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What is the purpose of a test?

• It gives information to both the teacher and the
  student!

2
What is the purpose of a test?

• It gives information to both the teacher and the
  student!
• Often we need to see where we are. (2 Cor 135)

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What is the purpose of a test?

• 2 Corinthians 135 - Examine yourselves as to
  whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do
  you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in
  you?unless indeed you are disqualified.

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What is the purpose of a test?

• God already knows. (Heb 412-13)

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What is the purpose of a test?

• Hebrews 412-13 - For the word of God is living
  and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
  sword, piercing even to the division of soul and
  spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a
  discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
  heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from
  His sight, but all things are naked and open to
  the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

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What is the purpose of a test?

• An improper spirit prevailed at Corinth among
  some. (1 Cor 417-21)

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What is the purpose of a test?

• 1 Corinthians 417-21 - For this reason I have
  sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and
  faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of
  my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every
  church. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I
  were not coming to you.

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What is the purpose of a test?

• 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord
  wills, and I will know, not the word of those who
  are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom
  of God is not in word but in power. 21 What do
  you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in
  love and a spirit of gentleness?

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What is the purpose of a test?

• They were proud and above authority.

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What is the purpose of a test?

• They were proud and above authority.
• They boasted in their knowledge and "originality."

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What is the purpose of a test?

• They were proud and above authority.
• They boasted in their knowledge and
  "originality."
• God gave Corinth a test. (2 Cor 29)

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What is the purpose of a test?

• 2 Corinthians 29 - For to this end I also
  wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether
  you are obedient in all things.

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What is the purpose of a test?

• How we respond to this test will tell much about
  how we view the church.

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What is the purpose of a test?

• How does this church respond to the test?

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 1 Corinthians 51-3 - It is actually reported
  that there is sexual immorality among you, and
  such sexual immorality as is not even named among
  the Gentilesthat a man has his fathers wife! 2
  And you are puffed up, and have not rather
  mourned, that he who has done this deed might be
  taken away from among you.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in
  spirit, have already judged (as though I were
  present) him who has so done this deed.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• There was open immorality in the church. (Gal
  519-21)

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• Galatians 519-21 - Now the works of the flesh
  are evident, which are adultery, fornication,
  uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery,
  hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of
  wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the
  like of which I tell you beforehand, just as I
  also told you in time past, that those who
  practice such things will not inherit the kingdom
  of God.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• John the Baptist did not hesitate to deal with
  this issue. (Mark 617)

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• Mark 617-18 - For Herod himself had sent and
  laid hold of John, and bound him in prison for
  the sake of Herodias, his brother Philips wife
  for he had married her. 18 Because John had said
  to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your
  brothers wife.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• If one does not repent, they are lost!

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• If one does not repent, they are lost!
• There should have been morning in the hearts of
  these Christians.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• If one does not repent, they are lost!
• There should have been morning in the hearts of
  these Christians.
• Somehow they had lost their urgency. (Jude
  22-23 Mat 53-4)

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• Jude 22-23 - And on some have compassion, making
  a distinction 23 but others save with fear,
  pulling them out of the fire, hating even the
  garment defiled by the flesh.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• Matthew 53-4 - Blessed are the poor in spirit,
  For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed
  are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• When sin is tolerated we are no longer on the
  Lord's side. (Heb 19)

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• When sin is tolerated we are no longer on the
  Lord's side. (Heb 19)
• They were to remove this one from among them.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• When sin is tolerated we are no longer on the
  Lord's side. (Heb 19)
• They were to remove this one from among them.
• The term "among you" means" where association or
  intercourse is the topic, equivalent to among,
  intercourse with", Thayer's, p. 402

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• One might cease attending the assemblies but
  still be among you.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• One might cease attending the assemblies but
  still be among you.
• The hindering spirit was one of pride.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• One might cease attending the assemblies but
  still be among you.
• The hindering spirit was one of pride.
• Paul uses the term "puffed up". (1 Cor 46,
  17-20 1 Tim 63-5)

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 1 Corinthians 46 - Now these things, brethren,
  I have figuratively transferred to myself and
  Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us
  not to think beyond what is written, that none of
  you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the
  other.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 1 Corinthians 417-20 - For this reason I have
  sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and
  faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of
  my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every
  church. 18 Now some are puffed up, as though I
  were not coming to you.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord
  wills, and I will know, not the word of those who
  are puffed up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom
  of God is not in word but in power.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 1 Timothy 63-5 - If anyone teaches otherwise
  and does not consent to wholesome words, even the
  words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the
  doctrine which accords with godliness, 4 he is
  proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with
  disputes and arguments over words, from which
  come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• 5 useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and
  destitute of the truth, who suppose that
  godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw
  yourself.

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• Likely they viewed Christians in light of their
  party associations and not by the will of God!

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Obstacles in the Way to Obedience (1 Cor 51-3)

• Likely they viewed Christian's in light of their
  party associations and not by the will of God!
• This pride would in time affect everything they
  did

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• A time of warning, teaching and rebuking. (Mat
  1815-17)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• Matthew 1815-17 - Moreover if your brother
  sins against you, go and tell him his fault
  between you and him alone. If he hears you, you
  have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not
  hear, take with you one or two more, that by the
  mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
  established.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 17And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the
  church. But if he refuses even to hear the
  church, let him be to you like a heathen and a
  tax collector.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• This may start with one and then proceed to
  others.

44
Steps in Corrective Discipline

• This may start with one and then proceed to
  others.
• The purpose of others involvement is to bear
  witness to the action and become a part of the
  correction.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• It is important to involve spiritual men in this
  process. (Gal 61)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• Galatians 61 - Brethren, if a man is overtaken
  in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore
  such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering
  yourself lest you also be tempted.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• There is a judgment on the amount of time given
  for response. (Rev 220-21)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• Revelation 220-21 - Nevertheless I have a few
  things against you, because you allow that woman
  Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach
  and seduce My servants to commit sexual
  immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
  21And I gave her time to repent of her sexual
  immorality, and she did not repent.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• A Public Announcement to the church concerning
  the condition of this brother.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• A Public Announcement to the church concerning
  the condition of this brother.
• The entire church is made aware of the situation
  with continued effort to exhort this one to
  repent. (Mat 1817)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• Matthew 1817 - And if he refuses to hear them,
  tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to
  hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen
  and a tax collector.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• Finally an announcement is made to "deliver such
  a one to Satan."(1 Cor 54-5)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 1 Corinthians 54-5 - In the name of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together,
  along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, 5deliver such a one to Satan for
  the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may
  be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• Paul emphasized the importance of this action by
  key phrases In the name of our Lord Jesus
  Christ.along with my spiritwith the power of
  our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• Paul emphasized the importance of this action by
  key phrases In the name of our Lord Jesus
  Christ.along with my spiritwith the power of
  our Lord Jesus Christ.
• When an apostle uses this language we need to
  listen carefully and obey! (1 Cor 110)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 1 Corinthians 110 - Now I plead with you,
  brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  that you all speak the same thing, and that there
  be no divisions among you, but that you be
  perfectly joined together in the same mind and in
  the same judgment.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• The place of this action is very specific when
  you are gathered together.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• When was the last time you witnessed one
  delivered to Satan in an assembly? When was the
  last time you witnessed one fall away from
  serving God?

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• When was the last time you witnessed one
  delivered to Satan in an assembly? When was the
  last time you witnessed one fall away from
  serving God?
• The final action is an individual withdrawal of
  social company. (1 Cor 59-11 2 Thess 36,15)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 1 Corinthians 59 - I wrote to you in my epistle
  not to keep company with sexually immoral people.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 1 Corinthians 511 - But now I have written to
  you not to keep company with anyone named a
  brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or
  an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an
  extortionernot even to eat with such a person.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 2 Thessalonians 36 - But we command you,
  brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  that you withdraw from every brother who walks
  disorderly and not according to the tradition
  which he received from us.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 2 Thessalonians 315 - Yet do not count him as
  an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• A certain kind of association is withdrawn, not
  all association. We can still admonish him as a
  brother.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• A certain kind of association is withdrawn, not
  all association. We can still admonish him as a
  brother.
• When this happens we can no longer have simple
  social company with this one.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• A certain kind of association is withdrawn, not
  all association. We can still admonish him as a
  brother.
• When this happens we can no longer have simple
  social company with this one.
• Many refuse to acknowledge this responsibility
  thinking they have a better way.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• These steps are difficult but essential to our
  Christian walk.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• We must never stop exhorting our brothers in
  Christ. (2 Tim 41-2)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 2 Timothy 41-2 - I charge you therefore before
  God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the
  living and the dead at His appearing and His
  kingdom 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season
  and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with
  all longsuffering and teaching.

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• There are occasions where I may act as an
  individual. (1 Tim 120)

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Steps in Corrective Discipline

• 1 Timothy 120 - of whom are Hymenaeus and
  Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they
  may learn not to blaspheme.

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The Purposes of this Action

• To protect the church. (1 Cor 56-8)

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The Purposes of this Action

• 1 Corinthians 56-8 - Your glorying is not good.
  Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the
  whole lump? 7Therefore purge out the old leaven,
  that you may be a new lump, since you truly are
  unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was
  sacrificed for us.

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The Purposes of this Action

• 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
  leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and
  wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
  sincerity and truth.

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The Purposes of this Action

• To cause the erring to repent. (1 Cor 55 2
  Thess 314)

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The Purposes of this Action

• 1 Corinthians 55 - deliver such a one to Satan
  for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit
  may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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The Purposes of this Action

• 2 Thessalonians 314 - And if anyone does not
  obey our word in this epistle, note that person
  and do not keep company with him, that he may be
  ashamed.

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The Purposes of this Action

• To cause the members to examine themselves. (Acts
  51-11 1 Tim 520)

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The Purposes of this Action

• Acts 51-11 - But a certain man named Ananias,
  with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. 2 And
  he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also
  being aware of it, and brought a certain part and
  laid it at the apostles feet. 3 But Peter said,
  Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie
  to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the
  price of the land for yourself?

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The Purposes of this Action

• 11 So great fear came upon all the church and
  upon all who heard these things.

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The Purposes of this Action

• 1 Timothy 520 - Those who are sinning rebuke in
  the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

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The Purposes of this Action

• To show our submission to Christ. (2 Cor 29
  712)

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The Purposes of this Action

• 2 Corinthians 29 - For to this end I also
  wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether
  you are obedient in all things.

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The Purposes of this Action

• 2 Corinthians 712 - Therefore, although I wrote
  to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who
  had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who
  suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the
  sight of God might appear to you.

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The Purposes of this Action

• God tells us "why" will we argue with Him? (Rom
  38)

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The Purposes of this Action

• Romans 38 - And why not say, Let us do evil
  that good may come?as we are slanderously
  reported and as some affirm that we say. Their
  condemnation is just.

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The Purposes of this Action

• If any of the above purposes are accomplished
  God's will is done!

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Not the world but those who are Christians. (1
  Cor 59-11)

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 1 Corinthians 59-11 - I wrote to you in my
  epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral
  people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the
  sexually immoral people of this world, or with
  the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters,
  since then you would need to go out of the world.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 11But now I have written to you not to keep
  company with anyone named a brother, who is
  sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or
  a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortionernot
  even to eat with such a person.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Who should we exhort and rebuke?

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Who should we exhort and rebuke?
• Those who sin against another. (Mt 1815-17)

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Matthew 1815-17 - Moreover if your brother
  sins against you, go and tell him his fault
  between you and him alone. If he hears you, you
  have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not
  hear, take with you one or two more, that by the
  mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
  established.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 17And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the
  church. But if he refuses even to hear the
  church, let him be to you like a heathen and a
  tax collector.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Those who will not repent of sin. (1 Tim 520)

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 1 Timothy 520 - Those who are sinning rebuke in
  the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• "Them which cause division." (Rom 1617)

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Romans 1617 - Now I urge you, brethren, note
  those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary
  to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• "The disorderly." (1 Thess 514)

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 1 Thessalonians 514 - Now we exhort you,
  brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the
  fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with
  all.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• From whom should we withdraw social fellowship?

102
Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• From whom should we withdraw social fellowship?
• Those practicing the works of the flesh. (1 Cor
  511)

103
Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 1 Corinthians 511 - But now I have written to
  you not to keep company with anyone named a
  brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or
  an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an
  extortionernot even to eat with such a person.

104
Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Those who - "walks disorderly... not after the
  tradition" (2 Thess 36)

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 2 Thessalonians 36 - But we command you,
  brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  that you withdraw from every brother who walks
  disorderly and not according to the tradition
  which he received from us.

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Those who will not work. (2 Thess 310-11)

107
Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 2 Thessalonians 310-11 - For even when we were
  with you, we commanded you this If anyone will
  not work, neither shall he eat. 11For we hear
  that there are some who walk among you in a
  disorderly manner, not working at all, but are
  busybodies.

108
Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• Those who will not obey the written word. (2
  Thess 314)

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Who is Subject for this Discipline?

• 2 Thessalonians 314 - And if anyone does not
  obey our word in this epistle, note that person
  and do not keep company with him, that he may be
  ashamed.

110
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• Are we willing to care for others? (1 Cor 65
  Jude 22-23 1 Cor 31-2)

111
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• 1 Corinthians 65 - I say this to your shame. Is
  it so, that there is not a wise man among you,
  not even one, who will be able to judge between
  his brethren?

112
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• Jude 22-23 - And on some have compassion, making
  a distinction 23 but others save with fear,
  pulling them out of the fire, hating even the
  garment defiled by the flesh.

113
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• 1 Corinthians 31-2 - And I, brethren, could not
  speak to you as to spiritual people but as to
  carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with
  milk and not with solid food for until now you
  were not able to receive it, and even now you are
  still not able

114
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• Some questions to consider.

115
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• How long do we wait? What is the best way to
  express ourselves? How will we maintain unity
  in the congregation?

116
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• How long do we wait? What is the best way to
  express ourselves? How will we maintain unity
  in the congregation?
• Real leadership is required to take a principled,
  consistent stand in these areas.

117
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• How long do we wait? What is the best way to
  express ourselves? How will we maintain unity
  in the congregation?
• Real leadership is required to take a principled,
  consistent stand in these areas.
• How will we stand? The answer will determine if
  Christ is our head or not.

118
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• Who will care enough to work with these fallen
  brethren? This is a major responsibility of our
  Shepherds. (Heb 1317)

119
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• Hebrews 1317 - Obey those who rule over you,
  and be submissive, for they watch out for your
  souls, as those who must give account. Let them
  do so with joy and not with grief, for that would
  be unprofitable for you.

120
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• God's way will accomplish God's purposes. Do you
  believe this? (Isa 558-9)

121
A Necessary Key to Implementation Judgment

• Isaiah 558-9 - For My thoughts are not your
  thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways, says the
  LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the
  earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And
  My thoughts than your thoughts.