How can the spirit be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus, if the person is delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh? A. K. We gather, from the epistle itself, that there were those in the Corinthian church who were doing wrong, very wrong — some things that were disgraceful even for the heathen. But the church allowed these persons to go on in their wickedness without any discipline whatever. The sinner was still in good standing in the church. The apostle's teaching is that such ones should be disciplined, set outside of the church, so to speak. It certainly is true that within the church of God, if that church is standing where it ought, is a sacred place, a safe place, a blessed place; but this person seems to have forfeited all right to this, and the Lord would take away this encompassing wall about him, and let him know what it meant to stand out and wrestle with Satan alone. This was to be done in order to bring the man to repentance, that he might be saved — not saved in his lustful flesh, but saved in his spiritual life. From the second epistle, it seems clear that the man repented, and Paul then asks the church to receive such a man, lest he be overwhelmed with too much sorrow. 2 Cor. 2: 6-11.