Judge Among Yourselves

If you needed something down in your basement, would you go and call the fire department and have them go get it for you? Probably not, right? Couldn’t you have just done that yourself?

What about this: After you left your house and got into your car in the driveway, would you yell out your window to your next door neighbor and ask him to turn the key and start the vehicle? Why would someone do something like that, when the only thing that they need to do is move their hand about a foot, grasp that key and turn it. Couldn’t someone just have done that themselves?

This is kind of like a situation which Paul addressed in 1 Corinthians, but dealing with the issue of judgment between each other in the church.

1 Corinthians 6:1-8  “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.”

In the church if two people have some kind of a disagreement or grievance between each other, Paul taught that the matter needed to be taken before the church to settle, and not the earthly courts in the world. The reason why is that the world doesn’t judge according to the teachings that are found in the Bible. Those who are not Christians do not base their decisions on what Christ taught, so why bring your matters before the unjust for them to judge? 

Shouldn’t we as Christians know what is right and what is wrong according to the word of God? Shouldn’t we be able to judge matters between people based on the teachings found in the Bible?

Any issues in the church can be settled in the church, without going to a courtroom where the judge may be an unbeliever in the teachings of Christ. That is what Paul was teaching. If we cannot manage to judge a few small matters in the church, how will we be able to judge the world someday? Because that is what we read from the Bible that will happen someday.

Daniel 7:22  “Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.”

The Bible is the only thing that we need to look to to be able to judge what is right from what is wrong. We shouldn’t have to go to an earthly courtroom to resolve an issue. On top of that, if we are one of the wronged, we should just let it happen. Just as Christ suffered at the hands of others and just allowed it to happen to Him, we should do the same. Suffering at the hands of others is a part of the life of a Christian. They persecuted Jesus, and if we are following Him we can expect to receive the same. So if you are wronged by someone else, just let it happen. Allow yourself to go through that suffering. Allow yourself to take that wrong. 

But once again, any problems or issues that happen in the church need to be taken care of in the church. Not in the world’s courts. Judge among yourselves. 

In Christ

Andrew

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