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1 Corinthians 6:1-3 - Judging the world and angels

Good evening saints,

Running a little behind today.  Today is my grocery shopping day and then I had a meeting this afternoon and just got off the phone with our grandsons.

Encourage you to think about the Matthew 18 passage on church discipline.  We often use the "where two or three are gathered in my name" in relation to prayer, but it really is discipline.

Blessings 

Jeff

How were the saints in Corinth supposed to know that saints will judge the earth and angels?  Reference to Daniel 7:22 (Ancient of Days), Matthew 19:28 (judging 12 tribes of Israel) and Rev 20:4 (thrones for those given authority at beginning of millennial kingdom). So my answer to Paul's rhetorical question is "yes, I don't know that!"

Seems that Paul is referring to saints being part of the final judgment of the unbelieving world and fallen angels. But in a way this will be easy, they are each guilty as charged. There will be no difficult cases. God is the plaintiff.  There are no plea deals.  There are no mitigating circumstances. The evidence is undeniable.  So how does what saints will do in the future help with right now? 

Then, with the help of the Spirit, I recalled "Church discipline."  It seemed odd that lawsuits are the least of Corinthians problems.  It was failure to discipline the man who was having sex with his own step-mother.  But lack of church discipline as outlined in Matthew 18:15-20 ties these two things together.  Just as the judging of fallen angels is a "no brainer" the judging of the sexually immoral church member was a "no brainer".  Yet the church had failed to exercise discipline.  The problem was so bad that people would not trust their fellow believers to make a proper determination of "minor" offenses between brothers.  Which led them to go to unbelievers to sort out the problem.  

I am so thankful to be in a church that actually has members, not just attenders.

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