Sin in the Church is a big deal. We are commanded to deal with it because unchecked sin has consequences. There are specific guidelines that the Bible gives us to follow.

1. 1 Corinthians 5

2. Outline
I. The Need for Discipline (5:1)
II. The Refusal to Discipline (5:2)
III. The Command to Discipline (5:3–5)
A. The authority
B. The action
1. What the church is to do
2. Why the church is to do it

3. Outline
IV. The Reasons for Discipline (5:5–8)
A. To bring the offender back to God
B. To keep the offense from spreading
1. Cut out the cancer
2. Continue in the Savior
C. To keep the celebration of Christ pure

4. Outline
V. The Extent of Discipline (5:9–13)
A. Discipline involves only church
1. The church doesn’t judge outsiders
2. The church avoids sinful believers
B. The discipline involves all members
VI. Discipline (Matthew 18)

5. The Need for Discipline
It is actually reported that there is immorality among
you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist
even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s
wife.
Sexual immorality
Totally taboo

6. Get ready Church
 Genetic Sexual
Attractions-incest
 Lesbian
 Gay
 Bisexual
 Transgender
 Adultery
 Fornication
 Divorce

7. The Refusal to Discipline
You have become arrogant
and have not mourned
instead, so that the one who
had done this deed would be
removed from your midst.
Pride
No sorrow
Acceptance

8. Misunderstanding
All things are lawful, but not all
things are profitable. All things
are lawful, but not all things
edify.
1 Corinthians 10:23
What then? Shall we sin because
we are not under law but under
grace? May it never be!
Romans 6:15

9. The Command to Discipline
1 Corinthians 5:3–5

10. The Authority
For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in
spirit, have already judged him who has so committed
this, as though I were present. In the name of our Lord
Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus,
1 Corinthians 5:3–4

11. Submission to Authority
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep
watch over your souls as those who will give an
account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief,
for this would be unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13:17
The Christian life is one of submission

12. The Action
I have decided to deliver such a one to
Satan for the destruction of his flesh…
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has
demanded permission to sift you like
wheat;
Luke 22:31

13. This is hard to do.
Remove the spiritual safety net
Prayers for whatever it takes
Put them out of our lives

14. Notice the progression
And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save
others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some
have mercy with fear, hating even the garment
polluted by the flesh.
Jude 22–23

15. Why this is done
…so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and
one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner
from the error of his way will save his soul from death and
will cover a multitude of sins.
James 5:19–20

16. The Reasons for Discipline
1 Corinthians 5:5–8

17. To bring the offender back to God
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.
1 Corinthians 5:5

18. To keep the offense from spreading
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little
leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 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.
1 Corinthians 5:6–7

19. Sin is
contagious
…a little leaven leavens the whole
lump…
Leaven is a type or symbol of sin
Do not be deceived: “Bad company
corrupts good morals.”
1 Corinthians 15:33

20. To keep the celebration of Christ pure
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.
1 Corinthians 5:7

21. Jewish Corinthians
The Jews would clean their houses
to get rid of chametz (leaven).
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King
of the universe, who has sanctified
us with His commandments, and
has commanded us concerning the
removal of chametz
Ceremonially burned outside
Seven days you shall
eat unleavened bread,
but on the first day you
shall remove leaven
from your houses; for
whoever eats anything
leavened from the first
day until the seventh
day, that person shall
be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:15

22. The Extent of Discipline
1 Corinthians 5:9-13

23. Only Church Members
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral
people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people
of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or
with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the
world. 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.
1 Corinthians 5:9–11

24. Not the outsiders
I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this
world…for then you would have to go out of the world.
We are to engage the unsaved
What do you have to do with judging outsiders?
Who did Jesus minister to?
God judges

25. Avoid sinful believers
I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called
“Christian” brother if he is a “practicing sinner”—not
even to eat with such a one.
Hypocrite
False convert
Census Christian

26. Discipline involves all church members
…Do you not judge those who are within the church?
But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE
WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES.

27. We need to
keep own
house clean
For it is time for judgment to
begin with the household of God;
and if it begins with us first, what
will be the outcome for those who
do not obey the gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:17

28. Church Discipline
Matthew 18

29. Conflict Mediation
If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in
private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more
with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES
EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED. If he refuses to listen to
them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen
even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a
tax collector. Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on
earth shall have been bound

30. in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have
been loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of
you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it
shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.
For where two or three have gathered together in My
name, I am there in their midst.
Matthew 18:15–20

31. By the numbers
1. An offense
2. Privately confront
3. Confirm all the details with 1 or 2 others
4. Bring it to Church leadership
5. Repentance or disfellowshipped

32. Recall
In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are
assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of
our Lord Jesus,
1 Corinthians 5:4

33. Spiritual Component #1
Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall
have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose
on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:18

34. Spiritual Component #2
Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth
about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for
them by My Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 18:19

35. Spiritual Component #3
For where two or three have gathered together in My
name, I am there in their midst.
Matthew 18:20

36. Our take away
1. The society does not determine our norms
2. We are commanded to discipline
3. There are steps to follow
4. Let all things be done in love

37. 1 Corinthians 5