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I am Going to Sue
Suing is the national pastime
Our national motto seems to have changed from “In God we trust” to “See you in court!”
Children are suing parents, students are suing teachers, players are suing coaches, homosexual lovers are suing states, and spouses are suing their marriage partners.
This isn’t limited to non-Christians.
Christian neighbors are suing each other.
Christian faculty members are now filing suit against the administrations of Christian schools.
Churches are suing one another.
Churches are suing their pastors, and vice versa.
Brothers and sisters in the family of God are actually pressing charges, demanding their rights, sometimes to the exclusion of any attempt to reconcile face-to-face.
We are a culture gone mad.
Churches send an ever increasing portion of their budgets on liability insurance
Sexual molestation
Injury
Psychological damage in cancelling
Our budget is $ 20k insurance to protect the assets of the church and the volunteers.
Background checks
Video cameras
Most of it is defend against a false accusation
Illustration - ED was on total government assistance , SSI/Disability/Housing/Food Stamps/Medicaid.
Given wrong medication and he had to stay in the hospital longer.
No financial damage - but wanted to Sue!
But the problem here is Christians suing each other in a court of law.
Yet, what we see today is nothing new.
Two thousand years ago in ancient Greece, the church in Corinth was “sue happy” as well.2
Yet, the apostle Paul is going to state clearly that Christians, of all people, ought to be able to settle their own disputes.
The key in doing so is to understand our true identity in Christ.
Yet, what we see today is nothing new.
Two thousand years ago in ancient Greece, the church in Corinth was “sue happy” as well.2
Yet, the apostle Paul is going to state clearly that Christians, of all people, ought to be able to settle their own disputes.
The key in doing so is to understand our true identity in Christ.
When we understand who we are in Christ, we will not have to war with other believers over material possessions or legal rights.
Paul’s point is that we should live out who we are.
In , Paul provides two exhortations to help us live out who we are.
When we understand who we are in Christ, we will not have to war with other believers over material possessions or legal rights.
Paul’s point is that we should live out who we are.
In , Paul provides two exhortations to help us live out who we are.
Settle disputes in the church (6:1-8).
Paul is going to argue that believers should keep their civil conflicts out of the courts.
Paul kicks off chapter 6 with his first of eight questions:
I What were you thinking ?
This is a question with an edge.
It is as though Paul is saying, “How dare you take your legal grievances against each other before unrighteous people!
How could you do this?
What are you thinking?”
” Paul starts this sentence in the Greek with the verb “to dare” (tolmao) to place stress on this word.
(This is reflected in the KJV and NKJV.)
This is a question with an edge.
It is as though Paul is saying, “How dare you take your legal grievances against each other before unrighteous people!4 How could you do this?
What are you thinking?”
Why is Paul so ticked?
First of all, the Corinthians are giving God and His church a “black eye.”
In Paul’s day, legal hearings constituted a large part of the entertainment business in an ancient Greek city.
The ancient Greek courthouse was not a private room with a small gallery such as we have today.
The courtroom was in the public square or the marketplace.
In Athens (and Corinth was undoubtedly similar), a legal dispute was brought before a court known as The Forty.
The Forty picked a public arbitrator, who had to be a citizen in his 60th year, to hear the case.
If it still wasn’t settled it went to a jury court, which consisted of 201 citizens (if the case involved less than a certain amount of money, perhaps $1000 today), and 401 (if more than $1000).
Some juries were as large as 6000 citizens over 30 years of age.
It is plain to see that in a Greek city every man was more or less a lawyer and spent a lot of time deciding or listening to cases.5
Moreover, when someone hauled a brother or sister into court there, they weren’t just settling a dispute; they were holding the church itself up to public scrutiny and ridicule.
Paul is concerned about the selfish arrogance of God’s people.
The Christians in Corinth are publicly airing their “dirty laundry” throughout the city.
These lawsuit-happy Christians don’t seem to care what other people think.
This flies in the face of Paul’s simple exhortation that we should live out who we are.
Second, Paul is upset because the Corinthians have failed to recognize who they are.
The decision by these Christians to go to court also reveals how little respect they have for the church’s authority and ability to settle its own disputes.
Yet, back in chapter 1 Paul identified these people as “saints” or holy ones of God (1:2).
He said they were enriched in Christ Jesus and were not lacking in any gift (1:5-7).
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In chapter 2 he said they had the mind of Jesus Christ; they could think the way Christ thought (2:14-16).
So they have in their body of believers all the resources necessary to settle disputes.
The Corinthians boasted of their great spiritual gifts.
Why, then, did they not use them in solving their problems?
II You have been Given Authority 6:2-3
Paul continues his righteous rant with three more questions, all of which are designed to demonstrate how foolish it is for the Corinthians to throw their legal disputes before judges of the world.
He makes his case by using future end-time realities to motivate the Corinthians in present prime-time living.
In both the Old and New Testaments, we are told that believers will one day rule and reign with Christ.
One element of our responsibilities will be judging the world and angels.
This judgment will be delegated to us by Christ.
We will then serve as His representatives in this judgment.
It is still His judgment, but we are representatives who have been given authority.
As God’s representatives, we have been given His authority to judge in the present and in the future.
Therefore, since we are going to sit in God’s Supreme Court, then surely we ought to be competent enough to decide the mundane kinds of disputes that occur among the members of our church.
We should live out who we are.
II What to Do when strife happens 6:4-8
In 6:4-8, Paul tells the Corinthians what they should do when they have strife in their church.
In 6:4-8, Paul tells the Corinthians what they should do when they have strife in their church.
6:4 - Paul has just finished motivating the Corinthians to take care of their own conflicts.
Now he commands them to action.
In 6:5-6 - Throughout this book, the Corinthians have been guilty of boasting.
Here, once again, Paul humbles them and cuts them down to size.
He sarcastically asks, “Are you so wise that there is no one in the church to judge legal matters?
Do you actually need to go outside the church?
I thought you were wise guys.
Come on!
Don’t you have at least one person who can judge legal matters?”
Paul’s point is glaringly clear:
Any Christian walking with the Lord is a better option than taking a case before an unbeliever in a secular court of law.
After all, we have the mind of Christ, we have (or should have) the motivation of love, the absence of revenge, and the desire to see even the guilty restored.
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