1 Corinthians 5 - Part B

The Corinthian church out of themselves on the back for what is I think today considered to be the biggest most important moral value in American so really thought about that route already.

This is is that you should be more cognizant: tolerance he calls of pride the world tries to influence believers to live like them today on connect with Skip Heitzig Skip shares by living according to God's commands in Scripture.

Enjoy the juvenile of the Scriptures important updates and biblical encouragement on social just follow him on Facebook, twitter and Instagram to get the latest from him in this ministry that's at Skip Heitzig at Skip HITCIG now we were in first Corinthians chapter 5 as we dive into today's teaching with Skip Heitzig whenever you relinquish your life to the Lord. There are no guarantees safety, it being well with your health or well with your relatives are well with your school work well with whatever, but there's a guarantee it will be well with your soul through the Lord what you want me to do what times we are we are reluctant to ask the question and give God carte blanche Lord, I want to surrender my life to you.

But first, tell me what you have up your sleeve and if it sounds good enough to me that all surrender.

So if you are thinking the Lord is telling me Hawaii, Maui speech.

Yes, Lord, I hear your voice by your spirit, I'm going if it's Albuquerque all Lord, Lord, You, I bind that spirit.

Lord speak to my heart. Hey, I had that conversation with the Lord. I was walking near my home in Huntington Beach and I was single Lord, whatever you want me to do.

Just show me what it is. I had no clue and I am so glad I surrender to his will, being in his well is better than being in Maui, not in his well so Paul the apostle ended up in court then ended up in Ephesus, then ended up in Rome, then ended up getting beheaded by the will of God for the glory of Christ and for the honor of his name so he was persecuted.

He said we endure now look at verse 14. I do not write these things to stream you. But, as my beloved children. I warn you all of this sarcasm is leading up to Paul, kind of giving both barrels to another issue and the issue is the church at Corinth was very tolerant of certain kinds of behavior evil behavior and instead of being ashamed over there tolerance of evil behavior in their Mets there were actually proud of, and he mentions that verse 18 of chapter 4. Now, some are puffed up or proud puffed up as though I were not coming to you but I will come to you shortly if the Lord wills and I will know not the word of those who are puffed up again prideful, but of power that leads us to the third problem that he addresses in the book of first Corinthians in this chapter, five and six the problem of sexual immorality. So look at verse one of chapter 5. Now we begin the chapter.

I had prepared to cover a couple chapters tonight yet right so this is short enough to cover when chapter he said it is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you.

You being the Christian church at Corinth, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife and you are puffed up there it is again. Third time he uses it now, he zeroes in on what made them so prideful. He alluded to it in chapter 4.

Now he just spells it out your proud about this you're puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you, I told you in our introduction to first Corinthians that the city of Corinth was a very permissive city in moral terms, anything goes.

Any kind of sexuality any kind of homosexuality. Any kind of prostitution and almost anything at all.

It was so debauched that their reputation of the Corinthians was everywhere. There was even a term coined in Greek by a single Greek word Carinthia had satisfied Carinthia had just I is a Greek word that means literally to play the Corinthian order to act like a Corinthian. So if you really wanted to chop a person to really cut them down really sore, amigo. You met you act like a Corinthian. That's like saying you're like a sodomite reader from like Gomorrah managers had such a bad reputation, and in the Greek plays when anybody played a Corinthian in a great play.

They always played a drunk, so it had quite a reputation that that phrase could be coined in one of the problems was immorality that was part of the worship system. One of the goddesses that was worshiped was the goddess of love, called Aphrodite and of their at Corinth, just outside of the city was a little hill called the Accra Corinth or this little monument hill on top was a walled enclosure a temple to the goddess of Aphrodite on top of that hill. A thousand quote unquote priestesses lived there were essentially prostitutes. They would come down in the evening to the city when there was a new group of sailors coming through town new group of soldiers coming through town are people selling their wares and their ships come in or out, and those women would ply their trade, collect the money to support the goddess Aphrodite in her temple. Corinth was famous for that. And there was another saying that when around work.

People said not every man can afford a trip to Corinth because the prostitutes were noted needed work cost as they come every night and and solicit you and these guys would pay for so not everybody could afford that was was the going theme of that town. Evidently that kind of culture is influencing the church rather than the church being in that community to influence that community now indeed some of those people were influence because there Christians in the church, and though there were Christians in that church were indeed truly saved people. After a while, because the culture was so strong to get used to it instead of being salt and light. Instead of being a strong witness you. You start, it's just easier to go with the flow and to accommodate the thinking and the values of the world around you and abate smoky smog they drink you drink it because you guys if they say this is okay you say that is okay so instead of exerting an influence in the culture.

The culture was exerting its influence in the church and it was becoming problematic.

But now, not only is there immorality. But it's next level immorality. This is the case of incest a man is having sexual relations with his father's wife, probably a reference to somebody's stepmother and the church is saying, well, you know you can't judge people were not supposed to do that and you know we we can like be a policeman. Everybody will let them do it.

They want just below bottom faucet you should be ashamed of yourself.

You should be morning that should drive you to tears.

He says your proud about your your your puffed up a couple things to notice incest was forbidden by the Old Testament. I think that you know but did you know that even according to Roman law, secular law, it was outlawed to have your stepmother in a physical relationship like this. According to Cicero, who was a great Greek philosopher, statesman, and lawyer.

It was against Roman law. For this to happen so Paul is saying. Even pagan cultures don't allow this and you guys are allowing this to happen in your church you should be morning. This instead of being puffed up now want to notice a word.

It's actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's like the fact that it's put in the present tense shows that this is an ongoing relationship not a one-time fling like well he fell in the sand with his stepmother but there's a relationship that is acknowledged as being official it's being talked about. It's been reported all over town. That's what is meant by it is actually reported that there is sexual immorality.

So everybody knows about this. It's an ongoing relationship and probably because the apostle Paul is indicting the church and this man for doing it, but says nothing about the woman I would infer that this woman is an unbeliever because he will say what were as the church not called to judge the unbelieving world, God will do that are called to judge Christians in the church to make discriminatory callings and judgments of people who profess to be Christian. The fact that Paul doesn't do that with the woman would lead me to believe that we have a man in the church claiming to be a Christian with a woman who is not a believer Skip a twofold problem. He's hooking up, maybe even marrying an unbeliever which will become an issue later on in this book and it's an incestuous relation that the church is winking there. I said your puffed up, and if not rather mourned, that he was done this deed might be taken away from among you.

They, the Corinthian church patted themselves on the back for what is I think today considered to be the biggest most important moral value in American culture, tolerance. They were tolerant they patted themselves.

We are so tolerant people really your proud about that your proud of being tolerant of this of incest. He said you should be mournful over this. Paul doesn't call it tolerance because of pride.

Your puffed up. Why does he call it pride because you are saying you're smarter than God. Even though God forbade it in his book the Bible and even pagans, forget it. Your your above pagan theology and even Old Testament theology your pasta your proud. Then, now he unleashes waiting before he unleashes a moment to look at something with and I you if you want to you can turn to our book of Revelation chapter 2. That means turn to Revelation chapter 2 in your Bibles there.

Now I can hear those Bible pages so watch this. Here's Jesus speaking to the church at Ephesus Revelation 2 to the angel of the church of Ephesus write these things says he who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, churches, I know your works, your labor, your patients. Now he's commending them the same height. I see you I know what you're doing right and what you're doing right is that you work hard your patient no watch this and that you cannot bear those who are evil. Jesus is commanding the church at Ephesus, not for their tolerance for their intolerance, saying the fact that you do not tolerate evil. I like you can't bear those who are able and you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars, so he gives that church at first.

Straight A's. Now go down to verse 18 chapter 2 Revelation to the angel of the church and via Tyra right these things says the son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire. His feet like fine brass. I know your works. Love, service, faith your patients. And as for your words. The last for more than the first. So, good marks on the report card until now.

Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow said Albert could translate that you tolerate you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and beguile my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Paul said he should've mourned is a strong word to grieve for somebody to grieve for the dead should be weeping over this. Now back to our our text first Corinthians chapter 5. Now he unloads Brandy. I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as though I were present.

I'm not even there I'm writing you a letter but my spirit is there is is is you can count me. This is my boat concerning him who has so done this deed.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together's in your next church meeting, make an official church meeting along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus know how many times have you heard people say when you bring up something that is wrong, something that you notice is false in error false doctrine, a position that is against Scripture, a moral stance that is against the biblical value. How many times of your people say well Jesus said judge not lest you be judged, and that verse is butchered by Sony. The only verse they know the sermon on the Mount don't judge all that means is I'm in a memorize outburst as I want to do whatever the heck I want to do. Don't tell me I can't judge. First of all, Jesus was talking about a spirit of censorious next that you are playing God and excluding people away from fellowship with God, you're being awfully censorious.

He's not saying you can't think you can't discern. You can't discriminate or you can judge at all. Later on, Jesus will give his disciples a commando say this judge, ye are righteous judgment to command judge here, righteous judge, by the way. In that passage when he says judge not lest you be judge. He says if your brother has a spec in his eye. You know you will consider a potato smoke everywhere. First, remove the beam from Iran. It's another one that's butchered so that you be able to see to remove the speck in an sake take the beam out of your own eye so you can walk away and say to each man his own Beemer's own spec now remove it so that you can help remove the speck that is in his eye that takes the judgment you're still meddling in that person's life. You're still saying you know what I notice there's a spec and I had a huge role beam governor that got that taken care of. Now I can help you but that is been just far too maligned as the Scripture if judge not lest you be judge means never speak up against evil. Never use discernment never think discriminatory leak then Elijah the prophet was out of line when he confronted Ahab and Jezebel. Paul the apostle was out of line when he confronted the Judaizers, who were legalistic in Jerusalem and for that matter Jesus was out of line when he unloaded in Matthew 23 and said wow I do use scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites can you just picture some little Christian over in the cycling Jesus. Jack's not nice to be challenged.

So Paul says count me in. I'm going to make an adjudication on the make a judgment to come out somebody who is living in morally and unrepentant of it to come out deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the voicemail go back to chapter 2 for just a moment. Chapter 2 I remind you of verse 14 the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God. They are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual.

What is he do says right there. He who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one you know there are times when a judgment is not only legitimate mandated its mandated. Paul wrote to the Galatians and said you know what though we are an angel from heaven, preach you any other gospel than the one that you have received, let him be accursed. What's sounds pretty judgmental to me so what is Paul telling to do to excommunicate them. We are gathered together in the power of our Lord Jesus, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. What I think that means is cast the person out of the protective umbrella of Christian fellowship, to the sphere of the world. The domain of Satan.

Jesus called Satan the God or the prince of this world. Paul called Satan the God of this world, the god of this age the world is his sphere. There is a certain protection that happens to believers within the fold of the church to isolate somebody from the flock of God. Isolation is never good, never good, always against what Jesus had in mind for his church. So to take a person say you are no longer welcome within the protection of the body of Christ. All of the gifts that hold us accountable and strengthen us when you are living in an isolated realm and sin has its your choice and sin is made its fall affecting your life in that realm. What we hope happens is that the flash is destroyed, the flesh that controlled you the fleshly nature. The dominate you that you were given over to that that gets dealt with and that grip on you gets destroyed so that you can be reunited in respiration with the body of Christ and with the basket with the message from the series expound to share a resource that will help strengthen your trust in God so you can live with more peace and confidence.com recently published an article with 22 tips for how to completely change your life, and one year. Sounds complicated, tells a different story about how to change your life. Repent and return to God reminds us we need to always insert God and to every situation here. Skip, I think what God is a phrase that appears 45 times in Scripture.

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Jesus never intended that we as Christians with cloistered lives away from the pagan we would be surrounded by people who have a different value system and we would always be tempted want to be is fitted as they are no he said be holy different, never, never wanted this