Sermons

Christ As Our Passover (1 Cor. 5:6-8)

 

In dealing with what to do with the man guilty of incest, Paul says that Christ is our Passover lamb (note Exodus 12).

  1. Sin affects the whole body.
    • 5:5-6 – the two aims are the restoration of the sinner and the purity of the church.
    • Galatians 5:7-10; Luke 12:1
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Sermons

Put Out The Wicked Man (1 Cor. 5:1-5, 9-13)

 

4:21. I can remember as a boy in the church when the church organist took off with some woman. Nobody knew quite what to do, and eventually nothing much was done.

  1. Some unrepentant sins require church discipline.
    • 5:1-2; Lev.20:11. Cicero mentions it as an evil. In Sophocles’ Oedipus (Rex)
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