WGHATC #7 - Boundaried and Open
1 Corinthians 5:1-12
Dr. Kurt Bjorklund
Part of What God Has Against the Church—January 8 - March 13, 2022
February 18, 2022

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Boundaried and Open

Date: February 19-20, 2021
Speaker: Dr. Kurt Bjorklund
Series: What God Had Against the Church
Message: #7 - Boundaried and Open

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Message Notes

Scripture

1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.” —1 Corinthians 5:1-12 (NIV)

Notes
1. Vision for Sexual Beauty (vv. 1-2)


2. Vision for Christian Community (vv. 9-13)


3. Vision of the Passover Lamb (v. 7)

Study Guide

Open
Read 1 Corinthians 5:1-12 and pray for your time together.

Discuss

  1. What stood out to you the most in this weekend’s teaching? Was anything particularly challenging, encouraging, or confusing to you?

  2. What value do you see in the Christian sexual ethic? What value is there in Christian communities that embrace this ethic? Why does the Christian sexual ethic matter to us as individuals?

  3. What is the specific situation that Paul is addressing in Corinth, and why are the Corinthians allowing it? What details of the situation help us understand why it is to be handled this way?

  4. What is the goal of discipline for the individual at fault (verse 5)? What about for the church of Corinth (verse 6)?

  5. According to Paul, whom should the church hold to a higher standard: believers or unbelievers? Why? What Scripture from this section informs this?

  6. How should being open, yet having boundaries, be put into practice in the church community? How about in your own Christian life?

  7. If Jesus died for the sin of the world, then why must the Church still take sin so seriously?

Close in Prayer