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Introduction
What kinds of things do you put into a safe?
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We put things like jewelry and important documents in a safe because we want to protect them.
Those items that are precious to us need protection so that they are not lost or damaged.
Sometimes protection is guarding something, other times protection is removing something.
I have often joked with parents that you can tell how old someones kids are by how high the breakables are on the shelves.
The classic saying is that someone is like a bull in a china shop.
We wouldn’t let a bull be in the china shop and if a bull got into the china shop we would remove it as swiftly as possible.
Here’s the point.
Decisive action is taken to protect things of value.
When something is worth protecting, we do what is necessary to protect it!
This attitude and ideology is what lies at the heart of this entire letter and specifically of chapter 5.
The Corinthian Church is headed into danger.
Paul wants to protect them.
The body of Christ needs protection from three conditions.
Decisive action must be taken to accomplish this protection.
Protection frees the body to function as God has designed.
Condition #1…
1. Protect The Body From Infiltration v. 6
I have here some frosting.
I am going to add to this frosting just a little bit of food coloring.
Proportionally speaking, there is far more frosting than food coloring.
Does that mean the frosting will overpower the food coloring and make it white?
No.
The food coloring changes the frosting.
And it doesn’t take much.
When only a little bad is allowed to remain, it corrupts all the good.
When we allow the body of Christ to be infiltrated by sin, it corrupts the whole body.
Sin must dealt with to protect and preserve the body of Christ.
How do we do that?
How do we protect the body from infiltration?
To protect the body from infiltration we take two actions.
Action #1…
a. Expose the problem v. 6a
This is an indictment.
The behavior is wrong.
We cannot correct what we do not know.
The implication of Paul’s words is that the Corinthian church thinks what it has done is acceptable!
They see nothing wrong with allowing a man who is in a sexual relationship with his stepmother to continue in fellowship.
Your glorying is not good.
Glorying – καύχημα (kauchēma) boast; (reason for) boasting.
personal satisfaction n. — a satisfied contentment with one’s own or another’s achievements.
Noun (subject), nominative, singular, neuter.
Glorying – καύχημα (kauchēma)
This word is translated “boasting” in all other translations.
The idea is that of personal satisfaction with either your achievements or those of someone else.
This was the attitude of the Corinthian church.
They were boasting about their tolerance of sin!
With zero subtlety, Paul rips off the proverbial band-aid.
Your glorying is not good.
This thing that you are doing?
This behavior?
It is not good.
We cannot address the problem until it has been exposed.
Think for a minute of the medical profession.
X-ray, MRI, CAT scan, Ultrasound, PET scan - all of these have something in common.
They are designed to expose the problem.
Why?
Because there can be no correction where there is no exposure!
We cannot operate on a problem until we know what it is and where it is.
There is a problem in the Corinthian church, Paul is exposing it.
The problem is twofold.
1 - They don’t understand the nature of sexual sin.
Paul will deal with that later in the chapter.
2 - They don’t understand the danger of pride.
Their pride is allowing a cancer to spread in the body.
Here’s the bottom line.
We have an enemy.
He wants to destroy us.
One of his tactics is to infiltrate the church with sin.
He will disguise it as something good.
This body of believers thinks it is doing good by tolerating this man!
That tolerance is not loving.
By exposing the problem, Paul can now address it.
To fix a problem we must first expose it.
Paul is dealing directly and bluntly with the Corinthian church.
They must understand the danger of what they are doing.
If this problem is not fixed, the church is going to be ineffective.
To protect the body from infiltration we take two actions.
Action #1: Expose the problem.
Action #2…
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Enable correction v. 6b
There are two parts to this issue.
We just looked at the first one.
However, we cannot stop there.
We do not want to just go around pointing out problems.
We must also work toward solutions.
That’s what Paul is doing here.
Instruction enables correction.
Do you not know?
This is instruction.
What do they need to know?
A little leaven effects the whole.
Remember our illustration?
A little bit of food coloring affects the whole bowl of frosting.
This is the Greek word mikros or micro.
A seemingly insignificant amount of leaven has an impact on the entire ball of dough!
One of the jobs I had between high school and college was rolling pizza dough.
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