Monday, July 14, 2014

Today's Bible reading is the 6th chapter of the Book of 1st Corinthians. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=NASB&search=1%20Corinthians%206

Reminded that they would judge the world and also judge angels, the Apostle Paul tells the Corinthian believers that there ought to be men among them with the wisdom to judge matters of this life. To their shame and ultimately to their own detriment, they were taking matters between "brethren", members of the body of Christ, to the "law courts" and not before the saints. He went further in his God inspired reprimand and told them that it was already a "defeat" to them that they had lawsuits against one another. He posed two challenging question to them that would be good for us to consider as well. "Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?" Each question implied that it would be better for them, and better for the body of Christ, to be wronged or to be defrauded. He was in no way suggesting that it was right or acceptable to wrong and defraud one another in the body of Christ without thought or consequence. But again, it is also clear that he was saying that it would be better for them to be wronged defrauded in the matters they had taken one another to unbelievers to decide between. He had previously written to them that "when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted we endure". Such living in this world is made possible as the Spirit lives the life of Christ in us. He receives the glory.

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