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And now, here's Gary.

In Corinth, as you know, the whole community spirit, the life of the community in Corinth was pagan worship,

the worship of the Delphian oracles, the worship of Diana, the worship of Apollo.

And there were all these temples around, and the temples sacrificed meat to idols and then sold

the fine cuts at the backside of the temple kind of like a butcher shop and the question arose in a letter

written to Paul by inference we know that about whether or not one could partake of this meat that had been sacrificed to idols,

or at least part of it had been. And so he's writing and he says, we know that all of us have some

knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone thinks he knows something, he still has

something to learn. But if he loves God, God knows him. Now about

eating meat with sacrifice to idols. We know that an idol is nothing in the world. There's only one God.

Even if there are so-called gods in heaven or on earth, as there are many gods and many lords,

yet we have one God the Father. From him comes everything, and we live for it. There's one Lord,

Jesus Christ. He made everything. We live by him. But not everyone knows this. Some are still so used to an

idol that they think of the meat that they eat sacrifice to the idol, their conscience being weak is stained with guilt.

Food will not bring us any closer to God.

We lose nothing by not eating and gain nothing by eating, but be careful.

Because weak Christians may fall into sin because you're doing as you please.

If anyone sees you who

have this knowledge lying down to eat in the temple of an idol, won't you be encouraging him

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