Treated like children

Being a child of God means that we come into the household of God and we are disciplined and brought up as sons. And He will treat us harshly in order that we can be perfected, that we can learn holiness and righteousness, so that we can fit into the household of God. If we do not subject ourselves to the discipline of God then we will be given over to the law, the punishers and then we are out of the hands of God. Then we are in the hands of those who will destroy us. Therefor we must submit ourselves to the discipline of God as we read in Hebrews 12:4

“You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,

 NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,

 AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.” It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.”

God wants to work perfection in us, as children of God. God the Father did not spare His own Son, Jesus Christ, but He treated Him harshly. We read in Hebrews 5:8 “Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9And having been made perfect, He became to all those who OBEY HIM the source of eternal salvation,”

As followers of Jesus Christ, we must OBEY Him, we must stay IN CHRIST. Jesus said that:”the branch in Me that does not bear fruit WILL BE CUT OFF.” He said:”if you stay in Me,(if you remain in My words) you will bear much fruit. And hereby is the Father glorified, that you bear much fruit.” Dear friends, an obedient child brings glory and honor to his father but a disobedient child brings shame to the father and that is the branch that will be cut off. If we disregard the discipline of God and not submit ourselves to the discipline of the Holy Spirit, we will be rejected. Like any son who does not listen to his father and he goes out and commits crime, then the law takes over!  And then his father has no part any more in where he ends up. 

We must submit ourselves to the discipline of God, we must obey Jesus Christ because He is working PERFECTION in us. Jesus said: “be ye perfect, like your Father in heaven is perfect.” God wants perfection. What Jesus said, were the words of God, and those are the words by which we will live if we obey them and those are the words that will judge us if we disregard them. He wants perfection in us.

Let us OBEY the words of Jesus and we will live!

Dear friend, if you do not know Jesus yet, then you can get to know Him now, you can accept Him now as your Lord. All you need to do, is go on your knees and cry out to Him. Cry out to Him for mercy. Ask Him to forgive your sins, your previous sins and to come into your life, to accept you into  the household of God, and He will accept you, dear friend. And Jesus will give His Spirit to guide you into all truth. He loves you and He cares for you. It is not the will of God that any man perish. If you are back slidden, if you have gone away from God, dear friend, COME BACK! Come back immediately. The Father will not reject a prodigal son who has remorse and who truly repents. Do not wait any longer. Go on your knees now, humble yourself before God. Call out to Jesus for mercy, my friend. There is mercy now. You don't know how long you will live. Maybe this is your last opportunity, make use of it! Bow down before Jesus, cry out to Him for mercy. Cry out until He answers you, until He gives you peace in your heart, and then stay with Him. Subject yourself to His discipline and you will live.

May Jesus bless you.