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Babying Sin in the Church!

Today's post comes as a result of a study I am doing with a group of friends, we are reading the book of Proverbs and the First and Second Books of Corinthians and paralleling them. The chapters for today were 1 Corinthians 5 and Proverbs 5. The teachings and rebukes in the fifth chapter of 1 Corinthians are what got me. Since I could not get enough understanding on my own, I found a commentary online that blessed me tremendously and it is what I reference in this post. The site for the commentary is http://www.enduringword.com/commentaries/4605.htm. 

This is the same post that I posted in the group that my friends and are using for this study, but I wanted to share it here as well, because it seriously blessed me, and I felt the need to share it on a broader spectrum. 


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The post...



First let me say that I am thankful for technology, and how it allows us the opportunity to get a better understanding about things we don't quite understand. After reading the fifth chapter of both Proverbs and 1 Corinthians this morning, the fifth of 1 Corinthians left me with questions that I needed answers to and some things left me plain confused.
I found a commentary on today's chapter of 1 Corinthians, and I have to say that the breakdown of it was awesome. Paul first starts out by addressing the issue at hand, the fact that there is someone in the church who is having a sexually immoral encounter with his stepmother, Paul then lets us know that such behavior is even looked down on to those who aren't in the same place (spiritually) that the Corinthians are, the Gentiles, yet, for some reason, Paul notices that the behavior is being overlooked among the people.
I won't elaborate on the entire chapter, but what got me most out of this entire chapter is just how much we (the body of Christ) has it mixed up. How many of us on a daily basis cast some type of judgement on an unbeliever, someone who has never experienced Christ or accepted Him. We spend so much time thinking about how they ought to be "ashamed" or how they ought to do better, or are headed to hell. How wrong this that? While we are so consumed with the sins of those who don't even know better, we totally miss where our judgement should lie, to those who should already know better. Paul rebukes the Corinthians, not just for overlooking the sin of this man mentioned in verse one, but also for now doing anything about it. Paul lets them know in verse five that this man should have been cast from among them all together, "To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
What I wanted to know was, "Why throw him out?" But without even reading a commentary it came to me clearly, fellowshipping with this man and allowing him to be in the company of everyone else inside of the church not only made him feel as if the sin he was indulging in was right, it also allowed him to "blend in" with everyone else and in some ways be hidden.
Now... The question for today is, how many of us overlook the sins of those we call sisters and brothers in Christ? Those we sit next to every Sunday, sing on the worship team with or dance on the dance ministry with? How many of us could literally know that one of our sisters or brothers in Christ, our "friends" were having an extramarital affair, having homosexual experiences, drinking alcohol excessively, clubbing every chance they got; how many of us could actually, after first letting that person know that we know and that they are wrong, how many of us could disassociate ourselves from them and do what Paul instructs in verse five, ...deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.", essentially just saying allowing that person to go through a purification process, outside of our fellowship, and without our "babying".
The truth of it is we baby entirely to much sin in the church. We overlook things that should be corrected, and we keep quiet about things that should be screamed on immediately. We have allowed the world's, "who are you to judge me?" attitude to creep into the church. I found a quote in the commentary that I was reading and I love it, "While Christians are not to judge one anothers motives or ministries, we are certainly expected to be honest about each others conduct." -(Wiersbe) Judging someone hypocritically is described in Matthew 7:1-5, judging someone by a standard we ourselves do not want to be judged by. Paul was casting judgement, but he was fully aware he was and has no obligations to being judging the same manner if needed, he was willing to uphold the same standards he was pushing.

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As with all of my posts, I pray this is a blessing. I always learn a lot and am convicted while working on these posts.




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Vanessa Durant
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