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RHEMA 10/26/98:
Stand Against
Sin Within Church
[Praying about a church that wanted to expand, and yet
was allowing those in attendance to live in sin, feeling
God's grace covered all.]
PIX: I saw an open house flyer being held up
between a pair of praying hands. The flyer burst into
flames and disintegrated.
PIX: I saw an angel holding a match that had
been lit and blowing across it as though to kindle a
fire.
HEARD: Fire. Head strong. Cigarette carnality.
Operate. Disabled. Surgery. Sin. Answer. Give him coffee
to wake up. This is a warning. Very bad. Serious.
PIX: I saw a giant snake wrapped all around a
white building.
HEARD: Titanic. Cleanse the lepers. We need a
final commitment. Hedge.
PIX: PLEASE [in all caps]
APPLICATION: The leaders in the church needed
to make a commitment to stand in the gap, form a holy
hedge and purge the leaven out of their midst.
WORD STUDY - OUR BOUNDARIES AND STANDARD IS THE WORD
OF GOD
Our lives are lived according to the standard in
scripture. It equips us for doctrine, reproof,
correction and training in right and holy living.
2 Tim 3:16-17 AMP
Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His
inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof
and conviction of sin, for correction of error and
discipline in obedience, [and] for training in
righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God's
will in thought, purpose, and action), So that the man
of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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REPROOF:
elegmos
NT:1648 a elegmos (el-eng-mos'); from NT:1651; found
only in 2 Tim 3:16: conviction (of a sinner),
punishment, refutation of error, reproof.
elegcho
NT:1651 elegcho (el-eng'-kho); of uncertain affinity;
to confute, admonish:
KJV - convict, convince, tell a fault, rebuke,
reprove.
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CORRECTION:
NT:1882
NT:1882 epanorthosis (ep-an-or'-tho-sis); from a
compound of NT:1909 and NT:461; a straightening up
again, i.e. (figuratively) rectification (reformation):
KJV - correction.
Luke 13:13
And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was
made straight, and glorified God.
Acts 15:16
After this I will return, and will build again the
tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will
build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Hebrews 12:12
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the
feeble knees;
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INSTRUCTION:
NT:3809
NT:3809 paideia (pahee-di'-ah); from NT:3811;
tutorage, i.e. education or training; by implication,
disciplinary correction:
KJV - chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.
Ephesians 6:4
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to
wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord.
KJV
2 Timothy 3:16
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness:
KJV
Hebrews 12:5
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not
thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art
rebuked of him:
KJV
Hebrews 12:7
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as
with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth
not?
KJV
Hebrews 12:8
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
KJV
Hebrews 12:11
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth
the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby.
KJV
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RIGHTEOUSNESS:
NT:1343
NT:1343 dikaiosune (dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay); from
NT:1342; equity (of character or act); specially
(Christian) justification:
KJV - righteousness.
Matt 5:20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness
shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of
heaven.
Matt 5:17-20 KJV
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from
the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called
the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall
do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness
shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of
heaven.
Gal 6:1 AMP SET THEM RIGHT
6:1 BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in
misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual
[who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit]
should set him right and restore and reinstate him,
without any sense of superiority and with all
gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest
you should be tempted also.
I COR 5 NKJV HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE IMMORAL
It is actually reported that there is sexual
immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is
not even named among the Gentiles - that a man has his
father's wife! 2 And you are puffed up, and have not
rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be
taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in
body but present in spirit, have already judged (as
though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are
gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power
of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be
saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a
little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge
out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since
you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our
Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep
the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of
malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company
with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not
mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or
with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since
then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I
have written to you not to keep company with anyone
named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous,
or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner - not even to eat with such a person.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who
are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13
But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put
away from yourselves the evil person."
WORD STUDY - DO NOT KEEP COMPANY
1 Cor 5:9-13 NKJV
I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with
sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean
with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with
the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then
you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have
written to you not to keep company with anyone named a
brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an
idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner
- not even to eat with such a person.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who
are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13
But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put
away from yourselves the evil person."
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COMPANY
sunanamignumi
NT:4874 sunanamignumi (soon-an-am-ig'-noo-mee); from
NT:4862 and a compound of NT:303 and NT:3396; to mix up
together, i.e. (figurative) associate with:
KJV - (have, keep) company (with).
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PORN SEXUALLY IMMORAL - SELLING/ BUYING SEX
NT:4205
NT:4205 pornos (por'-nos); from pernemi (to sell;
akin to the base of NT:4097); a (male) prostitute (as
venal), i.e. (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine):
KJV - fornicator, whoremonger.
NT:4097
NT:4097 piprasko (pip-ras'-ko); a reduplicated and
prolonged form of prao (prah'-o); (which occurs only as
an alternate in certain tenses); contracted from perao
(to traverse; from the base of NT:4008); to traffic (by
travelling), i.e. dispose of as merchandise or into
slavery (literally or figuratively):
KJV - sell.
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COVETOUS
NT:4123
NT:4123 pleonektes (pleh-on-ek'-tace); from NT:4119
and NT:2192; holding (desiring) more, i.e. eager for
gain (avaricious, hence a defrauder):
KJV - covetous.
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EXTORTIONIST
NT:727
NT:727 harpax (har'-pax); from NT:726; rapacious:
KJV - extortion, ravening.
English: one who obtains property by oppression or
abuse of authority
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IDOLATERS
NT:1496
NT:1496 eidololatres (i-do-lol-at'-race); from
NT:1497 and the base of NT:3000; an image- servant or)
worshipper (literally or figuratively):
KJV - idolater.
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REVILER
NT:3060
NT:3060 loidoros (loy'-dor-os); from loidos
(mischief); abusive, i.e. a blackguard:
KJV - railer, reviler.
English: Railer, verbal brawler, abuser, opposer
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DRUNKARD
NT:3183
NT:3183 methusos (meth'-oo-sos); from NT:3184; tipsy,
i.e. (as noun) a sot:
KJV - drunkard.
English: Drunkard and drug addict - perpetually under
the influence of alcohol or drugs
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Gal 5:9 AMP LEAVENS THE WHOLE CHURCH
A little leaven (a slight inclination to error, or a
few false teachers) leavens the whole lump [it perverts
the whole conception of faith or misleads the whole
church].
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1 Cor 1:10 OF ONE MIND IN CHURCH JUDGMENT
Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing,
and that there be no divisions among you, but that you
be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the
same judgment.
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Matt 18:15-17 NKJV 2 OR MORE WITNESSES
"Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and
tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he
hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he
will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by
the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
established.' 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it
to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the
church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax
collector.
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1 Cor 10:6-11 NKJV EXAMPLES FOR OUR LEARNING
Now these things became our examples, to the intent
that we should not lust after evil things as they also
lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of
them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and
drink, and rose up to play." 8 Nor let us commit sexual
immorality, as some of them did, and in one day
twenty-three thousand fell; 9 nor let us tempt Christ,
as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by
serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also
complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now
all these things happened to them as examples, and they
were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
the ages have come.
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1 Tim 1:19-20 NKJV DELIVERED TO SATAN FOR A SEASON
...having faith and a good conscience, which some
having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered
shipwreck, 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander , whom
I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to
blaspheme.
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1 Cor 6:1-6 NKJV APPOINTED TO JUDGE WITHIN THE CHURCH
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go
to law before the unrighteous, and not before the
saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the
world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you
unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not
know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things
that pertain to this life? 4 If then you have judgments
concerning things pertaining to this life, do you
appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to
judge? 5 I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there
is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be
able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goes
to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!
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Rev 2:14-16 NKJV HATE SEXUAL IMMORALITY
have a few things against you, because you have there
those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak
to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel,
to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual
immorality. 15 Thus you also have those who hold the
doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
NKJV
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1 Tim 4:1-3 SEARING THE CONSCIENCE
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times
some will depart from the faith, giving heed to
deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking
lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared
with a hot iron.
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Gal 1:6-9 NKJV DOOMED FOR DESTRUCTION
I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him
who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different
gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who
trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any
other gospel to you than what we have preached to you,
let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I
say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you
than what you have received, let him be accursed.
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Gal 6:1-5 NKJV THE MINISTRY TO RESTORE
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you
who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of
gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be
tempted. 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill
the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks himself to be
something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4
But let each one examine his own work, and then he will
have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5
For each one shall bear his own load.
RESTORE:
katartizo
NT:2675 katartizo (kat-ar-tid'-zo); from NT:2596 and
a derivative of NT:739; to complete thoroughly, i.e.
repair (literally or figuratively) or adjust:
KJV - fit, frame, mend, (make) perfect (-ly join
together), prepare, restore.
Rev 3:19-20
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore
be zealous and repent.
NKJV
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Jude 20-23 NKJV PULL THEM OUT OF THE FIRE
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most
holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep
yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And on some
have compassion, making a distinction; 23 but others
save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating
even the garment defiled by the flesh.
Jude 22-23 SNATCH THEM FROM THE FLAMES
22 Show mercy to those whose faith is wavering. 23
Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of
judgment. There are still others to whom you need to
show mercy, but be careful that you aren't contaminated
by their sins.
PORNOGRAPHY IN THE CHURCH
WITCHCRAFT IN THE CHURCH
VIOLENCE AS ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CHURCH
ADULTERY IN THE CHURCH
VOTING FOR ABORTION IN THE CHURCH
HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE CHURCH
VOTING FOR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE CHURCH |
