Chapter 5
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| 5:1 Sexual immorality is actually reported among you, and such sexual immorality as is not found even among the ethnic families, that one has taken his father’s wife! 2 Yet you are arrogant instead of being grieved, and have not removed the one who did this deed out of your midst. 3 Truly, even though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit and have already judged the one who worked this [awfulness], as if I were present. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, as I gather together with you in spirit, and with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 deliver such a one to Satan into the ruination of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved inside the day of the Lord. 6 Your boasting is not good. Are you not aware that a little bit of leaven is enough to leaven the whole lump of dough? 7 Thoroughly cleanse out the old leaven [g], so that you may be a new lump of dough, as you already are unleavened. • For so also Christ our Passover Lamb was offered as the sacrifice 8 so that we might be part of the feast, not as old leaven and not with the leaven of inherent evil and pain-ridden toil, but inside of the unleavened bread of honesty and truth. 9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with the sexually immoral, 10 but I did not mean all the sexually immoral of this world, or with the covetous and thieves, or idolaters – since you would then need to depart out from the world. 11 Rather, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone named a brother if he is sexually immoral or covetous or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunk or a thief – not even to eat together with such a one. 12 For what is it to me to judge those outside? Do you not judge those within? 13 For God will judge those outside. Expel the evil out from yourselves! |
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| • Definition: One of the Bible meanings of “leaven” or yeast, is dishonesty. Thus unleavened bread means honesty and Truth in the inward parts, whereas leaven can mean pretending to be concerned about God, even while putting on a show for others. Honesty is also a pathway of power and thus part of Kingdom. • Definition: The Feasts of Israel, Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles, inside the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, are metaphors for us that God uses to convey to us our Way of Salvation. Passover itself, the sacrifice of Christ as our Lamb, was only a moment of time, immediately followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread, our full and perfect union with Christ, right from the start, with no need for pretending. |
g. In the New Testament, leaven is a metaphor of dishonesty, that is, lying about one’s self and about God’s salvation. |