09/12/2026
We Will Reign With Christ
This clip is from the sermon Our Riches in Christ Part 2. You can listen to that sermon here: https://youtu.be/1T3_y5ZIZk4
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But there's one more line, I have no words to describe this. The Corinthians again. Oh, Corinthians, right? They're dragging one another into pagan courts. And Paul is, he's exasperated. He's about done with them. And listen to these words.
Oh, "Do you not know?" He says, "Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more then matters pertaining to this life?"
He says, "Do you not know?" He doesn't say simply, "Stop suing each other because that's a bad thing and it's gonna make us look bad." He says, "You're going to sit on the bench of the cosmos, of the universe, and you can't settle a quarrel about a property line? are you kidding me?" That's his argument.
Do you think that way? When you're tempted to, fight other brothers and sisters, be divisive and all that, you're gonna sit on the bench of the universe.
And notice Paul meant that to have practical application for their life. It's not just, "Oh, oh, that's wishful, pie in the sky." That's how he argues with them. That's how he's trying to open their eyes to say, "That's not appropriate." The idea is that the future is so large that the present issues and disputes were meant to shrink it to nothing in comparison.
Judge angels. Sit with that. Sit with it. Don't dismiss it. Might make you feel weird to think about it. You're going to judge angels. Now, don't ask me at all what that means, okay? I don't have an answer for you there. But sit with it as best as you can. Sit with it.
Why? Why will we? how can we be sure? Because of where you're seated. "Seated with Him in the heavenly places." It's done. It's a past tense. It's accomplished.
But this morning I want you to see what that seat turns out to be. These are Jesus' own words. I'm not making this up. This is from Revelation 3:21. Hear it loud and clear, " The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat with my Father on His throne."
That's what I wanna feel when I wake up in the morning. You think that'll change the way you live your life? You bet you it will. You think that'll change the way you view that sin that's been nagging you? You feel like you got no power over? it will most certainly do that for you, dear brother and sister.
When your patience is growing, it's waning, you think that's not gonna help you? When you're a husband trying to lay down your life for your wife and you're tired and your body's groaning, you gotta love this woman, and it's a good gift. He who finds a wife finds favor from the Lord. Praise God.
Or a child. students in here, when you gotta obey mom and dad, that can be hard. You want something that's gonna help you? To him who conquers.
What does that mean when he says that to them? He wants them to conquer. He wants them to conquer. He wants you to conquer. To him who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne.
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