39.What does the Lord do when He does judge us? .

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He disciplines us so we will not be condemned with the world.

Current Christian theology is based largely upon such passages as the following:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death to life (John 5:24).

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (Romans 10:9,10).

Without regard to the context of these verses, the pronouncement is made that if we believe in the Lord Jesus we will never experience Divine judgement.

It appears the preachers and teachers who offer such cheap grace are ignorant of I Corinthians 11:32.

It is true that we must place our faith in the Lord Jesus. But after we confess Jesus as Savior and Lord we must experience Divine judgment, for judgment always begins with the household of God. Those whom the Lord does not chasten are not sons; and all Divine chastening is a judgment on our personality.

The Divine judgment is a blessing to us, when we repent and make our way pure and perfect before the Lord.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting (Psalms 139:23,24).

But if we do not repent, if we do not confess our sins, if we do not walk in humility and openness before the Lord, if we continue in the flesh and then partake of the Lord’s body and blood, the Lord Jesus judges and chastens us so we will not be condemned with the world.

If we then do not respond to the Lord’s correction we are close to the fire of destruction.

Whoever does not live according to the above rule, or whoever teaches believers they may sin without any need to fear God’s judgment, is leading himself to destruction and also those who place their trust in him.