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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Caring Enough To Confront | May 6, 2025
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- [narrator] from the pulpit
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- Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i am robert jeffress
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- God calls us to be holy, like he is holy.
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- So when a fellow christian is engaged in blatant sin,
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- How should we respond?
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- When does grace obligate us
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- To overlook other people's faults?
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- And conversely, when does love demand
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- That we confront those faults?
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- Today, we're going to look at a case study
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- For how to deal with sin.
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- My message is titled, caring enough to confront,
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- [narrator] think about a child in your life
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- Who needs to put their faith in jesus.
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- How do you explain the gospel to them
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- In a way they can understand?
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- In "the gift: the gospel for children,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress presents the gospel message
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- In a way that's clear and engaging.
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- The book also includes a salvation prayer
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- For you to pray with your child or grandchild.
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- Give your child the most important gift
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- They'll ever receive,
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- The opportunity to begin a relationship with jesus christ.
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- Request your copy of "the gift" at ptv.org.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- Two weeks ago, qantas airlines,
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- An a380 jet liner, the largest jet liner ever built,
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- The double-decker air plane that carried 400 passengers,
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- A qantas a380 had to return immediately
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- Back to singapore airport after takeoff
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- When one of its engines caught fire.
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- Perhaps you read about that.
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- A subsequent investigation revealed
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- That other a380s had a similar problem as well,
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- Causing the grounding of the entire fleet of a380s.
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- Now, grounding an airplane like that
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- And grounding many of them is a very expensive proposition.
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- Talk about putting on the shelf
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- An airplane that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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- Grounding airplanes is expensive,
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- But not as expensive as crashing one of those airplanes
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- And costing hundreds of lives.
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- Qantas airlines has a habit.
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- They have a record of no airplane accidents in 90 years.
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- And the reason they have that record
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- Is that when they find a problem,
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- Rather than ignoring the problem,
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- They confront the problem directly.
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- You know, unfortunately, many churches
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- Have not discovered a similar lesson.
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- There are many churches,
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- When they find a member that has a defect,
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- They ignore the problem in the member.
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- They hope that it will go away or will heal itself.
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- That rarely happens.
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- And the result can be very costly spiritually.
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- Tonight, we're going to look at a case study
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- In how to handle problems in the church.
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- And we find it in 1 corinthians chapter five.
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- Tonight, we're going to talk
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- About what it means to care enough to confront.
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- 1 corinthians 5:1.
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- Paul said, "it is actually reported
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- That there is immorality among you
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- And immorality of such a kind
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- As does not even exist among the gentiles,
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- That someone has his father's wife."
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- The problem in the church was one of immorality.
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- Now the greek word for immorality is porneia.
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- Do you have to wonder what we get our word from
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- That comes from the greek word porneia.
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- We talk about pornography.
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- But in the greek language,
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- The word porneia was an umbrella term
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- That dealt with any kind of sexual immorality,
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- Whether that sexual immorality was homosexuality,
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- Or adultery, or fornication, or incest, or bestiality.
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- Paul said, "there is an immorality
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- That i've heard about here in the church at corinth"
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- And namely, he says, "here is the problem
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- That someone has his father's wife."
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- That is, somebody in the church at corinth
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- Was having a sexual relationship with his father's wife.
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- But instead of dealing with these sins,
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- The corinthians ignored this particular sin.
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- Look at verse two.
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- Paul says, "you have become arrogant
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- And you have not mourned instead,
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- So that the one who had done this deed
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- Would be removed from your midst."
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- The corinthians were actually priding themselves
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- Over the fact that they did not deal with the sin.
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- Well, even though the corinthians
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- Wouldn't deal with the sin, paul was ready to do so.
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- Look at the sin confronted beginning in verse three.
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- Paul pronounces a judgment against this person for his sin.
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- Look at verses three through five.
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- Paul said, "for i, on my part, though absent
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- But present in the spirit, i've already judged him
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- Who has so committed this, as if i were present.
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- In the name of our lord jesus,
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- When you are assembled, i with you in spirit,
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- With the power of our lord jesus,
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- I have decided to deliver such a one to satan
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- For the destruction of his flesh."
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- Paul was not wishy-washy about this.
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- He said, "i've heard the facts of the case.
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- I've already pronounced a judgment against him."
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- Now, some people say, "wait a minute, paul,
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- Remember what jesus said?
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- 'do not judge lest you be judged.'
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- How can you say you've already judged this person?
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- Are christians really supposed to judge other people?"
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- When jesus said in matthew 7:1,
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- "do not judge lest you be judged,"
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- He was not condemning any kind of judgment.
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- Obviously, there are some judgments we have to make in life.
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- For example, a surgeon,
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- Before he removes a malignant tumor from a patient,
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- He has to, first of all, make a judgment.
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- He has to make the judgment that that tumor
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- Is going to kill his patient unless it's removed.
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- He's making a judgment to cut into his patient,
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- Not because he hates his patient,
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- But because he wants to heal his patient.
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- In the same way, we occasionally
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- Have to make judgments about other people.
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- The kind of judgment jesus said we're not to make
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- Is a judgment like the pharisees made.
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- A judgment that will elevate ourselves above other people.
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- We're not to do that kind of judgment.
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- Remember, jesus went on in matthew seven to say,
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- "remove the plank out of your own eye
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- Before you try to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
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- You know, if your friend has a speck in his eye,
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- That can be very painful to your friend.
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- It's a nice thing for you to try to help him
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- Remove the speck from his eye,
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- But jesus said, "before you try to help your brother,
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- Make sure that the plank is removed from your own eye."
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- In other words, judge yourself before you attempt to help
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- And restore a fellow christian.
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- Paul was engaging in a godly kind of judgment here.
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- Now, why did he do this?
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- Why did he want to do this?
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- First of all, there are two key phrases
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- To understand in verse five.
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- First of all, he said, "i've judged this person
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- And i've decided to deliver to satan, this person."
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- Now some people kind of think,
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- Ooh, this sounds kind of creepy here.
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- Delivering somebody to satan,
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- Is this some kind of little ritual
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- The church gets involved in?
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- Turns out the lights and lights up a candle
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- And you know, kind of like a seance,
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- We're going to deliver this person's soul to satan?
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- I don't think that's what he's talking about here at all.
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- I think what he's referring to here
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- Is simply he is turning the person outside of the church.
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- Whenever you revoke somebody's membership in the church,
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- It is like you are turning them
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- Out of the realm of the church
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- Into the realm where satan dwells.
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- That is the world.
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- And when you deliver somebody over to satan,
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- It means, it's a euphemism
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- For you are really turning them out of the church.
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- And there are occasions when we're to do that.
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- Matthew 18, jesus said, the most extreme action we take
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- Toward an unrepentant sinner
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- Is we turn them out of the church.
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- In one timothy 1:20, paul said,
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- "i've delivered hymenaeus and alexander over to satan
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- In order that they may be taught not to blaspheme."
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- The second phrase to understand here
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- Is the destruction of his flesh.
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- "i have turned him over to satan
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- For the destruction of his flesh
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- So that his spirit may be saved
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- In the day of the lord jesus christ."
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- What does he mean, "his flesh be destroyed?"
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- I think this phrase, "the destruction of his flesh,"
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- Might be best paraphrased,
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- Until his flesh gets its fill of sin.
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- In other words, if this person will not repent of this sin
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- That is destroying the reputation of christ in this church,
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- You turn him out of the church into the world
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- Until he gets his fill of sin,
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- Until satan can have his way with this person
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- And completely break him
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- So that his spirit might be saved.
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- You know, those of you who are parents,
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- Some of you have had this experience,
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- This heartbreaking experience of having a child
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- Who is so rebellious that you had to come to the point
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- That you said, "you know what?
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- If you're going to rebel against me and god,
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- You're going to have to do it outside of this house."
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- And you turn them out of your house.
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- It's the most painful thing any parent can do
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- Because when you turn a child out of your house
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- Into the world, you open themself,
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- You open them up to every kind of evil imaginable.
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- But the only reason you do that
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- Is because you know that the consequence
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- Of allowing them to continue in the rebellion
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- Is even more severe.
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- And sometimes, we have to do that in the church.
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- Sometimes we say we care too much about you
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- And your future to allow you to go on sinning.
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- We care too much about our church
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- To allow you to continue to cause a disruption.
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- And because of that, we're going to turn you
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- Out of the church into the world
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- Until you're ready to repent, until you're broken.
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- Isn't that what happened with the prodigal son?
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- It was only when he got his fill of sin in the world
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- That he came back to the father.
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- I think that's what paul has in mind here.
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- What is his motive for doing this?
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- Notice there are always two motives for church discipline.
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- First of all, to restore the sinner's relationship with god.
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- Remember this, if you don't hear anything else,
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- Church discipline is not about retribution,
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- It's about restoration.
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- Now the reason we engage in this form of extreme discipline
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- Is not because we're mad at people,
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- Not because we hate people,
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- Not because we have a personal vendetta against people,
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- But it is always restoration that is the goal.
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- That's what paul said here, we have "his flesh destroyed,
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- That his spirit might be saved."
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- Listen to me tonight, the bible offers
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- No hope for a professing christian
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- Who continues sinning and dies in his rebellion.
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- There is no hope of eternity.
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- There is no word of comfort and assurance in the bible
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- For a professing christian who keeps on sinning,
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- Keeps on rebelling against god and dies in his rebellion.
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- And that's why, even if you have to go
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- To this extreme measure
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- Of turning someone out of the church,
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- If the end result is that sinner's repentance,
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- Then it's well worth the effort.
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- Remember, what james wrote in james 5 verses 19 to 20.
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- He said, "my brethren, if any among you
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- Strays from the truth and one turns him back,
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- Let him know that he who turns a sinner
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- From the error of his way will save his soul from death
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- And will cover a multitude of sins."
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- Charles finney once said,
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- "if you see your neighbor's sin
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- And you pass by and neglect to reprove him,
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- That is just as cruel as going by his house,
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- Seeing it on fire and failing to warn him."
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- The reason we confront christians about their sin
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- Is to restore their relationship with god.
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- It's interesting that, apparently,
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- The corinthians followed this advice.
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- They put this man out of the church,
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- He eventually repented
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- And he was ready to come back into the church.
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- 2 corinthians 2:6-8 tell us that the corinthians
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- Were reluctant to allow him to come back.
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- No, if somebody does repent,
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- Then we need to welcome them back with open arms.
- 00:13:13.682 --> 00:13:16.685
- But there's a second purpose for discipline
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- That's often overlooked
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- And that is to the purity of the church.
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- The reason we go to these drastic steps
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- Is to maintain the purity of the church.
- 00:13:26.495 --> 00:13:28.564
- Look at verse six.
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- He says, "for your boasting is no good.
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- Do you not know that a little leaven
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- Leavens the whole lump of dough?"
- 00:13:35.437 --> 00:13:39.108
- Now in the bible, leaven represents influence.
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- And it's usually an influence for evil.
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- It only takes a little pinch of leaven
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- To cause a whole dough, a batch of dough to rise
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- In the same way it only takes a little bit of sin
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- To contaminate an entire congregation.
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- And by the way, that is especially true
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- When it comes to gossip and bitterness in the church.
- 00:14:04.233 --> 00:14:07.569
- Just a little bit of bitterness in the church
- 00:14:07.569 --> 00:14:11.273
- Can spread like gangrene throughout the church.
- 00:14:11.273 --> 00:14:14.243
- And paul says that's why it needs to be dealt with.
- 00:14:14.243 --> 00:14:17.313
- And he says, "a little leaven leavens the whole lump."
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- It would be like our saying,
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- One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
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- That's what he's talking about here.
- 00:14:25.187 --> 00:14:26.922
- Now paul illustrates that truth
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- By using an old testament story
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- That his readers were very familiar with.
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- The old testament feast of passover
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- And the feast of unleavened bread.
- 00:14:37.866 --> 00:14:40.202
- Remember the story in exodus 12?
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- It was when pharaoh was holding god's people captive
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- In egypt and god sent the 10 plagues
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- In order to convince pharaoh to let his people go.
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- And remember, the 10th plague was going
- 00:14:52.448 --> 00:14:54.049
- To be god passing through egypt
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- And killing the firstborn of every family.
- 00:14:56.485 --> 00:14:59.388
- But god said to the israelites,
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- "if you'll take the blood of an innocent lamb
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- And you'll place it on your doorpost,
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- If i see the blood, i will pass over you in judgment."
- 00:15:06.195 --> 00:15:10.899
- And of course, that was a picture of the true lamb of god,
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- Jesus christ, and what he would do for us.
- 00:15:14.303 --> 00:15:17.172
- When we trust in christ as our savior,
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- When god sees the blood of christ covering our life,
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- The blood we sing about tonight,
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- God passes over us in judgment.
- 00:15:24.813 --> 00:15:28.317
- Well, when that happened
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- And when god moved and killed the firstborn
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- Of every family that didn't have the blood applied,
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- Of course, one of those killed
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- Was the firstborn son of pharaoh.
- 00:15:38.027 --> 00:15:40.229
- And at that point, he was broken and he said to moses,
- 00:15:40.229 --> 00:15:43.465
- "get your people out of here."
- 00:15:43.465 --> 00:15:45.834
- And moses knew it was time to go.
- 00:15:45.834 --> 00:15:48.203
- So he had the israelites pack up
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- And leave as quickly as they could.
- 00:15:50.239 --> 00:15:52.541
- And in fact, they had to leave so quickly,
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- Exodus 12 tells us, that they had to leave with their dough.
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- I'm not talking about their money,
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- I mean, their actual dough.
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- They got out of there as quickly as they could
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- And they didn't even have time to leaven the dough.
- 00:16:03.685 --> 00:16:06.055
- That's how quickly they had to move out of egypt.
- 00:16:06.055 --> 00:16:09.691
- Well, that began a tradition.
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- And the tradition was god said,
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- "every year at this time,
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- I want you to have a passover meal
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- To remember what i did for you in egypt that night.
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- But before you sit down and enjoy the passover lamb,
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- You're to go through the house
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- And you're to look for any trace of leaven in the house.
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- You're to sweep out the leaven
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- And then you can sit down and eat the meal."
- 00:16:35.517 --> 00:16:38.120
- The leaven represented sin.
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- It represented their of way of life in egypt.
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- You get the picture?
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- Now before you sit down and enjoy the passover meal,
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- Make sure there is no hint of your former way of life.
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- And so, they would sit down and eat the passover
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- And that would begin the feast of unleavened bread
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- That would last for the next week.
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- Now paul is using that illustration.
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- Look in verse seven.
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- He says, "clean out the old leaven
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- So that you may be a new lump
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- Just as you are in fact unleavened.
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- For christ, our passover, has been sacrificed.
- 00:17:10.185 --> 00:17:15.424
- And look at verse eight,
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- "therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven,
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- Nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
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- But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
- 00:17:23.398 --> 00:17:27.503
- In other words, paul is saying,
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- We who are christians have experienced the true passover.
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- We have partaken the lamb of god, the lord jesus christ.
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- But because we are a part of that true passover,
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- We should not tolerate any hint of our old way of life.
- 00:17:41.083 --> 00:17:44.987
- We ought to do everything we can to rid our lives,
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- Individually and corporately, of sin.
- 00:17:47.623 --> 00:17:51.026
- That's why paul says we must maintain purity in the church.
- 00:17:51.026 --> 00:17:55.531
- God has called us to a whole new way of living.
- 00:17:55.531 --> 00:17:59.434
- Now look in verses nine to 10,
- 00:17:59.434 --> 00:18:00.903
- Paul had to clarify what he meant by this judgment.
- 00:18:00.903 --> 00:18:04.039
- He said, "i wrote you in my letter
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- Not to associate with immoral people.
- 00:18:05.807 --> 00:18:08.243
- I did not at all mean with the immoral of this world
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- Or would the covetous, and swindlers,
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- Or the idolaters,
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- For then, you would have to go out of this world."
- 00:18:14.316 --> 00:18:17.052
- Remember, there was a previous letter
- 00:18:17.052 --> 00:18:18.453
- Paul had written that got lost.
- 00:18:18.453 --> 00:18:20.389
- And paul said, you know, i need to clarify what i meant.
- 00:18:20.389 --> 00:18:23.058
- When i said don't associate with immoral people.
- 00:18:23.058 --> 00:18:26.328
- I wasn't talking about immoral christians,
- 00:18:26.328 --> 00:18:29.431
- There's no way, or non-christians,
- 00:18:29.431 --> 00:18:32.234
- To not associate with sinners,
- 00:18:32.234 --> 00:18:33.802
- You'd have to leave this world.
- 00:18:33.802 --> 00:18:35.370
- When i said don't associate with immoral people,
- 00:18:35.370 --> 00:18:38.273
- I meant immoral christians.
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- You see what had happened was these corinthians
- 00:18:41.276 --> 00:18:43.545
- Had misunderstood what paul said,
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- They were trying to withdraw
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- From having any contact with unbelievers.
- 00:18:46.782 --> 00:18:51.119
- No, jesus said, we're the salt of the world.
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- We're supposed to have contact with unbelievers.
- 00:18:53.522 --> 00:18:56.325
- The kind of immoral sinners we're to withdraw from
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- Are professing christians, not non-christians.
- 00:19:00.662 --> 00:19:04.166
- That was the whole point here.
- 00:19:04.166 --> 00:19:05.634
- Look at verse 11.
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- He says, "but i actually, i wrote to you not to associate
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- With any so-called brother if he's an immoral person,
- 00:19:10.405 --> 00:19:14.343
- Or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler,
- 00:19:14.343 --> 00:19:16.612
- Or drunkard, or swindler.
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- Don't even eat with such a person."
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- Don't associate with them.
- 00:19:20.582 --> 00:19:22.451
- Look at verses 12 and 13.
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- "for what have i to do with judging outsiders?
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- Do you not judge those who are within the church?
- 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.794
- But those who are outside god judges.
- 00:19:32.794 --> 00:19:35.664
- Remove the wicked man from among yourselves."
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- You know what most of us want to do?
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- We want to judge the sins of non-christians.
- 00:19:41.470 --> 00:19:44.506
- We want to condemn them
- 00:19:44.506 --> 00:19:45.974
- But pass over the sins of fellow christians.
- 00:19:45.974 --> 00:19:49.344
- Paul said, you've got it all wrong here.
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- Now don't worry about non-christians, judging their sin.
- 00:19:52.281 --> 00:19:56.818
- You know what i've discovered?
- 00:19:56.818 --> 00:19:57.919
- The most futile work in the world
- 00:19:57.919 --> 00:20:01.089
- Is to try to keep sinners from sinning.
- 00:20:01.089 --> 00:20:04.092
- You just can't do it.
- 00:20:04.593 --> 00:20:08.030
- You know, the reason people are sinners
- 00:20:08.864 --> 00:20:14.703
- Is not because they sin.
- 00:20:15.203 --> 00:20:16.672
- Sinners aren't sinners because they sin.
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- We sin because we're sinners.
- 00:20:19.107 --> 00:20:22.077
- We need to quit judging unbelievers.
- 00:20:22.077 --> 00:20:25.347
- That is not our calling in life.
- 00:20:25.347 --> 00:20:28.450
- God says, if you want to judge somebody,
- 00:20:28.450 --> 00:20:30.585
- Judge the immoral christian who is living within your midst.
- 00:20:30.585 --> 00:20:35.891
- What are the principles from this passage?
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- Let me just mention two in closing tonight.
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- Write 'em down, if you will.
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- First of all, sin in the church
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- Should be confronted firmly, yet lovingly.
- 00:20:45.300 --> 00:20:49.504
- Let me say it again.
- 00:20:49.504 --> 00:20:51.039
- Sin in the church should be confronted firmly, yet lovingly.
- 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:55.243
- The church at corinth had made so many compromises with sin
- 00:20:56.411 --> 00:20:59.581
- That it had lost its influence in the city.
- 00:20:59.581 --> 00:21:02.551
- Remember what jesus said in matthew 5:13?
- 00:21:02.551 --> 00:21:04.686
- "you are the salt of the earth,
- 00:21:04.686 --> 00:21:06.321
- But if the salt has become tasteless.
- 00:21:06.321 --> 00:21:08.790
- How can it be made salty again?
- 00:21:08.790 --> 00:21:11.093
- It is no longer good for anything
- 00:21:11.093 --> 00:21:13.161
- Except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men."
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- We are to confront sin, but we remember when we do,
- 00:21:18.767 --> 00:21:21.136
- The goal is not condemnation, it is restoration.
- 00:21:21.136 --> 00:21:25.607
- And then second principle,
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- Sin in our own lives should be confronted
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- Honestly and quickly.
- 00:21:30.812 --> 00:21:33.648
- Sin in our own life should be confronted
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- Honestly and quickly.
- 00:21:35.484 --> 00:21:37.352
- Ladies and gentlemen, the only way for the church
- 00:21:37.352 --> 00:21:40.188
- To remain pure is for those of us
- 00:21:40.188 --> 00:21:43.258
- Who are members of the church to be pure.
- 00:21:43.258 --> 00:21:47.028
- And that means, just like the israelites
- 00:21:47.028 --> 00:21:49.030
- Look in their home for any trace of leaven and swept it out,
- 00:21:49.030 --> 00:21:54.102
- We ought to ask the holy spirit of god
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- To shine his spotlight
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- Into the deepest recesses of our heart
- 00:21:58.106 --> 00:22:01.843
- And make us aware of anything in our life
- 00:22:01.843 --> 00:22:04.413
- That is displeasing to god.
- 00:22:04.413 --> 00:22:06.915
- And when we find that little bit of sin,
- 00:22:06.915 --> 00:22:09.684
- We need to deal with it.
- 00:22:09.684 --> 00:22:10.886
- We need to sweep it out decisively.
- 00:22:10.886 --> 00:22:14.022
- I want you to believe me tonight, what i'm saying.
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- I'm not speaking about any situation
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- That i have direct knowledge of tonight.
- 00:22:20.295 --> 00:22:23.665
- But i just have a feeling that a group this size,
- 00:22:24.666 --> 00:22:27.135
- Those listening by broadcast,
- 00:22:27.135 --> 00:22:29.738
- I'm speaking to somebody tonight
- 00:22:30.372 --> 00:22:32.607
- Who's engaged in secret sin.
- 00:22:32.607 --> 00:22:35.310
- It may be an overpowering addiction in your life.
- 00:22:36.311 --> 00:22:38.947
- It may be a dishonest deal you're involved in.
- 00:22:39.881 --> 00:22:43.118
- It may be an illicit relationship
- 00:22:43.852 --> 00:22:45.720
- You're experiencing right now.
- 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:47.722
- And you may think nobody knows anything about it,
- 00:22:48.657 --> 00:22:51.359
- And that may be true, but god knows.
- 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:55.397
- What is a secret sin in your heart,
- 00:22:56.131 --> 00:22:59.468
- Is an open scandal in heaven right now.
- 00:22:59.468 --> 00:23:02.270
- And regardless of what this church does
- 00:23:03.138 --> 00:23:06.041
- Or doesn't do about that sin in your life,
- 00:23:06.041 --> 00:23:09.678
- God will deal eventually with that sin,
- 00:23:09.678 --> 00:23:12.948
- Especially if you're his child.
- 00:23:12.948 --> 00:23:15.250
- Remember the words of hebrews 12:6,
- 00:23:15.250 --> 00:23:17.152
- "for whom the lord loves, he disciplines,
- 00:23:17.152 --> 00:23:21.490
- And he scourges every son whom he receives."
- 00:23:21.490 --> 00:23:26.361
- Paul said, "if we will judge ourselves,
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- We will not be judged."
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- Plus, you'll receive an instructional
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- Dvd message from dr. jeffress
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- That you can watch together with your child.
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- You can get this book to your children
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- Or grandchildren to read on their own,
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- Or better yet, read it together
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- To begin a rewarding spiritual journey
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- That will shape their eternity.
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- At the end of my book,
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- I've included a prayer for salvation.
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- They can pray to trust in christ as their savior.
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- [narrator] help your child or grandchild
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- Make the decision to follow jesus christ.
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- Request "the gift" when you give a generous gift
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- To support the ministry of "pathway to victory."
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- And when your ministry gift is $75 or more,
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- We'll also send you "straight answers to tough questions,"
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- Chapters one through nine on both dvd and audio disc.
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- Thank you for partnering with "pathway to victory."
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- Together we're preaching the gospel
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- To as many people as possible
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- And equipping parents and grandparents
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- To lead the children they love to faith in jesus christ.
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- It's possible that you're watching right now
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- Burdened by the weight of some secret sin in your life.
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- Perhaps it's an overpowering addiction,
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- A dishonest business deal you've been involved in,
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- Or maybe an inappropriate relationship
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- Outside your marriage.
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- First 1 john 1:9 promises, "if we confess our sins,
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- He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins
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- And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
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- Well, the topic we're going to address next time
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- Is just as pressing today as it was 2000 years ago.
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- Should christians sue one another?
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- Stay tuned for a preview
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- Of what's coming up next in our series
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- "straight answers to tough questions."
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- 2000 years ago, the citizens of corinth
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- Had the same propensity to sue one another.
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- Next to chariot races,
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- Suing people was the favorite spectator sport
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- In the city of corinth.
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- And unfortunately, the christians in corinth
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- Were bringing that love for litigation into the church.
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- [narrator] set your dvr and join us next time
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- For the message, should christians sue one another,
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- Here on "pathway to victory."
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