Previously we discussed the cause for fractures in the church.
This time, we are discussing how sins of Corinth was affecting the community and the church.
God hates sexual immorality.
What was happening in Corinth? The people, including some new church people were partaking in acts that are depraved.
Before the acts are listed, the following point must be made. Love the sinner, hate the sin.
What does the Book of Romans say about this. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
These are some of the depraved acts in Corinth:
- Adultery
- Male Prostitutes
- Homosexuality
- Insest
- Bestiality
Here's God's comment on sexual immorality:
Romans 1
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Summary,
There was alot of controversial material in today's lesson. It can ALL be found in Scripture. It is how sin creeps in and destroys the church and its ability to survive and serve in this world.
Again, Love the sinner, hate the sin and May he who is without sin cast the first stone......
