1 Corinthians 5:6-8

1 CORINTHIANS Correction With Confidence Because The Faithfulness Of God Toward  His Saints!        1 Corinthians 5:1–8 (ESV) — 1 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. 2 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. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you 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. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let 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.   LAST WEEK V1-5: PRACTICE OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE: Christ came to save sinners, according to the will of God That we would be made holy and blameless before him!  1 Timothy 1:15, Matthew 1:21, Acts 13:38–39, 26:15–18, 1 Corinthians 1:7–8, 6:9-13, Ephesians 1:4–6, 5:25–27  Colossians 1:21–22, Hebrews 12:10–11, 1 Peter 1:13–16, 2:9–12, 1 John 3:1–3, Jude 24–25.     Regular Practice of Church Discipline:  GOAL Of Repentance, For Result Of Restoration! Matthew 18:15–17 (ESV) — 15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Summary more detail and examples in the WWT Document under Membership = Step 1 = Confront the sinning brother/sister privately. (v.15) Step 2 = Confront the sinning brother/sister with one or two witnesses. (v.16) Step 3 = Have the whole church call the sinning brother/sister to repent. (v.17) Step 4 = Ostracize the unrepentant from fellowship and worship. (v.17)     MOURNING NO BOASTING IN SIN & NO BAKING SIN IN v6-7a -       No Boasting -       Only Clean Baking         1 Peter 1:17–21 (ESV) — 17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.     CELEBRATING SALVATION IN SINCERITY AND TRUTH!  V7b-8 -       Clean In Christ The Passover Lamb o   Exodus 12   -       Clean in New Life o   Malice & Evil  Sincerity & Truth