Judge this, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
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Text: Romans 14:13-19
Intro: The Bible clearly states that we are not to judge one another anymore… That doesn’t mean that there was a time that it was acceptable, it means that because you currently are doing it, we must stop it. It is here in this same verse that we are given a judgment however. (vs. 13) “…but judge this...
It is a serious thing to cause another person to stumble and fall into sin.
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Great peace have they which love thy law:
And nothing shall offend them.
The phrase offend here gives us the understanding, “causing to stumble”. Any of us that hold so strongly onto our gray area, and have compassion that others follow it, which results in another believer falling, then we are blinded and are not seeing clearly the price that Christ paid on the cross. Our good should not cause evil talk, After all the Christian life has nothing to do with eating or drinking, not in keeping a day or in not keeping a day, or in any other religious practice, but one of righteousness, and peace and of joy, all of which comes from the Spirit.
Our aim as a church is not to please ourselves, but to build up and edify other Christians in love.
(vs. 15 and 20) Destroy - speaking of that which tears down…
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
How selfish for a Christians to tear down another believer’s spiritual life because of our own selfish living. His practice may be lawful, but they do not come under the law of love.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.