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1 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 4 and 5.

When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present,

with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh so that his spirit may be saved in the day

of the Lord. Okay. Now that just kind of expanded things from verse two. So verse two in 1st

Corinthians chapter 5 it said let him who has done this,

who is living in unrepentant sexual immorality be removed from among you. And then Paul says,

so when you come together, like as the church, assemble to the name of the Lord Jesus, with the power

of the Lord Jesus. And remember, this is exactly what Jesus said to do

in Matthew chapter 18. And he said, I'll be with you. You have my authority to do this.

You look back in Matthew chapter 18, verses 15 through 20. He says, Paul says, you were to deliver this man

to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. That's a picture. That's another way of saying you

are to put him out of the church. You no longer recognize him as a follower of Christ. He is

excommunicated. He is no longer in the church so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

So the hope is, the hope in taking this step of removing this person from the church

is that they would see, like this is serious.

Like unrepentant sin shows that you are not a follower of Christ.

So the hope is, the prayer is that this man,

because brothers and sisters in Christ lovingly, graciously, patiently address the sin in his life,

like confront him in that, say turn to Christ. He says no. And so they say, okay, we don't want to do this.

Like with tears, with mourning, we're going to place you outside the church because you're not

showing that you're a follower of Christ. And you continue down this road. You will show in the

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