CD 1690 Claiming Christ’s Correction - Secrets to Success Series - Week #1

Don't Miss Out!!! (Victory Worship Center) with Pastor Greg Proctor

CD 1690 Claiming Christ’s Correction

Secrets to Success Series - Week #1

With a raised hand: How many know that the Lord loves them? Did you know God gives us a sign of His love to us? Can you name some signs that God loves us? Can you name the most important sign of God’s love given to us His church AFTER THE CROSS? Look at this verse please as you open your Bible to Hebrews chapter 12:

Bro. Jason on screen: Revelation 3:19 (KJV) As many as I love, I “rebuke” (convicted - John 8:9) and chasten (to train up a child by education and discipline): be zealous therefore, and repent.

You just testified that the Lord loves you! So with that testimony you can “Claim Christ’s Correction”! Praise God we don’t have to walk in darkness and stay the same!

God’s love letter to us is full of promises! But those promises will not do us any good unless we know them and learn how to claim them or appropriate them by faith! For instance Jesus tells His disciples that when the Holy Spirit will lead and guide into all truth (John 16:12-13). He told them He had much to say to them but they could not bear to hear it before the coming of the Comforter! Praise the Lord we are past Pentecost!

*Text Hebrews 12:1-11 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.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.

Paul explains that God's discipline is a sign of His love and commitment to our growth and holiness, and we should embrace it rather than resist it.

Here in part Paul is pulling from the Old Testament:

* Proverbs 3:11-12 (KJV) My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

The Apostle Paul here in Hebrews makes it clear that “running the race with endurance” requires us being open to and receiving God's discipline, which is a sign of His love and commitment to our growth.

In other words, we cannot ““run the race” well on our own strength or wisdom. We need God's guidance and correction to help us stay on the right path, avoid pitfalls, and grow in faith and character. This is why embracing “God's discipline”, rather than resisting it, is an e

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