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Mike teaches today. 06/13/2020.
THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 12:7-10 PURGATORY? [PART 1]
THE CHASTENING OF THE FATHER ON HIS CHILDREN

Verses: Luke 16:19-31; 1st Corinthians 15:41; Luke 23:43,46; Revelation 3:21

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“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.”

What we noted in lessons past is that the Father is vitally training His children to be first-born sons, co-rulers with His Victorious First-Born Son Jesus Christ in His Millennial Kingdom and beyond as kings and priests (that which He has typed in the first born inheritance of the Old Testament. (Deuteronomy 21:17, Revelation 3:21) The standard to which a Gospel Covenant first born son must achieve is holiness. The training only begins when a lost soul is reckoned justified in the imputed righteousness of Christ and becomes a child of God. No merely justified/born again in spirit is automatically whole or holy;…as the Christian is a new born, with a propensity to the World and is in need of training by God. As holiness in a man is equal to the ongoing crucifixion of the fallen nature while in koinonia with God through the imparted divine nature when his spirit is born again, this answers to His being the Father of spirits. This then is Scriptures answer to work out of your own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12) a work after having been saved.

One thought to keep in mind: At this point our Father is not now as focused upon the sins of His children as much as it is upon their victory over the sin nature.
These verses instruct us on the reality of God’s chastisement of Believers; it is therefore imperative for Christians to see the full picture in the Word of what God and ask the question what does God expect of a child of His to accomplish in Christ after being “saved”. And what does Holy Spirit direct author mean when he says; He chastises His children that they might be partakers of His holiness? Does this mean as many have said; the Loving Father only chastens by His Word? Does this mean as many have said; the Father only chastens His children while they are alive, in that when we Christians die we go directly to Heaven? And many more believe, in that they are apart of the largest Christian denomination on the earth, *Catholic that teaches it, that when you as a Christian die you immediately go to one of two places: Heaven where God and Christ now are, or *Purgatory (there being a third place Hell, but that is where only the Lost are supposed to immediately go).

*PURGATORY (in definition of a Roman Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.
*Catholic means universal….Romanism is really what we are talking about when we say “Catholic”.
The Catholic Church further defines Purgatory in their Catechism ‘As a purification (not here further defined as a real place or local, giving them room for the teaching option that there may not be such a real place but nevertheless a work that is done entirely within the soul) so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of Heaven. Which is experienced by those who die in God’s grace and friendship, but are still imperfectly purified ”

According to Romanism/Catholicism then when one who has received Christ dies, they are judged as to where they will go…either to purgatory or Heaven. The Catechism clearly teaches, "Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of Heaven — through purification or immediately, — or immediate and everlasting damnation" (No. 1022).
Let's dissect this teaching: When we die, our soul stands in judgment immediately. We Christian Catholics will have to account for our lives, for the good that we have done and for the sins we have committed. We (Catholics) call this the particular judgment because it is particular to each person. If we are free of all sin and the hurt caused by sin, we immediately will be welcomed into Heaven, where we…...

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