Immorality In The Church Must Be Judged
Immorality in today’s church is a problem. We have many churches that are not preaching the truth, who are not teaching the whole truth. Some are ignoring the truth and some are just using parts of the Bible, thus the problem.
by Jym Wells
04/29/2016
1 Corinthians 5:9-12 (NKJV) 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
12For what h ave I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
I am not pointing fingers however I am going to tell the truth and I am not going to sugar coat it. We are in a sad time of electronics and people do not even bother to take a Bible (if they even own one) to church anymore. A friend of mine went to a church in Florida walked in and did not see a Bible other than his own. The preacher quote unquote read some parts of some scripture and then said they were going to accept a lesbian couple into the church membership, sorry that is in-house immorality…
We are told in 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 (NKJV) 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil. Then we are told in 1 John 4:1 (NKJV) Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. So as we told in 1 Corinthians 5:9-12 (NKJV) that we should not judge or condemn the world, however, we should the Church for it needs to be what it is called God’s House. Verse 12 is very clear about not judging the outside, however, do judge who is on the inside.
Immorality in today’s church is a problem. We have many churches that are not preaching the truth, who are not teaching the whole truth. Some are ignoring the truth and some are just using parts of the Bible, thus the problem are in trouble I was reading some statistics and the divorce rate in the world was 50% in the Church was 51% that was the highest I found. We know stats etc the same report said a high number of Pastors are hung up on pornography. This is why we need to read the Bible, we need to study the Bible, we need to know the Bible. I do believe that we should be gentle to an extent however we should be ready to confront the individual and at the same time remember repentance is what got us here. Do what is necessary to help one get back if one is willing. Pray a lot for immorality is here and it is not going away on its own…
Memory Verse April 29, 2016
1 Corinthians 5:12 (NKJV) For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
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