-Don't put stumbling blocks or hindrances in the way fellow believers -Walk in Love -Pursue Peace and Edification within the Body -Know what You are Convicted of and Don't Adopt your Brother's View -Be Prepared to Give an Account to the True Judge -Don't Live your Life Like Others don't Exist or Matter -Consider Others More Important then Liberty -Enjoy the Liberties God has Provided -Imitate the Lord's Willingness to Deny Himself for Others
The Principle of Edification 1 Cor 8:1-13
-I must consider others when making personal choices
Paul is addressing the wrong basis for Christian Liberty: *The Wrong bases is the thinking that says “my intellectual or spiritual knowledge must be subordinate to love”
Jerusalem Council Acts 15
-Refrain from meat offered to idols, Blood, Things Strangled, Fornication
The Dangers of Knowledge
-Paul is basically saying that if we think we understand something completely, then we probably do not!
Love and Knowledge
My own logic is not a reliable guide! Even if God enables me to attain some level of understanding of something, I need to show it in love. If a position is not held in love, then it is not the right position!
The Right Basis/Knowledge : The One True God
-First Paul states Our physical existence is from God the Father -Secondly, Our spiritual existence is Christ the Lord -Finally the text tells us Our Eternal Existence Continues for God's Glory
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