Section 10
indeed are clean, but it is evil for a man to eat so as to be a stumbling block. It is good not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles." In all saved per sons there is an amount of God's work. God has called and saved them. God has done at least this much divine work in them. If we cause any of the believers to stumble by our doctrinal concepts, we break down, destroy, God's work of grace in him. We should take care of God's work, not our doctrinal concepts. All of our religious practices must be cast aside for the sake of God's work of grace in others. We are free to eat anything and we may do anything that is not sinful, but we should not eat anything or do anything by which a brother stumbles. We must take care of the building of the brothers in life, not the keeping of our religious concepts in knowledge.
Doing Everything in Faith
In verses 22 and 23 Paul says, "The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not judge himself in what he approves. But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not out of faith, for all which is not out of faith is sin." If we are the strong ones in faith, we should have faith to ourselves before