BEYOND RECOGNITION

Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

HAVING RECENTLY SPOKEN AND TAUGHT ON THE CROSS I FEEL LED OF THE LORD TO DELIVER ILLUMINATION OF THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE.

I'M SURE MOST OF US THAT PROFESS TO BE GOD'S CHILDREN HAVE HEARD OR READ THIS SCRIPTURE COUNTLESS TIMES, AND UNDOUBTEDLY BELIEVE OURSELVES TO POSSESS A DECENT GRASP ON IT'S MEANING.

ALLOW THE LORD TO PRESENT AND OR ADD TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THIS SCRIPTURE THAT WE'D BETTER UNDERSTAND OUR OWN POSITIONS, TEST AND
TRIALS IN LIFE.

I. IF WE LIVE AND BREATH UNDERSTAND THAT GOD LOVES US. IT IS NOT AS SO CALLED CHRISTIANS STATE WHEN THEY SAY THAT HE CHASTENS THE CHILDREN OF GOD, THOUGH THAT IS TRUE.
MY POINT IS THAT WHETHER A CHILD OF GOD OR NOT WE WILL FACE CHASTENING BECAUSE OF GOD'S LOVE FOR US, NOT OUR LOVE FOR HIM.

II. I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE BECAUSE OF JOB 14:14 "MAN BORN OF WOMAN IS OF A FEW DAYS AND FULL OF TROUBLE".
A.) WE ARE ALL BORN OF WOMAN
B.) THE TROUBLE IS OUR CHASTENING

III. CHILDREN OF GOD ARE CHASTENED TO EITHER PLACE US ON TRACK, OR KEEP US ON THE TRACK OF OUR PREDESTINED PATHS.

IV. NON BELIEVERS ARE CHASTENED IN HOPES OF CORRECTING, AND THEN DRAWING THEM TO CHRIST BECAUSE THE WORD STATES

Mat 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

IN BRINGING THE 1ST CLAUSE OF THIS PASSAGE TO CLOSE LETS GAIN A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF JUST WHAT "CHASTENETH" MEANS.

TO CORRECT BY PUNISHMENT OR REPROOF;

TO RESTRAIN, REMOVE OF EXCESS, TO REFINE, TO PURIFY

SO NOW WHEN WE REFER TO THIS SCRIPTURE, OR TO OUR OWN LIFE'S HARDSHIPS WE CAN NOW KNOW THAT GOD IS PUNISHING US.

NOT BECAUSE HE'S MAD LIKE EARTHLY PARENTS, BUT BECAUSE HE LOVES US, HE DESIRES TO RESTRAIN US FROM OUR EVIL DOINGS, HE STRIPS US OF OUR EXCESS AS WE DO WITH OUR CHILDREN THROUGH RESTRICTION.

THEN HE REFINES, WHICH MEANS HE REMOVES THE COARSE, UNSUITABLE, AND IMMORAL CHARACTERISTICS FROM US, ALL OF WHICH PURIFIES US FOR HIM, AND HIS USE.

NOW WE CAN MOVE ON TO HIS SCOURGING.

NOTICE THE SCRIPTURE STATES THAT HE ONLY SCOURGETH THE SON THAT HE RECEIVES.

THIS MEANS THAT IF HIS CHASTENING HASN'T LED YOU TO REPENTANCE, AND ACCEPTANCE OF CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR YOU WILL BE FREE OF SCOURGING, BUT BEFORE YOU BEGIN CELEBRATING YOU MUST REALIZE THAT THOUGH YOU ARE FREE OF SCOURGING YOU ARE BOUND FOR HELL.

ONLY EXCEPTED SONS ARE SCOURGED, WHY IS THAT ?

WELL IN THE NATURAL A FATHER ONLY HAS THE RIGHT BY LAW AND BY COMMON SENSE TO SPANK HIS OWN SON, NOT EVERY BOY THAT ACTS UP IN HIS SIGHT.

THEREFORE GOD WILL CHASTEN ALL, BECAUSE THIS IS USED TO DISCIPLINE, DRAW, AND CORRECT, AND IT IS FOR HIS SAKE, BECAUSE HE DESIRES TO HAVE THEM FOR HIMSELF AS SONS.

SCOURGING IS NO LIGHT MATTER, AND IS RESERVED FOR TRUE SONS THAT UNDERSTAND THEIR FATHER THOUGH LOVING, MUST PLACE THIS PAIN UPON THEM FOR THEIR OWN SAKES, AND NOT HIS.

I SPOKE OF CARRYING OUR CROSS AS NOT BEING ENOUGH, BUT WE MUST ACTUALLY BE NAILED TO OUR CROSS, JUST AS CHRIST WAS.

WELL THE SAME IS TRUE ACROSS THE BOARD, AND NOW COMES OUR REVELATORY, ILLUMINATING MOMENT.

PRIOR TO CHRIST BEING CRUCIFIED HE WAS BEATEN BEYOND RECOGNITION.


Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

WE TO MUST FACE WHAT CHRIST FACED PRIOR TO MOUNTING OUR CROSS TO BE NAILED.

DID YOU THINK WE WOULD AVOID THE PUNISHMENT WE SO JUSTLY DESERVED WHILE CHRIST ENDURED WHAT HE DIDN'T DESERVE ?

GOD FORBID !

THE WORD SCOURGETH MEANS: DREADFUL AFFLICTION,AND DEVASTATION,
TO INFLICT SEVERE SUFFERING, VENGEANCE OR PUNISHMENT, IT MEANS TO FLOG !

WASN'T JESUS SEVERELY BEATEN, HIS BACK OPENED UP TO THE WHITE MEAT, AND BEYOND, AND ALL OF THIS PRIOR TO THE CROSS.

BEFORE WE FINALLY MOUNT OUR CROSS FOR CRUCIFIXION GOD WILL ALLOW US LIKE JESUS TO BE BEATEN BEYOND RECOGNITION TO OUR PARENTS, SIBLINGS, SPOUSES, CHILDREN, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, AND THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE US THEY KNOW WOULD NEVER ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE A SACRIFICE EVEN IF IT IS FOR OURSELVES AND OUR OWN GOOD.

THE US THEY KNOW WOULD FIND A WAY AROUND IT, BUT THE CHILD OF GOD WE WILL BECOME ONCE WE ALLOW CHRIST TO CHASTEN, AND SCOURGE US, IS THE ONE THAT WILL FINALLY STOP SIMPLY CARRYING OUR CROSS.

NOW BEATEN AND BATTERED, WITH OPEN PUTRID WOUNDS, AND NAKED FOR THE WORLD TO SEE THE WRETCHES WE ARE, NOW WE WILL FINALLY DIE THE DEATH OF THE CROSS AS CHRIST DID TO GAIN ENTRANCE INTO THE FAMILY.






2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: WHEN WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE ARE BEING PUNISHED, TORTURED, AND BEATEN TO THE POINT OF COMPLETELY BREAKING DOWN.

TO THE POINT WHERE IT DOESN'T SEEM JUST, EVEN FOR SINNERS LIKE US.

IF WE FEEL EXPOSED TO THE WORLD, AND NAKED FOR EVEN OUR ENEMIES TO SEE OUR INNER MOST FRAILTIES, WE ARE FINALLY GETTING READY TO MOUNT OUR CROSSES, BECAUSE WE ARE ON DISPLAY JUST AS JESUS WAS.

HERE'S THE GOOD PART THOUGH !

AFTER THE CROSS COMES RESURRECTION, AFTER RESURRECTION COMES ASCENSION AND GLORY.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHEN WE DO FINALLY MOUNT OUR CROSSES WE WILL SEE A MOVE A GOD SO UNDENIABLY SUPERNATURAL THAT EVEN THE CENTURIANS OF OUR LIVE'S WILL SAY AS IN (MK 15:39) SURELY THIS MAN WAS THE SON OF GOD.

SO BE ENCOURAGED WHEN WE ARE BEATEN BEYOND RECOGNITION, WE ARE READY FOR THE CROSS AND GOD'S GLORY IN, AND ON OUR LIVE'S







I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !





G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON