“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #54 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, …
Cutting the Baby in Two
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #53 “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? Nay, ye do wrong, …
Lawsuits as Eschatological Failure
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #52 “I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goeth to law with brother, and that …
Infidelity, Not Realism
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #51 “If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church” (1 Cor. 6:2-3). Paul says that before we should let unbelievers adjudicate our problems, we should …
Lawsuits and Postmillennialism
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #50 “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? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much …
Understanding the Requirement
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #49 “Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?” (1 Cor. 6:1). Before we delve into the reasons Paul gives for his standards about lawsuits, we need …
Oh, Well
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #48 “But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such …
Leaving the Planet
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #47 “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of …
The Leaven of Malice
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #46 “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Cor. 5:8). Christians celebrate Passover. In this passage, they do …
A Triumph of Grace, or Something
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #45 “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover …