Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Sunday Service, Episode forty. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Josh my Day. If you know me,
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian rapper, devoter, husband, father, and Army veteran.
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Speaker 1: I have MDMP twenty two. I appreciate you, thank you,
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Speaker 1: says I just read the Talmud Jewish tradition regarding David
Speaker 1: sin with Bathsheba. Interestingly, post Torah oral Rabbidic tradition twist
Speaker 1: the story so that it was never adultery or murder.
Speaker 1: They actually claim all soldiers divorced their wives to fight
Speaker 1: so they could remarry if they died, so it was
Speaker 1: legal for him to bed Bathshiba, and your yah was
Speaker 1: legally killed as he was called as he called Joab
Speaker 1: his master in front of David, which was a capital offense,
Speaker 1: thus clearing David of all sins. Crazy how to diistion
Speaker 1: versus truth. Yeah, that is very interesting. Thank you for
Speaker 1: bringing that up because I didn't know that. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting how they tried to do that, trying
Speaker 1: to relinquish David of all sins. Wow, that is interesting.
Speaker 1: And then we have Nathaniel Salcido. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: I enjoy these on days of rest. Thank you, Nathaniel.
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Speaker 1: So let me just go ahead and pull up my
Speaker 1: there it is, and we're gonna be on First Corinthians
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be First Corinthians four. And first off,
Speaker 1: let me go ahead and do the intro for First
Speaker 1: Corinthians four. So pause, pause, pause, fatherly warning. First Corinthians
Speaker 1: four shines a light on the crucial role of stewards
Speaker 1: of God's mysteries, underlining the requirement for faithfulness over any
Speaker 1: human judgment. It portrays the pardoxial nature of the apocolistic life,
Speaker 1: Apostolic life lowly in the eyes of the world, but
Speaker 1: rich and spiritual blessings. Paul's fatherly effect, affection, and firm
Speaker 1: admonition wait present a balance between gentle guidance and the
Speaker 1: call for accountability. This chapter challenges us to reconsider our values,
Speaker 1: align our lives with the Gospel, and live in power
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom, not merely in talk. So awesome. There's
Speaker 1: the intro, and hopefully I'm talking with the same amount
Speaker 1: of voice that I normally talk with because I usually
Speaker 1: have headphones on, so I'm probably talking a lot louder
Speaker 1: than this. So I'll try to do my best, and
Speaker 1: you guys will have to let me know in the
Speaker 1: comment section if it's better with the headphones on, are worse, Okay,
Speaker 1: So this is kind of, you know, this is a
Speaker 1: little different something I'm trying. Usually I have my headphones
Speaker 1: on every single show I've ever had, but the headphones
Speaker 1: that I had, they get like they make my ears
Speaker 1: a little bit sweaty and they're not very comfortable. So
Speaker 1: I thought this was kind of be a better setup.
Speaker 1: But before we start on first Corinthians four, I want
Speaker 1: to point out some problems that were in the church.
Speaker 1: Number one they had divisions among themselves. Okay, second number
Speaker 1: two looking for worldly wisdom rather than God. And then
Speaker 1: three arrogant opposition to Paul's leadership. And then four they
Speaker 1: had flagrant sexual immorality within the fellowship. Five they were
Speaker 1: suing one another in court. Six lack of grace towards
Speaker 1: those weaker in their faith eight seven misuse of the
Speaker 1: Lord's supper, eight misuse of spiritual gifts. Nine lack of
Speaker 1: love towards one another, and finally ten confusion about the
Speaker 1: resurrection of Christ in its implications. Okay, that's all the
Speaker 1: problems that were happening in the Corinthian Church, and obviously
Speaker 1: Paul is wanting to correct all that. Okay, so let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and check out first Corinthians one, verse Corinthians four,
Speaker 1: Verse one, it says, let a man so consider us
Speaker 1: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover,
Speaker 1: it is required in Stuarts that one be found faithful.
Speaker 1: But with me, it is a very small thing that
Speaker 1: I should be judged by you or by a human court.
Speaker 1: In fact, I do not even judge myself, for I
Speaker 1: know of nothing against myself. Yet I'm not justified by this,
Speaker 1: But he who judges me is the Lord. Therefore, judge
Speaker 1: nothing before time until the Lord comes, who will bring
Speaker 1: to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the
Speaker 1: counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come
Speaker 1: from God. So yeah, so Paul is very humble to
Speaker 1: the Corinthians. In the first five verses that we just read,
Speaker 1: I'll take a look at my notes. Paul's emphasis emphasizes
Speaker 1: the importance of being faithful stewards of the mysteries of God.
Speaker 1: Now it is required of stewarts or they found faithful
Speaker 1: one Corinthians four, verse two. Our primary responsibility is to
Speaker 1: be faithful to the calling and task God has entrusted us.
Speaker 1: And in First Corinthians four, verses one through five, Paul
Speaker 1: teaches that Christian leaders like ministers and apostles should be
Speaker 1: viewed as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.
Speaker 1: This means their primary accountability is to God, not to
Speaker 1: the Corinthians. They must faithfully manage God's spiritual treasures or truth,
Speaker 1: and their faithfulness is what matters. Therefore, judging them before
Speaker 1: the Lord's return is premature and improper, as only God
Speaker 1: knows their true hearts and motives. Okay, So let me
Speaker 1: just go ahead and click on stewardship and faithfulness, so
Speaker 1: we know what that is. Okay. So stewardship in the
Speaker 1: Biblical context refers to the responsibility, the responsible management and
Speaker 1: care of the resources, talents, and responsibilities that God has
Speaker 1: entrusted to individuals. The concept is deeply rooted in the
Speaker 1: understanding that everything belongs to God and humans are merely
Speaker 1: caretakers of his creation. This principle is evident from the
Speaker 1: very beginning of scripture, where God places Adam and Eve
Speaker 1: in the garden of Eden to work and take care
Speaker 1: of it Genesis two, verse fifteen. Okay. Also on the
Speaker 1: parable of talents in Matthew twenty five, Verses fourteen through
Speaker 1: thirty serves as a profound illustration of stewardship. In this parable,
Speaker 1: a master and trusts his servants with varying amounts of
Speaker 1: money before leaving on a journey. Upon his return, he
Speaker 1: evaluates their management of the resources. The servants who wisely
Speaker 1: invested and multiplied their master's money are commanded, while the
Speaker 1: one who buried his talents out of fear is rebuked.
Speaker 1: This parable underscores the expectation that God that God's people
Speaker 1: so are too actively and wisely, are too actively and
Speaker 1: wisely manage what has been given to them, whether it
Speaker 1: be time, money, abilities, or opportunities. Okay, so faithfulness. Faithfulness
Speaker 1: is a key attribute of God's character and a virtue
Speaker 1: that believers are called to emulate. It involves steadfastness, loyalty,
Speaker 1: and a commitment to fulfilling one's duties and promises. The
Speaker 1: faithfulness of God is a reoccurring theme throughout the Bible,
Speaker 1: providing a foundation for human faithfulness. Lamentations three twenty two
Speaker 1: through twenty three declares because of the Lord's loving devotion,
Speaker 1: we are not consumed. For his mercies never fail, are
Speaker 1: there are never, there are new every morning. Great is
Speaker 1: your faithfulness? Okay? And then in the New Testament, faithfulness
Speaker 1: is listed as a fruit of the Spirit and Galatians
Speaker 1: five twenty two. So the relationship between stewardship and faithfulness
Speaker 1: is intertwined. Faithfulness and stewardship means constantly managing God's resources
Speaker 1: in a way that honors him and aligns with his purposes. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I want. I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: you guys understand what stewardness are. Stewardness and faithfulness is okay,
Speaker 1: So in summary, stewardness and faithfulness are integral and the
Speaker 1: Christian life reflecting commitment to honor God with all that
Speaker 1: He has entrusted to us. These principles call believers to
Speaker 1: live responsibly, manage resources wise, and remain steadfast and their
Speaker 1: devotion to God and his purposes. Okay, So let's go ahead,
Speaker 1: and we'll go a little bit further down. And then
Speaker 1: in verse three it talks us about judgment and approval.
Speaker 1: So Paul warns against seeking human approval and judgment and
Speaker 1: one Corinthians four, verse three. Our ultimate judge is the Lord,
Speaker 1: and his approval is what truly matters. So that makes sense, right,
Speaker 1: So our ultimate judge is God. Right, So it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if somebody else is judging you. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if somebody is talking about you in a bad way.
Speaker 1: You know, that doesn't really matter. What really matters is
Speaker 1: that God is the judge, the ultimate judge. Right, So
Speaker 1: we did accountabity judging, nohing before time. Because only God
Speaker 1: has full knowledge of a person's motives and circumstances. It
Speaker 1: is wrong to judge ministers or each or each other prematurely.
Speaker 1: When the Lord returns, all will be revealed and he
Speaker 1: will justly evaluate everyone. So if that makes sense. So
Speaker 1: God knows exactly why you have, what a motive for
Speaker 1: why you're doing it, and also God knows exactly why
Speaker 1: you're doing that, you know, like some people they for example,
Speaker 1: this is just an example. Okay, So, like I have
Speaker 1: a friend I'm not going to obviously name his name,
Speaker 1: but he revealed to me something that when he was
Speaker 1: a kid, you know, his Christian parents used to you know,
Speaker 1: treat him badly right and do like kind of do
Speaker 1: terrible stuff, right, so it kind of gave him a
Speaker 1: bad taste in his mouth about Christians. You see. God
Speaker 1: sees that and sees that it was a poor representation
Speaker 1: of Christianity by his parents. God sees that, and he
Speaker 1: sees their motives behind what they're doing. So now he
Speaker 1: has kind of issues with being Christian, right, So that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Right, So he has parents that were supposedly
Speaker 1: devout Christians that do that that kind of weren't treating
Speaker 1: him correctly when he was a kid. You know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know certain things and that that are that are
Speaker 1: definitely not Christian. But see he has a bad taste
Speaker 1: in his mouth about Christianity. You See, that's kind of
Speaker 1: an example. See we're judging somebody because they're not Christian, right,
Speaker 1: we might judge them and say, oh, he's not a Christian.
Speaker 1: I'll look at him. He's a you know, he's a pagan,
Speaker 1: or he's this, he's that. But we don't understand, uh
Speaker 1: that the motives and the circumstances of what's going on.
Speaker 1: There's more variables to it that we don't see because
Speaker 1: humans can't see that. So that's what Paul saying here
Speaker 1: is not not to not to judge. You know, our
Speaker 1: ultimate judge is the Lord, and his approval is what
Speaker 1: truly matters because he knows everything about the situation, the circumstance,
Speaker 1: all the variables, and we only see from a human perspective, right,
Speaker 1: so we can never, auh, see the way God sees. Right.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of his point, is there, And we
Speaker 1: need to all understand that because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that have issues with judging people and they need
Speaker 1: to take the spec out of their own or they
Speaker 1: need to take the plank out of their own eye
Speaker 1: before they could take the speck out of their brother's eye. Right,
Speaker 1: So we're all you know, we got to make sure
Speaker 1: we understand that. Right. So judgment of is the judgment
Speaker 1: sheet of Christ. Okay, that's actually going to be, I
Speaker 1: think in verse seven. So all right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and continue one Corinthians four, verse six. Now these things Brethern,
Speaker 1: I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes,
Speaker 1: and that you may learn in us not to think
Speaker 1: beyond what is written. And none of you may be
Speaker 1: puffed up on behalf of the of one against the other.
Speaker 1: For who makes you differ from another? And what do
Speaker 1: you have that you did not receive? Now, if you
Speaker 1: did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if
Speaker 1: you had not received? Okay, that's a verse seven there,
Speaker 1: So Paul uses himself. Paul uses himself and Apollo as
Speaker 1: examples to teach humility, for he who makes different of
Speaker 1: anyone else? Why do you have that you did not receive?
Speaker 1: So recognize that all we have is from God Foster's
Speaker 1: humility and gratitude. Yes, So basically he's saying that everything
Speaker 1: comes from God. Right, So it contrasts worldly pride of
Speaker 1: the Corinthians. So I'll read that part actually in my
Speaker 1: notes after. But yeah, humility and perspective, we can kind
Speaker 1: of find out what kind of look a little bit
Speaker 1: into that. Humility is a central virtue in Christian theology,
Speaker 1: often just depicted as the proper attitude of a believer
Speaker 1: towards God and others. It involves recognizing one's own limitations
Speaker 1: and weaknesses, acknowledging the sovereignty and majesty of God, and
Speaker 1: valuing others above oneself. The Bible frequently emphasiz this humility
Speaker 1: as a key characteriss of a faithful life, okay. And
Speaker 1: then perspective in the Bible serves refers to a way
Speaker 1: believers view their lives, circumstances, and the world around them
Speaker 1: through the lens of faith and divine truth. Okay, So
Speaker 1: that way, you guys know that, we'll go and continue reading,
Speaker 1: and then I'll go into my notes of what Hebrews
Speaker 1: four sixteen through thirteen minutes. It says says, you are
Speaker 1: already full, you are already rich. You have reigned as
Speaker 1: kings without us, And indeed I could wish you did.
Speaker 1: I could wish you did reign. That we must that
Speaker 1: we also might reign with you. For I think that
Speaker 1: God has displayed us, the apostles last, as men condemned
Speaker 1: to death, For we have been made a spectacle to
Speaker 1: the world, both to angels and to men. We are
Speaker 1: fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ.
Speaker 1: We are weak, but you are strong. You are disgusted,
Speaker 1: but we are dishonored. To the present hour, we both
Speaker 1: hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten
Speaker 1: and homeless, and we labor working in our with our
Speaker 1: own hands, being reviled, we bless being persecuted. We endure
Speaker 1: being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the
Speaker 1: filth of the world, the offspring, are the off scoring
Speaker 1: of all things until now, Okay, in fourteen is what
Speaker 1: we'll do next. So let's go ahead and check out
Speaker 1: what we have in my notes that's going to be
Speaker 1: suffering an apostolic example, which is going to be in
Speaker 1: one Corinthians four to ten. Paul describes the hardships faced
Speaker 1: by apostles, highlighting the contrast between worldly honor and the
Speaker 1: reality of Apostolist Apostolic life, and it says we are
Speaker 1: fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise. In Christ.
Speaker 1: We are weak, but you are strong verse Corinthians four,
Speaker 1: verse ten. This serves as a reminder of the cost
Speaker 1: of true discipleship. Okay. So first Corinthians for sixteen through thirteen,
Speaker 1: which are six through thirteen, which we just read, contrasts
Speaker 1: the world the pride of the Corinthians with the humility
Speaker 1: and suffering of the Apostles, teaching that believers should go
Speaker 1: beyond what is written in scripture, but instead acknowledge their
Speaker 1: gifts are from God, leading to humility rather than boastfulness.
Speaker 1: And this passage highlights the Apostles' willingness to be considered
Speaker 1: fools for Christ and to live in weakness and suffering
Speaker 1: for the sake of the Gospel, for example, example, for
Speaker 1: the Corinthians to follow instead of adopting the world's views
Speaker 1: of strength and honor. Okay, so that is one of
Speaker 1: the what they were doing. They were misusing the Lord's
Speaker 1: misuse of spiritual gifts right there, right, And then some
Speaker 1: of the key themes would be humility versus pride. The
Speaker 1: passes confronts the Corinthians pride and conceit, which led them
Speaker 1: to favor certain ministers over others and to consider themselves
Speaker 1: wise and rich. Paul reminds them that they're gut and
Speaker 1: status are from God, not of their own doing, and
Speaker 1: that they should not boast or judge others. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you need to take a drink of water
Speaker 1: real quick. I okay. And then a servitude. Paul uses
Speaker 1: himself and Apollo as examples of humble servants of Christ
Speaker 1: and stewards of God's mysteries. We kind of already read
Speaker 1: through that the what are the scriptural boundaries? Paul cautions
Speaker 1: the Corinthians not to go beyond what is written. This
Speaker 1: encourages them to align with their understanding of faith and
Speaker 1: leadership that is already revealed in scripture, rather than creating
Speaker 1: their own standards or divisions. Yes, so we know that
Speaker 1: all scriptures inspire by God, right, So what's going Okay?
Speaker 1: And it's for reproof for correction, which is tewod Timothy.
Speaker 1: I have to see what is that? What is that verse? Okay?
Speaker 1: Let me see all scripture Tewo Timothy through sixteen, which
Speaker 1: is going to be Second Timothy three sixteen is going
Speaker 1: to be all scriptures given by inspiration of God and
Speaker 1: is profitable for doctrine for reproof, for correction, for instruction
Speaker 1: and righteousness, that the Man of God may be complete
Speaker 1: and thoroughly equipped for every good work. So if all
Speaker 1: scriptures inspired inspired by God, Paul is saying not to
Speaker 1: go above and beyond the scriptures and create your own doctrines. Right,
Speaker 1: He's saying to stick to the scripture. And if it's
Speaker 1: given all inspiration of God, God cannot lie. So what
Speaker 1: whatever he's telling you in the scriptures is not going
Speaker 1: to be a lie. It is total truth, nothing but
Speaker 1: the truth. So help us who God, because God is
Speaker 1: the truth right and Jesus is the way, the truth,
Speaker 1: the life right. So I said it is profitable for doctrine,
Speaker 1: for reproof and for correction. Now that's not just profitable
Speaker 1: for doctrine proof correction of the Bible, but it's also
Speaker 1: profitable for a doction, reproof for correction of anybody like
Speaker 1: the Bible. When you use the Bible against people in
Speaker 1: any type of discussion or spiritual battle or anything that's
Speaker 1: going on, like when you're using it against the devil
Speaker 1: or the demons, it is profitable for reproof, for correction,
Speaker 1: or if you're just talking to people that aren't even believers.
Speaker 1: It's still profitable for reproof and for correction. It's for
Speaker 1: instruction and righteousness that the Man of God may be complete,
Speaker 1: thoroughly equipped for every good work. Right, So we've got
Speaker 1: to understand that very important. And then, just like we
Speaker 1: talked about last, God is the ultimate judge. The passage
Speaker 1: points to God is the ultimate judge of all, including
Speaker 1: the Apostles and the Corinthians. Believers should focus on serving faithfully,
Speaker 1: knowing that God will ultimately reveal their motives and condemn
Speaker 1: the faithful. Okay, and then next, Okay, that's six through thirteen.
Speaker 1: In essence, One Corinthians six through thirteen serves as a
Speaker 1: powerful rebuke to the Corinthians worldly pride and encouragement to
Speaker 1: embrace life of humility and suffering for Christ, which is
Speaker 1: true wisdom, and strengthen God's eyes. All right, perfect, So
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and read fourteen through twenty one Paul's
Speaker 1: parental care. I do not write this is a one
Speaker 1: Corinthians four, verse fourteen. I do not write these things
Speaker 1: to shame you, But as my beloved children, I warn you,
Speaker 1: for though you might have ten thousand instructors in crime,
Speaker 1: yet you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus,
Speaker 1: I have begotten you through the Gospel. Therefore I urge
Speaker 1: you imitate me. For this reason, I have sent Timpathy
Speaker 1: to you, who is my beloved and faithful son, and
Speaker 1: the Lord who will remind you of my ways in Christ,
Speaker 1: as I teach everywhere in every church. Now some are
Speaker 1: puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
Speaker 1: But I will come to you shortly if the Lord wills,
Speaker 1: and I will know not the word of those who
Speaker 1: are puffed up. But the power for the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: God is not in the word, but in power. It
Speaker 1: is not in word, but in power. What do you want?
Speaker 1: Shall I come to you with a rod or in
Speaker 1: love and a spirit of gentleness? A rod would be like,
Speaker 1: should I come to you with the rod to like
Speaker 1: spank you basically to punish you? Or that's kind of
Speaker 1: what he means? Right there? Shall I come to you
Speaker 1: with the rod or in love in a spirit of gentleness?
Speaker 1: You see? So? So in a Second Corinthia our First
Speaker 1: Corinthians four fourteen through twenty one, the apostle Paul writes
Speaker 1: to the Corinthian Corinthian Christians to warn them as his
Speaker 1: spiritual children not to shame them. He emphasizes his authority
Speaker 1: as their spiritual father, urging them to imitate him and
Speaker 1: his life in Christ, as he taught in every church.
Speaker 1: To help them, he sent Timothy to remind them of
Speaker 1: his example. Paul intends to visit them, not just to
Speaker 1: hear their words, but to see the power of God
Speaker 1: at work and to address the arrogant individuals among them,
Speaker 1: ultimately asking them if they would prefer to come for him,
Speaker 1: to come with the rod of discipline or with love
Speaker 1: and a gentle spirit. Okay, so what does it mean
Speaker 1: to not shame? Paul clarifies his intention as to warn
Speaker 1: it monish the Corinthians as his dear children, not to
Speaker 1: embarrass them. Okay, a unique relationship. He reminds them that
Speaker 1: why they may have many instructors, they lack many spiritual fathers,
Speaker 1: a role he filled through the Gospel call to imitation
Speaker 1: Paul or just the Corinthians to imitate his way of
Speaker 1: life which he lived in Christ and taught everywhere. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: and then, confronting talk versus power, Paul plans to revisit
Speaker 1: to visit soon to discern the arrogance of some by
Speaker 1: examining not just their talk, but the power of the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God among them. All Right, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of a short chapter there. Chapter four. We went ahead
Speaker 1: and completed the chapter. Let's go ahead, and since we
Speaker 1: completed the chapter, we're going to go over practical applications.
Speaker 1: Evaluate your faithfulness, okay, regularly assess your faithfulness and the
Speaker 1: roles and responsibilities God has given you. Are you seeking
Speaker 1: to please God above all else? So are we? You know,
Speaker 1: that's a question for us, You know, are we? Are
Speaker 1: we seeking to please God above everybody else? I'm else
Speaker 1: telling you about what Jesus said. Jesus says he wants
Speaker 1: you to love him more than you love your family,
Speaker 1: more than you love your wife. Are you, guys, seeking
Speaker 1: to please God above all else? That's a great question
Speaker 1: for you and for me. Are we seeking the kingdom
Speaker 1: of Heaven first? Are we placing God first? If you
Speaker 1: seek God first, everything else will follow. Okay, seek God's approval.
Speaker 1: Focus on God's judgment rather than human opinions. Let his
Speaker 1: word guide your actions and decisions. That's very important. So
Speaker 1: if somebody comes up to you and tries to tell
Speaker 1: you how you should be acting or who you should
Speaker 1: be make sure they have chapter and verse first of all,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people are going to come with
Speaker 1: their opinions and maybe bad theology or maybe that bad
Speaker 1: interpretation of what the Bible is saying. Right, So just
Speaker 1: make sure that you focus on God's judgment rather than
Speaker 1: human opinion. That is, word guide your actions and decisions. Right.
Speaker 1: So if we're living by God's word, we know what
Speaker 1: we're doing right, and you will not feel any type
Speaker 1: of conviction or anything like that, right. The Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: will it is not going to give you conviction in
Speaker 1: any way because you're living by God's words, right, God's word. Next,
Speaker 1: cultivate humility. Acknowledge that your gifts and abilities are from God.
Speaker 1: Use them to serve others and glorify Him. So, yes,
Speaker 1: any gift that God has given you, any ability that
Speaker 1: you have, is from God, and you should use them,
Speaker 1: the gifts to serve others and glorify Him. One Corinthians ten,
Speaker 1: verse thirty one says, whether therefore you eat or drink,
Speaker 1: or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. Right,
Speaker 1: So we should definitely focus on that and understand that
Speaker 1: any gift that God has given us is from God.
Speaker 1: We kind of get big headed and we forget that,
Speaker 1: and there might be gifts that God gives us that
Speaker 1: we're not using to glorify him. And hopefully at some
Speaker 1: point you realize that God, it's a god gift from God,
Speaker 1: and you can have that gift taken away pretty quick.
Speaker 1: If you have the gift of being an athlete, and
Speaker 1: you have you're a fast runner or you know, you
Speaker 1: could catch a football or play basketball or whatever got
Speaker 1: you to that point, and you can literally and if
Speaker 1: you don't, you know, if you don't use it to
Speaker 1: glorify God, then you know, sometimes you can have an
Speaker 1: injury and have everything taken away from you, you know.
Speaker 1: And I see a lot of people that are in
Speaker 1: sports lately. I didn't really see it as much before,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of people lately that are, you know, saying,
Speaker 1: you know, all glory to God, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: blessed because you know, God has blessed me with this talent.
Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of people are not a lot,
Speaker 1: but there's just some people in the NFL, for example,
Speaker 1: that I've heard that says, you know, all glory to God.
Speaker 1: I hear people in the UFC literally I'll watch UFC
Speaker 1: and man like the whole entire roster. Especially there was
Speaker 1: like this the same night they had the Canalo fight,
Speaker 1: the whole entire roster. Every time they win, they say,
Speaker 1: you know, all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: you know, and I just really it just really makes
Speaker 1: me happy. And it's kind of what they're doing. You know.
Speaker 1: They have a gift of fighting, which I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that God wants them fighting in a cage. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I enjoy watching UFC, but they have gifts and abilities
Speaker 1: as athletes, right, and they use them to serve others.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're serving others, but they are
Speaker 1: using it to glorify him, right, because they win the
Speaker 1: match and then they go and they say all glory
Speaker 1: to God. Now, I just like to see anybody saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, anybody giving glory to go. When I was younger,
Speaker 1: I used to like a rapper named DMX. Even though
Speaker 1: he had a lot of cuss words and stuff in
Speaker 1: his rap, I still enjoyed the fact that he always
Speaker 1: had a prayer and a song to God. And it
Speaker 1: just is something that I enjoy But anyways, and that's
Speaker 1: a gift that God gave DMX right to rap right,
Speaker 1: and then he uses it to part of it, you know,
Speaker 1: not all of it, because a lot of that stuff
Speaker 1: was bad. But he uses a lot of it to
Speaker 1: glorify God. Right, So embrace suffering for Christ. Be prepared,
Speaker 1: or he used a lot of it, he actually passed away.
Speaker 1: Embrace suffering for Christ. Be prepared to face challenges and
Speaker 1: hardships for the sake of the Gospel, knowing that they
Speaker 1: are a part of following Christ. Yes, so yeah, embrace
Speaker 1: suffering for Christ. It's gonna be tough challenges ahead when
Speaker 1: you're trying to spread the gospel. Sometimes, you know, people
Speaker 1: don't want to listen. People would say no, people could
Speaker 1: say get away from me, whatever they want to say,
Speaker 1: you know, but some people are gonna embrace it. So
Speaker 1: all you can do is plant seeds and do your
Speaker 1: very best, all right. So, connecting additional scriptures we have
Speaker 1: Matthew twenty five, verse twenty one, It says his master replied,
Speaker 1: well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful
Speaker 1: with many with few things. I will put you in
Speaker 1: charge of any things. Come and share your master's happiness.
Speaker 1: This verse underscores the reward for faithfulness Galatians one, verse ten.
Speaker 1: And now am I now seeking the approval of men
Speaker 1: or of God? Or am I striving to please men?
Speaker 1: If I were still trying to please men, I would
Speaker 1: not be a servant of Christ. This verse reinforces the
Speaker 1: importance of seeking God's approval. Philippians two, verse three. Do
Speaker 1: nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility,
Speaker 1: consider others more than the importance of yourselves. This verse
Speaker 1: compliments the call to humility found in First Corinthians verse four.
Speaker 1: All right, so perfect, so we went ahead and finished
Speaker 1: chapter four. We're gonna move right along to chapter five.
Speaker 1: Let me just go ahead and do the intro. First
Speaker 1: First Corinthians five issues a strong call for moral integrity
Speaker 1: within the church, demanding vigilance against sin and complacency. Paul's
Speaker 1: disciplinary instruction challenges us to hold each each other accountable,
Speaker 1: recognizing that a community spiritual health can be jeopardized by
Speaker 1: the unaddressed sins of individuals. The metaphor of Leven reminds
Speaker 1: us to call reminds us of our call to purity, sincerity,
Speaker 1: and truth, living as their new creation in Christ, where
Speaker 1: we live in the world. We are not able. We
Speaker 1: are not to adopt its moral standards, but embody the
Speaker 1: values of God's Kingdom, applying judgment and appropriately within the outside,
Speaker 1: within and outside the church. Okay, so let's go ahead,
Speaker 1: and let's go ahead and go to first Corinthians five,
Speaker 1: verse one. It is actually reported that there is sexual
Speaker 1: immorality among you, and such sexual morality as as is
Speaker 1: not even named among the gentiles or pagans, that a
Speaker 1: man has a father's wife. And you are puffed up
Speaker 1: and not rather mourned. But he who has done this
Speaker 1: deed might be taken away from among you. For I, indeed,
Speaker 1: as absent in body but present in spirit, have judged,
Speaker 1: have already judged as though I were present. Him has
Speaker 1: so done this deed. Him who has so done this deed,
Speaker 1: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you
Speaker 1: are gathered together along with my spirit, with the power
Speaker 1: of our Lord Jesus Christ, delivers such a one of
Speaker 1: Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that that is
Speaker 1: his spirit may be saved in the day of the
Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. Okay, so kind of interesting stuff here. So
Speaker 1: Paul confronts the corinth church about a case of sexual
Speaker 1: immorality that is not even tolerated among pagans. A man
Speaker 1: has his father's wife First Corinthians five, verse one. This
Speaker 1: highlights the severity of sin and the need for immediate action. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's that's actually going to be found. So the
Speaker 1: problem of sexual morality is a reoccurring theme throughout the Bible,
Speaker 1: reflecting humanity's struggle with sin. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: all right, let me just highlight that so I know
Speaker 1: where I'm at. Immorality in Biblical terms, hold on, sorry,
Speaker 1: struggle with sin and the consequences of turning away from
Speaker 1: God's commandments. Sexual morality and biblical terms often refers to
Speaker 1: behaviors and attitudes that are contrary to the moral ethical
Speaker 1: or It says immorality in biblical terms, sorry, not sexual morality.
Speaker 1: It says. Immorality in Biblical terms often refers to behaviors
Speaker 1: and attitudes that are contrary to the moral and ethical
Speaker 1: standards set forth by God. This includes, but is not
Speaker 1: limited to, sexual morality, idolatry, deceit, and injustice. So Old
Speaker 1: testimon context, let's check that out. In the Old Testament,
Speaker 1: immorality is frequently addressed in the context of Israel's covenant
Speaker 1: relationship with God. The law given through Moses outline specific
Speaker 1: prohibitions against immoral behavior. Leviticus eighteen provides a detailed list
Speaker 1: of forbidden sexual practices, emphasizing the need for holiness amongst
Speaker 1: God's people. You must not do as they do in
Speaker 1: the land of Egypt, where you used to live. You
Speaker 1: must not do as they do in the land of Canaan,
Speaker 1: where I am bringing you. You must not walk in
Speaker 1: their customs. That's going to be Leviticus eighteen three. The
Speaker 1: prophets often rebuked Israel for their immorality, which is seen
Speaker 1: as a breach of their covenant with God. For example,
Speaker 1: the prophet Hoseiah uses the metaphor of adultery to describe
Speaker 1: Israel's unfaithfulness. The land is committing blatant acts of adultery
Speaker 1: by forsaking the Lord. Okay and then New Testament teachings.
Speaker 1: In the New Testament, the problem of immorality is addressed
Speaker 1: with the focus on the transformative power of the Gospel.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ calls his followers to a higher standard of righteousness,
Speaker 1: emphasizing the importance of purity in thought. And deed, and
Speaker 1: the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches, but I tell
Speaker 1: you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust
Speaker 1: after her is already committing adultery with her in his heart,
Speaker 1: all right. And then the apostle Paul frequently addresses immorality
Speaker 1: and his epistles urging believers to live in a manner
Speaker 1: worthy of their calling. Paul exhorts the church. So on
Speaker 1: one Corinthian six eighteen through twenty, Paul exhorts the church
Speaker 1: to flee from sexual morality, reminding them of their bodies
Speaker 1: are temples of the Holy Spirit, which I'm not going
Speaker 1: to read because we're about to read it in a
Speaker 1: little bit. What's the consequences and redemption? The Bible consistently
Speaker 1: warns the consequence of immorality, both in his life and
Speaker 1: in the life to come. Okay, so we got to
Speaker 1: understand that and the moral and ethical implications. The problem
Speaker 1: of immorality is not a personal issue, but also a
Speaker 1: broader social implications. The Bible calls for communities to uphold
Speaker 1: justice and righteousness, as seen in Micas six, verse eight.
Speaker 1: He has shown you, oh man, what is good? But
Speaker 1: what does the Lord require of you, but to act justly,
Speaker 1: to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God
Speaker 1: in sum reay. The problem with immorality is significant biblical
Speaker 1: theme that underscores the theme that need for adherence to
Speaker 1: God's commandments, the transformative power of the Gospel, and the
Speaker 1: hope of redemption through Jesus Christ. Yes, so all right,
Speaker 1: and so in one Corinthians five, verses one through five,
Speaker 1: it addresses a grave sexual sin a man living with
Speaker 1: his stepmother within the Corinthian Church, with which the church
Speaker 1: was tolerated rather than condemning. So you, guys, you see
Speaker 1: what's happening. They're condoning it. They're not condemning him, and
Speaker 1: they're allowing it. And Paul instructs the church to discipline
Speaker 1: the man by removing him from the fellowship, delivering him
Speaker 1: to Satan, to afflict him with suffering, which is destruction
Speaker 1: of the flesh, with the ultimate goal that his spirit
Speaker 1: might be saved on the day of the Lord. So
Speaker 1: he's saying, they kick him out of the church and
Speaker 1: turn him over to Satan. And sometimes you need that
Speaker 1: because what happens is you'll be living in sin as
Speaker 1: a Christian and you're just it's just being condoned and accepted.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you need to be brought to rock bottom
Speaker 1: or you need to actually understand that what's going on.
Speaker 1: And sometimes once you hit rock bottom, you understand woe.
Speaker 1: I was sinning right there, making a mistake, and I
Speaker 1: need to stop. Right. So that's why he says, deliver
Speaker 1: such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
Speaker 1: that his spirit may be saved in the day of
Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus, meaning deliver him to Satan. Let him,
Speaker 1: you know, get taken down a rock bottom, and then
Speaker 1: he'll realize that he's sinning, he'll repent, and then he'll
Speaker 1: be saved in the day of the Lord. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's what he's saying. So the past the passage emphasized
Speaker 1: the importance of church purity, the need to confront and
Speaker 1: remove on unrepented sinners from the community, and that such
Speaker 1: discipline through is though painful, of course, it's going to
Speaker 1: be painful, because that's a brother in Christ, right, is
Speaker 1: a loving act aimed at the sinner's eventual repentance and salvation.
Speaker 1: What he's saying in that very end right there where
Speaker 1: he says that his spirit may be saved. That's the
Speaker 1: most important thing. It's not about like homies or friends
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Yeah, of course you want to
Speaker 1: treat people with love, respect, kindness. But when something like
Speaker 1: this is going on in the church, then in you're
Speaker 1: condoning it. Then what's going to happen is other people
Speaker 1: are going to say, you know what, this is okay
Speaker 1: in the church. Then you know, I guess I could
Speaker 1: do it too, And some people are going to kind
Speaker 1: of get a bad rap here and think that it's okay,
Speaker 1: and it's not good. And obviously sin separates you from God.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be separating God from that church,
Speaker 1: and that's not good. The sin. We already talked about
Speaker 1: the church's failure. Instead of grieving and condemning this behavior,
Speaker 1: the church was arrogant and proud, apparently tolerating or even
Speaker 1: glorifying the sin. That's why it said that It says
Speaker 1: that puffed up and we're not and have not rather
Speaker 1: mourned that he has done this deed might have taken
Speaker 1: away from among you. So the emphasis this so one
Speaker 1: Corinthians five, verse two, where he's talking about you puffed up,
Speaker 1: it emphasizes the need for a humble and repentant attitude
Speaker 1: towards sin. Okay, it's a call for mourning and action.
Speaker 1: It is reported a man puffed up be taken away
Speaker 1: among you and have not mourned. Right, So there was
Speaker 1: a verse that I wanted to bring up where I
Speaker 1: was talking about mourning. Yeah, for certain men can for
Speaker 1: certain men whose condemnation was written about a long ago
Speaker 1: have secretly slipped in among you. There are godless men
Speaker 1: who changed the grace of our God into a license
Speaker 1: for immorality. You see. That's kind of a this is
Speaker 1: Jude one for kind of a example of what was
Speaker 1: going on. It says, for certain men whose condemnation was
Speaker 1: written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you.
Speaker 1: They are godless men who change the grace of our
Speaker 1: God in the license for immorality, you see, and not good.
Speaker 1: And then in one Corinthians five, verse five, Paul instructs
Speaker 1: the church to hand this man over to Satan, which
Speaker 1: we just talked about. This underscores the purpose of church discipline,
Speaker 1: restoration and salvation. Okay. So church discipline is a biblically
Speaker 1: mandated practice that serves to maintain the purity, integrity, and
Speaker 1: the testimony of the Christian community. It is a process
Speaker 1: that involves correction and, if necessary, exclusion of members who
Speaker 1: persist in unrepentant sin. The purpose of church discipline is
Speaker 1: not punitive, but restorative. Restorative discipline is not peter but restorative,
Speaker 1: a aiming to bring the erring individual back into a
Speaker 1: right relationship with God and the Church body. Right, So
Speaker 1: we got to understand that, and we definitely do you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to someone, if they're sin in the church,
Speaker 1: it's not good. Let's see what it says in one
Speaker 1: Corinthians five. Okay, oh, it's the same. Okay, hold on
Speaker 1: a little eleven hmm, a little eleven is in verse six?
Speaker 1: Is that a sorry? Guys, I just want to alright,
Speaker 1: So let's see, all right, let's go it and continue.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. First Corinthians five, verse six, you're glorifying is
Speaker 1: not good? Do you not know that a little eleven
Speaker 1: eleven's the whole lump? Therefore, perge out the old eleven,
Speaker 1: that you may be a new lump, since you are
Speaker 1: truly on leven. For indeed, Christ our passover was sacrificed
Speaker 1: for us. Therefore, let us keep the feasts, not with
Speaker 1: the old eleven, nor with the eleaven of malice and wickedness,
Speaker 1: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Okay.
Speaker 1: So six through seven the call for purity. Paul reminds
Speaker 1: the Corinthians of their identity in Christ, urging them to
Speaker 1: keep the festival not with the old eleven of malice
Speaker 1: and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Speaker 1: This cause believers to live in purity and truth. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we've got to understand that. And and then. In
Speaker 1: the Bible, eleven is a fermented substance, typically a piece
Speaker 1: of old sour dough used to make new dough rise,
Speaker 1: while literally causing bread to become light and fluffy. Eleven
Speaker 1: is often metaphorically in scripture to symbolize something that spreads
Speaker 1: and like sin, false doctrine, or malice, or seen in
Speaker 1: warnings against the leaven of the Pharisees. Conversely, the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of Heaven and some parables is likened to eleven, representing
Speaker 1: its hidden yet transformative and persuasive spread figurative sin, corruption,
Speaker 1: or false teaching. Leven is frequently symbolized symbolizes sin or
Speaker 1: evil at as it incrupts the entire lobe. The apostle.
Speaker 1: Paul warns against it, equating it to malice and wickedness
Speaker 1: that could corrupt the entire church, just as the small
Speaker 1: amount of leaven affects the whole batch of dough false teachings.
Speaker 1: Jesus warned against the leaven of Pharisees and Saddestes, referring
Speaker 1: to their false doctrines and human traditions that had corrupted
Speaker 1: the underscoring and practices of God's law, hidden persuasive spread.
Speaker 1: In the New Testament parables, the Kingdom of Heaven is
Speaker 1: compared to leven because it is small, hidden substance that
Speaker 1: through contact, spread and transforms in large quantity of meal.
Speaker 1: So the corinth Church. Paul uses the analogy of eleven
Speaker 1: to describe how a single sinful practice in the corinth
Speaker 1: Church could corrupt the entire body, comparing it to the
Speaker 1: rotten apple spoiling the barrel. Okay, so God's growth, Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's all I wanted to go over with eleven.
Speaker 1: And we got to understand that. And let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and read verse nine. So one Corinthians five, verse nine,
Speaker 1: I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep
Speaker 1: company with sexual emerald people. Yet I certainly did not
Speaker 1: mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or
Speaker 1: with the covetousness or executioners or idolators, since they would
Speaker 1: need to go out to the world. But now I
Speaker 1: have written to you not to keep company with anyone
Speaker 1: named a brother who is sexually a morale or copaissedness,
Speaker 1: of a dolater or aviler, or a drunkard or extortioner.
Speaker 1: Not even to eat with such a person. But what
Speaker 1: I have to do with Okay, So when he says that,
Speaker 1: though he's talking about not to eat with such a person,
Speaker 1: meaning if they're a brother in Christ. That's why it
Speaker 1: says anyone named a brother who is sexual morale or
Speaker 1: coveisuhedness or adolatory revialor because they've been saved, so they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be practicing this stuff, right, So it says not
Speaker 1: even to eat with them. So we got to be
Speaker 1: careful when we have brothers in Christ that are drunkards
Speaker 1: that like to drink. Paul is warning against that, okay,
Speaker 1: warning against being with them and eating with them, because
Speaker 1: they could corrupt you. They could cause you to be
Speaker 1: a drunkard. If you are hanging out with the brother
Speaker 1: in Christ who is sexually sexually I morale, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: doing sexual morality, then he could have an influence on you,
Speaker 1: or he can have an influence on other brothers in
Speaker 1: the church to cause them to be sexual amrale. Right,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what he's trying to nip it in
Speaker 1: the butt. Or an idolatry or reviler, okay, we don't
Speaker 1: want that either, or extortioner, not even I put execution.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry extortioner, guys, I'm so tired. I apologize. It's late,
Speaker 1: not even to eat with such a person, right, that's
Speaker 1: what it says. So for what I have to do
Speaker 1: with judging, For what have I to do with judging
Speaker 1: those also who are outside? Do you not judge those
Speaker 1: who are inside, but those who are outside? God judges?
Speaker 1: Therefore put away yourselves the evil in person. So you
Speaker 1: guys can imagine if you're at church and you have
Speaker 1: a non believer coming in to try to see how churches,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you find out he's sexual,
Speaker 1: a morale and covetousness, and he's a I'm not even
Speaker 1: a believer yet, and you start to judge him, and
Speaker 1: he's going to be out of that church in a jiffy.
Speaker 1: And what is church for it's four people like that.
Speaker 1: It's you're inviting people in that aren't Christian yet to
Speaker 1: spread the gospel message to them. So that's why Paul
Speaker 1: is saying that for what I have to do with
Speaker 1: judging those also who are outside. Do not judge those
Speaker 1: who are inside, but those who are outside God judges.
Speaker 1: It says, do not judge those who are inside that
Speaker 1: are not Christian, right, but those who are outside God judges. Therefore,
Speaker 1: put away yourself as the evil person. So let's see
Speaker 1: what it says. One Corinthians nine, verse thirteen explains that
Speaker 1: believers should not associate with those claiming to be Christian
Speaker 1: but living in unrepentant sexual morality, greed, idolatry, slander, drunkenness,
Speaker 1: or swindling, including not eating with them. This instruction applies
Speaker 1: only to brothers or sisters within the church, right, brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters in Christ to non believers in the world
Speaker 1: who Christians are meant to engage with, not avoid. Believers
Speaker 1: are to judge those inside the church, while God judges
Speaker 1: those outside. The passage contexts. In the Corinthian Church, failure
Speaker 1: to address a man living ancestrally with his stepmother was
Speaker 1: a shocking sin in Paul's instruction to remove this evil
Speaker 1: person to purchase the church and prevent spread of sin. Clarification,
Speaker 1: Paul had previously told them not to associate with sexual
Speaker 1: imrale people, but he clarifies that this did not apply
Speaker 1: to all immoral people in the world, as I would
Speaker 1: require leaving the world entirely external versus external. Instead, the
Speaker 1: instruction is to avoid association with anyone who calls himself
Speaker 1: a brother or sister, meaning a Christian, but lives in persistent,
Speaker 1: unrepentant sins such as sexual morality, greets, under drunkeness, or swindling.
Speaker 1: This is kind of makes you think, like, hey, if
Speaker 1: you're told not to associate with these people, if you're
Speaker 1: involved in any of these sins, right now, you kind
Speaker 1: of know that this is kind of a reality check
Speaker 1: for you, for me, for anybody that has been in
Speaker 1: any type of any of these sins sexual morality, greed, slander,
Speaker 1: drunkenness or swindling, any of that stuff, or extortion, you know, anything,
Speaker 1: if you've been involved in that, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: reality check to be like, wow, if I was saved
Speaker 1: at the time that I was committing any of these,
Speaker 1: Paul is telling these people not to eat with them
Speaker 1: and to also not associate with them. So it's interesting.
Speaker 1: So if any of us are are having issues with
Speaker 1: sexual morality, understand that Paul is saying that others shouldn't
Speaker 1: even be associating with us. If we have a problem
Speaker 1: with greed, Paul is saying that he should that brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters shouldn't even be associating with us. Right, So
Speaker 1: we got to make sure that we are clear of
Speaker 1: sexual morality, greed, slander, drunkenness, or swindling. Okay, we have
Speaker 1: to make sure because Paul is even telling them to
Speaker 1: avoid associating with anyone who calls himself a brother or sister,
Speaker 1: meaning a Christian that is involved in these So it's
Speaker 1: like a swift kick in the spiritual kick in the
Speaker 1: gut to be like, hey, you cannot do this as
Speaker 1: a Christian. Right believers, Okay, so church discipline believers are
Speaker 1: to judge those within the church community who persist in sin,
Speaker 1: whereas God alone judges those outside the church, meaning the
Speaker 1: non believers. That's not for you to judge when someone
Speaker 1: is homosexual. It's not for you to go and slap
Speaker 1: them with the Bible and judge them because they're not believers. Now,
Speaker 1: if somebody is a believer and they're involved in sexual immorality, uh,
Speaker 1: where they're having sex with the same sex or they're homosexuals,
Speaker 1: then that's different. Then you take one brother with you
Speaker 1: or sister whatever whatever that over that works, and then
Speaker 1: you go and if they're if they're if you know
Speaker 1: that they're practicing that, you're told to go to them
Speaker 1: with two witnesses and go and talk to them about
Speaker 1: their sexual morality. Right, So we got to understand that.
Speaker 1: But people that are not saved, you're not to judge them.
Speaker 1: God alone judges those outside the church. And it's very
Speaker 1: hard for Christians and for churches to understand that. Okay,
Speaker 1: because they're over here getting involved in things that they
Speaker 1: don't need to be get involved in. Now. Should should
Speaker 1: we be preaching and teaching uh what the Bible says?
Speaker 1: Of course, but it's not out to us to judge
Speaker 1: those that are not saved. That's what Paul is talking
Speaker 1: about here, and it's very important. And then slandering, Wow, slandering.
Speaker 1: The whole community of you know, the truth or community,
Speaker 1: Flat Earth community, not the truth or community, was having
Speaker 1: a massive issue with slandering people. It was crazy. I
Speaker 1: would just every single flatter channel I would turn on,
Speaker 1: they were just slandering people that went on this. This
Speaker 1: is just an example. They went on this Final Experiment,
Speaker 1: you know, Jared Wist, all these people. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys even wanted to hear about it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw that going on slander like crazy slander, slander, slander,
Speaker 1: You're a liar, you're this, You're that. Every single show.
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, this is insane. And you know,
Speaker 1: I guess they don't understand. And they were Christians as
Speaker 1: well that were doing that. They don't understand that it's
Speaker 1: slander and it's not good at all. Of sin. The
Speaker 1: ultimate command is to put away yourselves the evil person.
Speaker 1: This signifies excommunication or disfellowship to cleanse the church, much
Speaker 1: like removing leven from dough to prevent its spread. We
Speaker 1: got to understand that, right. So in essence, One Corinthians
Speaker 1: five nine through thirteen instructs the church to exercise discipline
Speaker 1: within its own ranks, holding professing believers that are unrepentant
Speaker 1: to sin to a higher standard that the world to
Speaker 1: maintain the purity of the community and prevent sin from
Speaker 1: corrupting others. Okay, so all right, so that is chapter
Speaker 1: five complete. Some of these chapters are they're fairly small,
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and go over some practical applications
Speaker 1: One Corinthians five. Practical applications examine personal and community holiness. Regularly.
Speaker 1: Assess both personal and communal life for areas where sin
Speaker 1: may be taking root, and address them promptly. Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so assess your personal and communal life. So whoever you
Speaker 1: hang out with, assess your communal life. Now it begs
Speaker 1: the question, what what do you do if your wife
Speaker 1: is involved in sin and she's a believer, you know, well,
Speaker 1: you're the spiritual leader of the home, so you need
Speaker 1: to definitely pray with her and let her know that
Speaker 1: she's in sin, you know. But make sure that you
Speaker 1: are not in sin yourself, you know, or else are
Speaker 1: you going to be a total hypocrite. So make sure
Speaker 1: that you are on the up and up. And if
Speaker 1: you're going to go and talk to, you know, your wife,
Speaker 1: if she's in sin, you know, and if she's a believer.
Speaker 1: If he's not a believer, obviously you're in the same boat.
Speaker 1: All you can do is guide her, do your very best.
Speaker 1: Plant seeds and it's up to God to make it grow.
Speaker 1: But you're not to be sitting there judging people because
Speaker 1: they would never ever come to the faith if you
Speaker 1: sit there and judge them, You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? I hope it does, because I
Speaker 1: don't think people get that very much because they confuse
Speaker 1: what Paul is saying here. For sure, they confuse that. Okay,
Speaker 1: cultivate a spirit of humility and repentance, approach sin with
Speaker 1: the heart of mourning and a desire for restoration rather
Speaker 1: than pride or indifference. That's what Paul was talking about. Mourning,
Speaker 1: like understanding that this is dreadful for you to be sinning.
Speaker 1: We sometimes we don't understand that we sin, and then
Speaker 1: we're just like Father God, in the name of Jesus,
Speaker 1: please forgive me for my sins I've committed in the past,
Speaker 1: the future, and the present. Lord, thank you. Cool, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Like we should be mourning when we sin. We should
Speaker 1: be having like a feeling where it's like disgusting to
Speaker 1: us like I can't believe I just did that, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying it's like, oh, I'm like that
Speaker 1: all the time too. I Mean, it's not easy, but
Speaker 1: that's what Paul is saying, that it should be so
Speaker 1: important to us not to sin against God that we're
Speaker 1: actually in mourning like someone passed away that kind of morning. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a yeah, yeah, I think we should definitely understand that,
Speaker 1: implement church discipline with love when necessary, practice church discipline
Speaker 1: with the goal of restoration and the spiritual wellbeing of
Speaker 1: the individual and the community. Okay, So if you're in
Speaker 1: a church, if you're not going to church right now,
Speaker 1: obviously it would kind of be apply to you, unless
Speaker 1: you're like in a Bible study, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're not in a church, it's it's
Speaker 1: a little different. Guard against the spread of sin, be
Speaker 1: vigilant and identifying and addressing sin to prevent it from
Speaker 1: influencing others within the community, right if you Obviously, if
Speaker 1: somebody is sitting in the church and it's gonna start spreading,
Speaker 1: you know, and the devil's going to start getting a
Speaker 1: foothold in that church and it's not good. So Paul's
Speaker 1: just saying a nip it in the butt. Live our life,
Speaker 1: live out our identity in Christ. Embrace and live out
Speaker 1: the purity and the truth that comes from being a
Speaker 1: new creation in Christ. Amen. Amen, and appreciate the fact
Speaker 1: that Jesus makes us holy. Okay, So Matthew eighteen Versus
Speaker 1: fifty through seventeen, Jesus instructs on dealing with sin within
Speaker 1: the church community. Let's check that one out. Matthew eighteen.
Speaker 1: Matthew eighteen, it's going to be right, Matthew eighteen, verse
Speaker 1: fifteen through seventeen. All right, this is dealing with a
Speaker 1: sinning brother, is what it says. Moreover, if your brother
Speaker 1: sins against you, go and tell him his fault between
Speaker 1: you and him alone. If he hears you, you have
Speaker 1: gained your brother. But if you will not hear you,
Speaker 1: take you with you one or two more that by
Speaker 1: the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may
Speaker 1: be established. And if he refuses to hear them, tell
Speaker 1: it to the church. But if refuses to even hear
Speaker 1: the church, let him be like, let him be oh sorry, sorry.
Speaker 1: And if he refuses to hear, tell it to the church.
Speaker 1: But if he refuses to even hear the church, let
Speaker 1: him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. Okay.
Speaker 1: So yeah, very important. So Jesus is letting, you know,
Speaker 1: go to him first by yourself or her by yourself,
Speaker 1: talk to them. If they don't hear you, then take
Speaker 1: another person with you. So two or more or three,
Speaker 1: it says, take two or three with you. It says,
Speaker 1: because by the mouth of two or three witnesses every
Speaker 1: word may be established. Right, So if he refuses to
Speaker 1: hear them, tell it to the church. So tell it
Speaker 1: to the church. And then if it still refuses, then
Speaker 1: let him be to you like a heathen and a
Speaker 1: tax collector. Okay. So that's how Jesus says to handle it.
Speaker 1: So that's who we need to follow. Right. We got
Speaker 1: to make sure before the Bible what's biblical, all right,
Speaker 1: don't make up our own doctrines and understand that what
Speaker 1: Paul's teaching is biblical. Jesus even says it, bear and
Speaker 1: share the burdens Galatians six, verse one. The call to
Speaker 1: restore a sinner gently while being cautious of one's own
Speaker 1: vulnerability to sin. So this is a Galatians one. Brethren,
Speaker 1: if a man is overtaken in any trust, pass you,
Speaker 1: who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit
Speaker 1: of gentleness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. Bear
Speaker 1: one's burdens, bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the
Speaker 1: law of Christ. All right. Next we have Hebrews twelve,
Speaker 1: verse fourteen. Let's go ahead and check that one out.
Speaker 1: That's another additional scripture that connects Hebrews twelve, verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: Pursue peace with all people and holiness, without which no
Speaker 1: one will see the Lord. Okay, pursue peace with all
Speaker 1: people and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. Okay,
Speaker 1: pursue peace with all people and holiness. Okay, Without peace
Speaker 1: and holiness, no one will see the Lord basically. Okay,
Speaker 1: so perfect, all right, So let me just go ahead
Speaker 1: and stop. Screen chair, you gotta do something, all right, cool,
Speaker 1: we're good. Let me just share the screen again. Okay.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead, and we're going to be in First
Speaker 1: Corinthians chapter six. Now, let's go ahead and go there.
Speaker 1: Try to get some things in order, good guys, Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go. First Corinthians six, Verse one. Let me
Speaker 1: take a drinkynth six, verse one. Actually, let me do
Speaker 1: the intro to one Corinthian six verse Verse Corinthian six
Speaker 1: is a vivid reminder of the high calling of believers
Speaker 1: and dealing with disputes wisely, living morally, and honoring God
Speaker 1: with our bodies. It challenges us to rethink our attitudes
Speaker 1: towards personal disagreements, not resorting to worldly means, by by
Speaker 1: resolving them with spiritual wisdom. The chapter paints a stark
Speaker 1: contrast between the past identity of believers as sinners and
Speaker 1: their new identity in Christ. The sanctity of the body
Speaker 1: as a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit encourages us
Speaker 1: to treat our bodies with respect, fleeing sexual morality and
Speaker 1: living to glorify God. Okay, let me go ahead and
Speaker 1: start reading. This is first Corinthian six, verse one. It says,
Speaker 1: do not sue the brethren. Dare any of you having
Speaker 1: in against another, to go to law before the unrighteous
Speaker 1: and not before the saints. Do you not know that
Speaker 1: the saints will judge the world, And if the world
Speaker 1: will be judged by you, you are unworthy to judge
Speaker 1: the smallest matters. Do you not know that we shall
Speaker 1: judge angels. That's very interesting. How much more things that
Speaker 1: pertain to this life? If then you are you have
Speaker 1: judgments concerning things pertaining to this life? Do you appoint
Speaker 1: those who are at least esteemed by the church to judge?
Speaker 1: I say, this is this is your shame. It is
Speaker 1: so that there is not a wise man among you,
Speaker 1: not even one who will be able to judge between
Speaker 1: his brethren. But brother goes to law against brother, and
Speaker 1: that before unbelievers. So yeah, he doesn't want you to
Speaker 1: be going to world the judges or you know, to
Speaker 1: to fight these matters. So it addresses let me see,
Speaker 1: so Paul admonishes the Corinthians for taking their disputes before
Speaker 1: secular courts, that's what I mean, secular, rather than resolving
Speaker 1: them within the church. He emphasizes that believers should be
Speaker 1: able to judge trivial matters among themselves. Right, so lawsuits
Speaker 1: among believers, let's go ahead and look into that. The
Speaker 1: issue of lawsuits. The issue of lawsuits among believers is
Speaker 1: addressed explicitly in the New Testament, particularly in the writings
Speaker 1: of Paul the Apostle. In First Corinthians six verses one
Speaker 1: through eight, Paul admonishes the church for taking their disputes
Speaker 1: before secular courts rather than resolving them within the Christian community. Okay,
Speaker 1: we read through it already. Paul concerns this twofold first
Speaker 1: that taking disputes before secular authority undermines the testimony of
Speaker 1: the church, and second that it reflects a failure to
Speaker 1: live out the principles of forgiveness and reconciliation that are
Speaker 1: central to the Christian faith. Is it not possible but
Speaker 1: that there is nobody among you wise enough to attribute
Speaker 1: before his brothers, highlighting the expectation that the church should
Speaker 1: be equipped to handle such matters. What's the theological implications? Theologically,
Speaker 1: the issue of lawsuits among believers touches on the nature
Speaker 1: of the church as a distinct community governed by the
Speaker 1: principles of the Kingdom of God. The Church is called
Speaker 1: to be a witness to the world, demonstrating the transformative
Speaker 1: power of the Gospel in all areas of life, including
Speaker 1: conflict resolution. So what is the conclusion why the Bible
Speaker 1: does not categorically prohibit all legal action. The emphasis is
Speaker 1: on resolving disputes within the church and maintaining the integrity
Speaker 1: and the witness of the Christian community. Believers are called
Speaker 1: to embody the principles of the Kingdom in all aspects
Speaker 1: of life, including conflict resolution, demonstrating the transformative power of
Speaker 1: the Gospel to a watching world. That's very important. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it makes total sense that the church should
Speaker 1: be equipped to handle it, you know. So. Verse Corinthian six,
Speaker 1: verses one through eleven is what I'll go through. So
Speaker 1: let me go ahead and finish this portion real quick.
Speaker 1: I'll go seven through eleven, and then I'll just read
Speaker 1: a little bit more of my notes. Firse Corinthian six,
Speaker 1: verse seven. Now, therefore, it is already an utter failure
Speaker 1: for you to that you go to law against one another.
Speaker 1: Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you
Speaker 1: not rather let yourselves be cheated? No, you yourselves do
Speaker 1: wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren.
Speaker 1: Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators
Speaker 1: nor idolatres, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves,
Speaker 1: nor covetousness, nor drunkards, nor revilers nor extortioners will inherit
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, and such were some of you.
Speaker 1: But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you
Speaker 1: were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, by
Speaker 1: the spirit of our God. So yes, So you see
Speaker 1: what it's saying there, very strong words from the apostle Paul,
Speaker 1: letting you know, do not be deceived, right, neither fornicators,
Speaker 1: nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites. So if
Speaker 1: you have practiced these things in the past, right before
Speaker 1: you got saved. Once you got saved, your sins are forgiven.
Speaker 1: But what Paul is saying is that if you continue
Speaker 1: to be practicing these while you're saved, I mean, is
Speaker 1: there a chance you could lose your salvation? Well, a
Speaker 1: lot of people would say you can't lose your A
Speaker 1: lot of people would say you can't. But we have
Speaker 1: to be very careful here because it says, do you
Speaker 1: not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God? He doesn't say, as long as you believe
Speaker 1: in Jesus. But and you if you continue doing these things,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be all right. What he says is, know
Speaker 1: you yourselves do wrong and cheat. You do these things
Speaker 1: to your brethren? Do you not know that the unrighteous
Speaker 1: will not inherit the kingdom of God? So very interesting,
Speaker 1: Do not be deceived? So he's speaking to who right here?
Speaker 1: Is he speaking to non believers? Is Paul speaking to
Speaker 1: non believers? Are here? No, he's speaking to the corinth Church,
Speaker 1: who are believers. He's talking about how people are as
Speaker 1: suing each other that are brothers and sisters in Christ. So, man,
Speaker 1: this is very interesting that Paul said this. And we
Speaker 1: need to understand that we're saved, right, We're saved, but
Speaker 1: we can't be deceived. We can't take God's grace for
Speaker 1: granted and sit there and fornicate, be idolater, adulter, homosexual,
Speaker 1: a sodomite, a thief, a covitunist, or drunkard, reviler, extortioner.
Speaker 1: They won't inherit the Kingdom of God. So it is.
Speaker 1: It says, but you were washed, but you were sanctified,
Speaker 1: But you were justified in the name of the Lord
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ by yeah, yeah, yeah, and some and such
Speaker 1: were some of you. That's what you were before. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm sorry. It says, but you were
Speaker 1: washed but you were sanctified. But you were justified in
Speaker 1: the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit
Speaker 1: of God. Yes, but just what I would say to believers, okay,
Speaker 1: people that are saved, what I would say you see
Speaker 1: this list, you probably don't want to be doing these things. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's saying that you were washed, but you were sanctified.
Speaker 1: Let me just read my notes. I'm just starting to
Speaker 1: make me a let me see that's eleven. Okay. Identity
Speaker 1: in Christ. Paul reminds the Corinthians of their new identity, stating,
Speaker 1: but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified
Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the
Speaker 1: Spirit of the Lord. This transformation calls for a life
Speaker 1: that reflects God's holiness. So yeah, that's basically saying that
Speaker 1: Paul is saying that if you are saved, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing these things, right, because your transformation to a
Speaker 1: life of God's holiness. Let's check that out. What's identity
Speaker 1: in Christ mean? It refers to the understanding and recognition
Speaker 1: of a believer's new nature and position as a follower
Speaker 1: of Christ. This concept is foundational in Christian theology emphasizing
Speaker 1: the transformative and renewal that occurs when an individual except
Speaker 1: Jesus as your Lord and Savior. It encompasses the believer's
Speaker 1: relationship with God and their status as a child of
Speaker 1: God and their role within the body of Christ. Hmmm, yes,
Speaker 1: I would really want a breakdown on that. Verse nine
Speaker 1: through eleven, nine through eleven. Let's see what I have
Speaker 1: in my notes. One Corinthians six one through eleven address
Speaker 1: the issue believers takeing legal disputes against one another secular courts.
Speaker 1: We already read about that, but Paul is considered shameful,
Speaker 1: a fellore to live with the identity in Christ and
Speaker 1: damaging the church witness. Instead, he instructs believers to resolve
Speaker 1: such conflicts within the community which we talked about. Emphasizes
Speaker 1: that is better to suffer wrong or be defrauded than
Speaker 1: to take a fellow Christian to an unrighteous court, showing
Speaker 1: that the ultimate goal is to glorify God, live in peace,
Speaker 1: and remember they redeemed status in Christ. Key arguments in
Speaker 1: the passage shameful practice taking internal disputes to secular courts. Okay,
Speaker 1: we saw that leavers are called to say this pens
Speaker 1: internally what about the other portion passion occurs the rest
Speaker 1: is in the present community. Yeah, it keeps talking about
Speaker 1: the court thing. But I want to know what's going on.
Speaker 2: With seven through eleven. Let me just look this up.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, guys, I gotta check this out. What does
Speaker 2: this mean? Because it's very important and I don't want
Speaker 2: to give you guys.
Speaker 1: Seven through eleven details Paul's objections to Christian's taking another
Speaker 1: to secular court in a minor issue.
Speaker 3: I know that I don't want. I don't want one
Speaker 3: through eleven. Yeah, I'm not seeing it here.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's okay. I'll have to do a nice little
Speaker 1: study on nice little study on this. Uh. On Corinthian six,
Speaker 1: verse nine through eleven. I really want to do a
Speaker 1: verse Corinthian six, nine through eleven. Okay. So in nine
Speaker 1: through eleven, the apostle Power warns the Corinthian church that
Speaker 1: those who persist in serious unrighteous sins will not inherit
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. Yeah, so if you continue in
Speaker 1: those sins, you will not inherit the Kingdom of God. However,
Speaker 1: he immediately follows this morning by reminding them that they
Speaker 1: are themselves once defiled by such sins, but have since
Speaker 1: been transformed through Christ. The passage ephisize the power of
Speaker 1: christ sacrifice to bring for giveness and new life, moving
Speaker 1: believers from a state of sin to one of righteousness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand that, it says Paul's first establishes a stark
Speaker 1: contrast between the end righteousness who will not inherit the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God, and the righteousness who will. The list
Speaker 1: of sin serves as a warning against the lifestyle of
Speaker 1: undependent sin. This list covers a broad range of immoral
Speaker 1: behaviors that were prevalent in the corinth Church. So these
Speaker 1: were all prevalent in the Corintha Church, it says, sexual morality,
Speaker 1: Paul list forms of specific including fornication adultery, that were
Speaker 1: rampant in the pagan city of Corinth. Yes, and there
Speaker 1: was also a homosexuality that was rampid in the city
Speaker 1: of Corinth because there was like sailors that would come down.
Speaker 1: I guess it was a city where I kind of
Speaker 1: talked about it in the intro to First Corinthians, where
Speaker 1: there was like prostitutes that would come down. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of sexual sin going on in
Speaker 1: the Corinth. In Corinth the actual city, right, So I
Speaker 1: think that he was just warning them against that. But
Speaker 1: that's a really really interesting portion there. This list is
Speaker 1: not meant to be exhaustive, but rather illustrative of the
Speaker 1: kinds of behaviors that were characterized in the life lived
Speaker 1: outside of God's will. Paul's message is that living a
Speaker 1: life defiant by such vices is incompatible with the inheritance
Speaker 1: of God's kingdom. Yes, so we got to understand that,
Speaker 1: and we got to be very careful. So in One
Speaker 1: Corinthians six, verse eleven, this versus crucial turning point. Verse
Speaker 1: eleven was the part where it talks about that you're
Speaker 1: washed and you were sanctified. Right, the versus crucial turning point.
Speaker 1: Moving from condemnation to grace, Paul shifts from describing who
Speaker 1: the Corinthians were to proclaiming that they are now in Christ. Okay.
Speaker 1: This first can bays three actions of God in the
Speaker 1: life of a believer, Washed, sanctified, and justified. Washed signifies
Speaker 1: cleansing of sin, alluding to baptism and the forgiveness of sins.
Speaker 1: Sanctified this means to be set apart as holy for
Speaker 1: God's purpose. And then justified This refers to being declared
Speaker 1: righteous in God's sight, not based on one's own merit,
Speaker 1: but the righteousness of Christ received through faith. The passage
Speaker 1: serves as a reminder to Christians that their old sinful
Speaker 1: lives are in the past. Our believers may still struggle
Speaker 1: with sin, their identity is no longer defined defined by it. Instead,
Speaker 1: they are defined by their position in Christ, and they
Speaker 1: are called to live in a way that reflects their
Speaker 1: new nature. All right, there we go. Kind of got
Speaker 1: a little definition going on there of what was going on.
Speaker 1: It's kind of it's very interesting because it's a stark
Speaker 1: reminder that, you know, man, we are It does say
Speaker 1: that we're sanctified, and we're wahh yes, it does say that.
Speaker 1: But man, if we are saved, we should not be
Speaker 1: practicing these sins, right, we should not be practicing these sins.
Speaker 1: And that's a tough part. I think that some people
Speaker 1: don't get. Okay, that's a very serious so all right,
Speaker 1: sorry I took so long on that, but I think
Speaker 1: it's very it's needed. We need to know, so all right,
Speaker 1: So that's six to eleven and that's okay. Now we're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and read one Corinthian six, Verse twelve.
Speaker 1: Glorify God in body and spirit. All things are lawful
Speaker 1: for me, but all things are not helpful. All things
Speaker 1: are lawful for me, but I will not be brought
Speaker 1: under the power of any foods for the stomach, and
Speaker 1: the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it
Speaker 1: and them. Now, the body is not for sexual morality,
Speaker 1: but for the Lord and the Lord. For the body
Speaker 1: and God both raised up the Lord and will raise
Speaker 1: us up by His power. Do not take that your
Speaker 1: bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the
Speaker 1: members of Christ and make the members of a harlot?
Speaker 1: Certainly not? Or do you not know that he who
Speaker 1: is joined to a harlot is one body with her,
Speaker 1: For the two he says, shall become one flesh. But
Speaker 1: he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit
Speaker 1: with him. For flee sexual immorality. Every sin a man
Speaker 1: does is outside the body. But he who commits sexual
Speaker 1: morality sins against his own body. Or do you not
Speaker 1: know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: who is in you, whom you have from God. And
Speaker 1: you are not your own, for you were brought bought
Speaker 1: at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and
Speaker 1: in your spirit, which are God's This is like spiritual
Speaker 1: gut punches, like like the Book of Romans. Right here,
Speaker 1: this kind of reminds me of that. It's a man,
Speaker 1: So sorry, my throat.
Speaker 3: It just.
Speaker 1: A lot to go over here. So six the body
Speaker 1: as a temple. So Paul teaches us that our bodies
Speaker 1: are temples of the Holy Spirit, urging believers to flee
Speaker 1: from sexual morality and honor God with their bodies. We
Speaker 1: got to understand that. And also what he's saying is
Speaker 1: when you when you hook up with a girl or
Speaker 1: you hook up with a guy, you become one with
Speaker 1: her or with him, meaning you become one flesh. He says,
Speaker 1: you shall become one flesh. And it says, but he
Speaker 1: who is joined to the Lord, meaning you're saved, is
Speaker 1: one spirit with him. So if you're doing sexual immorality,
Speaker 1: then you are You know, it's not good because the
Speaker 1: Lord is one spirit with you. Right, So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just not good here, right, So let's check out body
Speaker 1: as a temple here. The concept of the body as
Speaker 1: a temple is a profound Biblical metaphor that underscores the
Speaker 1: sanctity and divine purpose of the human body. This idea
Speaker 1: is primarily derived from the apostle Paul's writings in the
Speaker 1: New Testament, where he emphasizes the spiritual significance of the
Speaker 1: believer's physical body in relation to God. The primary scriptural
Speaker 1: basis understand the body as a temple is found in
Speaker 1: One Corinthians sixteen, verses nineteen through twenty, which we just read,
Speaker 1: do you not know that your body is a temple
Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you
Speaker 1: have received from God. You are not your own, You
Speaker 1: were bought at a price. Therefore, glorify God with your body.
Speaker 1: Here Paul addresses the corinth Church, highlighting the in dwelling
Speaker 1: presence of the Holy Spirit and each believers. And each believer,
Speaker 1: this in dwelling transforms the believers body into a sacred
Speaker 1: space akin to the Temple in Jerusalem, which was the
Speaker 1: dwelling place of God's presence. So that's what it's talking about.
Speaker 1: It's kind of using the God's the temple as kind
Speaker 1: of like a metaphor for your body. Okay, So the
Speaker 1: concept of the body as a temple remains a powerful
Speaker 1: and enduring metaphor within Christian theology, calling believers to a
Speaker 1: life of holiness, stewardship, and community. Though through this understanding,
Speaker 1: Christians are reminded of their identity as bearers of God's
Speaker 1: presence in the world, tasked with the responsibility to honor
Speaker 1: Him in all aspects of their lives. So, yeah, you
Speaker 1: got to understand that your body is a temple of
Speaker 1: God's now and you're actually joined with God is one
Speaker 1: spirit with him. You have the Holy Spirit in dwelling
Speaker 1: in you. So when you sin, you know, you're just
Speaker 1: you're totally sinning against your own body, is what it's
Speaker 1: saying there. When you do sexual morality. Every sin that
Speaker 1: a man does is outside the body, but he who
Speaker 1: commits sexual morality sins against his own body, which is
Speaker 1: it's very important to understand. So let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: check out what it says here in my notes. Corinthians
Speaker 1: six twelve through twenty teaches that why believers have Christian freedom,
Speaker 1: not all actions are beneficial, and they should not be
Speaker 1: enslaved by anything, especially sexual morality. Paul argues such against
Speaker 1: such immorality by explaining that the body bought with the
Speaker 1: prist price Jesus dying on the cross, that's what it
Speaker 1: is bought with. The prist is a temple of the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit and a member of Christ. So it should
Speaker 1: not be joined with with the prostitute, or you should
Speaker 1: not be joined with someone you're not married to, or
Speaker 1: understand that when you do go into somebody, then you
Speaker 1: actually are getting married biblically because you're becoming one. Instead,
Speaker 1: believers must glorify God and their bodies by living in
Speaker 1: righteous and fleeing from sexual sin. Flee, it says, flee
Speaker 1: from sexual morality. It's the same thing that I talked
Speaker 1: about with Joseph. You know when he fleed, Okay, he
Speaker 1: ran out of there. You know, he took off, he
Speaker 1: was gone. So I already talked about it before on
Speaker 1: the last couple episodes. But he fleed, he was gone. Boom.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you should do. It says freedom not licensed.
Speaker 1: All things are lawful versus all things that are not helpful.
Speaker 1: Paul corrects the Corinthian mindset that because something isn't explicitly forbidden,
Speaker 1: it's acceptable. True Christian freedom is not a license to
Speaker 1: do whatever one wants, but freedom to do what is
Speaker 1: spiritually beneficial and pleases God. The body's purpose need for
Speaker 1: sexual morality. The Corinthians seem to have compared the body's
Speaker 1: need for food with the desire for sexual acts, implying
Speaker 1: that they were unrestricted. Paul counters that the body is
Speaker 1: not meant for sexual morality, but for the Lord. For
Speaker 1: the Lord, Paul emphasizes that the body is for the
Speaker 1: Lord's purpose, will be raised by His power, which he
Speaker 1: talked about, and then God's dwelling place. Paul powerfully states
Speaker 1: that the believer's body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is God if you believe the Trinity.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe in the Trinity, you believe in oneness,
Speaker 1: then you believe that the Holy Spirit is God, the
Speaker 1: Father's spirit or Jesus' the spirit, one of the two,
Speaker 1: depending on what your oneness belief is. If you believe
Speaker 1: in Unitarian I'm not really sure what you guys believe
Speaker 1: about the Holy Spirit. It says bought with the blood
Speaker 1: of Christ. It is their own, it is their own,
Speaker 1: but belongs to God and then glory to God. Because
Speaker 1: the body is sacred in God's possession, Christians must glorify
Speaker 1: God in their bodies. Man, including what you put in
Speaker 1: your body you know, if you're if you're putting in
Speaker 1: alcohol and you know a lot of different you know,
Speaker 1: if you're taking drugs, your body is a temple. It's
Speaker 1: not just with sexual morality, but also your body is
Speaker 1: a temple. So let's say, if you are getting high
Speaker 1: on drugs like cocaine, meth or heroine or whatever, the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is in you now you're doing drugs. Do
Speaker 1: you think the Holy Spirit's gonna stay in you while
Speaker 1: you while you're high? Now, the Holy Spirit's gonna leave.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he leaves. It doesn't say that
Speaker 1: in the Bible, but I would think that this is
Speaker 1: when I used to get high back in the day.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Holy Spirit is with me. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're a Christian though, and you're saved, which back
Speaker 1: then I thought I was, But I don't think I
Speaker 1: was saved back then, So I don't know how it is.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't think that the Holy Spirit's going to
Speaker 1: stick around and hang out with you while you're super loaded.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes I feel like when you do
Speaker 1: certain drugs that you kind of open yourself up to demons.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I was going to say, like,
Speaker 1: if you do meth and phetamines, right, you do math,
Speaker 1: you start opening yourself up to demons, and demons start
Speaker 1: doing start they are able to tempt you very like
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like the temptations are stronger and
Speaker 1: they're able to have you do stuff that you normally
Speaker 1: wouldn't do when you're sober. I don't know, if you've
Speaker 1: noticed people that do meth, they're like they're doing things
Speaker 1: that they're not they don't do when they're sober, right,
Speaker 1: And it just is really, really a bad thing. So
Speaker 1: all those drugs, you know, any drug I think is
Speaker 1: not good. I don't. I don't. I know some people think, oh,
Speaker 1: well weed is fine, or this is fine, or that
Speaker 1: is fine. But I personally not saying that you have
Speaker 1: to listen to me. You could, you know, you have
Speaker 1: your own convictions. But I personally believe that being sober
Speaker 1: minded is best. Sober is best. Okay, sober minded is best.
Speaker 1: It's not good because if you drink too much, you
Speaker 1: have something taken over your body. You're not able to
Speaker 1: control yourself. You can make a fool out of yourself.
Speaker 1: If you smoke too much weed your way out of it,
Speaker 1: or if you smoke weed at all. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I took one hit of weed, I get super super loaded.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what people do with that, you know.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm just saying I just think being
Speaker 1: sober minded is best. But anyways, let's continue flee from
Speaker 1: sexual manity. This passage is a strong call for believers
Speaker 1: to flee from sexual manity because if it's profound, spiritual
Speaker 1: and eternal implications reverence for the body, believers are urged
Speaker 1: to treat their bodies with reverence as temples of the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, not as means for selfish indulgence. When you're saved,
Speaker 1: it's not the same as before. You know, it is
Speaker 1: not the same. Okay, perfect, we got done with chapter six.
Speaker 1: Let me just go ahead and go over some practical
Speaker 1: applications resolve conflicts Biblically seek to resolve disputes within the
Speaker 1: church community using biblical principles and godly counsel rather than
Speaker 1: resorting to secular courts. Obviously, if you're dealing with somebody
Speaker 1: outside the church, then that's different. You're gonna be dealing
Speaker 1: with the secular courts. Okay, someone that's not Christian and
Speaker 1: you get in that car accident. You can't just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go resolve this in the church. That ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: What they're talking about is something that happens within the church,
Speaker 1: a fellow believer, something happens at your church. Let's say
Speaker 1: you you know whatever, it's something that has to be
Speaker 1: handled within the church, okay, or the Body of Christ
Speaker 1: is what it's talking about there. Embrace your identity, live
Speaker 1: out your identity in Christ by pursuing holiness and righteousness
Speaker 1: in all areas of life. Okay. And honestly, that part
Speaker 1: about resolving conflicts biblically, definitely, I agree with that as far.
Speaker 1: I think it's a I think it's kind of a
Speaker 1: little a little gray area. You gotta be careful about
Speaker 1: trying to resolve something that could be become something that
Speaker 1: could become secular. Like if somebody they try to resolve
Speaker 1: it in the courts and they're not happy, then they
Speaker 1: start taking you to a secular court and you didn't
Speaker 1: you weren't the first to act on it. It could
Speaker 1: become a problem. So I just want to say, just
Speaker 1: be careful there, you know, use wise decisions there. Embrace
Speaker 1: your identity is the next one. Live out your identity
Speaker 1: in Christ by pursuing holiness and righteousness in all areas
Speaker 1: of life. Okay. Next is honor God with your body.
Speaker 1: Recognize your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: and make choices that reflect His truth, particularly in matters
Speaker 1: of sexual purity. Okay. So yes, And I know it's
Speaker 1: hard for you people that are single out there, and
Speaker 1: I think we're going to get into that in the
Speaker 1: next chapter, chapter seven, it's going to talk about people
Speaker 1: that are single. So if you're single and you're listening
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my goodness, I'm having what am
Speaker 1: I doing? You know, just we'll talk about it in
Speaker 1: the next chapter. Evaluate your lifestyle regularly, assess your actions
Speaker 1: and attitudes to ensure they align with the values of
Speaker 1: God's Kingdom. That's anybody. We should be assessing ourselves to
Speaker 1: see if we're aligning with God's will and make sure
Speaker 1: that we're not veering off course. Make sure we're not
Speaker 1: veering off track, because a lot of us do, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard for us to even find what God's
Speaker 1: will is. In the first place. You got to pray,
Speaker 1: and you got to see what your what God's will
Speaker 1: is for you in your life. And yeah, definitely, and
Speaker 1: you got to evaluate your actions to make sure that
Speaker 1: they're godly, seeking first the kingdom of Heaven, and then
Speaker 1: your attitude ensures that they align with the values of God.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and check out any additional scriptures
Speaker 1: that can act. It would be Matthew eighteen fifteen through seventeen.
Speaker 1: We already talked about resolving conflicts within the church. We
Speaker 1: already read that last chapter Romans twelve, verses one through two,
Speaker 1: a call to present our bodies as living sacrifices and
Speaker 1: to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Very
Speaker 1: good verse. And then Galatians five nineteen through twenty one,
Speaker 1: a list of works of the flesh, similar to Paul's
Speaker 1: list in one Corinthians six. Let's go ahead and check
Speaker 1: that out. It's going to be Galatians five nineteen through
Speaker 1: twenty one. Galatians five nineteen through twenty one. Yep. Now
Speaker 1: the works of the flesh are evident, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanliness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,
Speaker 1: outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness,
Speaker 1: revel leies, and the like of which I tell you beforehand,
Speaker 1: just as I also told you in time past, that
Speaker 1: those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God. He's talking about his Corinthians chapter six, verse
Speaker 1: where he says, just like I told you before, So
Speaker 1: what he's saying here in verse sixteen, if you go
Speaker 1: above that verse, I say, then walk in the spirit,
Speaker 1: and you shall not fulfill the lust to the flesh,
Speaker 1: for the flesh lust against the spirit, and the spirit
Speaker 1: against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another,
Speaker 1: so that you do not do the things that you wish.
Speaker 1: But you are led by the spirit. You are not
Speaker 1: under the law. And then it says, now the works
Speaker 1: of the flesh are evident. Which are And then it
Speaker 1: says that you know all the things I just listen.
Speaker 1: It says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
Speaker 1: long suffering, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against
Speaker 1: such there is no law. And those who are in
Speaker 1: Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Speaker 1: We live in the spirit. Let us also walk in
Speaker 1: the spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another,
Speaker 1: and being one another. Okay, man, yes, all that is
Speaker 1: very good stuff. I mean I would probably highlight that
Speaker 1: in your Bible to make sure that we understand what
Speaker 1: that is saying there. That's very important. I'm actually going
Speaker 1: to put that in my notes because this is very important.
Speaker 1: We go, all right. Ephesians five Versus three Five, It
Speaker 1: says an exhortation to live as children of light, avoiding
Speaker 1: immorality and impurity. Okay, all right, so we're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and do first. Corinthians Chapter seven, it's about principles
Speaker 1: of marriage. Let me just do the intro one. Corinthian
Speaker 1: seven provides practical godly wisdom on the matters of marriage, singleness, divorce,
Speaker 1: and remarriage. Paul encourages believers to steward their relationship status
Speaker 1: for the glory of God and to live an undivided
Speaker 1: devotion to Him. Whether single or married, Every believer is
Speaker 1: called to live a life of faithfulness, self control, and holiness.
Speaker 1: This chapter offers a godly perspective on relationship that transcends culture,
Speaker 1: reaffirming that every condition, our primary call is to live
Speaker 1: in obedience to God's commands. Okay, So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and go to hold on. All right, So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start reading. We got about twenty minutes, so
Speaker 1: we got a lock to cover in twenty minutes. Ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not too crazy, okay. Principles of marriage. Now, concerning
Speaker 1: the things of which you wrote to me, it is
Speaker 1: good for a man not to touch a woman, nevertheless,
Speaker 1: because of sexual morality. Let each man have his own wife,
Speaker 1: and let each woman have her own husband. Let the
Speaker 1: husband render to his wife the affection due to her,
Speaker 1: do her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
Speaker 1: The wife does not have authority over her own body,
Speaker 1: but the husband does. And likewise, the husband does not
Speaker 1: have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Speaker 1: Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time,
Speaker 1: that you may give yourselves to fasting in prayer and
Speaker 1: come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you
Speaker 1: because of your lack of self control. But I say
Speaker 1: this is a concession, not a commandment. As a commandment,
Speaker 1: he's saying, basically, okay, for I wish that all men
Speaker 1: who were even as myself, But each one has his
Speaker 1: own gift from God. One in the matter. Another is
Speaker 1: that it says, But I say to the unmarried and
Speaker 1: to the widows, it is good for them that they
Speaker 1: remain even as I am. But if they cannot exercise
Speaker 1: self control, let them marry. But it is better better
Speaker 1: to marry than to burn with passion. Okay. So Paul
Speaker 1: ex begins by addressing the importance of sexual purity within marriage.
Speaker 1: He writes, but because there is no such second morality,
Speaker 1: each man should have his own wife, and each woman
Speaker 1: her own husband. Just underscores the sanctity of marriage and
Speaker 1: a safeguard against immorality. Okay. And then in verse three
Speaker 1: read there's mutual responsibilities. Paul emphasizes mutual responsibilities within marriage,
Speaker 1: stating the husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife,
Speaker 1: and likewise the wife to her husband. This highlights the
Speaker 1: importance of mutual respect and care. And then in verse seven,
Speaker 1: Paul acknowledges singleness as a gift, saying, I wish that
Speaker 1: all men were as I am, But each man has
Speaker 1: his own gift from God. One this gift another has
Speaker 1: that singleness is presented as a unique opportunity for undivided
Speaker 1: devotion to the Lord. Okay. And then all right, so
Speaker 1: very interesting stuff there so Corinthians seven, Verses one through
Speaker 1: nine discusses that due to the prevalence of sexual morality,
Speaker 1: marriage is good is a good and necessary safeguard against temptation,
Speaker 1: and each spouse has a mutual sexual rights and responsibility
Speaker 1: towards each other. We read about that spousal should abstain
Speaker 1: mutual consent for a limited time, such as for prayer,
Speaker 1: and then resume relations to avoid Satan's temptations due to
Speaker 1: lack of self control. Paul notes that this is a concession,
Speaker 1: not a command. He wishes all were like him single,
Speaker 1: but advises those who lack self control to marry rather
Speaker 1: than burn with passion. Paul explains that while it's ideally
Speaker 1: good to remain unmarried, most people cannot avoid sexual reality
Speaker 1: and should therefore marry to have their own spouse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be fruitful of multiplier, so that's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. Mutual conjectural rights. Husbands must fulfill their marital
Speaker 1: duties to their wives. We read about that earlier, limiting abstinence,
Speaker 1: spouses should only abstain from sexual relations for a short
Speaker 1: period by mutual agreement for the purposes of devotion to prayer.
Speaker 1: They should come together again, meaning you shouldn't be going
Speaker 1: a long periods of time without making love to each
Speaker 1: other because Satan might try to come in and tempt you,
Speaker 1: and because of your lack of self control. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a way for Satan to say, hey, you haven't
Speaker 1: had that for a long time. You need it. You
Speaker 1: should be doing this. You should. You know, there's different
Speaker 1: ways that attempts. Obviously, men, I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: a woman, so I don't Oops, my man, Oops, did
Speaker 1: not mean to touch that?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, what happened then? Okay, let me excided
Speaker 4: that that's not what I wanted to do. Sorry about that, guys,
Speaker 4: and go back to my notes. I click something I
Speaker 4: don't want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Staining is to prevent temptation by Satan, which occurs
Speaker 1: due to lack of self control. So purpose of abstinence
Speaker 1: a concession out of command. Paul presents this gather in
Speaker 1: as a concession for the sake of the Corinthian's current weakness,
Speaker 1: not as an absolute command for everyone. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: he's saying. The gift of singleness, Paul expresses his desire
Speaker 1: for all to be single like him, suggesting it allows
Speaker 1: for undivided focus on God, but acknowledges that self control
Speaker 1: varies among individuals. Yes, better to marry than to burn.
Speaker 1: For those who lack self control. It is better to
Speaker 1: marry than to fulfill these mutual obligations then to be
Speaker 1: consumed with uncontrolled sexual desire. Right, so all right, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and read on Corinthians seven, verse ten. It says,
Speaker 1: now to the married, I command yet not I but
Speaker 1: the lord. A wife is not to depart from her husband.
Speaker 1: But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried
Speaker 1: or reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not
Speaker 1: to divorce his wife. But to the rest I not
Speaker 1: the lord. Say. If any brother has a wife who
Speaker 1: does not believe, and she is willing to live with him,
Speaker 1: let him not divorce her. And a woman who is
Speaker 1: who has a husband who does not believe, if he
Speaker 1: is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.
Speaker 1: For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and
Speaker 1: the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Otherwise your
Speaker 1: children will be unclean. But not but now they are holy.
Speaker 1: But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart. A brother
Speaker 1: or sister is not under bondage in such cases. But
Speaker 1: God has called us to peace. But for now, do
Speaker 1: you know a wife whether you will save your husband?
Speaker 1: Or how you know a husband whether you save your wife? Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is gonna be all right. So in Corinthians
Speaker 1: seven ten through sixteen, it teaches that married believers should
Speaker 1: not initiate divorce and should remain married to their Christian spouses.
Speaker 1: If a believer is married to an unbeliever, their marriage
Speaker 1: should continue if the unbelieving spouse is willing to stay,
Speaker 1: as the believer's present presence can bless the household. However,
Speaker 1: if the unbelieving spouse chooses to separate, the believing spouse
Speaker 1: is not bound to remain in the marriage, which means
Speaker 1: that if you are both believers, you should not divorce. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what it's saying. But if you know, obviously I
Speaker 1: kind of explain what it means. I kind of read
Speaker 1: through it already. We don't for time constraint. I don't
Speaker 1: even really need to go over that. I'll just go
Speaker 1: a little bit. It says do not separate or divorce.
Speaker 1: Paul gives a clear command attributed to the Lord, that
Speaker 1: a wife should not separate from her husband, and a
Speaker 1: husband should not divorce his wife if separation occurs. If
Speaker 1: a separation happens, the wife should remain unmarried or be
Speaker 1: reckoned to her husband. Meaning a separation happens between believers okay,
Speaker 1: which means, if you're a believer, you should not be
Speaker 1: beating your wife. Okay. You should not be cheating on
Speaker 1: your wife. You should not be committing adultery sexual morality,
Speaker 1: should not be physically assaulting her or mentally assaulting her,
Speaker 1: or she should not be mentally assaulting him or physically
Speaker 1: assaulting him. Okay, that is what if you're a believer,
Speaker 1: you should not be doing that. Correct. So it's saying
Speaker 1: if a separation happens the wife, she will remain unmarried
Speaker 1: or reconciled to her husband. Okay. And for Christians married
Speaker 1: to unbelievers, it stay together if possible. Paul, not the
Speaker 1: Lord in this case, instructs believers not to divorce a
Speaker 1: non Christian spouse if the unbeliever is willing to continue
Speaker 1: living with them, so it's better to stay because marriage
Speaker 1: is so important to God. Even if it is an unbeliever,
Speaker 1: you could still bless them, and you can also maybe
Speaker 1: still lead them to the Lord. Oops lot a blessing.
Speaker 1: In mixed marriages, the believing the believing spouse faith can
Speaker 1: sanctify or set apart the unbelieving spouse for children, making
Speaker 1: them holy in the Lord. If an unbeliever leaves, if
Speaker 1: the unbelieving part initiates the separation, the believer is not
Speaker 1: bound to continue the marriage. The command is not to
Speaker 1: pursue the divorce. The command is not to pursue the
Speaker 1: divorce peace for the believer. God has called the believer
Speaker 1: to peace, and the separation can occur if the unbeliever
Speaker 1: is determined to leave. Okay, you want to have a
Speaker 1: believing wife or husband. Obviously you want to have because
Speaker 1: it'll be a godly home. If you're married to a
Speaker 1: man that's unbeliever, he's not going to be the spiritual
Speaker 1: leader of the home. You are. You're going to be
Speaker 1: taking the kids to church while he sits at home, drinks,
Speaker 1: watches football and all that. That's going to be an
Speaker 1: issue because you're going to be unequally yoked. But try
Speaker 1: to stay together as much as you can. It says
Speaker 1: stay together if possible, but you know you can kind
Speaker 1: of see, but you going to church at some point,
Speaker 1: hopefully he gets his act together and then he starts
Speaker 1: going to church with you. And then you, guys, can
Speaker 1: you know, be equally yoked. Next we're going to be
Speaker 1: going in one Corinthian seven, verse seventeen. But as God
Speaker 1: has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called
Speaker 1: each one, so let him walk, And so I ordain
Speaker 1: in all the churches. Was anyone called while circumcised, let
Speaker 1: him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised, let
Speaker 1: him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing. Circumcision is nothing,
Speaker 1: and uncircumcision is nothing. But keeping the commandments of God
Speaker 1: is what matters. Let each one remain in the same
Speaker 1: calling in which we are called. Were you called while
Speaker 1: a slave? Do not be concerned about it, But if
Speaker 1: you can be made free, rather use it. For he
Speaker 1: who is called in the Lord while is a slave,
Speaker 1: is the Lord's freedman. Likewise he was called why free
Speaker 1: is Christ's slave? You were bought at a price. You
Speaker 1: do not become slaves of men. Brethren. Let each one
Speaker 1: remain with God in the state in which we were called.
Speaker 1: He was called. So in, let me see if I
Speaker 1: have any notes here for that. That's verse twenty eight,
Speaker 1: which is going to be a little bit further down. Okay,
Speaker 1: So in seventeen through twenty four, the apostle Paul established
Speaker 1: the principle that believers should remain in the state in
Speaker 1: which they were when God called them, focusing on spiritual
Speaker 1: obedience rather than changing the worldly circumstance. Circumcision is irrelevant.
Speaker 1: What matters is keeping God's commands. For a slave called
Speaker 1: by God, this means that the Lord's freedman, which we
Speaker 1: write conversely, a free person should be a person called
Speaker 1: the faith. Become Christ's slave, emphasizing your ultimate belonging to
Speaker 1: God rather than human masters. Remain in your calling. The
Speaker 1: core messages to stay in the social, merital, and legal
Speaker 1: position you held at the time you became Christian. Circumcision
Speaker 1: is nothing. Paul uses circumcision as an example of an
Speaker 1: outward religious ritual. Whether one circumcised or uncircumcised is unimportant.
Speaker 1: Only obedience to God's commandments truly matters, and then freedom
Speaker 1: versus slavery. A slave called to Faith is a freeman
Speaker 1: of the Lord. They should not be troubled by their
Speaker 1: earthly status, but they should take their opportunity for freedom.
Speaker 1: If it arises, a free person called to faith becomes
Speaker 1: a bond served of Christ. Believers have been bought with
Speaker 1: the price and should not become slaves to human beings.
Speaker 1: All right, So next up we're going to be reading
Speaker 1: twenty five through forty. We got about four minutes to
Speaker 1: the unmarried and widows. Now concerning virgins, I have no
Speaker 1: commandment from the Lord, yet I give judgment as one
Speaker 1: whom the Lord in his mercy has made trustworthy. I
Speaker 1: suppose therefore that it is good, because of the present distress,
Speaker 1: that it is good for a man to remain as
Speaker 1: he is. Are you a bond? Are you bound to
Speaker 1: a wife? Do you seek to be loosened? Are you
Speaker 1: loosened from a wife? Do you not seek a wife?
Speaker 1: But even if you do not marry, even if you
Speaker 1: do marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries,
Speaker 1: she has not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in
Speaker 1: the flesh. But I would spare you. But this, I say, brethren,
Speaker 1: the time is short, so that from now on even
Speaker 1: those who have wives should be as though they had none.
Speaker 1: Those who weeps, those they did not weep, Those who
Speaker 1: rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy
Speaker 1: as though they did not possess, and those who use
Speaker 1: the world as not misusing it. For the form of
Speaker 1: the world is passing away, So let's stop there. Real quick.
Speaker 1: Marriage and worldly troubles. Paul advises that marriage can bring
Speaker 1: worldly troubles, stating, but those who marry will face troubles
Speaker 1: in this life, and I want to spare you this.
Speaker 1: This serves as a reminder of the challenges that come
Speaker 1: with maritual commitments. Of course, there's a I mean, husbands
Speaker 1: and wives have problems all the time, right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I totally understand that there's definitely some challenges that come
Speaker 1: with marital commitments. You know, women and men, they're not
Speaker 1: going to always get along, you know, So I totally
Speaker 1: get that. And then living in the present in verse
Speaker 1: twenty nine, Paul encourages believers to live in the present, saying,
Speaker 1: what I mean, brothers, is that that time is short
Speaker 1: for now. From now on, those who have wives should
Speaker 1: live as if they had none. This calls for a
Speaker 1: focus on eternal priorities over earthly concerns. Yeah, so he's
Speaker 1: not saying that you should live like you don't have
Speaker 1: a wife like you could do whatever you want. What
Speaker 1: he's saying is to place the Kingdom of Heaven first
Speaker 1: before your wife. So you should be focusing on eternal
Speaker 1: priorities over earthly concerns, you know. So we should definitely
Speaker 1: be placing we should definitely be placing our family at
Speaker 1: a high standard, but we should be placing God above
Speaker 1: our families. What happens is sometimes we place our families
Speaker 1: and our business and our life ahead of God, and
Speaker 1: then God sits on the back burner. You shouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing that. You should be focusing on eternal priorities over
Speaker 1: earthly concerns. So we sometimes replace a lot of things
Speaker 1: above God and instead of having God be first and
Speaker 1: then you know, love God the most, and then your wife,
Speaker 1: and then your children, then your business, then your you know, whatever.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm just saying we need to definitely know
Speaker 1: the hierarchy and God needs to be at the top
Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, So let's go out and continue reading
Speaker 1: one Corinthian seven, verse thirty two. But I want you
Speaker 1: to be without care. Who is unmarried cares for the
Speaker 1: things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
Speaker 1: But he who is married cares about the things of
Speaker 1: the world how he may please his wife. There is
Speaker 1: a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried
Speaker 1: woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she
Speaker 1: may be holy, both in body and in spirit. But
Speaker 1: she who is married cares about the things of the
Speaker 1: world how she may please her husband. And this I
Speaker 1: say for your own prophet. Not I may put a
Speaker 1: leash you, but for what is proper and what she
Speaker 1: may serve the Lord without distraction. But if any man
Speaker 1: thinks he is behaving improperly towards his virgin, if she
Speaker 1: is past the flower of youth, then and thus it
Speaker 1: must be, let him do what he wishes. He does
Speaker 1: not sin. Let them marry. Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast
Speaker 1: in his heart, having non necessity, but has power over
Speaker 1: his own will, and has so determined in his heart
Speaker 1: that he will give his virgin does well. So then
Speaker 1: he who gives her in marriage does well. But he
Speaker 1: who does not give her in marriage does better. A
Speaker 1: wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives,
Speaker 1: but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to
Speaker 1: be married to whom she wishes only in the Lord.
Speaker 1: But she is happier if she remains as she is
Speaker 1: according to my judgment, and I think I also have
Speaker 1: the spirit of God. And I think I also have
Speaker 1: the spirit of God. Okay. So the passage encourages believers
Speaker 1: to remain focused on God and spiritual manners, especially in
Speaker 1: times of difficulty. Paul's advice prioritizes spiritual freedom and focus,
Speaker 1: and he encourages those who are single to use that
Speaker 1: freedom for unhindered devotion to the Lord, while assuring that
Speaker 1: marriage is not a sin and it can be lived
Speaker 1: out in a way that honors God. Amen. So, yes,
Speaker 1: focus on God. We are at the two hour mark.
Speaker 1: So I got to stop now. Awesome, Yes, very good stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't even get to do practical applications. Let
Speaker 1: me do that real quick. Honor God in relationships, whether
Speaker 1: married or singles. Strive to honor God in all relationships
Speaker 1: by holding purity and mutual respect. Next, embrace your season.
Speaker 1: Recognize and embrace the season of life you're in, whether
Speaker 1: it is singleness or marriage, as a unique opportunity to
Speaker 1: serve God. Next, prioritize spiritual growth. Focus on spiritual growth
Speaker 1: and eternal priorities rather than being consumed by worldly concerns. Next,
Speaker 1: seek godly counsel in matters of marriage and sequlness, seek
Speaker 1: godly counsel and wisdom from scripture and mature believers. And
Speaker 1: as far as additional scriptures, I'm just gonna read them off.
Speaker 1: Genesis two, verse twenty four, Matthew nineteen eleven through twelve,
Speaker 1: Ephesians five twenty two through twenty three. In a Genesis
Speaker 1: two twenty four this reason a man will leave his
Speaker 1: father and mother and be united to his wife. And
Speaker 1: then in Matthew nineteen eleven through twelve, Jesus speaks about
Speaker 1: the gift of singleness of firming Paul's teaching on the subject.
Speaker 1: And then Ephesians five twenty two through thirty three this passage.
Speaker 1: These passages provide further insight into the roles and responsibilitiability
Speaker 1: within a Christian marriage. Perfect let me go ahead and
Speaker 1: stop screen share. So, yeah, we covered a lot of ground,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I really appreciate everybody tuning in. I feel
Speaker 1: I started a little bit earlier than I normally do
Speaker 1: on Monday, so I'm not as tired as I normally am,
Speaker 1: and I feel like that tonight it went pretty good.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate you guys. Listening and tuning in,
Speaker 1: and I will try to do my best. I know
Speaker 1: next week I'll have a show for you guys for
Speaker 1: Sunday service, Wednesday service the eighteenth through the twenty six
Speaker 1: I'll be gone on a cruise. So what I'll do is,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be releasing two episodes of my choice.
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna choose, you know, roundtables that have to
Speaker 1: do with biblical truth, right, so, roundtables that maybe go
Speaker 1: over end times, whatever I have. I'll release a couple
Speaker 1: episodes and when I get back, i'll be right back.
Speaker 1: On the twenty seventh, I'll be doing I'll record that
Speaker 1: night Wednesday service, and then we'll start right back up
Speaker 1: on our normal Bible studies. So thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Please leave a comment on Spotify. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And those that could see me on Patreon, you guys
Speaker 1: see I have no hat, I got no headphones. Really interesting.
Speaker 1: And then those that are going to see me on
Speaker 1: YouTube are gonna go, WHOA, what's going on? We never
Speaker 1: see you like this, So yeah, I appreciate all of
Speaker 1: you guys. Thank you, and let me end this in prayer.
Speaker 1: So Father God, in the name of Jesus, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. I appreciate this time. I appreciate you allowing
Speaker 1: us to go over First Corinthians and you know, going
Speaker 1: over marriage and going over all these different subjects. And
Speaker 1: and Lord, just show us where we are lacking in
Speaker 1: our in our relationship with you. Lord, show us all
Speaker 1: where we're lacking, Show us all where we have sin,
Speaker 1: and allow us. And Lord, please cleanse us and wash
Speaker 1: us and allow us to you know, forgive us for
Speaker 1: all of our sins in the past, the future, and
Speaker 1: the present. And please allow us to know when we
Speaker 1: are doing wrong. Lord. And I know we know in
Speaker 1: our hearts when we're doing wrong, and we know we're
Speaker 1: when we're transgressing against you. But just to assist people
Speaker 1: out there, I know that you know the way the
Speaker 1: world is now, it's so easy to get caught up
Speaker 1: in sexual morality and all these things that you were
Speaker 1: warning against us in First Corinthians. Lord, that that you
Speaker 1: were speaking through Paul, And just allow us to just
Speaker 1: assist everybody out there to flee from sexual morality and
Speaker 1: also to put you first over their marriage. Lord, assist
Speaker 1: us in doing this. I know we have free will,
Speaker 1: but assist us Lord in any way that you can
Speaker 1: supernaturally assist us to just worship you and not separate
Speaker 1: us from you. Lord, thank you for everything. We love
Speaker 1: you in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you God Bles as you guys