Untitled Sermon

Cheyne McLean

• Book Context – Rom 1-12/Doctrinal Knowledge, 12-16/Practical application

• Overarching theme – Rom 12:1

Present your body and your mind in worship to God, in

pursuit of His will.

• Immediate context – differences over matters of conscience­­ – food and special days

• The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat

• This word “contempt” is to despise them or treat them as if they are worthless

• Lk 18:9 (Prayer of the Pharisee and tax colledtor) And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt

• Lk 23:11 And Herod with his soldiers, after treating Him with contempt and mocking Him, dressed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

• Acts 4:11 aHe is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone.

• and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats

• to “judge” is to condemn

• Colossians 2:16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

• Why?? Because God has accepted him.......

• for God has accepted him

• 1 Corinthians 8:8 But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

• Who are you to judge a servant of another?

• the question “who are you? “ is a very sharp rhetorical qustion posed to expose arrogance in a persons life.

• the answer is---you are nobody!

• you are not a judge in this sense, in the sense of being someones Master.

• 1 Corinthians 4:3-4 But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself. For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.

• Master

• Stands or Falls

• Psalm 1:5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

• Psalm 76:7 You, even You, are to be feared; And who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

• Revelation 8:3 Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

• Matthew 2:11 After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

• Matthew 4:9 and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”

• when you judge in this way you make yourself his/her Master.

Stands or falls