Introduction: As Christian’s we really don’t enjoy the idea of chastisement. I know from dealing with Noah, that he would rather skip the chastisement and say that he has fixed the problem. Our understanding is not completely unscriptural for the scriptures often associate chastisement with fainting, enduring, rebuking, and correction. None of these are pleasant yet the scriptures would teach us that as Christian’s we desperately need the product of chastisement in our lives. If I were to ask anyone in this room if they want to be more like Christ it is an easy yes. However, if I were to tell you that one of the ways to become more like Him is through chastisement, all of the sudden it doesn’t sound so good. Perhaps we aren’t as good of Christian’s as we think ourselves to be.

1. Chastisement is Not Punishment
1. In Punishment God acts as the Judge whereas in Chastisement God acts as the Father
2. As to Punishment it is to be received by the enemies of God whereas the recipients of Chastisement are God’s children
3. As to Punishment, God delivers it from anger with sin and rebellion but Chastisement is delivered with love and reconciliation in mind.
2. The Call for Chastisement
1. Sin (Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
   See All...; 2 Samuel 7:14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
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2. Weights (Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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3. The Motive for Chastening
1. Love (Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
   See All...; Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
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2. Our Profit (Hebrews 12:10For 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.
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4. The Process of Chastening
1. Grievous (Hebrews 12:11Now 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.
   See All...a; Proverbs 3:11My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
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2. Purifying (Proverbs 3:11My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
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5. The Product of Chastisement
1. Assurance of Salvation (Hebrews 12:7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
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2. Holiness (2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
   See All...; Titus 2:3-5 [3] The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; [4] That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [5] To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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3. Righteousness (Hebrews 12:11Now 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.
   See All...b; Job 34:31Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
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4. No Condemnation (1 Corinthians 11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
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6. The Absence of Chastisement (Hebrews 12:8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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Conclusion: In closing I would also like to mention a strange verse in the Bible dealing with a man who chastised himself before the Lord. In Daniel 10:12Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
See All... we read, “Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.” As God’s people we should become so wrapped up in pleasing God that we would recognize times we were displeasing the Saviour and it would bring us to chasten ourselves. Men would you consider yourself chaste before the Lord? If not why not ask Him to chasten you? Ladies are you chaste? God commands you to be. If not why not ask the Lord to chasten you? You say, “it’s not fun being chastened”. You’re right but since when did having fun become more important than being like Christ?