We Must Glorify God With One Voice!

March 22, 2015
Lesson 100
Romans 14:1-15:7

We must glorify God with one voice!
Differences in “Non-Essential” Matters
Theology, Education, Employment, Marriage, Children, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Transportation, Retirement, Wealth, and Ministry
Ten Principles of Harmonious Christian Living

1. The strong in faith have a responsibility to welcome the weak in faith
   The strong have a responsibility to not despise the weak (14:3a)
   The weak have a responsibility to not judge the strong (14:3b)
2. Each Christian must be convinced in his own mind of what is right (14:5)
3. All sincere Christians do what they do in honor of the Lord (14:6)
4. Christians are primarily accountable to the Lord for how they live (14:8-9)
5. No disputable matter is wrong in itself, but is wrong if one thinks it is so (14:14)
6. Passing judgment on professing Christians can result in their stumbling (14:13)
7. The kingdom of God is about bigger things than disputable matters! (14:17)
8. Privacy of Christian liberty exercise is necessary to preclude stumbling (14:22)
9. Whatever is not of faith is sin (14:23)
10. The duty of the strong is to bear the failings of the weak (15:1)
    Responsibility
    The strong and the weak are to welcome one another as Christ has welcomed them (15:7)
    Motivation
    The God of endurance and encouragement grants us to live together
    that we glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one voice!
    (15:5-6)
    A Christian man is a most free lord of all, subject to none.
    a most dutiful servant of all, subject to all.
    In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity!