If we have sin in our lives, and we go on, and God does not put His hand in loving chastisement upon us, then we are not children of God. God loves us too much for that. He loves us tremendously. He loves us as adopted children.
...God the Father's chastening is to cause us to acknowledge that specific sin is sin...
...Christ is speaking as a true man, and He speaks the absolute reverse of Adam and Eve in the Garden of the Fall, when He says, "Not my will, but Thine be done." I, too, must say with meaningfulness, "Not my will but Thine be done," at the point of that specific sin; not just a general statement, "I want your will" but "I want your will in reference to this thing that I acknowledge to be sin."
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. (1John1:6)
There is no such thing as to continually walk in darkness and to have an open fellowship with Him who is only light and holiness. This is simply not possible...
Here is something that is the antithesis not only of God's external law, but of His Character and what he is. How can we say we have fellowship with Him if we deliberately walk in that which is the antithesis of Himself?
TS, pp88-89
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