Called To Judge Immorality Inside The Church

A large group of Big Horn Sheep were licking the road salt off the pavement. I was really worried they would get hit by a car and be killed.

To satisfy their appetite for salt, these animals risk their lives.

There are some professing Christians who do the same. To satisfy their fleshly desires, they also risk their lives. The Bible states clearly that a person cannot live in habitual immorality as a professing Christian and still hope for heaven. And one sin of immorality that is prevalent in our churches today is sexual sin.

The Bible says when we become children of God, our bodies no longer belong to us. They have been bought with a price. Therefore our bodies now belongs to God. His Holy Spirit then comes to reside in our bodies and at all times our bodies are to glorify God. For the ones who join themselves to the Lord are one spirit with Him.

"Yet the body is not for immorality,

but for the Lord,

and the Lord is for the body. . . .

But the one who joins himself to the Lord

is one spirit with Him.

Flee immorality.

Every other sin that a man commits 

is outside the body,

but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Or 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 won?

For you have been bought with a price:

therefore glorify God in your body."

1 Corinthians 6:13b,17-20 (NASB)

As Christians we are to flee immorality. We are told by God to not even tolerate immoral sins in our churches. But grievously we do all the time. We sit by and not say anything about it, in fear we will be judged for judging. However, the Bible says we are called to judge those who are within the church because God must be glorified. 

"Do you not judge those who are within the church?

But those who are outside,

God judges.

Remove the wicked man from among yourselves."

1 Corinthians 5:12b (NASB)

When our many worldly churches today tolerate immorality, God is no longer glorified. Instead, He is disgraced and berated by the world. And without the glory of God, His power and presence is gone, and so is His attraction to the lost and unsaved.