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To: imardmd1
May I add one point? ...

A certain saved member of a Corinthian assembly was having his own mother as his wife. Paul admonished the assembly to put that one out for satan's destruction of his body so that his soul might be saved. Such an one will stand before the Bema Seat IN HEAVEN, 'naked' having escaped the Judgment as if by fire.

325 posted on 06/21/2017 8:10:00 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

Thank you for your pointer. The citations for the passages is at the very end (1 Cor. 5:1-13, 2 Cor. 2:1-11). Once that offender confessed, repented, and demonstrated a changed life style, Paul besought the local assembly to forgive him and fully restore him with the love of Christ, even as their own were dealt with.


329 posted on 06/21/2017 11:02:41 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: MHGinTN

A certain saved member of a Corinthian assembly was having his own mother as his wife.


Step Mother.


333 posted on 06/21/2017 1:29:42 PM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: MHGinTN
May I add one point? ... A certain saved member of a Corinthian assembly was having his own mother as his wife. Paul admonished the assembly to put that one out for satan's destruction of his body so that his soul might be saved. Such an one will stand before the Bema Seat IN HEAVEN, 'naked' having escaped the Judgment as if by fire.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. (1 Corinthians 3:6-15)

The judgment seat of Christ, which all will appear before, will manifest the manner of workmanship each one built the church with - which every believer is doing, directly or indirectly, by commission of omission - with one gaining or losing rewards based upon his labor (yet which God really deserves credit for, for all things are of Him. )

But i do not think any will be without any rewards, or that many will be without some loss, at least if they were born again for long. Saving faith is that which effects obedience - "My sheep hear my voice and follow Me..." (Jn 10:27). Yet "in many things we offend all." (James 3:2)

And as regards the grave incestuous man of 1Cor. 5, the purpose of the chastisement was not to save the man as by fire, but to bring necessary repentance by the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (1 Corinthians 5:5)

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (1 Corinthians 11:32)

355 posted on 06/22/2017 5:55:17 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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