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Stop Sleeping With Your Step Mum Series
Contributed by Andy Moyle on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: The Corinthians were Paul's favourite church, but what a mess! Sexual sin was rife, including one young man sleeping with his step mum. So Paul has a fight on his hands...
Satan loves to trap people in shame – confessing it to someone else brings it into the light and allows us to experience the cleansing reality of what Christ has done again. Telling some of the folks I have had to help trapped in pornography, sexting, adultery, addiction to masturbation that they are declared righteous and you don’t need to confess it to God doesn’t help them. Yes they are declared righteous, yes they have NOT lost their salvation. But at that life changing moment they need to sense that they are washed clean and pure again and be empowered live in the good of who they really are again.
Cleansing available – washed. Driscoll story.
Some of you today, may be smiling on the outside, but know you are trapped in a cycle of porn and confession and living with condemnation and shame. That’s not what the Lord wants. If you are a Christian, you are declared righteous and there is no condemnation – Jesus wants to come by His Spirit and wash you clean and empower you to live free with the help of brothers or sisters around you.
The world is full of immorality, but… v9-13
Paul’s told them in no uncertain terms to expel the immoral brother – with the hope that Satan’s attacks will come to nothing and he will return, which 2 Cor 2 shows he did.
The issue is that The Church is called to shine like stars in the universe and that man’s practice and the churches toleration and arrogant boasting of their freedom to behave like that meant they were not shining at all. Paul wants us to live grace filled, joy filled holy lives that are attractive to those out there. And they weren’t.
So he says stop it, kick the guy out who is so shockingly immoral.
But don’t stop associating with the world because they are immoral.
Stop associating with Christian hypocrites – challenge them to sort their life out.
But be in the world, just not of it. Associate with sexually immoral, the greedy, the swindlers, the idolators. Just don’t do what they do empowered by the Spirit.
Don’t be holier than though – show them how the grace of God changes us! So we can say noto unrighteousness Titus 2:13
Pray!
Courage to confess to one another
Power to be holy
Power to shine like stars in the world.
