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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Good Grace Confrontation (Part 2) | April 28, 2026
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- ♪ music ♪
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- From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- 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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- Jesus said, "judge not, lest you be judged."
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- So should we confront another christian
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- Who is living in disobedience,
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- Or should we look the other way?
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- Depending on whom you ask,
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- You're likely to hear different answers.
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- Today, we're turning to the ultimate authority
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- On the issue of confrontation: god's word.
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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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- ♪ behold ♪
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- ♪ hanging before you ♪
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- ♪ is the sacrifice of god ♪
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- ♪ the lamb ♪
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- ♪ pure and holy ♪
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- ♪ creation stands in awe ♪
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- ♪ removing all that hinders ♪
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- ♪ the worship of our king ♪
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- ♪ as he cries, "it is finished," heaven sings ♪
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- ♪ oh ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down, let the praise go up ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down, we're in the presence of the lord ♪
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- ♪ yeah ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down, let the praise go up ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down, we're in the presence of the lord ♪
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- ♪ holy god, we sing ♪
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- ♪ hosanna ♪
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- -♪ oh, hosanna ♪ -♪ hosanna ♪
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- -♪ oh ♪ -♪ in the highest ♪
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- -♪ we shout hosanna ♪ -♪ hosanna ♪
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- -♪ oh ♪ -♪ hosanna ♪
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- ♪ we give you the highest praise ♪
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- ♪ in the highest ♪
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- -♪ we sing hosanna ♪ -♪ hosanna ♪
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- ♪ hosanna ♪
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- -♪ in the highest ♪ -♪ in the highest ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, we praise ♪
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- ♪ let the veil down, let the praise go up ♪
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- -♪ let the veil down ♪ -♪ oh, oh ♪
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- -♪ let the veil down ♪ -♪ let it down ♪
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- -♪ let the veil down ♪ -♪ we honor you ♪
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- ♪ in the presence ♪
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- ♪ of ♪
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- -♪ the lord ♪ -♪ thank you, lord ♪
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- ♪ we're in the presence of ♪
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- ♪ music ♪
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- -♪ the lord ♪ -♪ the lord ♪
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- (congregation applauds)
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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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- ♪ music ♪
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- My first acting experience
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- Was when i was in the first grade here at our church,
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- And our sunday school class
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- 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.
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- I still remember them coming in
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- And watching my performance as the good samaritan.
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- They dressed me up in a bathrobe
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- And gave me a first aid kit,
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- And i was part of the story that probably everybody,
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- Even with a cursory understanding of scripture, knows.
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- Remember the story in luke 10.
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- Jesus had said, "love your neighbor as yourself,"
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- And there's a lawyer in the crowd
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- Looking for loopholes. (chuckles)
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- And the lawyer said, "well, wait a minute, jesus.
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- This 'love your neighbor as yourself' stuff,
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- Exactly who is my neighbor?"
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- He was looking for a way to get out of that.
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- "surely you don't mean anybody.
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- Wouldn't my neighbor be somebody
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- That i like and care about?"
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- And so jesus answered his question, "who is my neighbor?"
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- By telling the story that we call the good samaritan.
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- He told the story of a jewish man who was walking
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- 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.
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- And there he was, bleeding in the street
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- When a priest walked by, saw what had happened,
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- Said, "isn't that a shame?" and on he went.
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- And then assistant priest walked by
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- And again, stopped to do nothing.
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- 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
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- And the jews certainly hated the samaritans.
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- But he, an outsider, was the one,
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- That was the one who stopped and rendered aid
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- And took him to the inn and paid for his healing.
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- Jesus was saying, "your neighbor is anyone who is in need."
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- That's who your neighbor is.
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- Now, what does that have to do with church discipline?
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- Every day, we see christians
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- Who have been assaulted and beaten by sin in this world.
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- They are the victims of sin.
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- Through immoral relationships, broken marriages, addictions,
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- They are getting beaten up by sin and being left for dead.
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- If you see a christian who is under assault from sin,
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- What are you supposed to do?
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- Just walk by?
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- Say, "well, that's his problem.
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- That's his relationship with god.
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- I can't get involved."
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- No.
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- 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.
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- The evangelist charles finney once claimed,
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- "reproof," that is, correction, "is a christian duty."
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- If you see your neighbor's sin and you pass by
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- And neglect to reprove him, it is just as cruel
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- As if you should see his house on fire
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- And pass by it and not warn him of it.
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- You see again,
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- The reason people resist this idea of church discipline
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- Is they don't want to get involved.
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- It may be messy, and they don't want to be involved
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- In condemnation of another sinner.
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- The purpose of church discipline
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- Is not condemnation, but restoration.
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- Let me show you that in the bible.
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- In galatians chapter six, verses one and two, paul wrote,
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- "brethren, if anyone is caught in any trespass,"
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- That word caught literally means overtaken,
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- Somebody who is overtaken by a sin.
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- What are you to do?
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- "you who are spiritual restores such a one
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- In a spirit of gentleness, each one looking to yourself
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- That you too will not be tempted.
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- Bear one another's burdens
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- And thereby fulfill the law of christ."
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- Secondly, to maintain the witness of the church.
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- To maintain the witness of the church.
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- You know, the church is often called,
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- As i mentioned, the body of christ.
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- One reason that's true
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- Is because we're all connected to one another like the body
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- And jesus is the head.
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- But by body it also means
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- We are the visible representation of church
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- To unbelievers in this world.
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- Non-christians can't see jesus; he's not here.
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- He's in heaven.
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- But jesus has left christians on earth.
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- We are the body, we are the visible representation
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- Of christ here on earth.
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- And that means, to a large extent,
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- People's attitudes towards christ is often shaped
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- By their attitude toward the church.
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- After all, christians are the only thing they see.
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- You know, i remember years ago, watching "larry king live."
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- And that used to be a must-watch tv show, "larry king live."
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- He'd always have interesting guests.
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- And i remember one night,
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- He was interviewing a christian personality and their mate,
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- This christian couple.
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- And they had both left their former spouses
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- To marry one another.
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- What interested me in that interview was the caption,
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- The chyron, that was underneath their interview.
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- The title of the interview was:
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- "christians attracted to each other,
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- Married to other people."
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- I thought, "what a damning indictment that is
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- Of the church, for the whole world to see."
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- This is a normal thing.
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- Christians who are attracted to one another,
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- Even though they're married to other people.
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- It makes me think of gandhi's observation.
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- He said, "i might consider becoming a christian
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- If i ever met one."
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- The church is the visible representation of christ on earth,
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- And that's why we have to deal with the problems of sin.
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- By the way, the idea of christians being a poor witness
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- For christ because of their lifestyle,
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- That's not a new problem. (chuckles)
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- It was found 2,000 years ago in the church at corinth.
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- Turn over to i corinthians 5 for just a moment.
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- Remember the story?
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- Paul was writing them a scathing letter
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- For what was going on, the scandal in their church.
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- He mentions it in i corinthians 5:1.
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- "it is actually reported to me
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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," the unbelievers.
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- "that somebody in your church has his father's wife."
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- Apparently the scandal was
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- There was a man in the church who was having an affair,
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- Not with his mother; with his stepmother, his father's wife.
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- And it had become the scandal, not just of the church,
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- But of the entire community.
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- People were saying, "look at what is happening
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- Down at that church.
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- They're doing things we don't even approve of,
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- And we're pagans."
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- So what did the church do about that?
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- Absolutely nothing.
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- In fact, they bragged about the fact
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- That they didn't intervene in that sin.
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- That's why paul says in verse two, "you have become arrogant
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- And 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 church probably said, "you know,
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- We're a church of grace, not of judgment.
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- Everybody's welcome into our church.
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- Who are we to judge other people?"
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- They were perverting the doctrine of grace
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- And they were doing so not because of their holiness,
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- But because of their unrighteousness.
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- They had sexual sin in their own life,
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- So they didn't feel comfortable correcting other people.
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- Or perhaps they didn't want to go to the trouble
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- Or possible danger of correcting a sinning member,
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- So they let it go.
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- And paul goes on to chastise them
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- For their unwillingness to get involved.
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- You know, so many times, it's our tendency
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- To want to criticize unbelievers who sin,
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- You know, unbelievers who are involved
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- In abortions or homosexuality or drug addiction.
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- We go after unbelievers.
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- I had somebody write me this week,
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- "why don't you speak out publicly against so and so?"
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- Well, so and so's not a christian. why would i judge them?
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- I quoted them paul's word in this passage,
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- Verse 12 of i corinthians 5,
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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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- Now, i'm not saying we don't speak out against those sins,
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- But there's no reason to judge unbelievers
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- Who commit those sins.
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- I mean, what else do you expect from unbelievers
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- Except to sin?
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- Sinners sin!
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- That's all they can do. they're unbelievers.
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- They don't have any ability or any reason
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- To do anything else.
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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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- In my previous church,
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- Our church made a well-known stand
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- Against two pro-homosexual children's books
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- That had been placed in our local library.
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- And it was a controversy that generated national attention,
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- A federal lawsuit.
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- Our entire city was caught up in it for a year's time.
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- And while that was going on publicly,
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- It came to my attention
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- That one of our leaders, one of our staff members,
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- Was having an affair with another man's wife.
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- And i have to confess to you,
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- My first inclination was to sweep it under the rug,
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- Not to do anything about it.
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- And i rationalized it by saying, "you know,
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- With all of this local and national attention we're getting,
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- If this becomes public and we deal with it,
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- Why, we're going to lose our reputation
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- And hurt the cause of christ."
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- My first inclination was to sweep it under the rug.
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- But some leaders in our church, to their credit, said,
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- "pastor, we can't do that.
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- We can't do that.
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- The bible says we've got to deal with this.
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- And the truth is, people in the community
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- Probably know about it already anyway."
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- And so we went through the process
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- Outlined in the scripture in matthew 18,
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- And he was removed from the staff.
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- And after all of that happened and blew up,
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- I was walking through downtown
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- And a woman, not a member of our church, stopped me
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- And she said, "i heard what you did to so and so,"
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- Talking about the staff member.
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- "we were all watching
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- To see if you folks down at the first baptist church
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- Really practiced what you were preaching."
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- People were watching.
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- People are watching our church right now as well.
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- They're watching any church
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- That claims to be a follower of jesus christ.
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- And that's why it's important to exercise church discipline,
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- To maintain the witness of the church.
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- The third purpose
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- Is to sustain the health of the congregation.
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- To sustain the health of the congregation.
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- You've probably heard the saying,
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- "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel."
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- Well, paul had another saying
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- In verse six of i corinthians 5:
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- "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, i've never baked anything in my life,
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- And never intend to.
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- But if you know anything about baking,
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- You know leaven is used.
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- It takes just a little pinch of leaven
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- Put in a lump of dough
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- To make the entire lump of dough rise.
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- Leaven is used to cause a dough to rise.
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- But in the bible, leaven is used as a illustration,
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- A metaphor for sin.
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- It only takes a little bit of sin
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- To infect a whole lump, so to speak, of dough.
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- Paul uses that analogy in verse seven of i corinthians 5.
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- Look at it: "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 also been sacrificed."
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- People read that verse and they think,
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- "now i know why i don't read my bible more.
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- What in the world does that mean?
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- Leaven, lump of dough, jesus, the passover?
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- How does that all make sense?"
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- Well, let me explain it to you real quickly.
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- This alludes back to the book of exodus,
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- When the children of israel were held ******* in egypt.
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- Remember the story, god sent ten plagues
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- To convince pharaoh to let the people go.
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- If you haven't read the story,
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- You've probably seen the movie anyway.
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- But you remember the story.
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- God sent these awful plagues,
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- Nothing changed pharaoh's heart,
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- But god saved the best one till last.
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- He said, "i'm going to send the death angel
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- To destroy the firstborn of every child,
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- Every egyptian and every israelite."
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- But he said, "before i send this final judgment,
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- If you will take the blood of a blameless lamb
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- And if you will kill the lamb and take its blood
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- And put it on your doorpost,
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- When the death angel passes through the streets,
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- When i see the blood on your door,
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- I will pass over you in judgment."
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- And that's exactly what happened.
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- That night, there was wailing in egypt
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- As the angel of death came and killed the firstborn
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- Of everyone who had not taken the blood of the lamb.
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- One of those people was pharaoh.
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- And when he lost his firstborn son, that was it.
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- He said, "get these israelites out of here
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- As quickly as possible."
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- And so the word came to moses and the israelites,
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- "leave while you still can."
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- And they left in such a hurry that they didn't have time
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- To even leaven the bread they were baking.
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- They took the bread with them unleavened.
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- They left the leaven back in egypt
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- As they headed toward the promised land.
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- Leaven represents sin, the old way of life in egypt.
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- God has called them out of egypt to a new land.
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- And so they leave the leaven, the sin behind,
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- And they take the unleavened bread,
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- Representing a new life they have.
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- And that's what paul is alluding to here.
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- We need to get rid of the leaven,
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- The sin of our old way of life.
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- God has called us to a newness of life
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- If we have received the blood of christ in our life.
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- Now listen to me.
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- When he says christ is our passover,
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- All of that about the lamb and the blood on the doorpost
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- And the death angel, that was all pointing to the day
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- When jesus christ, the perfect lamb of god,
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- Would be sacrificed on a cross,
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- Not for his sins, but for our sins.
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- And the only way we can escape the coming certain judgment
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- That god promises, the only way we can escape it
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- Is by having the blood of christ, so to speak,
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- Placed over our life.
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- The moment you trust
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- That jesus died for your sins on the cross,
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- That he made the payment
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- That you and i deserve to make but can't make,
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- When we trust in christ as our savior,
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- God says, "when i look at you, i'll no longer see your sin,
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- But i'll see the blood of my son,
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- And i will pass over you in judgment."
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- But as god passes over in judgment,
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- As we head to that new way of living,
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- We're to leave sin behind.
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- The leaven, the uncleanness in our own life.
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- It has no place in our new life.
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- And that's what this passage is, listen to me.
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- It's a call, first of all, to personal holiness.
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- We need to take the light of god's holy spirit
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- And search every crevice of our heart
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- To see if there is anything displeasing to god,
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- And we need to sweep it out, get rid of it.
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- But this isn't just a call to personal holiness.
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- Paul's talking about the church, the whole lump of dough.
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- It's not just you, it's about the whole lump of dough.
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- Did you know you're part of a lump?
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- Turn to the person next to you,
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- Say, "i'm glad you're in this lump with me."
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- Yeah, we're all part of a lump, we're all together in this.
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- And we're to do everything we can to sweep out the leaven
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- And keep it from permeating
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- And infecting the body of christ.
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- That's what this passage is.
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- And we do it to maintain the health of this organization,
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- This organism, the church of christ.
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- Well, you know, that raises
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- (chuckles) some really interesting questions.
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- "pastor, are you saying
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- That we're just to go around identifying sins in one another
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- And correcting one another,
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- And having church business meetings every sunday night
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- And throwing people out of the church?"
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- That's going to be the all-consuming purpose
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- Of first baptist dallas.
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- Do we want to be known as fbc, first baptist confrontation?
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- Who wants to be a part of a church like that where all we do
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- Is go around identifying sins in other people?
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- And if not, when do we confront other people?
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- What kind of sins deem confrontation, correction,
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- Maybe even expulsion from the church?
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- And if we do try to correct another christian,
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- How do we do it in a positive way
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- Without hurting them or dividing the church?
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- We're going to answer those questions next time
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- As we talk about how to perform
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- "good-grace spiritual surgery."
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- Just as a little leaven works its way
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- Through the entire lump of dough,
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- Unchecked sin can quietly infect an entire congregation.
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- That's why scripture calls us to take it seriously
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- For the sake of the whole body of christ.
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- Well, we know why we're called
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- To confront sin in the church, but how do we actually do it?
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- What kinds of sin require intervention,
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- And what does that process look like in real life?
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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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- When does grace require us
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- To forgive those christians who are sinning?
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- And when does obedience require
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- That we confront christians who are sinning?
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- The idea of church discipline is something
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- That is completely foreign to our way of thinking today,
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- Especially in the individualistic,
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- Western, american culture that we have.
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- Set your dvr and join us next time
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- For the message, "good-grace spiritual surgery,"
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- Here on "pathway to victory."
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