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If a person is offended by God\u2019s Word, that is his problem.\u00a0 If he is offended by biblical doctrine, standards, or church discipline, that is his problem.\u00a0 That person is offended by God.\u00a0 But if he is offended by our unnecessary behavior or practices\u2014no matter how good and acceptable those may be in themselves\u2014his problem becomes our problem.\u00a0 It is not a problem of law but a problem of love, and love always demands more than the law.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a chapter typically forgotten amidst other important subjects, the Apostle Paul writes, \u201cKnowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth\u201d (1 Cor 8:1).\u00a0 I like the simple and correct way the NIV puts it, \u201cknowledge puffs up, but love builds up.\u201d\u00a0 One creates a false illusion, the other exudes with strength.\u00a0 We might pay lip-service to this truth but I doubt if we often heed its warning.<\/p>\n

Our information age loves to turn trivial facts into knowledge.\u00a0 Alvin Toffler has said, \u201cWe are interrelating data in more ways, giving them context and thus forming them into information; and we are assembling chunks of information into larger and larger models and architectures of knowledge.\u201d2<\/sup> We have now done what George Orwell described some time ago, \u201csunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of the intelligent man.\u201d3<\/sup> But knowledge is power and left to itself is myopic: it blinds as it grows.\u00a0 It is a strangling weed that needs a persistent gardener that desires proper growth.<\/p>\n

The gardener is agape love.\u00a0 Not because it makes things easier, but because it is willing to do the difficult.\u00a0 Bonhoeffer wrote, \u201cAnd who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love?\u00a0 Who in other words deserves our love more than our enemy?\u201d4<\/sup> If that is true with our enemy, is it not true with our brother?\u00a0 But Paul, in 1 Corinthians 8, is telling us that it is easier to be puffed up in our own knowledge about the situation than it is to build up our brother through self-sacrifice.\u00a0 Denying our own selfish wishes (which are always for personal comfort, not sacrifice) is the most difficult thing in the world to do.\u00a0 It is what kept us from repenting of our sins sooner than we did and it is what often justifies (\u201cpuffs up\u201d) our personal comfort and keeps us from the cost of building up a brother.<\/p>\n

You may remember the story of this chapter.\u00a0 It is a scene that probably happened often in Corinth. A believer of some years, maybe a converted Jew who has never placed stock in stone idols and sacrificial meat, sits in a convenient market to eat a high protein, low carb lunch (\u201cmeat\u201d).\u00a0 All the hub-bub of Corinthian idolatry doesn\u2019t distract him in the least.\u00a0 He bows his head and gives thanks to God for being a Creator who grows things that have to die so we can eat them and live.\u00a0 He is truly thankful for all things.<\/p>\n

Earlier, a new Christian had come in to eat, perhaps a converted Gentile, a former idolator, one \u201cwith conscience of the idol\u201d (vs 7).\u00a0 His lack of knowledge about these things, being a new Christian, keeps him from ordering a piece of meat which he knows was sacrificed yesterday to a local idol.\u00a0 His former friends believe (as he used to) that the meat contains demons that otherwise would have inhabited the worshiper.\u00a0 Unlike his Jewish brother, he cannot take it or leave it.\u00a0 The memory of his old life, as well as the lack of doctrinal understanding, awakes a conscience that ought to remain asleep.<\/p>\n

Now Paul presents two endings to our story.\u00a0 In one scenario, the Jewish believer who is stronger in knowledge, becomes puffed up with pride because of the liberty he feels and which his Gentile brother does not.\u00a0 \u201cHe needs to watch me eat and learn that those stupid idols of his past mean nothing!\u201d\u00a0 The weak brother does indeed watch him eat.\u00a0 He becomes \u201cemboldened\u201d (vs 10), through the example of this older Christian, to order the meat and eat it.\u00a0 He is started on a new path of freedom,\u00a0 so he believes, for Paul simply says this process destroys him (vs 11).\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because he quickly regresses back to the idol worship itself, attaching again a religious significance to the whole process (see chapter 10:20).<\/p>\n

There is a second scenario which ought to have occurred and would have if our Jewish brother had added to his faith, knowledge and to his knowledge, love.\u00a0 He would have eaten \u201cno flesh\u201d (vs 13) in front of a brother he knew was unlearned and immature.\u00a0 After all, what is meat to him?\u00a0 He should have been able to take it or leave and had he left it, his brother would not be destroyed.<\/p>\n

Who is it that wanted to eat the meat most?\u00a0 It was not the weak brother, for he would have shunned it if his older and wiser brother had.\u00a0 It was the brother with knowledge that wanted to eat the meat so much that he could not be denied.\u00a0 And, after all, he could prove that his actions were right.\u00a0 In either case selfishness took over, a selfishness of which\u00a0 agape love knows nothing.\u00a0 \u201cDwelling too much upon self produces in weak minds useless scruples and superstition, and in stronger minds a presumptuous wisdom.\u00a0 Both are contrary to true simplicity.\u201d5<\/sup><\/p>\n

Haven\u2019t we all made the case for liberty or permission in some area by saying, \u201cIf I go there or partake of that, this person will be more comfortable around me.\u00a0 Then I can reach out to him.\u201d\u00a0 But the fact of the matter is that I am allowing myself to do what I have wanted to do all along.\u00a0 I have not changed because such change attracts the weak brother, I have changed because I am the one who likes it.\u00a0 And as an added bonus I can prove by my knowledge that what I am doing is permissible to do!<\/p>\n

Lenski writes, \u201cIt is rather usual when Christians are released from the fetters of legalism by throwing open to them the beautiful gates of Christian liberty, that they tend to turn this liberty into license.\u201d6<\/sup> Knowledge has a way of helping us do this.\u00a0 Facts and figures give us power, especially when the other person lacks access to them.\u00a0 But knowledge needs to be tempered by love.\u00a0 Love builds up the other person by doing the hard work of self-denial.\u00a0 George Macdonald said, \u201cNever soul was set free, without being made to feel its slavery.\u201d7<\/sup> Ah, there is the liberty that a believer seeks but which knowledge alone cannot give!\u00a0 It is a freeing liberty that denies the flesh the personal desires and in so doing grants the soul release from the law.<\/p>\n

This is a nearly impossible virtue to preach in a selfish age.\u00a0 We want what we want and we know how to get it, or at least supply the data necessary to prove it.\u00a0 \u201cBut speaking the truth in love, [we] may grow up into him in all things.\u201d\u00a0 Truth needs to be tempered by love.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. John MacArthur, 1 Corinthians<\/em> (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1984) 213.<\/address>\n
2. Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Creating a New Civilization<\/em> (Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1995) 36.<\/address>\n
3. George Orwell quoted by Douglas Groothuis, Christianity That Counts<\/em> (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994) 118.<\/address>\n
4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship <\/em> (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995) 148.<\/address>\n
5. Francois Fenelon, \u201cSimplicity and Greatness\u201d Orations From Homer To Mckinley<\/em> (New York: Collier, 1902) 1639.<\/address>\n
6. R.C.H. Lenski, Interpretation of First Corinthians<\/em> (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1961) 254.<\/address>\n
7. Quoted by Os Guinness, Dining With The Devil <\/em> (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993) 66.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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