Dare Any Of You? – The Saturday Morning Post
Today’s Passages – 1Corinthians 6 – 9 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – click here to view the text from the Blue Letter Bible website)
(Second Milers also read – Psalms 1 – 5; Proverbs 1)
Read the “1201 Evening and Morning“ devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” (1Corinthians 6:1-11)
Good morning. There was a movie starring Hulk Hogan, the wrestler. He played a space alien visiting earth. The family he was staying with needed to get into their driveway with the car, but the neighbor was blocking it with his dragster. Hulk Hogan gets out of the car, picks the dragster up and moves it out of the way. The neighbor comes running out telling Hulk Hogan, “Hey! You can’t do that!”
Hulk Hogan replies, “What are you going to do, beat me up?”
The neighbor says, “Are you crazy? This is the ninties, we’re gonna sue you!”
Money, money, money. That’s what it’s all about. Did you know that Judge Judy makes $47 million per year? That’s over $900,000 for each of the 52 days she works per year. All because people want to take their problems to court to see how much money they can get out of it. The same thing happens in our churches. Where there are people, there are problems. Many in the congregation can get hurt when someone looks at them funny, steals their seat, or even things worse. Rather than discuss it with the pastor, or take it befor the church, they up and leave. And the problem does not get solved. The ofending person may not even know he did something wrong. Jesus said…
“Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.” (Matthew 18:15-17)
If you walk away, you will not solve the problem. If you don’t confront the offender, you will not solve the problem. If the offender doesn’t know there is a problem, how can he fix it? You may also cause him to hurt someone else. The right thing to do is confront the problem the Bible way. Jesus also said…
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13:34-35)
Peace.
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