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the church cast them out of fellowship
that is now no longer under the
protection of the church body or god
so that he may either a repent or be
he'll die in his sin but he'll wind up
going to heaven which one is it most
scholars and i agree it's point two
and it's amazing remember this church
he's not speaking any word to the woman
caught in the act
is he
she's exempt
we conclude because she's not a believer
the young man is addressed because he is
a christian
so watch this the word deliver means
here to deliver such a one to satan the
word means to surrender over or to yield
authority to another wow
to transmit or to hand over to place
someone under the authority of someone
else for their harm for their danger it
would be like handing someone over to
your captor or your invader
pulses deliver hand them over to who to
satan
wow in first timothy chapter 1 verse 19
the bible says having faith and a good
conscience which some having rejected
concerning the faith have become
shipwrecked of whom hymenus and
alexander whom i delivered to satan that
they may learn not to blaspheme
very powerful statement jack are you
saying that a church has the authority
to call jesus into the midst of a church
disciplinary act and cast someone
outside the protection of god answer yes
that means you better have godly
leadership
because that's a serious thing
and let me add this you pray that it
doesn't happen very often
any pastor who says yeah this is cool
preach it pastor
i'm gonna go do this one no no you're a
weirdo if that's your
you wanna weep cry and fast over issues
like this
this is terrifying and then the word
destruction means this and this is
terrifying if you're a christian today
and or you name yourself as a christian
and you're living in sexual immorality
this is terrifying
because the word destruction means that
a prolonged form of ruin punishment that
eventually can lead to death the word
means a premature death that could be
prolonged it sounds like an oxymoron huh
sounds like a contradiction it means
this you may be a christian and you may
be
wrestling with bubbles and you shouldn't
and god says you know what you're in
trouble with me and i'm sharpening my
sword of judgment against you and it may
take a week it may take a month it may
take a year it may take five years but
god is going to judge and what happens
what is the judgment sickness
a life that's not blessed even premature
death why because god he loves you but
he pulls his hand of blessing away from
your life why would you do that have you
wondered why since you've been goofing
off and sinning against god that your
life ain't so blessed anymore
it would be like going out today and
running around in the weather it's cold
outside on this winter day
no come under the umbrella of god and
that's done by obedience
first corinthians 3 17 says if anyone
defiles the temple of god god will
destroy him for the temple of god is
holy which temple you are and again
first peter 5 verse 8 says be sober be
vigilant because your adversary the
devil walks about
like a lion or a roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour
resist him steadfast in the faith two
things about that verse in peter
for the christian who's walking in
obedience and faith satan is like a lion
did you hear that
are you guys with me
if you're walking with jesus right now
satan is like
a lion
i like that
he's only he's only like a lion
and you can resist him steadfast in the
faith
if you are a christian and you're not
walking with jesus
notice satan becomes your devourer
he'll get you
and so can you say right now christian
this morning
that you are being serious and vigilant
and resisting satan's tricks or are you
living a life that is aberrant to what
god wants
the bible says in ephesians 6 verses 1
to 3 children obey your parents listen
to this
if you're a parent get ready to write
this verse down
obey your parents in the lord for this
is right honor your father and mother
which is the first commandment with
promise what's the promise that it may
be well with you and that you may live a
long life on the earth what's what is
implied if you're disobedient to your
parents you could die in early life
isn't that funny well who's good who
what happens no no parents listen hey
any any rebellious kids in here right
now hey you could be 40 years old right
now being a rebellious kid
you can be walking in disobedience to
god
your parents aren't going to take you
out they might write you out of the will
but they're not going to take you out
god will take you out
how does that happen because you
in a stubborn way depart from the things
of god and you start getting involved in
things you shouldn't be doing and those
things outside the umbrella of god can
take your life
years ago there was a young man who came
to this church gave his heart to christ
many years ago now 10 15 years ago
and
i don't know it was a little about a
year or so after he gave it made his
commitment to christ he started hanging
out with the wrong guy started doing the
wrong things
and
was killed in a horrific car accident
he said well jack what happened
well
he died in a horrific
accident
did the lord know about the accident oh
yeah
did he lose his salvation i don't think
so
i think the lord took him home
and that's a very very important thing
to keep in mind note this paul is saying
deliver such a one to satan for the
destruction of his flesh church family
your flesh and mine is not the final
word on our existence thank god
verse 5 teaches us also that it demands
scriptural discipline the ultimate
judgment demands spiritual discipline
scriptural discipline
it says that his spirit may be saved in
the day of the lord jesus christ all
right this is amazing
this is amazing
how saved is a true child of god
you guys need to put your thinking caps
on right now don't misquote me
because i can tell you right now if
you're not paying attention you're going
to misunderstand what i'm saying
you can turn on any christian radio
station and listen to any broadcast at
any given time and you'll hear one
pastor teacher say you can lose your
salvation and another guy say you can't
what are they saying what's the problem
here let me just try to streamline it
for you
there are a lot of people who say
they're believers
and then there are true believers
there are religious people and then
there are those who are born again big
difference the bible says
when paul says
deliver this guy to satan to destruction
of his body so that his spirit may be
saved in the day of christ what is he
saying he's saying this guy is born
again
this guy is going to go to heaven this
guy is saved but he may die a premature
death
he's living in sin he's
damaging the name of god
and god will take care of that but
listen to this now i know right now
someone's going to be saying pastor
don't say that too loud because someone
someone's going to live in sin
they're going to choose that sin over
repenting
and you hope not
but this is the true scripture here
the bible tells us in fact write it down
i'm going to give you a string of verses
john 6 37 all that the father gives me
will come to me
and the one who comes to me i will by no
means cast away or cast out that's a
fact number two
john 10 27 my sheep hear my voice i know
them they follow me oh but what if they
what if they stop following wait a
minute i give them eternal life and they
shall never perish neither shall anyone
snatch them out of my hand that implies
even if they cease to follow jesus and
backslide
how do you know romans 8 38 for i am
persuaded that neither death nor life
nor angels nor principalities nor powers
nor things present nor things to come
nor height or depth nor any other
created thing shall be able to separate
us from the love of god which is in
christ jesus our lord the answer is
i personally believe that the scriptures
teach that if you are born again
and you walk far from god you may die
physically
but god will take your life so that your
soul is saved in the day of judgment
before christ
here's the burden that's upon you
rather than play gamble or las vegas or
roulette with that your life you better
know if you're a christian or not
that's not for me to find out for you
you can only find out for you
make sure you're a true christian
and how will you know even if you're
like this man
you hate your sin and you'll do anything
and everything to get out of it
you will call us you'll look to your
neighbor and say help me i need to be
rescued from my life you will not be
able to bear the burden and the weight
of this sin in your life that's going on
you will hate it the non-christian
doesn't hate it
the non-christian has some guilt in
their mind because they might have been
brought up in the church or whatever but
they don't have any love for god
this is a serious thing
this man because of a sexual immorality
will experience a ruined life
that could even lead to death but make
no mistake about it this man is a
christian and he's going to heaven who
says paul says under the inspiration of
the holy spirit this man's life will be
saved in the day of christ that is a
radical thing
so how saved is a person who's truly
saved saved
but you are to determine whether you be
in the faith or not
point number four verses six to eight
this is where we end
saints sex and sinners requires this
reviving the fear of god in our lives
can i qualify what that means uh you
don't hear it much anymore to fear the
lord when you read the bible you know
how many times it says fear the lord
fear the lord what listen
that doesn't mean that you tremble and
shake and hide in the corner from god
that's not what it means
the best thing for me
a word picture that comes to my mind
when i think of the fear of the lord
is things like have you been to niagara
falls
have you stood there and felt a ground
tremble
with the water going over the edge and
then you go down take the stairway and
go down in the cave and you go
underneath niagara falls did you know
that you got to go there
go to niagara falls go underneath the
river you get to go underneath the river
and you walk to the edge where the
niagara falls is falling and see the
back side of water and it's just about
11 12 feet away from you and listen
the water is going down so powerfully so
dynamically that it's pulling you can
feel the air pulling you towards the
water it's very eerie it makes your skin
makes your hair stand up
the the atmosphere is intense and it's
charged
the same feeling that you get like if
you go to the edge of the grand canyon
you are in oh
you have to rub your eyes and forget
about taking pictures of the grand
canyon a camera cannot capture it
and you see that and you have to study
it
and when you walk away you say oh god
you're awesome it's like a massive
lightened storm
you just have to drop your arms and fall
to your knees and say god you alone have
all power
that's the fear of the lord
you are awesome
oh god
we are to revive the fear of the lord
the church today is
sadly sick regarding the things of the
fear of the lord well what do we do
about that number one it requires us to
nurture a fervent heart
fervent hot the word means hot he says
in verse six your glory and your pride
you're boasting about this man's sin
it's not good
do you not know that a little leaven
leavens the whole lump
a little sin infects everything you guys
listen to this everybody it's true it's
not possible for someone to sin
privately
oh you may be sinning privately
but it affects in the spirit every one
of us did you know that because when
we're not walking hot and alive and on
fire for jesus it affects all of us
you know how it's flu season
everybody's got the flu i mean i don't
first time in four weeks i feel great
today
so don't shake my hand give me an elbow
give me a give me knuckles but don't
hey listen how do you know it's flu
season
how do you know somebody says it's flu
season well how does he know
someone's got to get the flu
and then when someone gets the flu
you've seen people with the flu
i was on the airplane recently with
people it must have been a a plane
it must have been like flight
flu
people are sick the guy's sitting next
to me sick what's wrong you got the flu
and i'm going oh no
i took my earplugs that i had in my ear
and i put them on my nose
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for a filter from the flu
listen
the flu spread can you see the flu
you can't see the flu
can you feel the flu
you can't see it but you can feel it
sins like that you can't see it
somebody walks by you but you can feel
it later you get it how do you get it
because you know what for example listen
this is one of the dangers about a
larger church you can come and go to
church and nobody will know i hate that
i don't care how big the church is you
ought to be able to be involved in
ministry so that people know who you are
okay
you can come and go and nobody knows
that's not good but you come and go and
people know you and you're in listen
we're dependent upon you
okay
that is a healthy thing
but listen
if you're sinning and you're dependent
upon and you won't repent of it
you won't repent of it
now your
flu sin
starts to affect others in your group
you can always tell the backslidden
christian
they don't hang out with any other
christians
why they know they're sick
and they don't want others to detect
that they're sick and the world cannot
detect that they're sick because the
world's sick like them
it's amazing
that's why we need one another
there's a lot of talk today about
accountability and accountability to
this and accountability that you know
why people talk about that because very
few christians
are being dependent upon by other
christians
if all of us decided for this year to
serve the lord jesus christ by serving
one another
there is the accountability
friendship love relationship camaraderie
dependency upon others
it's a powerful thing
it's a it's a tremendous thing reviving
the fear of god in our lives is
absolutely necessary that we have a
fervent heart
the bible says in jude 21 keep
yourselves listen everybody we're almost
done keep yourselves in the love of god
that is a willful decision can you guys
all hear me in the back can you hear me
back there you must determine you must
determine to keep yourself in the love
of god
you've got to decide that
watch the word
it's pretty amazing because
to keep yourself in the love of god we
could use the word anchor umbrella we
could use the word to set in concrete
watch this
keep yourselves in the love of god
looking for the mercy of our lord jesus
christ and to eternal life
and on some people have compassion this
is funny listen
and some people have compassion
not everybody what yep watch
making a distinction in other words your
love your heart fervent love for god
as you minister to other people you will
affect their life and they'll come to
know christ or look verse 23 jude 1
but others save with fear
pulling them out of the fire hating even
the garment defiled by the flesh if you
and i have fervent hearts for one
another
we are going to make sure that what
happens in corinth doesn't happen here
we will care about one another we'll ask
one another how you doing
and we'll really look at someone how are
you doing
and look at them in the face how are you
doing
christians are great they're pathetic
liars
ask a christian in his face how you
doing i haven't seen you in a while
looking right in the eyes christians
because of the spirit of god is in them
the holy spirit i'd love to see this in
the invisible realm the holy spirit must
reach up back there behind their
eyeballs and grab their eyes and make
their eyes go down and and kind of
fidgety around he must grab him
why because a christian when speaking to
another christian if that chris if that
other christian is not walking with god
their light bulb is a little dim hey how
you doing i'm all right how you doing
did you see the laker game the other day
hey look at me in the face what's up
what's going on
when you love one another and the lord
and there's a fear of god in your life
listen your walk is only as strong as
your brother and sisters walk how are
you doing i need you to do good what's
up oh man i got myself into some trouble
dude let's pray let's talk
and we need to trust one another
fervent love for open hearts
keep yourself in the love of god church
here at chino hills keep yourself in the
love of god what does that mean just
watch lisa and i when it's raining
this is hilarious
we have always had a conventional
umbrella you know the normal conv normal
umbrella normal and i'll grab it and
she'll grab my arm
and she'll walk
near me and we'll go like this now lisa
hates to get her hair wet
but it's always like we're always
walking like this come on stop what i
had to go around let's stop coming here
this way nope you're going too fast slow
down wait a minute you're going through
slow come on spit up you know what i'm
talking about
okay so you know what i did i went and i
bought one of those ginormous golf you
know those i don't golf but i bought a
golf umbrella
okay you can jump out of an airplane
with the thing
men
i open that thing up and we can have
lisa small children
everybody under there and you just
walked what keep yourself
in the love of god think about it open
the umbrella the bigger the umbrella the
safer you're going to be what is that
umbrella you and i are part of the body
of christ and we're under the umbrella
of fellowship
we're accountable to one another because
we're engaged in one another's lives and
we'll be a healthy church and if
somebody steps out of line they're not
gonna get beat up they're gonna we're
gonna say hey are you okay
oh man you know what i kind of fell off
the wagon last week dude come here let
me scoop you up let's pray call me
tomorrow we'll see how it's doing let's
get
okay i know people are afraid man if i
say something like that the guy is going
to use blab my name on the internet well
that guy's not a friend then stay away
from me he's a gossip he's a blabber
he's a tail bearer
he's a nincom poop
listen also
reviving the fear of god in our lives
requires us to train up an obedient soul
god blesses obedience there's no other
way around it i don't know i can't
apologize for it it's just a fact
god blesses
your
obedience he says therefore purge out
the old leaven the old life the stuff of
your old life get rid of it have a
garage sale throw it away that you may
be a new lump
since you are truly unleavened that's a
statement
this is radical
paul is saying you guys are born again
that that dumb kid who's goofing off in
sexual sin he's born again
you guys need to deal with it why
because you are a holy lump
you're a holy loaf
you are
a
sacred bun unto
god for indeed christ our passover was
sacrificed for us this is profound
statement paul is saying jesus is the
passover lamb
who takes care of all of the sin stuff
including yours and mine
first john 1 7 almost done but if we
walk in the light as he is in the light
that is communion with god we have
fellowship one with another and the
blood of jesus christ the son cleanses
us from
all
sin first john two
my little children these things i write
to you so that you may not sin the word
means live a life that is sinful
and if anyone sins we have an advocate
an attorney
with the father jesus christ the
righteous
and he himself is the propitiation
sacrifice passover atonement for our
sins and not for ours only but also for
the whole world
wow
so how do you know if you're a real
christian
you along for fellowship with god
and then here it requires us to maintain
a devoted mind
verse 8 therefore let us keep
the feast
not with old living or the old life
nor with the leaven of malice and
wickedness
but with unleavened bread of a sincere
of sincerity and truth keep the feast
simply means this you guys it means
now watch
keep the feast every christian
we are to celebrate every day
jesus being our passover lamb
every day well how do you do that it's
so simple
you focus on the reality hey man good
morning good morning everybody good
morning hey jesus is my passover today
and you when the word says keep the
feast you know the word means it means
to celebrate rejoice sing praise worship
the feast
what feast am i to do that jesus died
for you and i
you know what's supposed to be the
believer's strength
are rejoicing in the lord
is that awesome think about that
the joy of the lord is your
strength says the bible
here's the beauty of it
paul is saying please get this as we
wrap this up paul is saying church at
corinth
let's start with the godly leadership
you guys have blown it you've messed up
and you've really really got your eyes
off of christ god the leadership needs
to become godly at corinth
deal with the situation at the same time
and from here on out
celebrate every day the reality because
you guys are sanctified you are
believers you're christians and you're
going to heaven every day celebrate that
truth be worshipful be praising be uh
rejoicing in the lord
and you will
be
having no stomach no appetite for the
things of this world
i end with this
legalism
church legalism christian legalism
that's a contradiction
puts people in headlocks
beats them up
and says thou shalt not thou shalt not
thou shalt not thou shalt not
and you've got a bunch of pent-up people
longing inside
to follow jesus but constantly
frustrated with no joy
no
happiness no celebration no passover
because it's been communicated to them
that they've got to walk
the fine line
every day and if you miss we're going to
throw you out
if you submit a line we're going to have
you excommunicated
no no love covers a multitude of sin
when you say listen jesus is your
passover
he will forgive you of all sin any sin
even if you're living with your
stepmother in an aberrant sexual
relationship
god will so rescue you or he'll take you
out and send you to heaven that's how
much he loves you
you are wholly devoted unto god you're
sealed into the day of redemption
and between here and now
walk with him in obedience watch what
happens to your christian life
wild horses will not be able to draw you
away from jesus
whatever you put your hand to do it will
prosper
you will be fruitful and abounding like
joseph whose branches it says overflowed
over the wall and all the kids could eat
the fruit of his life
that's what god wants for you
so you choose today in fact you know
what i'm gonna ask all of you to stand
right now
and i don't want you to touch anybody
because it's flu season
and i know we may have some baptists in
here right now
um we may have some church of god people
in here i don't know who that's the cool
thing about this church i don't know
where you've come from
and you may be uh you may be genetically
uh hindered to do what i'm about to do
but let me preface it this way this is
the first sunday of the year
you happen to be in church right now
and i'm going to ask you to do this and
we don't we're not going to think you're
weird because we're all going to do it
in fact if you don't do it you're a
weirdo how's that
i'm going to ask all of you to lift your
hands
because this is what the bible says it
says that we church the believers
men and women
because we are holy declared holy by god
we should lift our hands in prayer unto
the lord are you ready
here we go
heavenly father i pray that regarding
the prayer that we are collectively
about to pray
lord god that you would take note in
heaven that right now angels would be
peering over a cloud as it were to see
what's happening right now in this
service
father we thank you that you've brought
us to this
century
to this year
and lord we don't know what the year
holds but we know you who hold the year
that's great to know
well our hands are out straight to
heaven
we pray this prayer church will you
repeat after me
dear lord
on this day
i rededicate my life
i vow
today to serve you lord
i commit my love
and my worship
and my praise
my sin
and my victories
into your hands
thank you jesus
for dying for me
and having been resurrected from the
dead
in jesus name
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