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It's for good cause. But notice 
he doesn't just leave you reproved, he also corrects you. See, notice 
what Paul is saying here. It's profitable for doctrine, 
it provides the raw data, it provides to us the teaching that 
we need, and we receive that teaching and it reproves us because 
we are prone to wander and we are prone to leave the God that 
we love. Rebecca and Pastor Naftali and I were talking recently about 
the nature of sheep. You know, it's not an accident 
that God likens the people of God to sheep, and he doesn't 
do that because we're the most intelligent beings. There's a 
little, I don't know what it is, you see a little clip of 
a video on the computer, and I saw one recently where there 
was this trench, and the shepherd fetched a sheep out of the trench, 
and once he let it go, the sheep ran and dove right back into 
the trench. What a great caricature of the 
people of God. All we like sheep have gone astray. 
Why does God use that convention?