The sermon on 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, titled "Who Inherits the Kingdom of God?," warns that the unrighteous will not inherit God's kingdom and urges the Corinthian church not to be deceived by the surrounding culture. Paul lists ten characteristic sins—such as sexual immorality (fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites), idolatry, theft, greed, drunkenness, reviling, and extortion—that define those living under the dominion of this world rather than Christ's kingdom, connecting these behaviors directly to the injustice and cheating among believers discussed in the prior verses. Yet the passage pivots to glorious gospel hope: "And such were some of you," Paul reminds them, but now they have been washed (in baptism, regeneration, and Christ's blood), sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God, receiving a new identity as members of Christ's body and temples of the Holy Spirit. The overarching message calls believers to live out this transformed identity by embracing the cross, pursuing holiness, repenting of sin, and walking worthy of their heavenly inheritance rather than continuing in the practices of the unrighteous.

An examination of the seventh commandment prohibiting adultery and the related commandments regarding sexual purity given in the Mosaic Law that almost completely overlap with requirements that are restated in the New Testament under the Dispensation of Grace.

The sermon confronts the grave sin of incest within the Corinthian church, emphasizing that such moral failure—so abhorrent even to pagan Gentiles—demands immediate and decisive church discipline. Centered on 1 Corinthians 5:1–5, it underscores the church's responsibility to mourn rather than boast, to exercise spiritual authority in the name of Christ, and to remove the unrepentant from fellowship for the sake of their spiritual salvation. The preacher argues that tolerance of open sin undermines the church's holiness and function, calling for a courageous, pastoral response rooted in biblical authority and divine judgment. While acknowledging the difficulty of confronting such sins, the message insists that silence is complicity, and that true love requires confronting sin with both conviction and compassion. Ultimately, the passage serves as a sobering reminder that the church must remain a holy community, purified by discipline and committed to the glory of God.

This lesson teaches us that the individual & the church have a responsibility to put wicked persons away. The individual should get away from them & the church should vote them out.

Despite the many ways certain professing Christians try to soften the content of this passage, the Holy Spirit through the apostle Paul has put this in the plainest possible terms. The gospel is universally needed because sin is a universal problem. And he starts, as he does in other passages, by listing out the worst possible sins first--sexual sins, and even the worst kinds of sexual sins--then casting the net wider and wider until he captures all of humanity. Why do people chafe at this passage? It's not because it's too hard to understand or because the meaning is hidden or obscured. As Jesus once told the Pharisees (John 8:43): "Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word."

The sin of incest/fornication manifested a greater sin within the church. The sin of tolerance & no leadership. The danger of a little leaven, leavens the whole lump. leaven causes something to rot from the inside out.

Theme: God's People are Reminded that the Root of Christ Produces the Fruit of Christian Obedience. I. Called to the Love of Our Fellow Believers – vv. 1-3 A. Called to Brotherly Love – v. 1 B. Entertaining Strangers (and possibly angels) – v. 2 II. Called to Faithfulness as God is Faithful – vv. 4-6 A. Marriage is Honorable, but Fornicators and Adulterers will be Judged – v. 4 B. Content with What we Have (including the Presence of the Holy Spirit) – v. 5 C. The Lord is My Helper, I Will Not Fear – v. 6 III. Founded on the Solid Foundation of Christ – vv. 7-9 A. Remember Those who Preach – v. 7 B. Christ Does Not Change – v. 8 C. Our Hearts are to be Established on Solid Teachings – v. 9

📖 John 8:41–47 • Jesus doesn't tell the Pharisees they're acting like the devil. He tells them the devil is their father. That's not behavioral language. That's paternity language — and it changes everything. Marcus grew up knowing only his father's name. He built his whole identity on it. Then one day he got a DNA test — and the man he thought was his father wasn't. But someone else had been looking for Marcus for years. And the moment that man said "Son," Marcus knew. He couldn't explain it. Blood knows blood. That's the question Jesus is pressing in John 8. Not do you know the right theology — but who is your father? The Pharisees claim Abraham. Then they claim God. They can't keep their story straight because they're not looking for truth. And Jesus cuts straight through to the real issue: spiritual fathers don't pass down blood. They pass down will. And these men are making their father's choices — silence the truth, protect the lie, crucify the Son of God. The most dangerous place in the devil's operation is not the bar, not the street corner, not the drug house. It's the synagogue. His best candidates are the ones sitting under the most light. This expository message works through John 8:41–47, revealing: • Why the Pharisees can't keep their argument straight — they're not searching for truth • "We be not born of fornication" — the shot they threw at Jesus Christ • The difference between paternity language and behavioral language • How the devil's first murder weapon was a sentence, not a stone • How he murdered an entire race with one lie in a garden • Why spiritual deafness precedes blindness — and what to do about it