Discipline in The Church

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Discipline in The Church

• 1 Corinthians 51-13

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Discipline

• Instruction and training (2 Timothy
  316, 17)
• Chastisement if necessary (Hebrews 125-8)
• Instruct to prevent
• Correct to restore

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Necessary For All of Us

• Faithful need instruction, encouragement,
  exhortation
• Wayward need rebuking
• Incorrigible need chastising
• All of us need discipline

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Faithful Christians

• Preventive in nature
• Learners (Matthew 2818-20)
• Purpose of edification (Ephesians 411-16)
• Warnings (1 Timothy 611, 17)

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Faithful Christians

• Preferable to correction
• God always used this first
• Especially needed by new converts
• Compassion (Jude 22)

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Faithful Christians

• Not for everyone at all times
• Societys cure all- education
• Knowledgeable can stray (2 Corinthians 211)
• Any one of us (Hebrews 312)

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Wayward Christians

• Have strayed into sin
• Ignorance? (Leviticus 4)
• Weakness or immaturity? (Acts 818-24 Galatians
  61)
• Yielded to sin (James 113-15)

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Wayward Christians

• Gentle, but firm help
• Sinner was overtaken
• Be careful (Galatians 61)
• Able and ready to admonish (Romans 154)

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Wayward Christians

• Not always what is needed
• Societys slap on the wrist
• Offender becomes hardened
• Soul hanging in the balance (James 519, 20)

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Incorrigible Christians

• Those in sin and wont repent
• How they got there no longer an issue
• Have been instructed, exhorted, admonished, etc.
• Ignorance not the problem

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Incorrigible Christians

• Radical surgery necessary
• Failure to correct a private sin (Matthew
  1818-20)
• Causing division (Romans 1617)

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Incorrigible Christians

• Radical surgery necessary
• Sinning publicly (1 Corinthians
  5)
• Walking disorderly (2 Thessalonians
  36, 14)

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Incorrigible Christians

• All we can do
• Not like the first two kinds
• Love them, but hate their sin (Jude 23)
• Continue to admonish them (2 Thessalonians 315)

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Conclusion

• Soul to save
• Church to keep pure
• Deal with sin in the camp