Rebuke reproof  salvation teaching

Loving rebuke, reproof and correction is something that God uses to bring repentance and positive change and growth in any believer’s life. It helps them know when they are missing the mark and then enables them to make changes. It really should though be delivered in a loving manner so as people are open to receive it. This is a short study on this using a good bit of relevant proverbs. Also included is a salvation teaching with which you can learn about and accept Jesus as your personal savior

Here are some good verses  in Proverbs with the word rebuke in it which stress its value

Proverbs_9:8  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Proverbs_13:1  A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

Proverbs_13:8  The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

Proverbs_27:5  Open rebuke is better than secret love.

One also from Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiates_7:5  It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Note in this verse Jesus says it is good to rebuke a brother who trespasses against you.

Luke_17:3  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

We are encouraged to rebuke and reprove and be ready at any time

2 Timothy_4:2  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Here is the verse where Jesus encourages Laodicea to repent of being lukewarm:

Revelation_3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Often the idea of rebuke is indeed to bring about repentance. Reproof is similar to rebuke and these proverbs especially speak of the value and benefit of receiving reproof openly and the :

Proverbs_10:17  He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth

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Proverbs_12:1  Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Proverbs_13:18  Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Proverbs_15:5  A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs_15:10  Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

Proverbs_15:31  The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

Proverbs_15:32  He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Proverbs_17:10  A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs_29:15  The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Here are two more proverbs which state the value of good reproof

(Proverbs 25:11)  A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

(Proverbs 25:12)  As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

Here is a whole series of proverbs from chapter 1 that state the value of accepting reproof and also the consequences of rejecting wise reproof

(Proverbs 1:20)  Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

(Proverbs 1:21)  She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

(Proverbs 1:22)  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

(Proverbs 1:23)  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

(Proverbs 1:24)  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

(Proverbs 1:25)  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

(Proverbs 1:26)  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

(Pro 1:27)  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

(Pro 1:28)  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

(Proverbs 1:29)  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

(Proverbs 1:30)  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

(Proverbs 1:31)  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

(Proverbs 1:32)  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

(Proverbs 1:33)  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

These two verses in 2 Timothy chapter 3 speak of the purpose of scripture being for correction and reproof

2 Timothy_3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

(2 Timothy 3:17)  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Here are a couple more verses on chastisement especially from the Lord here first in Proverbs chapter 3

(Proverbs 3:11)  My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

(Proverbs 3:12)  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Here is a very powerful message concerning accepting the Lord’s correction which always is done in love and this is in Hebrews chapter 12:

(Hebrews 12:4)  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

(Hebrews 12:5)  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:

(Hebrews12:6)  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

(Hebrews 12:7)  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

(Hebrews 12:8)  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

(Hebrews 12:9)  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?

(Hebrews 12:10)  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.

(Hebrews 12:11)  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.

(Hebrews 12:12)  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

(Hebrews 12:13)  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Now here is a salvation teaching expressing the purpose of Jesus and His walk on earth and the real benefit of the death of Jesus is that it enables a personal relationship with Jesus AND the Father God, one that was cut off by the sin of man, which were atoned for Jesus’ work on the cross at Calvary. There is nothing that can compare with a relationship with God- nothing can come remotely close to it. I am now including a salvation teaching with which you can learn more and use this to accept Jesus as Your own personal Lord and Savior or share this salvation teaching with others to be used of God to win them to Christ

First the word says none has done right, not even one of us, and he does not respect persons in this at all.

(Romans 3:9)  What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

(Romans 3:10)  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

(Romans 3:11)  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

(Romans 3:12)  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

In Hebrews it is pointed out that Jesus has appointed to put away sin and it is for man to die once and be judged but people can look to Him for salvation

(Hebrews 9:26)  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

(Hebrews 9:27)  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

(Hebrews 9:28)  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

In fact also all have sinned and have fallen short of God’s glory, however are justified freely by grace through the redemption in Jesus

(Romans 3:23)  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

(Romans 3:24)  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

(Romans 3:25)  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

(Romans 3:26)  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Here ultimately are the wages of sin that the above verse speaks about- the second death in the lake of fire. Remember that accepting God’s gift of salvation through Jesus WILL enable you to avoid the hell, the white throne judgment and the lake of fire.

Here are some bible verses describing hell, which indeed is where the dead go without Jesus

(Isaiah 66:24)  And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Jesus warns in these verses in Mark 9 that you should want to do anything at all to avoid entering hell.

(Mark 9:43)  And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

(Mark 9:44)  Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

(Mark 9:45)  And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

(Mark 9:46)  Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

(Mark 9:47)  And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

(Mark 9:48)  Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.’

Here are the verses describing the great white throne judgment are thrown into the lake of fire, as at this stage death and hell are thrown into the lake of fire and  these verses pertain to all those who die without Jesus. Please do NOT be one of them. If you have not already done so, please accept Jesus today.

(Revelation 20:11)  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

(Revelation 20:12)  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

(Revelation 20:13)  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

(Revelation 20:14)  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

(Revelation 20:15)  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

This warning of the second death is repeated, for evil doers who are unsaved but Jesus also promises those who overcome will inherit all things in these verses in Revelation chapter 21

(Revelation 21:5)  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

(Revelation 21:6)  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

(Revelation 21:7)  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

(Revelation 21:8)  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

God is patient with us so none would perish and all come to repentance as stated in 2 Peter 3

(2 Peter 3:8)  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

(2 Peter 3:9)  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

These verses of this teaching are from 1 Timothy state that it is important to pray because God does indeed want all to be saved for that is His will for all to be saved

(1 Timothy 2:1)  I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

(1 Timothy 2:2)  For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

(1 Timothy 2:3)  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

(1 Timothy 2:4)  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

(1 Timothy 2:5)  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

(1 Timothy 2:6)  Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

These verses in Titus remind us that the grace of God brings salvation to all men and that Jesus gave Himself for us

(Titus 2:11)  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

(Titus 2:12)  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

(Titus 2:13)  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

(Titus 2:14)  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

(Titus 2:15)  These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

God’s love for us is such that Jesus died for us while we were sinners

(Romans 5:6)  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

(Romans 5:7)  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

(Romans 5:8)  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(Romans 5:9)  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

We must believe that He did come as it does say God sent His Son so that people can find eternal life and not hell

(John 3:16)  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

(John 3:17)  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

(John 3:18)  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

(John 3:19)  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Here again in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 this message of all being dead but Jesus died for all and rose so we might live for Him

(2 Corinthians 5:14)  For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

(2 Corinthians 5:15)  And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

These two verses in Ephesians remind us that this gift of God is through His grace only lest any should boast

(Ephesians 2:8)  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

(Ephesians 2:9)  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

(2 Corinthians 9:15)  Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

Here in 1 John 2 Jesus is indeed the propitiation for all of our sins

(1 John 2:1)  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

(1 John 2:2)  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

These two verses in 1 John chapter 4 remind us how Jesus did give Himself for us to be a propitiation for our sins:

(1 John 4:9)  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

(1 John 4:10)  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

These ten verses in 1 John 5 speak of those who believe in the Son overcoming the world and having eternal life as a result

(1 John 5:4)  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

(1 John 5:5)  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

(1 John 5:6)  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

(1 John 5:7)  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

(1 John 5:8)  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

(1 John 5:9)  If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

(1 John 5:10)  He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

(1 John 5:11)  And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

(1 John 5:12)  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

(1 John 5:13)  These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

And here is the verse in John 14 which reminds us that Jesus is the ONLY way to God and heaven

(John 14:6)  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

This verse in Revelation reminds us that Jesus IS at the door and seeks us to open to Him

(Revelation 3:20)  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Here is how to accept the gift of God according to Romans ten, confess by mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead

(Romans 10:9)  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

(Romans 10:10)  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

(Romans 10:11)  For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

(Romans 10:12)  For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him

Paul reminds us all who call on Jesus (the Name of the Lord) will be saved.

(Romans 10:13)  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved

God did not appoint us to wrath but unto salvation to live together with Him so I leave you with these words in 1 Thessalonians 5 to comfort you

(1 Thessalonians 5:9)  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

(1 Thessalonians 5:10)  Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

(1 Thessalonians 5:11)  Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Here in these verses in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 Paul reminds us when we are new in Christ old things are put away and all things are of God

(2 Corinthians 5:17)  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

(2 Corinthians 5:18)  And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Here in these first five verses of Romans 5 we now have peace with God being reconciled by Jesus justified by our faith

(Romans 5:1)  Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

(Romans 5:2)  By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

(Romans 5:3)  And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

(Romans 5:4)  And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

(Romans 5:5)  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Paul reminds us in the first two verses of Romans 8 that there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus

(Romans 8:1)  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

(Romans 8:2)  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

(Romans 8:31)  What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

(Romans 8:32)  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

(Romans 8:33)  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

(Romans 8:34)  Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

(Romans 8:35)  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

(Romans 8:36)  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

(Romans 8:37)  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

(Romans 8:38)  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

(Romans 8:39)  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Finally in Romans 12 we are now to present our bodies as a living sacrifice and are not to be conformed by the word but transformed by the renewing of our mind. We also are now all part of one body.

(Romans 12:1)  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

(Romans 12:2)  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

(Romans 12:3)  For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

(Romans 12:4)  For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

(Romans 12:5)  So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

God sent Jesus to die to restore the relationship with man which was severed by sin. There is nothing that can compare or come remotely close to a relationship with God. I am now including a prayer which you can say to invite Jesus in your heart and begin this incomparable relationship with God. Please pray this prayer with me

Heavenly Father I come to You in the Name of Jesus. I confess to You that I am a sinner and cannot save myself. I confess and repent of all of my sins and unrighteousness. Right now I confess with my mouth Jesus as the Lord of my life and believe in my heart that You, God did indeed raise Him from the dead. I thank You for cleansing and forgiving me of all of my  sins and unrighteousness and for saving me. I thank You for sending Your Son to die in my place for my sins, and for the inexpressible gift of eternal life that I now claim through the death of Jesus on the cross. Thank You, Lord, again for saving me. In the Name of Jesus I pray Amen

God bless you and yours