Paul
the apostle discovered there was “fornication”
in the church in Corinth, and this “fornication
as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife” .
Some in the church were “puffed up”
and had “not rather mourned”
because of it, and in chapter five and
verse four of First Corinthians, Paul began to tell the church
members what to do
“when” they
“are gathered together”
where we read:
In the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together,
and
my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
The
verse begins, “In
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered
together,...” Paul
began with the words, “In the name”
which means
“used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought
or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing and
remembering” “of our Lord”
or “of Paul and the Corinthian believers' one to whom a person or
thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master and the
title given to God the Messiah” “Jesus”
which means “Jehovah is Salvation” and is “the Son of God, the
Savior of mankind and God incarnate” “Christ”
or “the anointed one, the Messiah and the Son of God”, “when
you are gathered together”
which means “at the time the church members are drawn together,
collected and assembled”. Paul appeals to the authority of “the
Lord Jesus Christ”
as he referred to the next time the church people “assembled”.
The
verse continues, “...
and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,”
Paul added
the words, “and my spirit” which
means “Paul's power by which he felt, thought and decided”, “with
the power” or
“the influence and resources” “of
our Lord”
which refers to “he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which
he has power of deciding; master and the title given to God the
Messiah” “Jesus”
whose name means “Jehovah is Salvation” and is “the Son of God,
the Savior of mankind and God incarnate” “Christ”
or “the anointed one, the Messiah and the Son of God”. Paul also
referred to his own “spirit”
and God's “influence and resources” to appeal to the church
members.
When
we think through these words from Paul, we see how he referred to the
authority of “the Lord Jesus”, his own “spirit”
and the “power” of the Lord Jesus” while he wrote of
the next time they “gathered together”. Paul was
addressing the issue of “fornication” in the church of
Corinth, and he used “authority” to do so. Jesus Christ desires
for His “church” to be pure, and He shall be involved in “power”
and “presence” to keep it clean.
Next
time Paul shares how the church members “to
deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh”,
so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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