SEE YOU IN COURT

SEE YOU IN COURT
1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-11

ONE OF THE FAVORITE PASTIMES OF THE GREEKS WAS TO SIT IN ON COURT CASES … 

THE JEWS LOATHED THE IDEA OF GOING OUTSIDE THEIR COMMUNITY TO GET JUSTICE … 

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BELIEVER’S TAKING ONE ANOTHER TO COURT?

THE CHURCH AND THE COURTS, 
   THE DISCERNMENT, 
      THE COMPETENCY OF THE CHURCH …
      CIVIL ISSUES …

MONEY, PROPERTY, WORK

   THE DANGER, Vv.1,6,8
      DEFRAUDED …

   THE DESTINY, Vv.2-3

      AN ESCHATOLOGICAL ARGUMENT …
      MATTHEW 19:28-29
      DANIEL 7:26-27

   THE DESPARITY, Vv.4

   THE DISGRACE, Vv.5
      SHAME, EXPOSING SOMEONE’S FAILURE BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE …

   THE DEFEAT, Vv.7-8
      IF YOU WIN YOU LOSE …
      WHY NOT RATHER BE WRONGED …


A FEW THINGS TO NOTE:
   HONOR THE COURTS … 
   WE ARE TO MAKE USE OF THE COURTS WHEN APPROPRIATE …
   HONOR THE LORD … BE CIVIL


THE CONTRAST AND THE CONVERSION,

   THE CONTRAST, Vv.9-10
EACH VICE AS SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH Vv.1-8
IN Vv.9-10, IT IS GRASPING FOR WHAT IS NOT RIGHTFULLY 
OURS ...

   THE CONVERSION, Vv.11

THE APPLICATION