A Biblical Example: The Sin and Response
Message Outline:
The Purpose of Community Discipline
1 Corinthians 5:1-13
(Part A)
The Practice of Church Discipline
I. The Problem (18:15a)
II. The Process (18:15b-17)
A. Private Rebuke (18:15b-d)
B. Witnessed Rebuke (18:16)
C. Public Rebuke (18:17a-b)
D. Excommunication (18:17c-d)
III. The Promises (18:18-20)
A. God’s Sovereign Power (18:18)
B. God’s Sovereign Answer (18:19)
C. God’s Sovereign Presence (18:20)
The Importance of Jesus’ Commands
The Practice of Church Discipline
The Purpose of Church Discipline
● The Background of 1 Corinthians
● The Context of 1 Corinthians 5
I. The Case for Discipline (5:1-5)
A. The Sin (5:1)
1. The Sin’s General Description
● immorality any unlawful sexual interaction/relationship
2. The Sin’s Extreme Nature
3. The Sin’s Specific Designation
B. The Church’s Response (5:2)
1. What It Was (5:2a)
● arrogant blowing or puffing something up
a. The Corinthians’ Problem with Pride
b. The Corinthians’ Prideful Rejection of Spiritual Authority
c. Implication
2. What It Should Have Been (5:2b)
a. They Should have Spiritually Grieved
b. They Should have Practiced Church Discipline
● removed to lift up or take up in order to carry away
c. Implication
C. The Apostle’s Response (5:3)
1. Paul’s Decision: Guilty
● judged the process of judging or the outcome of that process
● The Nature of Christian Judgement: Discernment
2. Paul’s Authority