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September 13, 1992
Paul admonished believers for filing lawsuits against one another rather than settling matters privately and biblically. Alistair Begg explains that preoccupation with our rights can diminish our sense of responsibility as Christians to exemplify wisdom, righteousness, and brotherly love before the watching world. It is “far better to live as though eternity were a reality and now was just a breath, than to live as if now were a reality and eternity was a myth.”
1When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous rinstead of the saints? 2Or do you not know that sthe saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4So if you have such cases, twhy do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5uI say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. vWhy not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even wyour own brothers!1
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