PRAYER: "Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me ... Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow ... Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."—Psalm 51: 2-10.

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–verb (used with object), -tised, -tis⋅ing.

1. to discipline, esp. by corporal punishment.

2. to criticize severely.

3. Archaic. to restrain; chasten.

4. Archaic. to refine; purify.

Main Entry: pu·ri·fy

Pronunciation: \ˈpyu̇r-ə-ˌfī\

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): pu·ri·fied; pu·ri·fy·ing

Etymology: Middle English purifien, from Anglo-French purifier, from Latin purificare, from Latin purus + -ificare -ify

Date: 14th century

transitive verb : to make pure: as a : to clear from material defilement or imperfection b : to free from guilt or moral or ceremonial blemish c : to free from undesirable elementsintransitive verb : to grow or become pure or clean

— pu·ri·fi·er \-ˌfī(-ə)r\ noun

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"He that loveth his son chasteneth him." (Prov. 13 :24.)

"Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die."—Prov. 23:13.

When God made his Son the King of the whole world, the Lord of all lords, and the Prince of all princes, he guided him through the school of suffering in order to make him perfect. "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered." If we add to this David's experience, "Before I was afflicted I went astray" (Psalm 119:67), and that of the writer of the letter to the Hebrews, "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth" (Heb. 12:6), it becomes very evident that we have reached a stage where good is termed evil and evil good, hatred love, and God's love hatred.

FROM THE OLD PARADISE TO THE NEW

The trunk of a grapevine is allowed to grow until it reaches the height of about three feet. Then the husbandman begins to prune, or "chasten," the plant. As soon as a new branch shoots forth, it is pruned more or less by the shears, only a bit of the beautiful, richly foliaged limb being left. But if you will observe the result of this chastening, you will find that the largest and juiciest fruit grows on these small branches. While the unpruned, or unchastened, vine becomes richer in leaves from year to year, and requires more and more room, it produces less, poorer, and less nourishing fruit. Nature offers a good illustration of the ruling-systems of the two governmental trees. When we consider how it is with the tree of knowledge, we find that this unpruned tree produces poorer fruit from year to year, for instance, artificial foodstuffs as a substitute for the real. And the profiteers of that system rejoice during years of famine and need.

Christ and his disciples (the governmental tree in flesh) con­stituted a fountain of benevolence, which revealed, by spiritual and temporal good things, the Father of life to a people that had received the sting of death. At the side of this beautiful, spiritually enlightened, and God-chastened congregation stands the tree of good and evil. This tree has now become religious too; it has even a greater appearance of godliness than the tree of Christ, its saviors receiving the titles, "generals," "popes," "princes of peace," "cardinals," and "bishops." It has branches all over the world. It is richly foliaged, having castles, churches, temples, houses of prayer, institutions, and factories.

It took Christ more than three years to rear twelve disciples, and when they were going to pass their examinations, one of them turned out to be a traitor, another sought to forswear all acquaint­ance with the Master for fear of death, and the other ten fled from the life-testing onslaughts of the cherubim sword. Do you see how the husbandman stunts the appearance, reducing it as it were to a subterranean artery of life?

But the undisciplined tree of Baal manufactures in its modern seminaries thousands of disciples each year, and the honor and power of the bewitching tree grows daily. But observe the fruit more carefully—it is truth and falsehood, good and evil. If you are hungry, you are confronted by stone—stone in churches and stone in, prisons. Consider their pompous "divine services," their eulogized "charity," evidenced in dances, church socials, tea and coffee parties. Loudly they proclaim the announcements of the proceeds, which "are for the poor." This is divine service that can be seen. "Good!" say the feasting drones. "Hypocrisy !" cry the deceived and disappointed people.

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v. pun·ished, pun·ish·ing, pun·ish·es

v.tr.

1. To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault.

2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense).

3. To handle roughly; hurt: My boots were punished by our long trek through the desert.

v.intr.

To exact or mete out punishment.

[Middle English punissen, punishen, from Old French punir, puniss-, from Latin poen

re, pnre, from poena, punishment, from Greek poin; see k^wei-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

punish·a·bili·ty n.

punish·a·ble adj.

sn)

tr.v. chas·tened, chas·ten·ing, chas·tens

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

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

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1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

1Co 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

1Co 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.

1Co 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

1Co 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

1Co 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

1Co 11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

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Act 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

Act 5:2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Act 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Act 5:4 While it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

Act 5:5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

Act 5:6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

Act 5:7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

Act 5:8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

Act 5:9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

Act 5:10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.

Act 5:11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

Act 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.