1 Timothy 1

"having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme." vv.19-20

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What?!?!  Paul has power to deliver people to Satan?  During the period of the Acts a lot of things happened that we don't see happening today and I wonder if this is one of those things during that dispensation than the one we currently live in.  It's hard to say exactly what delivering someone to Satan means or looks like, but we can note a few things.  It doesn't say "destroyed" but delivered and seems to have been for a fixed period of time, not a continual thing.  I do wonder how being delivered to Satan can teach these men not to blaspheme though???
Bible teacher Nathan Johnson notes,  "We only have one other reference to such a thing in the Bible, where in I Corinthians 5:5, Paul instructs the ekklesia in Corinth, “deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” It seems clear from this verse that delivering someone to Satan was a judicial decree. In I Corinthians, it was meant to bring about this man’s death, for nothing else could be meant by “the destruction of the flesh.” He tells them that if Satan destroys this man now, it will result in his spirit (meaning his very self) being saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
Either way we learn that these two men had utter shipwreck of their faith.  How have you seen a believers faith shipwrecked?