Jesus Christ The Sure Foundation for a Troubled

“Jesus Christ The Sure Foundation for a Troubled Church” Saturday, September 9, 2006 1 Corinthians chapter 5 “Echoing the sin of your father” “Purge, therefore the old leaven. . . ” 5: 7 a 1

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Outline of First Corinthians • Written to answer questions on – Marriage (Chapter 7) – Idolatry (Chapter 8 -11) – Spiritual gifts (Chapter 12 -14) – Gospel (Chapter 15) – Money (Chapter 16) • Issues before answers (Chapters 1 -6) 5

What kind of society did the Corinthians live in? • • Greek - Olympics - Athletic idols Port City Enslaving Prosperity $$$$ Corinthianize = Sexual immorality University - Worldly Wisdom San Francisco + New Orleans + Las Vegas = Corinth, Greece, AD 56 6

What kind of people have we seen in the Corinthian Church? • Missing father (1: 11) • Idolatry – Of leaders (ch 1) – Of Miracles and Ceremonies (ch 2) – Of Worldly Wise (ch 2) • Four-year old diapered spiritual babies on milk (ch 3) • Divisive, wounded, jealous, & self-destructive (ch 3) • Insecure, seeking approval, honor, recognition (ch 4) 7

What kind of people will we see in the Corinthian Church? • Gross sexual immorality (ch 5) • Ripping each other off (ch 6) • Binge eating of the Lord’s supper, get drunk and leave some hungry (1 Co 11) • Out of control church service, likely emphasizing the “seen” gifts (1 Co 12 -14). • No discernment and abusing and being abused (2 Co 11: 20). 8

What is missing in the Corinthian Church? • Who’s your daddy? (1: 11) • “Lead-dolatry” - Pedistal for leaders (ch 1) then themselves (4: 8 -13) • Following the gifted (ch 1) abusing the gifts (ch 12) • Following titles (ch 1) abusing titles (ch 4) • Missing a name, approval, empowerment, and a mission • Searching for their missing “Da d-dolatry” 9

Things you should have gotten from your father (4: 7 -13) • A Name – A heritage – A family – A name 10

Things you should have gotten from your father (4: 7 -13) • Worth – I value you – I love you – I support you – I want to be with you 11

Things you should have gotten from your father (4: 7 -13) • Wealth – Virtue - unseen riches – Giftings - Strengthen the weak – Limitations - Get help from the strong – Uniqueness - you are special 12

Things you should have gotten from your father (4: 7 -13) • A mission – Direction for your giftings – Guidance – Advice – Support 13

“This is my beloved son in whom I love. In him I am well pleased, listen to him” • Baptism (Mt 17: 5) • Transfiguration (Lk 3: 22) 14

“This is my beloved son in whom I love. In him I am well pleased, listen to him” • • My Son - The Name Beloved - Worth Well pleased - Favor, Wealth Listen to him - Mission 15

What are the word-pictures that Paul uses of himself? • • Servant - huperetes = under rowsman (4: 1) Steward - oikonomos = house manager (4: 1) Minister - diakonos = waiter (3: 5) Planter - pheuteo = seed planter (3: 6) Laborer - sunergos = co-laborer (3: 9) Apostle - apostolos = mail carrier (3: 9) Bondservant - doulos = term servant (Ro 1: 1) Father - pater = all of the above (4: 15) 16

Idolatry: A poor substitute for a father’s love (4: 7 -13) • • Division over Differences Elevate the strong and humiliate the weak Titles, ruling, reigning, power, authority Seen wealth Knowledge to puff up Visible strength Prideful self-idolatry is a cancerous substitute for a real father’s love! 17

Imitation: give away the love you’ve experienced (4: 14 -17) • • Read it! Begetter vs 10 k instructors Imitate vs listen Beloved vs instructed Relationship vs knowledge Warned vs shamed Seen Father & Son (Paul & Timothy) vs heard instructors 18

What if my dad didn’t do these things? Am I unqualified? • Overcome his failings - Get a new Father! • Substitute his failings - A “poser” • Reject his failings - An “opposer” • Echo his failings - A “loser” 19

Paul is sending Timothy? • • • From a divided home (Ac 16: 1) An unbelieving father (Ac 16: 1) A youth (1 Ti 4: 12) Too sickly (1 Ti 5: 23) Paul’s spiritual son (1 Co 4: 17) God is his father (1 Co 4: 17) 20

Read and Outline all of Ch 5 • • • Warped sexuality (vs 1) Warped discernment (vs 2) Paul’s reaction (vs 3) Paul’s direction (vs 4 -5) Paul’s proper, Passover picture (vs 6 -8) Directed discernment (vs 9 -12) 21

5: 1 ¶ It 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. • • Key words? Look for repetition Look in the context Look for word pictures Look for modern word usages 22

5: 1 ¶ It 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. • Fornication - [4202 porneia porni'-ah] • Porneia = sexual immorality • Root word for porn, pornography • Porneia is similar to “eido”latry 23

5: 1 ¶ It 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. Porneia vs “eye-dolatry” • Both originate in the eyes “seen thing” • Sexual immorality brings down and enslaves, and “eido-latry” makes you bow and to serve. • Prohibited intimacies: Physical vs. spiritual • Covenant breakers • Physical vs. spiritual pouring out 24

5: 1 ¶ It 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. What Porneia sins in verse 1? – Sex before marriage - he wasn’t married to her – Adultery because the woman was married – Incest - within a family – Sex outside the faith - she’s an unbeliever – Flagrant, open, public sexual immorality – Sex to humiliate and to elevate 25

5: 1 ¶ It 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. Father’s wife = step-mother 1. Abandoned his son’s mother? 2. Mother is a prostitute, sex slave, and never married son’s mother? 3. Polygamy? - A two-woman (maybe several) 4. Divorced/remarried? Not necessary in Corinth! 5. Died/remarried? Get real, this is Corinth & look at the fruit of the son’s behavior. 26

5: 1 ¶ It 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. Theory: a two-woman father First mention of polygamy Genesis 4: 19 “And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. ” 27

5: 1 ¶ It 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. Theory: a two-woman father First mention of polygamy Genesis 4: 19 “And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. ” – Adah = “ornament” – Zillah = “undesirable” 28

5: 1 ¶ It 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. Theory: a two-woman father First mention of polygamy Genesis 4: 19 “And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. ” – Adah = “ornament” – Zillah = “undesirable” Your pornea woman shines in your eye as a hollow-shelled idol leaving your wife second and undesirable 29

5: 1 ¶ It 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. A family diagnosis: the women “Undesirable” is not even mentioned, which is exactly the point “Ornament” is likely a younger woman because of the attraction of her step-son “Undesirable” is therefore the first wife who is made last. Ornament doesn’t respect other’s nor her relationships Ornament is not a believer because she is not subjected to the Church’s discipline 30

5: 1 ¶ It 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. A family diagnosis: the father The follow-on woman he married “Ornament” is not a believer Because he’s not rebuked for that, I’m assuming he’s not a believer I propose that the father is not one woman A dull daddy: expecting Ornament to respect marriage? 31

5: 1 ¶ It 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. A family diagnosis: the son Believing son - Paul tells them to disfellowship him NOT kill him. The son came to faith late in life - Corinth church is only 4 years old The son has not matured in his faith as the Corinthian church is full of babies (ch 3) 32

5: 1 ¶ It 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. A family diagnosis: the son The son is a child of “Undesirable” The son is attracted to “Ornament” therefore he has spent time with her The son “has” his father’s wife, therefore he is an adult The son doesn’t respect his father’s marriage The son has Christ living in him and is probably more attractive to Ornament than his father 33

5: 1 ¶ It 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 [Gk echo] his father’s wife. Diagnosis: the son echoes his father The son echoes his father’s wife. The son echoes his earthly father because the son came to faith late in life The son echoes his father’s carnality The son echoes his father’s spiritual immaturity The son echoes his father’s attraction to Ornament The son echoes his father’s disrepect of marriage The son echoes his desire to have a spiritual father by taking his father’s place in the bedroom 34

Ge 35 The son echoes his father 35

Ge 35 The son echoes his father 36

Ge 35 The son echoes his father Reuben • Reuben, son of Undesirable, echoes his father’s attraction to Ornament and uses Ornament to become the strong father he never had • Sex becomes a tool to elevate, to control, to idolize • Perpetrator of incest has a motive to elevate, to control, to idolize themselves substituting for affirmation from their missing/abusive father. • Danger of a blended family - Incest common from older boys, danger of older, unrelated male in your home • Today’s dysfunctional family is serial polygamy is much more likely to experience incest 37

The son echoes the father David Uriah Michal Ahinoam Abigail Maacah Haggith Abital Eglah Bathsheba 1 Sa 18 - (1 Sa 25) (2 Sa 3) (2 Sa 11 25: 44 1 Chr 3: 5) Amnon Chileab Absalom Adonijah Shephatiah Ithream Concu(2 Sa 3) (Daniel) (2 Sa 3) bines (2 Sa 3: 2) Tamar ? ? (1 Chr 3: 1) (2 Sa 13) (2 Sa 12) Additional sons: Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet (1 Chr 3: 6 -8) Solomon Nathan, Shimea Shobab (1 Chr 3: 5) 38

The son echoes the father 9 “…Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. 10 Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. ' 11 Thus says the Lord: 'Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun. ’” (2 Sa 12, NKJV) 39

The son echoes the father “So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. ” (2 Sa 16: 22) David Uriah Michal Ahinoam Abigail Maacah Haggith Abital Eglah Bathsheba 1 Sa 18 - (1 Sa 25) (2 Sa 3) (2 Sa 11 25: 44 1 Chr 3: 5) Amnon Absalom Adonijah Shephatiah Ithream Concu(2 Sa 3) (2 Sa 3) bines Chileab Idolize 2 Sa 13: 1 -2 Tamar ? ? (Daniel) (2 Sa 13) Isolate v 9 (2 Sa 12) (2 Sa 3: 2) Overpower v 11 Solomon (1 Chr 3: 1) Humiliate v 12 Additional sons: Nathan, Shame v 13 Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, Shimea Despise v 15 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Shobab Reject v 16 -17 Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet Despises herself v 18 (1 Chr 3: 5) (1 Chr 3: 6 -8) Silence v 20 40

The son echoes the father • Father is not a believer • Father not a one woman • Son echoes father – Comes out late in life – Poser, opposer, or loser • Sanctification is the process of recovery from son of Adam into an adopted son of YOUR Father. 41