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For Sunday evening services, the Lord has led me to do a Bible study for practical Bible verses in Acts. Please come back to these Bible lessons in order to review them and learn them. Whenever we have learned the meaning of Bible verses and think about them throughout each day, we will be in perfect peace (Isaiah 26:3). Not only that, but when we are in a situation in our daily lives and are tempted to sin, we can think back to what we have learned from the Bible and say to ourselves, "The Bible says not to do what I am tempted to say, think, do, and/or desire right now, so I am going to refuse to give in to this temptation." This is what Romans 12:2 means, and it says, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." This is also the pattern that Jesus used when the devil tempted Him to sin in Matthew 4:1-11.
Chapter 5
1 CORINTHIANS
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1 Corinthians 5:1-13
1It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, (A man in the Corinthian church was having sexual relations with his father's wife, and instead of being very ashamed and sorrowful, the church bragged and made light of it. This, of course, isn't the right attitude to have about sin. As verse 6 says, "Your glorying is not good." If you have prayed or made a decision to become a Christian, but this describes your attitude towards sin, please follow chapter 10 of the pdf file book featured at this website - www.areyousureyouaresaved.com), that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, (When a church member commits notorious, flagrant sin and is proud of it, the church should gather a meeting and remove the person from its fellowship.) 5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (The purpose of removing a church member is to strike godly fear in them and alert them that they need to repent of their sinful ways and make sure they're really a Christian.)
6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (The church member in these verses was a bad influence. Since his sin was tolerated, other church members could have felt that it was fine for them to commit the same or different sins. As a small amount of yeast spreads through a whole batch of dough, his sin could have badly influenced the whole church.) 7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.