Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this?

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”

In the name of their boasted 'liberty' the church is condoning incest. It is a case which would shock even the pagans in that notorious city. These Christians have brought their old values with them into the church, and never given them up. So the whole church is endangered as Paul had warned in a previous letter, though they had mistaken his meaning.

Why?

Sexual immorality among Christians is not allowed so liberty is not an excuse but it is a sin. For Jesus, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed, we have to keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness.

This world is full of many sins, sexually immoral or greedy... these will be judged by the Lord. But among us, the church, Christians should expel the wicked person from us.

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哥林多教會問題在結黨紛爭，因為受世俗影響，重要是學問、能力、成功，而生命、服事動機、心態變不重要，對罪視若無睹。教會中犯的罪不會比外面的人輕。這裏只提到淫亂，其他還有。

交給撒旦：逐出教會，看他如外邦人，停止他在教會的服事，聖餐。

敗壞他的肉體：不在神的道路當中，沒有神同在的孤單，讓他肉體的情慾也消毀了。使他懷念教會中的生活。也就是停止他的服事。

罪用酵來比喻：發酵：變質，虛胖。

這裏的與他吃飯，是指認同他。不是說教會人的人犯罪而不和他吃飯，不關心！教會對外邦人，不認識主的人，不該去要求他們，批評他們。因為他們沒有律法，不認識神！

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How?

Keep our behavior and our mind with truth and righteousness. For my God is a living Lord!