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Mar 06, 2016

Church Discipline

Passage: 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: God's Love Letter to an Unlovely Church

Category: 1 Corinthians

Summary:

Main Text - 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; Selected statements of the Law in the NT; NT Reading - 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Detail:

"God’s Love Letter To an Unlovely Church”

“Should a Church Spank?” - 1 Corinthians 5:1-13

  1. What God Commands Cannnot Be Bad

 

               1 Corinthians 7:10  

               Matthew 18

               vss 2-5, 7:12

               Therefore To not do it is arrogance – vs 2

                               

  1. God’s Command Is In Response To What God Knows About Us and Forsees

 

               Matthew 18:15

               Galatians 6:1    

 

  1. What God Commands Always Has a Good Purpose - vs 5 - “so that”

 

  1. Recalaiming and Gaining Fellow chrisitans who are guilty

 

                              Galatians 6:1   

                              James 5:19-20  .

 

  1. Detering others from committing similar offences

 

                              1 Timothy 5:20 

 

  1. For purging the leven to protect the church – vss 6-8

                                                             

  1. For vindicating the honor of Christ

 

                              Romans 2:23-24

                              1 Timothy 1:19-20 

 

  1. For averting the wrath of God

 

                              1 Corinthians 11:31-32 

                              Ephesians 5:6  

 

  1. What God Commands Is To be Done Where and How He Coammands – 9-13

 

               It is to be limited to the church

               It is to be limited by His Word

               It is to be limited by love

               We are to wisely limit our involvement - 2 Corinthians 6:14              Eph 5:11-15

 

  1. What God Commans Is to be Done to Whom He Commands

 

               Vs 1 – Of Course – sexual Immorality

               Vs 11 – But that is not all