Ground Rules for Christian Freedom (Part 1 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Referring to Christian freedom, the apostle Paul taught that what’s permissible isn’t always profitable. So how do we manage freedom wisely? We’ll consider Paul’s ground rules as we continue a study in 1 Corinthians on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The I'm talking about Christian freedom the apostle Paul taught that what is permissible |
| 0:28.9 | is not always profitable so how do we manage our freedom wisely? |
| 0:34.8 | Alister Beg takes a closer look at some of the Apostle Paul's ground rules today on |
| 0:39.2 | truth for life as we continue our study in 1st Corinthians. |
| 0:43.0 | Alister is teaching from the closing verses in chapter 10. |
| 0:47.0 | There was a slogan going around the Corinthian Church. |
| 0:55.0 | Paul may even have been the originator of it. |
| 0:58.0 | It is the phrase which begins verse 23. |
| 1:02.0 | Everything is permissible. |
| 1:04.4 | Or if you're using a different version of the New Testament, |
| 1:07.1 | it may read in your translation, |
| 1:09.2 | all things are lawful. |
| 1:12.0 | And what the apostle does is provide clarity for this phrase. |
| 1:17.0 | He explains what it means and its significance. |
| 1:20.0 | Everything he says is permissible and then he launches into what we're referring to here |
| 1:26.8 | as ground rules for Christian freedom. |
| 1:30.8 | Now keep in mind this morning that this is not a matter of marginal importance. |
| 1:35.0 | History proves what the Bible suggests will happen, |
| 1:38.0 | namely that whenever a local church gets matters wrong on these kind of issues, it leads to dreadful |
| 1:45.7 | experiences. For example, when a church airs on the side of legalism, then it becomes a legalistic community, it becomes cold, it becomes brittle, |
| 2:00.9 | hard, refrigerated, enslaved, and produces clones, produces individuals who haven't really |
| 2:09.6 | thought for very long, they don't want to think. They simply want a list of rules that they can obey. |
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