1 corinthians 5

[beardo]

title: one bad apple!
best: 9-10, 12
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
he is very clear who is being talked about here and its not the world, its us believers...we have to live in this world and we cannot change that, but we do have the power to change and regulate our own body. (the church)
challenge: 5, 11,13
5 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.[b]
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner�not even to eat with such a person.
13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore �put away from yourselves the evil person.�[d]
this is always going to be a hard thing to do in my mind.....i mean its talking about ppl that are brothers and sisters or even sons and daughters, hard to cast someone aside for the destuction of thier flesh, even tho it might be that desruction that is required in order for that person to repent and thier soul be saved....hard thing to do....
summary:
it is not our place to judge thoes who are outsidethe church. We as believers and part of the body of Christ are required to keep eachother accountable, (i.e. judge one another) b/c if imorality and sin are allowed to continue unchecked it will corrupt the entire body, just as one bad apple will spoil the whole bunch. there will always be sin in this world, but we as believers are to be sanctified and it is our duty to keep eachother accountable to what is right and true!!

[beardo]

1 Corinthians 5

Immorality Defiles the Church

1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named[a] among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 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.[b]
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.[c] 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Immorality Must Be Judged


9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”[d]

[CrazyMike]

This is a hard thing to do in the life of a believer. There was a particular instance where I basically lost a friendship because we couldn't allow him to be on our ministry team and continue to live in sin. I hope through it the Lord has helped him wake up.

[beardo]

5 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.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”[d]
hopefully that will bring correction in his life!!