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 Recording. That's good. Let's give it a go.

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 Alright, well welcome to Sunday School. We are continuing a survey on the beauty of the body.

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 What does it mean to be a part of God's community?

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 And there is an underlying, if you haven't seen it yet, push towards the value of church membership

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 as identifying with and being involved in a local body.

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 And we've talked a little bit about how God has called us not just to himself individually,

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 but to himself into a community.

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 And so part of our identity as Christians is being a part of a body and being part of a community.

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 We've talked a little bit about discipleship and how we should, as members of the body,

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 expect to grow with one another.

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 We have talked, Pastor Greg talked last week about also being a part of the body in terms of serving.

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 Serving one another in the body of Christ, including both finding and using our gifts,

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 as well as thinking about how we are interconnected and interdependent in the body of Christ.

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 How to be the people that God wants us to be recognizing.

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 We both need to, we both need others in our lives and also need them in our lives.

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 And so thinking about, as we come to corporate gatherings, one of the things that all believers should ask is,

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 how am I serving my brothers and sisters?

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 How am I helping them in practical ways, in the ways that I've been particularly gifted or positioned to do?

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 So these have been some of the things we've covered.

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 We've got two more weeks in this class.

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 Today we're going to talk particularly about the role of correction in body life.

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 And then next week, Peter Almo is going to teach us on evangelism and thinking about how we carry out the Great Commission,

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 again, not just as an individual, but also corporately.

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 And thinking about how it is that the body being a part of a community is significant in how we do our outreach.

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 So that's where we've been.

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 That's where we're going.

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 Let me pray as we continue.

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 So, Lord, thank you for this morning and thank you for these dear friends, sisters and brothers who have joined us.

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 We pray that you will be with us this morning as we explore this topic.

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 Help us, Lord, to see the truth of your word.

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 Lord, not only it's truth, but it's goodness.

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 Lord, that we would believe and know that your plans for us as you've called us into your body are good,

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 even when they may be surprising or even when they may be uncomfortable for us.

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 Lord, be with us this morning as we look together at your word.

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 We pray in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 All right.

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 Correction is inherent in the life of a Christian because it is at the very heart of the gospel.

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 The good news of Jesus Christ is that though we have sinned, though we have rebelled against God,

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 though we have forsaken our creator and our sustainer,

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 that we have chosen to go our own way,

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 God has reached out to us to do a work of salvation for us that we could not do for ourselves

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 and to call us to himself.

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 But that call is a call of not just believe and be saved,

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 but biblically to repent and believe.

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 And inherent in that call is a recognition that our sin is not only offensive to God,

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 but bad for us and bad for our world.

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 That it is wrong and evil in its most fundamental substantive ways.

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 It is contrary to God's design and plan.

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 And we need correction because that is our starting point ever since Adam and Eve in the fall of humanity in the Garden of Eden.

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 Ever since humanity rebelled against God,

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 we have needed correction because of the presence of sin in our lives.

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 And at the very heart of the gospel is to say we need this.

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 You guys know this, right?

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 Tim Keller's definition of the gospel is...

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 Not definition.

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 One of the ways that he captures the power of the gospel, let me put it that way, right?

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 Is that you are more sinful than you ever believed.

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 You are worse than you ever thought you would be.

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 But God's love for you is so much greater than you could ever imagine.

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 Right?

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 And so this correction is inherent in the very core of the gospel.

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 And so I want us to start there.

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 Because we live in a world today where we're uncomfortable with correction.

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 We live in a world where we're supposed to live and let live.

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 And oh yeah, every once in a while, societally, we'll hit a place where there's a tipping point.

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 And we think, this is terrible.

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 This is horrible.

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 And you know what?

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 That's right.

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 You know, praise God for some of the issues of sexism and racism that have been raised in our culture recently

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 to expose the evil of sinfulness.

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 That's a good thing.

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 But what we need to recognize is that it actually should be way more common than just a particular movement in a particular day.

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 And it should be common in the everyday interactions of believers in a church because we believe the gospel.

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 Because we know that we're sinners.

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 And because we ought to have the humility because of our sin to know that we don't get it all right.

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 And we don't even know when we don't always get it right.

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 And that's why we need others.

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 That's why we need others.

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 Just so you know, the handouts I've given you, one is meant to be a note page.

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 The other one is just a list of the texts.

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 And I'm sorry, I have the two-sided version.

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 And they're in the order that we're going to talk about them just so we're not flipping because we're kind of going to be all over Scripture a bit today.

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 So I just gave you that as a cheat sheet.

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 And I'm hoping to have some discussion at the end, but there's a lot to get through.

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 So we'll see how far we get.

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 So I want to spend just a few minutes demonstrating to you from Scripture that correction is actually something that you should expect.

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 Because it's in the Scriptures all over the place.

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 When I started looking at this, I thought, oh, this isn't hard to prove from the Scriptures.

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 That we just choose to believe that we just choose to not want this to be true is our problem.

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 So Proverbs 3.12.

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 For the Lord reproves him whom he loves as a father the son in whom he delights.

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 And this is actually the verse that's quoted right in Hebrews 12 as the writer of the Hebrews is exhorting the Hebrew Christians to persevere and to recognize that part of the suffering and the trials they're facing is the Lord's discipline in their life to bring them back to him.

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 So Hebrews 12.

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 And so these verses, again, Old Testament and New Testament,

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 we see that these verses point us to the reality that God loves us too much, just like a loving parent loves their children enough to not let them just do whatever they want, whether it's good or bad.

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 But a parent will discipline their kid for their growth and understanding of righteousness and understanding of what is good and right in the world.

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 So God does that.

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 He exposes our sinfulness and calls us out of it in his disciplining work in our lives.

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 And he does it because he loves us.

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 And he does it because it has a good effect in our lives.

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 It produces.

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 You see what it produces in the Hebrews 12 passage?

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 It produces a sharing in his holiness and a peaceful fruit of righteousness.

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 Gosh, isn't that what we long for in our lives?

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 But recognize that part of what the scriptures are saying is discipline.

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 The discipline of the Lord is something that we should expect in our lives to be able to produce this kind of fruit.

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 So it's not only from the Lord, right?

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 But 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17, well-known verse about the word of God.

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 All scripture is breathed out for God and profitable to encourage us and make us feel better about ourselves and to show us how good God is.

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 Oh, no.

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 Wait, let's read the verse.

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 For teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness that the man of God, generically, that the follower of God, those who are God's, may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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 This is what God has given us his word for.

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 And it's going to correct us, which inherently says there are times when we're wrong and we need to be, we need something different than what we have and what we bring to the table.

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 It's not only the Lord and not only the word, but it's also your leaders.

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 In 2 Timothy 4, Paul's exhortation to Timothy, who was a church leader in Ephesus, was preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching.

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 And then again, in Titus, this is in the list of the qualifications for an elder.

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 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and be able to rebuke those who contradict it.

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 So we should expect correction from the Lord.

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 We should expect correction from the word of God.

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 We should expect correction from our church leadership.

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 And then we should expect it from one another.

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 Right?

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 So I just threw in a couple of verses.

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 You know, the Proverbs 1, whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

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 I just love the verse.

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 I had to put it in there because it's just because we don't like to be known as stupid, but often we are in this area.

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 And it's rare that the Bible uses that word.

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 So I just thought that's.

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 But just to recognize that that in Proverbs, we are exhorted to recognize this.

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 Galatians 6.1.

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 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in the spirit of gentleness.

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 Right?

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 The recognition of restoring means there's something to be restored from.

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 There's an inherent correction in that.

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 And then 2 Thessalonians 3.14 and 15, which is a verse that actually I've spent more time on in preparing for this because I haven't seen it before and thought about it quite.

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 Right?

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 If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person and have nothing to do with him that he may be ashamed.

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 Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

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 There's so much in there.

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 And I'm going to come back to it when we talk about the dynamics of correction and how it works.

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 But recognize how strongly, how strongly deviants from the clear teachings of scripture.

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 Here it's in the context of the apostles' teaching.

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 Right?

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 The apostle Paul is saying, I'm writing to you this church.

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 And if you reject this, you are rejecting the word of God.

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 Right?

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 And we always have to be careful because we are not Paul and we don't write inspired scripture.

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 But we do have the scriptures.

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 And when we go to one another, that is actually the basis upon which we can go to one another.

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 Not, I think you're doing wrong because, well, I think you're doing wrong.

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 But I think you're doing wrong because the word of God, let me show you, let me help you see what is in there.

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 And let me, not on my authority, but on the authority of scripture, call you to turn from it.

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 Let me warn you about the danger of the sin in your life that I'm exposing and bringing correction to.

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 This is not a typical thing.

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 Right?

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 We are uncomfortable with this.

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 I just want to acknowledge that.

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 And, you know, some of us, you know, if you were here last week and Greg was talking about spiritual gifts,

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 some of you are going to have the gifts of mercy and the gifts of compassion and love and, well, let me reframe that.

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 Not compassion and love because I think correction is compassionate and loving too.

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 You may have the gift of mercy and this may be really hard for you.

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 Some of you may have the gift of discernment or the gift of prophecy.

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 And this is actually way too easy for you.

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 In that you have a clear sense of what's going on wrong with everyone around you most of the time and wondering, how much do I say?

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 Okay.

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 So in light of that, 1 Timothy 5.1 is an interesting insight.

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 Timothy exhorts, or Paul exhorts Timothy, do not rebuke an older man, but encourage him as you would a father and younger men as brothers.

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 It's just an interesting recognition that the dynamics of our relationships are important about the tone that we can take.

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 There still can be appropriate correction between any two people in the body of Christ.

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 But there's a contextual sensitivity that I think Paul is exposing here that I think just points to a gentleness and a thinking about appropriateness and aptness.

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 You know, if I, as a 48-year-old man, I'm sitting with, you know, a 24-year-old guy who's coming in and telling me about his life, I might have a position, a particular kind of relationship in that context to speak with a certain kind of freedom or directness.

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 If I'm talking to a 65-year-old man who's walked with the Lord for 40 years, I might take a different tack.

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 It doesn't mean I'm not going to address it, but I might think about how to do it aptly.

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 And there are times when, at the end of the day, I'm saying, there's still correction happening.

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 But it was interesting.

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 And then I just want to remind us, 1 Peter 4.8,

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 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

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 Right?

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 One of the dangers of starting to talk about correction is that we swing from the one pendulum where we live on, which is tolerance.

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 How dare you speak in my life?

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 You don't know me.

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 I can't, you know, you can't tell me what to do.

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 You know, who died and made you king?

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 Like, sort of, all the ways in which our culture resists this at all.

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 And we swing to the other end.

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 And we think, I am now the holiness police in my body.

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 I am now, in this church, going to enforce righteousness and purity in all ways, everywhere.

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 And thankfully, the scriptures help us to see, no, that's not actually.

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 That's not actually what we're supposed to do.

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 That there are lots of sin that can be covered over in love.

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 Offenses against us.

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 And covered over doesn't mean completely ignoring it.

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 What it does mean is recognizing the context of this person's life, thinking through, being compassionate in their content, in the things that they're facing and going through, recognizing strengths and weaknesses.

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 A sharp word from one person might require rebuke.

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 The same word coming from someone else might need to be received with a little bit more patience and grace.

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 We need to recognize that there's a human element here of relationship that we need to be very careful about in terms of how we do this.

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 And yet, part of what we're saying is correction is meant to be a normal part of the Christian life.

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 It is what God is doing with us.

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 It's what God's word is doing with us.

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 It is what our leaders are meant to be doing for us.

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 And it's what, in fact, we are called to be doing for one another.

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 Hey, brother.

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 Hey, sister.

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 I see this in your life.

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 Am I seeing it right?

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 Is that really what's going on?

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 Is that really what you want to be doing?

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 Let's look at this passage together.

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 I don't think the Lord is pleased with this behavior.

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 Don't do this.

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 Turn away.

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 Pointing people to the gospel to say,

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 If you feel stuck in sin, let me help you out of it.

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 If you are hardened in your sin, let me warn you about the foolishness and destructiveness of it.

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 If you're struggling with sin, let me bear your burden with you.

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 But to engage with one another along those lines.

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 At the deep risk of being self-promoting.

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 I preached a sermon back in June on correction in our series on Proverbs.

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 I'm pretty sure it's on the website.

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 And there's a lot more there about practical advice about how to go about this.

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 And some of the how to give correction, how to receive correction, how not to receive correction.

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 Proverbs had a lot to say about how we don't receive correction well.

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 And just exposing that.

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 So I'm just going to, rather than spending the rest of our time there,

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 I actually want to shift into the corporate dimension and deal with what is typically talked about in terms of church discipline.

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 But I want you to see that it's meant to be a part of our everyday life.

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 And when we get to this sort of corporate expression of it,

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 it's the end result of what should be and what God has called us to be as an ongoing dynamic in our everyday lives.

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 This is why it's good to have other believers in our life, by the way.

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 This is why the beauty of the bodies that we have other people close enough to our lives,

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 people who are behind the curtain of our performance facade, our Sunday morning,

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 don't I look good, which we all bring to the table.

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 And, you know, shoot, I get it.

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 We don't want to air all of our dirty laundry all the time.

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 But the reality is that we need people in the body of Christ who are behind the curtain,

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 who see us as we really are and who are able to help us.

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 And this is part of how God has designed us.

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 So then as we move into the corporate part, there are a couple of key passages.

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 You guys are probably familiar with this.

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 But this is what happens when, as sin takes root and embeds itself in a particular person's life,

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 how being a part of the body of Christ, how God has designed us to come around such a person

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 and to help them in that context.

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 The first passage that is well known is Matthew 18.

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 Does someone want to read that for me so I can take a breath?

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 Peter, thank you.

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 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.

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 If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

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 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you

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 that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

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 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.

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 And if he refuses to listen to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

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 Okay.

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 So, this is one of those passages that helps us think through.

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 And part of what I want you to see is what I was just describing about the everyday life of the church

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 and how correction would be a normal part.

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 This is what Jesus is exhorting us to in the step one and even in step two.

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 It's, hey, if you see your brother in sin, go and talk to him.

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 You know?

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 Please don't come tell the pastor, hey, Joe's sinning and I think you need to go fix it.

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 It's really unhelpful.

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 Go to your brother and say, hey, brother, what is this?

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 And again, do it with humility, do it with graciousness, do it with love.

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 But go and talk to them.

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 But it's also interesting that the scriptures here, and Jesus recognizes our weakness.

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 He knows our sinful hearts.

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 And that one of the first things, you see it in the Garden of Eden, one of the first things we do when we're caught in our sin

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 is we deflect and blame, shift, and somehow try to deny that we have a problem.

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 Right?

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 And so Jesus says, if you go to your brother, and obviously this is brother and sister, just so we're all clear.

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 If we go to our brother, sister, and Christ, and we correct them, and they receive it, what does it say?

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 You've gained him.

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 You've restored him into fellowship.

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 You've recognized, man, we are together in this pursuit of Christ and of living a life for his glory.

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 And as this person is turning from sin to Christ, you've gained a brother.

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 What a wonderful blessing.

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 What a wonderful thing.

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 Right?

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 But then Jesus is so wise to recognize, but if he doesn't, you don't say, oh, well, I tried.

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 That's enough.

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 Say no.

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 Bring someone else.

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 Not to gang up on him.

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 Not to increase or heap on shame.

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 But bring someone, hopefully the most appropriate person, someone who's close, someone who knows, that sort of thing, if at all possible.

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 Bring someone else.

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 Bring someone else.

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 So that the other person who you're bringing correction to doesn't think, oh, this is just Jeff's opinion.

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 Jeff thinks this is a terrible thing.

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 And, you know, I disagree with him.

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 So, forget that.

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 You know, you bring someone else and Jeff and Daniel are coming to me and I'm like, oh, that's not just Jeff's thing.

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 I thought Jeff didn't like me, but I guess he does.

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 And Daniel likes me too.

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 But they're both saying the same thing.

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 Right?

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 There's a weightiness to bringing others in.

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 It goes all the way back to Deuteronomy.

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 And Deuteronomy 19 talks about establishing something by more than one witness, by two witnesses.

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 And it's wisdom so that we don't fall into witch hunts and fall into, again, taking on the mantle of I alone will be the sole enforcer of all holiness and righteousness in our body.

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 Which is not helpful.

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 Right?

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 But it is recognizing that when two come, there's a weightiness to it.

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 And, again, Jesus is so gracious to recognize if he refuses to listen to them, then tell it to the church.

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 And that is bring it to the body.

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 Bring it to the larger community and expose.

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 Because one of the things that sin loves to do is to hide.

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 We love to hide our sin.

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 And part of the purpose of exposing it, just like in a wound when there is infection and it's festering under, part of what you do is you open it up and you expose it so that there may be healing.

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 The exposure in the larger body is not for the purpose of heaping shame on someone, but it is for their healing.

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 Although, really interestingly, did you see, look back up to 2 Thessalonians 3.

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 So striking.

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 Take note of that person, have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.

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 I don't know if you've done any reading about shame and righteousness, shame and truth, and how the Western culture for hundreds of years has been about righteousness and about sort of being right or wrong and that sort of thing.

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 And how sort of typically culturally in the Eastern, in other cultures, non-Western cultures, shame has been a much larger dynamic of culture.

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 And one of the things that I think is very interesting today is that our culture is shifting and is a weird mix of truth and honor, shame and unrighteousness or condemnation.

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 And it's a fascinating dynamic for us to recognize.

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 But I read 2 Thessalonians 3 and my first response was, wow, it's actually, the Bible is saying that someone who is being publicly, their sin is to such a degree that it's being publicly, brought publicly to the church.

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 They actually ought to be ashamed of their sin.

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 That's actually part of the purpose of this.

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 And I had this cultural reaction of, whoa, I never want to bring shame on someone.

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 That's always a bad thing.

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 And interestingly, the Bible says, no, actually, sin is something to be ashamed of.

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 Not to be buried by.

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 You're not meant to be buried by that shame.

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 You're not meant to be crushed by the condemnation that often comes with that feeling of shame.

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 But to recognize that sin is shameful.

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 It denies the glory of God.

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 It's destructive in our lives and in the lives of others.

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 We ought to be ashamed of it.

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 And when we expose it, there is some of that.

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 And we ought not to, as much as we don't want that to be our spirit of wanting to shame someone,

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 we want to recognize that a loving exposure of sin may bring shame to the one who's being exposed.

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 Now, I just want to say, we need to do this very carefully because our hearts are so wicked.

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 We love to sit in the judge, jury, and executioner seat.

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 And if we are loving someone and they're not responding, it's easy for us to get frustrated.

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 And it's easy for us to somehow want to, it becomes a battle to win or it becomes a battle to prevail that your view is right.

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 There's so many ways in which we can do this poorly.

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 And so we want to be on guard against that.

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 But not to the degree that we don't do it.

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 If you're a member here, you know that we do this in our congregational meetings.

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 There have been times when we have brought people to the church to say,

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 this is someone who we want to bring to your attention.

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 We have told it to the church for your prayers, for your encouragement, so that you can come around them.

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 Again, the goal of this, you see it all the way through the map,

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 the goal of this is that you may win him back or her back,

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 that you would turn this person back to wholehearted following of the Lord and obedience.

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 You're calling them to repent of their sin and return to the gospel that they believe.

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 You know, again, the second Thessalonians passage,

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 don't regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

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 This is what we're doing.

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 We're saying, don't do this, don't continue.

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 Because at the end of the day, if you do not turn, this is the last step in the process, verses 17.

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 At the end, if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

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 Now, what does that mean?

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 What that means, the best understanding of it, I believe,

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 is to read that as saying,

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 your profession of faith has been so compromised by your behavior and your unwillingness

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 to take hold of the gospel in repenting from that sin and seeking to change

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 that we no longer have confidence that you are a Christian.

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 That's a weighty thing to say.

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 We are not declaring ultimate, you are not a Christian.

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 We don't have that power.

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 But we are saying, the profession of faith that you have, we can no longer,

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 we can no longer affirm.

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 And as we talk about membership in this church,

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 becoming a member is covenanting together to pursue following Christ together.

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 And if someone comes to a point where they say,

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 no, I love sin more than I love Christ.

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 And if we have been patient, and if we have been persistent,

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 and if we have been loving, and if we have been helpful,

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 and there has been due process along the way,

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 and we bring this to, and we get to this point,

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 we say, we still love this person,

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 but we can no longer treat them as a believer.

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 We can no longer fellowship with them.

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 And that's really hard for us.

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 It's really hard for us.

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 It's hard for us because it's public,

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 and because it affects every nature of our lives.

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 Every aspect of our lives and our relationship with this person.

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 I want to go on and look at the other verses quickly.

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 Titus 3.10,

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 Warn a divisive person once, then warn him a second time.

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 After that, have nothing to do with him.

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 This is the second time we've seen this phrase,

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 have nothing to do with him.

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 Then when we get into the 2 Corinthians 5 passage,

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 it's a long passage,

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 but I want you to see that it is a,

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 well, let me read it so we can look at it together.

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 The 1 Corinthians 5.

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 Obviously, there is a kind of sin going on

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 that was publicly known in the church.

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 He says,

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 It's actually reported to you that there is sexual immorality among you,

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 and the kind that is not even tolerated among the pagans.

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 For a man has his father's wife,

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 and you are arrogant.

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 Ought you not rather to mourn?

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 Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

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 For though I am absent in the body,

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 I am present in spirit.

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 As if present,

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 I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.

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 When you are assembled in the name,

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 there's a random B in there,

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 assembled in the name of Lord Jesus,

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 and my spirit is present,

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 with the power of our Lord Jesus,

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 you are to deliver this man to Satan

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 for the destruction of the flesh,

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 so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

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 Then 6 through 8 is using an imagery

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 to talk about cleaning out the leaven.

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 It's a whole Old Testament passage about purity,

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 and the purity of God's people

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 that literally had to do with leaven in the bread,

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 but it was a symbol of their spiritual purity,

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 and their wholehearted obedience to the Lord.

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 But it's very clear,

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 you've got to clean it out.

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 You can't tolerate the leaven,

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 because it's going to destroy what you have.

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 And then he goes on in 9,

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 I wrote to you in my letter

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 not to associate with sexually immoral people,

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 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world,

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 or the greedier swindlers or idolaters,

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 since then you need to go out of this world.

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 But I am writing to you

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 not to associate with anyone

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 who bears the name of brother,

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 if he is guilty of sexual immorality

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 or greed or an idolater,

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 or reviler,

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 or drunkard,

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 or swindler,

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 not even to eat with such a one.

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 For what do I have to do

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 with judging outsiders?

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 Is it not those inside the church

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 whom you are to judge?

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 God judges those outside,

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 purge the evil one,

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 evil person from among you.

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 So there's a lot here,

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 but part of what I want you to hear

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 is the weight that Paul brings.

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 This sin is public.

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 It is being tolerated by the congregation.

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 It is clearly wrong,

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 so clearly wrong

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 that even the culture recognizes it,

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 although that's not the standard.

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 That's not why it's wrong.

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 We don't let the culture dictate

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 what's a disciplinable offense,

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 but we recognize that

00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.180
 he's saying,

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 even people who don't know God

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 know how wrong this is.

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 Gosh, how much should you who do know God

00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:38.539
 understand how wrong this is?

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 Some of the other distinctions

00:34:41.380 --> 00:34:42.539
 that he makes here,

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 I'm not talking about judging the world

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 for being sinful people.

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 We know that.

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 That's not my,

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 in fact, there's 13.

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 God will do that.

00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:53.219
 God is the judge.

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 But for those of us

00:34:54.779 --> 00:34:56.039
 in the body of Christ,

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 for those who name the name of Christ,

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 we actually are to

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 exercise discernment,

00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:05.539
 to judge,

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 to make decisions.

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 Judging is a strong word,

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 right?

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 And all we can think of

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 is Matthew 7, 1.

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 Judge not lest you be judged,

00:35:13.180 --> 00:35:13.380
 right?

00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:14.539
 That just comes to our mind.

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 We're like,

00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:15.780
 well, how can I do that?

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 Well, interestingly,

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 all right,

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 you've got to put Jesus' words

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 in context.

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 Do not think that you are

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 in the position of sitting

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 in ultimate judgment

00:35:24.099 --> 00:35:25.340
 on other people's lives.

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 That's what Jesus is saying.

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 But there's a much more nuanced

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:29.820
 view of this,

00:35:29.860 --> 00:35:30.900
 and this is where you see it

00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:31.579
 most clearly.

00:35:32.099 --> 00:35:33.260
 As brothers and sisters,

00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:34.680
 we actually are to

00:35:34.680 --> 00:35:36.580
 think about

00:35:36.580 --> 00:35:37.860
 and lovingly

00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:38.980
 recognize

00:35:38.980 --> 00:35:40.180
 and evaluate

00:35:40.180 --> 00:35:41.420
 what's going on

00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:42.280
 in the lives of those

00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:42.800
 around us

00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:43.460
 whom we love,

00:35:43.580 --> 00:35:44.600
 who are part of our body.

00:35:45.260 --> 00:35:46.460
 We are actually

00:35:46.460 --> 00:35:47.320
 to judge them.

00:35:49.620 --> 00:35:50.980
 And when it's clear,

00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:53.400
 and when it's sustained,

00:35:53.820 --> 00:35:55.360
 and when it's unrepentant,

00:35:56.160 --> 00:35:57.560
 the consequences

00:35:57.560 --> 00:35:58.560
 are serious.

00:35:58.980 --> 00:35:59.860
 We are to put them out.

00:35:59.860 --> 00:36:00.260
 He says,

00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:01.620
 to deliver them over to Satan,

00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:03.160
 which I think means

00:36:03.160 --> 00:36:04.460
 we are removing them

00:36:04.460 --> 00:36:06.220
 from the normal means of grace

00:36:06.220 --> 00:36:07.280
 within the church,

00:36:07.340 --> 00:36:08.519
 and as a member

00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:10.460
 of the body of Christ,

00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:11.620
 we are delivering them

00:36:11.620 --> 00:36:13.019
 over to the world,

00:36:13.200 --> 00:36:13.960
 to the domain

00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:15.340
 outside the church,

00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:17.360
 in hopes that

00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:18.519
 they may see

00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:19.900
 how barren

00:36:19.900 --> 00:36:20.780
 the world

00:36:20.780 --> 00:36:21.680
 apart from Christ

00:36:21.680 --> 00:36:22.500
 really is.

00:36:22.700 --> 00:36:23.940
 So that they may see

00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:25.120
 the foolishness

00:36:25.120 --> 00:36:27.140
 of continuing in sin.

00:36:27.380 --> 00:36:29.200
 So that they may turn back

00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:30.659
 and be restored.

00:36:32.799 --> 00:36:33.819
 So that they're,

00:36:34.819 --> 00:36:36.480
 though in their body

00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:37.339
 they may reap

00:36:37.339 --> 00:36:38.199
 the consequences

00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:39.039
 of their sin,

00:36:39.279 --> 00:36:40.099
 their spirit

00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:41.139
 will be renewed

00:36:41.139 --> 00:36:42.980
 as they are removed

00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:43.839
 for a time

00:36:43.839 --> 00:36:44.960
 from

00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:46.519
 the fellowship

00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:47.159
 of believers.

00:36:48.099 --> 00:36:49.599
 And they may come back

00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:51.119
 in humility

00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:51.960
 and in repentance.

00:36:51.960 --> 00:37:00.960
 recognize that...

00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.599
 Yes, Jeff.

00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:04.980
 I just wondered

00:37:04.980 --> 00:37:05.679
 if maybe

00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:06.900
 you could

00:37:06.900 --> 00:37:08.800
 talk a little bit

00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:09.639
 about the language

00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:10.099
 in

00:37:10.099 --> 00:37:12.280
 verse 11

00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:12.780
 when

00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:15.559
 Paul says

00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:18.420
 if anyone is guilty

00:37:18.420 --> 00:37:18.940
 of

00:37:18.940 --> 00:37:19.240
 at

00:37:19.240 --> 00:37:19.440
 Patsy

00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:19.460
 Patsy

00:37:19.460 --> 00:37:21.220
 just because

00:37:21.220 --> 00:37:22.260
 I think that needs

00:37:22.260 --> 00:37:22.960
 a little clarification

00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:23.980
 because if we

00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:25.400
 think about

00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:26.840
 the Sermon on the Mount

00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:27.960
 and Jesus taking

00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.440
 great pains

00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:30.980
 to

00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:32.760
 communicate

00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:33.420
 how we're all

00:37:33.420 --> 00:37:34.400
 guilty of these things

00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:35.159
 so

00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:35.800
 we're all

00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:36.159
 in which

00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:36.440
 we need

00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:37.760
 some

00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:38.619
 clarification.

00:37:38.619 --> 00:37:39.420
 Yes.

00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:40.400
 Yes.

00:37:41.539 --> 00:37:41.920
 No.

00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:43.039
 I

00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:44.099
 completely

00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:44.719
 agree.

00:37:46.339 --> 00:37:46.359
 And

00:37:46.359 --> 00:37:48.779
 there's

00:37:48.779 --> 00:37:49.759
 anything in my notes

00:37:49.759 --> 00:37:50.699
 that I'm going to say

00:37:50.699 --> 00:37:51.199
 and I...

00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:56.460
 Yes.

00:37:57.579 --> 00:37:58.259
 So here's

00:37:58.259 --> 00:37:59.259
 where

00:37:59.259 --> 00:38:01.059
 in the history

00:38:01.059 --> 00:38:01.599
 of the church

00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:02.719
 as we have thought

00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:03.559
 and as people

00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:04.179
 have talked about

00:38:04.179 --> 00:38:04.859
 how do you

00:38:04.859 --> 00:38:06.579
 seek to do this?

00:38:06.699 --> 00:38:06.799
 Right?

00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.380
 Paul just kind of

00:38:08.380 --> 00:38:09.140
 gives a litany

00:38:09.140 --> 00:38:09.600
 of things

00:38:09.600 --> 00:38:09.900
 and says

00:38:09.900 --> 00:38:10.380
 well if you do

00:38:10.380 --> 00:38:10.820
 these things

00:38:10.820 --> 00:38:11.280
 you're out.

00:38:11.660 --> 00:38:11.740
 Right?

00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.720
 That's our first

00:38:12.720 --> 00:38:13.300
 reaction

00:38:13.300 --> 00:38:14.260
 in that.

00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:14.700
 And then you

00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:15.260
 take Jesus

00:38:15.260 --> 00:38:16.060
 and you overlay

00:38:16.060 --> 00:38:17.019
 that into the heart

00:38:17.019 --> 00:38:17.960
 and you think

00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:19.039
 whoa man

00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:20.039
 like well shoot

00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:20.860
 aren't we all

00:38:20.860 --> 00:38:21.220
 then

00:38:21.220 --> 00:38:22.120
 disciplinable

00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:23.039
 and cast out

00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:24.120
 because we know

00:38:24.120 --> 00:38:24.720
 the dynamics

00:38:24.720 --> 00:38:25.120
 of our heart

00:38:25.120 --> 00:38:25.800
 even if we don't

00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:26.300
 cherish it

00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:27.460
 even if we don't

00:38:27.460 --> 00:38:28.120
 act on it

00:38:28.120 --> 00:38:28.980
 we recognize

00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:29.740
 like wow

00:38:29.740 --> 00:38:30.480
 like there but

00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:31.019
 for the grace

00:38:31.019 --> 00:38:31.460
 of God

00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:32.000
 yo I

00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:33.320
 I am a sinner

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:34.220
 who will continue

00:38:34.220 --> 00:38:34.880
 to have

00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:36.160
 hatred and anger

00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:36.859
 and lust

00:38:36.859 --> 00:38:37.579
 in my heart

00:38:37.579 --> 00:38:38.359
 at times.

00:38:39.219 --> 00:38:39.359
 Right?

00:38:40.179 --> 00:38:41.319
 So the Christian

00:38:41.319 --> 00:38:42.339
 life is not

00:38:42.339 --> 00:38:42.739
 one of

00:38:42.739 --> 00:38:43.379
 perfect

00:38:43.379 --> 00:38:44.239
 perfection

00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:45.559
 or of

00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:46.559
 perfect obedience

00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:47.699
 the Christian

00:38:47.699 --> 00:38:48.500
 life is one

00:38:48.500 --> 00:38:49.079
 of growth

00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:49.739
 and righteousness

00:38:49.739 --> 00:38:52.159
 and growth

00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:52.719
 and righteousness

00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:53.440
 includes

00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:54.399
 the ongoing

00:38:54.399 --> 00:38:55.179
 recognition

00:38:55.179 --> 00:38:55.859
 of

00:38:55.859 --> 00:38:57.539
 our sinfulness

00:38:57.539 --> 00:38:58.879
 a confession

00:38:58.879 --> 00:38:59.379
 of it

00:38:59.379 --> 00:39:00.119
 as sin

00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:00.920
 a repentance

00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:01.679
 from it

00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:02.179
 which is a

00:39:02.179 --> 00:39:03.099
 choosing to

00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:03.779
 turn away

00:39:03.779 --> 00:39:04.259
 from it

00:39:04.259 --> 00:39:04.879
 rather than

00:39:04.879 --> 00:39:05.699
 cherishing it

00:39:05.699 --> 00:39:07.000
 and a pursuit

00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:07.659
 of righteousness

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:08.799
 growing in

00:39:08.799 --> 00:39:09.419
 those things

00:39:09.419 --> 00:39:10.939
 we talk about

00:39:10.939 --> 00:39:11.500
 progressive

00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:12.359
 sanctification

00:39:12.359 --> 00:39:13.019
 right?

00:39:13.179 --> 00:39:13.960
 This is real

00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:14.960
 in the Christian

00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:15.279
 life

00:39:15.279 --> 00:39:16.039
 we are to

00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:16.819
 grow towards

00:39:16.819 --> 00:39:17.299
 godliness

00:39:17.299 --> 00:39:17.839
 we should

00:39:17.839 --> 00:39:18.639
 expect to

00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:19.079
 do that

00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:20.559
 but it does

00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:21.039
 not mean

00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:21.579
 perfection

00:39:21.579 --> 00:39:22.559
 but what it

00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:22.919
 does mean

00:39:22.919 --> 00:39:23.519
 is when we

00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:23.960
 fail

00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:24.899
 we admit it

00:39:24.899 --> 00:39:25.639
 we recognize

00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:25.939
 it

00:39:25.939 --> 00:39:26.399
 we go to

00:39:26.399 --> 00:39:26.980
 the cross

00:39:26.980 --> 00:39:27.399
 to find

00:39:27.399 --> 00:39:28.000
 the forgiveness

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:28.659
 that we

00:39:28.659 --> 00:39:29.599
 desperately

00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:30.079
 need

00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:30.939
 and we also

00:39:30.939 --> 00:39:31.619
 go to the cross

00:39:31.619 --> 00:39:32.219
 to find the

00:39:32.219 --> 00:39:32.639
 power

00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:33.759
 to forsake

00:39:33.759 --> 00:39:34.199
 sin

00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:35.559
 and to

00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:35.879
 pursue

00:39:35.879 --> 00:39:36.460
 righteousness

00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:38.779
 and

00:39:38.779 --> 00:39:40.239
 when we

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:41.579
 bring things

00:39:41.579 --> 00:39:41.960
 to this

00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:42.299
 level

00:39:42.299 --> 00:39:42.739
 right

00:39:42.739 --> 00:39:45.159
 sins

00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:45.460
 that

00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:46.279
 reach

00:39:46.279 --> 00:39:46.519
 the

00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:46.839
 corporate

00:39:46.839 --> 00:39:47.279
 level

00:39:47.279 --> 00:39:47.659
 of

00:39:47.659 --> 00:39:48.400
 discipline

00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:49.579
 are outward

00:39:49.579 --> 00:39:50.920
 are serious

00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:51.420
 and are

00:39:51.420 --> 00:39:52.179
 unrepentant

00:39:52.179 --> 00:39:53.139
 okay

00:39:53.139 --> 00:39:54.339
 I stole

00:39:54.339 --> 00:39:54.920
 this from

00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:55.500
 Jonathan

00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:55.920
 Lehman

00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:56.299
 he has a

00:39:56.299 --> 00:39:56.659
 book over

00:39:56.659 --> 00:39:56.879
 on the

00:39:56.879 --> 00:39:57.299
 bookstall

00:39:57.299 --> 00:39:57.599
 called

00:39:57.599 --> 00:39:57.879
 Church

00:39:57.879 --> 00:39:58.739
 Discipline

00:39:58.739 --> 00:39:59.259
 it's a

00:39:59.259 --> 00:39:59.699
 great little

00:39:59.699 --> 00:39:59.920
 book

00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:00.359
 it's got a

00:40:00.359 --> 00:40:00.900
 great summary

00:40:00.900 --> 00:40:01.160
 of all

00:40:01.160 --> 00:40:01.380
 these

00:40:01.380 --> 00:40:01.800
 things

00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:02.460
 but as

00:40:02.460 --> 00:40:02.880
 we think

00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:03.119
 about

00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:03.340
 these

00:40:03.340 --> 00:40:03.660
 so

00:40:03.660 --> 00:40:04.139
 outward

00:40:04.139 --> 00:40:05.160
 I can't

00:40:05.160 --> 00:40:05.539
 sit in

00:40:05.539 --> 00:40:05.940
 judgment

00:40:05.940 --> 00:40:06.380
 of someone

00:40:06.380 --> 00:40:06.720
 else's

00:40:06.720 --> 00:40:07.039
 heart

00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:08.180
 I can

00:40:08.180 --> 00:40:08.519
 say

00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:08.860
 I've

00:40:08.860 --> 00:40:09.019
 heard

00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:09.160
 you

00:40:09.160 --> 00:40:09.340
 say

00:40:09.340 --> 00:40:09.559
 these

00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:09.960
 words

00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:10.360
 I can

00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:10.579
 say

00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:10.840
 I've

00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:11.119
 seen

00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:11.280
 you

00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:11.420
 do

00:40:11.420 --> 00:40:11.660
 these

00:40:11.660 --> 00:40:12.019
 things

00:40:12.019 --> 00:40:12.320
 I've

00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:12.519
 seen

00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:12.660
 you

00:40:12.660 --> 00:40:13.079
 express

00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:13.380
 these

00:40:13.380 --> 00:40:13.840
 attitudes

00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:14.500
 I

00:40:14.500 --> 00:40:14.780
 cannot

00:40:14.780 --> 00:40:15.139
 tell

00:40:15.139 --> 00:40:15.320
 you

00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:15.539
 what

00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:15.800
 is

00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:15.920
 in

00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:16.059
 your

00:40:16.059 --> 00:40:16.420
 heart

00:40:16.420 --> 00:40:20.139
 but I

00:40:20.139 --> 00:40:20.440
 can't

00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:20.680
 ask

00:40:20.680 --> 00:40:20.800
 you

00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:21.059
 what's

00:40:21.059 --> 00:40:21.180
 in

00:40:21.180 --> 00:40:21.320
 your

00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:21.619
 heart

00:40:21.619 --> 00:40:23.079
 and

00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:23.240
 if

00:40:23.240 --> 00:40:23.420
 you

00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:23.700
 tell

00:40:23.700 --> 00:40:23.980
 me

00:40:23.980 --> 00:40:24.280
 no

00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:24.440
 I

00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:24.700
 won't

00:40:24.700 --> 00:40:24.880
 give

00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:25.019
 up

00:40:25.019 --> 00:40:25.240
 this

00:40:25.240 --> 00:40:25.639
 immoral

00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:26.260
 relationship

00:40:26.260 --> 00:40:26.920
 because

00:40:30.900 --> 00:40:31.340
 realize

00:40:31.340 --> 00:40:32.099
 that

00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:33.780
 Colossians

00:40:33.780 --> 00:40:34.019
 3

00:40:34.019 --> 00:40:34.320
 tells

00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:34.460
 you

00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:34.639
 that

00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:34.900
 Jesus

00:40:34.900 --> 00:40:35.180
 is

00:40:35.180 --> 00:40:35.320
 your

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:35.660
 life

00:40:35.660 --> 00:40:37.680
 and

00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:37.840
 they

00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:38.099
 say

00:40:38.099 --> 00:40:38.360
 I

00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:38.599
 know

00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:39.059
 but

00:40:39.059 --> 00:40:40.059
 I

00:40:40.059 --> 00:40:40.260
 want

00:40:40.260 --> 00:40:40.480
 this

00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:40.680
 more

00:40:40.680 --> 00:40:40.920
 than

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:41.380
 more

00:40:41.380 --> 00:40:41.579
 than

00:40:41.579 --> 00:40:41.880
 Jesus

00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:43.280
 then

00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:43.940
 I'm

00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:44.180
 not

00:40:44.180 --> 00:40:44.960
 judging

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:45.220
 them

00:40:45.220 --> 00:40:45.400
 on

00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:45.619
 what

00:40:45.619 --> 00:40:45.880
 I

00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:46.280
 think

00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:46.460
 is

00:40:46.460 --> 00:40:46.599
 in

00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:46.760
 their

00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:47.079
 heart

00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:48.300
 I

00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:48.420
 am

00:40:48.420 --> 00:40:48.579
 now

00:40:48.579 --> 00:40:48.860
 making

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:49.039
 a

00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:49.260
 judgment

00:40:49.260 --> 00:40:49.579
 based

00:40:49.579 --> 00:40:49.740
 on

00:40:49.740 --> 00:40:49.920
 what

00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:50.059
 they

00:40:50.059 --> 00:40:50.240
 have

00:40:50.240 --> 00:40:50.579
 told

00:40:50.579 --> 00:40:50.860
 me

00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:51.559
 about

00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:51.800
 what

00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:51.960
 their

00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:52.420
 position

00:40:52.420 --> 00:40:52.740
 is

00:40:52.740 --> 00:40:53.099
 Jeff

00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:53.300
 are

00:40:53.300 --> 00:40:53.460
 you

00:40:53.460 --> 00:40:53.800
 I

00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:54.200
 genuinely

00:40:54.200 --> 00:40:54.460
 did

00:40:54.460 --> 00:40:54.660
 not

00:40:54.660 --> 00:40:54.920
 ask

00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:55.079
 this

00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:55.400
 question

00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:55.639
 so

00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:55.840
 that

00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:57.480
 I'm

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:57.660
 sure

00:40:57.660 --> 00:40:57.860
 you

00:40:57.860 --> 00:40:58.079
 did

00:40:58.079 --> 00:40:58.319
 but

00:40:58.319 --> 00:40:58.519
 you're

00:40:58.519 --> 00:40:58.639
 an

00:40:58.639 --> 00:40:58.860
 elder

00:40:58.860 --> 00:40:59.179
 so

00:40:59.179 --> 00:40:59.559
 speak

00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:00.159
 please

00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:00.360
 I

00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:00.699
 appreciate

00:41:00.699 --> 00:41:00.960
 it

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:01.719
 obviously

00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:03.860
 as we

00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:04.319
 sin as

00:41:04.319 --> 00:41:04.799
 Christians

00:41:04.799 --> 00:41:05.119
 and as

00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:05.259
 we

00:41:05.259 --> 00:41:05.659
 confess

00:41:05.659 --> 00:41:05.920
 our

00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:06.219
 sin

00:41:06.219 --> 00:41:06.619
 the

00:41:06.619 --> 00:41:06.900
 guilt

00:41:06.900 --> 00:41:07.139
 of

00:41:07.139 --> 00:41:07.599
 sin

00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:08.759
 is

00:41:08.759 --> 00:41:09.000
 on

00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:09.539
 sin

00:41:09.539 --> 00:41:11.079
 and

00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:11.299
 so

00:41:11.299 --> 00:41:11.639
 in

00:41:11.639 --> 00:41:12.019
 a sense

00:41:12.019 --> 00:41:12.259
 we're

00:41:12.259 --> 00:41:12.500
 not

00:41:12.500 --> 00:41:12.880
 guilty

00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:13.099
 of

00:41:13.099 --> 00:41:13.259
 that

00:41:13.259 --> 00:41:13.579
 we're

00:41:13.579 --> 00:41:13.799
 not

00:41:13.799 --> 00:41:14.519
 paying

00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:14.900
 at least

00:41:14.900 --> 00:41:15.199
 for the

00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:15.400
 guilt

00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:15.559
 of

00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:15.739
 that

00:41:15.739 --> 00:41:16.000
 sin

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:16.199
 but

00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:16.380
 if

00:41:16.380 --> 00:41:16.539
 we

00:41:16.539 --> 00:41:16.940
 stand

00:41:16.940 --> 00:41:17.059
 in

00:41:17.059 --> 00:41:17.219
 the

00:41:17.219 --> 00:41:17.500
 sin

00:41:17.500 --> 00:41:18.420
 and

00:41:18.420 --> 00:41:18.599
 we're

00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:19.039
 confronted

00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:19.340
 by

00:41:19.340 --> 00:41:19.619
 our

00:41:19.619 --> 00:41:20.480
 church

00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:20.920
 family

00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:21.259
 in

00:41:21.259 --> 00:41:21.460
 this

00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:21.819
 case

00:41:21.819 --> 00:41:22.579
 and

00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:22.739
 we

00:41:22.739 --> 00:41:22.980
 say

00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:23.299
 no

00:41:23.299 --> 00:41:23.699
 you're

00:41:23.699 --> 00:41:23.960
 wrong

00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:24.219
 and I

00:41:24.219 --> 00:41:24.539
 stand

00:41:24.539 --> 00:41:24.659
 in

00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.159
 I

00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:29.420
 think

00:41:29.420 --> 00:41:29.579
 that

00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:29.819
 helps

00:41:29.819 --> 00:41:30.000
 me

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:30.199
 make

00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:30.480
 sense

00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:30.599
 of

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:30.840
 this

00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:32.019
 language

00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:32.299
 here

00:41:32.299 --> 00:41:32.480
 which

00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:32.840
 of course

00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:33.179
 is a

00:41:33.179 --> 00:41:33.579
 translation

00:41:33.579 --> 00:41:34.119
 anyway

00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:34.380
 so

00:41:34.380 --> 00:41:34.619
 who

00:41:34.619 --> 00:41:34.880
 knows

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.159
 but

00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:37.099
 I

00:41:37.099 --> 00:41:37.559
 think

00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:37.880
 in that

00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:38.199
 sense

00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:38.840
 we have

00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:39.179
 to say

00:41:39.179 --> 00:41:39.500
 okay

00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:40.360
 if you're

00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:40.559
 not

00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:41.259
 repenting

00:41:41.259 --> 00:41:41.860
 and you're

00:41:41.860 --> 00:41:42.340
 not taking

00:41:42.340 --> 00:41:42.639
 this

00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:43.519
 to Jesus

00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:43.960
 then

00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:44.619
 it's

00:41:44.619 --> 00:41:45.119
 on you

00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:45.639
 and that's

00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:46.079
 a bad

00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:46.619
 place

00:41:46.619 --> 00:41:47.079
 to be

00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:48.119
 right

00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:49.440
 on you

00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:49.880
 and so

00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:50.480
 we're

00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:50.639
 going to

00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:51.380
 have to

00:41:51.380 --> 00:41:52.139
 eventually

00:41:52.139 --> 00:41:53.019
 disassociate

00:41:53.019 --> 00:41:53.480
 ourselves

00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:54.319
 with you

00:41:54.319 --> 00:41:54.639
 in that

00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:54.920
 case

00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:55.159
 right

00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:56.480
 the tricky

00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:56.840
 part of

00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:57.119
 that is

00:41:57.119 --> 00:41:57.380
 we have

00:41:57.380 --> 00:41:57.619
 to be

00:41:57.619 --> 00:41:57.960
 very

00:41:57.960 --> 00:41:58.280
 careful

00:41:58.280 --> 00:41:58.519
 about

00:41:58.519 --> 00:41:58.720
 our

00:41:58.720 --> 00:41:59.480
 definition

00:41:59.480 --> 00:41:59.679
 of

00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:00.240
 sanctification

00:42:00.240 --> 00:42:00.519
 here

00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:00.940
 because

00:42:00.940 --> 00:42:02.579
 for a

00:42:02.579 --> 00:42:02.740
 true

00:42:02.740 --> 00:42:03.139
 believer

00:42:03.139 --> 00:42:03.940
 our

00:42:03.940 --> 00:42:04.480
 confession

00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:04.900
 is not

00:42:04.900 --> 00:42:05.079
 the

00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:05.519
 our

00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:06.179
 repentance

00:42:06.179 --> 00:42:06.619
 is not

00:42:06.619 --> 00:42:07.079
 the basis

00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:07.460
 of our

00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:07.880
 forgiveness

00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:08.619
 it's the

00:42:08.619 --> 00:42:08.940
 work of

00:42:08.940 --> 00:42:09.199
 Christ

00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:09.539
 it's the

00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:09.820
 basis

00:42:09.820 --> 00:42:10.179
 of our

00:42:10.179 --> 00:42:10.579
 forgiveness

00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:11.440
 but an

00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:12.079
 ongoing

00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:12.780
 denial

00:42:12.780 --> 00:42:14.320
 of that

00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:14.820
 forgiveness

00:42:14.820 --> 00:42:15.679
 an ongoing

00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:16.860
 forsaking

00:42:16.860 --> 00:42:17.460
 of what

00:42:17.460 --> 00:42:18.139
 Christ has

00:42:18.139 --> 00:42:18.539
 done in

00:42:18.539 --> 00:42:18.960
 freeing us

00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:19.639
 from sin

00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:21.220
 brings us

00:42:21.220 --> 00:42:21.539
 to a point

00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:21.720
 where we

00:42:21.720 --> 00:42:22.159
 think I

00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:22.599
 don't know

00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:23.099
 how you

00:42:23.099 --> 00:42:23.559
 can say

00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:23.860
 that you

00:42:23.860 --> 00:42:24.340
 believe the

00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:24.760
 gospel

00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:25.619
 and still

00:42:25.619 --> 00:42:26.139
 cling to

00:42:26.139 --> 00:42:26.420
 this

00:42:26.420 --> 00:42:26.780
 sin

00:42:26.780 --> 00:42:28.560
 and that's

00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:28.800
 where

00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:29.260
 right

00:42:29.260 --> 00:42:29.980
 so I

00:42:29.980 --> 00:42:30.280
 want to

00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:30.480
 nuance

00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:30.780
 it

00:42:30.780 --> 00:42:31.260
 but yes

00:42:31.260 --> 00:42:31.680
 I think

00:42:31.680 --> 00:42:32.000
 that's

00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:32.280
 right

00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:32.560
 that's

00:42:32.560 --> 00:42:32.920
 a helpful

00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:33.380
 picture

00:42:33.380 --> 00:42:34.700
 I want to

00:42:34.700 --> 00:42:35.000
 get through

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:35.620
 just two

00:42:35.620 --> 00:42:36.200
 more things

00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:37.800
 and then we

00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:38.340
 can open

00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:38.840
 this up

00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:40.519
 one is

00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:40.880
 I want to

00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:41.240
 just talk

00:42:41.240 --> 00:42:41.900
 briefly about

00:42:41.900 --> 00:42:42.300
 what's the

00:42:42.300 --> 00:42:42.840
 purpose of

00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:43.140
 this

00:42:43.140 --> 00:42:43.640
 right

00:42:43.640 --> 00:42:44.380
 we've already

00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:44.840
 talked about

00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:45.200
 it some

00:42:45.200 --> 00:42:46.200
 the primary

00:42:46.200 --> 00:42:46.940
 purpose of

00:42:46.940 --> 00:42:47.800
 correction

00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:48.840
 is to

00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:49.360
 bring

00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:50.580
 is

00:42:50.580 --> 00:42:51.200
 restoration

00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:52.380
 the primary

00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:53.019
 purpose of

00:42:53.019 --> 00:42:53.820
 this is so

00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:54.200
 that someone

00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:54.640
 would see

00:42:54.640 --> 00:42:55.100
 their sin

00:42:55.099 --> 00:42:56.099
 and return

00:42:56.099 --> 00:42:56.739
 to Christ

00:42:56.739 --> 00:42:57.339
 and be

00:42:57.339 --> 00:42:59.679
 restored

00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:00.239
 to the

00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:00.579
 fellowship

00:43:00.579 --> 00:43:01.139
 of the

00:43:01.139 --> 00:43:02.079
 saints

00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:02.539
 and be

00:43:02.539 --> 00:43:02.839
 brought

00:43:02.839 --> 00:43:03.119
 in

00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:04.259
 the second

00:43:04.259 --> 00:43:04.739
 purpose

00:43:04.739 --> 00:43:05.259
 is that

00:43:05.259 --> 00:43:05.739
 there is

00:43:05.739 --> 00:43:06.139
 a sense

00:43:06.139 --> 00:43:06.659
 of warning

00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:07.119
 to the

00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:07.500
 church

00:43:07.500 --> 00:43:08.360
 there is

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:08.940
 a public

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:09.559
 display

00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:09.900
 of

00:43:09.900 --> 00:43:10.539
 this

00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:11.159
 behavior

00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:11.819
 these

00:43:11.819 --> 00:43:12.420
 attitudes

00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:12.779
 this

00:43:12.779 --> 00:43:13.299
 forsaking

00:43:13.299 --> 00:43:13.759
 of Christ

00:43:13.759 --> 00:43:14.319
 is not

00:43:14.319 --> 00:43:14.819
 acceptable

00:43:14.819 --> 00:43:15.880
 this is

00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:16.279
 not

00:43:16.279 --> 00:43:16.839
 what it

00:43:16.839 --> 00:43:17.319
 looks like

00:43:17.319 --> 00:43:17.719
 and that's

00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:18.159
 a warning

00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:18.880
 to believers

00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:20.319
 there is

00:43:20.319 --> 00:43:21.739
 a protection

00:43:21.739 --> 00:43:22.539
 of the purity

00:43:22.539 --> 00:43:23.319
 of the church

00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:24.660
 there is

00:43:24.660 --> 00:43:25.100
 a sense

00:43:25.100 --> 00:43:25.400
 of

00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:26.039
 you may

00:43:26.039 --> 00:43:26.280
 not

00:43:26.280 --> 00:43:26.740
 continue

00:43:26.740 --> 00:43:27.080
 in this

00:43:27.080 --> 00:43:28.059
 we may

00:43:28.059 --> 00:43:29.180
 remove

00:43:29.180 --> 00:43:29.880
 you from

00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:30.900
 our church

00:43:30.900 --> 00:43:31.340
 membership

00:43:31.340 --> 00:43:32.460
 because we

00:43:32.460 --> 00:43:33.019
 as a body

00:43:33.019 --> 00:43:33.420
 have been

00:43:33.420 --> 00:43:34.019
 called

00:43:34.019 --> 00:43:35.720
 to be

00:43:35.720 --> 00:43:36.100
 witnesses

00:43:36.100 --> 00:43:36.900
 for Christ

00:43:36.900 --> 00:43:37.640
 and when

00:43:37.640 --> 00:43:38.300
 you behave

00:43:38.300 --> 00:43:38.660
 in that

00:43:38.660 --> 00:43:38.960
 way

00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:39.760
 you deny

00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:40.380
 Christ

00:43:40.380 --> 00:43:42.160
 and therefore

00:43:42.160 --> 00:43:43.260
 we cannot

00:43:43.260 --> 00:43:43.900
 we need to

00:43:43.900 --> 00:43:44.380
 protect

00:43:44.380 --> 00:43:45.240
 the witness

00:43:45.240 --> 00:43:45.780
 of the church

00:43:45.780 --> 00:43:46.420
 and ultimately

00:43:46.420 --> 00:43:47.180
 it's for the

00:43:47.180 --> 00:43:47.660
 glory of

00:43:47.660 --> 00:43:48.300
 God's name

00:43:48.300 --> 00:43:49.519
 we all

00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:50.059
 know how

00:43:50.059 --> 00:43:50.380
 much

00:43:50.380 --> 00:43:50.840
 we are

00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:51.580
 suffering

00:43:51.580 --> 00:43:52.640
 the evangelical

00:43:52.640 --> 00:43:53.160
 church

00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:53.659
 in America

00:43:53.659 --> 00:43:54.420
 is suffering

00:43:54.420 --> 00:43:55.079
 from those

00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:55.559
 who claim

00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:55.879
 the name

00:43:55.879 --> 00:43:56.599
 of evangelical

00:43:56.599 --> 00:43:57.619
 and yet

00:43:57.619 --> 00:43:58.759
 are completely

00:43:58.759 --> 00:44:00.299
 unrighteous

00:44:00.299 --> 00:44:01.079
 publicly

00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:02.259
 and unrepentantly

00:44:02.259 --> 00:44:03.420
 about their

00:44:03.420 --> 00:44:03.980
 behavior

00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:06.460
 right

00:44:06.460 --> 00:44:07.119
 now the

00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:08.019
 world does

00:44:08.019 --> 00:44:08.619
 not have a

00:44:08.619 --> 00:44:09.480
 place for

00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:10.699
 restoration

00:44:10.699 --> 00:44:11.639
 they don't

00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:12.179
 know how

00:44:12.179 --> 00:44:12.679
 to like

00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:13.219
 it's either

00:44:13.219 --> 00:44:14.079
 condemnation

00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:14.639
 or

00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.379
 hypocrisy

00:44:16.379 --> 00:44:16.759
 that like

00:44:16.759 --> 00:44:17.259
 there's no

00:44:17.259 --> 00:44:18.259
 there's not

00:44:18.259 --> 00:44:18.679
 a lot of

00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:19.339
 room for

00:44:19.339 --> 00:44:20.659
 a healthy

00:44:20.659 --> 00:44:21.420
 process

00:44:21.420 --> 00:44:23.300
 but recognize

00:44:23.300 --> 00:44:24.039
 how much

00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:24.519
 the name

00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:25.099
 of Christ

00:44:25.099 --> 00:44:26.059
 suffers

00:44:26.059 --> 00:44:26.760
 in America

00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:27.260
 because

00:44:27.260 --> 00:44:28.420
 of the

00:44:28.420 --> 00:44:29.139
 unrepentant

00:44:29.139 --> 00:44:29.480
 sin

00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:30.059
 of their

00:44:30.059 --> 00:44:30.960
 of the

00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:31.340
 leaders

00:44:31.340 --> 00:44:33.960
 the other

00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:34.380
 thing I just

00:44:34.380 --> 00:44:34.900
 wanted to

00:44:34.900 --> 00:44:35.579
 say is

00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:36.039
 okay what

00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:36.260
 do we

00:44:36.260 --> 00:44:36.720
 what do we

00:44:36.720 --> 00:44:37.059
 mean when

00:44:37.059 --> 00:44:37.440
 we get to

00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:37.760
 the end

00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:38.139
 when we're

00:44:38.139 --> 00:44:38.480
 saying

00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:39.200
 have nothing

00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:39.539
 to do

00:44:39.539 --> 00:44:40.000
 with them

00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:40.599
 do not

00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:41.059
 even eat

00:44:41.059 --> 00:44:41.559
 with them

00:44:41.559 --> 00:44:42.019
 treat them

00:44:42.019 --> 00:44:42.539
 as a tax

00:44:42.539 --> 00:44:42.960
 collector

00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:43.840
 or a

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:43.960
 sinner

00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:44.559
 what does

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.240
 that actually

00:44:45.240 --> 00:44:45.639
 mean

00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:46.599
 and again

00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:47.079
 part of

00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:47.400
 what I

00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:47.920
 part of

00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:48.159
 what I

00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:48.659
 wanted you

00:44:48.659 --> 00:44:49.500
 see first

00:44:49.500 --> 00:44:49.739
 of all

00:44:49.739 --> 00:44:50.420
 part of

00:44:50.420 --> 00:44:50.679
 what we're

00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:51.119
 saying when

00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:51.480
 we're saying

00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:52.000
 that is

00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:52.759
 I can no

00:44:52.759 --> 00:44:53.859
 longer interact

00:44:53.859 --> 00:44:54.559
 with you

00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:55.279
 as someone

00:44:55.279 --> 00:44:56.259
 who shares

00:44:56.259 --> 00:44:56.960
 the fellowship

00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:57.500
 of Christ

00:44:57.500 --> 00:44:58.000
 with me

00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.319
 because your

00:44:59.319 --> 00:45:00.179
 behavior and

00:45:00.179 --> 00:45:01.500
 your resistance

00:45:01.500 --> 00:45:02.899
 to response

00:45:02.899 --> 00:45:03.719
 and to change

00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:05.359
 makes me think

00:45:05.359 --> 00:45:08.159
 that it

00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:08.819
 draws enough

00:45:08.819 --> 00:45:09.699
 question that

00:45:09.699 --> 00:45:10.159
 I cannot

00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:10.799
 I can no

00:45:10.799 --> 00:45:11.079
 longer

00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:11.960
 what does

00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:12.539
 that actually

00:45:12.539 --> 00:45:13.519
 practically look

00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:13.859
 like

00:45:13.859 --> 00:45:14.699
 well

00:45:14.699 --> 00:45:16.460
 it would

00:45:16.460 --> 00:45:16.980
 look like a

00:45:16.980 --> 00:45:17.399
 couple of

00:45:17.399 --> 00:45:17.940
 things in our

00:45:17.940 --> 00:45:18.319
 church

00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:19.600
 we would

00:45:19.600 --> 00:45:20.080
 remove you

00:45:20.080 --> 00:45:20.620
 from places

00:45:20.620 --> 00:45:21.260
 of service

00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:22.380
 you may

00:45:22.380 --> 00:45:22.980
 no longer

00:45:22.980 --> 00:45:25.780
 do stuff

00:45:25.780 --> 00:45:27.620
 right

00:45:27.620 --> 00:45:29.160
 members come

00:45:29.160 --> 00:45:29.680
 and we expect

00:45:29.680 --> 00:45:30.200
 you to serve

00:45:30.200 --> 00:45:30.780
 and we're

00:45:30.780 --> 00:45:30.940
 going to

00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:31.980
 remove you

00:45:31.980 --> 00:45:32.460
 from those

00:45:32.460 --> 00:45:32.820
 things

00:45:32.820 --> 00:45:35.300
 it certainly

00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:36.080
 means you

00:45:36.080 --> 00:45:36.400
 may not

00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:37.039
 take communion

00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:38.480
 we will

00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:39.059
 instruct you

00:45:39.059 --> 00:45:39.380
 to not

00:45:39.380 --> 00:45:40.059
 take communion

00:45:40.059 --> 00:45:41.460
 because

00:45:41.460 --> 00:45:42.640
 again if we

00:45:42.640 --> 00:45:42.860
 go to

00:45:42.860 --> 00:45:43.320
 first Corinthians

00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:43.860
 11 if

00:45:43.860 --> 00:45:44.400
 anyone eats

00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:44.760
 or drinks

00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:45.059
 in this

00:45:45.059 --> 00:45:45.320
 in an

00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:45.660
 unworthy

00:45:45.660 --> 00:45:45.940
 manner

00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:46.220
 there's

00:45:46.220 --> 00:45:46.600
 actually a

00:45:46.600 --> 00:45:47.300
 very clear

00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:47.920
 instruction

00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:48.240
 there

00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:49.519
 but here

00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:49.899
 do not

00:45:49.899 --> 00:45:50.219
 even eat

00:45:50.219 --> 00:45:50.479
 with them

00:45:50.479 --> 00:45:50.939
 some have

00:45:50.939 --> 00:45:51.519
 taken that

00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:51.919
 to mean

00:45:51.919 --> 00:45:53.159
 you can't

00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:53.459
 take the

00:45:53.459 --> 00:45:53.719
 Lord's

00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:53.899
 supper

00:45:53.899 --> 00:45:54.219
 I think

00:45:54.219 --> 00:45:54.519
 it means

00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:54.939
 more than

00:45:54.939 --> 00:45:55.179
 that

00:45:55.179 --> 00:45:55.739
 but it

00:45:55.739 --> 00:45:56.079
 certainly

00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:56.739
 means that

00:45:56.739 --> 00:45:59.059
 you should

00:45:59.059 --> 00:45:59.239
 not

00:45:59.239 --> 00:45:59.899
 if the

00:45:59.899 --> 00:46:00.439
 church

00:46:00.439 --> 00:46:00.959
 is saying

00:46:00.959 --> 00:46:01.859
 your behavior

00:46:01.859 --> 00:46:02.739
 is of

00:46:02.739 --> 00:46:03.399
 such a state

00:46:03.399 --> 00:46:04.059
 that we

00:46:04.059 --> 00:46:04.919
 cannot confirm

00:46:04.919 --> 00:46:05.759
 your profession

00:46:05.759 --> 00:46:06.199
 of faith

00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:07.059
 you shouldn't

00:46:07.059 --> 00:46:07.619
 take communion

00:46:07.619 --> 00:46:09.399
 just like an

00:46:09.399 --> 00:46:09.919
 unbeliever

00:46:09.919 --> 00:46:10.699
 shouldn't take

00:46:10.699 --> 00:46:11.199
 communion

00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:12.259
 because it

00:46:12.259 --> 00:46:12.659
 is an

00:46:12.659 --> 00:46:13.299
 expression of

00:46:13.299 --> 00:46:13.719
 faith in

00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:14.079
 Christ

00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:14.579
 and taking

00:46:14.579 --> 00:46:14.979
 hold of

00:46:14.979 --> 00:46:15.479
 the repentance

00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.079
 and taking

00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:17.480
 hold of

00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:17.780
 the work

00:46:17.780 --> 00:46:18.199
 of Christ

00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:18.719
 for our

00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:19.840
 salvation

00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:21.880
 it means

00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:22.260
 that our

00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:22.860
 relationships

00:46:22.860 --> 00:46:23.460
 need to

00:46:23.460 --> 00:46:23.960
 change

00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:25.659
 it does

00:46:25.659 --> 00:46:26.019
 not mean

00:46:26.019 --> 00:46:26.300
 that we

00:46:26.300 --> 00:46:26.699
 have to

00:46:26.699 --> 00:46:27.219
 completely

00:46:27.219 --> 00:46:27.699
 shun

00:46:27.699 --> 00:46:28.039
 them

00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:30.019
 and never

00:46:30.019 --> 00:46:31.099
 speak to

00:46:31.099 --> 00:46:31.500
 them on

00:46:31.500 --> 00:46:32.000
 the street

00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:32.820
 but it

00:46:32.820 --> 00:46:33.400
 also means

00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:33.920
 we don't

00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:34.320
 just hang

00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:34.659
 out with

00:46:34.659 --> 00:46:34.920
 them

00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:35.500
 and have

00:46:35.500 --> 00:46:36.039
 a casual

00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:36.719
 beer on

00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:37.119
 Sunday

00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:37.659
 afternoon

00:46:37.659 --> 00:46:38.079
 and watch

00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:38.480
 the football

00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:38.900
 game

00:46:38.900 --> 00:46:39.559
 or you

00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:39.820
 know

00:46:39.820 --> 00:46:41.199
 have play

00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:41.539
 dates

00:46:41.539 --> 00:46:42.760
 and ignore

00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.140
 these things

00:46:45.140 --> 00:46:46.400
 it doesn't

00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:46.760
 mean that we

00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:47.420
 don't have

00:46:47.420 --> 00:46:47.920
 interaction

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:48.600
 but when we

00:46:48.600 --> 00:46:49.320
 have interaction

00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:50.020
 with these

00:46:50.020 --> 00:46:51.200
 with these

00:46:51.200 --> 00:46:53.600
 those who

00:46:53.600 --> 00:46:54.120
 have been

00:46:54.120 --> 00:46:54.760
 who are under

00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:55.480
 this discipline

00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:56.160
 who have been

00:46:56.160 --> 00:46:56.840
 removed

00:46:56.840 --> 00:46:59.220
 the whole

00:46:59.220 --> 00:47:00.040
 basis of our

00:47:00.040 --> 00:47:00.580
 relationship

00:47:00.580 --> 00:47:01.540
 needs to

00:47:01.540 --> 00:47:02.240
 change so

00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:02.500
 that we

00:47:02.500 --> 00:47:02.820
 look at

00:47:02.820 --> 00:47:03.080
 them and

00:47:03.080 --> 00:47:03.620
 we say

00:47:03.620 --> 00:47:06.180
 will you

00:47:06.180 --> 00:47:06.680
 turn from

00:47:06.680 --> 00:47:07.200
 your sin

00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:07.700
 will you

00:47:07.700 --> 00:47:08.100
 come back

00:47:08.100 --> 00:47:08.720
 to Christ

00:47:08.720 --> 00:47:09.920
 I love

00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:10.240
 you

00:47:10.240 --> 00:47:11.820
 please

00:47:11.820 --> 00:47:12.260
 come back

00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:12.940
 to Christ

00:47:12.940 --> 00:47:18.740
 it may

00:47:18.740 --> 00:47:19.340
 involve

00:47:19.340 --> 00:47:20.220
 in our

00:47:20.220 --> 00:47:20.640
 church

00:47:20.640 --> 00:47:22.100
 a restriction

00:47:22.100 --> 00:47:22.640
 from being

00:47:22.640 --> 00:47:23.019
 a part of

00:47:23.019 --> 00:47:23.320
 a small

00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:23.640
 group

00:47:23.640 --> 00:47:25.039
 it may

00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:25.720
 involve

00:47:25.720 --> 00:47:27.559
 a restriction

00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:28.160
 from coming

00:47:28.160 --> 00:47:28.680
 to corporate

00:47:28.680 --> 00:47:29.140
 worship

00:47:29.140 --> 00:47:30.980
 those are

00:47:30.980 --> 00:47:32.059
 discernment

00:47:32.059 --> 00:47:32.720
 issues that

00:47:32.720 --> 00:47:33.059
 we would

00:47:33.059 --> 00:47:33.780
 probably apply

00:47:33.780 --> 00:47:34.260
 on a case

00:47:34.260 --> 00:47:34.700
 by case

00:47:34.700 --> 00:47:35.200
 basis

00:47:35.200 --> 00:47:36.059
 because at

00:47:36.059 --> 00:47:36.480
 one level

00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:36.900
 we want

00:47:36.900 --> 00:47:37.320
 these people

00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:37.840
 coming

00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:39.900
 to hear

00:47:39.900 --> 00:47:40.200
 the word

00:47:40.200 --> 00:47:40.720
 of God

00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:41.340
 so that

00:47:41.340 --> 00:47:41.680
 there's an

00:47:41.680 --> 00:47:42.160
 urging to

00:47:42.160 --> 00:47:42.500
 repent

00:47:42.500 --> 00:47:43.000
 but there's

00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:43.440
 also

00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:44.700
 a pretty

00:47:44.700 --> 00:47:45.440
 significant

00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:46.559
 you know

00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:47.660
 with small

00:47:47.660 --> 00:47:48.200
 groups

00:47:48.200 --> 00:47:48.960
 small groups

00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:49.720
 are meant

00:47:49.720 --> 00:47:50.180
 in our

00:47:50.180 --> 00:47:50.519
 church

00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:51.120
 primarily

00:47:51.120 --> 00:47:51.680
 for the

00:47:51.680 --> 00:47:52.000
 gathering

00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:52.539
 of believers

00:47:52.539 --> 00:47:53.340
 it's not

00:47:53.340 --> 00:47:54.500
 exclusively so

00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:54.900
 but that's

00:47:54.900 --> 00:47:55.240
 primary

00:47:55.240 --> 00:47:56.300
 whereas our

00:47:56.300 --> 00:47:56.940
 corporate

00:47:56.940 --> 00:47:57.700
 worship service

00:47:57.700 --> 00:47:58.620
 we want

00:47:58.620 --> 00:47:59.240
 other people

00:47:59.240 --> 00:47:59.660
 to come

00:47:59.660 --> 00:48:01.079
 so that

00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:01.440
 would be

00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:02.460
 a case

00:48:02.460 --> 00:48:02.880
 by case

00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:03.440
 application

00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:03.900
 that we

00:48:03.900 --> 00:48:04.559
 would probably

00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:05.519
 work through

00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:07.220
 but we

00:48:07.220 --> 00:48:08.019
 but it's a

00:48:08.019 --> 00:48:08.559
 possibility

00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:09.840
 and part

00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:10.059
 of it

00:48:10.059 --> 00:48:10.360
 is that

00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:10.880
 the whole

00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:11.400
 goal of

00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:11.659
 this

00:48:11.659 --> 00:48:12.000
 is to

00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:12.539
 help

00:48:12.539 --> 00:48:13.539
 this

00:48:13.539 --> 00:48:15.159
 fallen

00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:15.559
 brother

00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:16.099
 or sister

00:48:16.099 --> 00:48:17.299
 recognize

00:48:17.299 --> 00:48:18.079
 the gravity

00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:18.460
 of their

00:48:18.460 --> 00:48:18.759
 sin

00:48:18.759 --> 00:48:19.539
 if we

00:48:19.539 --> 00:48:19.980
 have gotten

00:48:19.980 --> 00:48:20.239
 here

00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:20.639
 there have

00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:20.980
 already

00:48:20.980 --> 00:48:21.579
 been many

00:48:21.579 --> 00:48:22.259
 conversations

00:48:22.259 --> 00:48:22.840
 please

00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:23.619
 turn back

00:48:23.619 --> 00:48:24.420
 please

00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:24.840
 don't

00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:25.279
 continue

00:48:25.279 --> 00:48:25.719
 in this

00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:26.440
 please

00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:27.139
 see how

00:48:27.139 --> 00:48:27.719
 great

00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:28.779
 a salvation

00:48:28.779 --> 00:48:29.320
 Christ

00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:29.719
 has done

00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:30.119
 for you

00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:30.759
 please

00:48:30.759 --> 00:48:31.340
 don't

00:48:31.340 --> 00:48:31.739
 trample

00:48:31.739 --> 00:48:31.960
 that

00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:32.340
 and leave

00:48:32.340 --> 00:48:32.779
 it behind

00:48:32.779 --> 00:48:33.380
 and forsake

00:48:33.380 --> 00:48:33.679
 it for

00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:34.099
 this

00:48:34.099 --> 00:48:39.079
 and when

00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:39.339
 we've had

00:48:39.339 --> 00:48:39.759
 all those

00:48:39.759 --> 00:48:40.440
 conversations

00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:41.019
 we are now

00:48:41.019 --> 00:48:41.579
 bringing the

00:48:41.579 --> 00:48:41.779
 weight

00:48:41.779 --> 00:48:42.339
 and it

00:48:42.339 --> 00:48:42.679
 is going

00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:42.899
 to be

00:48:42.899 --> 00:48:43.359
 uncomfortable

00:48:43.359 --> 00:48:43.940
 and it

00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:44.339
 is going

00:48:44.339 --> 00:48:45.019
 to potentially

00:48:45.019 --> 00:48:45.839
 provoke

00:48:45.839 --> 00:48:46.359
 shame

00:48:46.359 --> 00:48:47.199
 and they

00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:47.419
 will

00:48:47.419 --> 00:48:48.079
 you know

00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:48.299
 again

00:48:48.299 --> 00:48:48.699
 go back

00:48:48.699 --> 00:48:49.199
 to Hebrews

00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:49.699
 12

00:48:49.699 --> 00:48:51.239
 no discipline

00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:52.099
 feels good

00:48:52.099 --> 00:48:52.379
 at the

00:48:52.379 --> 00:48:52.759
 time

00:48:52.759 --> 00:48:54.000
 it will

00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:54.399
 hurt

00:48:54.399 --> 00:48:55.919
 and people

00:48:55.919 --> 00:48:56.559
 will feel

00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:57.259
 hurt by

00:48:57.259 --> 00:48:57.559
 it

00:48:57.559 --> 00:48:59.579
 and unfortunately

00:48:59.579 --> 00:49:00.199
 there's been

00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:01.000
 enough abuse

00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:01.440
 of church

00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:01.940
 discipline

00:49:01.940 --> 00:49:02.759
 that there's

00:49:02.759 --> 00:49:02.980
 a whole

00:49:02.980 --> 00:49:03.359
 bunch of

00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:03.880
 people running

00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:04.300
 around

00:49:04.300 --> 00:49:05.039
 having been

00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:05.380
 treated

00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:06.200
 terribly

00:49:06.200 --> 00:49:06.860
 by churches

00:49:06.860 --> 00:49:07.400
 that haven't

00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:07.860
 gone through

00:49:07.860 --> 00:49:08.340
 a patient

00:49:08.340 --> 00:49:09.380
 loving process

00:49:09.380 --> 00:49:10.300
 but there are

00:49:10.300 --> 00:49:10.860
 also people

00:49:10.860 --> 00:49:11.420
 going around

00:49:11.420 --> 00:49:11.900
 with a chip

00:49:11.900 --> 00:49:12.180
 on their

00:49:12.180 --> 00:49:12.420
 shoulders

00:49:12.420 --> 00:49:12.700
 saying

00:49:12.700 --> 00:49:13.720
 my church

00:49:13.720 --> 00:49:14.620
 didn't

00:49:14.620 --> 00:49:15.320
 didn't

00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:15.880
 handle me

00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:16.260
 well

00:49:16.260 --> 00:49:16.880
 when I

00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:17.260
 was in

00:49:17.260 --> 00:49:17.640
 complete

00:49:17.640 --> 00:49:18.120
 rebellion

00:49:18.120 --> 00:49:18.539
 and sin

00:49:18.539 --> 00:49:18.920
 against

00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:19.400
 God

00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.340
 and they

00:49:22.340 --> 00:49:22.800
 think that

00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:23.300
 and they're

00:49:23.300 --> 00:49:23.940
 still carrying

00:49:23.940 --> 00:49:24.440
 a grudge

00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:24.940
 against the

00:49:24.940 --> 00:49:25.160
 church

00:49:25.160 --> 00:49:25.760
 because of

00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:26.000
 it

00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:26.980
 and we

00:49:26.980 --> 00:49:27.340
 need to

00:49:27.340 --> 00:49:27.900
 recognize

00:49:27.900 --> 00:49:28.240
 that it's

00:49:28.240 --> 00:49:29.380
 a complex

00:49:29.380 --> 00:49:30.099
 thing out

00:49:30.099 --> 00:49:30.360
 there

00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:31.680
 but we

00:49:31.680 --> 00:49:32.019
 ought not

00:49:32.019 --> 00:49:32.340
 to be

00:49:32.340 --> 00:49:32.860
 afraid

00:49:32.860 --> 00:49:34.300
 of continuing

00:49:34.300 --> 00:49:34.840
 to seek

00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:36.180
 to embrace

00:49:36.180 --> 00:49:36.700
 the pattern

00:49:36.700 --> 00:49:37.360
 of correction

00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:40.220
 in the

00:49:40.220 --> 00:49:40.640
 church

00:49:40.640 --> 00:49:48.900
 one quote

00:49:48.900 --> 00:49:49.260
 from a

00:49:49.260 --> 00:49:49.740
 commentator

00:49:49.740 --> 00:49:50.019
 in light

00:49:50.019 --> 00:49:50.440
 of this

00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:54.460
 there could

00:49:54.460 --> 00:49:54.680
 be

00:49:54.680 --> 00:49:55.160
 this is

00:49:55.160 --> 00:49:55.440
 what it

00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:55.780
 looks like

00:49:55.780 --> 00:49:56.059
 there could

00:49:56.059 --> 00:49:56.340
 be no

00:49:56.340 --> 00:49:56.880
 question

00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:57.579
 that is

00:49:57.579 --> 00:49:58.079
 of course

00:49:58.079 --> 00:49:58.420
 you would

00:49:58.420 --> 00:49:58.760
 do these

00:49:58.760 --> 00:49:59.039
 things

00:49:59.039 --> 00:49:59.559
 it would

00:49:59.559 --> 00:49:59.840
 be no

00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:00.259
 question

00:50:00.259 --> 00:50:00.880
 of speaking

00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:01.340
 to such

00:50:01.340 --> 00:50:01.739
 a person

00:50:01.739 --> 00:50:02.079
 in the

00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:02.420
 street

00:50:02.420 --> 00:50:03.099
 or of

00:50:03.099 --> 00:50:03.599
 excluding

00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:04.159
 the normal

00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:04.739
 courtesies

00:50:04.739 --> 00:50:05.159
 due to

00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:05.940
 acquaintances

00:50:05.940 --> 00:50:07.239
 but

00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:08.759
 not

00:50:08.759 --> 00:50:09.579
 to friends

00:50:09.579 --> 00:50:10.079
 associates

00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:10.579
 or to

00:50:10.579 --> 00:50:10.860
 close

00:50:10.860 --> 00:50:11.420
 colleagues

00:50:11.420 --> 00:50:15.180
 the

00:50:15.180 --> 00:50:15.960
 the language

00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:16.220
 of

00:50:16.220 --> 00:50:16.420
 first

00:50:16.420 --> 00:50:16.960
 corinthians

00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:17.280
 and the

00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:17.579
 language

00:50:17.579 --> 00:50:18.000
 of treating

00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:18.320
 them as

00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:18.920
 tax collectors

00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:19.420
 and sinners

00:50:19.420 --> 00:50:20.260
 is significant

00:50:20.260 --> 00:50:20.820
 enough

00:50:20.820 --> 00:50:22.119
 that

00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:22.900
 there's a

00:50:22.900 --> 00:50:23.360
 there's a

00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:23.980
 there's a

00:50:23.980 --> 00:50:24.880
 real shift

00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:25.519
 that should

00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:25.980
 happen

00:50:25.980 --> 00:50:26.800
 in relationships

00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:28.059
 this is

00:50:28.059 --> 00:50:28.440
 very

00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:28.780
 counter

00:50:28.780 --> 00:50:29.220
 cultural

00:50:29.220 --> 00:50:30.059
 this is

00:50:30.059 --> 00:50:30.340
 very

00:50:30.340 --> 00:50:30.780
 uncomfortable

00:50:30.780 --> 00:50:31.539
 for us

00:50:31.539 --> 00:50:34.900
 it does

00:50:34.900 --> 00:50:35.559
 mean that

00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:36.019
 we look

00:50:36.019 --> 00:50:36.280
 at our

00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:36.559
 friends

00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:36.840
 and we

00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:37.000
 say

00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:37.440
 the most

00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:37.800
 important

00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:38.059
 thing

00:50:38.059 --> 00:50:38.380
 about

00:50:38.380 --> 00:50:38.679
 you

00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:41.500
 the most

00:50:41.500 --> 00:50:41.820
 important

00:50:41.820 --> 00:50:42.019
 thing

00:50:42.019 --> 00:50:42.279
 about

00:50:42.279 --> 00:50:42.539
 you

00:50:42.539 --> 00:50:43.719
 is your

00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:44.079
 relationship

00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:44.340
 with

00:50:44.340 --> 00:50:44.699
 Christ

00:50:44.699 --> 00:50:46.179
 and no

00:50:46.179 --> 00:50:46.340
 matter

00:50:46.340 --> 00:50:46.820
 how much

00:50:46.820 --> 00:50:47.179
 I love

00:50:47.179 --> 00:50:47.320
 you

00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:47.579
 in all

00:50:47.579 --> 00:50:47.880
 the other

00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:48.279
 ways

00:50:48.279 --> 00:50:49.579
 I can't

00:50:49.579 --> 00:50:49.799
 just

00:50:49.799 --> 00:50:50.199
 overlook

00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:50.619
 that

00:50:50.619 --> 00:50:51.840
 and enjoy

00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:52.259
 the rest

00:50:52.259 --> 00:50:52.619
 of you

00:50:52.619 --> 00:50:53.900
 because I

00:50:53.900 --> 00:50:54.179
 love you

00:50:54.179 --> 00:50:54.739
 too much

00:50:54.739 --> 00:51:01.940
 process

00:51:01.940 --> 00:51:02.559
 should go

00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:03.119
 we've already

00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:03.599
 talked about

00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:03.960
 this

00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:04.619
 carefully

00:51:04.619 --> 00:51:05.719
 should go

00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:06.380
 personally

00:51:06.380 --> 00:51:07.779
 we should

00:51:07.780 --> 00:51:08.080
 never

00:51:08.080 --> 00:51:09.100
 assume

00:51:09.100 --> 00:51:09.320
 that

00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:09.660
 Matthew

00:51:09.660 --> 00:51:10.120
 18

00:51:10.120 --> 00:51:10.620
 can be

00:51:10.620 --> 00:51:10.860
 carried

00:51:10.860 --> 00:51:11.100
 out

00:51:11.100 --> 00:51:11.340
 over

00:51:11.340 --> 00:51:11.700
 Twitter

00:51:11.700 --> 00:51:12.140
 or

00:51:12.140 --> 00:51:14.360
 text

00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:14.880
 message

00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.540
 or even

00:51:16.540 --> 00:51:16.940
 over the

00:51:16.940 --> 00:51:17.240
 phone

00:51:17.240 --> 00:51:17.740
 if at all

00:51:17.740 --> 00:51:18.260
 possible

00:51:18.260 --> 00:51:19.640
 it should

00:51:19.640 --> 00:51:20.000
 be done

00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:20.700
 discreetly

00:51:20.700 --> 00:51:21.100
 as much

00:51:21.100 --> 00:51:21.680
 as possible

00:51:21.680 --> 00:51:22.260
 until it

00:51:22.260 --> 00:51:23.019
 gets to

00:51:23.019 --> 00:51:23.380
 a public

00:51:23.380 --> 00:51:23.760
 level

00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:24.780
 it should

00:51:24.780 --> 00:51:25.100
 be done

00:51:25.100 --> 00:51:25.300
 with

00:51:25.300 --> 00:51:26.060
 discernment

00:51:26.060 --> 00:51:27.060
 it should

00:51:27.060 --> 00:51:27.380
 be done

00:51:27.380 --> 00:51:27.980
 deliberately

00:51:27.980 --> 00:51:28.720
 there are

00:51:28.720 --> 00:51:29.300
 times when

00:51:29.300 --> 00:51:29.720
 it needs

00:51:29.720 --> 00:51:30.540
 to go

00:51:30.540 --> 00:51:31.080
 quickly

00:51:31.080 --> 00:51:32.300
 there are

00:51:32.300 --> 00:51:32.760
 times when

00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:33.080
 it needs

00:51:33.080 --> 00:51:33.460
 to go

00:51:33.460 --> 00:51:34.060
 slowly

00:51:34.060 --> 00:51:35.160
 but it

00:51:35.160 --> 00:51:35.620
 should not

00:51:35.620 --> 00:51:36.340
 be done

00:51:36.340 --> 00:51:37.040
 rashly

00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:39.159
 I guess

00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:39.480
 is how

00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:39.779
 I would

00:51:39.779 --> 00:51:40.000
 say

00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:42.440
 all right

00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:42.820
 Peter

00:51:42.820 --> 00:51:43.460
 one thought

00:51:43.460 --> 00:51:53.360
 I don't

00:51:53.360 --> 00:52:07.579
 believe that

00:52:07.579 --> 00:52:07.840
 there's a

00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:08.159
 conflict

00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:08.420
 there

00:52:08.420 --> 00:52:08.720
 I think

00:52:08.720 --> 00:52:10.079
 context

00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:10.500
 is very

00:52:10.500 --> 00:52:10.820
 important

00:52:10.820 --> 00:52:11.260
 in

00:52:11.260 --> 00:52:12.139
 scripture

00:52:12.139 --> 00:52:13.079
 and

00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:17.380
 a mix

00:52:17.380 --> 00:52:17.800
 of

00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:18.860
 followers

00:52:18.860 --> 00:52:19.380
 and believers

00:52:19.380 --> 00:52:20.400
 and unbelievers

00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:21.180
 and seekers

00:52:21.180 --> 00:52:21.920
 and people

00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:22.360
 what's this

00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:22.820
 all about

00:52:22.820 --> 00:52:23.900
 and he's

00:52:23.900 --> 00:52:24.300
 speaking

00:52:24.300 --> 00:52:26.019
 largely about

00:52:26.019 --> 00:52:26.680
 man's

00:52:26.680 --> 00:52:27.139
 relationship

00:52:27.139 --> 00:52:27.760
 to God

00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:29.039
 and that

00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:29.519
 separation

00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:30.000
 that exists

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:30.619
 between man

00:52:30.619 --> 00:52:31.079
 and God

00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:32.940
 which is

00:52:32.940 --> 00:52:34.220
 hugely important

00:52:34.220 --> 00:52:34.619
 and should

00:52:34.619 --> 00:52:35.539
 obviously inform

00:52:35.539 --> 00:52:36.119
 our understanding

00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:36.659
 of the gospel

00:52:36.659 --> 00:52:37.159
 and inform

00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:37.739
 our understanding

00:52:37.739 --> 00:52:38.019
 of our

00:52:38.019 --> 00:52:38.420
 relationship

00:52:38.420 --> 00:52:38.880
 to Christ

00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:39.440
 and to God

00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:40.639
 but if

00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:40.920
 we're then

00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:41.099
 going to

00:52:41.099 --> 00:52:41.699
 compare it

00:52:41.699 --> 00:52:42.759
 to what

00:52:42.759 --> 00:52:43.179
 Paul is

00:52:43.179 --> 00:52:43.319
 saying

00:52:43.319 --> 00:52:43.539
 to the

00:52:43.539 --> 00:52:43.779
 Corinthian

00:52:43.779 --> 00:52:44.059
 church

00:52:44.059 --> 00:52:44.519
 it is

00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:45.659
 I want

00:52:45.659 --> 00:52:45.859
 to just

00:52:45.859 --> 00:52:46.420
 remind

00:52:46.420 --> 00:52:46.699
 I think

00:52:46.699 --> 00:52:47.079
 it's hugely

00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:47.480
 different

00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:47.900
 that Paul

00:52:47.900 --> 00:52:48.480
 is specifically

00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:48.960
 talking

00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:50.500
 to a

00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:53.739
 known

00:52:53.739 --> 00:52:54.659
 consistent

00:52:54.659 --> 00:52:55.039
 sin

00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:56.880
 so I

00:52:56.880 --> 00:52:57.779
 just wouldn't

00:52:57.779 --> 00:52:58.159
 want people

00:52:58.159 --> 00:52:58.480
 to walk

00:52:58.480 --> 00:52:58.699
 away

00:52:58.699 --> 00:52:59.000
 thinking

00:52:59.000 --> 00:52:59.380
 there's

00:52:59.380 --> 00:52:59.719
 some sort

00:52:59.719 --> 00:52:59.819
 of

00:52:59.819 --> 00:53:00.359
 contradiction

00:53:00.359 --> 00:53:00.699
 there

00:53:00.699 --> 00:53:01.299
 and expectation

00:53:01.300 --> 00:53:02.039
 yeah

00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:02.519
 yeah

00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:03.320
 no in fact

00:53:03.320 --> 00:53:03.860
 the best way

00:53:03.860 --> 00:53:04.320
 to see it

00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:04.680
 is that

00:53:04.680 --> 00:53:05.340
 1 Corinthians

00:53:05.340 --> 00:53:05.700
 5

00:53:05.700 --> 00:53:06.180
 picks up

00:53:06.180 --> 00:53:06.519
 right at

00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:07.039
 the end

00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:07.620
 of the

00:53:07.620 --> 00:53:07.900
 Matthew

00:53:07.900 --> 00:53:08.480
 18

00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:08.940
 process

00:53:08.940 --> 00:53:09.880
 that they're

00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:10.420
 they actually

00:53:10.420 --> 00:53:11.140
 are complementary

00:53:11.140 --> 00:53:11.980
 but

00:53:11.980 --> 00:53:13.420
 you can't

00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:13.880
 you can't

00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:14.500
 overlay them

00:53:14.500 --> 00:53:15.080
 completely

00:53:15.080 --> 00:53:16.900
 because they're

00:53:16.900 --> 00:53:17.300
 at different

00:53:17.300 --> 00:53:18.300
 stages of the

00:53:18.300 --> 00:53:18.740
 process

00:53:18.740 --> 00:53:19.220
 and in a

00:53:19.220 --> 00:53:19.480
 different

00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:20.080
 yeah

00:53:20.080 --> 00:53:20.640
 Matt

00:53:20.640 --> 00:53:21.180
 one last

00:53:21.180 --> 00:53:21.480
 comment

00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:22.080
 and even

00:53:22.080 --> 00:53:23.220
 you know

00:53:23.220 --> 00:53:24.480
 Matthew 7

00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:25.240
 at the beginning

00:53:25.240 --> 00:53:26.980
 do not judge

00:53:26.980 --> 00:53:28.260
 just a couple

00:53:28.260 --> 00:53:29.180
 paragraphs down

00:53:29.180 --> 00:53:29.740
 they are

00:53:29.740 --> 00:53:30.320
 commanded

00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:31.000
 to judge

00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:32.519
 the fruit

00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:33.500
 the behavior

00:53:33.500 --> 00:53:33.940
 right

00:53:33.940 --> 00:53:34.880
 right

00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:35.940
 being compatible

00:53:35.940 --> 00:53:37.400
 with God

00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:37.860
 good God

00:53:37.860 --> 00:53:38.280
 relationship

00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:39.039
 or not

00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:39.679
 so even in

00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:40.099
 that same

00:53:40.099 --> 00:53:40.699
 context

00:53:40.699 --> 00:53:41.000
 yeah

00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:41.659
 yeah

00:53:41.659 --> 00:53:42.300
 yeah

00:53:42.300 --> 00:53:43.840
 yeah

00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:44.480
 yeah

00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:44.940
 yeah

00:53:44.940 --> 00:53:46.280
 so as we

00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:47.099
 pursue having

00:53:47.099 --> 00:53:48.119
 a loving body

00:53:48.119 --> 00:53:49.159
 and a body

00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:49.940
 that's growing

00:53:49.940 --> 00:53:50.780
 and living out

00:53:50.780 --> 00:53:51.440
 all the God

00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:52.119
 has called us

00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:52.699
 to as being

00:53:52.699 --> 00:53:53.139
 a part of

00:53:53.139 --> 00:53:54.320
 his body

00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:55.280
 I hope you

00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:55.820
 will see that

00:53:55.820 --> 00:53:56.639
 this pattern

00:53:56.639 --> 00:53:57.320
 of correction

00:53:57.320 --> 00:53:58.019
 both on an

00:53:58.019 --> 00:53:58.780
 individual level

00:53:58.780 --> 00:53:59.519
 and then at

00:53:59.519 --> 00:53:59.940
 a corporate

00:53:59.940 --> 00:54:00.340
 level

00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:01.300
 is actually

00:54:01.300 --> 00:54:01.840
 a gift

00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:02.440
 from God

00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:03.120
 it is something

00:54:03.120 --> 00:54:03.460
 that God

00:54:03.460 --> 00:54:03.920
 has designed

00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:04.700
 for our good

00:54:04.700 --> 00:54:06.100
 it is not

00:54:06.100 --> 00:54:06.920
 always fun

00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:07.800
 it is one of the

00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:08.519
 harder parts

00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:09.360
 of relationships

00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:10.480
 just like conflict

00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:11.400
 always is

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 and yet

00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:14.500
 the promise

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 that it produces

00:54:15.340 --> 00:54:16.059
 good fruit

00:54:16.059 --> 00:54:16.720
 and that it

00:54:16.720 --> 00:54:17.780
 actually is

00:54:17.780 --> 00:54:18.980
 good for us

00:54:18.980 --> 00:54:21.320
 and a display

00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:22.280
 of God's glory

00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:24.100
 is pretty consistent

00:54:24.100 --> 00:54:24.900
 in the scriptures

00:54:24.900 --> 00:54:25.680
 and so

00:54:25.680 --> 00:54:27.680
 I want to commend you to it

00:54:27.680 --> 00:54:28.420
 if you have questions

00:54:28.420 --> 00:54:29.400
 I'll be down here

00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:30.500
 it's almost 10 o'clock

00:54:30.500 --> 00:54:31.559
 so I want to let you go

00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:33.980
 and get you upstairs

00:54:33.980 --> 00:54:34.639
 for the service

00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:35.519
 let me pray real quick

00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:36.780
 Lord thank you for this time

00:54:36.780 --> 00:54:38.180
 we pray you'll help us

00:54:38.180 --> 00:54:38.740
 as we go

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 to worship you

00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:40.260
 in spirit and truth

00:54:40.260 --> 00:54:40.960
 in Jesus name

00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:41.380
 Amen

00:54:41.380 --> 00:54:42.900
 thanks you all

00:54:42.900 --> 00:55:12.880
 I'm sure I'm glad I was here

00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:14.200
 oh I'm glad you were too

00:55:14.200 --> 00:55:16.019
 aww

00:55:16.019 --> 00:55:18.019
 aww

00:55:18.019 --> 00:55:18.940
 aww

00:55:18.940 --> 00:55:20.940
 aww

00:55:20.940 --> 00:55:21.240
 aww

00:55:21.240 --> 00:55:21.260
 aww

00:55:21.260 --> 00:55:23.260
 aww

00:55:23.260 --> 00:55:23.880
 hopefully there were

00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:24.559
 five days

00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:25.480
 they came to call

00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:26.079
 for a day

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 that's when

00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:28.880
 did they take things

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 or

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 no they didn't

00:55:30.340 --> 00:55:31.900
 they were bang

00:55:31.900 --> 00:55:32.320
 bang

00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:32.740
 bang

00:55:32.740 --> 00:55:33.840
 on the back door

00:55:33.840 --> 00:55:35.260
 and it woke me up

00:55:35.260 --> 00:55:36.000
 and

00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:36.940
 aww

00:55:36.940 --> 00:55:37.660
 so scary

00:55:37.660 --> 00:55:38.700
 I didn't think

00:55:38.700 --> 00:55:39.880
 but the kids

00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:41.200
 it was a young kid

00:55:41.199 --> 00:55:41.679
 so it's like

00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:42.599
 five six plus

00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:43.219
 six

00:55:43.219 --> 00:55:45.739
 I think he just

00:55:45.739 --> 00:55:46.599
 wanted to come in

00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:47.279
 he couldn't say

00:55:47.279 --> 00:55:48.699
 I want to come in

00:55:48.699 --> 00:55:49.919
 I want to come in

00:55:49.919 --> 00:55:51.899
 but I

00:55:51.899 --> 00:55:52.939
 I didn't really

00:55:52.939 --> 00:55:53.819
 realize that

00:55:53.819 --> 00:55:54.419
 at three o'clock

00:55:54.419 --> 00:55:54.919
 in the morning

00:55:54.919 --> 00:55:55.879
 I'm getting that

00:55:55.879 --> 00:55:57.099
 you called the party

00:55:57.099 --> 00:55:57.460
 at five

00:55:57.460 --> 00:55:58.299
 police cars

00:55:58.299 --> 00:55:59.139
 oh goodness

00:55:59.139 --> 00:56:00.359
 I'm sorry Elizabeth

00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:02.380
 yeah I'll bet

00:56:02.380 --> 00:56:08.180
 so

00:56:08.180 --> 00:56:08.720
 you

00:56:08.720 --> 00:56:12.860
 I'll be there

00:56:12.860 --> 00:56:15.000
 if you want to

00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:15.340
 but

00:56:15.340 --> 00:56:45.320
 Thank you.