Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(Rom 14:19) “Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.” Some have mistaken this to mean it was all right to overlook doctrine. No, that is God’s. Context: self’s desires. Put away self’s desires for the sake of peace, the soul that needs Christ Jesus.

(Rom 14:18) “For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.”  Men may choose to stand against the doctrines of the Lord, but find themselves hard pressed to speak against the person who puts them before himself. That same person should point them to Jesus: “Jesus put you first dying for your sins on Calvary’s cross.” 

(Rom 14:18) “For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.”  Does what things? Puts others before self for the sake of their souls and the testimony of the Lord. In putting others first, we are in reality acknowledging our God as our Lord.

(Rom 14:17) “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”   I am afraid so many of us never enter into this area of blessing – “joy in the Holy Ghost”. Our lives should be filled with joy, not from the things of this world, but from the Holy Ghost prompting us to rejoice in our Savior and the life He has given us.

(Rom 14:17) “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”   “Peace” of soul knowing we are in the very hands of God Himself: (Joh 10:27) “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: (28)  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (29)  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”

 (Rom 14:17) “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”   How precious life is when our focus is righteousness, doing that which is right in the sight of God. Notice what follows – “peace”. A heart seeking to be righteous results in peace: “Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon Thee…” (Isa 26:2)

(Rom 14:17) “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”  The focus of this life we have been saved into is not pleasure for self, but holiness for God. Which are you focused upon?

(Rom 14:16) “Let not then your good be evil spoken of: (17  For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” This does not mean, “Set that person straight”, but instead in love teach if teachable, but be willing to neglect your desires for the good of the other.

(Rom 14:14) “I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. (15) But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.” This is not something in which one is told to throw out the baby with the bathwater. No one has to be told what you do in your private life. But we are not to “in your face” act in such a way as to make another to stumble to what could be their eternal death.