Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Meat Market Christianity

May 14, 2025 | S25:E230

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Meat Market Christianity | May 14, 2025

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[announcer] from the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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For the most part, the bible clearly states the difference
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Between right and wrong.
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But in some situations, it's hard to find a definite answer.
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For example, is it permissible for christians
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To go out to a bar and drink,
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Or can christians watch movies or television shows
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With explicit content?
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Well, today i'm going to share
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An important biblical principle
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For navigating the gray areas of life.
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My message is titled, "meet market christianity,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Well, i remember it like it were yesterday.
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I was 16 years old.
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I was seated right out there in the middle somewhere
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During a sunday evening service.
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After the service was over, people were standing around,
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Milling around, talking like they will tonight.
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And while we were just standing there,
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Everybody talking with one another,
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The mother of a girl in our youth group came up to me
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And we started chatting.
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And mom's still here in the church.
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And she said, "robert, my daughter,
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Went to a movie last night,
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And she was just horribly offended
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At the language in that movie."
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And i remember thinking to myself,
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"well, why is she telling me this?"
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Maybe it's because i'm so spiritual,
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She just thought i would want to know about this.
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So i thought...
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So, after she made that comment,
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I took the bait and i asked her the question,
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I said, "well, why did your daughter
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Go to that movie in the first place?"
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She said, "well, a couple nights ago,
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She was driving by the theater
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And she saw you and your date standing in line
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To go see that movie."
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And she said to herself,
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"if robert jeffress can go to that movie,
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It must be an okay movie for me to go to."
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I remember crawling under that pew right there in the middle
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Wanting to hide.
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Now, i want to be quick to say this wasn't some x-rated movie.
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It was a comedy.
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It still appears on the disney channel,
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You know, 40 years later.
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The language certainly had some questionable things in it,
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But that night made an impact on me.
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It reminded me of a truth that,
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While i don't always act on, i always remember,
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And that is, what we do does impact other people.
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As john donne said, "no, christian..."
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He really said,
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"no man is an island to himself."
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I would paraphrase it,
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"no, christian is an island unto himself."
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And that's really the theme of the passage
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That we're going to look at tonight,
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What we do impacts other people.
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If you have your bibles,
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Turn to i corinthians chapter eight.
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Now remember, i corinthians is a book
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That is a list of answers to questions
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The corinthians had about a variety of topics.
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The last several weeks,
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We looked at what paul said about being single,
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What about being married,
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What about divorce, what about remarriage?
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Those were some of the questions.
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In future weeks, we'll see what did paul say
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About the role of women in the church,
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What about the gift of tongues,
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What about spiritual gifts,
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And an assortment of other topics.
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But tonight, he introduces a new topic,
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And it's beginning in verse one of chapter eight.
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"now concerning things sacrificed to idols."
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That's four words in english, one word in greek.
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It talks about meat that had been sacrificed to idols.
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We know that we all have knowledge.
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Paul says, "i'm going to take up
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This very controversial subject of eating meat
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That had one time been sacrificed to idols."
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Now, a little background will help you understand
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The controversy here.
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The city of corinth was noted for many things,
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The olympic-sized stadium outside the city,
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For being a seaport town, for its sexual immorality.
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But it was most known for the worship of idols.
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You know, the greeks and the romans had gods,
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They had idols for everything under heaven.
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In fact, it was said about the greeks,
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There are more gods than men in the city of athens.
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And so idol worship was a very, very common thing.
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And so the greeks and the romans
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Would sacrifice to their many idols.
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William barkley points out that these corinthians
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Were not only polytheistic, they believed in many gods,
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They were also polydemonistic,
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They believed in a multitude of demons.
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Now, we believe in demons too.
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Paul talked about demons, but these corinthians
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Did not have a biblical understanding of demons.
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They believed that the way demons entered into a person
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Was through the food that they ate.
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And so in order to pacify the gods,
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These pagan worshipers would take meat
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And they would offer it to their various idols.
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You'd offer this meat and it would pacify the idols,
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It would cleanse of demons and so forth.
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And what would happen would be,
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Charles hodge points this out,
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That the meat would be divided into three portions.
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One third of it would be consumed by the fire.
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The other third of it, the consumer would take home.
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He could eat it,
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But he would have to eat it in the house,
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Or he would have to eat it
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Within the confines of the temple.
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But the other third was given to the priest.
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And this priest, of course, think about it,
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If everybody did that with a priest,
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The priest would have this mound of meat,
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You know, that he would have,
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And so he couldn't eat all of it.
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And so there was a shop set up within the temple grounds
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Where you would purchase meat that the priest had
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That had been sacrificed to idols.
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Now, this meat was very, very desired meat.
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I mean, think about it.
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It could have a wrapping around it,
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"no cholesterol, no demons," you know?
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I mean, it was meat that had been sanctified,
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It had been free, it had been cleansed of the demons.
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Now, the real question was, even though the bible
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Doesn't specifically address this issue,
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Is it okay to eat meat that had been offered to an idol?
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Now, i realized that's not a burning issue
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In the church today.
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You don't go into albertsons
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And see a section in the meat department,
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Meat that had been offered to idols,
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And wonder, "should i or shouldn't i?"
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And so i was sitting here thinking this week
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As i was preparing this message,
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What are some comparable issues today
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That the church debates?
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Things that the bible doesn't specifically talk about,
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But christians tend to have strong feelings about
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One way or the other.
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So...
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Let me get my bag of sin here.
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(congregants laughing)
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Now, i thought, you know, one issue would be drinking.
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Here's a can of bud light here.
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What does the bible have to say about drinking?
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Is it right or is it wrong for a christian to drink?
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Now, i know some of you are shocked
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That i would bring a can of beer into the church
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Or that i would set it on the sacred desk here.
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(congregants laughing)
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The whirring sound you hear right now,
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That's some of the graves spinning out in the cemetery
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Out at sparkman hillcrest right now.
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(congregants laughing)
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"can't believe he did that."
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"he put a can of beer right here on the sanctuary,
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On the pulpit."
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Is it right for a christian to drink or not?
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Now, you know, some people say,
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"i can't believe he did that."
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Other people would say, "what's the big deal?"
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We know that, you know, jesus first miracle at cana,
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The wedding feast at cana,
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Was turning water into what?
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It wasn't grape juice.
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Welch's grape juice.
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He turned the water into wine, to an alcoholic beverage.
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Is there anything really sinful about this beer?
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I brought this in here for a purpose
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Because what i'm trying to do is duplicate the controversy
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That was brewing, pardon the pun,
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In the church at corinth about these questionable things.
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And so i'm going to leave this beer right here.
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And as we work through i corinthians eight
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And talk about meat that had been sacrificed to idol,
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I want you to substitute beer for meat, okay?
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Or substitute some other questionable practice.
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The lottery, celebrating, halloween,
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All of these things, dancing,
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That christians debate about.
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What does the bible have to say about those things?
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Well, let's look and see what the text tells us
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About these questionable areas
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Of behavior in the christian life.
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Now, again, we know the bible says clear in ephesians 5:18,
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"do not be drunk with wine but be filled with the spirit."
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We're not talking about getting drunk.
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That's obviously prohibited in scripture.
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What we're talking about is the occasional glass of wine.
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We're talking about drinking occasionally.
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What does the bible say about that
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Or any of these questionable issues?
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How do we decide what is right and wrong?
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Now, the more mature christians in the church at corinth
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Would say there's nothing wrong with it.
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The new christians would say,
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"how could you ever think about doing something like this?"
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Now, had i been paul addressing this topic,
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Here's what i would've done.
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I would've addressed the younger christians in the church.
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I would've said, "you know what?
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You all need to grow up and realize
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That you've got freedom in christ,
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That there is nothing wrong about eating meat
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That had been offered to an idol."
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But that's why god didn't have me write i corinthians, okay?
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Paul, instead of addressing the younger christians,
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He addresses the more mature christians
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To tell them how they should gauge their behavior
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In light of younger christians.
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And here is the theme of i corinthians eight.
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He said, "mature christians should limit their freedom
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For the sake of immature christians."
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He says, "out of love, mature christians have the obligation
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To limit their freedom for the sake of immature christians."
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My freedom in christ stops when it hurts another believer.
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And that is the theme
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Of the passage we're going to look at tonight.
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Now, the way paul structures this very short chapter is,
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He talks to the more mature christians
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And he uses their arguments for why they think it's okay
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To use or eat meat that had been offered to an idol.
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And he refutes the two arguments that they were using
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To say, "there's no big deal about eating this meat."
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And notice the two arguments.
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Argument number one, "we have superior knowledge."
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They went around boasting about the fact
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That they had freedom in christ.
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They knew that there was no such thing as an idol.
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And paul points out, first of all,
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The problem with knowledge.
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He says in verse one of chapter eight,
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"knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies."
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You see, the more mature believers
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Said that there's nothing in god's word that prohibits this.
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Therefore, we are free.
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They had that knowledge.
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But knowledge, ladies and gentlemen,
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Without love produces arrogance.
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Paul says, "our love for god, our love for other people,
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Is the boundary of our behavior."
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We limit our freedom because of our love for god
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Or love for other people.
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And then paul talks about the limitation of knowledge.
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These corinthians were boasting
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About their superior knowledge.
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What is it that they had the superior knowledge?
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Look at verses four to six.
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To me, this is so interesting.
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"therefore concerning eating things sacrifice to idols,
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We know that there's no such thing as an idol in the world,
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And that there is no god but one.
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But even if there are so-called gods,
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Whether in heaven or on earth,
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As indeed there are many gods and many lords,
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Yet for us there is what one god,
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The father, from whom all things,
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And we exist for him;
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And one lord, jesus christ,
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By whom are all things, and we exist through him."
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Now, in verse six, he's not teaching relative truth.
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He's not saying, "we believe there's one god.
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Other people believe there are many gods.
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Everybody just needs to believe
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Whatever they want to believe."
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He's not saying that at all.
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He's simply acknowledging the fact
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That there are many different beliefs about the gods,
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But we know that there's one god, paul says.
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Now look at verse seven.
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This is the key.
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"however, not all men have this knowledge;
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But some, being accustomed to the idol until now,
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Eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol;
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And their conscience being weak is defiled."
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Here's what was happening.
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Here's a brand new christian
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Just came out yesterday out of paganism,
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An idol worship, brand new believer.
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And because of the influence of another christian,
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He begins eating this meat sacrificed to idols.
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What happens?
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His conscience told him, "no, don't do it."
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He does it anyway.
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He falls back into paganism and his old lifestyle.
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His conscience being weak is defiled.
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When you go against your conscience,
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When your conscience says, "no, don't do this,"
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But you do it anyway, you are searing,
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You are destroying those spiritual nerve endings
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So that there comes a point
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That you cannot feel god's leading any longer.
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It is a wrong thing,
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It is a terrible thing to violate your conscience.
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It's an equally terrible thing
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To cause somebody to violate their conscience.
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And that's what this passage is talking about,
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Not doing anything to hurt another person's conscience.
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And that leads to a second argument
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That these corinthians were using
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To say there's nothing wrong with eating this meat.
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They said, "there is nothing sinful about food."
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Look at verse eight, "but food will not commend us to god;
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We are neither the worse if we do eat,
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Nor the better if we do not eat."
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Now, again, these older corinthian christians,
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They were right.
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There is nothing about food that is inherently sinful.
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And then paul goes one step further.
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He said, "there is nothing about abstaining
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Or partaking of food
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That commends you or condemns you before god.
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Now, listen to this.
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If i choose not to drink,
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I take my stand, i am not going to drink, guess what?
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God doesn't love me anymore
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Than he does if i choose to drink.
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Isn't that what the word says?
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Don't look at me.
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Look at verse eight.
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There is nothing about food that commends you to god.
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God doesn't care about food or drink per se.
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Romans 14 says,
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"the kingdom of god is not about eating or drinking."
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Now, that's the knowledge that these corinthians had,
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And they were correct about that.
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However, look at what he does say
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What god does care about in verse nine.
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"but take care that this liberty of yours
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Does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
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For if somebody," verse 10, "sees you who have knowledge,
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Dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience,
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If he is weak, be strengthened to eat things
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Sacrifice to idols?"
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Now, to understand this verse,
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Put a quotation marks around,
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"will not his conscience, if he is weak,
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Be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?"
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Paul is parroting their argument.
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They were saying, "well, you know paul,
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If we'll go ahead and eat this meat,
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It's not a bad thing if a weaker christian sees us
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Because they'll see us eating meat
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And their conscience will be strengthened.
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They'll understand the freedom they have in christ."
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"no," paul says.
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"that's not what happens."
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Look at verse 11.
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"for through your knowledge, he who is weak is ruined."
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The word there means perishes.
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"the brother for whose sake christ died."
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Here's a new believer, just came out of paganism.
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He sees you the mature christian
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Eating meat sacrifice to idols.
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His conscience has told him, "no, don't do it,"
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But then he still has a taste for that meat.
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And he sees you, the mature christian, doing it.
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He says, "okay, it must not be that bad.
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I'm not going to listen to this conscience.
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It's probably oversensitive anyway, given my background.
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I'm going to eat this meat."
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And at that moment, he has damaged his conscience,
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He falls back into his old way of life,
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And you have ruined a brother in christ.
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"a brother in christ," paul adds,
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"for whom christ died."
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Look at verse 12.
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"and so by sinning against the brethren
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And wounding their conscience, when it is weak,
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You sin against christ."
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How do i sin against christ?
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Because we're all part of a body.
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We're not free agents to do whatever we want to.
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The body says, for we are christ's body
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And individually members of it.
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And paul said in his conclusion in verse 13,
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"therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble,
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I will never eat meat again,
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So that i will not cause my brother to stumble."
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Now, i need to clarify something here.
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When he talks about causing my brother to stumble,
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And when we talk about the weaker brother,
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Have you heard that term before?
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The weaker brother principle.
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I need to gauge my behavior
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By how my weaker brother responds.
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Let me identify who the weaker brother is.
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The weaker brother is not somebody
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Who objects to what you do, okay?
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I mean, there's always young people
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Who object to what you do.
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You know somebody who comes up to you and says,
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"i can't believe you did that."
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"i object."
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"i am the weaker brother."
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"i would never do such a thing."
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In the church today,
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There's some professional weaker brothers.
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You know?
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They love to object.
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That's not the weaker brother,
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That's just a cranky critic, okay?
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The weaker brother is not somebody
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Who objects to your behavior.
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It's somebody who imitates your behavior,
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Even though their conscience tells them otherwise.
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And that's what he's talking about here.
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Don't let anybody pull this weaker brother stuff on you
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To try to get you to conform to what they want you to do.
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No, it's not somebody who objects,
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But somebody who imitates your behavior.
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So, what's the principle here?
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Again, the principle comes back to the principle of love,
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A love for god and a love for other people.
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Because of that, i'm going to restrict my freedom.
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My freedom ends when it hurts
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Another brother or sister in christ.
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Now, let me close tonight with four questions
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You need to ask yourself
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About the gray areas of christian life,
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About these things that the bible does not address.
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Now, notice i said questions you need to ask yourself.
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There are some things the bible's very clear about.
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Adultery, getting drunk,
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Addictions, enslaving addictions,
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Other things that the bible talks about.
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Marriage and divorce, we talked about last week.
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Things the bible is very clear about.
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I'm not talking about these things.
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I'm talking about these gray areas
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That the bible doesn't specifically address.
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Every christian has to come
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To their own conclusion about this.
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But you know what happens?
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People in the church, even tonight,
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I can already predict it.
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I've been at this long enough.
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I know people are going to...
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"pastor, i think we need some new regulations
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In the church about alcohol."
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"i think we need to come down hard
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On those people in our church
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Who are causing their brothers to stumble."
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No.
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This has to be a personal conviction that people come to.
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You know, in romans chapter 14,
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Paul addresses the same subject.
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You know what he says about this issue
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Of eating and drinking?
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He says, "quit judging one another."
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Quit judging one another.
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We are not to try to play the holy spirit
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And convict other people of what they need
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To be doing in regard to this area.
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I think it's chuck swindoll
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Who has the greatest definition of legalism
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I've ever heard before.
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He says, "legalism is insisting
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That my convictions become your obligation."
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I'm going to make my little list of what i'm going to do
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And what i'm not going to do,
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And i demand that you live by my list.
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That's legalism.
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Know in these areas
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That the bible does not address specifically.
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We need to give christians the freedom
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To come to their own conclusion about these issues,
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Not impose our convictions to be their obligations.
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So when we come to this issue about drinking
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Or any other questionable issue,
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How do we make up our mind?
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Four questions we need to ask ourselves.
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Number one, what does the bible say?
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The fact is much of what we need to know,
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Most of what we need to know
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Is already addressed in god's word.
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God will never lead you to do something
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That contradicts the clear teaching of his word.
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Secondly, what are those in authority over you say?
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I mean, for example, maybe you want to start
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Puffing away on your cigarettes.
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I've got freedom in christ to do that,
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But your employer has a no smoking policy.
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Guess what?
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You're under the obligation of the one
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Who is in authority over you.
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Teenagers here tonight,
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You know, if you're under the age of 21,
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And by definition you are,
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The government has already said
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No alcohol under the age of 21.
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You have an obligation according to romans 13
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To obey the governing authorities.
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And even if the governing authorities didn't say that,
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If your parents say no alcohol for you,
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Then it's wrong.
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You cannot disobey those authority figures
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That god has set over you for your protection.
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Thirdly, what does the eternal investment principle say?
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What does the eternal investment principles say?
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That is, even though this activity may be permitted,
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Is it really the best use of my time and my money?
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Is it what i ought to be doing
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To further the kingdom of god?
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In i corinthians 10:23,
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We'll come to this verse that says,
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"all things are lawful."
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Let's talk about these questionable areas.
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"all things may be lawful,
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But not all things are profitable.
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All things are lawful, but not all things edify."
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That is build up other people.
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And then finally,
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"what does the weaker brother principle say?"
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Even if everything else is okay,
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But what you do leads another christian
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To violate his conscience,
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Then you have to come to the same conclusion paul did.
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He said, therefore, if meat causes my brother to stumble,
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I may never eat meat again
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So that i might not cause my brother to stumble.
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Jesus said it this way.
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He said, "by this, men will know that you are my disciples,
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Not by your bible knowledge,
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Not by your church attendance.
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He said, by this,
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"men will know you're my disciples
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By your love, your concern for one another."
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That's the law of love that governs our behavior.
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♪ music ♪
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When we allow these four questions
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To guide our decision making,
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We can live in a way that pleases god
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And demonstrates his love to those around us.
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Now, in closing today,
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I'm pleased to share that "pathway to victory"
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Continues to expand its reach through multiple channels,
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Including television, radio,
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And digital streaming platforms.
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We're now broadcasting internationally in israel,
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Ukraine, and russia in their native languages,
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And have recently launched a new outreach
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To spanish-speaking communities worldwide.
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This incredible global growth is only possible
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Because of faithful pathway partners
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Thank you for joining with us in this mission
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To pierce the darkness with the light of god's word.
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Now, please stay right there.
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In just a moment.
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To lead the children they love to faith in jesus christ.
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Depending on their level of spiritual maturity,
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Christians often share differing views on moral issues.
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But regardless of what conclusions we come to,
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Regarding whether something is right or wrong,
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Our personal liberty should stop
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When it hurts another believer.
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Well, when it comes to the heroes of the faith,
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Abraham is the ultimate example of faith that pleases god.
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And next time, we will explore the ups and downs
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Of abraham's fascinating life and learn why,
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In spite of his many failures,
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He was still called the of god.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next on "pathway to victory."
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Although abraham is called the friend of god,
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Even though he's the father of the jewish nation,
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Even though he's used in the new testament
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As the supreme example of faith,
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He had some tremendous character deficiencies
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And made some tremendous mistakes in his life
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That ought to be an encouragement to us.
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If god can use abraham, he can use anybody.
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[announcer] set your dvr and join us next time
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For the message, "abraham: a most unlikely hero,"
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Part of a brand new study on the life of abraham
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Called walking by faith here on "pathway to victory."
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♪ music ♪
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Robert Jeffress - Meat Market Christianity

May 14, 2025 | S25:E230

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