A Lesson from the Church at Corinth
This is what I get from the letter from Paul in Father leading Paul to straighten out the problem then going on there.
I see this: certain people attached to a thought, placed in their mindsets by evil to get them to do wrong to others and not think they will be accountable.
This is the Thought I see they got
Hey, you, :You are 100% forgiven are't you? Why yes I am thank you. So why don't you drink all that wine over there, and eat all that food too, you are forgiven aren't you. One might have thought no I want others to be able to eat too and drink too.
Yet the thought of being forgiven remains in you, and then the thought of there is no more accountability, since all are forgiven. So they ate up all the food and drank all the wine and got drunk. Then the sex began, The misusing of sex, and the thought of I am forgiven if I harm others, doesn't matter anymore "I am Forgiven was the attitude that got them in debauchery"
"the Corinthians repented"
So Paul wrote to them to straighten out the misuse of being 100% percent forgiven by God for them in Son to them.
Yes, we all are by God 100% forgiven by God forever, that is true.
So we the people are left with, how to respond to this truth.
See it in the example given in Matthew 18:24-35
God forgave the man that sought forgiveness, to be forgiven, and God gave that man forgiveness, as is done once for us all by Son to us all to respond to that truth it is finished for us all to be new in trust to God Father of risen Son for us each one.
Matthew 18
26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. 29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. 32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: 33 shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
2 Corinthians 7:7-10
Authorized (King James) Version
7 and not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. 8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2 Corinthians 7:7-10
Authorized (King James) Version
7 and not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. 8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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