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Would you turn with me to Romans chapter 14. I'm going to read all the way through the chapter

and then we're going to go back to the beginning and primarily spend our time on the first

four verses and then another here and there. I'm not going to try to do an expository teaching.

Obviously in the hour that we have on the entire chapter, but I do want to keep it in its context and

even what we will not study together is of great interest and let it be a lesson in itself.

If we don't happen to land in on a verse in an expository way,

still hear it as we read it together and let it speak. Romans 14, verse one.

Says this, accept him whose faith is weak without passing judgment on disputable matters.

One man's faith allows him to eat everything but another man whose faith is weak. It's only vegetables.

The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not and the man who does not eat

everything must not condemn the man who does for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone

else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls and he will stand.

For the Lord is able to make him stand. One man considers one day more sacred than another

and other men considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

He regards one day as special does so to the Lord. He who eats meat eats to the Lord

where he gives thanks to God and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live,

we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die,

we belong to the Lord. We are not going to go here to this particular portion in our lesson.

So I'll stop here long enough to say perhaps all of us across the room have heard some form of the

quote by John Dunnell. I'll remind you what it says. No man is an island entire of itself.

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