The weak and strong brothers In CONTEXT with Romans 12 and 13 Your only debt is to love your neighbor Serving and loving your brother Serving the Lord Romans 1414 Accept the one who is weak IN FAITH ID: 634266
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Romans Part IV
Lesson 6Slide2
Romans 14
The weak and strong brothers
In CONTEXT with Romans 12
and 13
Your only debt is to love your neighbor
Serving and loving your brother
Serving the LordSlide3
Romans 14:1-4
Accept the one who is weak IN FAITH
That’s the instruction to the stronger brother
Weak described: eats only vegetables and is not to judge his brother who eats all things
Strong brother:
Accept the one weak in faith
Don’t pass judgment
Described as the one who has faith to eat
Don’t regard your weak brother with contemptSlide4
Contempt
Eksoutheneo
– to cast out
as
nothing,
to regard something as lacking any standing value. To despise, treat with scorn
“Do not regard your brother as nothing, with no standing value in your eyes and treat him with scorn”
Do YOU do that? HAVE you done that?Slide5
Romans 14:1-4
Weak? Probably the Jewish believers keeping the dietary restrictions of the Law
Strong? Probably the Gentile believers keeping NO dietary laws, eating meat offered to idols with a clear conscience
Why are they not to judge?
Both God’s servants
God has accepted them bothSlide6
Romans 14:5-9
One regards one day of the week above others
One regards all days of the week the same
Solution? Each brother is to be fully convinced in his OWN mind (being transformed) that what he is doing is right before the LORD
Matter of conscience
Observing a certain day, eating or not
Both give thanks to the LordSlide7
Romans 14:7-8
Die:
apothnesko
– to die off, focusing on the separation that goes with the dying off; it stresses the significance of the separation that always comes with divine closure. The ending of what is former to bring what naturally follows.
Zodiates: “To be dead to the Law, to have no more dependence upon mere legal righteousness for justification and salvation than a dead man would have, as being self-crucified and dead together with Christ”Slide8
Romans 14:10-12
How do verses 11-12 relate to verses 3-4 and 7-9?
God has accepted both (vs. 3)
We are the Lord’s (vs. 8) (same Lord)
Each one will give an account (vs. 12)(All are accountable before God)
The Lord is master and judge, no one else
(vs. 11) (Same Lord and Master)Slide9
2 Corinthians 5:10
The Judgment Seat of Christ
A time when
believers
are recompensed for the deeds done in their physical bodies whether they be good or bad
Not
a place that deals with salvation
Is
a place where
believers
will give an account for the deeds done in the body – Their “walk of faith”Slide10
Romans 14:13-23
Instruction for weak and strong brother:
Don’t judge one another
Determine not to be an obstacle/stumbling block
Romans 12:2-3 ….so YOU can prove what the will of God is…
Paul determined in his own mind that nothing was unclean
in itself
(14:14)Slide11
Romans 14:15-20
Don’t hurt a brother Christ died for
Walk in love
The kingdom of God is NOT food or drink
The kingdom of God IS righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit
Outcome: Peace
Brother is built upSlide12
Romans 14:20-23 Warnings
Don’t tear down God’s work for the sake of food
Work:
ergon
– a deed that carries out (completes) an inner desire (intention, purpose)
Work of God = salvation! Work out your salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12)Slide13
Romans 14:22-23
EACH believer has his own conviction before God (vs. 22)
The weak brother is the one who has doubts
Whatever is not from faith, is sin…but within the context of Romans 14
Romans 14 deals with the “externals”, non-essentials regarding the faithSlide14
Application
Can YOU seek peace and not judge?
Do YOU have rules or laws which are not God’s rules or laws?
How can you build your brother up?