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He was hard on them in first Corinthians and You know, obviously he was dealing with an obstinate people because these people were pretty stubborn You know, some of them were saying he's not gonna come he's not gonna do this. He's not gonna do that But once you start reading second Corinthians you start getting the sense of wow these actually these people actually caught on what happened because the guy who was committing for education was cast out of the church and It's interesting because in first Corinthians you have an extreme word like no one's doing anything about it When second Corinthians they do do something about it But now the problem lies in them forgiving the person who actually got it, right? Restoring him comforting him and welcoming him back into fellowship, which they were not doing so they booted the guy out But now they're not restoring the guy into fellowship this guy repented He got right with God, but he was but they weren't willing to receive him back into the fold And so that basically sums up a lot of what the second Corinthians talks about But we're gonna go through chapter number one here and by the way That's a good principle for us to realize to learn is that we need a balance of both Okay, we can't be imbalanced in the Christian life. We need a rip face, but also give grace, right? So we need to make sure that we rip face that we don't compromise or tolerate sin in the church We make sure that we don't you know Compromise on any of the the doctrines that God says but you know when someone gets it right we need to show some grace You know, some people would look at a church like ours and say oh you guys are so proud and you guys are so unforgiving But you know what? It's impossible for you to say that we're proud because we're actually adhering to what God says The proud person is actually the one in first Corinthians 5 who is glorying in the fact that they don't take anybody out of the church That's someone who's proud. That's someone who thinks they know more than God Whereas to the church who adheres to the Word of God is someone enough to recognize. Hey, I don't want to be judged by God I don't want our church to be judged by God Therefore we're gonna execute these principles these rules and then when the person gets right we welcome him back into the fold So we got to make sure we rip face, but we show grace as well So when someone who's cast it out of our church comes back and they've repented don't give that person a hard time Don't remind them of what they did like hey, you stop fornicating Hey, you still so you got rid of the bottle. You're not drinking anymore. You're not being an extortioner anymore. That's good, man Don't do that There's no one who's ever done that but less that you wouldn't think otherwise or think to do so don't do that Someone comes back. They've repented they've gone right with God Welcome them with open arms help them to just live out their life to grow again We all make mistakes and we want to make sure that we show grace to the people who we've cast it out in the past Now look at verse number one