1 Corinthians 5

1 Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

• Reported = heard
• Commonly = altogether
• Matthew 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
• Named = The texts omit = found
• Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• One = a certain one

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

• Glorying = boasting
• Roman 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
• Abraham's good works were glorious, but not necessarily in God's viewpoint.

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:

• Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us
• Is = was
• For = on behalf of
• But texts omit "for us"
• Old leaven = sin

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

 

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

 

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

• Don't fellowship with the wicked, you are to teach and help them, if they want to listen
• 2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
• Paul is saying, Wait!
• God will tell you, and Jesus will return.
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
• This word "disorderly" in the Greek indicates laziness.
• Withdraw from one who walks lazily in contradiction to teaching he received of us who work hard or serve with diligence.
7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
• They taught and spread the word night and day; remember?
8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
• We sponged on no one, but worked for our keep.
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
• We set an example for you.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
• Earn your own living.
• Don't be idle with time for gossip and untruths.
• Paul is talking to people that can work, and think they do not have to work.. they think you are to pay their way, why they go out being busybodies, causing trouble and gossip causing trouble.
• He's not talking to the handicap that's disable and cannot work.
• 12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
  13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
• Don't tire of doing what's right.
14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

• Don't judge = that's God place
• We are to help them with the word

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25