1. THE SACRIFICIAL LIFE INVOLVES TOLERANCE OF OTHERS’ OPINIONS

2. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject. - v2-5

3. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats 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. - v2-4 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

4. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 1. A Jew might abstain from eating certain meats. Why? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

5. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 1. A Jew might abstain from eating certain meats. a. Because he adhered to certain kosher laws in the Law of Moses. a. Because he adhered to certain kosher laws in the Law of Moses. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

6. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 1. A Jew might abstain from eating certain meats. b. Because the meat might be ceremonially unclean. b. Because the meat might be ceremonially unclean. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

7. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 2. A Gentile (non Jew) seldom worried about this problem. Why? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

8. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 2. A Gentile (non Jew) seldom worried about this problem. Because sacrificial meat was the best money could buy! I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

9. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 3. Did God speak clearly on this issue? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

10. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 3. Did God speak clearly on this issue? Peter’s vision on Simon’s rooftop seemed to indicate Jewish food laws were obsolute. - Acts 10 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

11. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 4. What’s the answer? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

12. A. Example # 1: The Meat Eating Question 4. What’s the answer? This is an opinion matter! Let love govern your attitudes towards one another! I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

13. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. - v5 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

14. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 1. The Jews celebrated festivals on certain days. Leviticus 23:1-2 - Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

15. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question The Great Feasts 1. Passover - Leviticus 23:4-8 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

16. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question The Great Feasts 1. Passover - Leviticus 23:4-8 2. Pentecost - Leviticus 23:15-21 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

17. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question The Great Feasts 1. Passover - Leviticus 23:4-8 2. Pentecost - Leviticus 23:15-21 3. Tabernacles - Leviticus 23:33-36 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

18. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 2. The Day of Atonement. Leviticus 16:1-34 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

19. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 3. The Post Exile Festivals: I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

20. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 3. The Post Exile Festivals: a. Dedication. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

21. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 3. The Post Exile Festivals: a. Dedication. b. Purim. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

22. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 4. Did God speak clearly on this issue? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

23. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 4. Did God speak clearly on this issue? a. Three feasts & the Day of Atonement were command- ed in the Law. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

24. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 4. Did God speak clearly on this issue? b. But didn’t the cross take care of the legal demands of the Law? - Colossians 2:14 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

25. B. Example # 2: The Festival Day Question 4. Did God speak clearly on this issue? This is an opinion matter – let love govern your attitudes towards one another! I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

26. C. What are some modern issues? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

27. C. What are some modern issues? 1. Historical issues. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

28. C. What are some modern issues? 1. Historical issues. a. What method do you use to support missionaries? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

29. C. What are some modern issues? 1. Historical issues. a. What method do you use to support missionaries? b. Should women be allowed to preach the Sunday morning message? I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

30. C. What are some modern issues? 1. Historical issues. c. Do you use instruments to support congregational singing on Sunday morn- ings? Ephesians 5:19-20 & Colossians 3:16 I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

31. C. What are some modern issues? 2. Issues today. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

32. C. What are some modern issues? 2. Issues today. a. Capital punishment. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

33. C. What are some modern issues? 2. Issues today. a. Capital punishment. b. Abortion. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject.

34. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject. - v2-5 II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion. - v6-8 II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion. - v6-8

35. A. The First Question. He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. - v6 II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion.

36. A. The First Question. 1. Do you use your opinion to glorify the Lord? II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion.

37. A. The First Question. 1. Do you use your opinion to glorify the Lord? 2. Do you use your opinion as an excuse to do what you want to do? II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion.

38. A. The Second Question. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. - v7 II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion.

39. A. The Second Question. 1. Is your life centered around your own desires? II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion.

40. A. The Second Question. 1. Is your life centered around your own desires? 2. Is your life centered around the Master’s will? II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion.

41. I. You Have a Right to Your Opinion Only If the Lord Has Not Clearly Spoken on the Subject. - v2-5 II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion. - v6-8 II. The Lord is More Concerned About Attitude Than He is About Opinion. - v6-8 III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion. - v9-12

42. A. How did the Lord earn that right? III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

43. A. How did the Lord earn that right? He earned the right to be judge when He went to the cross! III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

44. B. What’s the bottom line? III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

45. B. What’s the bottom line? Isaiah 64:6 – our righteousness is like filthy rags! The rest of us are all dirty rotten sinners! III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

46. B. What’s the bottom line? Isaiah 64:6 – our righteousness is like filthy rags! 1. We all deserve to die. III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

47. B. What’s the bottom line? Isaiah 64:6 – our righteousness is like filthy rags! 2. We will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God. So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. - v10-12 III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

48. B. What’s the bottom line? Isaiah 64:6 – our righteousness is like filthy rags! 3. You will be saved because of His love & grace – not because your life has been so good. 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. - v4 III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

49. B. What’s the bottom line? Isaiah 64:6 – our righteousness is like filthy rags! 4. Honest opinions will not stand in the way of that salvation. III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

50. B. What’s the bottom line? Isaiah 64:6 – our righteousness is like filthy rags! 5. How can a sinner pass judgment on another sinner? III. Lord Jesus Judges Matters of Opinion.

51. Let love govern your attitudes toward one another...... especially towards those who disagree with you on emotionally charged issues!