Works (Vol 4) - Sibbes - VI - Sermon 2 of Judgement's reason

Required reading
The Works Volume 4 by Richard Sibbes (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Sermon 2 of 'Judgement's reason'.

My summary
Last week we commenced a new section of two sermons on 1 Corinthians 11. 

This week's sermon text is 'But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (1 Cor 11:32)'.

Firstly Sibbes teaches us that there is a world that must be condemned.  This is because:
(i) the world doth set itself upon things that must be condemned upon present vanities;
(ii) they serve a damned prince;
(iii) the world condemns God;
(iv) even in the church there are a company of men that will be damned;
(v) the world is shut out of Christ's prayer.

Secondly we learn that God's people shall not be condemned with the world.  This is because:
(i) they are the first-fruits dedicated to God out of the world, and Christ condemned for them;
(ii) a godly man is in the state of grace, he is in heaven already;
(iii) Christ is a priest and he is a king.

Thirdly we see that the way God sanctifies to prevent his children, from damnation, is fatherly correction and chastisement:
(i) whatsoever God's dealings be with his children, it is but a fatherly correction and chastisement;
(ii) corrections are from God;
(iii) corrections preserve us from being damned with the world.

What grabbed me
I found helpful this description what you are doing when you sin: 'Oh ! therefore, when you go about to sin, consider what you go about. I go about to grieve God's Spirit, to provoke my heavenly Father ; I go about to force out of his hand some rod, some correction ; I go about to rejoice Satan ; to grieve the angels, that are about me for my custody ; to put a sting to my trouble, and to embitter it. This is the ill of ills, when a man is in affliction ; my own wickedness brought me to this. Let us wisely consider this : though God save our souls, yet he will take such a course in this world, as we shall wish that we had not tried conclusions with God. David gave liberty to his lusts, but he wished (no doubt a thousand times), that he had not bought his pleasure at so dear a rate. '

Thankfully God does discipline those he loves.  But it should scare us too.

Next week's reading
Commence 'Yea and Amen' by reading up to the paragraph beginning 'Quest. What is the manner of our sealing by the Spirit.'

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.