Message Outline:

The Purpose of Community Discipline

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

(Part B)

I. The Case for Discipline (5:1-5)

A. The Sin (5:1)

B. The Church’s Response (5:2)

C. The Apostle’s Response (5:3)

D. The Apostle’s Judgement (5:4-5)

1. The Authority of It (5:4a)

2. The Place of It (5:4b)

3. The Participants in It (5:4c)

4. The Action Itself (5:5a)

● deliver handing over or turning over

5. The Outcome (5:5b)

6. The Purpose (5:5c)

II. The Basis of Discipline (5:6-8)

A. The Statement of the Attitude (5:6a)

B. The Statement of the Basis (5:6b)

C. The Responses to the Basis (5:7-8)

1. Immediate: Purify the Body (5:7)

a. The Response (5:7a)

● clean purge or separate something from something else

b. The Need for the Response (5:7b)

c. The Reasons for the Response (5:7 c-d)

2. Ongoing: Live in That Purity (5:8)

a. The Response (5:8a)

b. How Not to Live (5:8b)

● malice badness, wickedness and vice

● wickedness maliciousness or sinfulness

c. How to Live (5:8c)

● sincerity authentic, real, without mixture

● truth truthfulness of life, conduct and mind