Who actually benefits from a divorce case?
When divorce comes into the picture, the lawyers are the only ones who really profit. Everyone else gets hurt and comes into a place of devastation, while the lawyers can walk away smiling. This illustrates why believers should keep disputes within the church rather than going to worldly courts.
Les explains that the Corinthian believers were taking disputes with fellow believers to worldly courts instead of resolving them within the local church. He references a statement from Charles Stanley's book that whenever divorce comes into the picture, the lawyers are the only ones who really profit; everyone else is hurt and devastated while lawyers walk away smiling. Paul therefore instructs believers not to go to the world's lawyers and courts but to keep matters within the confines of believers. Les notes, however, there may come a point when one must go to the world's judicial system, as he dealt with in Romans.