1 Corinthians 5 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams — Transcript

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1. 0:00In the previous [music] chapter, we
2. 0:01understood what it was to truly begin to
3. 0:03reign
4. 0:04over [music] independence.
5. 0:07If we are truly reigning,
6. 0:10then our fathers are reigning with us.
7. 0:13But if we're not,
8. 0:14then they feel shoved to the back of the
9. 0:17line, forgotten, and mocked, and
10. 0:19dishonored while we go on
11. 0:22crowing about our successes. [music]
12. 0:26First Corinthians chapter 5 verse 1.
13. 0:29It is actually [music] reported
14. 0:32that there is immorality among you,
15. 0:35an immorality [music]
16. 0:36of such a kind as does not exist even
17. 0:39among the Gentiles,
18. 0:41that someone has his father's wife.
19. 0:45You have become arrogant
20. 0:47and have not mourned
21. 0:50instead, [music]
22. 0:51so that the one who had done this deed
23. 0:54would be removed from your midst.
24. 0:58So, he's saying,
25. 1:00"While you're crowing about all your
26. 1:02successes, you're rich, you're
27. 1:04successful, you're reigning." He said,
28. 1:06"Actually, [music] you're rotting.
29. 1:09There's horrible sin in the church, and
30. 1:11you're not dealing with it."
31. 1:15For I, on my part, though absent in body
32. 1:19but present in spirit, have already
33. 1:21judged him who has committed this as
34. 1:23though I were present.
35. 1:26Is Paul being presumptuous? No, he's
36. 1:29not.
37. 1:33In the name of the Lord Jesus, when you
38. 1:36are assembled
39. 1:37and I with you in spirit with the power
40. 1:40of our Lord Jesus, I have decided to
41. 1:44deliver such a one to Satan for the
42. 1:46destruction of his flesh, so that his
43. 1:49spirit may be saved in the day of the
44. 1:51Lord Jesus.
45. 1:53Now, this is what it looks like to build
46. 1:55with wood, hay, and stubble
47. 1:57to plaster over problems
48. 2:00that can destroy the church if not
49. 2:01resolved.
50. 2:03And Paul is saying, "I'm not going to
51. 2:04tolerate it."
52. 2:07Your boasting is not good.
53. 2:10What boasting?
54. 2:11Boasting about all their successes.
55. 2:14Boasting about their love.
56. 2:16Do you not know that a little leaven
57. 2:18leavens the whole lump of dough?
58. 2:21Clean out the old leaven so that you may
59. 2:24be a new lump just as you are in fact
60. 2:27unleavened. For Christ, our Passover,
61. 2:30also has been sanctified.
62. 2:32Therefore, let us celebrate the feast
63. 2:35not with old leaven nor with the leaven
64. 2:37of malice and wickedness,
65. 2:40but with the unleavened bread of
66. 2:42sincerity and truth.
67. 2:46I wrote you in my letter not to
68. 2:47associate with immoral people. I did not
69. 2:50at all mean with the immoral people of
70. 2:53this world
71. 2:55or with the covetous and swindlers or
72. 2:58with idolaters, for then you would have
73. 3:01to go out of the world.
74. 3:03But actually, I wrote you not to
75. 3:05associate with any so-called brother if
76. 3:08he is an immoral person or covetous or
77. 3:11an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard
78. 3:14or a swindler, not even to eat with such
79. 3:17a one.
80. 3:19For what have I to do with judging
81. 3:21outsiders?
82. 3:23Do you not judge those who are within
83. 3:25the church?
84. 3:26But those who are outside, God judges.
85. 3:29Remove the wicked man from among
86. 3:31yourselves.
87. 3:33So apparently, there was a letter that
88. 3:35Paul wrote before 1 Corinthians.
89. 3:38And he's saying, "You're disobedient. I
90. 3:40already told you how to resolve this. I
91. 3:43already told you what to do.
92. 3:45And I wasn't at all suggesting, like
93. 3:47they probably misconstrued his words,
94. 3:50that you shouldn't associate with people
95. 3:52in the world who are engaging in this.
96. 3:56He said, "Otherwise, you'd have to leave
97. 3:57the world." Which is an insight Paul
98. 3:59thinks that the church should have
99. 4:00interaction with the world in the place
100. 4:03of business, in the marketplace.
101. 4:05We should have interaction with ungodly
102. 4:08people.
103. 4:09But he's saying, "In the church, don't
104. 4:12do not allow it.
105. 4:13Your boasting is not good.
106. 4:15You haven't begun to reign like you
107. 4:17think you have.
108. 4:18Cuz if you were really reigning, here
109. 4:20again, you would be able to put that out
110. 4:23and deal with it in a manner that brings
111. 4:25glory to God and healing to the person
112. 4:27and to those aggrieved.
113. 4:30So, Paul's theme is still rebuking this
114. 4:33church
115. 4:35and saying, "You have gotten too big for
116. 4:37your britches.
117. 4:39You have forgotten what God has given
118. 4:41you, and you have forgotten those
119. 4:43through whom it came.
120. 4:44Stay humble.
121. 4:46This is an admonition to all of us.
122. 4:48Each and every one of us in any capacity
123. 4:51of ministry can become conceited [music]
124. 4:54and self-assured, especially through the
125. 4:56intoxication of so-called [music]
126. 4:58success.
127. 5:00And a test is how independent we are in
128. 5:03that success.
129. 5:05If we are bringing our fathers along
130. 5:07with us, we're probably okay.
131. 5:10But if we are starting to become lax and
132. 5:13turn a blind eye toward unrepented sin,
133. 5:16we're not okay. And if we are starting
134. 5:18to reign without others, we are not
135. 5:21okay. And if we are marked [music] by
136. 5:24arrogance and boasting, we are not okay.
137. 5:28And the undoing of all those things is
138. 5:30what Paul thinks real reigning is.
139. 5:34That's the kingdom of God that does not
140. 5:37consist in words, but in power over all
141. 5:40these things.
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