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We can see consequences of permissiveness in . .
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• Families
• Schools
• Prisons
• Graveyards
• Happy well-adjusted children have parents (not
  friends) who practice tough love when necessary
• True love may hurt, but it never harms

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I Biblical Discipline Is True Love

• Pro.311-12, Lords work
• Pro.121, covet correction
• Consistency
• Pro.1510, life-saver
• Pro.2313-14
• Your children will forgive you of everything
  except lack of discipline

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Hb.125-11

• 1. Forms, 5 (Pro.311-12)
• 2. Advantages, 6
• Discipline hurts, but it is
• a sign of love
• a means by which God can receive us
• 3. Characteristic, 7
• Discipline is training (not an accident to make
  us miserable)

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• 4. Gravity, 8-9 w/o it, illegitimate
  Pro.2915
• 5. Precision, 9a perfect discipline
• 6. Blessings
• life, 9b (future we shall live)
• Ep.61-3
• for our profit, 10
• partake of His holiness (1 Pt.116 2
  Co.417)

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• 7. Pain, 11a for the present. Cf. Jesus,
  58-9. 2 Co.417
• Gain, 11b peaceable fruit
• Peace in God and in conscience
• The fruit of righteousness is enjoyed in peace
  after the conflict

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The gain of discipline

• Teaches horror of sin, 1 T.120
• Produces sense of shame, 2 Th. 314
• Destroys love for works of the flesh, 1 Co.55
• Helps to escape from the snare of the devil, 2
  Tim.225-26

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II A Tale Of Two Fathers

• Eli indulgent father of corrupt sons
• 1 Sm.222-25
• mildness / mercy out of place by this time
  29
• 1 Sm.311-14
• sons deaths, 1 Sm.44, 11, 17
• own death, 1 Sm.418

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Paul, 1 Th.211

• Pauls Affectionate love 1 Thes.
• 27
• 28
• 217
• 219-20
• 3 6-8
• His life is bound up in their faith
• Their faith sustains him

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Pauls Loving Discipline

• 1 Th.514 2 Th.36-15
• 6, in namewithdraw
• 6, 11, walking disorderly
• 12, one last attempt to restore . . .
• 14, those who will not listen . . .
• Pro.276
• Paul is no Eli