THE MERCY OF CONFRONTATION
1 Corinthians 5
1 Corinthians: Resisting The Drift – Part 1 of 8
c. 4.14 “I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.” (esv)
Leviticus 18.8 “You are not to have sex with your father’s wife ...” (csb)
v. 11 “… greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler.” (csb)
v. 2 “You are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been filled with grief …?” (niv)
v. 2 “Let him who has done this be removed from among you.” (esv)
GOD WANTS US TO REMOVE UNREPENTANT MEMBERS BECAUSE …
IT PROVIDES Clarity For Our Family
c. 14.33 “God is not a God of confusion …” (esv)
Ephesians 4.1 “… live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” (niv)
v. 3 “I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.”
v. 12 “… you … judge those who are within the church …” (nas)
1 John 3.9 “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning …” (esv)
vv. 4–5 “When you are assembled in the name of … with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.” (esv)
Hebrews 12.6 “The Lord disciplines the one he loves …” (esv)
IT PROTECTS THE Sincerity Of Our Worship
Romans 3.23–24 “All have sinned … and are justified by his grace as a gift …”
v. 7 “Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” (esv)
v. 6 “… a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?” (niv)
IT PROCLAIMS Integrity To The Outsider
v. 10 “In that case you would have to leave this world.” (niv)
John 17.15 & 18 “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one … As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.” (esv)
vv. 12–13 “For what have I to do with judging outsiders? God judges those outside.” (esv)
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