Romans 14
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I.Principles of conscience
I.Principles of conscience
A.Read the scripture multiple times
A.Read the scripture multiple times
B. Pull Method
B. Pull Method
1. P= Place it
1. P= Place it
2. U= Understand it
2. U= Understand it
3. L= Love it
3. L= Love it
4. L= Live it
4. L= Live it
C. Romans 14
C. Romans 14
1 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.
2 One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.
3 The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him.
4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
5 One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
7 For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;
8 for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
11 For it is written,
“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall give praise to God.”
12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
16 Therefore do not let what is for you a good thing be spoken of as evil;
17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19 So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
20 Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.
21 It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.
22 The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.
II. P=Place It
II. P=Place It
A. Where is the scripture written?
A. Where is the scripture written?
1. Also quite certain is that Paul’s time in Greece was spent either at Corinth or its port city of Cenchrea. In a letter to the church at Corinth written toward the end of his stay in Ephesus (and less than a year before; cf. 1 Cor 16:8), Paul wrote: “After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you.… Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter” (1 Cor 16:5–6). Also supporting Corinth as the place of origin for Paul’s letter to the church in Rome are several indications in the greetings of chap. 16. In v. 23 Paul passed along the greetings of Gaius, his host. This could well have been the Gaius Paul baptized in Corinth (1 Cor 1:14). Erastus, whom Paul called the “city’s director of public works” (Rom 16:23), probably is the same Erastus mentioned in a Corinthian inscription as “procurator of public buildings.” The identity is strengthened by Paul’s statement in 2 Timothy that “Erastus stayed in Corinth” (2 Tim 4:20). And Phoebe, whom Paul commended to the church at Rome, is called “a servant of the church in Cenchrea” (Rom 16:1). These considerations have led the vast majority of scholars to accept Corinth as the city from which Paul wrote to the believers in Rome.
1. Also quite certain is that Paul’s time in Greece was spent either at Corinth or its port city of Cenchrea. In a letter to the church at Corinth written toward the end of his stay in Ephesus (and less than a year before; cf. 1 Cor 16:8), Paul wrote: “After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you.… Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter” (1 Cor 16:5–6). Also supporting Corinth as the place of origin for Paul’s letter to the church in Rome are several indications in the greetings of chap. 16. In v. 23 Paul passed along the greetings of Gaius, his host. This could well have been the Gaius Paul baptized in Corinth (1 Cor 1:14). Erastus, whom Paul called the “city’s director of public works” (Rom 16:23), probably is the same Erastus mentioned in a Corinthian inscription as “procurator of public buildings.” The identity is strengthened by Paul’s statement in 2 Timothy that “Erastus stayed in Corinth” (2 Tim 4:20). And Phoebe, whom Paul commended to the church at Rome, is called “a servant of the church in Cenchrea” (Rom 16:1). These considerations have led the vast majority of scholars to accept Corinth as the city from which Paul wrote to the believers in Rome.
2. People
2. People
a.D. G. Miller finds three general groups in the church at Rome: the legalists, who thought that righteousness was a human achievement; the libertines, who abandoned the law even as a guide for the response of faith; and the spiritualists, whose pride destroyed the true sense of community and made them indifferent to the demands of civic order. From the greetings in 16:3–16 we may garner some interesting details about the membership in the church at Rome. For example, some had been Christians longer than Paul (v. 7), others had houses large enough to serve as meeting places (v. 5), and although many undoubtedly were slaves, some probably came from the higher echelons of society. One example would be Pomponia Graecina, the wife of the Roman general who commanded the British expedition in A.D. 43, who was tried and acquitted on the charge of having embraced a “foreign superstition,” most likely Christianity.
a.D. G. Miller finds three general groups in the church at Rome: the legalists, who thought that righteousness was a human achievement; the libertines, who abandoned the law even as a guide for the response of faith; and the spiritualists, whose pride destroyed the true sense of community and made them indifferent to the demands of civic order. From the greetings in 16:3–16 we may garner some interesting details about the membership in the church at Rome. For example, some had been Christians longer than Paul (v. 7), others had houses large enough to serve as meeting places (v. 5), and although many undoubtedly were slaves, some probably came from the higher echelons of society. One example would be Pomponia Graecina, the wife of the Roman general who commanded the British expedition in A.D. 43, who was tried and acquitted on the charge of having embraced a “foreign superstition,” most likely Christianity.
b.Another suggestion is that Rome was evangelized by the missionary outreach of Antioch, but there is no evidence of this. A more reasonable suggestion is that the church at Rome was founded by believers, both Jewish and Gentile, who for a variety of reasons traveled back and forth to the capital city or who had taken up residence there
b.Another suggestion is that Rome was evangelized by the missionary outreach of Antioch, but there is no evidence of this. A more reasonable suggestion is that the church at Rome was founded by believers, both Jewish and Gentile, who for a variety of reasons traveled back and forth to the capital city or who had taken up residence there
B.What does the Scripture mean to the original audience?
B.What does the Scripture mean to the original audience?
1. Do not cause your brother to stumble
2.Judge not less you be judged
3.understand the law
4.Every knee is going to bow
III. U=Understand it
III. U=Understand it
A.What does the Scripture tell us about God?
A.What does the Scripture tell us about God?
1. He is the ultimate judge
2. that everything he made was clean
3. That we will face him
4. That God respects all people the same way
5. God does not offend
B. What Does this Scripture say about man?
B. What Does this Scripture say about man?
1. We don’t realize what others think
2.We are ready to judge
3.We think our way is the right way
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III. L=Love It
III. L=Love It
A. Read the Scripture over and over again
A. Read the Scripture over and over again
B. What does the Scripture demand of me?
B. What does the Scripture demand of me?
1. Make sure I know my brother
2. Know what is acceptable to God
3. Make sure we do all things in our faith towards God
4.Do not destroy others faith based on something we believe is not sin to us that God has said is not sin
5. Do not tear down people because of their doctrinal beliefs.
IV. L=Live it
IV. L=Live it
A. How does the Scripture change the way I relate to people?
A. How does the Scripture change the way I relate to people?
1.We are to understand what people believe
2.do not judge based on our opinions
3.Love one another even if we disagree on things God does not say is sin
4.Realize that we will all face Jesus and treat everyone like they will face him to.
B. How does this scripture prompt me to pray?
B. How does this scripture prompt me to pray?
1.Able to get along with people who are from another denomination
2.Do not die by mans law but stand on God’s law
3.That I learn to see my brother for what he does good and not all his sins
4.That I know truly that God is the judge
C. Reflecting on the Previous 6 Questions,how can I apply this scripture to my life?
C. Reflecting on the Previous 6 Questions,how can I apply this scripture to my life?
1. Try to do more with other denominations
2.Watch that i don’t look at others in a negative light
3 .Try to work with all peoples understanding of scriptures if it does not defy God’s law
4. be ever watchful
V. Conclusion
V. Conclusion
A. Pull your self through scripture.
A. Pull your self through scripture.
B.P=Place It
B.P=Place It
U=Understand It
U=Understand It
L= Love It
L= Love It
L= Live It
L= Live It