Wednesday, February 14, 2018

1 Corinthians 5:9-11


This past year I have found it so difficult to support our President. In all areas he has proven himself to be highly immoral. He stands against the poor and the foreigner both groups that Jesus said to take care of and to treat with respect. If he did not call himself a Christian I would find it much easier to handle. 

God help us all when we call evil good and good evil.

We are called to forgive any brother who admits, repents and ask but these are the parameters that guide us.

Paul is not referring to the sexually immoral people of the world (his mission field), but to those who call themselves Christians and participate in sexual immorality. He views such people as dangerous to the overall health of the congregation since they may entice others to follow them in sin. Faithlife Bible.

Eating together is a key part of fellowship and closeness with others. The Corinthians were not to have fellowship with those who claimed to be Christians but whose lives were dominated by sin. NKJ Bible.

1 Corinthians 5:9–11 (NKJV)
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

Matthew 18:17 (NKJV)

17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.

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