 Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome to a new week. I hope you had a blessed weekend Let's begin this time with a word of prayer. So maybe one of us can Please lead in prayer Christopher. Is it okay if you can lead in prayer for us? Okay? Anybody else can be please Simran Sure, I'll lead Father, thank you Lord. Thank you for this Babe every gather to learn father. We pray and invite your spirit to teachers and that would be your wisdom that That helps us to learn father. We thank you Lord We pray as we as we learn that our hearts are open and that we have to learn the things that Really slid us up and take us to the new levels that you want us to move on We thank you for this class. We pray and submit this to you. Thank you and we ask this in Jesus name Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So last week We did chapter three and chapter four and so in in chapter three and chapter four Paul the Apostle begins to Uh address the first issue of the church in Corinth, right and we saw that the first issue was division There were some who were saying Paul some are saying Peter's seeing Paul us and there's division within the church So Paul The Apostle Paul brings out all the important aspects, right? He says how as a body We are to be one in mind one in the spirit and every gift that we have Everything that has been given to us is given by God. And so there's no Place of division. There's no place of a person taking honor And of course, he says that powerful yet very important words. He says Uh, uh, you know, uh, Paul So the seed of poros watered but God made it grow Right. So there was so it's not about the person, but it's about what God is doing So chapter three and four he addresses that issue Right and he brings that whole issue to a conclusion. He says, okay now as a body of Christ, let us Continue to be in unity and oneness because that is what the church must look like Right and now, uh, he moves on and in the next chapter chapter five He addresses the second issue Right now, let's see what the second issue is. I'll just share the Present the notes Okay, so chapter five the second issue right Immediately from the first issue. He's we see that he's not wasting any time. The apostle Paul is not You know beating around the bush. He's not saying, okay, you know try to be in unity. No, he's put his stance He said, you know, this is what God expects of the church He moves on and now the second issue Now that was troubling the Corinthian church was sexual sin in the church Right and the entire chapter five. He's talking about sexual sin Now this chapter Is a very important chapter yet. It's a chapter that People have a lot of questions, right? It may look like a very stern chapter Oh, and it is a very stern chapter, right? Paul makes some Drastic decisions in this chapter, but let us look at why Sexual sin within the church Uh can really, you know destroy the unity of the of a local church, right? You can because it is the work of the enemy and so we look at this chapter And just for our understanding the chapters divided into three sections. We see here Against action action against sin in the local church Then the unleavened bread in the Passover lamb and relating to those who are willful sin Right, okay. So let's go down and we'll also talk about, you know, this whole thing of grace and you know And how grace and correction needs to be put together grace and truth come together We'll talk about all that, right? So Chapter five and verse one Okay, uh, it is actually reported that there is sexual immoral morality among you And such sexual morality is not even named among the Gentiles That a man has his father's wife right now Sexual morality in Greek means pornea Refers to all kinds of sexual activity outside of marriage, right now. We must understand, right as we already mentioned Keep this in the background, right? So what kind of church is current? You've got You've got the you know a temple of Aphrodite. You've got thousands of prostitutes Gentiles and then you also got Jews Right, so sexual sin was not something new Right, uh, it was not something that people, you know We should avoid this. It was not it was a normal thing in Corinth especially Right, but for the Jews, it was not a normal thing They knew the old testament the scriptures talks about, you know, how we must uh, you know God is against sexual morality. So the Jews knew but the Gentiles they they don't care they they they have come from You know a completely different background. They have become believers um But the sexual conduct Right there their lifestyle was not right in front of uh People in front of the eyes of God. So Paul is here addressing the problem, right? He's saying This is not how a church should be. This is not how believers should be right verse two And you are puffed up and you have Not rather mourned that He who has done this deed might be taken away from you now It's not like the entire church is more There were few people in the church Involved in section of morality Right, but he says here the Corinthian Christians who are puffed up, which means they were arrogant. They were proud And they were tolerating This person it could have been one person or could have been many other people also But they were tolerating this man or woman who was involved in sexual sin And Paul is rebuking them right Uh, he's trying to say hey, they should as believers As you know people who believe in Jesus, they should be Morning, they should be grieved about this sin Right because the Holy Spirit isn't them Now picture this right remember we we know that the you know this Corinthian church Was a church where all the gifts of the spirit are already manifesting The Holy Spirit is manifesting Yet the believers in the church looked at a person who was involved in sexual morality and they tolerated it Right, I said it's okay. Right and they didn't mourn. They didn't grieve. They didn't repent of that sin Right, and that's why Paul goes on later. He says he needs to be removed from the local church community, but they did not do that Right, I've just put a note here There is grace But but there are consequences for wrongdoings Right God is a gracious God now. This is a balance that Each one of us as believers, especially as leaders We must develop in this right so there is grace God is gracious. He gives us grace but god is also a god who Is you know who who who does things in the right way? Right and if we take wrong decisions if we are Knowing the truth going away from things and you know continually living in sin We will have to face the consequences of our wrongdoing Now what's more important That one person who is causing problem in the church or the entire church Obviously it's the entire church, right? So the apostle paul is trying to protect the church and he's upset With the believers. He's with the probably with the leaders in the church. He said, how can you tolerate somebody who's involved in sexual sin and not repenting of it, but You know, he's just coming to church every you know week involving himself What is going to happen his His nature is going to rub off on others and Others will you know, there will be two kinds of people one will say Hey, if he's involved and you know these sexual sins and he's coming and people are accepting him So even I can do that That's one kind of the other group of people may say Hey, he's involved in all these sexual sins. Why isn't the leadership doing anything about it? Right, so then again, it could be a cause of division. So paul is really being stern in this matter It was three to five Feel free to stop me, right? If you have any questions is a very important chapter So we can spend a little more time on this, right? So was three to five for indeed as absent in the body but present in the spirit Have already judged as though I were present Him who has so done this deed In the name of our lord jesus christ when you are gathered together along with my spirit With the power of our lord jesus christ Deliver such A one to satan for the destruction of the flesh That his spirit may be saved and the day of the lord jesus now Look at these words. It's so strong, right? Apostle paul is saying verse five deliver such a one To satan for the destruction of the flesh Now let us ponder on this verse, right? Because we may misinterpret this verse and may think hey, why is paul delivering such a You know god has brought us out of satan's Grip and why is paul saying deliver him to satan? Right, but the worst is actually self-explanatory. It says Deliver one to satan for the destruction of the flesh right now The apostle He condemned or he sentenced the man living in sin as if he was physically You know, even though he was not physically present there. He condemned the man as if he was there Right, he says by the authority that the lord jesus has given me as an apostle as a I am condemning this act right and and a side note here paul mentions that the local church gathered In the name of jesus and wherever A local church church gathered the lord jesus was present present among them So this is interesting, right? Even though it's just a side note here even if we are 10 people as a church Or we are 10,000 people When we gather together in the name of our lord jesus christ his power The dunamis power Of jesus is present there You know The reason I want to emphasize this is we've come to a day and age Where sometimes we feel only, you know We look at these mega churches around us, especially in the west And we desire I wish I was you know, I wish one day and that's good, right? That's good to desire But it's also important to remember that Even if it's 10 people Present together in the name of the lord jesus christ, his dunamis power is there right So what is paul's sentence on this man? he says Paul delivered or turned him over to satan for the destruction of the flesh now. Let's look at that right What does deliver such a one to satan mean? right, so the person Who was involved in this sexual sin? Is sent out of the fellowship or the protection of the local church Now here's the reason why right? There are two kinds of people always remember this One there are people who sin right and There's a conviction of the holy spirit And they repent of the sin and they and you know, they don't want to repeat it And they try to live a holy life But there are the second type of people who sin Or do something wrong and evil in the eyes of god Now when I say sin, it does not only mean sexual sin, right? It could be rebellion. It could be anger could be jealousy pride right There are some people who who sin And they don't repent of it They They feel that they're right Right. They feel that that's there's nothing wrong in this I'm not done anything wrong. They're not willing to repent Right, and so that is what is happening in the church in Koran this man or this person who was involved in sexual immorality Knew that he's living in sin yet did not You know have this heart of repentance, but he continued to come to church Continue to have fellowship with people in the church As if there was nothing wrong as if he didn't do anything wrong That is why paul is saying This should stop But if there's a person Who's willing, you know, we all sit right But when when we say, okay god, please forgive me. I should not have done this and we repent There's where god's grace comes And of course leaders will also show grace Always remember grace and truth go along together All right, and we'll talk about more of that later on as well Right, so it's not that the apostle paul is saying hey, you know There's no grace for this person for He is being gracious, but he's also saying, okay He needs to, you know, make things right So take him out of this Out of the church for now And he's no longer under the protection The spiritual protection Of the lord And he's no longer under the spiritual protection of the church So what does it mean to deliver one such a one to Satan paul is simply stating that When this happens, he is Mangi I'll just come to you, right? What happens is he to deliver one to Satan means that he's Stepping out Of the protection that the lord jesus has for him So the enemy can, you know, do anything with this person's life The protection of god has been released because there's continual sin That is happening continual Our unwillingness to repent right so What paul was referring to in the destruction of the flesh means to Deliver this person to satan because It's not like we're taking him and saying, okay, satan take this is easy for you No, it only means that He's he's out of the protection of god and out of the protection of the local church community Right. Yes. Go ahead. Mangi. You have you raised your hand. Thank you, but yes On on on the topic you're you're explaining right now After questions if you You send him out of Of the church how How how is he going to be out of God's protection because uh first of all salvation is personal and As a community as a local church is it's a it's a believer Individual person who means Jesus in in the on the way or even in the church Then they decide to come together to worship the god of the they said and Secondly What does it mean that If it is totally said if it is a sinner and he's thrown out of the church And if he didn't know God before that, how is he so it's how is he going to be saved if he didn't know god When is that he's already seen or he's already lost Thank you. Okay. That's that's a very good question. Mangi. Okay. So let me answer the first part of your question Right now we know that When we Follow when we when we are obedient to god's word when we are obedient when you know the holy spirit inside us We are we know that god's protection is over us, right? We trust it. We have faith in god that okay, psalms 91 There's there's plenty of verses that god talks about god's protection Right now for example, if I know all of this Right Before I start this mangi this person was a believer in the church Right. So remember he knows about Jesus this person, right? He he knows about the gospel He's part of the local church, right now If I for example, just keep on sinning Right And and you know, I don't repent of it I know it's okay. Nothing nothing will happen. You know, I I don't want to You know, listen to god. I don't want to obey this. I will walk in what I want to do I will commit sexual immorality. I will do this. I will you know, sin Living a continuous sinful life Now what is going to happen? The holy spirit Is is is not somebody who will force himself upon us Right. What am I doing? I am stepping out of what Jesus has for me What the bible talks or tells you know about protection and all I'm stepping out of it Right. So what is happening? I am making myself Vulnerable for the enemy to come and destroy my flesh Right in the sense now if I say god for example, right? Say there is somebody who is you know Just an example involved in pornography right And he's a believer but somehow he every now and then he just keeps watching pornography But there will come a time if he does not repent He'll say it's okay. I can't help it And what is he doing? He is stepping. He is taking himself out of God's protection and he's letting the enemy to work in that person's life right So when a person during the early church times when a person is out of The church he's out of the spiritual authority Are placed over the leadership there Right. So paul is trying to say It's not that we want to see this man destroyed But we want to see him restored so that one day he will look back and he'll say okay. What I did was wrong What what the life that I'm living right now is wrong And somehow you know by the work of god He will repent of his sins and his soul will be saved Now the word saved Right means so so remember we studied this in uh Uh lifestyle evangelism so so He's not talking about his soul will be Uh, you know, he's not talking about second Corinthians 5 17 a new creation All things he's not talking about that. He's not talking about that salvation experience. He's talking about He will be saved from the works of the enemy Right, so we can be saved We say pray god lord jesus come into our hearts. We are saved as a person. We receive salvation But after that We can still fall into the enemy's traps Why is it that there are so many believers or people who have accepted jesus Still living in continual sin. It's because We are you know, we are not Placing ourselves under the protection of god Right. We are being vulnerable to the enemy Right. So basically what paul is saying here is let him go You're protecting the church Let him go out of the church Let him figure out things because this one person cannot affect the entire church And even as he goes we are not causing him to you know, so that he you know Uh, he lives this sinful life and he dies and he goes to hell. That's not what his desire is But paul is saying One day we deliver him to satan so that Meaning he has already been living in this sin So one day that he you know, he will come out of that sin. He will recognize And by god's grace he will also forgiveness and his soul will be saved Right, so there is The there could there could be a time when this person can You know, just that the word saved here meaning he can be restored back to the church Right, and so that's what he's trying to bring across manky, right? So that's why it's you know, this verse is a little complicated But we must understand why paul is saying deliver one such a one to satan meaning he's not saying, okay You know This person should you know, just get out and die and you know live in that sin itself No, he's trying to say that he's brought he's out of the You know protection of god so there's nothing we can do for now Only god can change her Right, so manky, I hope that helps you and even as we go on We will talk more and there'll be a little more clarity here as well right, so What did paul mean by referring to the destruction of the flesh right the word flesh in greek means Sucks Uh, it's used in different ways in the new testament So flesh could be just general people in general the physical body. We know is flesh Flesh could be the natural right? We say don't be a fleshly person means don't be an earthly fleshly man You know, don't think in the natural think in the soup in the Spiritual we say that And then flesh could be also food and a source of life and nourishment But most importantly the flesh is the carnal appetites the passions and the desires Uh, and this is what paul has mentioned many times. So So the destruction of the flesh this passage here says meant that the individual Is put out of the spiritual protection of the local body Why? because of their own ongoing Unrepentant sinful lifestyle And what happens it becoming vulnerable to the enemy and Satan is able to you know, uh, satan takes control over this person's life What evil or trouble is not specified in this in the process of administering discipline Keep in mind that the punishment was a removal of spiritual protection And not an inflection of evil on the person All right. So manky this uh This sentence should help us here Removal of spiritual protection over that person Now does not mean now Just because he's out of the spiritual protection of the church does not mean god cannot work on him We know that god's word is like a hammer and god can break through holy spirit can break through Every Hardened heart he can do it right? But paul is looking in terms of the church as well right because if this person continues in the church The entire church is going to be in trouble Right, it's going to affect the church So paul is concerned about the church He's saying see if we let this happen It will grow. It will become bigger Other people will think well, you know, we are just some you know, they will not see us as an example So he's he's more concerned about the church. Is he concerned about the person? Yes. That's why he says You know put him out for now Yet let the lord work in him that he may be saved right so And this is not the only time we see apostle paul dealing with other people also in the church at Ephesus He says hymenius and alexander the copper worker Right, he says these are people who fell away And uh, and he's telling he's talking to timothy. He's saying timothy. These are people you need to stay away from Uh, and they will come and cause problems, but uh, you know, you look after the church. That's your primary work And so paul delivered these men to satan That they may learn not to blaspheme That they may understand that when you come out of the protection of god The enemy is able to play with them. The enemy is able to just destroy them Right So basically paul is trying to say The consequences of your actions Is that you're out of the spiritual authority of the church And now you must find your own way to come out of your sin You you have to face the consequences of your sin Or you have a choice just return to god say god, please forgive me And then god and his grace will forgive you but for now you cannot continue in the church because the church is more important Very clear the apostle paul right now as leaders You and i maybe we are part of a life group. We are part of a church or we're in the leadership team This is something We must you know always always remember Now it's not like paul heard about this man and said immediately take him out of the church. No It's been happening for a long time Right and so that's why paul is saying I'm I don't understand how you all have not dealt with this problem since it's happening Right, so it's not something that paul just heard and said okay They may have been dealing with this person for a long time, but there's no change You know, one of the things we follow in apc is is more than our You know Yes studying the word of god all of that is important, but more than that also is character Is to build character, right? And and that is something that we always emphasize in our bible called spilling character Because we can know many things but not have a good character right and Here paul is writing a side note here. Just a side note What must be a christian's attitude towards the local church? Now as you and I as believers we must understand that when we are part of a church We are In a right relationship with the lord We are in right relationship with god's people. That is the congregation the local church And we have a spiritual protection. We have a spiritual Fellowship that comes from his body right now Can we survive without a local church? We may be able to But god's designers to be part of a local church. They're a spiritual protection You know, how do we feel? You know, we may be going through a problem We say hey, why don't you you know just tell the life group people to pray for me? And when all of you all of them pray we're seeing that you know that person is coming under spiritual protection. He's coming under the The the protection of the local church Community of believers so they strengthen that so so Please keep in mind that one cannot be in the local church And continue and sin and rebellion Right now the word rebellion is very important now You know, it shouldn't be like we're part of a church Then we always continue to sin do the same thing again and again Right. We cannot be that kind of person we cannot expect the church to You know to protect us to you know because we continue living in that sense We must learn to purge away and that's why in the coming verses The apostle Paul is bringing the whole example of the Passover and the unleavened bread Right. Let's look at verse six You're glorifying is not good Do you not know that a little even He leavens the whole lump Right. So Paul is rebuking them for their boasting Right. Firstly, he's rebuking them for you know, you boasted about you know, Paul or Paul or Peter and all of that Now again, he's saying you're saying that you know, this This whole thing of sexual sin and you're okay with it So Paul is bringing the whole example of the east and of the undeven bread now Now the Jews who are part of this Local church who are hearing this letter being read to them, they would have understood this very clearly Right. Uh A familiar passage. This is just a little east Makes the whole batch of door rise Right, which means what? If we tolerate the sin That is there The potentially the entire church could get affected with that sexual impurity So Paul is saying here deal with this matter urgently Just a little bit east makes the entire batch of door rise Just a little bit of sin That's continually there continually there. It's going to affect the entire local church There will be times as leaders we may have to make hard decisions It's not that we don't love the person But it's just so that we're protecting the church. We're protecting the community of believers Right. Remember this one time There was this Elderly couple Who are part of our church? And this was in another city And they were a good couple right they came into church and you know, they Every Sunday they would come But one of the things I noticed was Every time He would the man would come You know, he was You know, he would drink alcohol. He would come into church And he would start fighting with people not not fighting but he would start silly arguments Now first time a couple of the youth came and told me, you know, pastor see this person. He's Drinking him. I thought okay. It's okay. You know, let me let's see, you know, he's coming. Maybe he's going through a problem So I let it go second time he came I spoke to him. I said see As you're coming to church, I know you may be going through a problem But try not to drink and come you may have your problems, but You know, you come to church in the morning And you know, just attend the service God will speak to you trust God to help you to you know, come out of this But he was not he said, okay, but then the next Sunday he did the same thing And people are raising their hands and Worshiping he would you know, he he also came during the worship. I was leading the worship He came during worship and he said put your hand down. I can't see the lyrics And I'm so taken aback and then after the church service, he would you know, uh You know keep talking with people and stalking loudly and all of it. So I went to him and I said See, uh, he was an elderly gentleman. I said to him see this is not right I don't want you to do this And this is a warning Now he is probably he's a you know, he's a businessman who's retired, you know Gone through life and I was just maybe 32 33 years old And he said to me, you're a small boy. You're telling me what to do I said, this is what it is I If you come again this way He will not be able to attend church I gave him two warnings, right Now, why did I do this because I know That there are young people in our church who have the problem of drinking right and they're trying to overcome Right and I know that they are good young people who are you know, who are in this with the problem Now if I keep quiet or if I just let it go, what will these youth? Do next they will drink and come to church and they will begin to you know cause problems Right had to deal with it. I said but he came the next Sunday. He did the same thing And I called him and I said This is your last Sunday Please don't come to this church. Please find another church He said, oh, you don't know how much tight I give you don't know what I said doesn't matter How much tight he gave all of that? You're giving it to God. So it doesn't matter Uh But he was really offended. He was not willing to change But it it became a problem later on, you know, he was not letting me go He would you know tell or he would start calling the church people and say believe that church. He's not a good leader and all of that You know, but none of them even believed him and praise God for that, you know, the church was You know, they understood what was going on And so there will be times you have to make these decisions But is it that we left, you know, I asked him to get move out of the church so that, you know, uh Let him continue in his sin. No I told him we told You know, we're praying for you pray that God helps you to overcome this but I cannot continue because If you come this way the young people in our church are going to follow the same thing And there's too much of confusion There's no peace. There's no after the church service. You're talking loudly shouting And um, you know, the youth are not like that. They're very kind. They're very good people you And so I don't want them to learn this Right and so you have to go Hard decision. Yes And we were only about 40 people in the church that time But I'm glad that we did it Because after that things were so smooth everything went well And you know, uh, these are hard decisions But as leaders don't take the dust and put it under the carpet and say, okay, it's done. No It's still under the carpet Right. So paul is drawing from the old testament here in the feast of the Passover What happened to the feast? Now the feast of the Passover happened on the 14th day of the first month, right Just a background So leavened bread was not eaten On the 14th day of the feast of the Passover Then for the next seven days From 15th to the 21st Was the feast of the unleavened bread. So basically what they would do is The entire house was cleaned thoroughly cleaned In preparation for these two feasts the feast of the unleavened bread in the Passover So the whole house was cleaned the Jews What they would do is they would not eat anything that was leavened right, so This this represented their separation from their old life and their oppression in Egypt So paul is saying here this whole lump Right, therefore purge out verse seven purge out the old leaven That you may be a new lump, right This is who we really are as believers We are unleavened that means we are separated from sin Right and God has made us Because we are born again and paul is telling the Corinthian church Just like a little east is you know, right causes the whole door to rise You separate yourself from sin Because Christ was our Passover lamb He is the true fulfillment of the feast of the Passover Right, uh, and so this is such a powerful. I'm sure the Jews would have had their eyes opened Wow We do this for seven days But now God is saying Dude every time We need to purge ourselves Constantly away from sin Keep that leaven out of our lives because a little leaven Or a little sin Can destroy our entire body Now is there anyone among us who's living without sin? Maybe not maybe some of us are going through these seasons We all have our own challenges Now this is where grace comes in We can go back to God and say God help me to overcome Give me the strength By a holy spirit or we can say God I'm not able to I might as well just continue to live this and this You know be unwilling to repent or we can say, you know, there's nothing wrong in this. So it's okay Right We have choices that we can make But you know, we as believers must choose what's right Go to God and say God forgive me. Is there any sin? Is there anything that God Cannot bring us out of it could be pornography suicidal tendencies depression Jealousy hatred tried God can bring us out of all of these things But we just have to say God remove that Keep that leaven out I separated from us help us to overcome and so that's what Paul is Trying to communicate to the church here then he goes on relating to those who are those in willful sin worse night I wrote to you in my episode not to keep company with sexual immoral and sexually immoral people Right now Paul was written written You know, he's he's talking about the letter that he had written earlier to this Right now remember first Corinthians The letter of first Corinthians is a response to what has come Right, so there's a letter that's come. Okay apostle Paul. These are some problems. You're seeing in the church Some are saying Paul or Paulos Peter and this division second problem. There's sexual sin and these are So Paul's first Corinthians is a letter that is in response to a letter that's already come in but we don't have records of that right Paul wants us not to mingle with sexually immoral people and he says First Corinthians 15 he says do not be deceived evil company corrupts good habits now We must understand this the context of what he's trying to say Right. If a believer is in continuous sin Unrepentant The scriptures teach us to keep away from them. Remember that worse in the old testament iron sharpens iron right If I'm with a person who's always proud Walking in pride. I will rub off that If I'm with a person who's always jealous about others Sooner sooner or later and I will start feeling jealous If I'm a person if I'm a person who's always abusive to others Sooner or later if I'm spending more time with that person. I will Be the same thing because iron sharpens iron Right Maybe all your life we may not have been jealous. But if you spend If you have a very close friend who's always jealous In six months to a year you will also end up being jealous And that's how it is as by nature. We are like that So paul is saying it's not like you know, we should not have friends, right? It's good. We must have friends We must have people around us, you know I go and share the gospel with my friends who are still drinking and they're into all these bad habits Right. I still am friends with them but They are people who are willing to change Right, but there are friends who I have who are not willing to change Right, so I tell them hey, there's you know I want to I want to help you but I try not to I don't spend time with them But I do go and I sit with people my friends who drink smoke. They all they have bad habits Right But they're willing to change. They say paul. I don't know. How do I do it? Help me I want to get rid of this, you know And so we're there for them But if we are going on saying no Then, you know, uh, I would won't want to mingle with such a person right, uh And There's a we should realize how How a dynamics of a relationship should be built And as leaders, we will learn it Right, you know, one person once told me Oh, you know, there was another Pastor who had once told me, you know, we were talking and he said to me You know, we were just discussing and I was saying, you know, I have a lot of friends But there's some friends who I don't really talk to much then he said, you know What jesus came for the sinners for the sick or you know How can you You know, change how can you Destroy and how can you chase them away or reject them Jesus came for the sick, but the sick were willing to be healed They had the faith that they can be healed Right, they were willing And and so We must remember that, you know, in what we are doing What we are doing Have good relationships now have friends you will have friends who are, you know Going through different problems in life Talk to them Help them to bring, you know in in their life, but If they are unwilling to change Then It's better to just move on now for who's good for your good Right, uh, it's for your good So what about grace here? Paul is sharing with us this revelation The apostle paul talks the most about grace He every time he says grace be unto you grace, you know, he gives a benediction He says grace the grace of our lord jesus everywhere. He talks about grace But why is paul not making a mention of grace and he's why is he so firm in this this whole truth here Now this will answer your question God is a god of grace And god is a god of truth also So grace and truth always come together Okay, grace and truth always comes. Is that god's grace? Yes. Is that truth? Yes What is the truth you're living in sin? Is that god's grace? Yes Grace must be given with truth Right now grace without truth is not god's grace It is some other grace It's just a false love Right if I love my children I have to correct them Right if I don't correct them. I don't love them. I mean, you know, I have to correct them There are times I I teach my children and I tell them Now this is how I want it to be done because they're growing up He's one my eldest son is seven years old. There are certain things he must know So I tell him, okay, you have to do it this way Right and and sometimes he misses out. He may not do it the right way But there's grace, but there's also truth and I tell him why are we doing it this way? Right Because it's helpful. It's going to help you when you grow right Okay, we've Let's take a break, right? Let's take a break. We'll come back and we'll spend some more time here 10 minutes break. We'll come back at 10 o'clock Thank you