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do you do When studying the Bible and applying its teaching, Alistair Beg likes to say the main things are the plain things and the plain things are the main things.

But what do we do with debatable issues?

Today on Truth for Life we'll learn how we can curtail our freedom for the benefit of others

without becoming bound up in their convictions.

Alistairbegg continues our study in First Corinthians. In this final paragraph of chapter 10, Paul is essentially drawing together the threads of what he's been teaching in the last three chapters.

The issue, the matter of discussion is that of Christian freedom.

And at the very heart of the discussion is a phrase which would appear to have become virtually a slogan in the Corinthian context.

And that phrase you find in verse 23 everything is permissible or perhaps in your

Bible it reads all things are lawful. The pressing issue as we've seen in our studies was that of idle feasts and

whether the believers could attend these idle feasts and specifically whether stuff

meet poetry that had been offered in the temple, in

idolatrous practices could be used in hospitality and could be accepted when offered in hospitality when we visited

in the friends in others' homes.

Now this may seem very remote for us this morning after all when's the last time you went over to your friend's house

And when they served you up something your immediate thought was I wonder if this had been sacrificed to idols

It's highly unlikely although I don't know who your friends are.

But let me give you the kind of questions and if one of these questions happens

to fit you then don't feel bad about it because this is just a question off the top of my head and I could have come up with 50 of these.

But here are the kind of things over which scripture gives no express directives

and for which we then need to apply biblical principle. Questions such as these, can I work for a company that produces alcoholic beverages?

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