Sunday, February 5, 2017

Biblical child discipline

Spanking is not some outdated man made practice or something we should do because it worked for our grandparents. It's a Biblical exhortation.

Proverbs 22:15
A youngster’s heart is filled with foolishness, but physical discipline will drive it far away.

Proverbs 23:13
Don't fail to discipline your children. They won't die if you spank them.

Proverbs 13:24
Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children.
Those who love their children care enough to discipline them.

Hebrews 12:5-11
And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children?
He said,
“My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when he corrects you.
For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”

As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever? For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.

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