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1 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 7.

Cleanse out the old leaven, you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened.

For Christ, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.

So here's the picture of God's grace in the middle of this chapter on church discipline

and removing those who are living in unrepentant sexual sin from the church.

So let me expand a little bit on that phrase that I've used on numerous occasions in this particular

just praying through 1st Corinthians chapter 5. The whole picture here is not just when, okay,

when somebody sends, they should be removed from the church. Well, no. Like, none of us would

be able to stay in the church. I wouldn't be able to stay in the church. I wouldn't be able to stay in the church.

You wouldn't be able to stay in the church.

Like, clearly, that's not what the Bible is saying.

And it's not what Jesus teaches in Matthew chapter 18.

The whole picture is when someone is walking in sin and continuing in it, then you go to that person.

And this is really simple in a sense,

like it's not always easy to do by any means,

but it's simple in a sense.

Like if I am living in sin and continuing in it,

I want somebody who loves me enough to come and tell me that.

Like, pull me back to Christ.

If you see me walking toward a cliff and you're like, that's his deal.

I'm not going to bother with that.

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