The implication here is that Unity is a lot bigger deal than maybe we've realized.

I've taught even in the recent past about how holiness is a much higher calling and

more important calling than perhaps a lot of believers acknowledge.

Can I say unity is right up there.

Unity is a lot higher and holier and greater and more important of a calling

than a lot of us have realized in the past. But you know this if you're a parent and you have multiple children and how much you love for them to have unity.

As Christians, there is a time to divide, to actually split up and say I will not

fellowship with you, I will not be around you for at least certain events and certain things in life. So as Christians there is a time

to divide but so often we find ourselves as Christians dividing when we're not

supposed to divide and then staying united when we

should be dividing. So these are the two problems we see and I think that you can

easily take what we're doing in Romans 14 and 15 out of context and use it as an

excuse to stay united when you should be dividing because these are essential doctrinal issues

or something like that or someone's living a life of

constant sin and they need to be excommunicated in a biblical sense and follow the

scriptures on that in a loving sense meant to restore them not to not to

hurt them or push them down. So let me start this by way of

reminder the the six conclusions we came to at the end of last week study in

Romans 14 so just a reminder to kind of refresh your mind

this is going to help us out because Romans 15, the first few verses, it

completely depends on you understanding Romans 14. It's really one is built on the

other. So the six conclusions from Romans 14

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