I sometimes here this expressed, that of those who are Christ's, there is a group called "the faithful", who have faith in Jesus, and who are saved by Him, and there is a group called "the saints", who are holy, who have overcome the flesh, I don't want to get too hung up on definitions, rather, to highlight the difference between the two.
And then came my morning reading with my wife . . .
1 Corinthians 6:1-8 KJV
1) Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
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.
5) 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?
6) But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7) 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?
8) Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
And I noticed in this passage that Paul is critical of these Christians, because they were engaging the world's legal system instead of using spiritual wisdom.
I speak to your shame! Isn't there a wise person among you?? No, you do wrong!! Are these the "Saints"?
Paul would say, Yes!
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?
Here Paul shows a clear equivalency between Christians who are in the wrong, and Saints.
So no, there is not some "higher echelon" Christian called Saint.
Much love!
And then came my morning reading with my wife . . .
1 Corinthians 6:1-8 KJV
1) Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
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.
5) 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?
6) But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7) 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?
8) Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
And I noticed in this passage that Paul is critical of these Christians, because they were engaging the world's legal system instead of using spiritual wisdom.
I speak to your shame! Isn't there a wise person among you?? No, you do wrong!! Are these the "Saints"?
Paul would say, Yes!
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?
Here Paul shows a clear equivalency between Christians who are in the wrong, and Saints.
So no, there is not some "higher echelon" Christian called Saint.
Much love!
