The Bible Study Podcast, episode 706.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues with the study of 1 Corinthians with chapter 8.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We're going to deal today with an issue that I'm sure that has been just a burning concern for you in your church, and that is food sacrifice to idols. And I'm kidding about that. Now, about food sacrifice to idols, we know that we all possess knowledge, but knowledge puffs up while

love builds up. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know,

but whoever loves God is known by God. So then, about eating food sacrifice to idols, we know that

an idol is nothing at all in the world,

and that there is no God but one, for even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or

on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet there is but one God, the Father

from whom all things came and for whom we live, and there is but one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and for whom we live and there is but one Lord Jesus Christ

through whom all things came and through whom we live but not everyone possesses this knowledge

some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they

think of it as having been sacrificed to a God,

and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

But food does not bring us near to God.

We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling

block to the weak, for if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge,

eating in an idol's temple, won't that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?

So this weak brother or sister for whom Christ died is destroyed by your

knowledge. When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against

Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause

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