1. 1 Corinthians “Church Purity in a Polluted Culture”
Part 6: The Apostle Paul…intolerant?
1 Corinthians 5:1-13

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Apostle Paul
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Ephesians 5:27
Christ died for the church to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
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1 Peter 2:9
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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6. “Foolishness” Service Weakness Suffering Holiness
Paul’s Ministry
“Foolishness” Service Weakness Suffering Holiness
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7Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we. 8For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.
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9I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account." 11Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.
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“But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
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1It 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. 2And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
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Galatians 6:1
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently.
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3For 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.
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4When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
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6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
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Jesus
6"Be careful, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.“
12Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
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“Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.”
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7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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8Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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 9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
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14not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?
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Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?
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For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."  17"Therefore come out from them       and be separate, says the Lord.
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1 Peter 4:4-5
 4They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.
5But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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 11you are not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—
12For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
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25. 13God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
1 Corinthians 5:13
13God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."
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Matthew 7
1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
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Is there someone in your life that you need to confront in love?
Do you see confrontation and discipline as part of God’s great love and redemptive plan for us?
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