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Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Confrontation (Part 1)

April 27, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Confrontation (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Confrontation (Part 1) | April 27, 2026
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • 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'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • When a fellow christian
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  • Is caught up in a destructive pattern of behavior,
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  • What's the loving thing to do?
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  • Many believers would say: mind your own business.
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  • But sometimes love requires us to speak the truth
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  • To someone who's headed in the wrong direction.
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  • Today, we're going to discover
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  • Why confronting sin in the church isn't an act of judgment
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  • But an act of grace.
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  • My message is titled: "good grace confrontation"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Some christians use grace
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  • As a spiritual get-out-of-jail-free card.
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  • Others pile on so many rules,
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  • They have no grace for themselves or others.
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  • In "grace gone wild," dr. robert jeffress shows you
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  • What biblical grace actually looks like
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  • And how practicing it leads to true freedom and lasting joy.
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  • Discover how grace can transform your marriage,
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  • Your relationships, and your walk with god.
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  • Request "grace gone wild"
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  • When you give a generous ministry gift
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  • To "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • "pastor, there is something i thought you should know,"
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  • Don said in a subdued voice over a lunch meeting
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  • He had called with the new pastor of community hills church.
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  • Those words cause any pastor to tense up,
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  • Since it's a rare thing
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  • That the something you should know is anything positive.
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  • "one of your deacons
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  • "has cheated several of us in the church.
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  • "our family alone has lost over $20,000
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  • "we had earmarked for retirement.
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  • "some have lost even more."
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  • Don then launched into a detailed description
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  • Of the failed business venture
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  • In which bill samuels, the deacon in question,
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  • Had solicited funds from a number of people in the church
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  • In order to open a brand-name pizza parlor
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  • That catered to children
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  • And promised to be an instant success.
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  • Months passed,
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  • And all that had appeared on the vacant lot
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  • Was a sign announcing that the restaurant would open soon.
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  • Finally, one of the investors became suspicious,
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  • Called the headquarters of the restaurant chain,
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  • And discovered that they had never heard of bill samuels.
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  • When the investors confronted bill,
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  • He was insulted that anyone would question his integrity.
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  • He explained that he was simply waiting
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  • For the opportune time to purchase the franchise
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  • So that he could obtain the best deal possible.
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  • Still, after nearly a year,
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  • There was no pizza parlor, only excuses.
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  • "pastor, this is going to split our church
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  • "unless you do something," don insisted.
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  • "well, what exactly did you have in mind?"
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  • Pastor dave asked.
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  • "well, doesn't the bible say something
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  • "about disciplining church members who sin,
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  • "and, if they don't repent, kick them out of the church?"
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  • Pastor dave knew the matthew 18 passage
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  • To which don was alluding.
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  • Although dave had written an exegetical paper
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  • On the passage in seminary
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  • And had preached several sermons about it
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  • From his previous churches,
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  • He had no experience
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  • In actually exercising church discipline.
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  • "yes, don, the bible does say
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  • "we should confront sinning church members.
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  • "but it also says
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  • "that you should go to him in private first.
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  • "if that doesn't work,
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  • "then you're to take two or three with you to persuade him."
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  • "we've done that, pastor, but he hasn't listened.
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  • "it's time for the church to take action.
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  • "the entire deacon board needs to meet with him.
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  • "if he doesn't listen,
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  • "then his membership should be revoked."
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  • Pastor dave promised to look into the matter,
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  • But dreaded the prospect
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  • Of inserting himself into a controversy
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  • With so much potential disruption
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  • And so early in his tenure as pastor.
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  • Church discipline.
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  • Those two words just conjure up
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  • An image in many of our minds
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  • Of dour old men in black suits
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  • Who are more suited to live in the 18th century
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  • Than the 21st century.
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  • Church discipline?
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  • I mean, do we really want to go around
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  • Correcting other sinning members in the church?
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  • Don't most of us have enough planks in our own eyes
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  • To be concerned about the speck in other people's eyes?
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  • Bad grace.
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  • The perversion of grace teaches
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  • That christians have no right to ever judge the behavior
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  • Of other members in the church.
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  • But as we're going to discover today,
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  • A true understanding of grace, good grace,
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  • Recognizes that, as christians,
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  • We not only have the right,
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  • We have the responsibility to correct sinning christians
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  • In an effort to lead them back
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  • To a right relationship with god.
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  • Interestingly, previous generations of the church
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  • Understood that responsibility.
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  • I mean, starting with the 1st-century church.
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  • We're going to look at numerous passages
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  • In the new testament
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  • That remind us of our responsibility
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  • To identify and correct sinning church members.
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  • For hundreds of years,
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  • The church took those new testament passages seriously.
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  • The belgic confession of 1561,
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  • Which grew out of the reformation,
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  • Stated that a true church of jesus christ
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  • Was noted by three characteristics:
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  • First, the preaching of pure doctrine,
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  • Secondly, the administration of the sacraments,
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  • And, thirdly, the exercise of church discipline.
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  • In colonial times, the preacher cotton mather
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  • Had a broad list of sins he compiled
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  • That warranted official church action against a member.
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  • You want to hear what those actions were?
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  • It included swearing, cursing, sabbath breaking,
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  • Drunkenness, fighting, defamation,
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  • Fornication, unchastity,
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  • Cheating, stealing, idleness, and lying.
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  • There goes our entire membership right there.
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  • (congregation laughs)
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  • Now, our initial response, when we hear a list like that,
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  • We either smile and we say, "how quaint, how quaint,"
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  • Or we recoil and discuss,
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  • Saying, "how in the world
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  • "could people be so narrow-minded
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  • "as to want to judge common sense like that?"
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  • After all, matthew 7:1.
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  • Didn't jesus say: "judge not lest ye be judged"?
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  • By the way, did you know
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  • That is now americans' favorite verse of the bible?
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  • It used to be john 3:16: "for god so loved the world."
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  • They replaced that with: "judge not."
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  • That's the spirit of our age.
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  • There's no standard of behavior.
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  • And if there is a standard,
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  • We certainly don't have the right
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  • To hold people accountable to that.
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  • Why, if we took these passages seriously
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  • About church discipline,
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  • It would split the church or earn a lawsuit.
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  • Why are we so hesitant to follow what the scripture says?
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  • Why are we hesitant to confront christians
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  • Who are caught up in immorality or addiction
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  • Or harmful relationships?
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  • I think one reason is the consumer mentality
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  • Many churches have fallen into.
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  • My late professor haddon robinson wrote about that.
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  • He said: "too often now when people join a church,
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  • "they do so as consumers.
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  • "if they like the product, they stay.
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  • "if they don't like it, they leave.
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  • "but they can no more imagine a church disciplining them
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  • "than they could a store that sells goods
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  • "disciplining them."
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  • It's not the place of the seller to discipline the consumer,
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  • Or so we think.
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  • You know, the unspoken fear
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  • Of pastors and church leaders is:
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  • If we take this church discipline stuff seriously,
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  • It's going to keep new people from joining our church.
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  • Who wants to be a part of a church like that?
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  • And it will drive away current members as well.
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  • Other people are reluctant to exercise church discipline
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  • Because of bad experiences they've had with it
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  • Or bad examples they've seen.
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  • I remember when i was
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  • A freshly out of seminary young minister, i was idealistic,
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  • And i thought i knew everything
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  • About the way everything ought to work,
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  • And i was serving here on the staff.
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  • And i'll never forget asking dr. criswell:
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  • "pastor, why is it this church
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  • "doesn't do what the bible says
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  • "and exercise church discipline against errant members?"
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  • He said, "robert, when i was a little boy,
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  • "i'll never forget being in a church meeting
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  • "where they were disciplining a church member,
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  • "and we were going to turn him out of the church.
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  • "and even as a little boy, i remember the harshness,
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  • "the vindictiveness of the people in charge of that meeting.
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  • "and as a little boy, i had the thought:
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  • "'those people doing the discipline
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  • "'are more in need of discipline
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  • "'than the one being corrected.'"
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  • I understand that now.
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  • But as one writer said:
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  • The answer to bad church discipline
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  • Is good church discipline,
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  • Not no church discipline.
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  • And there's another reason.
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  • I think it's probably the fundamental reason
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  • We don't apply these passages today.
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  • And that is we really don't understand:
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  • It is our responsibility to identify and correct
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  • Sins in others who have fallen into a disobedient lifestyle.
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  • We don't understand that
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  • Because we have what i call a club mentality.
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  • Dr. john white wrote about this one time,
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  • A club versus a body mentality.
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  • We think, when we join a church, we're joining a club.
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  • You know what a club is.
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  • It's a group of people who have similar interests.
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  • But everybody still remains pretty anonymous.
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  • I mean, if you join a stamp collector's club,
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  • You go once a week to the stamp collecting message.
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  • You may hear a lecture about stamp collecting
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  • And how to be better at it.
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  • You may say a pleasant hello to somebody at the meeting
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  • And have some superficial conversation.
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  • But at a stamp collector's meeting,
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  • You would never think about
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  • Talking to another stamp collector
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  • About the state of his marriage or his walk with god
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  • Or his obedience or anything else.
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  • You don't do that in a club.
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  • The philosophy of a club is: live and let live.
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  • But when we join the church, we're not a part of a club.
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  • We're part of a body, a body.
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  • And think about the mentality of a body.
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  • If your liver becomes diseased,
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  • How does the rest of your body respond?
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  • Does your pancreas say,
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  • "oh, i'm so sorry, mr. liver, to hear you're feeling bad,
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  • "i'll put you on my prayer list and be praying for you"?
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  • No, every other organ in your body and system
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  • Does whatever it can to help heal the liver.
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  • Why?
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  • Because as goes the liver goes the whole body.
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  • And that's the way a body operates.
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  • They're connected to one another,
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  • And they try to help and heal one another.
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  • Paul said it this way in 1 corinthians 12, verses 26 and 27:
  • 00:12:13.189 --> 00:12:17.426
  • "if one member of the body suffers,
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  • "all the members suffer with it.
  • 00:12:19.695 --> 00:12:21.797
  • "if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
  • 00:12:21.797 --> 00:12:25.501
  • "now you are christ's body
  • 00:12:25.501 --> 00:12:27.536
  • "and you are individually members of it."
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  • I want to suggest to you today
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  • That this idea of correcting other sinning christians
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  • Is actually a part of the great commission.
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  • Say, "well, how do you get that?"
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  • Remember the great commission, matthew 28: 19-20.
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  • Jesus said the one reason he's left us here on earth
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  • Is to go into all the world and, what?
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  • Make disciples.
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  • "baptizing them in the name of the father,
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  • "son, and holy spirit,
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  • "leading them, teaching them
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  • "to observe all things whatsoever i commanded you."
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  • The reason we're here
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  • Is to make as many followers of jesus christ as we can.
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  • How do we do that?
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  • Through evangelism, baptizing them,
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  • Sharing with them the gospel.
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  • When they become a christian,
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  • They're delivered out of the ******* of sin.
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  • That's what christianity is.
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  • It's deliverance from the ******* of sin.
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  • Paul said we have been delivered
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  • From the kingdom of darkness
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  • Into the light of god's own son.
  • 00:13:23.092 --> 00:13:25.861
  • But once we become a christian,
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  • We still deal with sin, don't we, every day?
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  • We've been delivered from the ******* of sin,
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  • But we need to also as christians
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  • Be delivered from the power of sin.
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  • Christians occasionally get tangled up in slavery to sin,
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  • To addictions, to relationships,
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  • To patterns of behavior that are displeasing of god.
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  • And church discipline is the corollary of evangelism.
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  • It's directed to help free christians from the power of sin.
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  • What is church discipline on your outline?
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  • I've given you a good definition
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  • Of church discipline by j. laney.
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  • It's the confrontive and corrective measures, get this,
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  • Taken by an individual or church leaders
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  • Or the entire congregation
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  • Regarding a matter of sin in the life of a believer.
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  • Church discipline doesn't always mean
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  • Calling a church member
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  • And dragging some poor guy or woman up here
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  • And voting them out of the church.
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  • Church discipline can involve
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  • One christian talking to another christian,
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  • Helping lead them in the way that they should be going.
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  • Sometimes it involves a small group,
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  • Sometimes it involves the entire church,
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  • But it's always done in love.
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  • The purpose is healing.
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  • Just imagine you had a lump on your arm,
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  • And you got concerned about it,
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  • And you went to see the doctor.
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  • The doctor said, "well, we better biopsy that."
  • 00:14:50.012 --> 00:14:53.015
  • And your doctor in a few days got the report back,
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  • And it showed a malignancy,
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  • A tumor that needed to be removed.
  • 00:14:56.986 --> 00:15:00.022
  • But suppose your doctor said:
  • 00:15:00.022 --> 00:15:01.357
  • "you know, i think i'll keep that to myself.
  • 00:15:01.357 --> 00:15:05.661
  • "if i share with my patient he has a malignancy,
  • 00:15:05.661 --> 00:15:09.665
  • "he may get upset.
  • 00:15:09.665 --> 00:15:11.533
  • "or, worse, he may go to another doctor.
  • 00:15:12.401 --> 00:15:15.838
  • "i don't want to lose the patient.
  • 00:15:15.838 --> 00:15:17.239
  • "i'll keep that to myself.
  • 00:15:17.239 --> 00:15:18.674
  • "and i certainly don't want to go to the next step
  • 00:15:18.674 --> 00:15:20.809
  • "of not only telling him but operating on him.
  • 00:15:20.809 --> 00:15:24.513
  • "you want me to cut into his flesh?
  • 00:15:24.513 --> 00:15:26.782
  • "that would hurt, that would be expensive.
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  • "i think i'll just keep this information to myself."
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  • A doctor who would do that
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  • Would be accused of, what? malpractice.
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  • Doctors are supposed to heal,
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  • And although the process is sometimes painful and upsetting,
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  • The goal, ultimately, is health and restoration.
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  • It's the same way
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  • When we talk about correcting another christian.
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  • The purpose of that is to ensure
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  • The christian's spiritual health.
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  • And you find that throughout scripture.
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  • Matthew 18, verse 15.
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  • "if your brother sins,
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  • "go and show him his fault in private.
  • 00:16:01.150 --> 00:16:04.286
  • "if he listens to you, you have won your brother."
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  • That's the goal of correction, to win someone.
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  • 2 thessalonians 3: 14 and 15.
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  • "if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter,
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  • "take special note of that person
  • 00:16:17.566 --> 00:16:19.935
  • "and do not associate with him
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  • "so that he will be put to shame.
  • 00:16:21.670 --> 00:16:23.739
  • "yet, don't regard him as an enemy,
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  • "but admonish him as a brother."
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  • Or the passage i had you read a little bit earlier,
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  • James 5: 19 and 20.
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  • "my brethren, if any among you strays from the truth
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  • "and one turns him back,
  • 00:16:36.952 --> 00:16:38.854
  • "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
  • 00:16:41.523 --> 00:16:44.760
  • "and will cover a multitude of sins."
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  • It's a good thing to restore somebody to spiritual health.
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  • Discipline, correction is a sign of our love for somebody,
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  • Not our hatred for them.
  • 00:16:56.438 --> 00:16:58.507
  • In fact, isn't that how god deals with us?
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  • In hebrews 12, 5 and 6, the writer says,
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  • "my son, don't regard lightly the discipline of the lord,
  • 00:17:03.912 --> 00:17:08.383
  • "nor faint when you are reproved by him,
  • 00:17:08.383 --> 00:17:11.019
  • "for those whom the lord loves, he," what?
  • 00:17:11.019 --> 00:17:13.755
  • "he disciplines,
  • 00:17:13.755 --> 00:17:15.090
  • "and he scourges every son whom he receives."
  • 00:17:15.090 --> 00:17:18.227
  • That's what loving parents do.
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  • They correct their children.
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  • They don't allow misbehavior to go unpunished.
  • 00:17:21.997 --> 00:17:25.834
  • In fact, in hebrews 12:8,
  • 00:17:25.834 --> 00:17:27.803
  • The writer says, "but if you are without discipline,
  • 00:17:27.803 --> 00:17:30.772
  • "of which all have become partakers,
  • 00:17:30.772 --> 00:17:32.641
  • "then you are illegitimate children and not sons."
  • 00:17:32.641 --> 00:17:37.079
  • God only disciplines those who are part of his family,
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  • Not those who aren't part of his family.
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  • If you go to the mall and you see some child misbehaving,
  • 00:17:42.951 --> 00:17:47.456
  • Yelling at his parents, yelling out obscenities,
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  • Do you go over and correct that child?
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  • Probably not.
  • 00:17:54.062 --> 00:17:55.764
  • I mean, if you tried to do it,
  • 00:17:55.764 --> 00:17:57.032
  • The child, even the parent would say,
  • 00:17:57.032 --> 00:17:58.667
  • "who in the world do you think you are?
  • 00:17:58.667 --> 00:18:01.236
  • "butt out buddy, that's not your business."
  • 00:18:01.236 --> 00:18:04.840
  • And they would be right.
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  • Parents only discipline their own children.
  • 00:18:06.708 --> 00:18:08.677
  • Same way with god.
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  • God disciplines his children who are caught up in sin.
  • 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:14.183
  • And the fact that hard things come into your life
  • 00:18:14.183 --> 00:18:16.752
  • When you sin as a christian
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  • Is a proof that you're part of god's family
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  • And that god loves you too much
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  • To allow you to get away with it.
  • 00:18:22.758 --> 00:18:25.027
  • One of the channels god uses
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  • To bring discipline in your church
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  • Is through other christians in the body of christ.
  • 00:18:29.464 --> 00:18:33.702
  • Well, what are the purposes
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  • Of church discipline, correction?
  • 00:18:35.337 --> 00:18:37.706
  • The scripture mentions three.
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  • First of all, write this down,
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  • To reclaim a christian who has been overtaken by sin.
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  • To reclaim a christian who has been overtaken by sin.
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  • My first acting experience
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  • Was when i was in the first grade here at our church,
  • 00:18:54.356 --> 00:18:58.026
  • And our sunday school class
  • 00:18:58.026 --> 00:18:59.494
  • Was going to do a dramatic reenactment
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  • Of the story of the good samaritan.
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  • And i was chosen to play the lead role.
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  • My parents were so proud.
  • 00:19:08.537 --> 00:19:10.005
  • I still remember them coming in
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  • And watching my performance as the good samaritan.
  • 00:19:11.940 --> 00:19:14.476
  • They dressed me up in a bathrobe
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  • And gave me a first aid kit.
  • 00:19:16.979 --> 00:19:19.014
  • And i was part of the story that probably everybody,
  • 00:19:19.014 --> 00:19:21.617
  • Even with a cursory understanding of scripture, knows.
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  • Remember the story in luke 10?
  • 00:19:24.286 --> 00:19:26.688
  • Jesus had said, "love your neighbor as yourself,"
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  • And there's a lawyer in the crowd looking for loopholes.
  • 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:35.163
  • And the lawyer said, "well, wait a minute, jesus,
  • 00:19:35.163 --> 00:19:37.032
  • "this love your neighbor as yourself stuff?
  • 00:19:37.032 --> 00:19:38.934
  • "exactly who is my neighbor?"
  • 00:19:38.934 --> 00:19:42.137
  • He was looking for a way to get out of that.
  • 00:19:42.137 --> 00:19:43.705
  • "surely you don't mean anybody.
  • 00:19:43.705 --> 00:19:45.707
  • "wouldn't my neighbor be somebody
  • 00:19:45.707 --> 00:19:47.342
  • "that i like and care about?"
  • 00:19:47.342 --> 00:19:50.012
  • And so jesus answered his question, who is my neighbor,
  • 00:19:50.012 --> 00:19:54.583
  • By telling the story that we call the good samaritan.
  • 00:19:54.583 --> 00:19:57.653
  • He told the story of a jewish man who was walking,
  • 00:19:57.653 --> 00:20:00.722
  • And on his walk he had been ambushed by a group of thieves
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  • Who had beaten him, robbed him, and left him for dead.
  • 00:20:04.092 --> 00:20:07.562
  • And there he was bleeding in the street
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  • When a priest walked by, saw what had happened,
  • 00:20:09.931 --> 00:20:13.368
  • Said, "isn't that a shame?"
  • 00:20:13.368 --> 00:20:15.203
  • And on he went.
  • 00:20:15.203 --> 00:20:16.438
  • And then assistant priest walked by
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  • And again stopped to do nothing.
  • 00:20:18.507 --> 00:20:21.843
  • But the third man who walked by
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  • Was a samaritan from samaria.
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  • The samaritans hated the jews,
  • 00:20:26.281 --> 00:20:27.916
  • And the jews certainly hated the samaritans,
  • 00:20:27.916 --> 00:20:30.252
  • But he an outsider was the one
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  • Who stopped and rendered aid
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  • And took him to the inn and paid for his healing.
  • 00:20:35.757 --> 00:20:39.394
  • Jesus was saying: your neighbor is anyone who is in need.
  • 00:20:39.394 --> 00:20:44.666
  • That's who your neighbor is.
  • 00:20:45.267 --> 00:20:47.436
  • Now, what does that have to do with church discipline?
  • 00:20:47.436 --> 00:20:50.806
  • Every day, we see christians who have been assaulted
  • 00:20:51.840 --> 00:20:56.578
  • And beaten by sin in this world.
  • 00:20:57.212 --> 00:20:59.181
  • They are the victims of sin.
  • 00:20:59.181 --> 00:21:02.250
  • Through immoral relationships, broken marriages, addictions,
  • 00:21:02.250 --> 00:21:06.621
  • They are getting beaten up by sin and being left for dead.
  • 00:21:06.621 --> 00:21:11.426
  • If you see a christian who is under assault from sin,
  • 00:21:11.426 --> 00:21:14.930
  • What are you supposed to do?
  • 00:21:14.930 --> 00:21:16.498
  • Just walk by?
  • 00:21:16.498 --> 00:21:17.866
  • Say, "well, that's his problem.
  • 00:21:17.866 --> 00:21:19.234
  • "that's his relationship with god.
  • 00:21:19.234 --> 00:21:21.069
  • "i can't get involved."
  • 00:21:21.069 --> 00:21:22.971
  • No.
  • 00:21:22.971 --> 00:21:24.339
  • To walk by a christian who is the victim of sin
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  • Is to show contempt toward that christian.
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  • It is our duty to stop and help whenever we can.
  • 00:21:31.346 --> 00:21:36.685
  • The evangelist charles finney once claimed:
  • 00:21:37.586 --> 00:21:39.020
  • "reproof, that is correction, is a christian duty.
  • 00:21:39.020 --> 00:21:43.125
  • "if you see your neighbor sin and you pass by
  • 00:21:43.125 --> 00:21:46.161
  • "and neglect to reprove him,
  • 00:21:46.161 --> 00:21:47.863
  • "it is just as cruel
  • 00:21:47.863 --> 00:21:50.165
  • "as if you should see his house on fire
  • 00:21:50.165 --> 00:21:52.834
  • "and pass by it and not warn him of it."
  • 00:21:52.834 --> 00:21:56.772
  • You see, again, the reason people
  • 00:21:57.506 --> 00:21:59.307
  • Resist this idea of church discipline is:
  • 00:21:59.307 --> 00:22:02.210
  • They don't want to get involved.
  • 00:22:02.210 --> 00:22:03.945
  • It may be messy,
  • 00:22:03.945 --> 00:22:05.814
  • And they don't want to be involved
  • 00:22:05.814 --> 00:22:07.215
  • In condemnation of another sinner.
  • 00:22:07.215 --> 00:22:10.118
  • The purpose of church discipline
  • 00:22:10.118 --> 00:22:12.421
  • Is not condemnation but restoration.
  • 00:22:12.421 --> 00:22:15.223
  • Let me show you that in the bible.
  • 00:22:15.223 --> 00:22:17.058
  • In galatians chapter 6, verses 1 and 2,
  • 00:22:17.058 --> 00:22:20.061
  • Paul wrote, "brethren, if anyone is caught in any trespass."
  • 00:22:20.061 --> 00:22:25.467
  • That word caught literally means overtaken,
  • 00:22:26.334 --> 00:22:29.337
  • Somebody who is overtaken by a sin.
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  • What are you to do?
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  • "you who are spiritual restore such a one
  • 00:22:33.542 --> 00:22:37.479
  • "in a spirit of gentleness,
  • 00:22:37.479 --> 00:22:39.014
  • "each one looking to yourself
  • 00:22:39.014 --> 00:22:41.416
  • "that you too will not be tempted.
  • 00:22:41.416 --> 00:22:43.585
  • "bear one another's burdens
  • 00:22:43.585 --> 00:22:45.554
  • "and thereby fulfill the law of christ."
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  • The purpose of correction
  • 00:22:53.562 --> 00:22:55.030
  • Is never condemnation but restoration.
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  • And that's a truth the church today needs to embrace.
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  • Well, in closing today,
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  • I want to take a moment to thank those of you
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  • Who tell us how god is using this ministry
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  • To strengthen their faith and transform their lives.
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  • And that impact is the direct result of partners like you
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  • Who share our commitment to pierce the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • So whether you give as a pathway partner
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  • Or through an occasional gift,
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  • Thank you for standing with us in this mission.
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  • Together, we are making an eternal difference.
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  • Now, stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • The bible tells us we're saved by grace.
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  • But do you allow yourself to receive grace?
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  • Do you practice grace?
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  • Do you abuse god's grace?
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  • In "grace gone wild,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress clears up the confusion
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  • And shows you how grace leads to joy, not guilt.
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  • Christians fall into one of two traps
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  • When it comes to grace.
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  • Some believe grace means there are no boundaries in living.
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  • Others pile on so many rules
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  • That christianity feels like a burden instead of a blessing.
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  • In my book, "grace gone wild,"
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  • I'll show you that true grace
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  • Leads to a deeper, more joy-filled relationship with god.
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  • Discover how understanding grace
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  • Can transform your marriage, your relationships,
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  • And every decision you make.
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  • Request your copy of "grace gone wild"
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  • When you give a generous gift to "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 the "grace gone wild" teaching series
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  • On both cd and dvd,
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  • Along with the application guide.
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  • There are too many christians today who have taken
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  • This marvelous gift of grace and perverted it.
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  • They are robbing themselves
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  • Of the joy that comes from obedience to god.
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  • Thank you for your generous support
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  • Of "pathway to victory."
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  • Your gift helps us
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  • Bring bold, biblical teaching around the world.
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  • Together, we are piercing the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • When you see a fellow believer
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  • Who's been overtaken by sin,
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  • Don't just walk by.
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  • Like the good samaritan,
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  • We're called to stop and help, not out of judgment,
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  • But out of genuine love and concern
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  • For their spiritual wellbeing.
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  • That's what it means to be part of the body of christ.
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  • Well, we've covered one reason
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  • The scripture calls us to confront sin in the church,
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  • And next time we'll look at two more reasons
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  • Scripture calls us to take this matter seriously.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series "grace gone wild."
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  • We're not to go after unbelievers who sin.
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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 can't do it.
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  • No, we're to correct christians inside the church,
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  • Not outside the church,
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  • But inside the church who are involved in sins.
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  • Because if we don't do so,
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  • It destroys the witness of the church.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For part two of the message "good grace confrontation"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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  • June 13th through 20, 2026.
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  • Let me paint a picture for you.
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  • You're standing on the deck of a beautiful cruise ship,
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  • Coffee in hand,
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  • Watching a glacier calve into the pristine waters
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  • While bald eagles circle overhead.
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  • That's going to be us this coming june.
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  • You've got to see alaska with your own eyes to believe it.
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  • Seven days of pure luxury
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  • Where every meal is prepared for you.
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  • Instead, you can focus on casual conversations
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  • With like-minded christians,
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  • Laughing, telling stories
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  • While surrounded by god's breathtaking creation.
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  • Refreshing your soul
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