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must welcome and neither judge nor look down on thosewho differ on some of them.”To this I gave the following reply:Romans 14 is an important passage, but it has nothing todo with the idea that there are things in Scripture ofsecondary value, in the sense of how we are to deal withthem. The two examples plainly given by the apostle areeating meats and keeping holy days. These are matters aboutwhich the Bible is silent. There are no divine requirementsupon the New Testament Christian in these matters.Thus, Romans 14 is discussing how we are to deal withmatters NOT CLEARLY TAUGHT IN SCRIPTURE. Inmatters in which God has not plainly spoken, I am to giveliberty.On the other hand, in matters in which God has plainlyspoken, the only liberty is to obey. People use Romans 14:4to defend many areas of plain disobedience, such as worldlymusic, long hair on men, immodest dress on women, etc.Since the Bible has spoken plainly about these matters, it is amisuse to apply Romans 14:4.You are missing the mark by a great distance in yourunderstanding of this passage.1 CORINTHIANS 4:3-5 -- “But with me it is a verysmall thing that I should be judged of you, or of man'sjudgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I knownothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but hethat judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothingbefore the time, until the Lord come, who both will bringto light the hidden things of darkness, and will makemanifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall everyman have praise of God.”128
Paul is not saying that believers should judge nothing at alland should leave all judgment to God. This would becontrary to many other passages in the same epistle (i.e., 1Cor. 2:15; 5:3, 12; 6:2-3; 14:29).He is saying, rather, that believers are not to judgeministers by their own human thinking as to what a ministershould be and how he should teach and act, but they are tojudge righteous judgment according to God’s Word. He istalking about being judged by “man’s judgment” (1 Cor. 4:3).It is not required that a minister suit men and bend to theirthinking; it is required that he be faithful to God, and this isthe only proper standard by which he can be judged.Paul, under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is also sayingthat ultimate and final judgment belongs only to the Lord;therefore, we must be humble and cautious in our judgmentsin this present time (1 Cor. 4:4-5). Even though we have theWord of God and we are obliged to judge everything on thebasis of God’s Word, we must not think that we are infallible.We have to walk in the light that we have and live our livesand exercise our ministries on that basis, but our knowledgeis very imperfect in this present world.We can know if a man’s teaching is false and we can knowenough, therefore, to mark his error and to avoid it, but wedo not know the secrets of men’s hearts and we do not knowall of the things that will be brought to bear and come intoplay when God judges men in that perfect light of a comingday.JAMES 4:11-12 -- “Speak not evil one of another,brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, andjudgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeththe law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of129
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