WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS

WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

1Corinthians [NLT] 6:1-8 When one of you has a dispute with another believer, how dare you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide the matter instead of taking it to other believers! 2 Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves? 3 Don’t you realize that we will judge angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life. 4 If you have legal disputes about such matters, why go to outside judges who are not respected by the church? 5 I am saying this to shame you. Isn’t there anyone in all the church who is wise enough to decide these issues? 6 But instead, one believer sues another—right in front of unbelievers! 7 Even to have such lawsuits with one another is a defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at that? Why not let yourselves be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your fellow believers.

  So much of this series has required many hours of reading Scripture in context, reading extrabiblical writings, search and sift, that I had originally decided to leave out today’s passing fact about angels. Paul’s exhortation isn’t even about angels. He just uses a truth about them to reinforce his main point having to do with a fellowship issue among believers in Corinth. An unspiritual practice that not only is poor testimony in the local church and the community at large observing . . . but also that a saint’s  affection for winning effects their present and future standing with the Lord.

  So we see the beatific case of responsibility is not entirely “angels watching over me”.  EBB4