C&CW Ep. 16 - Liberty of Conscience: the Scriptures, pt. 2
May 10, 2021โข555 words
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Episode 16
Show Notes:
Continuing in Romans 14:5
A principle from God: "Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind."
Principles don't always stand on their own: they must be understood as intended by God, the Author.
He's speaking of the one strong in faith and the one weak in faith.
v. 7โ8, another principle.
Who is your Lord? Who do you live for? The pastor? Your sister?
You live and die for the Lord, if you are a believer. Are you?
Is Jesus your Lord, and is his Word the Law over your decision making?
One who uses his traditions, culture, experience, office or any other extra-biblical standard over you is sinning against you.
Paul didn't give a centimeter to the Judaizers. He opposed them.
v. 10โ12
Who do you give an account to? Daily, who do you answer to?
Who has the authority to dictate every single action in your life? Who is the Judge?
Don't change your views if you don't believe. Be convinced from Scripture.
"Why do you judge your brother?" Why do you judge me?
Why do you view your brother with contempt.
Write this down:
- The weaker brother is wrong.
- The stronger brother is right.
Neither brother may hold the other in contempt.
Often the pressure is on stronger brothers. But Paul points at both.
Like children, teaching is a process. It takes time for them to change their mind. Like farming, it's a waiting game.
To remain weak is bad.
It is implicit in Romans 14โ14:6, because Paul is teaching right here! This is the correction. Paul is not leaving weaker brother in their wrong understanding.
Weaker brother should grow in strength.
Who decides what is good and evil?
Who will you stand before on the Last Day?
By what standard will the Lord Jesus judge us? By his Word, which we already have.
There is real authority in the church that is exercised in church discipline, but the standard is the Bible.
But you can't have discipline of sin if there is no formal membership. Private Christians can always rebuke other Christians, but there can be no church discipline.
Romans 14:13โ23
v. 14, "I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiled in itself."
Not in culture, or according to the Pharisees.
This is not a "personal conviction" of Paul. Peter had to go through this, with his vision of the sheet full of animals.
Like Jesus said:
And He said to them, โAre you lacking understanding in this way as well? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and goes to the sewer?โ (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
And He was saying, โThat which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.
โMark 7:18โ20
Romans 14:14 ". . . but to him who considers anything to be defiled, to him it is defiled."
This sounds like relativism.
But it's not. The weaker brother thinks it is wrong.
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