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As we come back to Hebrews today,
we are in chapter 12 as you know. We've been there for a few weeks
and I think this is our third week in chapter 12 and all that
we've been looking at has prepared us for this sermon on this Father's
Day. You'll remember coming out of
the 11th chapter we had been speaking about faith, the importance
of faith. how it's foundational to who
we are as a people. And because of faith, we persevere,
we endure. And all those examples given
to us in chapter 11 of Hebrews are examples of those who had
faith and by faith persevered. These are people who dealt with
great challenges. Any idea that Christians will
not encounter challenges and difficulties, well they just
haven't read the Word because the Word says we will regularly
encounter them and we've established that, I pray, over the last several
weeks. But these saints of God had their challenges and their
struggles but they endured them. This is nothing new. The generation
that this author is writing to, it's nothing new. It's what God's
people have always endured. Now you'll remember that the
call then is to be encouraged and to run with endurance. He
goes to the imagery of a stadium, an Olympic stadium, and you enter
that stadium and you're surrounded by this cloud of witnesses. And
we spoke about how that is those who have a testimony set before
us, those who came before us, those who themselves ran the
race with faithfulness, enduring, patiently. enduring, even sometimes
suffering, but their race is finished. They sit there as victorious
ones in the stands and now it's our turn to enter the track and
run. And the implicit argument of Hebrews is how shall you run?
Will you run also with endurance, the race set before you? Now,
implicit in all this is that to run that race well means you
have to train and endure and do all the things that an athlete
does. That's why the author uses this picture. We talked about
that two weeks ago. If you're going to be a great
athlete, you must train, you must be steadfast, you must be
dedicated, and you must endure hardship. In fact, the very nature
of training is hardship, isn't it? You're putting your body
to the very limits of what it can take so that it'll grow stronger
and faster and will endure more. And so this is an apt image for
the Christian life. We are not to be lazily sitting back in
the Christian life, but we are to be actively involved in the
Christian life. We mentioned then, Paul says, to make this
point in 1 Corinthians, I'm not as one beating the air. He's
giving an allusion to boxing. I'm not one who's just simply
training to shadow box the rest of my life. No, there's a battle
coming up. I'm training for an actual time
in the ring. Because if you're not, then you're
not going to advance. You're not taking it seriously.
And so that's what our author has tried to get to us over and
over again. And so the lifestyle of an athlete
is one who endures hardship, suffering, and deprivation. And
why would you do that? This is what our author brings
us back to the last two weeks. Why would you do that? Why would
anybody do that? For joy set before them. For a glory set
before them. In the case of the Olympics,
for Olympic glory set before them. To have their name amongst
the pantheon of the greatest athletes who ever lived. The
greatest athletes in the world. That's what they strive for.
And if they achieve it, every sweat, every drop of sweat, every
teardrop, every bit of blood that they've shed will seem worth
it to them in the end. And our author is asking us to
consider that same thing because we don't only have the examples
of the saints of old, but our author says, look unto Jesus,
focus upon Jesus. What better example can you find
than him? For he also endured a course
of suffering, also endured a course of shame, also endured all these
difficulties. And he did it for the glory set
before him as well. And that glory was fulfillment
of the plan of God to redeem lost sinners. And so my friends,
as we look at this, we see this model build up for us of suffering
and of entering into training and of difficulty and all of
that leading to a good end. You see, the point we need to
remember is in the moment of trial and tribulation and suffering
and difficulty, we never see a good ended in that moment,
right? It's a difficult moment. But our author is asking us to
reframe it and think about it differently in God's providence
that we too are being trained and developed and sanctified
for the work the Lord has for us. Now, he says here that Jesus
endured and now he also sits as a victor, not in the stadium,
so to speak, that the other witnesses do, but no, the author says he
sits in a different position. He sits enthroned at the right
hand of God the Father. He has taken his rightful place
as our messianic Lord and high priest according to the order
of Melchizedek. He rules and he reigns today. So my friends,
as you think about what Christ suffers, then our author is asking
the audience in his day to reconsider what they are suffering. Yes,
you're losing esteem. You're losing some financing,
but you have not even suffered to the point of shedding blood
yet. And yet we just spoke of Christ who gave his life for
you. My friends, think about the example
of Christ. And so as we come to this text
today, we want to look at this, the way the author now transitions
into another picture, and that of fatherly discipline and training.
So I want to read our text again. Ben read it for us a moment ago,
but we want to read it one more time so it's fresh in our minds
and listen carefully and think about what the author is saying
here. He says, Nor be discouraged when you are
rebuked by him, for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges
every son whom he receives. If you endure chastening, God
deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom a
father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening,
of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and
not sons. 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? 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.
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. Amen. The Lord provided us a good text
for Father's Day today, and so we will run with it. And as we
do that today, I want us to look at two points. First of all,
a task for fathers, and second of all, a grace unto us. And
as we begin to do that, let's have a word of prayer. Father,
help us now. to see the truth of your word.
Speak to us through it, Father. Help us to understand the message
of this scripture faithfully, and help us, Father, to understand
why it's important for us. In Christ's name, Amen. Alright,
we come now to our first point, which is a task for fathers.
Now, Today's Father's Day. I'm sure you're aware of that.
And it's a day that we honor fathers and give thanksgiving
to God for our fathers. And being a father is a difficult
task. I don't say that because I'm
a father. Anybody who's a father knows it's a difficult task.
Anyone who's a mother knows that's a difficult task. Being a parent
is a difficult task because we realize that God has given us
a precious gift. and that that gift is dependent
upon us, right? That child is dependent on its
parents to raise it, help it to survive, and then also to
train it up in the path it should go. And so we see that here no
less with fathers. Fathers are given this important
direction and calling. They have a task. And our author
says one of those tasks is discipline. And so I think For a moment,
you can see why Arthur jumps to this picture. I think he used
it for three reasons. First of all, because the background
picture has been, why fathers, by the way, is so important here,
that the background picture has been the Olympic Games. In the
days of this author, women didn't compete. It was male games. Now
we have men in women's Olympic sports, so it's a little different.
But in those days, it would have been men, so it, of course, would
have fit the picture he's going for. Second of all, It reminds
us that we are all counted in as male heirs, right? The eldest
male was the recipient of the greatest blessings of inheritance.
And so we all stand in Christ, Paul reckons through this in
Romans, as male heirs in Christ. And then lastly, he also wants
to make this point, and the reason he's dealing with sons and fathers,
is the author is going to reference a text that deals with a son
directly. Now as he does that, as he turns immediately to the
third proverb, he has us to think for a moment about the importance
of this one because, again, it's a famous proverb. We even went
to it in Sunday school this morning to talk about not leaning on
our own understanding, but trusting in the Lord, which is from that
psalm. It's a psalm that certainly we
know, but Jewish Christians who had been raised in Judaism would
have known that psalm very, very well because the psalm is often
titled like instruction to a son. something like that. It's a word
of wisdom given to a son on how they ought to model their life
or live their life that they might live as someone faithful
in the community of God. And so as we think about that,
the author immediately knows that his audience will have been
familiar with this psalm, or excuse me, this proverb, and
he says to them, you've missed it. You've missed this proverb.
This proverb had something very important to tell you about why
you're in this moment of chastening, and you should have listened.
You should have regarded that proverb, but you've forgotten
it. Now that proverb is all about the wisdom that's offered to
a son, as I said a moment ago, but there are many things that
it says in it. that a son should do what is right, that he should
listen to his father, that he should not lean on his own understanding
but trust in the Lord's wisdom that he has given to us, that
he should be careful with his finances to honor the Lord, and
that wisdom is greater than any earthly treasure that we might
accumulate. All these things are said as
a pathway for a young man to live a righteous life. And yet
as our author thinks about this text, a text that they would
have known well, He says the part you really missed is found
in verses 11 and 12 of the third proverb, which he quotes in our
text today. My son, do not despise the chastening
of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him.
For whom the Lord loves, he chastens and scourges every son whom he
receives. Now, again, that is right there
in the third proverb. We don't have to wonder about
that. You can turn back if you want to verify, but it's there. And it's a reminder
to Israel that discipline is a part of the raising of a son,
the part of raising of children in general. But if we're going
to speak about a son, discipline and chastening is a part of how
we are raised in a godly manner. It's not absent from it, but
it's a part of it. In fact, as we think for a moment
about what this author is saying is we realize that fathers have
a role in this. I remember that because I remember
many times being told by my mom, you just wait till your father
comes home. And those words sent a jolt through the heart, knowing
that sometimes it was dad's duty to be the disciplinarian. And
that was part of learning right from wrong, learning what is
appropriate and what is not appropriate. But what's interesting is there's
a group of believers who say, I thought God loved us. And yet
all we find is tribulation and trouble. All we find is hardship
and difficulty. I thought God loved us. Now,
the Bible tells us over and over again this is the wrong way to
think. Today's message is about it's the wrong way to think.
But we can see it in many places, right? The entire argument really
of 2 Corinthians is that the super apostles are making the
argument that Paul can't truly be an apostle of God because
God doesn't like Paul very much. Well, what is the evidence of
that? Everywhere he goes, people arrest him. They stone him. They
give him hardship. They don't like his messages.
He's not beloved the way we are. When we preach, nobody gets offended.
When we preach, everybody says, keep going. When will you be
back to preach again? Nobody puts us in jail. Nobody
hates us. They love us. So if Paul is an
apostle, We're more than that. That's where that title most
eminent apostles or super apostles come from. If Paul's an apostle,
we're greater than him. We must be super apostles. Of
course, it's ridiculous. I love Paul's response right
from the beginning of 2 Corinthians. You don't know the half of it,
right? You don't know the half of how I've suffered for the
Lord because he's called me into this. And sometimes I can later
understand why and sometimes I can't, but I know God is faithful
and he is doing something. And so my friends, in the same
way our author's telling today, that just because you enter hardship,
it doesn't mean that the person who's allowing you to go through
hardship hates you. Writers bring wrath upon you, but sometimes
allowing you to endure these things for your good. Why doesn't
my mom, like in those days, why didn't she say, after she cooled
down a little bit, you know, or whatever, 30 minutes later,
say, you know what, don't worry about that, I won't say a thing to
your father. Because it wasn't for my good to get away with
things. It wasn't for my good to be able to say whatever I
wanted to her and there'd be no consequences. This is the kind of thing we
have to reckon through, right? There has to be training in righteousness. Now that's not unique to parenthood.
Our author's already told us about this, hasn't he? How are
you going to be a great athlete? Through rigorous training, not
through ease. Not through being allowed everything you want.
Let's say you're an Olympic athlete and you say, man, I'm going to
hire a coach that's less difficult on me. That might seem joyous
for the day, maybe for the week. But what's going to happen to
your goals when the coach is like, you know what? I think
you've done enough. It's already been about 80 minutes of training. Let's just call it a day. What
about when he says, like our allusion to a diet a couple of
weeks ago, if you want that fettuccine Alfredo, just eat it, enjoy it.
If you could eat a whole cheese cake, hey, it's your birthday,
take advantage. Is that conducive to attaining the prize? Of course
not. It might seem joyous in the moment,
but the end of it is failure. And my friends, if we think about
it, we can see this in many areas. We have a young man in this congregation
who is right now at Parris Island training. Now, if you would ask
the soldier on Parris Island what would he like things to
be like, he's gonna say, let's have a room that's like the Four
Seasons. Let me get up when I want to, let me eat when I want to,
let me train when I want to, and let me rest when I want to.
And if he gets a drill sergeant that comes in and says, hey,
that's what we're gonna do, he's gonna say, that is the best,
that guy's the best. Until a couple of years later
when he's in combat and he's totally unprepared and his life
might be taken. the whole country might be failed
and that we don't have an adequate defense in the day of trial.
We realize that we put those young men through all kinds of
miseries to toughen them up, to steel them, to make them ready
for the day of trial. And that means it must be difficult.
You're not sleeping, you know, in a king-size fluffy bed. You're
sleeping on a really difficultly hard mattress, right? And you're
getting up when you don't want to. And sometimes after very
little sleep, and you're eating what they tell you you're allowed
to eat, and you're allowed to sit down when they tell you you've
got a few minutes off. And the rest of the time, run
and hike and run the course again, because that's what is conducive
to building a marine. So my friends, we realize this
is the same thing. And the father we may want when
we're children is a father who says, you know what? You shouldn't
have done that, but don't worry about it. Or you know what? You said some awful thing to
your teacher or to your mother. Try to do better. Try to do better. My friends, that kind of permissiveness
is maybe what we would have wanted when we were a child. But would
it have been for our good? Think about that. Would it have
been for our good? Would it have trained us to do rightly? Would
it have trained us in righteousness? No, I think we know the answer
would be disastrous. The answer would be disastrous.
You cannot train for something good by training haphazardly,
easily, without dedication. It's a principle we see everywhere,
not just in the soldier, not just in the athlete, but throughout
life. It requires steadfast dedication
and training to achieve things that are good. And so the third
proverb reminds us that God is at work in the same way. He allows
us to endure things that we would not want to endure. He allows
us to go through trials and tribulations that we would avoid if we had
the power to. because it's for our good. Now,
sometimes that's really hard for us to grasp. In the moment,
particularly, it's hard for us to grasp. But my friends, if
you think about going back to the example of a father, there
are many times as fathers and grandfathers that we can remove
the difficulty from our children or grandchildren. There are many
times we can bail them out, right? We can get them out of trouble.
We can swoop in and save the day. And sometimes we do that,
maybe rightly or wrongly, and sometimes we don't do that because
we recognize, no, this time they have to be the one to stand.
They have to be the one to learn. They have to be the one to pay
the price. They have to be the one. But what our author is telling
us is it's the same with God. There are many times that we
are in moments of trial and tribulation and we sit here and think our
God is sovereign, all-powerful. It would be nothing for Him to
remove this from our pathway. And you know what? That's absolutely
true, isn't it? God could remove any difficulty
from our pathway. We've seen Him do it in history past. The Old Testament is full of
examples of how God raised His people to victory against incredible
odds, removed difficulties out of their path. The New Testament
likewise is full of miraculous things that God by His power
has done for His people. And yet sometimes He doesn't.
That's just the reality of it. He delivers, Peter and James
dies. He opens the door to evangelism
in one area, in another area it fails miserably. And we don't
understand these things because we're not God. Just a little
clue in if you didn't know that today. You're not God, right?
He knows what we don't know, and he understands what we don't
understand, and he's working to fulfill the mission that he
has. But in all these things, we realize
that we're allowed to go through difficulties for our good and
God's glory. And that brings me to my second
point this morning, which is a grace to us. Our hardships
are a grace to us. Now that is something that is
so foreign sometimes to our way of thinking, but it's what our
author is telling us today. It's also what we read elsewhere
in scripture. What about Peter in his first epistle? That sometimes,
though for a little while, we may go through trials and tribulations. He makes the illusion. This is
a principle we can understand even in the world we live in.
You don't have a more pure silver by leaving it in the cool air. You put it in the crucible, you
put it in the fire, and in the fire it purifies because all
the impurities of the silver rise to the top, and the silversmith
scrapes them away, and then he reshapes the silver and cools
it down, and now it's not 90% pure silver, it's 99% pure silver. And Peter says, you, your faith
is more precious than silver that perishes, and therefore
why would you be surprised that God would put your faith into
the fire? Realizing that it goes in and comes out more pure as
you trust in Him and learn to trust in the Lord and be delivered
by Him. So we come to these Hebrew Christians
this morning that we're reading about and they look all around
them and say, where is God's care for us? Have you ever thought
that way, said something like that? Where's God's love to me?
It seems like it's one thing after another, one problem after
another. I get through one thing and here's the next thing. And
it's easy to think this way. But our Lord tells us through
this word, He says that if we ever get to the moment we think
this is wrath, it's not wrath. God's wrath does not abide upon
His people. Christ took that upon Himself for His people.
What we're dealing with is chastening. These corrections and difficulties
that we will endure that will train us in righteousness. And
he says, in fact, it's not a sign of God's hatred of you, but His
love of you. For whom the Lord loves, He chastens,
our author tells us. just like a sign of love with
an earthly father is instruction and discipline. It's hard to
believe that when you're the child and your father is teaching
you a lesson, it's not always easy to identify this is love
and this is instruction and this is for my good. But as we grow,
we realize it, don't we? We realize all those things our
parents did to guide us and to teach us was for our good. They
loved us. They loved us. Now, it's not
surprising that we wouldn't love it in the moment. If you look
at verse 11, what does it say? The first part of verse 11 says,
Now again, we can make any of those illusions we want to. What
Samuel is going through right now is not joyful. It's painful. to go through all the training
that they will put him through. The Olympic athletes that are
finalizing their preparation for the Olympics this summer
are going through great pain, great discomfort in their training. That's just a part of what it
is. It's not joyful in the moment. And as a child, when you're on
the wrong side of needing a lesson taught to you, it's not joyful,
right? It's painful. But it's for our
good. The athlete who's enduring pain
now receives joy later. The soldier who endures pain
now receives joy later. When Samuel finishes his course
and gets to leave Paris Island, there'll be a joy in achieving
something great. And he will have achieved something
great. He will have achieved something great by perseverance.
In the same way, we don't enjoy the disciplines of our parents
when we're young. But walking a righteous path
as an adult, you look back and say, thank God for my mom and
dad. Thank God for those that guided me in the right way, those
who trained me up in a way of righteousness. What's that worth? You can't put a price on it.
It's worth everything. And so my friends, as you look
at this and think about this text from what we begin to realize
here, that he's having us to rethink for a moment, the events
that we're in, the moments that we're in, that yes, God could
remove us from, but chooses not to. That God could alleviate,
but chooses not to. In fact, it might be God's will
for it to get harder, more difficult, more challenging. Now when you
think about that for a moment, we're told why this is. For what
son is there whom a father does not chasten? If your father doesn't
have any part in your life, doesn't chasten you, doesn't correct
you, it probably means he doesn't care about you. Let's just be
honest about that for a moment. To do the hard work of parenting,
and it is hard work, is meaning something. It's a commitment.
Just like being a friend is a commitment. That means I'm going to stand
with you through thick and thin. Being a husband is a commitment.
It means I'm going to stick with you through thick and thin. Being
a member of a church is like that too, right? It's a family
relationship. And so there's these difficult
things that we wrestle with and think about. But again, we notice
here what he's saying, that if the father loves his son, he
will chasten him. And Arthur says we must understand
this in human divine terminology. Now, what do I mean there? The
Bible often does this, right? It'll point to a trait about
a human being and then it'll say our Father is greater than
this. I'll give the example often of the judge, you know, the woman
that comes and knocks on the judge's door. She wants a favorable
ruling and the judge just gets tired of her bothering him to
the point where he finally says, I'm going to give her what she
wants so she'll leave me alone. And this is a message to not
grow tired in praying. Now you think for a moment, if
you think about this wrongly, you think it's not a very flattering picture
of God, right? If we pester Him enough, then He'll finally do
what we want. Except all of theology tells
us we can't force God to do anything. He's God. We are not. And so
what is it saying? It's saying if a human, unrighteous
judge will give you what you want if you ask, how much more
will your Father who is good and has all power give you those
things which are for your good if you ask? And sometimes we
ask things that aren't for our good. And God doesn't give them
to us. Or he may give them to us to
teach us a lesson on why we shouldn't have asked for it in the first
place when it all blows up in our face. I'm not going to try
to sum up how God works here today because it's very complicated. His measures are vast. But we
recognize here that God, if an earthly judge does in the end
what is right because it's convenient, how much more will your heavenly
Father who's righteous do what's right because it's right? Well,
in the same way, we're given the example of our fathers. If
you had a godly father, praise the Lord for that. And he did
the best he could. I'm an earthly father. I did
the best I could, you know, and I'm sure there's a lot of places
that you could critique and say, eh, probably should have been
handled differently. We fail. We're human beings.
And yet what our author says in looking at this text is even
the fact that we had earthly fathers, it says we had earthly
fathers, human fathers who corrected us and we paid them respect for
it. You're not going to give glory to God when He corrects
you? You're not going to give glory to God when He allows you
to go through a valley that is for your good to train you in
righteousness and to teach you to do the right things? Notice
he says a little further beyond that. chastened us as seemed best to
them. In other words, they disciplined us for a short time of our life
the best that they could. And we realize that as parents,
right? We grow in wisdom ourselves and we think, oh, there are a
lot of things I would do differently. But we did the best we could.
We did as we thought was right at the time. And this contrast
again comes back. Our Heavenly Father doesn't try.
He does. He doesn't do as best he can.
He does perfectly. It isn't like overall I hope
I did good for my kids. God works perfectly in his children. And so if we look back with esteem
at our fathers and say they did a good job, they trained me up
in righteousness, they did the best that they could as they
knew how, how much more should we give glory to God who knows
all things, knows perfectly how to be our Father and to lead
us through both good and bad. Now if you think about this for
a moment, it's going to lead us, isn't it, to an important
discussion on providence. On providence. Because again,
what this is saying is God allows us to go through both good and
bad for our good. For our good. It's kind of what
Paul's getting at in Romans 8, right? That he works all things
together for good for those who love him and are called according
to his purpose. God is taking the good and the bad and using
them. He could alleviate all these things for us He chooses
not to. And there's much written on this,
we know, and helpful resources to think this through. But our
author of Hebrews just says, just think for a moment about
it. Yes, if God didn't want you to have any trials in the city
that you're in, He could remove them. He could make it easier
to be a Christian than to be the Jew that you're thinking
about going back to being. He could make it easier to be in
the church than to be in the synagogue. And He's chosen not
to do that. Now, why has He chosen not to
do that? And if we say, well, it isn't,
you know, God has no part in this, then again, we're not understanding
what the Bible says about the sovereignty of God and what this
text is saying about the sovereignty of God. God allows you to endure
these things for the same principle that Peter was talking about
at the silversmith, that our faith will be put to the fire
and purified. We'll learn to trust Him more.
We'll learn to understand God's providence. If there's anything
that Romans 8 is telling us is, He allows us to go through all
these events, good and bad, for our good and for His glory. And that's what this author is
saying. When you begin to gripe about your drill sergeant, when
you begin to gripe about your coach, that he's too hard on
me, I wish it were just a little bit easier. You do today, but
you won't in Paris this summer. or you want at the end of the
course, maybe when you're on the battlefield, and you're going to have to rely
on that training and the guy next to you's training to make
it through. You're going to be thankful for
all that you had to endure. And in the same way as Paul in
2 Corinthians is defending his walk and all the trials and tribulations
he went through, he says, you don't know the half of it because
sometimes I was at the point where I thought I despaired even
for life, Paul says, for life itself. But it seems like Paul
was at a point where he was saying, it might be better for me to
die. And yet all these things, God worked for his glory and
for the gospel. I don't know if you've really
ever considered that. You know, Paul gives a defense
later in the book of all that he's been through, the shipwrecks
and the scourgings and all those things that he's endured. And
I'll be honest with you, sometimes when my view of providence is
a little bit small, I read the life of Paul and I sit here and
think, how much more could have been accomplished if Paul wasn't
in jail for three years here? Except that makes me wiser than
God, right? Because God's the one who allowed
him to sit there for three years. Oh, and by the way, to write
a good chunk of the New Testament during that time so that Paul
isn't just witnessing to people in his day, but by the power
of the Holy Spirit to the church throughout the next 2,000 plus
years. So my friends, as we think about this for a moment, this
causes us to rethink our circumstances, to rethink the moment we're in.
When things are good, the failing of Christians usually is to forget
God altogether, right? Just to be gliding along in all
that's good. But no, when things are good
we should give God thanksgiving and praise and thank Him for
every good gift comes from Him. But when things are difficult,
and they are often difficult, We should also remember this
isn't by happenstance. This isn't by chance. I don't
like it. I'm not sitting up here trying
to pretend to be some great person that's like, I love when trial
and tribulation comes because I know God's going to really
chasten me and develop me in this. But you know what? I do
realize that what the Word tells me over and over again is when
that chastening comes, when those difficulties come, to think about
them differently. to think about them with a renewed
mind, to think about them as a people who realize God is working
even through this for my good, for the church's good, for the
good of his mission, for the good of the gospel, for the good
of my family, for the good of my brothers and sisters in Christ.
And if we have that big a view of God's providence, then we
can do what he's saying here. And even through trials and tribulations,
rather than griping we can give glory to God at all times because
He's truly working all these things for our good and His glory.
Fatherly Discipline and Training
Series Hebrews
Having noted the pattern in which difficulties lead to growth, we are reminded that, although God could remove all difficulties from our path, He allows us to go through them. This is not for a wrathful purpose, but rather His means of our sanctification for His glory and our good!
| Sermon ID | 8272455515255 |
| Duration | 33:53 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Hebrews 12:4-11 |
| Language | English |
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