Wednesday Night January 23, 2013
keywords:correct, punishment, punish, correction, chastening, opportunities, repent, depression,
depress, spiritual growth, control, protection, protecting, protect
scriptures: Proverbs 20, Proverbs 21, Hebrews 12
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Notes
Proverbs 20
Proverbs 21
Hebrews 12
God is too wise to make mistakes, God is never wrong.
How has God corrected you in your life?
If you believe in God and want to truly be a christian you have to understand that God corrects.
Hebrews 12:6-11 “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth.”
As you mature in Christ you have to understand that when God corrects you its because he loves
you.
When God is correcting you he is also protecting you.
God is a just God and a faithful Father.
Lamentations 3:39
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Whatever it is you think your going through someone has dealt with something thats far more
tragic.
Some opportunities are actually test to see where your heart is at
Hebrews 12:11 “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.”
Depression can be very selfish because you are only thinking of yourself and not what you can do
for God and for others.
Hebrews 12 really breaks down correction and how you should deal with it in a manner that pleases
God.
If you have been sinning against God, it is in your best interest to repent and change your ways
immediately.
You should constantly be looking to improve your life in Christ and seek to be better.
God has everything in control, if he wants you to have something you will get it and if he doesn’t
you wont.
Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to his purpose.”
If every decision you make in life depends on what you like or don’t like/want or don’t want then
you are living by the flesh
Proverbs 21:2 “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.”