Chastisement & Chastening
Cleansing the Flesh from Sins
Cleansing the Flesh from Sins
Chastisement is a form of correction; it is an affliction of love to clean the individual from sins. Chastisement affects the person's lifestyle from sin.
To refine an individual to do good.
We read in Malachi 3:1-3 “Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the Lord of hosts. "But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? He is like a refiner's fire And a launderer's soap.
He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer the Lord An offering in righteousness.
Jeremiah 9:7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and try them; For how shall I deal with the daughter of My people?
Malachi 3:3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer the Lord An offering in righteousness.
In words like gold or silver, the person is tried by fire to refine the individual from sins.
“Purifier”
Zech 13:9 I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My people'; And each one will say, 'The Lord is my God.' "“Purifier”
Daniel 11:35 And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the end; because it is still for the appointed time.
James 1:2-5 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that testing your faith produces patience.
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
Note: Here in these verses, Christ said that in an appointed time in the individual life, He will begin to refine and purify the person through trials, and by Chastisement in the personal life, this call trial by fire. The fire is the Holy Spirit.
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