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1st Corinthians chapter 5 verse 2 and you are arrogant ought you not rather to mourn?

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

Okay, so based on verse one, where Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit calls out the church

for tolerating sexual sin, sexual immorality in their midst, unrepentant sexual sin, sexual immorality.

Paul says, let him who has done this be removed from among you.

So basically, and we'll see this in a couple different ways in this chapter,

but remove this person from the church. So let's think about why that would be.

Why would you remove someone from the church? Well, someone being in the church means that the church is saying

this is a follower of Jesus. So if somebody's a member of the church then that

church is saying this person is a

follower of Jesus. Basically saying that to a watching world. You want to see what

a follower of Jesus looks like, look at the members of this church,

and this is a member.

And so what you have is somebody who is in the church

and the church is basically saying

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