Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life.

Join me now as we look together into this section of the Bible.

So let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father as we look now at this passage we need

your illumination, the ministry of the Holy Spirit to be our primary teacher. So open our eyes that we may behold

wondrous truths in your word and help us understand how we are to put this into practice in our lives.

So Father, we pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

Okay, take your Bible. Romans chapter 14.

Today, Lord willing, we're going to look at

verses 5 through 9, 5 through 9.

And the title that I've put on this is simply this, a dispute over days.

A dispute over days.

And a title really is just a succinct summary of what a cluster of verses is about.

And the big idea of this passage really is a dispute over days.

So the title is really almost like the acorn in which the whole forest is contained. So let me begin by reading these

verses starting in verse five and to remind you this whole section is about Christian liberty, our liberty in Christ

regarding the freedom that we have not to be under the Old Testament regulations of the law.

So of the ceremonial law beginning in verse five one person regards one day above another

another regards every day alike each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day

observes it for the Lord and he who eats does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to

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