“Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?”- 1Cor.6:7
After 54 years of observation I’ve come to believe that peacemakers can be the most important members of a church. Since the Bible demands unity in the body of Christ we all should do everything in our power to create and maintain it. To do that we must be willing to do as we are commanded in this verse. Many years ago J. R. Miller made the following comments on our text. They are worthy of your undivided attention.
“Christians ought to live together in love. They should never quarrel among themselves. They are brethren, and brother should not have strife with brother. If they have differences, they should settle them among themselves, and not go to law before unbelievers.
Paul said it was a defect in the Corinthian Christians, that they had lawsuits one with another. He intimates that they should rather take wrong, and even be defrauded, than go to law for redress.
Jesus also taught that His followers should not resist him that was evil. When one smites them on one cheek, they should turn to him the other also. Retaliation is certainly forbidden, and so is resentment.
Then we need not fear that we will go too far “in letting” people wrong us rather than go to law to get our rights. We must be very sure, however, that we do not do wrong to others. Some people are more watchful over the way others treat them than of their own treatment of others.”
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
