Minnesota Valley Baptist
2/25/2007
Chaska, MN 55318
952-368-7088
“Common Questions in a Rod of Discipline”

21:55- 22:07
“We are to use as many stripes as necessary to bring about the end result of discipline.”

20:30-39:20 “How many whacks is irrelevant. You may only need a word, you may need 100 stripes. A hundred? That’s what the Bible speaks about. A word enters more into the heart of a wise man than a 100 stripes into a fool. And so who knows how many. How much according to the actual number of strokes in any given case is not the issue. However, having stated that, whatever is given should be non-abusive. Whether it is 10 stripes, or 20 stripes, or anything well beyond that. There is to never be in any danger of physical abuse to that child. Ok, no physical abuse to the child. There is all sorts of varying views on what is physical abuse. Let me give you a biblical answer: They should never have their life or limb in danger, ever. They should never be put in danger as to their life, they might think, you might think, remember the Bible says you shall beat him with a rod, dad, he shall not die, you shall not kill him. However, if you use the rod enough to actually endanger his life, then that’s too much, or his limb, by limb that usually means appendages, what I mean by that is physical body must not be actually brought to be abused. Now if you took an inch dowel, a cane, solid oak inch dowel or an half –inch and had that within your wingspan you could hurt, you would hurt your child physically, and had that child bend over you could hurt, you would hurt your child, you could do serious damage. Yet if you took an instrument that was flat sprawled out, if you will, and a thick enough to not particularly break, but if it had a little give to it, you would get the job done…. What you use on your infant I trust you’re not using on your 15-year-old… You would be a great encouragement to your child if you kept all of your rods through the years and the ones that have been well soiled by tears and inflicted by flesh and broken at times and hand them off when he’s an adult and say I want you to know I love you...” He goes on to say when the child gets older he needs something used on him that’s a quarter to a half inch thick. “The blueness of the wound cleanses away evil…but there’s a major difference between a blackened behind and the skin breaking on a child. If you are disciplining your child regularly you will approach the breaking of skin and it will happen perhaps, and you have gone too far.”

48:00-58:00

1:02-1:06