| Chastising and Christ |
April 8, 2021
- Starting point: 1 Tim. 2:1-6
- Praying from: HEBREWS 12
CHRIST THE INSPIRING EXAMPLE
“Wherefore 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,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 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:
CHASTISEMENT A MARK OF SONSHIP
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
CORRECTION OF CHILDREN
9 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?
THE PURPOSE OF CHASTISEMENT
10 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.
11 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.
EXHORTATIONS CONCERNING CONDUCT
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
ESAU’S FAILURE
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
THE HEAVENLY VOICE
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
THE INAUGURATION OF THE NEW DISPENSATION
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
- THE COMPETITION—vv. 1–2
CHRIST THE INSPIRING EXAMPLE
- Preparation—v. 1. Christian life compared to a foot race. Note: “besetting sins.”
- Patience—v. 2. Keep your eyes on Christ—not man.
- THE CHASTISEMENT—vv. 3–11
CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS
- Consideration—vv. 3–4. Think what He has done for us.
CHASTISEMENT A MARK OF SONSHIP
- Chastisement—vv. 5–8. Note four-fold message: (1) Patience—v. 5. (2) Promise—v. 6. (3) Purpose—v. 7. (4) Problem—v. 8.
CORRECTION OF CHILDREN
THE PURPOSE OF CHASTISEMENT
- Correction—vv. 9–10. This makes us holy and just before God and His Word.
- Character—v. 11. Though hard, it helps our character.
III. THE COURAGE—vv. 12–17
EXHORTATIONS CONCERNING CONDUCT
- Purpose—vv. 12–13. Determination in serving God.
- Purity—v. 14. Live a clean and pure life daily.
ESAU’S FAILURE
- Perfection—vv. 15–16. Seek heavenly things.
- Problem—v. 17. Esau saw his mistake too late.
- THE COMMAND—vv. 18–24
God speaks to Israel before the law is given.
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
- Speaking—vv. 18–19. God speaks to Israel.
THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
- Sacred—vv. 20–21. When God spoke, the people shook in fear and respect toward Him.
- Sprinkling—vv. 23–24. His blood opened heaven for us.
- THE CONCERN—vv. 25–29
THE HEAVENLY VOICE
- Warning—v. 25. Those who disobeyed under Moses suffered; those, who sin under God too will suffer.
THE INAUGURATION OF THE NEW DISPENSATION
- Wonder—v. 26. God will shake the earth once more.
- Work—v. 27. He will sift out man. Only the solid will remain.
- Worship—vv. 28–29. Since God must judge all men, man should worship Him and live for Him.
- THE A-MEN OF ROMANS 16:20, 24, 27
16:20 “And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. A-men.”
16:24 “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. A-men.”
16:27 “To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. A-men.”
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