2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission, The Whole Bible The New Testament Minor Prophets Such censures as these discovered a great deal of rashness and uncharitableness, and would doubtless tend much to the alienating of affection. We should distinguish between someone who is weak and someone who is rebellious. Now walkest thou not charitably. We are not our own masters, nor our own proprietorswe are not at our own disposal. The kingdom of God is not meat, etc. Because the stress of Christianity is not to be laid upon these things, nor are they at all essential to religion, either on the one side or on the other. Pentateuch We are to serve his interests and designs in the world, which are in the first place to reconcile us one to another. The world's eye saw the outside of Christ the flesh of the man Christ, but the true Christ the ungodly eye could not discern. Christ will be the judge, and he has both authority and ability to determine men's eternal state according to their works, and before him we shall stand as persons to be tried, and to give up an account, expecting our final doom from him, which will be eternally conclusive. When we come to die actually, neither is that to ourselves; it is not barely that we would be unclothed, and eased of the burden of the flesh, but it is to the Lord, that we may depart and be with Christ, may be present with the Lord. When we admonish or rebuke, we do it over clear Scriptural principles, not over doubtful things. Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. It will be good for us to put this question to ourselves, when we are tempted to behave scornfully towards our brethren, to disdain and censure them: "Hast not God owned them; and, if he has, dare I disown them?" We neither live to ourselves nor die to ourselves. Those who are strong must by no means despise the weak; nor those who are weak judge the strong, v. 3. We must deny ourselves in our appetites, inclinations, and in the use of Christian liberty, rather than obstruct and prejudice our own or others' grace and peace. So that, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, devoted to him, depending on him, designed and designing for him. The Christian is a man of generous actions, but his wishes go far beyond his deeds. It will not be asked at the great day, "Who ate flesh, and who ate herbs?" And, in our past lives, we did indeed find sin to be very fruitful. We find Jews at Rome believing, Acts 28 24. Now, happy is the man who so orders his conversation as not in any action to expose himself to the challenges and reproaches of his own consciencethat does not make his own heart his adversary, as he must needs do who does that which he is not clear he may lawfully do. 3. These are some of the essentials of Christianity, things in which all the people of God are agreed, in the pursuit of which we must spend our zeal, and which we must mind with an excelling care. 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. It is goodpleasing to God, profitable to our brother, and no harm to ourselves. They judged them as breakers of the law, contemners of God's ordinance, and the like. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. 4. b. It is not meant of justifying faith (that must not be hid, but manifested by our works), but of a knowledge and persuasion of our Christian liberty in things disputed. There might be other similar occasions of difference, while these made the most noise, and were most taken notice of. Poetical Books a. God is determined that it shall be so. 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Undoubtedly these weak ones did not see themselves as weaker. Sin is the transgression of the law. (3) Christ died for all men. b. Or why do you show contempt for your brother? Our Master had foretold that offences would come; and, it seems, so they did, for want of that wisdom and love which would have prevented discord, and kept up union among them. But why do you judge your brother? Why should you spend your zeal either for or against those things which are so minute and inconsiderable in religion? Let us not judge one another: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus helped us to understand what this means it means judging others according to a standard that we would not want to have applied to ourselves. But the reproof is here given to the stronger and more knowing Christian: Now walkest thou not charitably. Thank you for registering. Whatever we do in religion, it will not turn to any good account, except we do it from a principle of faith, with a believing regard to the will of Christ as our rule, to the glory of Christ as our end, and to the righteousness of Christ as our plea. The Argument from Contingency: A Proof for God, 6 Verses to Cling to When You Are Overwhelmed. (wpe), The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God. Because both the one and the other must shortly give an account, v. 10-12. The nature of true Christianity, what it is: it is here called, The kingdom of God; it is a religion intended to rule us, a kingdom: it stands in a true and hearty subjection to God's power and dominion. We have reason to think, because in other things he conducts himself like a good Christian, that in this also his eye is single, and that he regardeth it unto the Lord; and God will accept of his honest intention, though he be under a mistake about the observance of days; for the sincerity and uprightness of the heart were never rejected for the weakness and infirmity of the head: so good a master do we serve. How well for us is it that we are not to stand nor fall by the judgment one of another, but by the righteous and unerring judgment of God, which is according to truth! This chapter, rightly understood, made use of, and lived up to, would set things to rights, and heal us all. The free Christian found it easy to show contempt against his brother, regarding him as a uptight-legalistic-goody-good. (1.) Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat: It would be easy for a Christian who felt free to eat meat to despise others as hopeless legalists. So here, Do not use your knowledge and strength in such a manner as to give occasion to people to call it presumption and loose walking, and disobedience to God's law. Nothing more destructive to true Christianity than placing it in modes, and forms, and circumstantials, which eat out the essentials. a. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Do you have faith? Because both the one and the other, if they be true believers, and are right in the main, have an eye to God, and do approve themselves to God in what they do, v. 6. If a thing be indifferent, so that it is not in itself a sin not to do it, if we really think it a sin to do it it is to us a sin, though not to others, because we act against our consciences, though mistaken and misinformed. See to what degrees of mortification and self-denial a tender conscience will submit. It is paid to God through him as Mediator. Wisdom Literature The apostle seems willing to let the ceremonial law wither by degrees, and to let it have an honourable burial; now these weak Romans seem to be only following it weeping to its grave, but those Galatians were raking it out of its ashes. We have learned to deny ourselves; this was our first lesson: None of us liveth to himself. Romans 13 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The end of such knowledge is that, being satisfied in our liberty, we may have a conscience void of offence towards God, and let that content us. The New Testament Historical Books we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, Not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brothers way, I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself, Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died, Do not let your good be spoken of as evil, The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food, Nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak, Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves, David Guzik :: Hechos 2 El Espritu Santo Es Derramado Sobre la Iglesia, Four Views on the Millennium - Study Resources, Matthew Henry :: Commentary on Lamentations 4, Harmony of the Gospels - Study Resources - Study Resources, David Guzik :: Gnesis 2 La CreacinTerminada; Adn en el Jardn del Edn, Jonathan Edwards :: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, David Guzik :: Apocalipsis 20 Satans, el Pecado y la Muerte son Finalmente Eliminados, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), 1 Samuel 17-25 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Lamentations 1-5 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith). Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. b. Observe the motives to enforce this caution. Happy is the free man who is thus liberated by the . For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. "Nay, God doth not only receive him, but hold him up, v. 4. Have it to yourself before God. Perhaps they refused it because they feared it was meat sacrificed to a pagan god (as in 1 Corinthians 8). If , Romans, but not Romanists First, Drawing a soul to sin threatens the destruction of that soul. If a man were verily persuaded (it is Dr. Sanderson's instance, sermon on ch. The Old Testament 11 14. Have it to thyself before God, v. 22. Particularly, he gives rules how to manage our different apprehensions about indifferent things, in the management of which, it seems, there was something amiss among the Roman Christians, to whom he wrote, which he here labours to redress. For the further pressing of this rule, we may here observe two directions which have relation to it:First, Let not then your good be evil spoken of (v. 16)take heed of doing any thing which may give occasion to others to speak evil, either of the Christian religion in general, or of your Christian liberty in particular. But now it is winter, and the sun is gone, and the banqueting-house is closed. Secondly, Confessing to himacknowledging his glory, grace, and greatnessacknowledging our own meanness and vileness, confessing our sins to him; so some understand it. No fruits are on the table; no wines are in the bottles of the promise; I come to the sanctuary, but I find no comfort; I turn to the Bible, but I find no solace; I fall on my knees, but even the stream of prayer seems to be a dry brook. If he conscientiously deny himself that which he takes to be forbidden fruit, yet he blesses God that of other trees in the garden he may freely eat. 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