Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(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.

(1Co 5:2) “And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.”  A little leaven will leaven the whole lump; sin overlooked will become sin embraced. We will accept first one sin and then another. Jesus said, (Mat_6:24b) “….Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Congregations will continue to go through the motions, but the Lord won’t meet with them.