Temple Baptist Church - 12-30-2025
1 Corinthians 10:1-15; Hebrews 12:5-13
Introduction: The key verse of this portion of Scripture is found in verse 1: “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant.”
A. I am spending a little more time on this subject because of its misunderstanding and importance.
1. The Chastening of the Lord is put in a wrong perspective by both the world and the worldly believer. It is treated as a bad thing! It is treated as a punishment rather than a clarion call to wake up from your sleep in sin, a warning of impending danger. The fire whistle downtown at the fire station warns of a possible tornado. Blowing your horn at the driver ahead who is asleep at the wheel.
Romans 13:11-14 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. (12) The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (13) Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
2. The World despises chastening because they are humanistic (the “god” of self) and unrepenting. The world view is “If it feels good, do it, and it is nobody else’s business” what I do.
3. The Worldly believer despises chastening because they do not understand the why and how of true love. We live in the “darkness of this world,” and our eyes become accustomed to it.
B. Before we get into the text, we need to set a biblical precedent that establishes a biblical principle. To do so, we need to look at the first mention of “chasteneth” found in the Bible. The word is found two times in this Old Testament text: 1) to draw a comparison and 2) to establish an action.
Deuteronomy 8:1-6 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. (2) And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. (3) And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. (4) Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. (5) Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. (6) Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
C. The First Mention of “Chasteneth” appears in both Deuteronomy chapter 8 and is personalized in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Here we see chastening tied to Israel’s day, the Corinthians’ day, and to our day.
D. In our text, we find the Lord faithfully exercising chastening to one and all.
1. Israel was a nation of great privilege. 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 speaks of the blessings of salvation (salvation through sacrifice on Passover), deliverance from Egypt (a type of the world), deliverance from Pharaoh (a type of Satan), divine guidance, divine protection, and provision.
2. Israel was a nation of great failure. 1 Corinthians 10:5-6 speaks of their failure in faith to go into Canaan and their rejection of the blessedness of God’s provision during the 40 years of wandering.
3. Paul warns the Corinthian Church not to fall into the same trap of ingratitude and faithlessness as Israel. 1 Corinthians 10:7-10 warns the people of Corinth that the same God who chastened Israel was the same God who would chasten them.
4. Paul prophetically warns us who live in these last days.
1 Corinthians 10:11-12 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. (12) Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
E. In the First Mention of chastening, God gives an analogy so that His people understand the why and how of chastening. He likes His chastening of Israel for their disobedience, as with the chastening of a disobedient child.
F. I believe that every parent who loves their children chastens them “betimes.”
Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
(Betimes – early at the task or at dawn.)
G. We older people often speak of the love and respect that we had for our parents because they loved us enough to chasten us.
H. Great Privilege – Great Sin – Great Chastisement - Luke 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
1. It can cost you a loved one – 2 Samuel 12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
2. It can cost you your temporal blessings - John 21:3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
3. It can cost you your health - Psalms 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
4. It can cost you your joy - Psalms 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
5. It can cost you your life - 1 John 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
J. As a norm, chastening is preached as a negative thing. When we correct our children, it is not only to punish, but to bring about fruits of righteousness in them. God desires that His children grow up to love and serve Him.
K. Hebrews 12:6-13 is a Full Mention Principle.
1. The Exhortation Of Chastening – vs. 5
2. The Exercising Of Chastening – vs. 6
3. The Encouragement Of Chastening – vs. 6-8
4. The Example Of Chastening – vs. 9-10
5. The Effects Of Chastening – vs. 11-13
1. Chastening Is A Sign Of God’s Love – “whom the Lord loveth” – It Is Positive Because It Is Done In Love And Not Hate!
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
2. Chastening Is A Guarantee Of Son-ship – “every son whom he receiveth” – It Is Positive Because Is A Product Of Eternal Life!
2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
3. Chastening Is A Purposed Process – “if ye endure chastening” “corrected” – It Is Positive In That It Removes Sin’s Penalty And Restores Spiritual Fellowship!
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
4. Chastening Is A Progressive Process – “chasteneth…scourgeth” – It Is Positive In That You Can Turn Around At Any Time And Do Not Have To Continue In Chastening!
a. The Valley Of Chastisement is a valley of our own making. It is chastisement for sin. - James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Numbers 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
b. The Valley Of Chastisement is a valley whose depth is up to us. It is according to our sin. - 1 Corinthians 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
c. The Valley Of Chastisement is a valley whose length is up to us. It is according to our hard headedness. - Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. (Chastening turns into scourging.)
d. The Valley Of Chastisement is a valley whose darkness is up to us. In other valleys you find God’s blessing while in this valley you find God’s displeasure. - Hebrews 10:30-31 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 12:28-29 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.
e. The Valley Of Chastisement is a valley whose results are up to us.
1) There can be continued and progressive punishment for sin.
2) There can be the restoration of the believer to a place of fellowship.
5. Chastening Is A Blessing – “it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness” – It Is Positive In That It Produces Righteousness And Testimony In The Believer!
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Psalms 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
a. Chastening Removes Sin’s Penalty – (The wages of sin is still death!)
b. Chastening Restores God’s Power – (Sin causes a loss of power with God!)
c. Chastening Regains The God’s Victory – 1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (Sin brings about spiritual defeat!)
d. Chastening Renews God’s Favor – (Favor is better than wrath any day!)
e. Chastening Revives God’s Peace – (Isaiah 57:21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.)
f. Chastening Re-establishes Worship – (Sin removes the worship of spirit and truth!)
g. Chastening Re-affirms God’s Word – (What God promises God delivers!)
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