A Biblical Example: Public Rebuke
Message Outline:
The Purpose of Community Discipline
1 Corinthians 5:1-13
(Part B)
I. The Case for Discipline (5:1-5)
A. The Sin (5:1)
B. The Church’s Response (5:2)
C. The Apostle’s Response (5:3)
D. The Apostle’s Judgement (5:4-5)
1. The Authority of It (5:4a)
2. The Place of It (5:4b)
3. The Participants in It (5:4c)
4. The Action Itself (5:5a)
● deliver handing over or turning over
5. The Outcome (5:5b)
6. The Purpose (5:5c)
II. The Basis of Discipline (5:6-8)
A. The Statement of the Attitude (5:6a)
B. The Statement of the Basis (5:6b)
C. The Responses to the Basis (5:7-8)
1. Immediate: Purify the Body (5:7)
a. The Response (5:7a)
● clean purge or separate something from something else
b. The Need for the Response (5:7b)
c. The Reasons for the Response (5:7 c-d)
2. Ongoing: Live in That Purity (5:8)
a. The Response (5:8a)
b. How Not to Live (5:8b)
● malice badness, wickedness and vice
● wickedness maliciousness or sinfulness
c. How to Live (5:8c)
● sincerity authentic, real, without mixture
● truth truthfulness of life, conduct and mind