If Your Brother or Sister Sins | Gospel of Matthew
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What do we do when other followers of Jesus fall into sin and wander away? John Mark explores Jesus’ teaching on dealing with sin in the church. Even though it's one of the most abused teachings of Jesus, John Mark show that, rightly applied, it has the potential to help the church become everything it's called to be.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 18v10-20
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer |
| 0:03.0 | Teachings Podcast by practicing the way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was originally given |
| 0:08.0 | at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Gospel of Matthew series. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey, Bridgetown, please turn your Bibles to Matthew Chapter 18 as we continue our teaching series through |
| 0:26.9 | Matthew's Gospel. We left off last week in verse 9. Let's pick it up in verse 10. Read with me. |
| 0:35.0 | See that you do not despise one of these little ones, |
| 0:40.0 | for I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my father in heaven. |
| 0:47.0 | What do you think? |
| 0:48.0 | If a man owns a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the 99 on the hills and go and look for the |
| 0:54.4 | one that wandered off and if he finds it truly I tell you he is happier about that one |
| 0:59.8 | sheep than about the 99 that did not wander off. In the same way, your father in heaven |
| 1:06.3 | is not willing that any of these little ones should perish. |
| 1:10.7 | If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault just between the two of you. |
| 1:17.0 | If they listen to you, you have won them over. |
| 1:19.0 | But if they will not listen, take one or two others along so that every matter may be |
| 1:24.0 | established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If they still |
| 1:28.2 | refuse to listen, tell it to the church and if they refuse to listen even to the church |
| 1:34.5 | treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector |
| 1:38.0 | truly i tell you whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven |
| 1:42.4 | and whatever you loose on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in heaven. |
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