ADDITIONAL QUESTION ABOUT BINDING AND LOOSING
Apr 22, 2019
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“Dave, thanks for explaining this verse last Saturday. Could you please give more detail about what Jesus meant when he talked about ‘binding’ and ‘loosing’ in Matthew 16:19?”
I agree with Pastor John MacArthur that this verse “must be understood in the context of 18:15-17, where Christ laid out specific instructions for dealing with sin in the church . . . whatever they ‘bind’ or ‘loose’ on earth is already ‘bound’ or ‘loosed’ in heaven. When the church says the unrepentant person is bound in sin, the church is saying what God says about that person. When the church acknowledges that a repentant person has been loosed from that sin, God agrees.”
SOURCE USED
MacArthur, John. NKJV, The MacArthur Study Bible, eBook: Revised and Updated Edition. Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.