This chapter explains our responsibility to those who are weaker in the faith. We are to walk in love with those who do not have as much light. Their consciences are troubled about various things and we ought not to offend them. It is easy to fall into the spirit of legality, but life, not light, is the basis upon which we receive one another. After all, we have one Master who will judge His own servants. He knows the thoughts and intents of each heart. We can judge actions but should not judge motives. Isn’t it a comfort to know that whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s? Nothing can “separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” All judgment has been committed to the Son and we must all stand before His judgment seat. Believers will have their labors evaluated for reward, unbelievers will be judged for their sins, and every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to God. May we seek to lay up treasure in heaven, and at the same time warn the ungodly to flee from the judgment to come. In the Old Testament times, there were certain things that were not to be eaten, but today the kingdom of God has more to do with righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Therefore, I am to consider my weaker brother and in no way do anything whereby he is stumbled, is offended or is made weak.
1. Why should we not judge another man’s servant? __________ Romans 14:___
2. We always belong to __________, whether we live or die. Romans 14:___
3. It is written that every knee shall __________ to the Lord and every tongue shall __________ to God. Romans 14:___
4. If the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, what is it? __________ Romans 14:___
5. We should always follow things which make for __________ and things that __________ one another. Romans 14:___