The Yeast of Malice & Wickedness

Paul continues to find out more about the sin in the church of Corinth, in this specific situation that a man was living was his father's wife. Chapter 5 of 1 Corinthians explores how to handle with such sin in a church.

I have always loved the analogies God uses in scripture, how he compares things and gives us a different perspective on how things work and what he means. Here, God compares the sin in the church to yeast in a loaf of bread. No matter how big or small the sin, like yeast it will eventually make its way through the loaf of bread, and i think this easily applies to both the church as a whole as well as oneself as an individual. The only way to get rid of it, is to start anew and for the contaminate to be extracted immediately. Once something is contaminated, it cannot be fully purified again, if you simply just think of putting food colouring into water, there is nothing you can do to reverse the process and somehow result with just water again.

When there is sin in our lives, we must get rid of it before it spreads. Paul says in this chapter to completely expel the person and not associate with. This does make sense, but at the same time as brothers and sisters in Christ, we are called to support and keep each other accountable. We can help one another through the struggles we face as long as we do not get taken down with it too. It is our responsibility to watch out for those in the church, and God will judge and look over those outside the church (v.12-13).

verse of the day: 1 Corinthians 5:12-13

¹² What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? ¹³ God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”