Judging What's Inside

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Judging What's Inside

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Matt Williams

Teaching Pastor; Staff Governing Elder; Staff Director

In this passage, Paul calls the church to take sin seriously within the community, not out of judgment, but out of love and concern for holiness. Paul urges believers to remove what corrupts and calls the church to live as people made new—marked by sincerity and truth.

Application

  1. What does it look like to receive God’s definition of sin with humility rather than reshaping it to fit our preferences or culture?

  2. Have you experienced the difference between shame that leads to hiding and shame that leads to repentance? What helped you move toward God rather than away from him?

  3. How does Jesus’ finished work invite us to live differently—and more honestly—with one another?

Key Points

  • Believers do not get to decide what sin is. God defines it, and we receive his truth with humility and respond in obedience.

  • The shame that follows our sin exposes our guilt, yet it can also move us toward repentance and restoration with God.

  • Jesus’ blood covers believers, delivering us from judgment, and calls us to live in alignment here on earth with the spiritual work he has done.

  • Believers are to walk with sincerity, inviting others in through honest confession and moving outward toward one another in love, intervening when sin begins to pull someone away.

Other Scripture References

Matthew 18:15–17

Exodus 12:13

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