Hebrews 12:4-11
Hardship for believers is loving discipline from a Father forming His children in holiness.
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hardship for believers is loving discipline from a Father forming His children in holiness.
To teach believers that suffering functions as God's loving discipline confirming their sonship.
Run with Endurance, Receive the Father's Discipline, and Worship the Unshakable Kingdom
Because Jesus endured the cross and opened access to heavenly Zion, believers must run with perseverance, receive the Father's discipline, pursue holiness, and worship God with reverent gratitude as heirs of an unshakable kingdom.