Have you first read all three parts of the introduction to this blog?
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Today, read 1 Corinthians 5 on your own at least one time. (It is a pretty short chapter.) As you read, make notes in a notebook or in the margins of your Bible. Record all of the insights God gives you. Don't read my remarks until you have first done this yourself.
Here are the insights I wrote down along with the verses they go with...
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5:1 (NLT) I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.
Lord, help me to abstain always from sexual immorality.
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5:1 (NKJ) It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife!
As Christians and as the church, we shouldn't even be struggling with the same kinds of sin as the world. There should be a stark difference.
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5:2 (NLT) You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship.
This is description of how we should feel when we discover people involved in sin. We should feel sorrow because we know the person has hurt himself and disappointed the Lord. We should feel shame because the body of Christ has been discredited in some sense.
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5:5 (NKJ) deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Thank you Lord that even when we have shameful sin, your heart and desire is to redeem us and restore us.
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5:7 (NLT) Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.
Churches should have a high standard when accepting believers into their fellowship.
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5:9-11 (NKJ) I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
Note that there are two distinct standards that determine our behavior toward those who are Christians and those who are not.
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Don't forget to spend time in prayer... CHAT...
Pastor Noel
Let's get started...
Today, read 1 Corinthians 5 on your own at least one time. (It is a pretty short chapter.) As you read, make notes in a notebook or in the margins of your Bible. Record all of the insights God gives you. Don't read my remarks until you have first done this yourself.
Here are the insights I wrote down along with the verses they go with...
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5:1 (NLT) I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.
Lord, help me to abstain always from sexual immorality.
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5:1 (NKJ) It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife!
As Christians and as the church, we shouldn't even be struggling with the same kinds of sin as the world. There should be a stark difference.
-----
5:2 (NLT) You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship.
This is description of how we should feel when we discover people involved in sin. We should feel sorrow because we know the person has hurt himself and disappointed the Lord. We should feel shame because the body of Christ has been discredited in some sense.
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5:5 (NKJ) deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Thank you Lord that even when we have shameful sin, your heart and desire is to redeem us and restore us.
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5:7 (NLT) Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.
Churches should have a high standard when accepting believers into their fellowship.
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5:9-11 (NKJ) I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
Note that there are two distinct standards that determine our behavior toward those who are Christians and those who are not.
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Don't forget to spend time in prayer... CHAT...
Pastor Noel
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