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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Purpose of Discipline 0:00 Are you guys ready for the word today? Yes. Well, here's before I'm gonna tell you is this. I've been preaching, 39 years, and I've never preached on this subject. That's why I don't understand0:12 people saying, the Bible is boring. Well, I've been reading the bible for 46 years, and I'm still coming up with revelations and truths, and I've been preaching it for 39 years. And0:24 I'm gonna preach something, and I'm gonna try to break it down to the best of my ability, but it's all along the line of pain, and but it's all along the line of pain, and gain. So would you stand on your feet? We're0:35 gonna read a few scriptures, and it's gonna be powerful. Watch this. In Hebrews 12 chapter and verse number 5, and you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons.0:47 It's referring to plural male and female. So it could be daughters. They're easily my son or my daughter. Do not take the Lord's discipline. O King James0:59 Bible, it uses the word chastisement. And many of you are familiar with that word. Lightly. Or lose heart when you are reproved by your for the Lord disciplines1:11 the 1 he loves and punishes every son he receives. So today, if you feel like you're being disciplined, it's a sign that God loves you. Let's go on. Endure1:23 suffering as Endure suffering as God is dealing with you as a For what's is there that a father or1:35 a mother will not which all receive then you are illegitimate children and not sons.1:46 Old King James, it's not a cuss word. You'll look it in your Bible. He says your bastards. You're bastards. If you won't receive the chasing of the Lord.1:58 Furthermore, we've had human fathers discipline us and we respected them. Shouldn't we submit even more to the father of spirits and live?2:13 Knowledge. But he does it for our benefit. He does what? He disciplines us. Discipline2:25 seems enjoyable at a time. How many of you ever gotten a belt or a switch? How many of you said, Hallelujah, this is fun. Give me some more. But it's a2:38 a draw on, though. However, it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness. I know our children don't feel that way when you're correcting them. But it says from God's perspective, and hopefully if it's done2:50 right, from a natural perspective, righteousness, to those who have been trained by it. You may be seated. Wow. What a great subject to talk about, Train3:01 discipline. The training of discipline that takes place. Now, here's a couple thoughts I want to share, share with you when I talk along that line.3:45 Defense dog or a dog in training? It has a shock collar. A shock collar. Okay? The owner has some kind of electrical device in their hand. And3:57 that when that dog is not doing what the owner has trained it to do, what had that dog has been created to do. You have been created to God4:09 to function. That's what the Bible tells you. In Ephesians 2 10, you are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.4:21 Retirement plan, go to Vegas, go on vacations, and that's it. There's a broader purpose. That's why he put a calling in you in your mother's womb. That's4:33 why he formed your personality. That's why you're weird. All of us are weird. But because he formed you for a purpose, you cry about certain things,4:45 you're passionate about certain things. Some things move you. Some things come innately easy to you. Some things come hard to you. That was all in your mother's womb. That dog has been wired to do so. And that 1, it does4:50 a do it. To do something. And that 1 he does5:02 to do it. And that 1 he does to do it. That 1 he does to do it. That 1 he does to do it. That 15:02 he does to do it. That 1 he does to do it. That 1 he does to do it. That 1 he does to5:02 do it. That 1 he does to do it. That 1 he does to do it. That 1 he does to do it. And hopefully, it's a light shock.5:13 Give5:18 him a heavy shock. I'm trying to draw you a picture of what God's discipline looks like. He may have to go heavy on you, but sometimes he doesn't know have to go heavy on you.5:30 He could go light on you. That's based upon you getting back in the place of where he wants you to. But if you aren't in the place where God want Don't marry that5:42 woman. Don't marry that man. Stop spending all that money that you don't have. Stop buying all those designer purposes5:54 and running up your credit card. Okay. We'll leave it that right there. Let me give you an example here.6:07 This is a guitar. It has everything in it. There it's not missing any parts. Okay? It has all the potential in the world. It's been equipped and perfected to play6:19 beautiful music. Right? So watch this. Here we go. I'm gonna make some music now. What's wrong?6:32 What's wrong? Oh, it's out of tune. Okay. Okay. Here we're getting somewhere. Okay. So you are you have been equipped by God,6:44 fully functioning as a Christian. You were born again and say but doesn't mean you're making beautiful music right now. It's not until you let God tune you up. That's discipline. And there's a lot of6:55 Christians who wanna be disciplined. They just wanna look cute as a Christian. That's all they wanna do. So I'm gonna give you a few analogies as I walk through many forms of discipline just like the same way you have7:07 many forms of disciplining your children. So does God. And so we're going to work through all that. But I'm going to give you a few pictures that are going to drive it first. Here's the first picture I want to give you.7:17 It's a parent who's disciplining a child. I think we can all relate to that. So that's why I'm doing relatable pictures here right now. When would that parent ever have to discipline a child? Is7:28 there such thing as a child that goes its own life and it doesn't need any discipline? If you are 1 of those children that have never been disciplined by anybody7:41 your whole life, a teacher, a mother, a grandmother, please raise your hand because you're a liar. It's true. So why is that child disciplined? Oh, he's just disciplined sometimes because7:53 he doesn't do his chores. Doesn't pick up after himself. He hits his siblings. He talks back to his parents.8:09 Discipline that child? Is that, is that a good thing or a bad thing? If a parent says, you know what? You know what? Just do whatever you feel like.8:22 I'm not gonna put commands on you, demands on you. Figure it out yourself. Is that a good parent? No, that's a bad parent. God would never do that. So his form could be instructional.8:34 It could be It could be training, but it also could be in the form of a punishment. And we accept that as a parent does a child, and a child should receive it.8:47 Next analogy, watch this. So, Jer, any military veterans here today? Okay, here we go. You cannot tell me that you went spent all your time in service and8:59 never got disciplined. You'd be a lousy soldier. You couldn't say, I don't want to get up at 4 in the morning. You know what? I stayed up late and I need9:10 my beauty sleep. And so, you know what? I'll wake up about 10 30 in the afternoon. Will that fly in the military? I wanna skip boot camp. Can you just give me a heavy rank like9:22 a a captain or, you know, a major and just just skip classes. I I don't wanna be trained. I don't wanna lose weight. I don't wanna go through combat scenarios.9:34 I don't wanna learn how to use What kind of sergeant would that be that would allow his soldier not to go through that kind of discipline? A lousy 1.9:46 Spiritual war. We are called soldiers in the army of God, and yet we don't think that God should ever discipline us and that we should automatically know how to do things. Third analogy.9:58 Their10:17 meet the requirements of graduating. So what kind of teacher would say, you know what? We're gonna just throw all those rules out the door. And I'm just gonna allow you to get on the stage, and you're gonna graduate.10:29 Is that a good teacher? It's a bad teacher. Why? Because after they get their diploma, they're gonna meet real life. They're gonna have to make a living and go through a job. And they don't have the10:41 skills. That's the way God is. Bible calls us a student. And so he has to be a10:48 good father. So here's the next and now. And so here's the next and now.10:48 And so here's the next and now. And so here's the next and now.10:49 And so here's the next and now. And so here's the10:49 next and now. And So here's the next many, many athletes right now are preparing for the Olympics in Paris in a few months. But whatever athlete11:01 they are, an athlete, diet and11:13 their nutrition and what they put their food in and everything is they monitor their training plan, whether it's light day or heavy day or whether it's arm day or shoulder day11:25 or whether it's speed work or whether it's distant running or whether it is free throw day. I I don't know what it is, whatever the sport is.11:50 Athlete. And so that athlete has to be trained. So last year, I decided after 40 years to enter in, reenter the triathlete world. So I did a triathlon last year, told no 1 about it cause12:02 it's just it was all for me. I just wanted to do it for me and God. The only person that went with me is my dad. When the staff heard about it, let's send a film crew. Now you're not gonna send no film crew. This is just12:11 me and me. God, I don't wanna do it for me. This year, I'm not gonna send a fear and prove, but I already signed up on June 20 third. I'll do another 1. So I wanna improve. I wanna improve and and get better at 6 soon to12:23 be 63 years old. I wanna get better. So listen, I know how to do the 3 disciplines. And I'm pretty good,12:35 believe me, at doing the 3 disciplines. Because I have 20 year olds that can't keep up with me, 30 year olds. So I know how to swim. So So so I know how to swim. So I went and saw a swim coach12:47 and he evaluated. He took he did an analysis on my on my stroke and he said, I could get 3 more inches out of your stroke because you're not extending12:59 as full as you can. There's 3 more inches I could get. 3 more inches over a mile swim. You do the equation. I will never get better if I do not allow someone to correct13:11 me, rebuke me, discipline me, train me. I'm all that. You know how you know who's I'm master blaster, pastor g. You wanna come and see my trophy room? You wanna see how13:24 So I go I go do a bike analysis. I'm a I'm a great biker. So I go do a bike analysis. He lowers my seat by 3 tenths of an inch13:36 because he says I could get more performance out of you if I just lower that seat 3 tenths. That's that's what discipline looks like sometimes. Here's the last picture that I wanna give you.13:48 It's a picture of these trained Labrador dogs, field dogs, bird dogs. Notice how they are all stationary in position. But what you don't know or can't see is that a14:00 bird has been killed. They don't just run after the bird. They have to be permitted or allowed to run after the bird. Now, they they are waiting for their owner to call the name of the 1 of 8 that gets to go get the14:12 bird. And it's done that way. So I'm just saying, is it a bad owner? Is it a good owner that he could get the best out of a pedigree dog?14:24 You're not a mutt. I know sometimes you act like a mutt, but you're not a mutt in God's sight. You're a pedigree. You're not a barn horse, you're a thoroughbred.14:36 And God has to discipline you not the way he would discipline a barn horse or a mutt. He's gotta discipline you for his purpose, for his glory. So that you could bear fruit in your life. So that14:48 you don't have a marriage that's struggling. You don't have rebellious kids in your life. That you are able to be the best employer or the best employee you could possibly be. But it's not innately within you to15:00 do that. He's gotta come alongside of you and bring instructions sometimes, and correction sometimes, and training sometimes, and discipline sometimes in your life. Watch the screen. Let's just share a little video.15:14 Hey, climbers. How we doing? I'm on about a 48, maybe.15:20 Pausing.15:20 48 mile bike ride over 6000 feet in climbing, in Mount Bald going up Mount Baldy. This is the ice house, and I'm here with my friend, Matt, back there. He's holding15:32 my bike, and there's his bike, and there's nothing more than experiencing pain together. Pain is tough. It's tough to do15:44 it alone, but it makes it a little easier when somebody will go through the pain with you. Did we just go through some pain right now, Matt? Yes, sir. It was very yes. It is, but it's15:56 enjoyable.15:57 It's what15:57 we live for.15:58 What's that steepest grade we are on right now? We we even really we got to, like, the 12 13. 12 13 grade. And what do you think the the wind in our face was today? Oh, it's making it even tougher climbing. Yeah.16:09 15, 20 miles an hour. But again, the key is don't do pain alone. Do pain with somebody. I don't know if you're going through a marriage pain, a financial pain, a physical health pain,16:22 but don't do it alone. Do it with somebody. Everything worthwhile uphill.16:33 He's not trying to take something away from you. Sometimes he's trying to get something in you or to you. I want you to see it. The the fact is this is don't see16:45 disciplined as just simply punishment. See discipline as a stage of your life that got like refining process, like a perfecting process, or maturing. It's not16:57 that you've done something wrong that God would discipline. Now, it can be. We'll see the balance of that. But it's because you're doing something right that God wants to discipline. So here's the next17:08 point. So we're gonna give you 3 quick points today. We're gonna talk about the what of discipline. We're going to talk about, the how of discipline and the why of discipline. So here we go. Let's talk a little bit about17:18 the what of discipline. The Bible says this. Do not despise the Lord's instructions, my son. And do not loathe his book of17:30 Hebrews that we read in our introduction, we saw the word discipline 8 times. That word discipline in the Greek is paideia. Is17:42 translated to the English is what we get the English word, just drew a blank right now. It's where we get the English word pediatrician from. Pediatrician. Is pediatrician a17:53 bad person? Does a pediatrician want to do evil and wrong to a child? But yet God chose to use that word to describe what he does to to us. He's like a18:05 pediatrician. He comes to train you. He comes to instruct you. He comes to correct you. He comes to try to fix your wounds and when you're sick and get you back on course. And18:17 that's the word that he chose to use. Father. We sing the song here. He's a good, good father. Well,18:29 part of him being a good, good father is the fact that he has to discipline us. If he doesn't discipline us, he's not a good, good father. Now, the part on our responsibility, you'll see in a few18:41 moments, is the fact if he's a good, good father, will I be a good, good child? Father is that he will discipline. The sign of a good good18:52 son or daughter is that I will receive the father's discipline. Watch. Here's the challenge. It reads on the screen right now. The challenge is that he is a good father, but are we a good children who19:04 receive it, or we be children that run from it. Because he says here in the scriptures, then if we're ones that run from it and don't welcome the father's dis19:18 bastards, he says. We're runaways. We're spoiled kids. We act like orphans, and we're disrespected kids. We are like baby kids.19:32 Now, I don't know if you know what Bebe is, but you probably act like a Bebe every once in a while. Now, they gave me a new term because Bebe is a little dated. So they said19:44 the silver tooth kids, But I have no idea what the silver tooth kids are. That's when you know you're getting old when you don't even know what's new today. God said, I don't want you to be silver tooth kids. I don't19:56 want you to be Bebe kids and spoiled brats. So I wanna discipline you. And sometimes I do it with a heavy hand and sometimes I do it with a light hand. But sometimes that's based upon20:08 how you respond to my discipline. So I'm just opening question. If God was to discipline you, how would he discipline you? If right now you were being disciplined by God right now, how would you describe it? Because20:19 most of us don't even know what it means. You might be right now under the discipline of God and not even know it. And so it's important if this is the nature of who our father is,20:31 that we break down the misconceptions and the bad teaching in the church, the bad theologies that exist that is blaming God when20:43 God is not to be blamed because we don't understand what discipline and chastisement looks like.20:56 People want to blame God, and people do this all the time, that they believe that God disciplines with accidents, that God disciplines with sickness21:08 and disease, that God disciplines by killing people. See, I grew up in a religion that believed that God like carried a bat in his hand. And every time you missed21:20 it, bow, he's gonna smack you upside the head. And it didn't bring a righteous fear. It brought a terrible fear into people's lives. Like people say, I see it like, oh,21:32 I'm gonna stand away from you because a lightning bolt's gonna come and hit. Where did where did where did that come from? Well, mama said, mama said. Well, I'm gonna hear it. Respect, mama. Oh, mama, wrong. Here are the21:44 misconceptions that I've heard all my life in the world. This was an act of God. A tornado that killed thousands of people was an act of God.21:56 Why atheists don't want anything to do with us because we have taught this to them. So they would say, how can a loving God allow violence and murder and injustice to go on? Because22:08 they don't understand God. And so they're just blaming on him. He had nothing to do with it. There's an enemy, a thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy.22:23 Back so that you can look up, so that you could finally listen. Listen, God is trying to get your attention. God is mad at you. God is trying to get even with you. God's after you. God's22:35 punishing you for something new. The Bible says I'm an evil father compared to him in how good he is.22:51 Less. There's no way I cause a building to come upon to get their attention. And now all of a sudden, they're, you know, they can't walk for the rest of their lives. They're invalids. But finally, you're holy and23:02 righteous. So I had to do it. And mine's there's there's there's there's23:08 there's there's there's23:08 there's there's there's there's there's there's guy's shocked for a moment and then, you know, he's23:20 not scared anymore. And the man looks at him and says, you know what? Jesus is gonna get you. Jesus is gonna get you. Jesus is gonna get you. And and the burglar, the criminal says, I don't believe in Jesus.23:32 He said, I'm not as scared of Jesus. And he looked down at his German Shepherd dog and said, Jesus, get him. And we just think that Jesus is after us all the23:44 time. If you believe that to be true, and you've been taught that in your life,23:59 Prepare. Do you believe that Jesus did everything that the father asked him to do? Do you believe that everything that Jesus did please the father?24:13 Did you believe that Jesus is the expressed image of the will of God? Good. Then show me in the 3 and a half years of Jesus's ministry when24:24 he ever inflicted sickness and disease on somebody to teach them. Show me the parable of the story where he said, you rebellious person, let the building fall down on you right now. You ain't serving God,24:36 death come upon you now. In fact, there are 2 disciples that wanted to do that and Jesus had to rebuke them. Because they wanna call down lightning to judge them. You can't validate it because it's not24:48 proven in his ministry. It's not there. So we have to understand then how does God discipline? How many of you ever seen a beautiful25:00 bonsai tree? Your It's somebody. How many of you know it just didn't25:12 get that way? Because in its raw form, it just looks like any other25:28 raw that's the way God says. You were fearfully and wonderfully made. That he is that he25:40 is working within you to perform his will. That you are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus under good works. And so he's trying to form the beauty out of who you are and what25:52 you are. So here's the here's the next thing I want to talk about today. I want to talk a little bit about it's going on the screen, how God disciplines. I wanna talk a little bit about26:03 how God disciplines. Now again Oh, I wanna read you a scripture. I'm sorry. How God disciplines. So it's just listen. Every branch in me that does not,26:16 produce fruit, he removes it. Now, most of us when we read this, get this image that he breaks off this branch and he throws it away into the garbage bin. So he26:27 prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it may produce more fruit. This is what discipline looks like. Could be a form of a pruning that's taking place26:40 in your life. But notice what he says here. How many of you ever seen a bush, a heavy bush, a heavy tree, or a heavy fruit tree? That the branches or the fruit on that is26:52 so heavy, the branches fall on the ground. Fruit harvest is being robbed. It's now subject to disease, varmints,27:03 and now can get into that tree.27:20 The branch. You're not made to be on the floor. The floor robs us of the fruit of your life. I'm gonna put you back into your proper place, and that's what God does in discipline.27:33 So they're trying to break you away from him. He's trying to lift you up. That's what the word remove means. He's lifting you up. He's propping you up so that you and I can bear27:44 more fruit in our lives. So again, let's now as we have talked a little bit about the ways and the methods in which God, disciplines I'm going to go into a deeper27:56 way now of a more a more So the great illustration is that of28:08 and so God has to allow him to be thrown into an ocean, has to allow a fish to swallow him, and has to allow him to go fish where he smells28:21 all that's polluted and the seaweed in his life just is is is an uncomfortable place. And sometimes God has to chasten us and discipline us with uncomfortable circumstances.28:34 That's the key word. He makes your life uncomfortable. Man, I ain't uncomfortable sleeping around with women anymore. God's chasing you, man.28:45 Man, getting high is getting old now. 45 years old, still had don't have a job. You weren't thinking that way when you're 25 years old. It was all fun. Why why are you feeling restless?28:58 Because you're being disciplined right now by God. See how quiet it's God? That was a good 1 right there, what I just said. 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