Answer to 3rd True or False
TRUE: This is your loving heavenly Father's repeated message to you: "For whom the Lord loves He reproves, even as a father, the son in whom he delights" (
Proverbs 3:12). Also, "It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all become partakers, then you are bastards and not sons. Futhermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness" (
Hebrews 12:7-11). Other important Bible passages include
Deuteronomy 8:1-5;
Job 5:17;
James 1:2-4; and
1 Peter 1:3-9).
