The church hadn't risen to address this sin because ultimately they were not concerned enough for the soul of the sinner. Paul gives them a rather amazing bit of direction. While assembled together… declaring the authority of the name of Jesus Christ… they were to turn this man out from them and back into the domain Satan… back in the world. They were to declare that he was unfit for fellowship as a believer in Christ. Paul acknowledges in this same chapter that there may be fellowship with him that continues just as a Christian continues in fellowship with any unbeliever who may be caught up in sin. But they are not to fellowship with him as if he were a believer. The most that Paul will offer to this one given to ongoing, treasured, un-repented sin is that he is a so-called believer; he calls himself a Christian. But his declaration does not obligate to fellowship with him as such while he is living in known sin.
Question: What is the proposed effect of this disciplinary action? Answer: The man will be no longer bound to conceal or to modify the pursuit of his fleshly appetites before the church. He'll be now able to pursue his sin to that place that all sin ends in… destruction. Paul is basically saying, “Let him depart from you so that he may pursue the destruction of sin with out any interference. And when sin has brought its destruction on his life maybe he will turn back to Christ for Salvation.”
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