What Your Life Could Be
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Gould/Bernstein
Problem in Early Church
*Divided over it.
*Called each other names over it.
*Wouldn’t eat meals together or associate with each other.
*Wanted the Gentiles to get circumcised as adults. How welcoming is that as a church?
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Freedom Versus Rules
Freedom Versus Rules
*Worship: clothes we wear in worship.
*Alcohol.
*Whether or not I am going to hell or not because I drive a Mustang.
*Worship: Presbyterian versus Charismatic.
The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
Key Verse:
*Both groups honor God.
*Nothing But Jesus looks different in different people’s lives.
*Diversity. Worship.
*How can that be? Isn’t right right and wrong wrong? Winners and losers?
*Zero Sum Game.
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.
*Paul identifies with those who are free. With those with a strong faith.
*Not dichotomous between two groups. Could be freer in one area.
*John Piper on why he doesn’t drink alcohol and other pastors do.
*Paul says that the freer you are in each area of life, the stronger your faith is in that area.
*The freer you are in a certain area the more you figured out how the Gospel applies to that area of life. And that can vary from issue to issue.
For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
*Don’t flaunt it. Love in context of disagreement.
“The stamp of the saint is that he can waive his own rights and still obey the Lord Jesus.”
C. S. Lewis
*All comes back to the verse I messed up last week.
*What about my convictions?
Opinion
*Paul takes one of the most important issues of the day, an issue that was regarded as very important. You better do it this way and what does he call it?
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
*An opinion. Disputable matter. Not black and white issues. Not issues clearly addressed in Scripture.
*An opinion. Disputable matter. Not black and white issues. Not issues clearly addressed in Scripture.
The first question to ask yourself is do you even have an opinion on a particular issue? Because you can have a VIEW on an issue…but not even an opinion. A VIEW on an issue is seeing something from afar, experiencing it to some extent…an OPINION is well thought out. Think of when a lawyer opines on an issue. Opines are very important in law, they are well researched, a lawyer will immerse himself in that issue to write an opine. And so the question is on the many issues, do you have only a VIEW or an OPINION.
One of the problems of our culture is that there are lots of people with VIEWS who turn those VIEWS into OPINIONS. In fact, a step further is to not only have an OPINION but to adopt a CONVICTION.
So VIEW-OPINION-CONVICTION…we jump right from having a view, to being convicted.
So before you OPINE on an issue, ask yourself if you even have developed a view. Have you done your research? Have you really thought it through?
Worship
Presbyterian versus Charistmatic
-Frozen Chosen versus emotional
-Put your hands down I can’t see the screen.
--Infant Baptism Versus Believer’s. If you died tonight…I can get into Heaven but I can’t get into your church.
-Clothes
-Shouting and dancing
Hillsong—immersing yourself in it…seeing the vision of what could be. Follow people who have been there and who have seen the vision of it.
1. Ask questions and listen.
a. What would you tell him…nothing….I would ask him.
b. TSCA and board of experienced men. Vent, make speeches. Ask about pain, about hurt.
The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
Keep it to yourself. You don’t have to have an opinion about my opinions.
c.
Keep it to yourself.
d. God gave us two ears and one mouth…and many have three mouths and no ears.
2. State opposing view in gracious terms that not only is accurate but builds on it.
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
a. : build up each other’s argument.
build up each other’s argument.
Have to understand and study their point of view. Not take the stupidest point out. Bolster it. That is loving your neighbor.
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
b. ,
The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
Tear each other apart.
Tear each other apart.
This past week: liars, greedy, lied about…if you only knew me…
Reading of little girl.
3. Throw the grenade of Jesus into it and the answer will become clear.
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.
a.
he was persuaded in Jesus.
he was persuaded in Jesus.
b. Reading of Interpretation of Bible.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
4. Faith is what produces love.
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Faith is what produces love.
“Christianity can be summed up in the two terms, faith and love. Receiving from above which is faith, and giving out below, which is love.” -Martin Luther
“Christianity can be summed up in the two terms, faith and love. Receiving from above which is faith, and giving out below, which is love.” -Martin Luther
b. Hearing gospel over and over and over again. Until we love each other perfectly we need to hear the gospel again and again.
c. Faith is what produces the ability to disagree with others in love.
d. Can we listen to someone say thank you Jesus for 25 seconds?
*Patience, kindness, self control...
Tear each other apart.
This past week: liars, greedy, lied about…if you only knew me…
Reading of little girl. Messy Spirituality.
You aren’t doing God the right way. You aren’t doing your faith the right way.
When we don’t do this, we ostracize each other.
Call each other names.
Reading—Messy Spirituality
Father
Norbert: I’d choose you
Last week’s mess-up is thesis of entire ...
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
The Law was love your neighbor as yourself. But that wasn’t the standard Jesus gave us. The standard wasn’t to love your neighbor as you love yourself because many times we don’t love ourselves. We don’t treat ourselves the right way.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.
Gould/Bernstein
That is the standard
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
—free life…handling people is restrictive. Pressure to win them over.
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
—Same as take up your cross, other’s burdens are those areas where life isn’t light.
—Not enduring or tolerating but as if burden is your own.
—Not us and them just us.
Non-essentials…doesn’t matter.
—Mark Twain---if entrance into heaven went by merit, your dog would be in and you would be out. Heaven isn’t by merit but by favor.
Gould/Bernstein
Gould/Bernstein
Gould/Bernstein
—How does he welcome us…without reservation, warmly, not on trial
--doesn’t stand up and do a disclaimer.
—And he doesn’t just have a view of us, or an opinion about us, he knows us intimately.
--Says I choose you, you are a royal priesthood, you are my son
--and we broke the rules.
--He enjoys us. He makes music with us.
--he doesn’t have an opinion that we are wrong, he knows we are wrong.
—without qualification, on basis of Jesus not us. On basis of Jesus’ convictions, not ours.