A Biblical Example: The Sin and Response

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A Biblical Example: The Sin and Response

1 Corinthians 5:1-3

August 21, 2011 • Roger Skepple

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Message Outline:

The Purpose of Community Discipline

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

(Part A)

The Practice of Church Discipline

I. The Problem (18:15a)

II. The Process (18:15b-17)

A. Private Rebuke (18:15b-d)

B. Witnessed Rebuke (18:16)

C. Public Rebuke (18:17a-b)

D. Excommunication (18:17c-d)

III. The Promises (18:18-20)

A. God’s Sovereign Power (18:18)

B. God’s Sovereign Answer (18:19)

C. God’s Sovereign Presence (18:20)

The Importance of Jesus’ Commands

The Practice of Church Discipline

The Purpose of Church Discipline

● The Background of 1 Corinthians

● The Context of 1 Corinthians 5

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

A. The Sin (5:1)

1. The Sin’s General Description

● immorality any unlawful sexual interaction/relationship

2. The Sin’s Extreme Nature

3. The Sin’s Specific Designation

B. The Church’s Response (5:2)

1. What It Was (5:2a)

● arrogant blowing or puffing something up

a. The Corinthians’ Problem with Pride

b. The Corinthians’ Prideful Rejection of Spiritual Authority

c. Implication

2. What It Should Have Been (5:2b)

a. They Should have Spiritually Grieved

b. They Should have Practiced Church Discipline

● removed to lift up or take up in order to carry away

c. Implication

C. The Apostle’s Response (5:3)

1. Paul’s Decision: Guilty

● judged the process of judging or the outcome of that process

● The Nature of Christian Judgement: Discernment

2. Paul’s Authority

The Necessity of Restoration

October 2, 2011 • Roger Skepple

Message Outline: The Goal of Community Discipline 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 Part B The Goal of Church Discipline: Restoration I. The Cause of the Discipline (2:5) II. The Restoration from Discipline (2:6-8) A. The Time of Restoration (2:6a) B. The Participants in Restoration (2:6b) C. The Nature of Restoration (2:7a) 1. Extension of Forgiveness ● forgive beautiful, to give generously, beneficial, grateful 2. Extension of Encouragement ● comfort summon, beseech, exhort, appeal, encourage, exhort D. The Necessity of Restoration (2:7b) ● excessive greater or more ● overwhelmed to drink down or gulp to consume or use up to overcome or drown E. The Summary Statement of Restoration (2:8) 1. The Fact of Reinstatement ● reaffirm ratify, annual, make a legal decision 2. The Fact of Fellowship III. The Bases of Restoration from Discipline (2:9-11) A. Obedience (2:9) ● test to examine or verify ● obedient to give ear or listen B. Forgiveness (2:10) 1. Paul’s Leadership in It 2. Corinth’s Need for It 3. Christ’s Example of It 4. Satan Thwarted by It ● advantage greediness, exploitation, defrauding ● schemes thoughts, concepts, plans, or resolve

Restoration of the Corporate Body

September 25, 2011 • Roger Skepple

Message Outline: The Goal of Community Discipline 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 Part A The Goal of Church Discipline ● Understood Individually ● Understood Corporately ■ The Book of 2 Corinthians ■ The Context of 2 Corinthians 2:5-11 I. The Cause of the Discipline (2:5) A. The Action that Occurred (2:5a) ● sorrow physical pain or mental anguish to vex, irritate, offend, or insult 1. Sorrow Understood Positively 2. Sorrow Understood Negatively B. The Result that Occurred (2:5b) II. The Restoration from Discipline (2:6-8) A. The Time of Restoration (2:6a) ● sufficient person–competent, qualified or able for a task things–adequate or large enough ● punishment a judicial ruling regarding an infraction against such civil rights penalty B. The Participants in Restoration (2:6b) ● majority almost everyone; everyone

Support for the Restoration

September 18, 2011 • Roger Skepple

Message Outline: The Goal of Community Discipline Galatians 6:1-10 Part B I. The Scenario (6:1) A. The Problem: Caught in a Sin (6:1a) B. The Solution: Restoration (6:1b) C. The Manner: With the Proper Attitude (6:1b9-d) II. The Procedure of the Restoring Brother (6:2-6) A. Lend the Proper Support (6:2) 1. The Nature of the Support (6:2a) ● bear take up, to carry or lift a load; or to carry something away ● burden weight, an oppressive weight, an unmeasurably great weight 2. The Reason for the Support (6:2b) B. Maintain the Proper Perspective (6:3-5) 1. On Himself (6:3) ● deceives to deceive one’s mind or to lead one’s mind astray 2. On His Work (6:4-5) ● examine to test to ascertain genuineness; to approve ● bear to carry a designed load C. Communicate the Word of God (6:6) III. The Response of the Fallen Brother (6:6-10) A. To the Word (6:6) ● share fellowship, association, communion, or close relationship B. To God (6:7-9) 1. He Recognizes the Inescapable Nature of God (6:7a) 2. He Recognizes the Inescapable Nature of Consequences (6:7b-8) ● The Principle of Consequences Stated ● The Principle of Consequences Applied ■ corruption deterioration or decay 3. He Recognizes the Necessity of Great Effort (6:9) ● lose heart to lost one’s motivation to accomplish something C. To Others (6:10) ● opportunity to a decisive point in place, situation, or time