Romans #26: Overcoming Differences 

Romans #26: Overcoming Differences 
Pastor Blake Hanson | 1.22.25 

Romans 14:1–14 (NIV)

1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 

2One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 

3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 

4Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. 

5One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 

6Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 

7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 

8If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 

9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 

10You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 

11 It is written: “ ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’ ” 

12So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. 

13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 

14I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.

HOW TO OVERCOME DIFFERENCES TO HAVE GREAT RELATIONSHIPS

1.Don’t sweat the small . 

Romans 14:1 (NIV)

1 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.

Romans 14:3 (NIV)

3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.

2. Live to please God, not . 

Romans 14:5 (NIV)

5One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.

3. Remember you’re accountable to . 

Romans 14:12 (NIV)

12So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

4. Focus on others up.  

Romans 14:13 (NIV)

13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.

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