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Robert Jeffress - Caring Enough To Confront

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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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[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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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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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.
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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Just a little bit of bitterness in the church
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Can spread like gangrene throughout the church.
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And paul says that's why it needs to be dealt with.
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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.
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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.
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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
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To be god passing through egypt
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And killing the firstborn of every family.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And at that point, he was broken and he said to moses,
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"get your people out of here."
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And moses knew it was time to go.
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So he had the israelites pack up
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And leave as quickly as they could.
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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.
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That's how quickly they had to move out of egypt.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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We ought to do everything we can to rid our lives,
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Individually and corporately, of sin.
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That's why paul says we must maintain purity in the church.
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God has called us to a whole new way of living.
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Now look in verses nine to 10,
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Paul had to clarify what he meant by this judgment.
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He said, "i wrote you in my letter
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Not to associate with immoral people.
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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."
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Remember, there was a previous letter
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Paul had written that got lost.
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And paul said, you know, i need to clarify what i meant.
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When i said don't associate with immoral people.
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I wasn't talking about immoral christians,
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There's no way, or non-christians,
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To not associate with sinners,
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You'd have to leave this world.
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When i said don't associate with immoral people,
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I meant immoral christians.
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You see what had happened was these corinthians
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Had misunderstood what paul said,
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They were trying to withdraw
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From having any contact with unbelievers.
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No, jesus said, we're the salt of the world.
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We're supposed to have contact with unbelievers.
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The kind of immoral sinners we're to withdraw from
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Are professing christians, not non-christians.
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That was the whole point here.
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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,
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Or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler,
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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.
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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?
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But those who are outside god judges.
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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.
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We want to condemn them
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But pass over the sins of fellow christians.
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Paul said, you've got it all wrong here.
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Now don't worry about non-christians, judging their sin.
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You know what i've discovered?
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The most futile work in the world
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Is to try to keep sinners from sinning.
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You just can't do it.
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You know, the reason people are sinners
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Is not because they sin.
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Sinners aren't sinners because they sin.
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We sin because we're sinners.
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We need to quit judging unbelievers.
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That is not our calling in life.
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God says, if you want to judge somebody,
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Judge the immoral christian who is living within your midst.
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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.
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Let me say it again.
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Sin in the church should be confronted firmly, yet lovingly.
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The church at corinth had made so many compromises with sin
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That it had lost its influence in the city.
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Remember what jesus said in matthew 5:13?
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"you are the salt of the earth,
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But if the salt has become tasteless.
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How can it be made salty again?
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It is no longer good for anything
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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,
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The goal is not condemnation, it is restoration.
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And then second principle,
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Sin in our own lives should be confronted
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Honestly and quickly.
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Sin in our own life should be confronted
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Honestly and quickly.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the only way for the church
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To remain pure is for those of us
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Who are members of the church to be pure.
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And that means, just like the israelites
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Look in their home for any trace of leaven and swept it out,
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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
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And make us aware of anything in our life
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That is displeasing to god.
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And when we find that little bit of sin,
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We need to deal with it.
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We need to sweep it out decisively.
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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.
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But i just have a feeling that a group this size,
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Those listening by broadcast,
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I'm speaking to somebody tonight
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Who's engaged in secret sin.
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It may be an overpowering addiction in your life.
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It may be a dishonest deal you're involved in.
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It may be an illicit relationship
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You're experiencing right now.
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And you may think nobody knows anything about it,
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And that may be true, but god knows.
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What is a secret sin in your heart,
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Is an open scandal in heaven right now.
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And regardless of what this church does
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Or doesn't do about that sin in your life,
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God will deal eventually with that sin,
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Especially if you're his child.
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Remember the words of hebrews 12:6,
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"for whom the lord loves, he disciplines,
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And he scourges every son whom he receives."
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Paul said, "if we will judge ourselves,
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We will not be judged."
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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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Robert Jeffress - Caring Enough To Confront

May 6, 2025 | 27:29

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