Strive for Unity (Romans 14:5–6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Romans 14:5–6, David Platt urges us to have both firm convictions and brotherly unity.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.7 | Romans chapter 14 verses 5 and 6. One person esteems one day is better than another. While another |
| 0:13.1 | esteems all days alike, each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who |
| 0:18.4 | observes the day observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord. |
| 0:22.9 | Since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to |
| 0:28.8 | God. Now this verses may not make sense apart from the surrounding context. So just to fill you |
| 0:34.0 | in real quick, and I have spent a lot of time over the years in Romans 14 and 15. As I have seen |
| 0:43.7 | division in the church in so many ways over non-essential doctrines. And that's what's happening |
| 0:50.2 | here in Romans 14. You have some people in the church, followers of Jesus, who believed |
| 0:57.1 | they should not eat certain foods. And other people who said it's fine to eat those foods. |
| 1:00.8 | And then some people who said we need to honor these days, celebrate these holidays. Others who |
| 1:06.2 | said we don't have to do that. And people believed their position strongly. And what's interesting |
| 1:12.1 | is Romans 14 verse 5. So Paul is trying to promote unity in the church. And he doesn't say don't |
| 1:18.5 | have a strong position, which is what I think he would say. Instead, he says Romans 14.5. Each one |
| 1:24.8 | should be fully convinced in his own mind. Like have strong convictions about where you land on |
| 1:31.0 | what you should eat or what a holidays you should or should not celebrate. But then he goes on |
| 1:35.7 | and he talks about how that doesn't mean. We have to divide in the church that on these issues |
| 1:41.1 | that are not essential that are not core to the gospel that don't separate Christians from non-Christians |
| 1:46.8 | and even here don't separate you in the church. You don't need to be in different churches where the |
| 1:53.2 | vegetarians are over here and the meat eaters are over there and different. And he said no, |
| 1:56.9 | that's not this is not that kind of issue. But that doesn't mean you don't have strong convictions. |
| 2:03.2 | You just don't let those strong convictions about these things. |
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