OUR FATHER BEFORE WHOM WE ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS 

1 Corinthians  chapter 6 verses 1 -  11 records the apostle Paulˋs rebuke of those in the Church at Corinth because some in their fellowship had devolved to filing recriminations  and launching lawsuits against each other before the secular courts.

The apostle revealed that believers would judge the world and judge angles and as such, it was preposterous that these sainst would take their cases before the courts of unbelievers. Paul asks that if they were going to be judging the world, couldnˋt they judge their small matters among themselves. Paul tells them to select some wise man among them to arbirate their issues rather than subject their brothers in Christ to the judgement of the secular court. 

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? 5 I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!

7 Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? 8 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

The apostle Paul declared that they had lost the plot and the culture they had been fostering among themselves was an utter failure. He explained to them that even better than getting matters resolved by their own wise men, would be to accept being wronged rather than to struggle to get redress for wrongs against them. And even worse, Paul notes, that they were participating in cheating even as they sued other for cheating them.

Some of the members of the church at Corinth came out of the worldly practices that would have excluded them from the kingdom of God but they had been washed of those things and santified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Holy Spirit of God. A reversion to those things would be contrary to the purpose of the sacrifice that God offered for the salvation of mankind.

Amen.

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