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Authority and Discipline

The order of God which leads to life

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Prov. 1:8 : "Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching."

Col. 3:20 : "Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

 

 

God's discipline towards the believer

 

Heb. 12:6-11 : "For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives. It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline, But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. All discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful, but sorrowful; and yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."

2Sam 7:14-15 : "I will be a Father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him."

 

 

Exhortation for parents to see the blessings of discipline

 

Prov. 10:17 : "He is on the path of life who heeds instruction, but he who forsakes reproof goes astray."

Prov. 12:1 : "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid."

Prov. 13:18 : "Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline, but he who regards reproof will be honoured."

Prov. 14:26-27 : "In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and his children will have refuge. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death."

Prov. 15:32-33 : "He who neglects discipline despises himself, but he who listens to reproof acquires understanding. The fear of the Lord is the instruction for wisdom, and before honour comes humility." Prov. 17:10 : "A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred blows into a fool."

Prov. 19:18 : "Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death."

Prov. 19:20 : "Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days."

Prov. 22:6 : "Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it."

Prov. 29:17 : "Correct your son, and he will give you comfort; he will also delight your soul."

 

 

How to discipline

 

Prov. 10:13 : "On the lips of the discerning, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding."

Prov. 13:24 : He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently."

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