Introduction
Let me begin with a discipleship question: how will you follow Jesus in prayer and dependence on God this week?
Main Points
In this lesson shaped by Calvary Boise's teaching on DISTRACTED: Dealing with Sin, Christ invites us to receive truth with humility, practice repentance, and walk in faithful obedience.
Faith and Obedience
Turn to first Corinthians chapter 5 as you're turning there I'm gonna do what I've been doing the last couple weeks is remind us. What we've been up to we're studying the book of 1st Corinthians with a theme in mind you know the theme is distracted if.
- You got a bulletin cover or if you look behind me right now the context of what's going on in this church is.
- There is a lot of arguing and division and questioning each other and they've divided into camps of who belongs to who and we've.
- Looked at all of that and say man this church is distracted from the focus of the worship of God the trust of Jesus.
- As the head of the church and so we spent the first half of this series really talking about their mentality the first sermons.
Leading up to this one have dealt with a church that is divided and a church that's arguing has the wrong mentality because if. You really look at the cross of Christ if you really look at the glorious God who sent his son to reveal himself to.
Hope in Suffering
Time that I can remember in the parent to child relationship that I've had to deliver a wake-up call and maybe some of you. Parents can relate to what that's like when you got to get your kid out of bed maybe you had to give a wake-up.
- Call this morning to get here that was probably more likely at first service I hope that your kids naturally woke up by the.
- Time I started and maybe that's why you're here God often uses wake-up calls to get our attention and for me this week it.
- Happened when my family decided to go to a movie we took kind of one of those let's just spend some time together and.
- We're gonna violate our own House Rules just every once in a while stay up past our bedtime as a result the next morning.
We all slept in slept through the alarm I'm the first one to wake up so I'm realizing that we're way behind schedule kids. Got to get to school I've got to get to work everybody's got to get dressed and fed the morning routine in the weekday.
Sin and Salvation
Mitts but it's also in a way embraced it now I say that's a small preview because what we're about to read is the. Story of dealing with sin with a knob up to 10 this is about as intense as gets and so brace yourself as we.
- Read this chapter and remember the Bible is real the Bible is raw if you ever think that the Bible is a bunch of.
- Fairy tales or just these you know these parables that help people live better lives you've never actually read the Bible the Bible is.
- Full of hard truth that will offend the natural person in you and like I said if I didn't have to preach this I.
- Probably wouldn't but I'll also say it's good to do it why because you don't get to skip the hard stuff in life is.
Hard and you don't just get to skip to the next chapter of life you have to embrace it and the Word of God. Is hard and we shouldn't skip it so as hard as it is to preach it will also be hard to listen to this.
Repentance and Renewal
Represent sins that were struggling with what we're talking about this morning is how to deal with a sin when is unrepentant when it. Is embraced even in the face of rebuke and the rebuke is gonna come through the letter because look what it says in verse.
- Two it's not coming through the church so there's this relationship that is strange even in the eyes of the non believing world and.
- Then verse two says speaking to the church and you are puffed up about it remember we studied all last week this word puffed.
- Up is a word used for pride and arrogance they were puffed up about which teachers they listen to which camp they were belonged.
- In and now we have them being prideful over their acceptance of sexual immorality says that you're puffed up you should have not rather.
Mourned that he who has done this deed might be taken away from you I want to continue to read because in our reading. We're gonna find a very clean outline for the way that Paul is going to address this in verse three he now says for.
Sin and Salvation
Come here and for those of you who believed and accepted the indwelling of God's power in your life you are still on your. Journey to the full glory of the image of Christ and on your way you will deal with the temptation to sin and the.
- Sting of sin itself as you are being the word says sanctified or cleanse by the washing of the word sin is something that.
- We can't take our eyes off of because we're not done with it yet so we have to listen to this and what I.
- Appreciate about the outline of Paul is that he's going to give us some basic steps to deal with sin within church and within.
- Our own lives the outline this morning for the verses that we just read and this is what we'll be discussing for the rest.
Of our time is first Paul addresses the problem verses 1 and 2 are Paul saying here is what this is and here's why. It's wrong next in the next step after the problem of sin has been addressed we get the prescription those are verses 3 through.
Repentance and Renewal
Death and towards life the purpose of dealing with sin is glorious but we have to remember that because as we deal with it'll. Get hard it'll get difficult it will offend our sin nature the carnality of our flesh don't forget the purpose and so we're gonna.
- End with the purpose of dealing with sin so we have these three things they work in harmony together anytime you come across this.
- Thing of sin and the temptations of sin or in the drastic time of this church the drastic measure of dealing with an unrepentant.
- Sin we have to address the problem we have to give the prescription if we remember the purpose so we start by addressing the.
- Problem in the first two verses and there are two problems presented in the sin of the Corinth Church and I believe that sin.
Will always come as a two-edged sword with two potential problems that follow the first one is the action of sin itself and that's. What we find in verse 1 says it's actually reported there is a sexual immorality among you and then he gives a specific example.
Sin and Salvation
That the commitment that you make to sin will be good for you it will be pleasurable it will be fun when you cross. The line of God's boundaries there's something over there that will bless your life you lack understanding if you embrace sin he who does.
- So destroys his own soul wounds and dishonor he will get and his reproach will not be wiped away for jealousy is a husband's.
- Fury the Proverbs are full of wisdom practical wisdom as to why embracing sin for your life is destructive for your soul it violates.
- The creation that God made you to enjoy in yourself he has made you to enjoy sex as he designed it but he has.
- Also set up all sorts of guardrails so that sex itself would not become an idol that ends up destroying us we have to.
Address the action of the sin it is God's intention that this man himself be saved from his soul being destroyed and his family. Being destroyed the relationship he has with his father and this community that would all be destroyed by the destructive nature of sin so.
Conclusion
We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.
Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.
Conclusion
We return to the opening teaching: discipleship is not just information, it is transformation through faith and obedience to Jesus. If we receive His Word and walk it out, He will shape us into people who endure and bear fruit.
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, help me hear Your Word, obey it with faith, and grow as Your disciple. Amen.