Episode Details

Chapter 30: Of Church Censures (Part 6)

Speaker: Reverend Joseph Poon

Website: http://www.bpcwa.org.au/

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Introduction - (00:00)

QUESTIONS

Q1. What are the reasons for church censures? - (08:40)

Q2. In preventing the spread of error and sin, how does leaven work? - (21:05)

Q3. Give some reasons why undealt with sin can spread to individuals and to the church? - (25:40)

Q4. What is one of the reasons why people would fall into sin in church and needs to be dealt with? - (37:33)

Q5. What are the examples of how sin will spread to other individuals? - (47:36)

Q6. How does it spread to the church? - (1:04:37)

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CHAPTER XXX OF CHURCH CENSURES

1. THE Lord Jesus, as king and head of his church, hath therein appointed a government in the hand of church-officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.1

1. Isa. 9:6-7; I Tim. 5:17; I Thess. 5:12; Acts 20:17-18; Heb. 13:7,17,24; I Cor. 12:28; Matt. 28:18-20

2. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed, by virtue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins, to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both by the word and censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the ministry of the gospel, and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require.2

2. Matt. 16:19; Matt. 18:17-18; John 20:21-23; II Cor. 2:6-8

3. Church censures are necessary for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren; for deterring of others from the like offenses; for purging out of that leaven which might infect the whole lump; for vindicating the honor of Christ, and the holy profession of the gospel; and for preventing the wrath of God, which might justly fall upon the church, if they should suffer his covenant, and the seals thereof, to be profaned by notorious and obstinate offenders.3

3. I Cor. 5:1-13; I Tim. 5:20; Matt. 7:6; I Tim. 1:20; I Cor. 11:27-34; with Jude 23

4. For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the church are to proceed by admonition, suspension from the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper for a season, and by excommunication from the church, according to the nature of the crime, and demerit of the person.4

4. I Thess. 5:12; II Thess. 3:6,14-15; I Cor. 5:4-5,13; Matt. 18:17; Tit. 3:10

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Westminster Confession of Faith Series

Bible Presbyterian Church of WA

Friday 24th January 2020

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