2. Church Medicine
Brea 3/26/2017

3. Hebrews 12:11
“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.”

4. What Is Discipline? According To Webster: “Mental or moral training;
subjection to control;
Education…Preventive
chastisement.”
Regulation…Curative
Chastisement…Punitive

5. Three Stages of Discipline Mt. 18:15
EDUCATION
18:15 – He Has Been Taught, But Still Chooses To Sin.
REGULATION
18:15-17 – Several Efforts Are Made To Teach and Correct.
PUNITIVE
18:17 – When All These Fail There Is One Last Step— Withdrawal.

6. God’s View On Discipline
Prov 13:18 “Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline, But he who regards reproof will be honored.”

7. God’s View On Discipline
Prov 19:18-20 “Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death. A man of great anger shall bear the penalty, For if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again. Listen to counsel and accept discipline, That you may be wise the rest of your days.”

8. God’s View On Discipline
Heb. 12:5-13

9. God’s View On Discipline
God Has Marked Men – Gen. 4 & Cain.
God Has Withdrawn From Men – Gen. 3 & Adam.
God Has Taken Life
Gen. 6 – The Flood
Gen. 19 – Sodom
Lev. 10 – Nadab and Abihu
Acts 5 – Ananias and Sapphira

10. The Goal
2 Cor. 2:6-8

11. From Whom Do We Withdrawal?
The Brother That Refuses To Repent of Public Sin. Matt 18:17 “And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer.”

12. From Whom Do We Withdrawal?
The Brother That Refuses To Repent of Sexual Immorality.
1 Cor 5:1,5
“It is actually reported that there is immorality among you…that someone has his father's wife…
I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”

13. From Whom Do We Withdrawal?
The Brother That Continues To Live A Disobedient and Undisciplined Life.
2 Thess 3:6
“Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep aloof from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.”

14. From Whom Do We Withdrawal?
The Brother That Continues To Be Factious and Divisive.
Titus 3:10-11
“Reject a factious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.”