Good Morning and welcome in. Today we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture but before we do that I wanted to tell you a little story.
I was visiting with an older gentleman one day, who was talking about his life when he was a kid. He had grown up in the early fifties, and one day he and some other kids decided to steal some things from their neighbor’s garden. Before he knew what was going on, a man came out with a gun filled with rock salt. Although he got hit in the leg, he ended up getting all the way back home. When his dad found out what he had done, he was furious and took him out to the woodshed to take care of the issue of disobedience. When I asked him how that made him feel he said,… “I deserved what I got, and I had it coming.”
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
It’s a responsibility of a dad in the home to rebuke his children as needed. This is done to correct them and put them on the proper path. Obedience begins in the home, and a dad must rebuke with all authority.
“These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.”
— Titus 2:15
A rebuke is to disapprove of what somebody has said or done. It can be done in a very stern manner, or quite angrily, depending on the serious nature of the activity. One dictionary defines it as strongly warning or reprimanding someone, for the purpose of correcting bad behavior.
In the Christian home the dad is the patriarchal head of the household. It is his responsibility to rebuke not only his children, but also his wife if she is not being obedient to him. Many people might call that controlling, and they are absolutely right. A sheriff exercises control over others. A judge exercises control over others. A man is required by God to exercise control over his family, and to lead them on the path of obedience. Many women don’t like it when her husband exercises authority over them, and that’s one of the reasons why a lot of marriages end in divorce. Instead of submitting to him, they resist him, just as the devil resists submission to God. I’ve always said for 20 years that marriage is not a democracy, it’s an autocracy and the husband is the head. It’s always amazed me that some unbelieving women are more submissive to their own husbands, than many of those who profess to be Christian.
Whenever a wife or children profess to believe in Jesus, they are required by Jesus to obey the head of the household. It’s clear that those who impeniently choose to resist, will receive to themselves damnation. Obedience pleases God, and the Lord Jesus is perfectly obedient to the Heavenly Father. Those who profess Christianity who don’t understand obedience to their authority in a home, are completely void of any understanding of God. The Apostle Paul was a Spiritual dad to the church, and if it was required, he was going to show up and rebuke their disobedience. If if there was no compliance, he wouldn’t spare them.
2 Corinthians 13. ¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. ² I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
Many wives can be in complete rebellion to their husband because they never had a dad when they grew up. Because they never heard any rebukes and corrections, it is completely foreign to them, thinking that they are above reproach. This is caused by pride. They are so far away from the Christian faith that when they are corrected, they actually call it abusive. A woman who professes Christianity must never use syrup over her husband’s authority. Reverence and submission towards a husband is required to obtain paradise, and it is a man’s responsibility to rebuke his own household if needed.
“Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.”
— 1 Timothy 5:20
Christian rebukes are intended to correct wrong or displeasing behavior. God willing it won’t be needed, but if people reject admonitions and gentle reproofs, then the time has come for something stronger.
Hebrews 12. 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.
Jesus severely rebuked them in the temple, throwing over tables, and scourging them for their disobedience. Today many people preach a false gospel and present a false Jesus to the world. They have no idea of the power and authority that He will exercise, not only here on the Earth, but on judgment Day when people will be cast away from his presence into a burning Lake of Fire. That is the final reward for the impenitent.
John 2. ¹² After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
¹³ And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, ¹⁴ And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: ¹⁵ And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; ¹⁶ And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
Titus was commanded to rebuke the church sharply.
“This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;”
— Titus 1:13
A scorner doesn’t want to listen to a rebuke, and chooses the path of rebellion instead.
“A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.”
— Proverbs 13:1
Some people were actually mocking the Apostle Paul, thinking that he wasn’t going to do anything about disobedience in the church. But if they really wanted to see the man from the letters, they were going to meet him face to face.
2 Corinthians 10 ⁸ For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: ⁹ That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. ¹⁰ For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. ¹¹ Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
Like a dad who gets upset and changes his voice, the Apostle would do the same.
“I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.”
— Galatians 4:20
“What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?”
— 1 Corinthians 4:21
The Apostle wanted the church to become perfectly obedient to God. This is our mandate for anybody who professes to love Him. Rebellion and disobedience are qualities that God hates, and to correct the problem, sometimes it requires a trip…….
….. Out to the Woodshed
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