A community of true followers of Yeshua should be able to work through challenges and disagreements without having to come against one another in a legal court system. The righteous, living amongst a righteous community of believers should be able to resolve conflict internally. It is truly a disappointment when sin and selfishness divide the body of Christ and none within the body can step forward to help resolve the conflict.
Lawsuits Discouraged
1Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints? 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? 4So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church? 5I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren, 6but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
7Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.
9Or 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 effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
For the righteous to rely on the unrighteous for justice and to resolve conflict is disappointing… is a failure. Of course, it is a different matter when a believer is in conflict with an unrighteous person. Let us not look to the world to set the bounds of right and wrong, but internally look within the community of believers and to God and His written word as means of guiding our steps and resolving our conflict.
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