Lesson 4782

(Lesson 4782) (03-09-25) 1st Corinthians 5:1-8 

   “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 father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 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, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 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: 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.” 

 

   In today’s quote, Paul confronted the Corinthians about a serious case of sexual immorality within their church—a man had an improper relationship with his father’s wife. He rebuked the Corinthians for being proud instead of mourning over the sin and taking action against the man. Paul instructed them to remove the unrepentant from their fellowship, delivering him to Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that his spirit might be saved. Paul warned that tolerating known sin within the church was like yeast that spreads through, dough eventually affecting the whole body. He urged them to purge out the known sinners, so that they might be a new, untainted group in Christ. ~