Daily Archives: July 31, 2023

Sin is like a net – it can “catch” us in its grip, and drown us in death. If a brother or sister is “caught in any transgression”, we are to lead them back to a right relationship with God through the proper application of God’s Word. We are not, as the Pharisees often did, become self righteous and overbearing.. We are to be humble. If someone’s sin is DIRECTLY against you as a believer, Jesus gave us steps to repair the breach. He said:

Matthew 18:15-17 (ESV) If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

We usually do this in the reverse. If we are sinned against, we get on the phone and telegraph it throughout the Church, never speaking to the accused. But the accused cannot be corrected if that person is not informed. We must TELL them what they did wrong. We are not to allow sin to run rampant through the Church, effecting the fellowship of the believers. This is what happened in the Church of Corinth. Paul told them to address it because it was destroying the Church.

1 Corinthians 5:1-2 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. 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.

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