Alright, brethren, let's turn
to 1 Corinthians 8. Our subject is liberty with love. Liberty with love. A man can have knowledge. He
can have knowledge of liberty. and yet not be saved by God. And so knowledge of liberty without
love is a dangerous thing. It is very cruel. It's very self-exalting. It's arrogant, boastful. It'll cast out weak believers. Knowledge without love is dangerous. But knowledge of liberty with
love is altogether a different thing. Knowledge, God-given knowledge
of liberty with God-given love frees a believer, frees us to do what is best to
work what is best for the edification of brethren. You see, when you've
been freed by Christ, at the cross and in your heart,
so that you have the love of God in your heart, you know something
of the power that it took to give you that liberty. And you
know the only one who can give that liberty. And so you are
constrained by His love to wait on Him. Now, in verse 1, it says,
now as touching things offered unto idols. Now, in the market,
there was often at Korath, there were markets that were connected
to the idol's temples, to these idolaters' temples. And what
they did was, is whatever meat they had left over from sacrificing
to their idols, they would sell that meat in the market. You
just imagine if you went to the supermarket and the meat in the
supermarket was meat that was left over from being offered
to idols. Would you buy it and eat it? Would that be okay? Now that was their question to
Paul. But as Paul's answering that question, he goes into something
even more vital than that. What if a fellow believer who
didn't think it was okay to buy it and eat it was near? Would it be okay then to buy
it and eat it? See, that's a whole different
area we're dealing with there. He doesn't just answer the question
of, is it okay to buy meat from the idol's temple? He answers
the question, what if my brother is offended by that? Is it okay
then to buy and eat that meat from the idol's temple? Verse
1, let's start again. He says, now as touching things
offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. knowledge
puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he
knoweth anything, any man thinks he knows anything, he knoweth
nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man love God, the same is known of him. As
concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered
in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the
world, and that there is none other God but one. For though
there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth,
as there be gods many and lords many, according to idolaters,
but to us there is but one God, the Father. of whom are all things,
and we in him. And there's one Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom are all things, and we by him. How be it? There is not in every believer
that knowledge. For some, with conscience of
the idol unto this hour, eat it as a thing offered unto an
idol. and their conscience, being weak,
is defiled. But meat commendeth us not to
God, for neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we
eat not are we the worse. But take heed, lest by any means
this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that
are weak. For if any man see thee which
hath knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not
the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those
things which are offered to idols? And through thy knowledge shall
the weak brother perish, that is, he'll have his weak conscience
wounded, for whom Christ died. This is a brother for whom Christ
died. But when you sin so against the brother and wound their weak
conscience, you sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother
to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth. While
my brother is near that is offended by it, I won't eat it while he's
nearby, lest I make my brother to offend. Now, first of all,
true knowledge of liberty, true knowledge of liberty together
with true love will edify brethren. That'll make a man edify brethren.
A man that's got true liberty, true knowledge of liberty, together
with true love, that will make that man edify his brethren. Verse 1, he says, we know that
we all have knowledge. Now when it comes to this thing
of eating things offered to idols, we know we all have knowledge.
Mature saints, this may be said of folks who, it may be said
sarcastically. There's something humorous in
the fact that he says, we know, we all know. Now we know we all
know, but it's so of mature believers. Mature believers who God's grown
in grace, who God's grown in knowledge of Christ, we know
that we have liberty in Christ. I'm talking about believers grown
in knowledge, grown over time to see. The weak brother doesn't
always have this, but the stronger believer, grown in grace, knows
you have liberty in Christ. What does that mean? Well, Christ
is our life. Christ is our life. We've been
made completely the righteousness of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is our righteousness. We've been made holy by Christ
being formed in us, and Christ is our sanctification. He's our
holiness. We worship God in spirit and
in truth in the Holy Ghost. And now that He's brought us
to Christ to worship God in spirit, in touch not, taste not, handle
not, in spirit and in truth, in the Holy Spirit. We know now,
if you've grown in grace and knowledge of Christ, we know
now how much liberty we really have in Christ. Christ is the
end of the law, the end of your doing and my doing for righteousness,
for sanctification, for redemption, for wisdom. He's the end of our
doing, period. to everyone that believes. He's
the end. It's not my knowledge of that
that makes me free. It's Christ who makes me free.
And He gives me the knowledge I'm free when He first called
me, but He grows me in that knowledge to where He makes you more and
more see you're free, brethren. You're free. I was thinking this
week of this. If one day in the blink of an
eye, We saw the fashion this world's passing away. One day
in the blink of an eye, everything's going to pass away from us. And
the only thing that's going to be left is what every believer
possesses right now. That's eternal life, eternal
righteousness, perfect separation unto God. That's what we're going
to possess. Well, you got that now. And if you've been given
faith to behold it, faith is the concrete evidence. Faith
is the rock-hard substance of the things we're hoping for.
But not everybody has that faith. But if he makes it all pass away,
you're going to find out in an instant, this is what I have
right now. I am free from this flesh, from this world, from
the law, from all these things. I'm complete in Christ. That's
liberty when you know that. When Christ has taught you that,
you've got liberty. He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances
that was against us. Took it out of the way, nailing
it to His cross. And Paul says, therefore, he
says, if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of this world,
why then are you subject to ordinances as though living in the world?
Why are you subject to ordinances like touch not, taste not, handle
not, which are all going to perish with the using according to what
men command you that you must do. Why would you be subject
to those things? You're dead with Christ and you're
alive with Christ and you're complete in Christ. You see that?
The Kingdom of God. to be brought out of this world
into the Kingdom of God, to worship God in spirit and truth. It's
not meat and drink. It's not what you eat. It's not
what you drink. It's not what you don't eat and
what you don't drink. It's not a day you observe, a
day you don't observe. It's nothing you do. It's not
meat and drink. It's to be made righteousness
in Christ, to have peace in Christ, to joy in Christ in the Holy
Ghost. That's to be in the Kingdom of
God. But all believers are not grown at the same pace, are they?
And all believers don't understand this like mature believers do. How be it? Look down at verse
7. How be it? There is not in every man that
knowledge. You see that? There is not in
every man that knowledge. And God does that on purpose.
He does that on purpose so that you and I will have to wait on
Christ to teach His people. That means we're going to have
to bear with one another's infirmities. We're going to have to bear with
one another's thinking that, you know, I need to observe this
or not observe that or eat this or not. We've got to bear with
it. As long as a man will sit and hear the gospel preached,
don't... Don't count him out and don't push him out and don't
let him sit down here because Christ is going to teach his
people through the gospel. He'd be so foolish if I... My
son is 13 years old. I'm 46. How foolish would it
be for me to go and start spanking that boy and disciplining that
boy and saying, you better act like you're 46 and you better
do it right now. He's got to grow, don't he? Believers have
to be grown by grace, by God, and He's the only one that can
do it. And we have to wait on Him to do it. We have to wait
on Him. Now, knowledge of liberty alone
only makes men proud. If a man just has knowledge of
this liberty, and that's all he's got, it's a head knowledge
of liberty, that just makes him proud. That puffs him up. It's
God-given knowledge together with God-given love that makes
the believer seek to edify his weaker brethren. Look there at
verse 1 again. He says, knowledge buffeth up,
but charity edifieth. Look over at chapter 13 and verse
4. This is the character of the
new creation. This is the character of the
new man God's created in love. When He gives this gift of love
is when you're born of Him. And this is the character of
love. Verse 4. Charity suffereth long. and is
kind. Charity envieth not, charity
vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up. You see that? It's not full
of hot air. It does not behave itself unseemly,
it seeketh not her own. Is not easily provoked, thinketh
no evil, rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. Charity
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things, charity never faileth. And so the man
who has knowledge yet does not have charity, that man who thinks
he's got, I've got all this knowledge of liberty, I know I'm free,
but he doesn't have charity towards that brother who doesn't understand
that, that man doesn't know a thing. He doesn't know a thing. Look
there, verse 2, if any man think he knows anything, If any man
thinks he knows any particular thing, he knows, I know that. I'm proud of what I know. I know
something you don't know. Man that has that spirit about
him, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. Nothing as
he ought to know. That's true of all of us, brethren.
But that man, that man who by his knowledge of liberty, He
doesn't care if he offends a weak brother or he doubts a weak brother
and would count him as an unbeliever because he doesn't have the measure
of knowledge of liberty that he himself has. That man doesn't
know liberty himself. He doesn't know anything. Only
the sinner born of the Spirit of God is given the fruit of
love. He says there in verse 3, and this is the juxtaposition
here. He's putting this, offsetting
this against what he just said. If a man loved God, and you notice
there, he puts the love of God in place of loving his brethren. Because to love God is to love
your brethren, and to love your brethren is to love God. But
if a man loved God, the same is known of him. You know what
that means? He's been born of God and approved
of God. Christ said, My sheep, He said,
I know My sheep. He said, My sheep hear My voice
and I know My sheep and they follow Me. Whenever He comes
to His own, He regenerates us. He knows us. He regenerates us. And He makes us to know Him.
And He makes us to hear Him and to follow Him. And He does it
imparting a new spirit, a new spirit of love from God. He does
that. And God gets all the glory for
creating that new heart. We're not talking about something
here that gives a sinner, a believer, room to boast at all. We're talking
about something that's totally the creation of God and the gift
of God. The fruit of the Spirit is love. It doesn't originate with you.
We don't produce that fruit. I don't. The Spirit produces
that love. That's His fruit. Everyone that... Go to 1 John 4. I'm going to
show you this. 1 John 4. Verse 7, Beloved, 1 John 4, 7,
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. And everyone
that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. You see, you're
born of God when God knows you, when He knows you. And when He
knows you and you're born of Him, that's when you know God.
That's when you know God. Now hold your place right there.
Let me make a statement or two and I want to show you something
else right here in 1 John 4. I said to you knowledge and belief
of knowledge. I'm talking about you can have
knowledge of liberty and you can believe that knowledge of
liberty. That doesn't save you. That doesn't save us. It's to
be made new by Christ. Be made a new creation by Christ,
by His righteousness, by His holiness, to be made righteous
and holy by Christ. That's who saves us. Christ does.
And where God's given a heart constrained by love, there's
gonna be works of love. James said, Thou believest there's
one God, thou doest well. The devils also believe and tremble.
You see what I'm saying? Knowledge doesn't mean necessarily
we've been saved. The devils, the best five-point
Calvinist there is. He knows it better than some
of you know. That doesn't mean he's saved
for certain. That doesn't mean we're saved
either. But he says, but wilt thou know, O vain man, faith
without works is dead. Paul's talking about the same
thing in our text that James is getting at over there. He's
telling us that true faith is going to be accompanied by works
of love because you're born of the God of love and it's produced
by the love of Christ constraining us. Love, this is something that's
certain about love, just carnal love. But it's certain with spiritual
love. Love always edifies the object
of its love. Just mark that down. You think
of the greatest motivator there is in the world, it's love. Men
will lay down their lives for their country because they love
it. Men and women will lay down their lives for their children
because they love them. Love is the great motivator. And love
always edifies the object of its love. Always. Now, the example of these works
of love is this. God everlastingly loved His people
in Christ. How did He manifest that love?
He did some works that showed His love, didn't He? He did some
work that manifested that love that he had and that work he
did edified those objects of his love, all his elect. Look now here at 1 John, look
at verse 9. In this was manifested the love
of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son
into the world that we might live through Him. God did a work
that manifest His love for His people. He sent His Son into
the world that we might live through Him. Herein is love,
not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son
to be the propitiation for our sins. Now, beloved, if God so
loved us, we ought we ought also to love one another." I like
that word there because, you know, in our text he said, if
a man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing as he ought.
And he's saying there, the man that thinks he knows the liberty
that Christ has given his people, and yet he doesn't show love
to that weaker brother who doesn't understand that, he's not doing
anything like he ought to do. Because what? Christ loved us
and laid down His life for us. We ought to lay down our lives
for one another. If we know something about that
great love, when we were unlovable, when we didn't know anything,
when we hated God with all our being, yet Christ came forth
and laid down His life. God sent His Son and Christ laid
down His life. Therefore, brethren, seeing this
great love that freed us from our bondage and our corruption,
we ought to love one another that way. Who's a wise man, John
said, endued with knowledge among you? We're talking about wisdom
and knowledge. Who is a wise man endued with knowledge? Let
him show out of a good conduct, good conversation, his works. Let him prove his love with meekness
of wisdom. What's meekness of wisdom? You
know Moses was the meekest man on the earth. How so? Whenever
those men would raise up against him and they'd be contradicting
him or whatever, you know what he did? He bowed to God and said,
Lord, You take it all. You lead us. You teach us. You
guide us. You correct us. You separate us. You do whatever.
That's meekness of wisdom to bow to Christ to do it. And if
we're going to love one another, we bow to Christ to teach His
people in their heart. That man that has a true knowledge
of liberty and sees his brother who's weak, meekness of wisdom
says, Lord, only You can teach him. He doesn't try to take it
into his own hand and force him into something. Christ, Lord,
only You can teach him. He hits his face before the Lord.
Now that's what we're talking about. Look back at 1 John 3
and look at verse 6. Look here, 1 John 3, 6. This is the work we're talking
about. Verse 16, Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He
laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives
for the brethren. But whosoever has this world good, and sees
his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from
him, How dwelleth the love of God in him? He knows nothing
as he ought. He can boast about knowing God,
knowing the doctrine of grace and the sovereignty of God and
all that. If he doesn't have love, he doesn't know a thing
about God. See what he's saying? The mature believer loves God
by waiting on Christ. I love this. I love this. Paul
was speaking something very similar to what he's saying here now
about teaching the brethren to walk in these things that he
had taught them and to wait on Christ and trust Christ. And
when he got through in 2 Thessalonians 3, 5, he made this statement.
The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the
patient waiting for Christ. Not just waiting for Christ to
return, although we do wait for Him patiently, but direct your
heart into the love of God that when you're dealing with your
brethren, you'll wait on Christ. He's the only one that can teach
them. Alright, so there's... Now let's go this second thing.
A word concerning our liberty in Christ. Verse 4. Concerning,
therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice
to idols... We know an idol is nothing in
the world. And that there is none other God but One. Every
believer knows this. Mature believers especially know
this. And idols are nothing. God is the only God. There is
no other. Men make idols out of things.
We worship the God who made the things. Men worship days and
seasons and abstain from this and that that they got from the
old covenant. We worship Christ who those things
pictured. So mature believers know men
may call something an idol, but that don't make it God. Look
here. They might call it God, that
don't make it God. Look here in verse 5. Though
there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or earth, there
be gods many and lords many. If you listen to men, there's
a bunch of gods. But to us, there's just one God.
The Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him. And one Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him. God in three persons,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is worshiped when you worship
Christ. Because the Scripture says, in
Him dwells the fullness of God, of the Godhead in a body. You
worship Christ, we worship in God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit. And we know this, our God's sovereign. That means, he says there, God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, everything is in Him
and by Him, or of Him and by Him. That's everything in creation,
that's everything in providence, and that's everything in salvation.
Everything is of Him and by Him. Our God, men don't have a problem
with God being the sovereign of creation and not so much the
sovereign of providence. It's with God being sovereign
in salvation that men have a problem with. Choosing whom He will and
passing by whom He will. Redeeming all His people from
iniquity. Regenerating His people and drawing
us to Christ and making us willing in the day of His power. These
are the things sinners have a problem with. It takes all the glory
away from them. But we know, brethren, God's sovereign over
all. It's of Him and by Him. And He says there, of God our
Father and His Son, of Christ, everything's in Him. and by Him. We were elected unto salvation
by God our Father in Christ Jesus our Lord. We were redeemed from
all iniquity by God our Father in Christ our Lord. We were reconciled
to the Father by God our Father in Christ the Lord. We were regenerated
by God our Father into Christ the Lord. We were preserved and
kept by God our Father in Christ the Lord. We'll be resurrected
and glorified by God our Father in Christ the Lord. What I'm
saying to you is, from the beginning to the end, what God has taught
us is, salvation is of the Lord. Now, a man can say, this is God
and describe Him, but if it's not that God right there, it's
an idol, plain and simple. I was corresponding with a young
man this week, and first question he asked me, and then he replied
this, no opinions, just the Bible. And so I answered him with just
the Bible. And we got into the truth of
the Scriptures about how God saves sinners. And he began to
reply to me with, all the opinions men have of who God is and how
God saves. And I replied to him, no opinions,
just the Bible. Show me that in the Bible. It's
not in the Bible. It's an idol. You might not be bound down to
a pole, but he's carved out in your imagination. It's an idol. We worship one God. Now, what
about weak believers? This is true of those matured
in grace. We know this. We know this. Now what about a weak believer?
All right, here in verse 7. Howbeit there is not in every
man that knowledge. For some with conscience of the
idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol,
and their conscience being weak is defiled. What's he saying?
If there's a weak believer and he was to eat this leftover meat
that was offered to an idol, in his mind he's eating meat
that he thinks is forbidden by his Savior. He thinks that meat's forbidden
by his Savior. He thinks that meat was meat
offered to an idol and he shouldn't touch it, and that to do so be
dishonoring to his Savior. So if he eats it contrary to
his conscience, he does not eat in faith, and therefore his conscience
is defiled. What does that mean? Well, his
completion in Christ hasn't changed at all. His righteousness and
His holiness in Christ has not changed whatsoever, even if in
His own heart and conscience He is defiled. So what does it
mean then? It means His own peace of mind
is interrupted because He thinks He sinned against His Savior.
He thinks He sinned against His Savior. That's what it means.
And yet, here's the truth, the Kingdom of God is not in meat
and drink. That hadn't affected His relationship
with Christ and His completion in Christ and His righteousness
in Christ. It hadn't affected it whatsoever. Look here in verse
8. Meat commendeth us not to God, neither if we eat are we
the better, neither if we eat not are we the worst. You see
that? Well then, what avails then? Christ alone. Christ alone commends
us to God. And that never changes. In Christ
we're righteous and holy. That doesn't change, brethren.
It doesn't change. In Christ Jesus neither circumcision
avails anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. That's what
we are in Christ. That's what God's elect are in
Christ. We're a new creation in Christ. That's what we are. So, now, if there's a believer
here, I want you to listen to me. Our righteousness is Christ
alone. Our holiness is Christ alone.
You're complete in Christ. Nothing shall ever change that.
So listen, turn from things. Turn from days. Turn from meats
and drinks. Turn from those things to Christ
and worship Him. And know that meat doesn't commune
you to God. You're not better or worse, if
you eat or don't eat, you're complete in Christ. All right,
now, knowing this, that every believer doesn't have this knowledge
in Christ, that some are weak, you and I who know this, if we
have the love of God in our hearts and really been born of God,
We're going to take heed to what the Lord is teaching us here.
And here's why. Here's how we're going to be
constrained to heed this Word. Look here in verse 9. Take heed
lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block
to them that are weak. For if any man see thee which
has knowledge, you that have this liberty, He sees you sit
at meat in the idol's temple. Shall not the conscience of him
which is weak be emboldened to eat things which are offered
to idols? He's going to see you eating those things. He's going
to say, well it must not... He's a strong believer. He's been
in the faith a long time. If he's eating those things,
it must not mean anything. I'm going to eat them then. And
so he'll go and eat them. Or whatever. Whatever it is.
He'll do it. Now look what happens. Verse 11, And through thy knowledge
shall the weak brother perish. And the next line tells you exactly
what it means. It means his conscience will
be wounded. This brother for whom Christ died. When you sin
so against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin
against Christ. You see, though he sees you do
it, and he thinks, well, it's alright, I'll go and do it. So
he does it, but he doesn't have the faith to do it. He doesn't
realize the liberty he has, and no sooner than he's eaten or
drunk or whatever, his conscience is pierced, and he thinks he's
sinned against God. And the Lord tells us, now, if
you cause a weak brother to do that, you've not only sinned
against that brother, you've sinned against Christ. We're
so one with Christ that whatever we do to our brother, we've done
it to Christ. So I don't want to do anything. This is my constraint.
This constraint of Christ's love, this love we're talking about
that comes along with this knowledge of liberty when He's truly grown
us. I don't want to do anything that's
going to sin against my Savior, my Lord. And so I don't want
to do anything that's going to cause you trouble. That's our
constraint. That's the constraint of true
love, true spiritual love. All right now, so let's close
and let me give you three things mature believers should always
do. Here's the first thing, verse
18. Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat
no flesh while the world standeth unless I make my brother to offend.
I told you this story before. I was invited to a house with
a brother, his wife, and we came to this house, and there was
a lot of brethren coming, and kept coming, kept coming, and
we had a house full that night. Came to this house to eat and
just visit. And we walked in, and everybody's
gathering, everybody's talking, you know, and this one that owned
the house, this believer that owned the house, he waited until
everybody got there. And then he came around and he said, would
you like a glass of wine? Why did he wait till everybody
was there to ask if you'd like a glass of wine? He waited till
he made sure there was no weak brother that would be offended
about us having a glass of wine. There's some brethren that think
you ought not to drink wine. Scripture doesn't forbid that.
Scripture forbids drunkenness. It doesn't forbid you to have
a glass of wine. But he did what this said. He waited till he
made sure there was no brethren that would be offended, and then
he offered a glass of wine. And if there'd have been a brother
there that would have been offended, we'd have drank Coca-Cola. Because not offending my brother
and not sinning against Christ is more important than my fleshly
wants. You see what he's saying? Alright? Then secondly, go to Romans 14.
What if a believer doesn't have knowledge of liberty that you
have? Does it mean he's not a believer?
Now, if all I have is knowledge of liberty and I don't have love,
that's what I'm sure to think. I'm going to judge him. I'm going
to say, he must not be a believer. Surely he couldn't think he got
to abstain from this meat or that meat or observe this day
or that day and be a believer. I guarantee you there's things
right now you and I don't know. We don't know. That our Savior
knows, and He loves us anyway, and bears our infirmities anyway,
that when we find out what we don't know now, we're going to
say, how on earth could He have loved me? It's because our completion
is not in us, it's in Him. That's how. So here it says to
you and me here, verse 1, him that's weak in the faith, receive
you, but don't doubt him, and don't dispute with him. Not to
doubtful disputation. Don't be doubting him and disputing
whether he believes God or not. Verse 3, let not him that eateth
despise him that eateth not, and let not him which eateth
not judge him that eateth. God's received him. That's what
it is to be puffed up, is to despise and judge our brethren
who don't do what we think is liberty. You see, he says, you've
both been received by the Lord. You're both doing what you do
out of hearts to Him. The man that's eating not something,
he's doing it because he thinks that's going to best honor the
Lord. That's his heart. He wants to honor the Lord. And the man
that knows he has liberty, he's not worried about it because
he knows that's honoring to the Lord. So both of you are trying
to honor the Lord. So don't fall out and dispute
with one another. You see, the Lord's received him. And then
thirdly, wait on the Lord to teach the weak brother. Don't
try to yoke him and say, now you better... You see, he may
see you and he may say, well, I'm free to do it, I'll do it
then. But all you've done is got him to do it on the outside.
In his heart, he still thinks, I shouldn't be doing this, and
his conscience is wounded. Who's going to give him that
faith to know he's at liberty? Who's going to give him that
faith, same one gave you that faith? So wait on that one, that
master. Look here now, verse 4. Who art
thou that judges another man's servant? God's received him,
Christ bought him, Christ purchased him. We're the servants of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And he, that weak brother, is
the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord's his master, not
me. To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be held
up. Because His own Master, God our
Savior, is able to make Him stand. And if we have knowledge of liberty
with the love of God in our hearts, then these are the things the
love of Christ is going to constrain us to do for one another. I pray
God will bless that. I want to honor Him that way.
Love my weak brethren. To some brother or sister, I'm
the weak brother. And they love me. You can always
be sure of that. You might be stronger than one,
but somebody else is stronger than you. And they're loving
you. You love them.