Good morning. I hope you're feeling better. We are skipping a number of verses in Corinthians. Paul says: I wrote you not to associate with immoral people. I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world… for then you would have to go out of the world. I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he should be an immoral person… not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. With a church as large as ours, I am sure there are those who fit this bill. And why should we judge those in the church… because one rotten apple spoils the barrel. People will think that we are condoning sin, and therefore it's OK for them to do the same thing. We hope that through the message preached that the Holy Spirit will bring conviction upon them. Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Paul then mentions a bunch of different types of sinners. And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. Of course God no longer considers us that way. All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. Just because you can do something, does not mean that you should. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. This contrasts to the beliefs of Gnosticism. They believed that the body is matter and is therefore evil. Therefore it was to be treated harshly. Only the spirit mattered to them. This also led to licentiousness. It did not matter what you did to or through the body. Father thank You for taking care of the reader. Continue healing him/her and help him/her to be a shining example of Your love.

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