Pride Drives Bad Decisions

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

…21 To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings."

This passage pertains to anything that is not sin. If someone says to take off your shoes in their home, I would take off my shoes. If someone says you must wear a mask to visit me then I would wear a mask. This is so that little things will not be a distraction to the gospel and to maintain peace with others.

Born again believers ought to be so saturated with the gospel that everything they say and do would be in light of that, living, breathing, and speaking Bibleese.

We do not fear mandates or laws that seem unjust because Christ lives in us, we are not in bondage to our "rights" or "pleasures", we are bondservants of Christ. If He places us under a law or a rule to bring glory to Himself, then so be it.

We must remember that all authority good or bad has been placed by God. Perhaps to show us we have no power without Christ. In Christ we are free even if we are jailed, we are free.

We remain free as we move about the culture under the rules and laws of the government. Our freedom is not in physical terms, it is Spiritual and far more valuable than the things we think we want for ourselves.

Romans 14:2

"For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables."

Even with food, some people worry continually about what they eat, God says they lack faith, and yet we are commanded to love them. Some people eat all things without worrying, we are commanded to love them too.

Some people wear masks and get the vaccine, we are to love them, some do not wear masks and do not get the vaccine, we are to love them too.

We are not to allow these superficial physical matters to get in the way of our loving fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Satan loves to cause fighting, biting, and devouring within the people of God, let's not allow him to do it.

Romans 15:1

"We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves."

1Corinthians 10:33

"Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved."

Let's not let pride drive any of our decisions!