1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Comment: Is sex a taboo subject for Christian discussion? No there is some delicacy advised in discussion but sex is a gift from God, the Creator! But He has set out a pattern of healthy acceptable behaviour. Our society has, like many religions of the past. made sex an idol to be worshipped, and believers have to be careful not to be deceived into accepting the fashionably accepted! The receivers of this letter knew much more than we do what ‘church discipline’ meant. I suspect that it meant the perpetrator of this evil practice was to be stopped from receiving communion and to be shut out to some degree from the fellowship of believers. With a view of saying you have chosen the Devil’s way to live, until you truly repent in word and action we don’t want you linked with us! Tough? Paul says we are the supposed to be the living gospel! Leaven affects what bread becomes – sin destroys the witness of the church – don’t boast of your broad attitudes and corruption! “Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” – here he is not speaking of one episode of ‘communion’ but the daily living which true belief leads to!
Prayer: Please give me a true deep understanding of this passage, Spirit of God.
As I read it! 
Thank you Barry for your comments on this passage. Church Discipline seems to be missing from the Church today, which of course is a very sad state of affairs. God bless you.
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