Saturday, November 11, 2017

Turn or Burn

1 Corinthians 5:6-10 (AMPC)
6 "[About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]?
7 Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed.
8 Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and [unadulterated] truth.
9 I wrote you in my [previous] letter not to associate [closely and habitually] with unchaste (impure) people—
10 Not [meaning of course that you must] altogether shun the immoral people of this world, or the greedy graspers and cheats and thieves or idolaters, since otherwise you would need to get out of the world and human society altogether!"

Paul in this church had to call a judgment on a young man who was involve with his father's wife. The church was acting wrong about how they were viewing this sin... Paul said turn his flesh over to Satan... "turn or burn," was the verdict. He wrote a letter earlier about associating with impure people who say they are saved, but living different then Christ's Life. That Life with unadulterated Truth.

P JCopty

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