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Introduction
Good evening a welcome back.
I hope that everyone has had a blessed Lord’s Day so far!
Tonight, we are going to be back in and we are going to be looking at some of the Scripture that we did not have time for this morning.
Specifically we are going to be looking at verses 6-8 and we are going to be talking about the subject of “Just a Little Yeast.”
And we are going to be continuing to talk about sin and the necessity of dealing with sin.
And tonight we are going to be focusing more on dealing with our own personal sin.
Because in the end, if we do not deal with our own personal sin it in essence has the impact of ruining the whole Church.
And this morning we also spent some time looking at and Jesus’ instructions to the people and this issue of personal sin.
Just as a reminder, reads . . .
And I read these verses again because I want us to really hone in and focus on what Jesus is saying to us here.
Matthew 7:
Again, Jesus is calling us on the carpet for our own hypocritical attitude regarding sin.
We are always very quick to point out and try to deal with someone else’s sin, but we never want to focus on and deal with our own sin.
Jesus tells us that this is not how it should be.
Again, verses 5 . . .
Jesus is calling us, as Christians to deal with our own personal sin, knowing that if we would do this, then we would also be in a place where we could be of some help to someone else.
And like I said this morning, just think about IF everyone dealt with their own personal sin.
If we did then the problems would be solved.
HOWEVER, realistically we know and Jesus knew that people would not take care of their own sin, so Jesus tells us that those who will take care of their sin, can now be in a place where they can help others.
And as Christians we should do this.
And in our passage from this morning and tonight, we see Paul dealing with a situation very harshly because the Church has failed to deal with it.
Instead of dealing with the problem, Paul writes to the Church . . .
And what I want us to focus on here is their pride.
Instead of recognizing the sin and dealing with the sin, they are blinded by pride.
Instead of being concerned over the sin in this man’s life and the destructive hold it has on him, they are consumed with pride.
And our Bible tells us that . . .
And that it is . . .
And John also tells us that . . .
1 John 2:
So this sense of pride is leading them down a path they do not need to go.
This pride is leading them down a road of sin and destruction.
And we may look at this and say, “hold on a minute . . .
.the man is in trouble, but what does his sin have to do with the Church?”
And this is what we are going to be addressing and looking at here in .
Paul writes . . .
Scripture Focus
Your Boasting is Not Good
Again, Paul goes back to the boasting and the bragging and he concludes your boasting is not good!
And it really is not.
Like we talked about this morning, here they are out there boasting and bragging about everything and there is the rampant sin in their church that EVERYBODY knows about and NOBODY is doing anything about it.
No one in the community is taking them seriously and probably think they are just a bunch of hypocrites.
And we have the same problems that goes on in churches today.
They run around wasting a lot of time bragging about how great they are and they are ignoring the sin in their own congregation.
They are turning a blind eye to it.
They are accepting it.
They are sweeping it under the rug.
Hoping that if they boast enough people will not pay any attention to it or they will just overlook it.
It does not happen that way.
Also, what do people say and think about those who brag a lot?
We’ve all been around them.
Those people who are constantly bragging about something.
Just be honest, what do you really think about them?
Do you really want to be around them?
And when the Church is doing it it really isn’t any better.
But the reason they are bragging is because they want to distract from the real issue.
A little three letter word . . .
S-I-N.
And they don’t want to deal with it.
So, Paul forces them to deal with it.
And we are all forced to deal with our own personal sin precisely because of what Paul say sin the second part of verse 6 . . .
And he is using the analogy of bread.
For the Jews, their ceremonial bread was unleavened bread, meaning that it was made without yeast.
And what Paul is saying is that just a little bit of yeast will work its way in and ruin the whole batch of dough.
In order to be unleavened and fit for ceremonial purposes, the bread had to have ABSOLUTELY NO YEAST in it whatsoever.
Not even a little smidgen.
One little bit would taint it and they would have to throw it out and start over.
The same thing is true for sin, both in the church and our own personal sin.
In Ephesians, Paul gives us a description of the Church.
He writes . . .
Ephesians 5:
The Church is supposed to be holy.
The Church is supposed to be washed by the Word.
The Church is supposed to be radiant.
The Church is supposed to be without stain.
The Church is supposed to be without wrinkle.
They Church is supposed to be without blemish.
The Church is supposed to be blameless.
And if there is any sin found within the Church it cannot be any of these things.
Paul tells us that we are to . . .
We are to be living and holy sacrifices to God.
We are to be holy, washed by the Word, radiant, without stain, wrinkle, blemish and blameless, because WE ARE THE CHURCH.
And when there is sin dwelling within us then we are like the yeast in the bread, we are unclean and unfit for God’s use.
Does that mean that we are perfect?
No, but that does mean that we do our best each and every day to live for God and when God convicts us of something we repent and turn it over to God.
BUT when we are carrying around this prideful and boastful attitude, we are blind to our own sin.
And that blindness will lead to our own destruction.
Get Rid of the Old Yeast
Paul tells us that we should . . .
1 Corinthians 5:7
Turn it over to God and allow the Holy Spirit to deal with it.
Remember that . . .
If we are claiming to be “in Christ,” or if we are claiming to be Christians then we have been made new.
We are not just a fancied up version of our old self.
No, the old has gone and the new has come!
So, that’s why Paul tells us to throw out the old and allow God to make us new.
Paul also tells us that . . .
Ephesians 4:22-
THROW OUT THAT OLD SELF AND ALLOW GOD TO MAKE YOU NEW!
And deal with the sin that is within you.
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