God Chastises His Own Children: All of Those Who Are "Born Again," Proof You Are His and Shall Not To Be Condemned with "The World" When Christ Comes to Judge "The Quick and the Dead"! Ponder That!

A devotional for Monday October 19, 2026

From the pen of John Bunyan, Author of The Pilgrim's Progress

(Which at one time was the second most read book outside of the Bible.)

John Bunyan in the Bedford Jail praying to God!

Sons: Not Condemned with the World

“But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world”

I Corinthians 11: 32.

And this [chastisement] is the cause why some that belong to God are yet so under the afflicting hand of God. They have sinned and God, who is their Father, punishes. Yea and this is the reason why some who are dear to God have this kind of punishment never forgiven. But it abides with them to their lives’ end, goes with them to the day of their death. Yea is the very cause of their death. By this punishment they are cut off out of the land of the living. But all this is that they might “not be condemned with the world” (1 Corinthians 11: 32).

Christ died not to save from this punishment. Christ intercedes not to save from this punishment. Nothing but a good life will save from this punishment; nor always that either.

The hidings of God’s face, the harshness of his providences, the severe and sharp chastisements that ofttimes overtake the very spirits of his people, plainly show that Christ died not to save from temporal punishments. [He] . . . prays not to save from temporal punishments—that is absolutely [true]. God has reserved a power to punish, with temporal punishments, the best and dearest of his people, if need[s] be. And sometimes he remits them, sometimes not, even as it pleases him. [But in either case] Christ saves to the uttermost.

This reading is taken from the devotional Daily Readings [from] John Bunyan edited by Roger D. Duke.