KINGDOM LIVING: Tough Love pt. 2

KINGDOM LIVING

May 26, 2024

Tough Love Pt. 2

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

 

INTRODUCTION:

 

Three mindsets:

• -mindedness

2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NLT) You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. ² For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. ³ They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. ⁴ They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. ⁵ They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!

 

2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NLT) ³ For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. ⁴ They will reject the truth and chase after myths.

 

• —Total acceptance

Hebrews 12:7-11 (NL) As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? ⁸ If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. ⁹ Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?

¹⁰ For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. ¹¹ No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.

 

Acts 2:42 (NIV) They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

 

 

TEXT:

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 (NIV) It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. ² And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? ³ For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. ⁴ So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, ⁵ hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

⁶ Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? ⁷ Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁸ Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, 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 people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. ¹¹ But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

¹² What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? ¹³ God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”

 

THREE THINGS ABOUT TOUGH LOVE:

1.

Three attitudes.

• They developed a attitude.

1 Corinthians 5:2 (NIV) ² And you are proud! (NKJV) And you are puffed up…

 

• They displayed a attitude.

1 Corinthians 5:6 (NIV) ⁶ Your boasting is not good. (NKJV) Your glorying is not good.

 

• They disregarded a attitude.

1 Corinthians 5:2b (NIV) ² And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning?

 

Matthew 5:4 (NIV) Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

 

 

2.

 

Three steps to take:

• The step

1 Corinthians 5:5 (NIV) …hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

 

(NKJV) …deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.

 

Matthew 18.15-16 (NIV) ⁵ “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you… ¹⁶ But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’”

 

Matthew 18:17 (NIV) If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

 

Matthew 18:17 …treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

 

1 Corinthians 5:5 (NIV) …hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh…

 

Job 1:6-22.

 

1 Timothy 1:19-20 (NIV) Some have made shipwreck of their faith, ²⁰ among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.

 

1 Timothy 1:20 handed over

 

1 Corinthians 5:5 …hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh…

 

• The step.

1 Corinthians 5:5b (NIV) …so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

 

1 Corinthians 5:5 (NIV) …hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh…

 

Galatians 5:24 (NIV) Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

 

• The step.

1 Corinthians 5:6b-7 (NIV) Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? ⁷ Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

 

1 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV) Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

 

1 Corinthians 5:8 (NIV) Not with old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

1 Corinthians 5:6 (NIV) Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

 

 

3.

 

1 Corinthians 5:11 (NIV) But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

 

1 Corinthians 5:9-10 (NIV) I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—¹⁰ 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.

 

1 Corinthians 5:12-13 (NIV) ¹² What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? ¹³ God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”

 

 

CONCLUSION:

PRAYER:

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