It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast- as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festial, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people- not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked man from among you. (I Corinthians 5:1-13 NIV) No unrepented, practicing sin is allowed in the body of Christ. No Christian should condone any type sin. It is like if you allow your oldest child to disobey you, the other children will most lkely follow in his/her footsteps. It is hard to correct something that you did not start out doing at the beginning. Now you have a big problem that is taking a lot of energy, sleepless nights, heartache, loss of peace and joy. If we allow sin in the camp, it will destroy and affect people that did not have a mind to go the way of sin. Sin starts the downward spiral, pulling others down with the sinner if they are allowed to hang around us. Bad company corrupt good manners. If a person is in the church with blatant, unrepentant sin after he/she has been counseled, talked to and prayed for numerous times, then he/she is to be put out of the church. We are not to have any fellowship with him/her, not even eat with them. This allows God time to work with them and to cause them to repent to the saving of their souls. If they repent, we are to allow them to return to the church in good standing as if nothing ever happened. We too, should forgive them and love on them, a soul was snatched from entering into hell.
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Notes quoted from syllabus:It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
This is so what God is saying in this Hour to the Church in 2017!
Sex outside of the marriage bed and sleeping with someone else's spouse on top of it will cause a person to be spiritually dead and can cause you to lose your soul. A lot of people in the church continue to disregard these types of teachings,while gratifying their sinful nature. There is a dying to ones' self that occurs when you make a complete conscious decision to surrender your whole Spirit, Soul, Body, Mind, Emotions, & Will over to God. No matter how you feel, think or what types of attacks you come up under you will not give in to the enemy of your soul nor your flesh man.
I would hate to be given over to the devil!!!
Lord Deliver your people
Todays church leaders are so afraid of offending the members therefore they don't really preach or teach on the things that would save a soul because it might affect their bottom line(finances) so instead they speak on the things not necessarily needed to get to heaven..
AMEN, SOUNDS ALOT LIKE TODAY'S CHURCH, BUT KNOWING WE MUST COME OUT FROM AMONGST THEM AND BE SEPARATED.
As Apostle Paul was shocked and dismayed that the church would allow such actions and to him he sees this as more serious than the sin itself. Our situation today is no different then the Corinthians meaning the silence and tolerant of immorality among the members. A few leaders are willing to step up and confront the issues in the church. The immorality that goes on the church has become a norm for certain people, some leaders are concern about membership and money instead of souls and deliverance.