The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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The scripture you to open there, it's Romans chapter 14 verses 1 through 6. As for the one who is weak in faith,

welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

One person believes he may eat anything,

while the weak person eats only vegetables.

Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains and let not the one who

abstains pass judgment on the one who eats for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is

before his own master that he stands or falls and he will be upheld for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person is steams one day as better than another,

while another isteems all days alike.

Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

The one who observes the day observes it in honor of the Lord,

since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains abstains in honor of the

Lord and gives thanks to God.

Let's pray together before we open the word. Father, we as a church love your word.

Oh, how many benefits it brings into our lives. It is our life, our wisdom.

It is the empowerment of everything good that you enable us to do.

It is the agency of your word that your spirit uses to direct our attention to Christ

who transforms us and becomes our all in all.

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