Fornication: 1Co 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife 1. Not a good report about the church; a man of the body of the church sleeping with his fathers wife, something that even the pagans didn’t do. 1Co 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 2. Paul realizes that people in the church slip and fall and the trap of sin can overtake them. Puffed up can be equated to proud, and/or to look at oneself as loftily ; the problem is the church was apparently proud of his actions and allowed him to continue in his fellowship as nothing serious had happened, or was happening. 1Co 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 3. Paul even though not there, at the church to deal with this, has already judged this man. 1Co 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 4. Paul preaches to them that when the church is assembled together paul is there in his spirit and in the power of the Holy Ghost, and calls on the name of Jesus. 1Co 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 5. Calling on the name of Holy Ghost, Jesus, he seeks to deliver this member of the body to satan for the destruction of his flesh, his sin, so that at least he has the option to repent and still be saved in the day of the Lord. Backsliders do come back and the door should be open for them to repent. 1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 6. Calling sin what it is; he reminds them that their seal of approval, by inaction, on this sin is not good; When you bake a loaf of bread before it is put in the oven, leaven is added, this causes the bread to expand and get larger; the tiny amount of leaven spreads throughout the loaf. The same with sin; what God calls sin spreads through out the soul and the body is contaminated everywhere; there are no small, or large sins because the wage is the same, death; all sin is equal. 1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 7. Purge, clean out the sin so that you or the body may be new, refreshed and cleansed by the Holy Ghost. In egypt when a lamb was slain and his blood was painted on the door posts when the angel of death came by to slay the firstborn males; the blood protected that household and that day, was called the passover, because the death angel passed over the house and was barred by God from touching the inhabitants; the same: the blood of Jesus applied to our lives causes the death angel to pass over us; the blood is applied by water baptism in Jesus name; the water symbolic of his blood; he being the Lamb sacrificed for the sins of men. 1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 8. Paul tells us that for our remaining days we need to keep our life clean with the unleavened, not filled with the deceit of sin, bread of sincerity and truth. Leave the old sins of malice and wickedness where it belongs in the home of satan. 1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 1Co 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 9. Paul is very plain here do not associate with people in sin; don’t eat with them or keep company with them; this is referring to people in the church that are backslidden and in the grasps of sinful nature; it is not referring to people in the world to whom you my be witnessing to. 1Co 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 10. It is not pauls responsibility to judge people outside the church; their salvation is at stake; it is the church’s responsibility to judge the actions of those in the church, according to the word of God. 1Co 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 11. Those that are in the world, and not in the church, not having obeyed the gospel God will judge; as for those in the church, who deliberately sin and continue in such will spread sin through the whole church; therefore the church is instructed not to fellowship with them
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 22:56:29 +0000
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