Sunday Bulletin August 10 2025
Craig A. Brittingham, Pastor
Hillside Baptist Church
August 10, 2025
“A Christian’s Day in Court” – 1 Corinthians 6:1-8
– We must not take another believer to court but let the saints decide the matter.
– In this passage, we find three reasons why in such cases we must seek a judgment from the saints rather than from a secular court.
1A. The saints are competent to render a verdict in disputes between Christians (vv. 1-3).
1b. Believers will judge the world and angels which has consequences for the life or age to come.
2b. Certainly, they are competent to judge the things pertaining to this life.
2A. The saints possess the wisdom necessary to judge between their brothers (4-6).
1b. Because of this, the church must judge; it must not “appoint” judges it considers of no account.
2b. This wisdom which is from above is without partiality (See James 3:17) Lady Justice wears a blindfold.
3A. The Christian who takes another Christian to court has already lost (vv. 7-8).
1b. Rather than go to a secular court for a judgment against another believer, the Christian should accept the wrong.
2b. The believer who takes another believer to court because he has been wronged does wrong.
Questions…
1. For what three reasons must a believer not take another believer to court?
2. What rational does Paul give to indicate that the saints are competent to judge disputes between Christians?
3. Why is there not a contradiction between 6:2 and 5:12-13?
4. What are the “things pertaining to this life?”
5. Why might the church at Corinth have considered secular judges of no account?
6. What characteristic of godly wisdom did James include which is absolutely necessary to judging rightly?
7. What did Paul mean that a believer who takes a believer to court has already failed?
8. What must a Christian be willing to do rather than taking another believer to court?
9. How would he be acting like Christ in doing this?