how do you interpret 1 Corinthians 5:5 and 1 Timothy1:20?

Question

handed over to satan, to save his soul?is this like someone living in sin, then he starts reaping from the sin where he cant handle his life so then he repents to God? i know this is what it usually takes for one to give himself to God. am i understanding it right, or does it mean something else?

Answer 1

Yes. Exactly. You get him out of the Church so he can't corrupt other believers and let Satan come in and wreak havoc in his life until he finally turns around, back to Jesus. Hopefully, he'll turn around. Sometimes they don't, but if they stay in the Church the whole time, they're still unsaved and it's a good possibility they take other believers down with them.

Answer 2

How could they deliver such a one to Satan? By putting him outside the church, into the world, which is the devil’s “domain.” The punishment is a removal of spiritual protection and social comfort, not an infliction of evil.

i. God often protects us from the attacks of Satan, even when we never knew about the attacks (Job 1:10, Luke 22:31-32).

ii. The fact that so many can leave many churches without a second thought shows how weak those churches really are. Shouldn’t they be places a person under discipline, put outside the fellowship, would miss? But doesn’t also say something about a Christian if they can willingly neglect the assembling together of the saints – and prefer their isolation?

iii. Paul’s command would also serve the important purpose of remove any false feeling of security the sinning man might have among the fellowship of Christians. They couldn’t just ignore his sin, and let him ignore it, pretending it wasn’t there. If the man refused to face his sin, the church must face it for him, for his sake and for their sake.

d. The purpose of putting this man outside the spiritual protection and social comfort of the church was the destruction of the flesh, not the body, but his rebellious flesh.

i. This man, though a Christian, was at this time given over to the sins of the flesh. Paul is saying that through their taking him away, the man will be given over to the sinful consequences of his flesh, and the hope is that by wallowing in the results of his sin, the sinful impulse of the flesh in this particular area will be “destroyed.”

ii. As Christians, we do continual battle with the flesh, because though the old man is dead, having been crucified with Christ (Romans 6:6), the flesh lives on, having been “educated” in sin by the old man, the devil, and the worldly culture around us. God now calls us, in partnership with Him, to do to the flesh what He did by Himself to the old man: crucify it (Galatians 5:24). Paul hopes that putting this man out of the fellowship of the Corinthian Christians will lead him to crucify the flesh with its passions and desires.

Answer 3

this verse in 1 Corinthians 5:5 is speaking in the context of excommunication from the church, and is saving that if a person is in slavery to satan, they are a friend of satan, then let him go back to his master; the rest of the Christian fellowship is no longer fellowshipping with them.

We however should not abandon or give up on a person as long as they live; but the ultimate destruction is in the hands of God (cf. Hebrews 10:31).

The hope is the person comitting these continued grievous public sins is humbled and when they have no support from the christian fellowship realize where they stand before God and repent.

Answer 4

1 Cor. 5:5 speaks of a man living in sin (fornication) with his stepmother (his father's wife). Paul dealt with this with the power God gave him. This power is no longer available to the church, especially the apostle, who it was designed for use by. The two scriptures are connected no doubt. They are dealing with the same subject matter. What would happen is when Paul got wind of this, he would ask the offending people to leave so that they would endure a fit punishment, which means that their bodies would be afflicted with some sort of diseases. And when they endured or survived, they would be welcomed back into the church. So now fast forward to today. That extraordinary power the apostle Paul had, is all but gone. It was there in the infancy of the church, but today as the church has grown-up much since it is gone. Today if people confess to sins of such hi-caliber, they are asked to leave for a few months to mimic this kind of punishment. We do this 1) to keep the church clean from such infiltration & 2) as a form of discipline. In Barnes Notes on this scripture, it says that this "handing over to satan" was a form of discipline. Today, that is what it is, discipline. To let them see how much they really need God & to give them time to repent.

Answer 5

1 Corinthians 5:5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

Both passages refer to turning a person or persons out of the church because they are acting in a manner that is inconsistent with the standards of God for his children. In both cases the hope is that the people will repent and be restored. In 1 Cor 5 a man was having sex with his father's wife and in 1 Tim the men where teaching false doctrine.

Being handed over to Satan is equivalent to being kicked out of the church and back into the world so that the church is not used as a cover for sin and so that the person might be ashamed and realize that they really want to come back and conform to what God requires of them if they are going to be a part of his family.

Answer 6

It may sound harsh because we think of God as Father, and a loving Father, and Jesus as Savior,who saves from all things unrighteous and He does.
But there are those whose whole intention is to deceive and corrupt what is God's whether it be a single person picked out, to a group of any size. That's why God says watch and pray. Use wisdom and discern that which is good and evil.
Read Acts 5:1-11
God bless you<><

Answer 7

Paul wrote to the Corinthians about one who practices gross sin and is not repentant. Such unrepentant sinners had to be excluded from the congregation. The “wicked” man had to be handed over to Satan, as it were. Thereafter, loyal Christians were not to mix with such wicked ones; the apostle John urged Christians not even to greet them. (1 Corinthians 5:1-13.

Answer 8

It basically means to disassociate with that person. Break off your christian fellowship with that person. If a person is bring sin into the congregation of a church and SHOWS NO SHAME OR REGRET for tha sin...then the church should not welcome that person any more. In the account of 1 Corinthians chapter 5 a man was having sex with his fathers wife and he didn't care nor did his christian brother and sisters. They all knew and nobody cared. He was boasting about it in front of everybody else and nobody said anything about it. Paul says that was wrong and they should confront him and disassociate with him.

Answer 9

That is exactly what it means. It's sort of a last resort kind of prayer. I've known some people who used it and the results are tragic. But the emphasis is that it's better for a person to hit rock bottom if that's what it takes to save them from eternal damnation. God bless!!

Answer 10

1Ti 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
1Co 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Don't lost your faith to God although how much they hate you, how much they endure your feelings. Just leave it to God to punish them. In short, love your enemies.
do not do evil things to them if they will do evil things to you. In that manner you will be saved by God.
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