• Does the severing of social company apply to family?

  • Local church

  • I Corinthians 5:1-13

  • I Corinthians 5:10-17 - “people of the world” vs. “any so-called brother”

  • II Thessalonians 3:5-14

  • II Thessalonians 3:8-11 - “among you”

  • II Thessalonians 3:12-14 - “do not associate with him”

  • Family?

  • I Corinthians 5:11 - ”any so-called brother”

  • II Thessalonians 3:6 - ”every brother”

  • II Thessalonians 3:14 - ”anyone

  • We must be careful not to bind God’s law further than He intended.

  • Sabbath

  • Exodus 20:8-11

  • We read of some kinds of law that would definitely violate the Sabbath day law. Jeremiah 17:21-22

  • We read of some kinds of work to which the Sabbath law did not apply. II Kings 11:5

  • But what about everything else? You would have to use your best judgment.

  • What about pulling an animal from a pit? Matthew 12:10-12

  • Would it have been okay for any Jews to forbid others from pulling their sheep out of a pit on Sabbath days, or to enforce the death penalty upon those who did?

  • Luke 13:15

  • Does this mean we can make our own exceptions to God’s law?

  • Absolutely not!

  • I Corinthians 7:1 - What about doctors and nurses? This is not the kind of touch this verse is referring to.

  • I Timothy 2:9 - What about a woman who goes in for a medical exam?

  • How far did God intend us to apply the disassociation command of I Corinthians 5?

  • Family is not specified. And further, I cannot say with finality that family is necessarily implied.

  • I know that in some cases, it would not apply to family.

  • Warnings

  • Let’s maintain the proper attitude toward sin.

  • Recognize disassociation as a method of helping.