Correction, Reproof, Repentance and Redemption

by Frank Klin maranathamedia.com "But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in His season: He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you." - (Jeremiah 5:23-25) "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst." - (Isaiah 50:2) "Upon the land of My people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest." - (Isaiah 32:13-15) "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in Heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." - (Matthew 5:43-45) "But if ye turn away, and forsake My statutes and My commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; then will I pluck them up by the roots out of My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My Name, will I cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house? And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath He brought all this evil upon them." - (2 Chronicles 7:17-22) "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:16-18) "I, I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put Me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified." - (Isaiah 43:25-26) "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say." - (Exodus 4:12)

"Behold, happy the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: for He maketh sore, and bindeth up: He woundeth, and His hands make whole." - (Job 5:17-18) Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. - (Hosea 6:1-3) "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues (source) of life." - (Proverbs 4:20-23) "For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thine offspring: and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water courses." - (Isaiah 44:3-4) "And I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season (appointed time); there shall be showers of blessing." - (Ezekiel 34:26) "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of Heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." - (Malachi 3:10) "And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee. The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, the Heaven to give the rain unto thy land in His season (appointed time), and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow." - (Deuteronomy 28:11-12) "Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His Wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. When He uttereth His voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of His treasures. Every man is brutish in knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The portion of Jacob is not like them: for He is the former of all; and Israel the rod of His inheritance: The Lord of Hosts is His name." - (Jeremiah 10:11-16) "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the

eater: so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void (empty, without fruit), but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper whereto I sent it." - (Isaiah 55:6-11) "God thundereth marvellously with His voice; great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend. For He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of His strength." - (Job 37:5-6) Out of the south (chamber-margin) cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north (scattering winds-margin). By the Breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Also by watering He wearieth the thick cloud: He scattereth His bright cloud (cloud of His mightmargin): and it is turned round about by His counsels: that they may do whatsoever He commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for His land, or for mercy." - (Job 37:9-13) "Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; the Lord shall make bright clouds (lightnings-margin), and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field." - (Zechariah 10:1) "We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against Thee. Do not abhor us, for thy Name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of Thy glory: remember, break not Thy covenant with us. Are there any among the vanities (idols) of the Gentiles that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Hath the rain a Father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? Art not thou He, O Lord our God? Therefore we will wait upon Thee: for thou hast made all these." - (Jeremiah 14:20-21, Job 38:28, Jeremiah 14:22) "The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself." (Proverbs 11:25) Liberal - H1298; benediction, blessing. From 1288, to kneel, to bless God as an act of adoration, praise, thank. Soul - H5315; a breathing creature, vitality, bodily or mental, breath, heart, mind, will. From H5314; to breathe, to be breathed upon, refreshed. Fat - H1878; to anoint. Watereth - H7301; to satisfy thirst, quench, cool or refresh by wetting or moistening, water abundantly. Watered - H3384; to flow as water, to rain, to point out, teacher, to teach, teaching, direct, inform. The other studies in this series can be found HERE.