BLESSINGS FROM OBSERVING MORAL INSTRUCTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
     In his first letter of exhortation to the Corinthian church Paul shifted to another criticism from his first criticism of their divisive and denominational claims of some claiming to be spiritual students of Paul and some being spiritual students of either Peter or Apollos which labeled the body of Christ as being fragmented, which was erroneous and fleshly instead of being spiritual.  The second criticism was that the members of the church were letting a man in the church live with his father's wife in incest, calling it lewd conduct. (I Corinthians 5:1)  He wrote in his letter that that conduct was even more reprehensible than conduct found among pagans.  He commented that he had heard that the elders of the church were self satisfied instead of grieving and getting rid of the offender.  Paul wrote that as an apostle he had already passed sentence upon the man who was doing the deed, even though he was absent in body.  Then Paul wrote his sentence on the man, that he had already turned the man over to the devil so that the man's spirit would be saved on the day of the Lord.  
    Paul wrote that the boasting of the men of the church was wrong that everything in the church was according to the teachings of Jesus Christ because there was an ugly thing happening in their midst.  He gave the scriptural teaching of Jesus Christ to them that a little yeast has a multiple effect through a measure of dough.  He told the elders to get rid of the yeast so as to make fresh dough, as unleavened bread; Christ having been the Passover that was sacrificed.  He wrote that they must not celebrate the reality of Passover with corruptness and wickedness in their midst and instead to celebrate the reality of Passover with the unleavened bread of Truth and Sincerity.
    Then Paul wrote to the Corinthians the reminder that he had told them not to associate with immoral persons, let alone allow them to be accepted as Truth seeking members of Christ's body.  He repeated the admonition that he had given to them when he had earlier written a letter to their church from his distant ministry to other Gentiles.  He wrote that he had not told them not to associate with immoral people of the world.  What he wrote in his earlier letter was for them not to associate with "brothers" in the church who were immoral, covetous, an idolater, an abusive person, a drunkard or a thief. 
    Paul wrote in this letter that he or they had no business to judge outsiders of the church, but that it was insiders in the church for whom they must judge the actions, whether the actions are of evil or of My Good.  He wrote that My judgment would come upon the unbelievers who were living incestuous lives, but that the church members must expel the incestuous man from their church if he refused to repent from his incestuous relationship after they had confronted him about it.
    In Paul's strict adherence to the teachings of Jesus Christ, he was speaking a truth about discerning between good and evil actions, teaching that allowing evil relationships in the church polluted the church.  If the elders appeared to accept an incestuous relationships in the church of born again and Holy Spirit baptized people, then the actions of the elders gave the impression of their turning a blind eye to  the sin as being acceptable, their appearing to approve of incestuous relationships. (I Corinthians 5:9-13) 
   In that letter to the church of Corinth Paul established a spiritual truth in My body of Christ, that My children must judge the actions of the people inside the church who are born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit by doing what Jesus Christ taught them to do.  Jesus taught them to go to a person in the church who was sinning and lovingly confront him or her about the sin which has disastrous results for the sinners.  If the person refuses to listen, then Jesus taught to take another person or two more people with him to confront the sinner as confirmation that more than one person is concerned about the person's participation in sinning.  If the sinner still refuses, after being confronted by two or more elders in the church, then he is to be brought up before the entire community of the church for loving correction.  If the sinner persists in choosing to sin, then he must be exorcised from the church before that sinful behavior is considered acceptable by others in the church.    
    Paul's reminder about the teaching of Jesus about exorcising the poisonous action from the church was explained by him as being Paul's refusal to accept some sinner who chooses not to mend his or her sinful ways as turning the sinner over to the devil so that his soul would be saved after the devil was finished his judgment of him and the person turns back to Me, which is called repentance.  (Matthew 18:15-19)It's like a defiant child who refuses to accept the loving discipline of his parents and continues in hurtful behavior which injures himself or herself.  Very often, after repeated chastising the child the parent takes his or her hand of protection off of the child and lets the child's hurtful behavior cause pain and discomfort to the child.  The child has chosen to learn by experiencing pain instead of by the loving guidance of the parent.  The lesson finally learned by the child was the way to avoid pain was by correcting his or her behavior that caused the pain.  The child could have learned the same lesson by honoring the loving correction of the parent instead of choosing to learn the lesson by continuing the actions what caused painful results.
     Paul's instructions were necessary in order for the church at Corinth to display the teachings of Jesus Christ and remain virtuous and unpolluted.  Tolerating a little sin from hell pollutes entire churches and evil actions increase with speed.
    Your Father of Discerning Good from Evil