The Cost of Rejecting Correction





Correction is the love of a true father. We are told in Scripture that a father who disciplines his son loves his son. Yet, there are those in the pulpit today that would lead us to believe that God never disciplines us as His children. We had better hope that he does because otherwise we are illegitimate children and not true sons. The writer of Hebrews makes it plan. Let me share it with you.





Heb. 12: 6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives."
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.





Notice verse 7 says, "if you endure chastening..." As sons we must always trust God, but especially when He disciplines us. Our future is dependent upon our receiving and learning from the discipline of the Lord. Below are just a few things that rejecting the discipline of the Lord will set in motion in our lives:


1. Rebellion against God’s authority and usually the church.


2. A separation from God’s people.


3. A rejection of God’s Truth.


4. A rejection to all attempts from God’s people to reach out to them.


5. An alignment with those who are also in rebellion.


6. A susceptibility to error and heresy.


7. A plunge into deception.


8. Destruction of quality of life.





Rather, let us embrace the loving correction of Father God. By the way, as leaders, those under our spiritual covering will learn to respond to correction as we show them by our example.