Sacrifice for Salvations
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comedian talking about teens knowing everything/the more you learn the less you know
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.
But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him.
However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Food will not bring us close to God. We are not worse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.
But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.
For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?
So the weak person, the brother or sister for whom Christ died, is ruined by your knowledge.
Now when you sin like this against brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.
Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother or sister to fall.
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.
No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.
Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience,
since the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it.
If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.
But if someone says to you, “This is food from a sacrifice,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.
I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?
If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I criticized because of something for which I give thanks?
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Give no offense to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,
just as I also try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.
The Church God Wants Us to Be
Places the benefit (salvation) of others over our own benefit
What “knowledge” do you cling that is not essential?
What lines in the sand do we have that harm the gospel?
Where do you need to seek the benefit of others and not yourself?