Love and Discipline

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Love and Discipline
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No ill effects!
Institute of Human Development, Univ. of
California
Occasional, mild spankings of young children are
OK and do not cause any lasting harm that carries
into adolescence....Such discipline does not hurt
youngsters social or emotional development....A
lot of people out there advocate that any
spanking at all is detrimental, and that's not
what we found' said study co-author Elizabeth
Owens. (Houston Chronicle, 8/25/01, 2A
Presented at a meeting in San Francisco of the
American Psychological Association.)
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Love and Discipline are not Mutually Exclusive!

• He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who
  loves him disciplines him promptly. (Prov.
  1324)
• Chasten your son while there is hope, And do not
  set your heart on his destruction. (Prov. 1918)

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What is true of your children is also true of
Gods children!

• He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who
  loves him disciplines him promptly. (Prov.
  1324)
• Chasten your son while there is hope, And do not
  set your heart on his destruction. (Prov. 1918)

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Disciplines His Children
GOD
Out of Love
My son, do not despise the chastening of the
LORD, Nor detest His correction For whom the
LORD loves He corrects, Just as a father the son
in whom he delights. (Prov. 311-12)
Hebrews 125-11
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Disciplines His Children
GOD
Out of Love

• Instruction (God taught Israel) Psa. 785-8
• Punishment (God punished Israel) Deut. 85-6
  Psa. 8930-32

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Discipline Their Children
Parents
Out of Love

• Instruction Prov. 410-13 Deut. 66-9 Eph.
  64
• Punishment Prov. 1324 1918 2215 2313-14
  2915-17

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Disciplines His Church
Christ
Out of Love

• Instruction Matt. 2820 Eph. 4 11-12
• Punishment 1 Pet. 417 Matt. 1815-17 2 Ths.
  36, 14 (2 Cor. 26)

Eph. 525-27 Rev. 319
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Discipline Guidelines

• Never practice discipline
• For personal vengeance, Heb. 126-7 2 Ths. 315
• With a self-righteous attitude, Gal. 61
• To prove whos the boss, Col. 324

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Discipline Guidelines

• Always practice discipline
• -To save the erring child
• Home, Prov. 2314 (1918)
• Church, 1 Cor. 55 (2 Cor. 26-8)

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Discipline Guidelines

• Always practice discipline
• -To prevent shame reproach, to produce rest
• Home, Prov. 2915, 17
• Church, 1 Cor. 56-7 (Gal. 61)

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Discipline Guidelines

• Always practice discipline
• -To honor God perpetuate His blessings
• Home, Eph. 61-4
• Church, 1 Cor. 56-8

Hebrews 1211
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Spare the Rod
Spoil the Child
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When parents do not discipline their children
pain shame, disrespectful child (Prov. 2915,
17)
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Spare the Rod
Spoil the Child
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When a church does not discipline erring
Christians pain shame of a lost soul Christ
is reproached before the world!
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Loving Discipline

• As parents, let us discipline out of love (Prov.
  1324)
• As a church, let us discipline out of love (Jas.
  519-20)

For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and
chastises every son whom he receives. (Heb.
126, RSV)
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