Sun March 23, 08
I Corinthians 8 pg 1276
Eating food sacrificed to idols/sensitive to others
Eating one kind of food, & abstaining from another, have nothing to do with recommending a person to God. We should be very tender of doing any thing that may be a stumbling block to others, though it may be innocent in itself.
We are cautioned against putting a stumbling-block in the way of the weak.
Satin hurts us by tempting us to be proud of our mental powers. Knowledge that puffs us up is as dangerous as self-righteous pride. Without hold affection all human knowledge is worthless. One God (our God) made all, & has power over all. The one God, even the Father, signifies the Godhead as the sole object of all religious worship; and the Lord Jesus Christ denotes the person of Emmanuel, God manifest in the flesh, One with the Father, and with us; the appointed Mediator, and Lord of all; through whom we come to the Father, and through whom the Father sends all blessings to us, by the influence and working of the Holy Spirit.
Much may be known, when nothing is known to good purpose.
And those who think they know something, and grow proud, are the least likely to make good use of their knowledge.