Fron the teaching 4/7/2012
Apostle Paul's Letter To The Corinthians, part V
I Corth. 5:1: It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
A. Sexual immoraity so wicked that even the heathern don't do it.
B. A kind even the pagens condemn. OT Ref, A law against this to
the Israelites. DT. 22:30: A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
A. You are puffed up over your gifts and so full of strife, and contention
related to your favorite teachers, you have neglected the discipline of
the church. Had you considered the greatness of the crime you would have
mourned and acted to put away the fornicator.
3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
A. My judgement is already given as if I indeed were present.
B. I assure you as solumnly as if I were actually present before
your assembly that I have already pronounced judgement.
4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
A. The purpose of delivering him to Satan was to destroy the flesh so as to
satan to afflict his body this prehaps bringing to repentance, that his
spirit may be saved in the end.
B. This was effective for in his second letter Paul wrote the church to
forgive him lest he should be swallowed up in over much sorrow.
(II Corth. 2:6-7).
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Leaven (defined): 1. yeast
A. Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good.
B. If you permit this incestuous person to continue in your midst
without judgement, the whole church will become ruined by
moral impurities.
7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
A. We have cleaned out every bit of the old yeast.
8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
A. The passover being past, we are now living in the days of
the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
A. I didn't mean that you were to have no contact at all with the
immoral of this world, but I had in mind the sinners who are
outside of the church.
B. For it is not possible to keep away from such people without
going out of the world completely. You would need to get out of human
society all together.
11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
A. Is it my business to judge those who are outside the church?
B. But surely it is your business to judge these who are inside
the church.
13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
A. God does the judging.
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