Today's message can be easily entitled to lawyers with love, sign the Apostle Paul,

because 1 Corinthians chapter 6 is all about suing and being sued and going to the courts

and dealing with those issues for believers,

particularly of those who are members of one church. In fact, I read about the person who

lamented this huge cost of litigation, and the way he defined it, he said, it's like a big machine, and you enter into the machine

as a pig, and you come out the other side as a sausage.

The reason why the Apostle Paul is taking time to deal with this issue about believers, particularly those who belong to one church, suing each other

in the courts, is because most of you will be astounded to know how litigious the Greek

society was before Christ. It is amazing to me of how much we in America today are becoming

like the Greek or Roman culture before Christ. If you compare our time of the 21st century

with the pre-Christ Greek or Roman culture, you will be amazed at the similarities. And I'm not only

talking in terms of immorality and the acceptance and priding ourselves on the immorality, but in terms of

the happy suing attitude. Today, like the pre-Christ Greek culture, people would sue for all kinds of stuff.

I mean, somebody said, you sue on a drop of a hat. And that is why eventually the Greek

legal system literally collapsed. It becomes so cumbersome. It becomes so unruly that it collapsed under its own weight.

Let me show you how this cumbersome and intricate legal system worked,

and you'll understand why Paul deals with this and wants to deal with it,

and he takes it very seriously.

In the pre-Christ's Greek culture, when two people have a dispute,

according to the Athenian laws, you basically go to arbitration by three individuals. One,

chosen by each one of the party, and then the third one, who will be the

kind of impartial judge, but the agreement of both parties. And they go in front of this

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