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11 14. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Romans 8. i. If we do that, then it could rightly be spoken of as evil. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. Historical Books They may be sick or diseased (by legalism). (1.) Let us not judge one another: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus helped us to understand what this means it means judging others according to a standard that we would not want to have applied to ourselves. And be not conformed to this world: Do not live as men of the world do. One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike: By bringing in the aspect of observing certain days, Paul lets us know that he is talking more about principles than specific issues. of Those who know most in this imperfect state, feel their own weakness most. Romans 5:1. Not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brothers way: We might stumble or cause our brother to fall in two ways. Site by Mere. It must be understood likewise with this proviso, though men's judgments and opinions may make that which is good in itself to become evil to them, yet they cannot make that which is evil in itself to become good, either in itself or to them. The Old Testament They judged them as breakers of the law, contemners of God's ordinance, and the like. Now walkest thou not charitably. Thank you for registering. It is quoted from Isa 45 23. Some make it a reason why, in case of offence likely to be taken, we should refrain the use of our Christian liberty; but it seems directed in general against that heat about those things which he observed on both sides. Thus the apostle takes part with the weakest, and condemns the defect in love on the one side more than the defect in knowledge on the other side; agreeably to his principles elsewhere, that the way of love is the more excellent way, 1 Cor 12 31. For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. While thou destroyest thy brother thou art helping forward the devil's design, for he is the great destroyer; and, as much as in thee lies, thou art crossing the design of Christ, for he is the great Saviour, and dost not only offend thy brother, but offend Christ; for the work of salvation is that which his heart is upon. 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It is observable that the apostle directs his reproof most against those who gave the offence; not as if those were not to be blamed who causelessly and weakly took the offence from their ignorance of Christian liberty, and the want of that charity which is not easily provoked and which thinketh no evil (he several times tacitly reflects upon them), but he directs his speech to the strong, because they were better able to bear the reproof, and to begin the reformation. All things indeed are pure: Paul will concede the point that there is nothing impure in the food itself; but he likewise insists that there is nothing pure in causing a brother to stumble. After each game, the winners came before the judges seat to receive crowns for first, second, and third places. Pentateuch 5001 North Oak Trafficway Kansas City, Missouri 64118 Visit This rash judging is reproved, Jam 3 1, under the notion of being many masters. 1. Though bodily exercise alone profits little, yet, as it is guided by inward fear and reverence, it is accepted. The Spurgeon Center. Romans 14 - God Likes it When We Think About Others A. Don't judge each other in doubtful things. And why dost thou that art strong set at nought thy brother that is weak? General Epistles For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth unto God. The free Christian found it easy to show contempt against his brother, regarding him as a uptight-legalistic-goody-good. The world's eye saw the outside of Christ the flesh of the man Christ, but the true Christ the ungodly eye could not discern. Wake Up! a. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves: Not every Christian knows this happiness. If they are dead, they have already given up their account, and let that suffice. He is not clear that it is lawful for him to eat swine's flesh (suppose), and yet is drawn, notwithstanding his doubts, to eat it, because he sees others do it, because he would gratify his appetite with it, or because he would not be reproached for his singularity. (2.) The Gospels Nothing more destructive to true Christianity than placing it in modes, and forms, and circumstantials, which eat out the essentials. THIS chapter contains Paul's loving salutation to the various Christians dwelling at Rome. Romans 15 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Even the Pope, when he takes to cursing, as at least the former one used to do very liberally, seems as if he could hardly be the vicar of God on earth. Qui credit, vescatur quibusvis: qui autem infirmus est, olera edit. He argues against both these jointly: we must not despise nor judge our brethren. So that now there is nothing unclean of itself, every creature of God is good; nothing common: so the margin, ouden koinon; nothing which is common to others to eat, from the use of which the professors of religion are restrained: nothing profane; in this sense the Jews used the word common. First, It is not meat and drink: it does not consist either in using or in abstaining from such and such meats and drinks. Of a mistaken conscience, v. 14. Concerning meats (v. 2): One believeth that he may eat all thingshe is well satisfied that the ceremonial distinction of meats into clean and unclean is no longer in force, but that every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused; nothing unclean of itself, v. 14. "Hast thou clearness in such a particular? Let all these differences be referred to the arbitration of Christ at the great day. They may lack exercise (needing exhortation). Not that it is in the power of any man's conscience to alter the nature of the action in itself, but only as to himself. Therefore, whatever we do, we do it to the Lord because Jesus is our Lord (that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living). Smith, Chuck "The Gospel According to Grace" (Costa Mesa, California: The Word for Today, 1981), Trapp, John "A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments" Volume 5 (Matthew to Revelation) (Eureka, California: Tanski Publications, 1997). Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. 2. Good praying, preaching, and discourse, may often, for want of prudence in ordering the time, the expression, and other circumstances to edification, be evil spoken of. THIS exhortation, as you will readily perceive, is not addressed to the ungodly. And, Secondly, We have the more to do to judge ourselves. One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Because some Christian saw nothing wrong in this meat and others saw much wrong in it, this was a burning issue among believers in Pauls day. Cookie Notice: Paul reminds the Roman Christians that No man is an island.. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. First, Bowing to himthe understanding bowed to his truths, the will to his laws, the whole man to his authority; and this expressed by the bowing of the knee, the posture of adoration and prayer. He grants that all things indeed are pure. Who are you to judge anothers servant? Perhaps they refused it because they feared it was meat sacrificed to a pagan god (as in 1 Corinthians 8). Every creature of God is good, 1 Tim 4 4. b. Those who were weak, and durst not use their Christian liberty, judged and censured the strong, who did, as if they were loose Christians, carnal professors, that cared not what they did, but walked at all adventures, and stuck at nothing. Christ deals gently with those that have true grace, though they are weak in it. 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. As to ourselves, it is joy in the Holy Ghostthat spiritual joy which is wrought by the blessed Spirit in the hearts of believers, which respects God as their reconciled Father and heaven as their expected home. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? This, which had been bred in the bone with them, could hardly be got out of the flesh, even after they turned Christians; especially with some of them, who were not easily weaned from what they had long been wedded to. But this would not serve any more than Paul's erroneous conscience would justify his rage against Christianity (Acts 26 9), or theirs, John 16 2. Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For (1.) Well, this was the disease, and we see it remaining in the church to this day; the like differences, in like manner mismanaged, are still the disturbers of the church's peace. Secondly, It is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 12:13-14. See 1 Cor 1 10; Phil 3 15, 16. It is indeed their sin who do speak evil of that which is good for the sake of any such circumstantial errors, but it is our folly if we give any occasion to do so. Our work is to bless the sons of men. The New Testament 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. The end of such knowledge is that, being satisfied in our liberty, we may have a conscience void of offence towards God, and let that content us. CHILDREN are expected to bear some likeness to their parent. 15, 16. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Romans 10:10-14. That which puts an acceptableness upon all our good duties is a regard to Christ in the doing of them. 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Wisdom Literature GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Romans xiii. Consider the design of Christ's death: Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died, v. 15. It is paid to God through him as Mediator. 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. You should work together with God, do not countermine his work. Next to our compliance with God, the life of religion consists in our complacency in him; to delight ourselves always in the Lord. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. a. But it will be asked, "Who feared God and worked righteousness, and who did not?" GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point 21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. [1.] Observe, Whether we eat flesh, or eat herbs, it is a thankful regard to God, the author and giver of all our mercies, that sanctifies and sweetens it. They may be a babe in Christ (babies are weak). It is explained by the word akatharton, Acts 10 14, nothing common or unclean. Do not let your good be spoken of as evil: Our liberty in Jesus and freedom from the law is good, but not if we use it to destroy another brother in Christ. These are some of the essentials of Christianity, things in which all the people of God are agreed, in the pursuit of which we must spend our zeal, and which we must mind with an excelling care. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. (2.) For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. This does not take away the need and the responsibility for admonishment (Romans 15:14) or rebuke (2 Timothy 4:2). A Christian man cursing is a very awkward spectacle. Let us observe the rules he gives, some to the strong and some to the weak, and some to both, for they are interwoven; and reduce the reasons to their proper rules. Surely we serve a good Master, who makes peace and joy so essential to our religion. But now it is winter, and the sun is gone, and the banqueting-house is closed. But God has received those Christians who eat meat. Prophets "I know and am persuadedI am fully persuaded, I am acquainted with my Christian liberty, and am satisfied in it, without any doubt or scruple, that there is nothing unclean of itself, that is, no kind of meat that lies under any ceremonial uncleanness, nor is forbidden to be eaten, if it be food proper for human bodies." Compare Gal 6 4, Let every man prove his own work, that is, bring it to the touchstone of the word and try it by that so exactly as to be well satisfied in what he does; and then he shall have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. Weak and strong Christians are indeed our brethren, but they are not our servants. It is a prophecy, in general, of Christ's dominion; and here very fully applied to the judgment of the great day, which will be the highest and most illustrious exercise of that dominion. The New Testament Art thou satisfied that thou mayest eat all meats, and observe all days (except the Lord's day) alike? Because both the one and the other, if they be true believers, and are right in the main, have an eye to God, and do approve themselves to God in what they do, v. 6. Consider the work of God (v. 20): "For meat destroy not the work of Godthe work of grace, particularly the work of faith in thy brother's soul." (1.) Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lords. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. The meaning is sufficiently plain. All his friends do it freely, are made willing in the day of his power. This was Paul's own clearness, and he practised accordingly. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. Email / username or password was incorrect! There was a difference among them about the distinction of meats and days; these are the two things specified. But the rules are general, and of standing use in the church, for the preservation of that Christian love which he had so earnestly pressed in the foregoing chapter as the fulfilling of the law. 1. Romans 14:1-4. Christians should take heed of grieving one another, and of saddening the hearts of Christ's little ones. Bishop Sanderson, in his 34th sermon, upon 1 Tim 4 4, justly makes this observation: It appears by this that saying grace (as we commonly call it, perhaps from 1 Cor 10 30) before and after meat was the common known practice of the church, among Christians of all sorts, weak and strong: an ancient, commendable, apostolical, Christian practice, derived down from Christ's example through all the ages of the church, Matt 14 19; 15 36; Luke 9 16; John 6 11; Matt 26 26, 27; Acts 27 35. The New Testament The Argument from Contingency: A Proof for God, 6 Verses to Cling to When You Are Overwhelmed. Shall we despise those whom Christ valued at so high a rate? Paul had faith in these things: I am persuaded that there is nothing unclean of itself; but he had it to himself, so as not to use his liberty to the offence of others. Luke-Acts [1.] Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and . The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. Romans viii. In these indifferent things, though we must never contradict our persuasion, yet we may sometimes conceal it, when the avowing of it will do more hurt than good. , Zealous, But Wrong Pentateuch For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. He that regards the daythat makes conscience of the observance of the Jewish fasts and festivals, not imposing it upon others, nor laying a stress upon it, but willing to be as he thinks on the surer side, as thinking there is no harm in resting from worldly labours, and worshipping God on those daysit is well. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. 1. Paul speaks about the stumbling of a sincere heart, not catering to the whims of someones legalism. Christ is the gain we aim at, living and dying. We make ourselves our brethren's masters, and do in effect usurp the throne of God, when we take upon us thus to judge them, especially to judge their thoughts and intentions, which are out of our view, to judge their persons and state, concerning which it is hard to conclude by those few indications which fall within our cognizance. The matter is left at large. He that will venture to do that which his own conscience suggests to him to be unlawful, when it is not so in itself, will by a like temptation be brought to do that which his conscience tells him is unlawful when it is really so. While the issue of not eating meat for spiritual reasons is no longer directly relevant to most Christians today, there are plenty of issues where some believers believe one way and others believe differently. Historical Books Concerning days, v. 5. i. Trapp on I know and am convinced: Many, on the contrary, are persuaded before they know; and such will not be persuaded to know.. 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