b. Romans 14 - God Likes it When We Think About Others A. Don't judge each other in doubtful things. That healing method is not the less excellent for being common: in things necessary let there be unity, things unnecessary let there be liberty, and in both let there be charity, then all will be well quickly.Have it to thyself before God. Take heed of acting contrary to the dictates of a doubting conscience. He is Lord of those that are living to rule them, of those that are dead to receive them and raise them up. Or why do you show contempt for your brother? 15, 16. Our Master had foretold that offences would come; and, it seems, so they did, for want of that wisdom and love which would have prevented discord, and kept up union among them. Observe the motives to enforce this caution. b. Romans 10:10-14. he makes no such difference of days only because he knows God hath made none; and therefore intends his honour in endeavouring to dedicate ever day to him. As we tender the reputation of the good we profess and practise, let us so order it that it may not be evil spoken of. Particularly, he gives rules how to manage our different apprehensions about indifferent things, in the management of which, it seems, there was something amiss among the Roman Christians, to whom he wrote, which he here labours to redress. Essentially, Pauls answer is Stop worrying about your brother. 1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Romans v. 1. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The matter is left at large. Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. In face of our common responsibility to Him, how dare we judge each other?" The former is a stumbling-block, that gives our brother a great shake, and is a hindrance and discouragement to him; but this is an occasion to fall. THIS chapter contains Paul's loving salutation to the various Christians dwelling at Rome. c. He who is weak eats only vegetables: In Pauls mind, the weak brother is the stricter one. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. Now he bends and twists, and anon he strains and stretches: now he uses one foot and then another; he tries his arm and stretches: now he uses one foot and then another; he tries his arm and now his leg; he shifts his ground, he shifts his ground, he takes up another position, and he keeps his eye perpetually open lest he should be caught unawares. We find Jews at Rome believing, Acts 28 24. There might be other similar occasions of difference, while these made the most noise, and were most taken notice of. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. We are apt, in such a case, to lay all the blame on that side. Shall we despise those whom Christ valued at so high a rate? It is paid to God through him as Mediator. Not one that hath given up his name to Christ is allowedly a self-seeker; it is contrary to the foundation of true Christianity. Another rule here given is this, that in these doubtful things every one not only may, but must, walk according to the light that God hath given him. This he was assured of, not only from the general tenour and scope of the gospel, but particularly from the revelation which Peter, the apostle of the circumcision (and therefore more immediately concerned in it), had to this purport, Acts 10 15, 28. 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. The meaning is sufficiently plain. The Christian is a man of generous actions, but his wishes go far beyond his deeds. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 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. For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. And why dost thou that art strong set at nought thy brother that is weak? Such censures as these discovered a great deal of rashness and uncharitableness, and would doubtless tend much to the alienating of affection. The business of our deaths, to which we are every day exposed and delivered, is not to make ourselves talked of; we run not such hazards out of vain-glory, while we are dying daily. See 1 Cor 1 10; Phil 3 15, 16. It is proclaimed before our Joseph, Bow the knee, Gen 41 43. The ground of this, v. 9. If he cannot actually accomplish good for all, yet he anxiously desires it. We reckon it a piece of ill manners to meddle with other people's servants, and to find fault with them and censure them. 5001 North Oak Trafficway Kansas City, Missouri 64118 Visit Should not we be pleased with that which God is pleased with? Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. This is a thing in which all the people of God are one, however they differ in other things; though some are weak and others are strong, yet both agree in this, not to live to themselves. a. or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? We should distinguish between someone who is weak and someone who is rebellious. 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. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. 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. But are any destroyed for whom Christ died? WONDERFUL is the power of faith. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brothers way. Now if Christ paid so dearly for his dominion over souls and consciences, and has such a just and undisputed right to exercise that dominion, we must not so much as seem to invade it, nor intrench upon it, by judging the consciences of our brethren, and arraigning them at our bar. It will not be asked at the great day, "Who ate flesh, and who ate herbs?" 1. Pauline Epistles Concerning days, v. 5. (5.) When you were under the law, sin did get dominion over you; that law which was ordained to life, worked towards death. Happy is the free man who is thus liberated by the . The apostle seems willing to let the ceremonial law wither by degrees, and to let it have an honourable burial; now these weak Romans seem to be only following it weeping to its grave, but those Galatians were raking it out of its ashes. The persons and things which are acceptable to God should be approved of us. For this is the word of promise. It was after he had died and risen that he said, All power is given unto me (Matt 28 18), and presently he exerts that power in issuing out commissions, v. 19, 20. b. Pentateuch Paul isnt telling these Christians to erase their differences; he tells them to rise above them as Christian brothers and sisters. Pentateuch The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking: If we place food and drink before righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, then we are hopelessly out of touch with Gods priorities and His heart. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy 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). [2.] But now it is winter, and the sun is gone, and the banqueting-house is closed. But in the epistle to the Galatians, where he deals with those that were originally Gentiles, but were influenced by some judaizing teachers, not only to believe such a distinction and to practise accordingly, but to lay a stress upon it as necessary to salvation, and to make the observance of the Jewish festivals public and congregational, here the case was altered, and it is charged upon them as the frustrating of the design of the gospel, falling from grace, Gal 4 9-11. This chapter, rightly understood, made use of, and lived up to, would set things to rights, and heal us all. Secondly, We must be very careful to do nothing which tends to the destruction of this work, either in ourselves or others. Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. It is for God's sake, because he is afraid of offending God by eating that which he is sure was once prohibited; and he giveth God thanks too that there is enough besides. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission, The Whole Bible They may lack exercise (needing exhortation). How happy were it for the church if those that have a clearness in disputable things would be satisfied to have it to themselves before God, and not impose those things upon others, and make them terms of communions, than which nothing is more opposite to Christian liberty, nor more destructive both to the peace of churches and the peace of consciences. On the other hand, he that regards not the daythat does not make a difference between one day and another, does not call one day holy and another profane, one day lucky and another unlucky, but esteems every day alikehe does not do it out of a spirit of opposition, contradiction, or contempt of his brother. Receive him, proslambavesthetake him to you, bid him welcome, receive him with the greatest affection and tenderness; porrigite manum (so the Syriac): lend him your hand, to help him, to fetch him to you, to encourage him. 3. "If thy weak brother, purely by thy example and influence, without any satisfaction received concerning his Christian liberty, be drawn to act against his conscience and to walk contrary to the light he has, and so to contract guilt upon his soul, though the thing were lawful to thee, yet not being so to him (he having not yet thereto attained), thou art to be blamed for giving the occasion." First, Drawing a soul to sin threatens the destruction of that soul. [1.] (2.) For the further pressing of this rule, we may here observe two directions which have relation to it:First, Let not then your good be evil spoken of (v. 16)take heed of doing any thing which may give occasion to others to speak evil, either of the Christian religion in general, or of your Christian liberty in particular. Denney says " You, in contrast with the one Lord and Judge of all. b. (2.) 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. And therefore, First, We have little to do to judge others, for they are not accountable to us, nor are we accountable for them (Gal 2 6): Whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me, God accepteth no man's person. have it to thyself before God. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? The Old Testament 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. [2.] Romans 14:1-4. It is quoted from Isa 45 23. Righteousness, peace, and joy, are very comprehensive words; and each of them includes much, both of the foundation and the superstructure of religion. Several kinds of meat were forbidden to the Jews, that in that, as in other things, they might be a peculiar and separate people, Lev 11 44; Deut 14 2, 3. Blessing the creatures in the name of God before we use them, and blessing the name of God for them after, are both included; for eulogein and eucharistein are used promiscuously. Every saint is God's workmanship, his husbandry, his building, Eph 2 10; 1 Cor 3 9. Is it for us then to judge or despise them, as if we were their masters, and they were to make it their business to please us, and to stand or fall by our dooms? Perhaps they refused it because they feared it was meat sacrificed to a pagan god (as in 1 Corinthians 8). We must deny ourselves in many cases for the preservation of our credit and reputation, forbearing to do that which we rightly know we may lawfully do, when our doing it may be a prejudice to our good name; as, when it is suspicious and has the appearance of evil, or when it becomes scandalous among good people, or has any way a brand upon it. The strict Christian found it easy to judge his brother, writing him off as an unspiritual meat-eater-compromiser. 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. There was a difference among them about the distinction of meats and days; these are the two things specified. Secondly, But to the Lord (v. 8), to the Lord Christ, to whom all power and judgment are committed, and in whose name we are taught, as Christians, to do every thing we do (Col 3 17), with an eye to the will of Christ as our rule, to the glory of Christ as our end, Phil 1 21. It will be good for us to put this question to ourselves, when we are tempted to behave scornfully towards our brethren, to disdain and censure them: "Hast not God owned them; and, if he has, dare I disown them?" we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, Not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brothers way, I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself, Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died, Do not let your good be spoken of as evil, The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food, Nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak, Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves, David Guzik :: Hechos 2 El Espritu Santo Es Derramado Sobre la Iglesia, Four Views on the Millennium - Study Resources, Matthew Henry :: Commentary on Lamentations 4, Harmony of the Gospels - Study Resources - Study Resources, David Guzik :: Gnesis 2 La CreacinTerminada; Adn en el Jardn del Edn, Jonathan Edwards :: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, David Guzik :: Apocalipsis 20 Satans, el Pecado y la Muerte son Finalmente Eliminados, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), 1 Samuel 17-25 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Lamentations 1-5 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith). a. [4.] 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. When we come to die actually, neither is that to ourselves; it is not barely that we would be unclothed, and eased of the burden of the flesh, but it is to the Lord, that we may depart and be with Christ, may be present with the Lord. 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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). , Zealous, But Wrong We must give account how we have spent our time, how we have improved our opportunities, what we have done and how we have done it. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point 23. Then and then only we may expect peace and joy in the Holy Ghost when the foundation is laid in righteousness, Isa 32 17. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Secondly, He is approved of menof all wise and good men, and the opinion of others is not to be regarded. The Gospels Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat: It would be easy for a Christian who felt free to eat meat to despise others as hopeless legalists. Every time you hear a sermon, if it be such a sermon as God would have us preach, it pleads with you to turn unto the Lord and live." (Spurgeon) c. Not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance: Many people misunderstand the goodness of God towards the wicked. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth, 1 Cor 8 1-3. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Is made weak, that is, takes occasion to show his weakness by his censures and scruples. End every tongue shall confess to God.. If my hope of heaven lies upon my having been born according to the promise of God born of his grace and of his power in that line the covenant stands. 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. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Christ deals gently with those that have true grace, though they are weak in it. Romans 13 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. And we may well afford to serve him who for us and for our salvation took upon him the form of a servant. Paul reminds us that it isnt our place to pass judgment on any fellow Christian. 19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. (Romans 14:19-21) Use your liberty to build each other up, not to tear each other down. Probably from Corinth, about A. D. 58. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, There are things God may challenge us to give up, but we go on approving them in our life thus we condemn ourselves. To this purport he argues, v. 14 and 23, which two verses explain this, and give us a rule not to act against the dictates. . (Romans 14:1-2) Receiving the weaker brother. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. The Old Testament The New Testament He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. Email / username or password was incorrect! Many a one allows himself in practice to do that which yet in his judgment and conscience he condemns himself forallows it for the sake of the pleasure, profit, or credit of itallows it in conformity to the custom; and yet whilst he does it, and pleas for it, his own heart gives him the lie, and his conscience condemns him for it. Paul reminds the Roman Christians that No man is an island.. They may be a babe in Christ (babies are weak). 3. (Romans 14:16-18) Pursuing the higher call of the Kingdom of God. In judging and censuring our brethren, we meddle with that which does not belong to us: we have work enough to do at home; and, if we must needs be judging, let us exercise our faculty upon our own hearts and ways.To his own master he stands or falls; that is, his doom will be according to his master's sentence, and not according to ours. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. It is goodpleasing to God, profitable to our brother, and no harm to ourselves. ( Romans 14:19-21) Use your liberty to build each other up, not to tear each other down. Romans 12:13-14. Consider the royal law of Christian love and charity, which is hereby broken (v. 15): If thy brother be grieved with thy meatbe troubled to see thee eat those things which the law of Moses did forbid, which yet thou mayest lawfully do; possibly thou art ready to say, "Now he talks foolishly and weakly, and it is no great matter what he says." If you have [strong] faith, and feel liberty to partake of certain things, praise God! Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. Who are you to judge anothers servant? True love would make us tender of their peace and purity, and beget a regard to their consciences as well as to our own. 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. The judgment seat of Christ is only concerned with a Christians rewards and position in the kingdom, not with his salvation. (Smith). Our rule is, to walk as far as we have attained, not further, Phil 3 15, 16.For whatsoever is not of faith is sin. But why do you judge your brother? Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point He specifies the case in hand, concerning the difference of meats. Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. This seems to be the meaning of that aphorism, which sounds somewhat darkly (v. 22), Happy is he that condemns not himself in that thing which he allows. All his foes shall be constrained to do it, whether they will or no. 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. It is a generous piece of self-denial, for which we have Paul's example (1 Cor 8 13), If meat make my brother to offend; he does not say, I will eat no meat, that is to destroy himself; but I will eat no flesh, that is to deny himself, while the world stands. I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself , Peace: A Fact and A Feeling That which puts an acceptableness upon all our good duties is a regard to Christ in the doing of them. a. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Paul speaks about the stumbling of a sincere heart, not catering to the whims of someones legalism. Prophets 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. Receive one who is weak in the faith: We accept those weak in the faith, but not for the sake of carrying on a debate with them regarding doubtful things. Romans 15 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. b. The Argument from Contingency: A Proof for God, 6 Verses to Cling to When You Are Overwhelmed. (4) We all, through faith, are one body in Christ. (Romans 14:14-15) Destroying a brother makes a privilege wrong. Now let not this be evil spoken of. Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. a. I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself: Paul knew that there was nothing intrinsically unclean about meat that was not kosher or sacrificed to an idol. So, as to other things, it is neither circumcision nor uncircumcision (Gal 5 6; 6 15; 1 Cor 7 19), it is not being of this party and persuasion, of this or the other opinion in minor things, that will recommend us to God. John 14:19 . 3. If the contending parties will but submit to this fair arbitration, each abate of his rigour, and sacrifice their differences to their graces, all will be well quickly. (11-14) The urgency to love . Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Did Christ quit a life for souls, such a life, and shall not we quit a morsel of meat for them? (2.) (Romans 14:10-12) Judging our brother is inappropriate because we will all face judgment before Jesus. How Can We All Use Our Creative Talents to Glorify God? 2. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. Next to our compliance with God, the life of religion consists in our complacency in him; to delight ourselves always in the Lord. If we would know what way we walk in, we must enquire what end we walk towards. 5. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the This is a will to do evil; for, if it appears to us to be sin, there is the same pravity and corruption of the will in the doing of it as if really it were a sin; and therefore we ought not to do it. To this end he both died, and rose, and revived (he, having risen, entered upon a heavenly life, the glory which he had before) that he might be Lord both of dead and livingthat he might be universal monarch, Lord of all (Acts 10 36), all the animate and inanimate creatures; for he is head over all things to the church. Luke-Acts Where he cannot be beneficent he is benevolent. 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. It was not so much the difference itself that did the mischief as the mismanagement of the difference, making it a bone of contention. If a weak Christian doubts whether it be lawful to eat flesh, while he remains under that doubt he had best forbear, till he be fully persuaded in his own mind. as a Christian by seeking the welfare of his wife and family only, for these are only a sort of greater self." (Spurgeon) . C.H. i. We have an account of our own to make up, and that is enough for us; let every man prove his own work (Gal 6 4), state his own accounts, search his own heart and life; let this take up his thoughts, and he that is strict in judging himself and abasing himself will not be apt to judge and despise his brother. God is determined that it shall be so. c. 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