INTRODUCTION:
1. Turn with me in your Bibles to Romans 14:1-12.
2. Last week we took a look at Mark 9:38-41 as relating to Love.
3. We saw, Whoever is not against us is for us. V38-41
A. We need to understand the difference between being against something and for
Something.
1. As we look at these verses. (I would also like to look at the things that were
Going on with these men that were called disciples of Yahshua)
a. As we look at John statement. (We saw someone driving out demons in
your name, now no matter how you look at this, meaning in English or in
Greek still agrees that devils or demons were being driven out in the
Name of Yahshua by people that were not among the disciple’s that were
With Him on a regular bases)
b. Now this is very interesting. (Especially if we look at the full context of
this verse, look at Mark 9:14-29, in these verses we find the disciples in a
situation that, Yahshua had taken Peter, James, and John to the Mount
where He was Transfigured at, and then they were traveling back from
that place)
c. It says that when they came to the disciples. (That they found a large
crowd of people surrounding the disciples, and the scribes were
disputing with them, when the whole crowd saw Yahshua their
attention was turned to Him and they ran to meet Him)
d. Yahshua asks what they were arguing over? (It says some of the crowd
answered Him, but as you look the one at the core of the issue spoke out
and said that he was the one that brought his son to him, so the man’s
intentions were to bring this son to Yahshua)
e. At this point the man begins to explain. (The reason was that his son has a
spirit “that makes him unable to speak”, this is important because that
piece of information is what Yahshua specifically addresses in Verse 25,
Yahshua calls mute and deaf spirit come out, so the fruit of that spirit
Identifies who the spirit is, just a side note)
f. Back to the passage. (He says I ask your disciples to cast the demon out
but they couldn’t, Yahshua identifies the problem is they were
unbelief, He didn’t say unbeliever’s but they still had area’s in their
lives that they were not believing as they should, and Yahshua states
that everything is possible if you believe)
g. When everyone had left. (The disciples asked Him why they couldn’t do
that and Yahshua answered that this one comes out only by prayer and
this should speak to us about our prayer life if someone comes to us in
this or similar situation is our prayer life and faith at a place where we
can help them)
k. Now back to Mark 9:38-41. (The same should have been true for John
here in this passage should John have been able to tell that seeing that
people with demon were being freed when they were using the name of
Yahshua? Look at what Yahshua says there is no one who will perform
A miracle in my name and can soon after speak evil of us)
l. Now this person that John speaks of. (He didn’t run around with Yahshua
and the disciples at that time, but at some point, it appears that this
person had come into contact with Yahshua and in someway had put
faith in Yahshua and started to step out in faith and practice those
things that they saw, maybe even at the deliverance we just talked
about in Mark 9:14-29)
m. And maybe we need to look at the fruit. (That is being produced before
we do any judging of what their theology, or any other part of their
lives, as we could clearly see in the video these people are truly taking
an active role in worshipping)
n. The check as I began to ask questions. (Was to show me that the main
thing was that they were lifting the name of Yahshua, even in Scripture
and we all ought to rejoice in that)
o. Look at the last verse. (Who ever gives us a cup of water will have a
reward and will not lose it, in this verse it was mostly about Yahshua
teaching His disciples and correcting their immaturity)
p. They started persecuting Yahshua for healing on the Sabbath V16:
a. Notice in V17 Yahshua says His Father is still working. (Now this
is a very interesting discussion that is taking place here)
1). The word for work in V17. (GK is er-gad-zom-ahee which
means work, but it can also mean "minister about" look
at Mark 16:3-9, look at V6 "She has done" or "She hath
wrought" is the same word)
2). There are 2 other GK words for work. (One is energeo and it
means "to be active" and "to operate" and is where we get
our English word energy)
3). The second is "ergon". (And it means "a work" or "a deed"
"achievement" speaking of a good work)
4). Er-gad-zom-ahee. (Is the only one that can refer to a
person's ministry, or one in the process of ministry)
5). Now this specific GK word is tied to 1 Heb. words. (Boda and it
describes the physical labor, but specifically it
describes Jacobs labor to Laban for the bride price for
Leah and Rachel in Gen 29:27 and 30:26 and is most
often used to describe the sacred services of the
Tabernacle or Temple of the priests)
6). Look at Gen. 2:2. (Yahweh completed His "work" and the
Heb. word used there is mel-aw-kaw and it means
"sending forth ones hand" and is used in connection with
the building of the tabernacle and the sacred objects of
of the tabernacle Ex. 31:3, 35:21)
7). That is an interesting relationship. (Between the building of
the tabernacle and the creative work of Yahweh, gives a
whole different perspective of the earth we were
supposed to live on and the one He will make again)
8). But notice. (Yahweh ceased His creative process but He did
not cease His sustaining process, or His ministry to His
people, He still ministered on the Sabbath)
9). So in V17. ("My Father is still working" means that His
Father is still ministering and so is He)
10). Look at Mark 3:1-6. (Yahshua laid it all out here and set the
limit about ministering to people, "doing good or evil"
"saving life or taking life")
2. Now look, they plotted on the Sabbath Yahshua killing:
a. Look at Matt. 5:21-24. ("whoever is angry with His brother is
subject to judgment" so as they were accusing Yahshua of
breaking Sabbath by ministering, which is lawful, they
were plotting to murder Him which was unlawful)
b. Look at John 5:19. (Yahshua tells them that the Son is not able
to do this on His own, but He does only what He sees the
Father doing)
c. Let's look at John 9:24-30. (In this exchange with the blind
man who had been healed they ridiculed him and called
him a disciple of Yahshua and they claimed to be disciples
of Moses)
1). Look at John 5:41-47. (Yahshua clearly tells them if they
truly believed what Moses said they would believe Him)
4. Today I would like to continue to talk about love in this next chapter in
Romans.
5. Read Romans 14:1-12, Pray!
I. Except anyone who is weak in the faith. V1-12
A. This really is a different statement than we might think.
1. This isn’t necessarily discussing. (That is brand new in the faith
As a baby believer, although it is discussing that as well but
This case he is talking about someone who converted from
A pagan religion that may still believe somethings about that
Other religion that is not true)
2. The word that is used here for weak. (Is to be feeble, to be sick to
Be diseased and maybe to not have much strength)
3. In Romans 14:1 Paul tells us. (To except them but don’t argue
With them over disputed matters, and in Verse 2 we find
That the disputed matters is over food to eat, now this is also
Not arguing over clean food or unclean foods such as pork
Or other unclean food)
4. Look at Numbers 25:1-5. (Here is the truth of what is being
Discussed here, The women of Moab invited Israel to a
Acacia Grove to worship Baal, part of this worship involved
Offering meat to Baal, but it was not just given to Baal but
That ate the meat as they bowed down to Baal, so it was the
Eating the meat and bowing at the same time that was the
Problem)
5. By the time the First Century came around. (These pagan temples
Had refined this into a business and they were selling the
The meat that had been offered to idols in those temple
Meat market to anyone who would buy it, and it was usually
The best cuts of meat)
6. We have actually seen this in our time. (Not so long ago, Halal
Halal meats was starting to be sold in Oregon, and there
Was this huge discussion that started to surface about
Whether we could eat halal meats or not, the discussion
Turned a little paranoid)
a. Halal is an Arabic word meaning “permissible”. (It must have
been slaughtered with the name of Allah spoken over it
there is a list of the ways it needs to be slaughtered)
b. Some people were so freaked over it. (That they were concerned
that they might start mixing this halal meat so they would
defile us)
7. The other aspect that Paul brings up. (Is that some said that we
Shouldn’t eat meat at all, that we were only meant to eat
Vegetables, probably coming from Daniel 1:9-21, we still
Some of these arguments today)
8. Look at 1 Corinthians 8:1-13. (Paul here explains that there is
No other God but Yahweh and so having this knowledge we
Know that the meat that has been sacrificed to idols is
Nothing, but Paul also say that there are weaker ones that
Have come from pagan practices that do not have this
Knowledge and if they see you eating that meat it may defile
Their conscience)
a. Look back at Romans 14:3. (Paul adds here that the one who
eats and the one who doesn’t eat must not judge each other
and the reason for that is we have been accepted by
Yahweh, and who are we to judge another’s house hold
Servant before his own Master, it is up to the Master
To decide if he stands or falls and it is Yahweh who makes
His servants to stand)
9. In these next verses 5-10. (Paul points to the fact that this is
Our relationship with the Master, If we live or die, if we eat
Or don’t eat we do these thing onto the Master, Paul has
Come to know that the Master will make us to learn or to
Mature at the rate that He brings s along)
10. Look at verse 9. (It is summed up here, it was Messiah who
Died for us and He returned to life for us, and the reason?
So He could be Master over the dead and the living)
11. Look at verse 10. (The word judge here is to condemn, now
This word condemn means to decide on a case as if you are
The judge and Paul just explained who is the judge and Paul
Will finish this paragraph with Scripture that says it all, the
Word to despise is to set at nought with someone)
12. Look at that last part of verse 10. (Paul reminds us that we are
All going to stand before Yahweh and be judged, and we
Will stand based on His judgement and He is the only one
Who can make us stand)
13. Look at Isaiah 45:23. (This is one of the passages that Paul
Quotes here, and then in verses 12 once again that each one
Of us will give an accounting, it is interesting that Paul says
Says this several times in these paragraph)