"Don't Tolerate Sexual Immorality" I Cor. 5 Pt 5 Series

2. Let’s also read on in this chapter into Verses 15-23 to keep focus on the context of this subject in Jesus’ teaching:

a. Point by Jesus - We are called to judge people by their fruit: 15“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

i. Jesus told us to judge to see whether a person was of truth or of deception and the way you tell is by the fruit that is produced in their life.

e. Jesus hated the attitude of the Pharisees because of the way they judged and condemned the world. So he rebuked them for their judgmental attitudes but Paul tells us that judgment is appropriate for those who claim to be of the household of faith!

i. We need to hold each other accountable so that we stay pure in the sight of God – we do this because we love each other and want to protect each other from the deception of sin and the enemy who is trying to destroy our lives.

ii. Jesus makes it clear in this chapter that we are to judge whether a person is true or false by the fruit that they produce from their lifestyles.

Conclusion:

Video Illustration from Super Chick the group from Blue Fish TV – a call to sexual purity!

I want to conclude this morning highlighting another article I discovered on the internet this week. I was going to edit it but I think I want to leave it intact so you can go onto sermon central.com this week and read it for yourselves. I think this article paints a picture of the church today and the necessity to drive sin out from its walls:

Society’s Slide Into Sexual Immorality (from http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn10/sexualimmorality.htm).

We are now some 30 years into the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s. What has been the impact on society? What are the implications for the future? by Noel Hornor

Sex is everywhere. It permeates the movies and the television programs we watch, the music we hear, the magazines and books we read, the talk shows we listen to. Society, it seems, is obsessed with sex.

Perhaps never has society had access to so much knowledge about sex but understood so little about it. Seldom have people suffered so much through sexual ignorance. Recently in the U.S. it was reported that the sexually transmissible diseases, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and AIDS, were the three most commonly reported infectious disorders in 1995.