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First Corinthians chapter 5 Let us pray.
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, you are holy, holy, holy.
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You are worthy, worthy, worthy, and Lord God, we are asking that
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you'll be here in this room. Teach us and guide us and show
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us your eternal paths today. Let us hide your word in our
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heart so that we might not sin against you.
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Lord, we believe that Your word is alive and active and it is
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sharper than any 2 edged sword. So God, give us the ability to
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rightly divide the word. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus for divine counsel. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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sound doctrine. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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correct theology. God, I pray that we can see
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Jesus Christ on every syllable, because the Word was made flesh
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and the Word became God, and the Word was God.
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So the Lord, we get out of our own way.
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Lord, we stop chasing our feelings and emotions.
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God, and we stand resolute on the Word today, from Genesis to
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Revelation, nothing added and nothing subtracted.
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God, it is your Word. It is infallible and inerrant.
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And God, we stand on every single jot and title.
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Lord, I pray that you'll take the whole word out to the whole
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world. Father, I pray that every
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continent, in every people group, every language and every
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tongue, God Almighty will be eternally blessed by your words.
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God, appear to men and women in signs and wonders and dreams and
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visitations. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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for the man in white to come and rescue many out of the fire.
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God, I pray for a supernatural filling and zeal to fill your
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house. God, I pray that the church will
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be the church today. God, I pray that the gates of
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hell will not prevail against your holy church that you have
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instituted and that you are bringing by and by from glory to
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glory. Father, I pray for the nation
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Israel. God, I pray for the peace of
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Jerusalem. God, I pray for the ethnic Jews.
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Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray protection around them
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today. God, I pray against the spirit
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of anti-Semitism. Lord, in the name of Jesus, I
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pray that you, Lord God, will show us where we have erred in
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all of our theology and thought processes.
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God, I pray against the spirit of confusion within the church.
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Father, I pray that you'll make it plain, You'll make it clear,
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and that people all over the globe will understand their role
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in this entire scheme of things that God is going on in the
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world. I pray, Lord, against all of the
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powers of darkness, bind the enemy and cast him into the
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judgment that you have awaiting for him.
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Lord God Almighty, you reign supreme.
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You are the banner over our lives.
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You are the healer, God, You're the provider.
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Lord, you see everything. God, I pray that all things done
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in the dark will be brought to the light to day.
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Judge the secrets of men, Father.
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I pray that you'll purge out all of the dross and the impurities,
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God. Out of our lives and out of our
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families, Father, rebuke the Devourer from off of our
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children. Rebuke the Devourer from off of
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our finances. God, in the name of Jesus
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Christ, let us live in the light.
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God. Let us be salt to this wicked
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and dark generation. God, I pray that we will be
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found going out into the harvest.
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God, I pray that it'll be your name and only your name that we
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exalt high above everything. Let every man be a liar God, and
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all of our righteousness of filthy rags God, but we exalt
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your holy name, and we put on the righteousness of Jesus
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Christ that he won for us on the cross.
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Thank you Jesus Christ for your sacrifice.
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Holy Spirit, come and fill us and teach us.
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Holy Spirit discipline US. Holy Spirit, convict us, guide
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us through these words. I decrease as you increase.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. It is reported commonly that
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there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not
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so much as named among the Gentiles that one should have
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his father's wife. What is Paul talking about here?
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So it seems as if this man in the church has ongoing sexual
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relations with his stepmother. And the stepmother's not at
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church, so perhaps she's not a believer.
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But this man who is having ongoing relations with his
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stepmother is part of their church.
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And Paul here doesn't want to gloss over something that has
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been revealed to him. Perhaps Chloe has come and told
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Paul what it is that's going on in the Corinthian church and
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this would have been commonplace amongst all the heathen, but
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this sexual immorality was not looked at as being so nefarious.
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But this one was the icing on the cake.
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This was the cherry on top and Paul is saying that it is so
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incredibly debase that even those that are practicing sexual
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immorality would not even talk about it.
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It's not even to be made mentioned because it is so
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repulsive and disgusting in this incestual relationship.
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Verse 2 and you're puffed up and have not rather mourned that he
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has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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He's saying we have to carve out the cancerous part of the body.
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We can't not just leave it within the body of Christ.
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And this is a huge plague upon the church capital C friends.
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And it is so ingrained in our culture that we don't see
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anything wrong with it. These premarital sexual
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relations that people get involved in and they come up
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with excuses like show me in the Bible where it says that you
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have to be married in order to live together and sleep
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together. And they have erred grievously
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because they have left their first love and they are choosing
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the things of this world. And Paul is saying, you haven't
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even mourned this thing, much less dealt with it.
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Verse 3 For I truly as absent in body, but present in spirit,
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have judged already as though I were present concerning him that
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has so done this deed. So Paul is saying, I've waited
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all in the balance and I have found him wanting because there
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is no conviction, friends. And if there is no conviction,
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then you have grieved the Holy Spirit into silence in your life
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if you are in fact indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
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And Paul just got done saying in the last chapter that only God
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can judge us. But then he turns around in this
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next chapter and shows us that within the body of the church it
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is our duty to judge someone who claims to be a believer.
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Friends, it is our responsibility to judge within
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the body of Christ because we must cut out the cancer and not
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be so incredibly deceived as to think that it does not affect
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the whole body. Those people are an example to
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the youth, they are an example to others, and they will look
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upon them. And if it is not dealt with
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friends, then it will become commonplace within that body and
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there will be so many ailments that come about.
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There will be so many plagues that come about friends.
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And what you need to understand is that demons cannot possess A
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believer, but they sure can influence, and they sure can try
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and get them to do things. They can come and try and make a
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mess out of so many people's testimonies that they are no
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earthly good, right, even if they are marked by the Holy
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Ghost. And that is what you need to
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understand. And Paul can see through it.
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He can see through all the smoke and mirrors.
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He can see through the physical realm and into the spiritual
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realm, and he can see how incredibly toxic this is to the
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entire body of Christ. And you need to understand that
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this oppressive spirit will manifest within the camp, and
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you must cut it out in the name of Jesus Christ.
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It must go. And Paul is going to deal with
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it in this chapter here. For in the name of our Lord
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Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit
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with the Spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, that's
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the only power that we have, friends.
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That is the only name that is above all names, the name of
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Jesus Christ. And we bring that name upon our
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lips and expel all darkness in the demonic haunts.
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Friends, all of the demons flee at the name of Jesus Christ.
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Bring that name upon your lips today, friends.
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It cannot remain, It cannot stay, it must leave. 5 to
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deliver such one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
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that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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So we can see here that Paul has wisdom in understanding that
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this man needs not stay in the protection of the church.
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He needs to be put out, excommunicated from the church
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for a season, friends, until he becomes repentant and is able to
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understand that this is sin and it grieves the heart of God.
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But you can see here that he is still saved, as we would think
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of it, but he does not see the sin.
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And so by being placed out of the camp of God Almighty and
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into the world, in the systems of the world, he should come to
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his senses and see his depravity, see how he has erred
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from the faith and pierced himself with many sorrows, and
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come back repentant friends. And how incredibly rare is this
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discipline within the body of Christ today?
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If someone is put out of a church for their outward sins,
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their known sins, they just church hop to the next one and
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cover it over. And what you need to understand
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is that it is a grave responsibility of the shepherds
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over a flock to maintain the health of the entire flock and
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not just be passive and so accepting of all the sins within
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the camp. And not all sins are made known,
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but those that come to the light.
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We must deal with friends and we must deal with them gently, and
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we must deal with them in a loving way, but we cannot allow
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them to stay within the body. If they do not see it as sin, if
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they cannot admit, and if they will not confess and if they
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will not repent of those sins, they must be placed outside.
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And Jesus said, Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you.
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And we do not even realize how many times God protects us from
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this sifting of Satan. Just like with Job, whenever
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Satan comes and he asks to touch Job and God gives him
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permission, that is what is referenced in this one little
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verse. Friends, this is not eternal
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damnation as some are in the habit of believing it to be.
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So this is putting someone out of the body, putting someone out
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of the protection of the shepherd's care, so that they
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will see their need for repentance. 6 Your glorying is
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not good. Do you not know that a little
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leaven leavens the whole lump? Little bit of yeast, friends,
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makes all the bread rise a very minute.
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Scant amount of yeast will make an entire loaf rise.
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Imagine that. And that is what he's saying.
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This little bit of cancer will grow from stage 1 to stage 4
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overnight. It is so incredibly nefarious it
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must be cut out by the good surgeon. 7 purge out there for
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the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you our unleavened
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for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed to us.
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Paul beautifully flows from talking about bread right into
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talking about the Passover. And it's this beautiful
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congruent message, friends. And what you need to understand
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when it comes to food science is that if you were to keep your
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leavened bread for too long, it posed the risk of growing
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bacterial molecules that were harmful to you.
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And that is where a lot of our sicknesses have come from,
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friends, these microorganisms that we refused to sanitize.
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And Paul is saying here that every once in a while you have
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to in your own home, you have to go in and get rid of all of the
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cancer, all of the growth, all of the leaven, the yeast,
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friends, and start over from new.
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And when you do, the unleavened bread was used during the
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Passover and it points and paints a beautiful picture right
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into the blood of Jesus Christ covering us, friends.
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And that is what Paul is referencing here.
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And he wants them to know that even in the Passover he can use
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this example of getting rid of the yeast.
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And this was to signal and signify them having to tuck
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their cloaks in and run and not even give the bread time to
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rise. We must stay on guard and not be
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asleep, friends, for you do not know the hour or the day. 8
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Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither
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with the leaven of malice, wickedness, and with the
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unleavened bread, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
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and truth. So he's saying cut out all the
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toxic behavior, cut out anybody who is unrepentant.
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And when you hold a supper, when you hold a gathering, do not
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allow those that are unrepentant, who have outward
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sin that has been already told to them that they need to be
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repentant. And if they refuse to be
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repentant, then we put them out of the camp, Warn A divisive
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person once, and then warn them again, and after that have
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nothing to do with them, for you can be sure that they are warped
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and self condemned. We need to be walking in
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sincerity and truth. We need to get rid of the malice
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and the wickedness. Friends 9 I wrote unto you in an
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epistle not to company with fornicators.
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So here there are many who want to know.
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What is the difference between what Paul is saying here in
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First Corinthians chapter 5 verse 9 through 11, and what did
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Jesus say whenever he said that it is the sick who need a
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doctor? And he was not afraid.
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Jesus Christ was not afraid to eat with sinners and tax
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collectors and prostitutes. And what you need to understand
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are those people, those sick people, had not yet placed their
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faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we Fast forward over here to
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1st Corinthians in chapter 5. And what you are having to
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understand and wrap your mind around is that this is the body
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of Christ. Friends, he's talking about the
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capital C church that was birthed on Pentecost, and that
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is what is referenced here. And he is saying do not even eat
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with those people if they cannot see their need for repentance.
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10 Yet not all together with the fornicators of this world, or
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with the covetous, or extortioners or idolaters, for
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then must you needs go out of the world.
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So what is he saying there? Those are the ones that Jesus
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Christ could sit with, friends, the sick people.
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Paul is saying here, if you ever think that you're going to get
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to a perfect place on planet earth, it's never going to
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happen. It's never going to be an entire
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world of people who are sold out, laid down, lovers of
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Yahweh. We're going to have to wait for
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New Jerusalem for that point and that matter and that fact and
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that reality, friends. But in the meantime and in
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between time, we are on the narrow road and most are on the
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road, the wide road to destruction.
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You would have to go out of the world to find the perfect place
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does not exist here and now. But he is going to make all
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things new friends. And we will have the thing that
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we yearn for. We will have it will not be on
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this side of eternity, though. 11 But now I have written unto
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you not to keep company. If any man that is called a
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brother, be a fornicator, covetous, an idolater, and a
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railler, A drunkard and extortioner, with such a one, do
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not eat This communion, this sitting down to a meal, friends,
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was sacred amongst the believers.
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They held it in very high regard.
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And he is saying, if someone claims to be a believer, but
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they have no conviction for all the outward sins that they're
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committing, put them out of the church. 12 For what have I to do
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to judge them also that are without?
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Do not you judge them that are within there again, the same
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principle is made over and over and over.
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Paul is beating it down. Paul is making sure that they
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understand this repetition. He's saying unsaved people are
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going to do what unsaved people do.
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But those who claim to be believers ought not act like
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unbelievers. There should be a definitive
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difference within the body of Christ.
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Friends, this love and joy, this peace and patience,
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self-control, this gentleness, this meekness, this kindness,
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friends, we need to be exuding all of the fruits of the Spirit,
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and you will know that they belong to Christ by the love
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that they have for one another. 13 will end here, but them that
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are without God judges. Therefore, put away from among
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yourselves that wicked person. And Paul in his next letter to
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the Corinthians, he's actually going to rebuke them for leaving
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this man out of the camp for too long, that he needs to be
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restored because he was repentant.
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And it's beautiful how God works.
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And God's not angry. God's not an old grandpa and a
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rocking chair ready to smite and strike people down every time
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they get out of line. He is so loving that he sees how
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discipline is going to produce the perseverance and the
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character that we have always wanted within our own selves.
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And it does not feel good in the moment, but it produces all of
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the characteristics that we are desirous of deep down in our
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inner man. And God knows how to get us into
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this place of sanctification where we look more and more and
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more and more like Jesus Christ every single day.
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He's leading us home, Friends. Don't get in your own way today.
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Empty yourself of yourself and accept the rebuke.
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Accept the discipline. Don't run from it.
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Correction is not rejection, friends.
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The number one tool that every blood bought Born Again believer
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would benefit from the most is to develop an unoffendable
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spirit. Make sure you see your need for
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repentance today. I hope you've been blessed by
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this amazing chapter here in God's Word.
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I know I sure have. I love you, praying for you.
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God bless you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow.