If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 18, as we continue our study of this great passage together.  I’d invite you to look back to the very first of the chapter and scan along the passage itself leading up to Matthew 18, verses 15 through 20.  You know that the whole of this passage is concerned with how we live as a family, as part of God’s church; with how we relate together as children of the living God in His earthly institution, the kingdom of God as it is manifest on earth in the institutional form of the church.  Jesus is telling us how we ought to get along with one another as brothers and sisters in Christ.  It helps us to remember that Matthew is writing to a body of Christians who are undergoing severe persecution.  And even…