Two Ways To Fear God

Unbelievers should fear God*s condemnation and believers should fear His chastisement. Both ways to fear God can feel the same, but there is a world of difference between God*s purposes for condemnation and His purposes for chastisement. His condemnation is eternal and His chastisement is not. While His condemnation is eternal punishment, His chastisement is for the correction and benefit of His children. I personally believe His chastisement for His children can be as severe as physical death.

Hebrews 12:5-11: And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 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? 10 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. 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

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