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Eddie Edwards, Ripley, Tennessee shared the following story:
A salesman talked my uncle into buying 10,000 personalized pens for his business with the promise that he would be eligible to win a 32-foot yacht.
A born gambler, my uncle agreed.
Well, he won, and a few weeks after the pens arrived, his prize showed up: a 12-inch plastic yacht with 32 plastic feet glued to the bottom.
Sin is a lot like this.
It will promise you a lot.
However, when the promise arrives it looks nothing like you expected.
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Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
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Life Principle - Live In Sincerity & Truth, While Handling Blatant Sin Both Individually & Corporately.
Life Point- Handle Blatant Sin
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This sin in the church at Corinth wasn’t just simply tolerated, but accepted.
The man is living with his stepmother.
Paul says that even pagans don’t do this kind of thing.
Not only was the man accepted but the church was proud of this.
How were they proud?
We are not told specifically, but this man was probably not just your average church goer.
He was more than likely what we would call a dedicated volunteer.
Someone the church was grateful for.
You know this specific sin was not something that used to be common in America either, but today this happens outside of the church all the time.
If you google the phrase “man marries stepmother” you will come up with hundreds of articles about this very sin.
That doesn’t include people who don’t make it into the news.
Billy Graham once said, “If God does not judge America for its’ sexual sins, then He owes Sodom and Gomorra an apology.”
In other words, judgement is coming to America because of our wickedness.
This particular sin wasn’t even found amongst the pagans, the Gentiles.
Nor was it found amongst the Jews.
So how does this sin, and any other, come to be tolerated and even celebrated in churches today?
Well the thought process usually goes something like this:
God is love.
If God is love then He will forgive me for my sin and I can live in sin because He forgives sin.
Or, I am saved and cannot lose my salvation so I can sin all I want.
The problem with the second one shows that they were never really saved.
Sin is something to be ashamed of, and repented of.
Not something that we continue to live in, day in and day out.
These kinds of people do not have their conscious cleansed before God, so hurting God in this way does not bother them.
We know that those who are saved begin to grow the fruit of salvation.
The longer we live in Christ the more obvious to all that this fruit is being produced.
As for the first thought process Paul addressed this himself in the book of Romans:
So what does Paul so to do with such a man?
Does he say to celebrate someone who is living in sin?
No! Of course not.
Does he say to tolerate such a blatant and open sin in the midst of the church from one who counts themselves as a believer?
No!
He doesn’t.
He says that the man should be disfellowshipped.
Removed from the local body of believers.
This is called church discipline.
Church discipline is not something that practiced much today.
Why?
Because if you end up disfellowshipping someone or disciplining someone.
Then they just go to the church a block down the street where their sin will be tolerated.
Does this mean we should not engage in church discipline?
No.
We follow Christ and not man.
Blatant and open rebellion against God should not be tolerated in the church.
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I have plenty examples of sexual sin in the church.
However, I would like to share one.
A man, who was deacon, was asked by a woman to counsel with her about her marriage.
Here are the red flags:
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He was widowed
2. They met alone
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He was not trained to do pastoral counseling in an official setting.
I never meet with anyone of the opposite gender for official counseling by myself.
That is my policy.
What ended up happening was that she left her husband and married this man.
Not only was the sin tolerated in the church, but people actually were glad for it.
They lauded them for such a wonderful match.
This was over 15 years ago.
There was no church discipline of any kind.
As a matter of fact they are seen as upstanding members of their church to this very day.
I’m sorry folks, but this is a problem in the modern church in America.
Open blatant sexual sin is not only tolerated in the church today but is applauded.
I read a news story this week that the 2nd largest United Methodist Church just pulled out of the UMC.
This is a big deal as they have 14,000 members.
They said they were tired of the blatant and open sin the denomination has been involved in.
Such as ordaining homosexuals to ministry.
In our own denomination, if you were here for Enemies Within The Church this past Wednesday, you would know that there is a slide toward progressivism and wokeness starting to happen.
I ask you to pray for the Souther Baptist Convention that our leaders would return to Christian Conservatism and stand up for Biblical principles.
Life Point - Live In Sincerity & Truth
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What is the ultimate goal of church discipline?
It is that the person will repent and return to fellowship.
In a previous church, where I served as an Associate Pastor, I saw it work.
The individual was disfellowshipped from the church and a few weeks later they showed back up and stood at the end of service and apologized for their open rebellion to the church.
You see, they were a gossip and their gossiping was tearing the church apart.
So church discipline kicked in and did what it was supposed to do.
Amazing what happens when we actually follow the scriptures isn’t it?
You know where else someone was turned over to Satan for his betterment and repentance?
Paul now gives an example of what a little bit of sin can do, not only to a church but an individual.
Just a little yeast ruins unleavened bread.
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