What is the timeless truth behind what God is saying? Don’t use your freedom in Christ to offend others.Paul tells the mature believers not to allow their freedom in Christ to offend their brothers. They didn’t think that believers should eat food sacrificed to gods of other religions.
Yet there were also new believers who were offended by that practice. So this group would eat freely but with no regard to what other people might think. There was no harm in eating it because the idols to which they were sacrificed weren’t real. What did this Scripture mean when it was written? There were people in the church of Corinth who knew that idols meant nothing and that the food offered to them had no magic power.Read 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, and then ask yourself the questions above. Let’s try to build this bridge when applying what Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 8 about eating the food sacrificed to idols. We call this the “application bridge.” We’re building a bridge between the world of the Bible and our world. What is the timeless truth behind what God is saying?
What did this Scripture mean when it was written?Ģ. How do you do it? Today I want to give you three questions you can ask of any passage that will help you apply the Bible to your life. If you aren’t experienced in applying God’s Word to your life, you might be frustrated.
He wants you to obey him” (1 Samuel 15:22b CEV). “Does the LORD really want sacrifices and offerings? No! He doesn’t want your sacrifices.
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