you anymore. He exhausted all of His righteous and holy wrath on the body of Jesus Christ in your place. He suffered and died as you so that today you can receive all fullness of blessing and life as Him.