1 Cor. 5
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What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
blunt - nip this division in the butt.
I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,
Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.
Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),
father through the gospel
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
Human wisdom vs divine wisdom - we have been given the divine wisdom by God and you need to listen to us.
specific problems that are dividing the church
blatant fornication right under our noses
v. 1
fornication/immorality - porneia - sexual intercourse with someone besides your husband our wife.
other words different types of fornication
adultery, homosexuality, bestiality
Lev. 18:1-23
Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
‘If there is a man who lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
sexual intercourse = marriage bed
fornicators - sexual intercourse outside of marriage
adulterers - outside of marriage
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
flee from fornication - don’t flirt with fornication - it says flee
reported?
For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.
even the pagans don’t allow this and this is going on with someone in the church
he has his fathers wife.
v. 2
arrogant/proud/ puffed up 4:6, 18, 19
listening to others suggestions on how to deal with this situation
removed from your midst gotten rid of this among you
But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.
Deut. 17:7, 12
“The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
“The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.
then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
“But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,
then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
“If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
“If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.
But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.
v. 3
wrong to judge motives but not truth (actions)
sex outside of marriage is wrong (PERIOD)
v. 4
in the name of our Lord Jesus - speaking by the authority of Jesus Christ
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.
“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.
gather together - assembly - done during the assembly
Jesus is involved - by the power of the Lord Jesus - its his church
v. 5 deliver such a one to satan
1 Tim. 1:20
Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.
you come into Christ you have all the comforts and blessing that are in Christ but when you are under Satan's power their is no grace or fellowship - excommunication
the church is recognizing what the Lord has already done.
For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
why?
1) destruction of the flesh - bring you out of sin - turn away from the flesh
2) spirit might be saved - save a soul if you don’t say anything about sin then you are allowing they to continue in sin and loos e their soul in eternity
But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you.
Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority,
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.
For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.
But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
v. 6
boasting - in advice of these wise persons
3:21; 1:31, 29
one bad apple doesn’t spoil the whole batch, but it does -
3) if you don’t get it out it spoil the whole church
v. 7 - 8
Passover time get the yeast out - illustration to get rid of the sin in the church
the christian life is like a passover service yeast is sin and you are not to have sin in your midst.
don’t ruin the whole batch
2 reasons we don’t
we are chicken
we really don’t have spiritual relationships with people
last resort
Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.
Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
do we really know each other
v. 9
when did he write - v. 2
v. 10
not with those in the world that you can’t be around them
v. 11
brother - fellow Christians
eat with such a one - L.S. not in fellowship with them they can’t eat the L.S.
who eats the Lords Supper - those in Christ - then you have fellowship
Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.
L. S. demonstration of fellowship - participating the blood of Christ, but if fellowship is withdrawn from God and church then the blood is not cleansing me of my sin.
early church practice
2 Cor. 6:14ff
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.
If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be put to shame.
Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.
v. 12 they are already lost
not judging their hearts bu their actions - drunk, stealing, fornicating - its a sin not rocket science
some people are on the inside and outside of what? Christ and his church
v. 13 quoting Deut.