Church Discipline
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Discouraged?
Discouraged?
They could be growing disheartened by the fact they are fulfilling their responsibility to bear each others burdens and help those in need and are being taken advantage of.
14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
see Gal. 6:1-10 -
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Discipline
Discipline
How patient is too patient? How much must you help? Is there a point where enough is enough? Yes…
“does not obey” - how do you know they refuse or are not obeying.
Mark Dever “your spiritual life is other people’s business”
to my wife “you are my business”
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.
2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
“warn him as a brother”
Leemans 5 purposes of church discipline
expose
warn
save
protect
present a good witness for Jesus
How?
How?
15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
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10 As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,
Why?
8 and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”