1 Corinthians 5:1-13 (Part 25a) Attitude

• Primarily deals with an attitude problem

• Secondarily deals with a moral problem

Lessons to learn

• The churches’ concern is to be with its own moral purity not that of society

• The aim of all discipline is restoration

• Immorality is a spreading sin

The case involved, 5:1

• Flagrant, internal, incestuous, rare

The indifference rebuked, 5:2

• The attitude present

• The attitude needed

The action needed, 5:3-5

The warrant action . . .

• Paul’s judgment

• Christ’s name: 1) Take action on His behalf, corporately, in cooperation with the power of the Lord

The nature of the action

• Deliver to Satan—which is . . . : 1) Taken from you (v. 2), not to eat (v. 11), put away (v. 13)

Implications

• You are either in the church or in the realm of Satan

• The local church should not even imply approval of immorality

• The man set out is restored

The purpose of the action, v. 5

• Intermediate—deliver to Satan

• Intermediate—destruction of the flesh

• Ultimate—salvation

*God disciplines carnality in the physical realm

Ultimate purpose—“Saved”—v. 5

• He is not saying—that his spirit will be saved when he dies

• The idea with “saved” . . . : 1) Preservation; 2) Health; 3) Soundness

• Paul wants the pressure of the moment to bring him to the above place

• Not to have this “guilt” with him when he dies—fix it now

The danger described, vv. 6-8

• The illustration, v. 6

• The implication, vv. 7-8

• The celebration, v. 8

Sin in Chapter 5

• Immorality, v. 1

• Wide spread sin of pride and arrogance, v. 2

• Circle gets bigger, v. 8

• Must deal with sin in the camp—don’t just clean one room clean the whole house