<p><b>Summary</b>:</p><p>Paul condemns the church for tolerating a man living with his father’s wife. Instead of boasting, they should remove him from their midst, delivering him to Satan so his flesh may be destroyed and his spirit saved. He warns that a little leaven corrupts the whole, urging them to cleanse out the old leaven. Since Christ, their Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed, they must celebrate with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, not with malice and wickedness.</p><p> </p><p><b>Teaching</b>:</p><p>Even though the holy people of God in the Corinthian church followed Paul and the apostles and served the church in their own way, they still allowed such immorality within it. If they truly desired to live by faith, there would be no immorality; the reason they tolerated another’s sin was because their sense of warning against immorality had grown dull.</p><p> </p><p>Do not commit sins that bring church discipline. Such discipline comes when sin does not remain only personal but spreads to the community. It is no longer just one person’s issue when his words or actions affect others; that is when discipline is required.</p><p> </p><p>To boast in faith while not realizing that one has leaven is hypocrisy. When we believe in Jesus and receive salvation, we are reborn as people without leaven. The new person is one without leaven. Always be renewed as the holy people of God.</p><p> </p><p><i>Excerpt from the sermon by Pastor Lee, Oct 1, 2025</i></p><p><i>1 Corinthian 5:1-8</i></p>
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