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Romans 14:17-15:1 - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: June 21, 2009

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Romans 14:18)

God takes pleasure in our serving with the right heart attitude.

Life Lesson (Romans 14:19)

We should encourage others.

Life Lesson (Romans 14:21)

Don't get derailed on the small things.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

2 Peter 3:18 NKJV

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Rom 14:17-18 NLT

17 For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God. And other people will approve of you, too.

Rom 14:19 NLT

So then, let us aim for harmony in the church and try to build each other up.

Rom 14:19 AMP

So let us then definitely aim for and eagerly pursue what makes for harmony and for mutual upbuilding (edification and development) of one another.

1 Thess 3:2 NLT

and we sent Timothy to visit you. He is our co-worker for God and our brother in proclaiming the Good News of Christ. We sent him to strengthen you, to encourage you in your faith,

Ps 64:5 NLT

They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps. "Who will ever notice?" they ask.

Romans 14:20 AMP

You must not, for the sake of food, undo and break down and destroy the work of God! Everything is indeed [ceremonially] clean and pure, but it is wrong for anyone to hurt the conscience of others or to make them fall by what he eats.

Rom 14:21 AMP

The right thing is to eat no meat or drink no wine [at all], or [do anything else] if it makes your brother stumble or hurts his conscience or offends or weakens him.

Prov 31:4-5 NKJV

4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Nor for princes intoxicating drink; 5 Lest they drink and forget the law, And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.

Prov 31:4-5 TEV

4 Listen, Lemuel. Kings should not drink wine or have a craving for alcohol. 5 When they drink, they forget the laws and ignore the rights of people in need.

Rom 14:22 NLT

You may have the faith to believe that there is nothing wrong with what you are doing, but keep it between yourself and God. Blessed are those who do not condemn themselves by doing something they know is all right.

Rom 14:22 AMP

Your personal convictions [on such matters]--exercise [them] as in God's presence, keeping them to yourself [striving only to know the truth and obey His will]. Blessed (happy, [a]to be envied) is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves [who does not convict himself by what he chooses to do].

Rom 14:23 NLT

But if people have doubts about whether they should eat something, they shouldn't eat it. They would be condemned for not acting in faith before God. If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning.

Rom 14:23 AMP

But the man who has doubts (misgivings, an uneasy conscience) about eating, and then eats [perhaps because of you], stands condemned [before God], because he is not true to his convictions and he does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin [whatever is done without a conviction of its approval by God is sinful].

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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