BIBLICAL VIEW | DISCIPLINE (2)

1. Introduction

Proverbs 29:15 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁵ To discipline a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

2. GOD disciplines us...

a) Manasseh

2 Chronicles 33:12 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹² But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

b) David

Psalm 119:67 New Living Translation (NLT)

⁶⁷ I used to wander off until you disciplined me;
    but now I closely follow your word.

Psalm 119:71 New Living Translation (NLT)

⁷¹ My suffering was good for me,
    for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees. 

 Psalm 119:75 New Living Translation (NLT)

⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that your regulations are fair;
    you disciplined me because I needed it.

c) The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:13-17 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹³ “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. ¹⁴ About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. ¹⁵ He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. ¹⁶ The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.

¹⁷ “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!

Micah 6:9 New Living Translation (NLT)

⁹ Fear the Lord if you are wise!

    His voice calls to everyone in Jerusalem:
“The armies of destruction are coming;
    the Lord is sending them.

d) The purpose is to drive foolishness away...