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1 Timothy 5:20
2 Corinthians 5:16
Acts 15:1
Jude 1:3
Hebrews 3:13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
Continued from 1 & 2 Corinthians Sins Deception - Hebrews It! (Legal Study, Chapter 3) Pt. 13f
Galatians 2:9,10,11,12,13,141 Timothy 5:20
2 Corinthians 5:16
Acts 15:1
Jude 1:3
Hebrews 3:13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God..... 18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. 20 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 21 What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
Has anyone stopped to think that Paul was a murderer, once? He's either going to head over to the Corinthians to drop the Spiritual Boom or come with Love and Gentleness. I don't know about anyone else, but knowing Paul, I would beg him to come with GRACE! And... the Irony is, Paul is setting up the TEACHERS of THE STONE LAW! They are hoping Paul comes with the Rod of Discipline! That's unwise, because that Rod will be over their backs! The shameful man that is begging for mercy, will receive MERCY! He's crying tears and saying, with his head hung Low, OH LORD, Please take pity on me a sinner!
2 Corinthians 2:1-11 So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you.
Paul didn't go to Corinth, but instead, wrote another epistle (Letter). We find in Chapter 13 that Paul did visit Corinth after the writing of 1 Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 13:1 This will be my third visit to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
Paul is using the idea of 2 or 3 witnesses being required to suggest that he will return a third time.
2 Corinthians 1:23 But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.
Paul is actually using verbiage directly out of the close of the Law of Moses, but instead of referring to "Moses", Paul is evoking God as a witness against him.
Deuteronomy 31:26 “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.
How does God witness against Sinners?
John 8:15 You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.
How does God witness against the Self Righteous?
1 John 3:10 Here is how one can distinguish clearly between God’s children and those of the Adversary: everyone who does not continue doing what is right is not from God. Likewise, anyone who fails to keep loving his brother is not from God.
Context? Matthew 23:15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
2 Corinthians 13:10 This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority—the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.
2 For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved?
Grieving is a strong word. Paul is speaking as the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. What grieves the Spirit of Christ? Condemning people that turn the good works of Jesus into commandments of men that define God as an Accuser. Paul is saying that Jesus doesn't grieve those that He dwells in but instead finds Joy in all that He dwells within.
3 I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy.
Paul opens 2 Corinthians up in this way.
2 Corinthians 1:2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. ... 20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
4 For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
Paul was crying as he wrote to Corinth. He felt sorrow and distress in his very Soul. He desired to build the Body of Corinth in Love and was upset that the matter of the man was an issue that made it to him. Reporting this sin of that man to Paul was similar to Praying to God directly and reporting the man to God. That's a very bad thing.
Revelation 12:10 “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
5 If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely.
Paul is directly referencing the man who was with his mother in a marital way, here. He employs literary devices that soften words about the man; "to some extent" and "not to put it too severely".
6 The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient.
The man had been talked to and addressed. His behavior had most likely been hurtful to his father. He was transgressing the law of Love in this matter and making his father sorrowful. What "punishment" had been inflicted on the man? Had he been cast out from the congregation? As a matter of fact, it is most likely that 2 factions arose in the matter. One faction wanted to cast the man out of the Body, while the other faction desired to Love the man and forgive him. This tension was so intense among these two factions that the strife made it to Paul. My suspicion is that when Paul was there, He chastised the minority of the group which was desiring to be severe with this man and cast him asunder. It probably took all of Paul's reserve to not lose it on those that loathed the man. He had some sort of discussion with the entire group that taught them to build one another up in Love and Forgiveness, instead of Tearing one another down, out of spite and pride. If Jesus Christ, the very Presence of God, among us, WHO KNEW NO SIN, bore ALL OF OUR SINS, how arrogant is it to point out a sinner because their visible sin is shameful? What is the depth of 1 visible shameful sin when compared to another sinners entire life debt of sin which Christ has forgiven? The very exaltation of this mans sins before everyone in the Body, coupled with the drama that surrounded it had most definitely been the actual "punishment" that the man had received.
7 Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Paul just crowned the winning "faction" that demonstrated Christ's desires and shut the mouths of those that had pointed fingers outstretched. Many of the finger pointers most likely didn't want to be associated with the shameful man and desired to make it clear that they had cast him asunder. You can almost imagine that some people left the church of Corinth after this final decision by the Apostle Paul.
8 I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.
Paul Loves this man and is glad in heart to bear the shame of this man's sin within Christ's Body. He is now using strong Urging verbiage that the man needs to be LOVED by the Body that experienced all of this upheaval. Paul's judgment of this man had always been that he required more Love to be encouraged. The situation that this man was in was a very personally uncomfortable situation that the man was most likely not happy with, himself. What kind of a mother sleeps with her son? It was bad for the father, the son and the mother! This wouldn't have been a permeant situation by any circumstance. However, it does demonstrate the depth of Jesus Christ's Love and forgiveness far above the petty quibbling's of todays Body.
9 Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.
Hit the brakes! This was a TEST?!? Paul was seeing if the Body would default to Love as Jesus Christ had demonstrated! Paul was seeing if the Body would be Loving and Forgiving, or if it would be like the Accuser, himself. Paul wanted to see if the Body would exalt Christ's Royal Command!
10 Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,
Paul was hoping that Corinth would be a place of LOVE and FORGIVNESS! He was grieved that it took his involvement to reaffirm this matter.
11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
This statement is salt in the wounds of the faction that wanted to OUST this man. They are getting lumped in with the Accuser of the Brethren! Love can heal the meek and harden the proud. Hopefully the Proud learned a lesson from this horrific experience!
2 Corinthians 13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
Ousting this man of shame from the Body to "Hand him over to Satan" would have been a JUDAS KISS.
Loving this man of shame and building him up in Love was a Holy Kiss.
What is sin's deception? The kiss of Judas! Handing a Brother in Christ over to Satan.
This concludes 13g. Hebrews 3 will be continued in study in Pt. 14, which will be here soon.
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