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do you do Welcome to Truth for Life where we have been learning some principles to consider as

we exercise our freedom in Christ. Above all the Apostle Paul taught believers,

we are to focus on God's glory, and today we'll find out why glorifying God isn't just

a personal Sunday morning experience between you and the Lord.

Alistairbegg is teaching from First Corinthians Chapter 10. Now from the 31st verse which is where we left it last time the apostle

provides these four verses into the first verse of chapter 11 which are entirely positive

guidelines the application of which will revolutionize a life and will revolutionize

a church. Last time we focused on just one of these guidelines, that is the

opening statement in verse 31, focus on the glory of God. And our task now is to deal with the remainder. The second one is simply this

don't cause others to stumble. If we're going to understand what freedom is all

about we need first of all to make sure that our focus is on the glory of God.

Then secondly, when we're thinking freedom, our freedom needs to be constrained by this truth that our exercise of legitimate lifestyle

may be the means of causing a brother or a sister or someone from the watching world to trip up and fall

on their face in relationship to God and the gospel. And so says Paul in

relationship to all of this, make sure that you don't cause other people to fall on their face.

Now it is interesting and also important that Paul moves from the vertical axis of

glorifying God to the horizontal of how we deal with our fellow men and women.

This of course is a principle which runs throughout the Bible and every time we seek to divorce the two were in difficulty.

There are some people who live as if Sunday was about glorifying God.

And then Monday through Saturday, do whatever you want and then come back and clear up the business again the following Sunday.

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