1st Corinthians 5thians 5 the issue with someone is sleeping with their mother-in-law is something along these lines and Paul is saying look the Gentiles don't even do nonsense like that what you're doing here is sin upon sin and the gospel doesn't allow

for you to sin when you treat the gospel that way you're no longer listening to

it you're using it as an excuse for your own flesh.

And so in both situations these people are doing something that is getting in the way

of God's word doing what it's supposed to be doing and they're using God as an excuse.

And so this is why in both

situations actually there's not contradictions here what you have here is how you

preach the law to people in a variety of situations and what we we see with the First Corinthians Five Passage is that if you're going to identify

yourself with the people of God, if you're going to say, yes, I'm a part of God's family,

and I've received the good news of the gospel for the remission of sins and things like that.

I've been declared righteous.

This is not a legalism, but I'm going to live in step with my proclamation.

Like that's my proclamation.

Like that's my desire.

So my desire has been transformed

to want to follow God.

That's not to say that nobody, you know, slips

and has a misstep or things like that but at least that desire should be to pursue

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