The document discusses the limits of Christian fellowship. It outlines five groups that Christians should not have fellowship with: 1) Non-believers, 2) Prodigal sons who have abandoned their faith, 3) Those practicing unrepentant sin, 4) False teachers who preach contrary to Christian doctrine, 5) Those who cause divisions in the church. The document provides numerous Bible verses to support setting these limits in order to remain loyal to Jesus and avoid compromising Christian values.

1. Galatians 2:9
[9] and recognizing the grace that
had been given to me, James and
Cephas and John, who were
reputed to be pillars, gave to me
and Barnabas the right hand of
fellowship, so that we might go
to the Gentiles and they to
the circumcised.

2. Quick Review of Our
Study So Far
1) Fellowship is based in our
relationship with God.

3. 1 John 1:6-7
[6] If we say that we have fellowship
with Him and yet walk in the
darkness, we lie and do not practice
the truth; [7] but if we walk in the
Light as He Himself is in the Light,
we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus His
Son cleanses us from all sin.

4. God
My
Me Brother

5. In Christ

6. Quick Review of Our
Study So Far
2) “In Christ” fellowship includes
people with many differences!

7. Fellowship
includes…
1) All types 3) Different
of people stages of
In Christ maturity
2) Those 4) Those
with different with doctrinal
opinions misunderstandings

8. Beyond the Limits
of Fellowship

9. Limits of Fellowship
1) Non-children
In Christ

10. Matthew 7:21
[21] “Not everyone who says
to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the
kingdom of heaven, but he who
does the will of My Father who
is in heaven will enter.

11. Galatians 3:26-27
[26] For you are all sons of God
through faith in Christ Jesus.
[27] For all of you who were baptized
into Christ have clothed yourselves
with Christ.

12. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13
[12] For even as the body is one
and yet has many members, and all
the members of the body, though
they are many, are one body, so also
is Christ. [13] For by one Spirit we
were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, whether
slaves or free, and we were all
made to drink of one Spirit.

13. Ephesians 4:3-6
[3] being diligent to preserve the
unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace. [4] There is one body and
one Spirit, just as also you were
called in one hope of your calling;
[5] one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
[6] one God and Father of all who is
over all and through all and in all.

14. Romans 10:1-2
[1] Brethren, my heart's desire
and my prayer to God for them
is for their salvation.
[2] For I testify about them that they
have a zeal for God, but not in
accordance with knowledge.

15. Limits of Fellowship
1) Non-children
2) Prodigal In Christ
Sons

16. John 15:5-6
[5] “I am the vine, you are the
branches; he who abides in Me and I
in him, he bears much fruit, for apart
from Me you can do nothing.
[6] “If anyone does not abide in
Me, he is thrown away as a branch
and dries up; and they gather them,
and cast them into the fire and
they are burned.

17. Limits of Fellowship
1) Non-children
2) Prodigal In Christ
Sons
3) Those who practice immorality

18. 1 Corinthians 5:4-5
[4] In the name of our Lord Jesus,
when you are assembled, and I with
you in spirit, with the power of our
Lord Jesus, [5] I have decided to
deliver such a one to Satan for the
destruction of his flesh, so that his
spirit may be saved in the day
of the Lord Jesus.

19. 1 Corinthians 5:6-7
[6] Your boasting is not good.
Do you not know that a little
leaven leavens the whole
lump of dough? [7] Clean out the
old leaven so that you may be a
new lump, just as you are in fact
unleavened. For Christ our
Passover also has been sacrificed.

20. 1 Corinthians 5:11
[11] But actually, I wrote to you
not to associate with any
so-called brother if he is an
immoral person, or covetous,
or an idolater, or a reviler, or a
drunkard, or a swindler—not
even to eat with such a one.

21. Hebrews 10:26
[26] For if we go on sinning
willfully after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

22. 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15
[14] If anyone does not obey our
instruction in this letter, take special
note of that person and do not
associate with him, so that he will
be put to shame. [15] Yet do not
regard him as an enemy, but
admonish him as a brother.

23. Limits of Fellowship
1) Non-children 4) False
Teachers
2) Prodigal In Christ
Sons
3) Those who practice immorality

24. Galatians 1:9
[9] As we have said before, so I say
again now, if any man is preaching
to you a gospel contrary to what you
received, he is to be accursed!

25. 2 John 7-11
[7] For many deceivers have gone
out into the world, those who do not
acknowledge Jesus Christ as
coming in the flesh. This is the
deceiver and the antichrist.

26. 2 John 7-11
[9] Anyone who goes too far and
does not abide in the teaching of
Christ, does not have God; the one
who abides in the teaching, he has
both the Father and the Son.

27. 2 John 7-11
[10] If anyone comes to you and
does not bring this teaching, do not
receive him into your house, and do
not give him a greeting; [11] for the
one who gives him a greeting
participates in his evil deeds.

28. Romans 16:17-18
[17] Now I urge you, brethren, keep
your eye on those who cause
dissensions and hindrances contrary
to the teaching which you learned, and
turn away from them. [18] For such
men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ
but of their own appetites; and by their
smooth and flattering speech they
deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

29. 1 Timothy 1:19-20
[19] keeping faith and a good
conscience, which some have
rejected and suffered shipwreck in
regard to their faith. [20] Among
these are Hymenaeus and
Alexander, whom I have handed
over to Satan, so that they will be
taught not to blaspheme.

30. Limits of Fellowship
1) Non-children 4) False
Teachers
2) Prodigal In Christ
Sons 5) Those
who cause
divisions.
3) Those who practice immorality

31. Titus 3:9-11
[9] But avoid foolish controversies
and genealogies and strife and
disputes about the Law, for they are
unprofitable and worthless.
[10] Reject a factious man after a
first and second warning,
[11] knowing that such a man is
perverted and is sinning,
being self-condemned.

32. In loyalty to Jesus,
we must acknowledge
these limits.