(1Co 5:9) “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: (10)  Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.” It is acknowledged that one has to sometimes associate with such, for these are the lost around us. But to spend our free time with such will hinder our attempt at holiness, for we are affected by others: (Pro 22:24) “Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: (25) Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.”

(1Co 5:8) “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” We are to ever live before Him with hearts directed to Him: “…Where your treasures are, there will your heart be also.”  Our heart is to ever display both sincerity of purpose and truthful thoughts before Him.

(1Co 5:7) “…For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: (8)  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” “Sincerity and truth”: this is before God and man. We do one a disservice when we act as if their sin is all right in the sight of God. It never is all right. Jesus suffered because of that sin. Honestly and sincerely reveal to them the price of their sin.

(1Co 5:7) “Purge out therefore the old leaven [That sinful person],… For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: (8)  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”  The words “keep the feast” is not referring to Easter (Passover) as to time, but living in the product, as daily living as to dedication thereof.

(1Co 5:7) “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:”  To ostracize someone, even over a sinful practice (this man is living with his father’s wife) seems hard to us. Yet, it is no harder than an innocent man dying for your sin. To seek to keep holy is to honor and please Him. He lives inside you now.

(1Co 5:6) “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” Today we err greatly and prove that we are still fleshly, prideful; for we think we are the exception to the rule: “These things will not affect us.” They do. It is just that we are not spiritual enough to perceive it: (Psa_106:15)  “And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.”

1Co 5:6) “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” The willful overlooking of sin among a church is shown here to have a negative effect upon the saints. It is not loving to overlook sinful practice among us. Truth in love is to be the vanguard of the church.

(1Co 5:4) “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (5)  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”   So, there are times the Lord will allow Satan to punish the body, but never the soul or the spirit. And….not always because of sin (Paul and the thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet him [2 Cor 12:7]),

(1Co 5:4) “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (5)  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”  One never hears of this practiced today, yet it is the practice of Jesus’ Words to the church: “… if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. (Mat 18:18)  Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

(1Co 5:3) “For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,”  People say we are not to judge others. That is concerning motives; things we cannot know. It is not saying we are not to judge what is right or wrong. Sin is sin, no matter who commits it.