Tag: fornication

  • How Dare You Defer Discipline 1 Corinthians 6

    Church discipline continues to be the focus of the Apostle’s letter. Previously Paul spoke of Judgment between Christ and Satan, but by discipline the Apostle does not mean judgement of Corinthians who do not identify with Christ Jesus. So now Paul INSISTS that the Corinthians judge a fellow church member in this case of moral…

    Justice and Discipline of the People - a view of the Supreme Court of the US building
  • Sanctification and your Walk Toward Holiness

    WHAT IS SANCTIFICATION and WHY DOES IT MATTER? Walking instructions to please God more SOUNDS LIKE GOOD FATHERLY ADVICE, doesn’t it? Allow me to tell you a story about a letter. ONCE UPON A TIME there were some gentile pigs (as Jews supposed them to be) who having fled their straw and stick houses to…

    1 Thessalonians - Paul, Silas & Timothy send a letter from Corinth to the church of the Thessalonians to encourage them in their sanctification in Christ. Google Earth map of the Aegean.
  • Epistle from the Council of Jerusalem – Acts 15:20

    The Council of Jerusalem has come to a decision. They will write an epistle of instruction to the gentile churches. Let’s focus for a moment on a HOT TOPIC of A.D. 50 on which future missions of the apostles hinged. (HOW will JEWS worship with other CULTURES?) Church leaders ANSWERED with an EPISTLE from their…

    Epistle of Paul to the Romans 1 - the Apostles sends a church letter to Rome and the local saints of area churches