Get Rid Of The Old Yeast
1 Corinthians 5:1-13
Key Verse 7
“Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast–as you really are. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed.”
The Corinthian church had many problems that Paul dealt with in his letter so far. But the problem that we find herein this chapter is indeed outrageous. He starts out this section of the letter like this: “It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among the pagans: A man has his father’s wife.” (1) It’s shocking that this church which had risen from the ashes of utter corruption to becoming one of the most exemplary churches in the region, would actually have a … Read the rest