A Christian man cursing is a very awkward spectacle. The apostle Paul knew the mysteries of the kingdom of God as well as ever any man; yet he confesses himself at a loss; and despairing to find the bottom, he humbly sits down at the brink, and adores the depth. He is not clear that it is lawful for him to eat swine's flesh (suppose), and yet is drawn, notwithstanding his doubts, to eat it, because he sees others do it, because he would gratify his appetite with it, or because he would not be reproached for his singularity. to his own master he standeth or falleth. Romans 7:5. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a Of grief to our brother, "One that is weak, and thinks it unlawful to eat such and such meats, will be greatly troubled to see thee eat them, out of a concern for the honour of the law which he thinks forbids them, and for the good of thy soul which he thinks is wronged by them, especially when thou dost it wilfully and with a seeming presumption, and not with that tenderness and that care to give satisfaction to thy weak brother which would become thee." It is quoted from Isa 45 23. We neither live to ourselves nor die to ourselves. b. (3.) To illustrate this (v. 11), he quotes a passage out of the Old Testament, which speaks of Christ's universal sovereignty and dominion, and that established with an oath: As I live (saith the Lord), every knee shall bow to me. Bishop Sanderson, in his 34th sermon, upon 1 Tim 4 4, justly makes this observation: It appears by this that saying grace (as we commonly call it, perhaps from 1 Cor 10 30) before and after meat was the common known practice of the church, among Christians of all sorts, weak and strong: an ancient, commendable, apostolical, Christian practice, derived down from Christ's example through all the ages of the church, Matt 14 19; 15 36; Luke 9 16; John 6 11; Matt 26 26, 27; Acts 27 35. 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God never cast off any one that had true grace, though he was but weak in it; never broke the bruised reed. Pauline Epistles 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. This arises from that unchangeable law of our creation, which is, that our wills, in all their choices, motions, and directions, should follow the dictates of our understandings. THESE two verses are full , 5001 North Oak Trafficway David Guzik commentary on Romans 13, in which Paul describes the christian's obligation to the authority given to government. The spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord, and it is a dangerous thing to debauch and put a force upon conscience, though it be under a mistake. (1.) 3. Let us observe the rules he gives, some to the strong and some to the weak, and some to both, for they are interwoven; and reduce the reasons to their proper rules. For it is written: As I live, says the LORD, Kansas City, Missouri 64118, 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. We live to glorify him in all the actions and affairs of life; we die, whether a natural or a violent death, to glorify him, and to go to be glorified with him. "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 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. The doctrines of the book are considered and discussed under four main propositions: (1) All men are guilty before God (Jews and Gentiles alike). Consider the design of Christ's death: Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died, v. 15. When to awake; Now; and to awake out of the sleep of carnal security, sloth, and negligence; out of the sleep of spiritual death, and out of the sleep of spiritual deadness. Legalism has a way of making us think that we are strong and those who dont keep the rules the way we do are weak. See this case explained, 1 Cor 8 9-11. Receive him, proslambavesthetake him to you, bid him welcome, receive him with the greatest affection and tenderness; porrigite manum (so the Syriac): lend him your hand, to help him, to fetch him to you, to encourage him. 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. (wpe), The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God. In the Epistle to the Hebrews our apostle tells us of the marvellous exploits which it has wrought in subduing kingdoms and obtaining promises, in quenching the , The Dual Nature and the Duel Within For example, when some Christians from a Jewish background were offended that Gentile believers were not circumcised, Paul didnt cater to their legalistic demands. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible They may be a babe in Christ (babies are weak). 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Consider the work of God (v. 20): "For meat destroy not the work of Godthe work of grace, particularly the work of faith in thy brother's soul." You think that he who eateth will fall by his presumption, or that he who eateth not will sink under the weight of his own fears and scruples; but if they have true faith, and an eye to God, the one in the intelligent use of his Christian liberty and the other in the conscientious forbearance of it, they shall be held upthe one in his integrity, and the other in his comfort. 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? a. It wasnt that they were weaker in their Christian life because of what they ate or didnt eat, but they were weaker because of their legalistic attitudes and lack of love towards others. Who are you to judge anothers servant? This is levelled directly against the fault of each party. 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. It is explained by the word akatharton, Acts 10 14, nothing common or unclean. Do you have faith? Paul speaks about the stumbling of a sincere heart, not catering to the whims of someones legalism. Given to hospitality. For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto , The Leading of the Spirit, the Secret Token of the Sons of God 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. 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Romans 14, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible, One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is from the most widely read and often quoted preacher in history, Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. He is happy that has peace and quietness within, for the testimony of conscience will be a special cordial in troublesome times. But now it is winter, and the sun is gone, and the banqueting-house is closed. (1-2) Receiving the weaker brother. Compare Gal 6 4, Let every man prove his own work, that is, bring it to the touchstone of the word and try it by that so exactly as to be well satisfied in what he does; and then he shall have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. God will judge the world by him, Acts 17 31. God is well pleased with such a one, though he be not in every thing just of our length. Salem Media Group. 4. 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. Romans 9:9. If God now accepts thy works, thou mayest eat thy bread with joy. A believing regard to the judgment of the great day would silence all these rash judgings: Why dost thou that art weak judge thy brother that is strong? Probably, the use of both judge and show contempt is meant to have application to both the strict and the free individuals. And this leads to another reason against judging and despising. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Our love is the true measure of our obedience to God. Whereas they should have pitied them, and helped them, and afforded them meek and friendly instruction, they trampled upon them as silly, and humoursome, and superstitious, for scrupling those things which they knew to be lawful: so apt are those who have knowledge to be puffed up with it, and to look disdainfully and scornfully upon their brethren. i. This is laid down v. 13, Let us not judge one another any more. Smith, Chuck "The Gospel According to Grace" (Costa Mesa, California: The Word for Today, 1981), Trapp, John "A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments" Volume 5 (Matthew to Revelation) (Eureka, California: Tanski Publications, 1997). The Pharisees taught people to plead conscience, when they made corban an excuse for denying relief to their parents, Matt 15 5, 6. 3. It denotes an utter destruction. The matter is left at large. 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. We are to serve his interests and designs in the world, which are in the first place to reconcile us one to another. Poetical Books While the issue of not eating meat for spiritual reasons is no longer directly relevant to most Christians today, there are plenty of issues where some believers believe one way and others believe differently. (Romans 14:16-18) Pursuing the higher call of the Kingdom of God. Children of God, born of the grandest of all parents, regenerated by the almighty energy of , THE SPIRIT OF BONDAGE AND OF ADOPTION. How happy were it for the church if those that have a clearness in disputable things would be satisfied to have it to themselves before God, and not impose those things upon others, and make them terms of communions, than which nothing is more opposite to Christian liberty, nor more destructive both to the peace of churches and the peace of consciences. But this would not serve any more than Paul's erroneous conscience would justify his rage against Christianity (Acts 26 9), or theirs, John 16 2. 19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. What is it to be sanctified, but to be of God's mind? Denney says " You, in contrast with the one Lord and Judge of all. Site by Mere. To this end he both died, and rose, and revived (he, having risen, entered upon a heavenly life, the glory which he had before) that he might be Lord both of dead and livingthat he might be universal monarch, Lord of all (Acts 10 36), all the animate and inanimate creatures; for he is head over all things to the church. By shaking his faith, provoking his passion, and tempting him to act against the light of his own conscience, thou dost, as much as in thee lies, destroy him, giving him an occasion to return to Judaism. Those are right indeed that are so in God's sight. The case was this: The members of the Christian church at Rome were some of them originally Gentiles, and others of them Jews. I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Romans 5:1. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. As to ourselves, it is joy in the Holy Ghostthat spiritual joy which is wrought by the blessed Spirit in the hearts of believers, which respects God as their reconciled Father and heaven as their expected home. But. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. 22 Hast thou faith? 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. All his foes shall be constrained to do it, whether they will or no. He grants that all things indeed are pure. Whedon's Commentary Clarke's Commentary Verse Romans 14:23. Several kinds of meat were forbidden to the Jews, that in that, as in other things, they might be a peculiar and separate people, Lev 11 44; Deut 14 2, 3. a. Major Prophets Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. If we would know what way we walk in, we must enquire what end we walk towards. And he that doubteth This verse is a necessary part of the preceding, and should be read thus: But he thatdoubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith. The meaning is sufficiently plain. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. They may be malnourished (by lack of good teaching). Why so? I. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and . b. Should not we be pleased with that which God is pleased with? We are not our own masters, nor our own proprietorswe are not at our own disposal. Do not let your good be spoken of as evil: Our liberty in Jesus and freedom from the law is good, but not if we use it to destroy another brother in Christ. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. a. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Here his own heart cannot but condemn him as a transgressor. of Scripture. We must not weaken those that are weak; that is to quench the smoking flax and to break the bruised reed. All his friends do it freely, are made willing in the day of his power. Though men condemn us, it is well enough if our own hearts condemn us not, 1 John 3 21. Now he bends and twists, and anon he strains and stretches: now he uses one foot and then another; he tries his arm and stretches: now he uses one foot and then another; he tries his arm and now his leg; he shifts his ground, he shifts his ground, he takes up another position, and he keeps his eye perpetually open lest he should be caught unawares. He specifies the case in hand, concerning the difference of meats. Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. [1.] Minor Prophets But in the epistle to the Galatians, where he deals with those that were originally Gentiles, but were influenced by some judaizing teachers, not only to believe such a distinction and to practise accordingly, but to lay a stress upon it as necessary to salvation, and to make the observance of the Jewish festivals public and congregational, here the case was altered, and it is charged upon them as the frustrating of the design of the gospel, falling from grace, Gal 4 9-11. Do you have faith? c. Whatever is not from faith is sin: Paul concludes with another principle by which we can judge gray areas if we cant do it in faith, then it is sin. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth unto God. Here is a proof of Christ's Godhead: he is the Lord and he is God, equal with the Father. Nor must we act against the dictates of a doubting conscience. Observe, The approbation of men is not to be slighted; for we must provide things honest in the sight of all men, and study those things that are lovely and of good report: but the acceptance of God is to be desired and aimed at in the first place, because, sooner or later, God will bring all the world to be of his mind. The advantages of it. In judging and censuring our brethren, we meddle with that which does not belong to us: we have work enough to do at home; and, if we must needs be judging, let us exercise our faculty upon our own hearts and ways.To his own master he stands or falls; that is, his doom will be according to his master's sentence, and not according to ours. But are any destroyed for whom Christ died? Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: He is as much the Son of God as he was the Son of man. [1.] This is reasonable. [1.] Whatever they are, and whatever they do, they must give account to their own master, and not to us; if we can in any thing be helpers of their joy, it is well; but we have not dominion over their faith. If my hope of heaven lies upon my having been born according to the promise of God born of his grace and of his power in that line the covenant stands. Good praying, preaching, and discourse, may often, for want of prudence in ordering the time, the expression, and other circumstances to edification, be evil spoken of. Of guilt to our brother. First, The work of grace and peace is the work of God; it is wrought by him, it is wrought for him; it is a good work of his beginning, Phil 1 6. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. There is a lot of useless, harmful division among Christians over silly, bigoted things. Nay, and thou mayest utterly destroy some whose profession may be so justifiable that thou art bound to believe, in a judgment of charity, that Christ died for them. As to our brethren, it is peaceto live in peace and love, and charity with them, following peace with all men: Christ came into the world to be the great peace-maker. c. Acceptable to God and approved by men: Serving God with a heart for His righteousness and peace and joy is the kind of service that is acceptable in His sight, and will be approved by men. 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Art thou satisfied that thou mayest eat all meats, and observe all days (except the Lord's day) alike? On the other hand, another, who is weak, is dissatisfied in this point, is not clear in his Christian liberty, but rather inclines to think that the meats forbidden by the law remain still unclean; and therefore, to keep at a distance from them, he will eat no flesh at all, but eateth herbs, contenting himself with only the fruits of the earth. This chapter, rightly understood, made use of, and lived up to, would set things to rights, and heal us all. Now if Christ paid so dearly for his dominion over souls and consciences, and has such a just and undisputed right to exercise that dominion, we must not so much as seem to invade it, nor intrench upon it, by judging the consciences of our brethren, and arraigning them at our bar. Our work is to bless the sons of men. Proud member Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. Remember that it is an inspired passage: although it consists of Christian courtesies addressed to different individuals, yet it was written by an apostle, and written not as an ordinary letter but as a part of the inspired volume. If you have [strong] faith, and feel liberty to partake of certain things, praise God! Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. How Can We All Use Our Creative Talents to Glorify God? We should manage all our good duties in such a manner that they may not be evil spoken of. The New Testament Paul isnt telling these Christians to erase their differences; he tells them to rise above them as Christian brothers and sisters. Romans xvi.1 16. Luke-Acts 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. c. He who is weak eats only vegetables: In Pauls mind, the weak brother is the stricter one. (2.) (Romans 14:10-12) Judging our brother is inappropriate because we will all face judgment before Jesus. The Argument from Contingency: A Proof for God, 6 Verses to Cling to When You Are Overwhelmed. There might be other similar occasions of difference, while these made the most noise, and were most taken notice of. "While thy brother's cause is before thy judgment, it is coram non judicebefore one who is not the judge; the court of heaven is the proper court for trial, where, and where only, the sentence is definitive and conclusive; and to this, if his heart be upright, he may comfortably appeal from thy rash censure.". Though bodily exercise alone profits little, yet, as it is guided by inward fear and reverence, it is accepted. I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself , Peace: A Fact and A Feeling Passwords should have at least 6 characters. 1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. 1. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Happy is the free man who is thus liberated by the . We should distinguish between someone who is weak and someone who is rebellious. But whatever we do, we must be able to do it to the Lord, not using conscience as an excuse for obviously sinful behavior. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. Romans vii. Observe here. But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin. They may be sick or diseased (by legalism). They were not well instructed touching the cancelling of the ceremonial law by the death of Christ, and therefore retained the ceremonial institutions, and practised accordingly; while other Christians that understood themselves better, and knew their Christian liberty, made no such difference. 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. 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. Compare this with 1 Cor 8 10, 11. Thou pleadest that it is thy own meat, and thou mayest do what thou wilt with it; but remember that, though the meat is thine, the brother offended by it is Christ's, and a part of his purchase. 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