Today was reading in 1 Corinthians 5, "It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst."
This verse got me thinking earlier about how there are so many in our congregations who live in sin, yet we let it go because we want to show them "love." Paul, however, never labels leaving a person in sin as "love" or allowing them to stay with Christ's bride as "love," but "arrogance."
I got to thinking about why they would be labeled "arrogant" and realized that when we do that--it is arrogance. It's saying that we know a better way to deal with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
and THEN, in v. 8, he concludes, "Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
When/if we do this to our brother or sister in Christ, we do it in sincerity and truth--not malice or wickedness. That is actual love.
Wow. I have a lot to repent for.
