Bible Study: I Corinthians Part V

I Corinthians 5:1 - 7:13

The church at Corinth was "puffed up" and "glorying" under the influence of the fornicator, foretelling of the liberal denominations of our day who present tolerance for perversion as piety and doctrine. We examine Paul's condemnation of sin, and his method for properly dealing with it in light of the Law of Christ. We review Paul's dual lists of sins, and sinners that garner at least excommunication, and at most exclusion from the Kingdom of God, (namely: fornication, covetousness, idolatry, railing, reviling, drunkenness, extortion, adultery, effeminacy, abusers of selves with mankind, and thievery ). And we ask: how can anyone escape the judgments of one or all of these sins?

Hear about the obligation of the church to judge rightly, how we learn to do it, and whether or not the church's jurisdiction over believers includes not just sin, but divorce and even crime, (and how we can know where the jurisdiction of the church ends and the world's begins).

We look at why the replacement of Bible words like "expedient" and "incontinency" in the modern dumbed down "new, living, revised, world, and standard" translations, with psycho-religious oriented words like "beneficial" and "self control" is not expedient. Paul preaches the power of Christ, not will-power or self control to overcome sin!

Paul wishes all men would be like him, not needing a wife (or even sex). We begin a review of this somewhat confusing and uncomfortable subject, and the question of Paul's delineation of his advice versus the commandments of the Lord, and whether or not one is scripture and the other is just one man's opinion.