Devotion



Here is the devotional Scripture reading i am going to present for my Civil PreTiral class tonight:



If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it

before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the

saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the

world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not com-

petent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will

judge angels? How much more the things of this life!



Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint

as judges even men of little account in the church! I say

this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among

you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? But

instead, one brother goes to law against another - and this

in front of unbelievers!



The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you

have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be

wronged? Why not rather be cheated? Instead, you your-

selves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your broth-

ers.



1 Corinthians 6:1-8



If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault,

just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have

won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or

two others along; so that every matter may be established

by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to

listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to lis-

ten even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or

a tax collector.



I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be

bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be

loosed in heaven.



Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about

anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father

in heaven. For where two or three come together in my

name, there am I with them.



Matthew 18:15-20