Accepting judgment

When you have a disagreement or controversy with someone, sometimes a third party, especially a legal third party needs to intervene, and when once it gets to that point, you have to accept the judgment, even as the Lord told Israel,

“If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge…then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses. And you shall come to the priests…and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the Lord chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you…Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die…” (Deuteronomy 17:8–13).

The Lord made the point clear, and any faithful Israelite had to accept the judgment of the priests, for they spoke for the Lord. God uses judges in our various nations today, and unless the judges are corrupt, we have to accept their judgment.

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