1 Corinthians 6:1-11, Who's to judge?

And how dare you take each other to court! When you think you have been wronged, does it make any sense to go before a court that knows nothing of God’s ways instead of a family of Christians? The day is coming when the world is going to stand before a jury made up of followers of Jesus. If someday you are going to rule on the world’s fate, wouldn’t it be a good idea to practice on some of these smaller cases? Why, we’re even going to judge angels! So why not these everyday affairs? As these disagreements and wrongs surface, why would you ever entrust them to the judgment of people you don’t trust in any other way?

 I say this as bluntly as I can to wake you up to the stupidity of what you’re doing. Is it possible that there isn’t one levelheaded person among you who can make fair decisions when disagreements and disputes come up? I don’t believe it. And here you are taking each other to court before people who don’t even believe in God! How can they render justice if they don’t believe in the God of justice?

The Supreme Court is our highest court…supposedly the wisest. Allow me to educate you.

Dred Scott (1857): Scott, an African American born in the United States, had lived as a slave in both free and slave states. When he tried to sue for his family’s freedom, and was turned down, he took his case to federal court. In one of the most infamous cases in history, the Court ruled Scott could not sue because people of African descent were not protected by the Constitution and not U.S. citizens.

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965): In rejecting a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives, the Court created a Right to Privacy previously unnoticed in the Bill of Rights. The main fault in Griswold is not that it struck down a rather onerous and unenforceable law, but that it did so by inventing a new right out of whole cloth, Instead of basing its decision on principles limiting government power, it instead created a vague new right that would supersede state authority. The privacy right led directly to the far more controversial Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

Citizens United (2010): The court reaffirmed earlier declarations that money is speech. Disingenuously waving the flag of the First Amendment, the court’s majority has paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to win elections.”

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I’m not a legal scholar but…do we Christians really want these folks getting in the middle of our disputes? Paul says  These court cases(Christian vs. Christian) are an ugly blot on your community. Wouldn’t it be far better to just take it, to let yourselves be wronged and forget it?

These courts (in general) are not even a part of God’s Kingdom. How can we…as citizens of God’s Kingdom…ask them to arbitrate our disputes? When we do, the results are predictable.

But then…that’s just Paul speaking.
Live boldly out there today…