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·     Some may say that they feel there should not be discipline in the church because love covers a multitude of sin.
Some may even say that it’s none of the church business what a man or woman do outside of the church proper, in his or her home for example or on their job.
Some may feel that our doors should be open to anyone and everyone, no matter what
·     Listen to this quote from Mark Dever’s book; “Nine Marks of a Healthy Church”, as I further lay the ground work for today’s message.
·     In his chapter on Biblical Church Discipline, page 187, he says and I quote; “Let’s be honest.
The state of the churches in America today is not good.
Even if the membership numbers of some groups look okay, as soon as you ask what the membership numbers actually stand for, you start finding the trouble.
Alan Redpath has said about the membership of the average American church that;
o       5 percent don’t exist
o       10 percent can’t be found
o       25 percent don’t attend
o       50 percent show up on Sunday
o       75 percent don’t attend the prayer meeting
o       90 percent have no family worship
o       And 95 percent have never shared the Gospel with others” unquote
·     This may come as a surprise for some of you but less than 100 years ago, non attendance for one year was grounds for discipline and removal from membership.
\\ ·     Nonattendance, back then, was considered one of the most sinister of sins, because it usually veiled all the other sins.
When someone began to be in sin, (it was felt), you would expect them to stop attending.
·     Even with all of this ground work stuff, some of you still may be convinced that discipline is not needed if it means putting someone out of the church
·     Therefore there are times when the local church needs to be disciplined to start disciplining.
And that is my subject today; “discipline the church to start disciplining”
·     Open your bibles to 1 Corinthians 5, you have heard this read and it has been explained.
I am here to say that you can not exhales Scripture.
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*1 Corinthians 5:1-13**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.
*9 *I 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.
*11 *But now I am writing to you 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—not even to eat with such a one.
*12 *For what have I to do with judging outsiders?
Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
*13 *God judges those outside.
“Purge the evil person from among you.”
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This passage is about Paul disciplining the church at Corinth to discipline like they should have.
Now, as a bit of background, so that you will know who these folks are, it is mentioned at the beginning of this letter;
 
*1 Corinthians 1:1-2 \\ **1 *Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, *2 *To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: ESV \\ \\
·     Paul is the writer and he describe himself as an apostle of Christ Jesus
·     But pay attention to the description of the church at Corinth,
o       Those sanctified in Christ Jesus.
They are separate from profane things, free from the guilt of sin and dedicated and made holy
o       Called to be saints; defined in the Easton’s bible dictionary as one separated from the world and consecrated to God; one holy by profession and by covenant; a believer in Christ
o       And defined further in the Harper’s bible dictionary as derived from the word for holy identifies those so described as set apart and dedicated to the service of God.
Refers to Christian in distinction from non believer
·     You need to know this New Hope because you too are sanctified in Christ Jesus, bought by His blood, and you too are called saints.
·     But what is alarming is that the first verse of our passage, here in chapter 5,  refers to these saints; “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.”
·     This first verse shouts loudly to you about the lack of discipline.
There is incest in the fellowship and the fellowship knows about it as well as others
·     Saints, sanctified people of the first century church, founded and cared for by Paul an apostle, one who has witnessed the resurrected Jesus.
This local church has sank lower than the pagans they are witnessing to.
·     No discipline means toleration, acceptance, putting up with, and before long you find yourself in the church tolerating more, accepting more, and putting up with more than what the world would even do.
·     And when that happens the church needs to be discipline to get back to disciplining.
·     It is the same way in our homes today, the failure to recognize authority is not improving, it is getting worse and occurring at younger ages.
Parents need to be discipline to discipline their own children.
·     1 Corinthian 5:1-13 gives I see three points for discipline to be truly effective.
Sin must be mourned, sin must be judged, and sin must be purged.
·     Mourn over sin; listen to Paul, “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?”
·     Instead of mourning, these Corinthians are arrogant they are proud and boasting about it.
·     Could it be that their thinking is like yours or actually your thinking is like their’s.
Sin has a way of clouding our perception where bad becomes good and good becomes bad.
·     But we are showing love because love covers a multitude of sin.
Or the bible says not to Judge.
Or we need to get to know them better and show patience.
·     Scripture doesn’t say anything about the man, except that he is involved sexually with his father’s wife.
Could he be a man of prominence or wealth?
·     Does he have an adequate excuse for his incest?
·     All of that does not matter, what is known is that the sin is so popular that it reaches Paul in Ephesus where he is writing the letter
\\ ·     We have to be disciplined New Hope because we can do a ton of good work but that ounce of bad work will get the headlines every time.
We live in a time when ‘bad news’ is the good headline news
·     As far as the church is concern that was the case of the first century church.
Bad news even then traveled fast!
·     How should they behave?
·     There should have been mourning, sadness over this sin in the church.
There should have been grief as if someone had died is what Paul is saying here.
·     This is not the time for arrogance and boasting but the time for mourning and prayer.
·     My brother pastor asked us a question some time back and I ask it again, New Hope do you know what time it is?
·     Have you tolerated sin to the point that it doesn’t seems like sin any more.
Come to church, when you feel like it, support the church, when you feel like it.
Don’t offer correction because you don’t want to be corrected.
Tolerate this, put up with that, and it just doesn’t bother you like it use to.
·     Recall this local church called Corinth is the same fellowship where there is a division, some say they are of Paul and other of Apollos
·     They are in Christ but Paul must fed them milk and not solid food because of the jealousy and strife
·     This is a time when the church need to be disciplined to discipline because sin is never something for the church to be proud of and boast in.
·     Sin must be judge period and amen!
·     A look at the Old Testament would verify the sin;
 
*Leviticus 18:6-8 \\ **6 *“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness.
I am the Lord.
*7 *You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
*8 *You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.
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