One of the things we've been talking about the past couple weeks now in Romans is the shift from what does it mean to be saved or how are you saved?

And Paul has now, for the past couple chapters, been talking about now that we're saved, what do you do?

What is a Christian supposed to act like?

And that's been really practical, very practical stuff.

And chapter 14 is extremely practical, but it might be hard for some of you. In fact,

it's one of the perhaps least appreciated or practiced chapters maybe in the New Testament church.

And it's pretty clear of how we need to be careful about something.

But it's funny how I see we're maybe worse at that today than we were back when Paul wrote it.

And it really is going to be an instruction chapter about how we treat each other, but it's very specific. And by the way,

you know, oftentimes we take things too far. You know, if we're not doing something at all or

taking it too far, but finding that sweet spot, that's what Paul's going to help us tonight

to find the sweet spot of how we're to's going to help us tonight, to find the

sweet spot of how we're to treat one another, how we're to think about people that have different

opinions about things, about church, church practices, how we're to treat each other, and it's going to be

important. Now, the issues of the day, well, it had to do with some of the Sabbath day traditions

that were added to the Sabbath day principle, or you might even say the Sabbath law. To the Jews,

the Sabbath was part of the mosaic law to keep the Sabbath, remember the Sabbath, keep it holy.

It's also part of the law of God,

which is the Ten Commandments. If you kind of see the difference, the law of Moses was the 613 laws the Jews had to keep. But then you have the Ten Commandments, which remembering the Sabbath Day

to keep it holy or set apart from other days.

That's the idea there.

But one of the things that happened was the Jews were, you know, getting upset with these new Gentile converts in the early church saying, these people aren't keeping the Sabbath.

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