Private and Public Rebuke

Aug 14, 2011 • Roger Skepple • The Practice of Community Discipline Pt. B

Message Outline:

The Practice of Community Discipline

Matthew 18:15-20

Part B

I. The Problem (18:15a)

II. The Process (18:15b-17)

A. Private Rebuke (18:15b-d)

B. Witnessed Rebuke (18:16)

● take to take to oneself or to bring along with

1. Its Old Testament Practice

2. Its New Testament Application

C. Public Rebuke (18:17a-b)

D. Excommunication (18:17c-d)

1. The Practice Explained

2. The Practice Defended

III. The Promises (18:18-20)

A. God’s Sovereign Power (18:18)

1. The Object of That Power

● bound bind . . . shall be bound; bind . . . shall have been bound

● loose loose . . . shall be loosed; loosed . . . shall have been loosed

● whatever anything, a situation, or a person

2. The Effect of That Power

a. As Found in Matthew 16

1) The Nature of the Keys

2) The Implementation of the Keys

b. As Found in Matthew 18

B. God’s Sovereign Answer (18:19)

1. The Condition of the Promise

● agree harmony, agreement, or concord

● anything deed, occurrence, task, or matter

2. The Nature of the Promise

C. God’s Sovereign Presence (18:20)

1. The Time and Place of the Promise

2. The Nature of the Promise