You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. If you have a Bible, I hope you do, let me invite you to open

with me to Matthew Chapter 18. In fact, it'd be good if you could have Matthew 18 open and then

mark a place over in Galatians chapter 6.

It's a place we're going to go in a little while. Galatians chapter 6.

We are in the final week, week three, of talking about church discipline in the context of this community of faith.

In an overarching series, we're walking through covenant community as we look at our church covenant,

which you see at the top of your notes there, starts by saying as members of the church

at Brook Hills, we affirm this covenant with one another by God's grace for our good and ultimately

for God's glory.

And then a few paragraphs down,

I've included the whole covenant this morning just in light of space,

but a few paragraphs down, we say,

we'll humbly and gently confront one another

and receive correction from one another

in accordance with the New Testament understanding

of church discipline and restoration.

Now, why would we say that?

Why would we include that sentence in our church covenant?

And the answer that I hope we're seeing in Scripture is because we want Christ that much.

And we want the glory of Christ in the church that much. And we want the glory of Christ in the church that much. And so what you've got

in your notes there is a quick review, especially if you've missed one or both in the last

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