Congratulations, you are going to be a Judge!
What you don't think that you have the capability or knowledge? You're going to be able to set before a group of people and render judgments, to state the difference between right and wrong? Well guess what you will, it is the destiny of all those that are called.
Vs 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
I guess the thing that hits me really hard is the fact if the judgment needed in pertaining to the things of this life. Paul said to set the judge who are least esteemed in the church. In other words it should be someone who does not seem to be really interested in the celestial things but is more concerned about the terrestrial. What a testimony, to come to the realization that Heaven is a lot more important than this present life.
Then beginning in verse 9 we learn the Lord's way of sanctifying the body and the marriage. He lists ten areas that will separate us from the kingdom of God. He states in verse 11 "And such were some of you." The key word is the past tense verb "were."
I don't know how you feel, for that matter I don't know a lot of what you have been through or even what you were in those days. I know that this point is brought home in verse 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Think about the totally awesome change that comes about from being one of those who were a sinner outside of the knowledge of God. Now you are destined to be a Judge of Angels. What a transformation, what a change, what a metamorphosis; to go from being an abuser of ourselves to setting in that awesome seat of authority.
R.E.A.L Men are those that don't abuse they are ones that are Washed, Sanctified, and Justified.
David DeTar
