Who's Judging? Slides, 10/26/14
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The document reports that there is a case of sexual immorality among the congregation involving a man having sexual relations with his father's wife. The author states that this kind of immorality is not tolerated even among pagans. He instructs the congregation to remove this man from their community and deliver him to Satan for his flesh to be destroyed so that his spirit may be saved.
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Who's Judging? Slides, 10/26/14
- 2. It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
- 3. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destrucHon of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 5:1-‐5 (ESV)
- 4. How does the church come off to the world around us?
- 5. How the Church Loses Its Way I. Desire to be RELEVANT
- 6. How the Church Loses Its Way I. Desire to be RELEVANT II. Church refuses to JUDGE itself
- 7. How the Church Loses Its Way I. We desire to be RELEVANT II. We refuse to JUDGE itself III. We view God’s judgment as HARSH