Chastening

EXHORTATION ON HEALING LA CA 51-0501

E-11 Now, sometimes, I will admit this, that our heavenly Father sometimes chastens us with sickness, permitting Satan to do it, to try us sometimes to--to bring us back. If we go out of the way, then our heavenly Father might let something happen to us to bring us back. But it'll only be for the good. See? The chastening of our Father is not pleasant for a season, but finally it brings... All things work together for good to them that love the Lord. And if I was way away from God and out of the will of our heavenly Father, why, if God would just... That He could do something for me and--and help me to come back, why, I would appreciate our heavenly Father, wouldn't you?

SUPERNATURAL THE OWENSBORO KY 56-0129

E-9 Our heavenly Father, we come to Thee on this sabbath day, raining on the outside, me... We might call it gloom, hazy rainy weather, but how could the farmer put in his crops if we didn't have much moisture this spring? There'd be no froo--food raised; ground would be dry; people would perish.

We realize that this is like experience of a Christian. Sometimes we have to go through terrible chastisement, chastening of the Lord, many things to correct us that we'll be fruit bearing Christians. Sometimes has to prune us, cut off, take away, take out of our hands. We think sometime, "O God, what are You doing to us?" But He knows what He's doing. So we pray, Father, that today that You'll prune every one of us, from the least to the greatest, the pastor. God, we pray that You'll prune every one of us. Take away all that's unlike You, Father. Take away the thing that's hindering us from being fruit bearing Christians. The day's coming when it's going to get dark. And then we want to go into the sheepfold. We want to be sheep today, Father. We want to follow exactly in the footsteps of the Shepherd. He gave us as example, said, "I come not to do My will, but the will of Him that sent Me." May that be our motive today, God, to do the will of God Who has saved us.

EVER.PRESENT WATER JEFF IN 61-0723M

68 Now, when they were down in Egypt, and God sent Moses and he stretched forth the rod, and fleas and lice come on the ground... He stretched forth towards the sun, and it went down. He stretched it over the waters, and they turned to blood. Why, Israel was over in Canaan's--over in--in Goshen, just having a glorious time; the sun never went down; the plagues never struck them; why, they were just having a glorious time, just like you did when you first got saved.

Everything, the birds sang different, and everybody was sweet. And, oh, my, how everything just was dandy when you first got saved. Then come the trying time, the chastening, sanctifying time, sanctifying yourself from things of the world, "laying aside the weights that does so easily beset you." You, a man, had to stop your smoking, stop your drinking, stop your going to the pool room, your all night card parties. All those things, you had to sanctify yourself from them by the faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ: sanctifying yourself. You women had to let your hair grow out, lengthen your dresses, and act like different than what you was: sanctifying time. Many times they'd rebel and go back; well, that's not a child of God. See? A child of God looks straight to Calvary and knows that it's for his good.

BEHOLD A GREATER THAN ALL IS HERE SPOKANE WA 62-0715

E-58 So Jesus was standing there rebuking them for calling Him Beelzebub. He perceived their thoughts. They didn't say it out loud; He perceived their thoughts, and He said--told them about it. And then they walked up to Him. After all that He had done, and showed them the correct sign of the Messiah, and the works followed it, exactly what it was said He would do; then they walked up, and said, "Master, we would see a sign from you." Oh, my.

Now, take this in Christian love. Take this from a heart full of love for you. But just a... It's chastening. How could we want to have a prayer line, run over here to some other meeting when we stood right here and seen the Bible manifested and the Presence of Jesus Christ right here among us? His attitude to one is to all. See? "But we would see a sign from you." That sign was done one time, and all the city of Sychar believed on Jesus Christ. But they never saw it done; they believed the woman's testimony, and she was a prostitute. One time, and thousands of times it's been done around the world now. Look at it.

GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE PORT ALBERNI BC _ 62-0725

E-30 And I said, "Now, here's what it is. When you're looking... What, for instance, if you got great faith... (Just let me see--just say something. Usually them that misses comes in.) Now, say for instance, we got great faith, and here stands a man on the platform all having a great time shouting, and the glory of God around." I said, "Now, maybe this man stole some money; he lived evil; maybe run around with some woman immorally, or he done a murder or something, that God had put this sickness on him." You know, God uses sickness for whips to bring us to Him. You believe that? Sure it is, the... Look at Job and chastening of the Lord.

Now, you have to notice, prophetic gifts can get yourself in trouble. Certainly can. Now, what if this man's done something evil, and I'm standing there, great big (what we call in America) bulldog faith, and I grab a hold of him, say, "Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Satan turn him loose. Glory to God." And I take that disease off of him, and God put it on him for a purpose. I'm in trouble with God. You see what I mean?

EVENING MESSENGER MESA AZ 63-0116

47 Now, the same God that healed Doctor Dyer's daughter, which is Jean... I don't know what her name is now. But that man has certainly embraced the full Gospel. The last sermon at the church, here he was setting right there taking it all in, taking communion with us, and everything else, a Baptist student had come to the Lord for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now, it just goes to show that God remains God.

And the doctor, her father, lovely man, but he just had never seen anything like that happen.

Now, God has a time for all things. And from believing, you're both believers. So sometimes these things happen for good. You know, the Bible said, "They work together for good."

Now, remember Job, all of his trials? Now, that wasn't God chastening Job, but it was God approving His servant. So it all worked for good. You see? And--and then the Book of Job was wrote for all generations, for a testimony. Now, God's working it for good.

Just remember, I have prayed with all my heart the prayer of faith. You believe it, and there that'll be it; that'll be the case, just--just watch for the results.

SHALOM PHOENIX AZ 64-0119

237 Bless this little group. Speaking like this, Father, we know that this tape goes all over the world. And here's a fine, little group setting here today, this visible audience here in Phoenix. O God, fifteen years of hard preaching and scolding, and, God, Thou knowest the reason: love. Love is--is chastening. Love is--is rebuke. Love is discipline.

O God, may I throw myself with this people this week and may You discipline us, Lord, to Your Word. May we see Your power raise up the sick and the afflicted, the eyes of the blind be opened, the great Holy Spirit come visible in the room. May every minister and every church be on fire. May the coming convention of the businessmen, Lord, set every businessman's heart in this city on fire for God. Grant it, Lord. We don't know what to do about it, no more than to ask and believe that it will be done. We commit ourselves to You, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

354-2 LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT.9

And now He says to His own, "As many as I love, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN." To rebuke is to reprove. To reprove is to 'expose with a view to correction.' Chasten does not mean to punish. It means to "discipline because the subject's amendment is in mind."

This is exactly what we find in Hebrews 12:5-11,

"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children. My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him; For whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."