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May 6 - Freedom Guided by Love · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in scripture and relevant for.
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  Today, May 6th, Living beyond self what if one of the clearest
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  signs of spiritual maturity is not how much you know, but how
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  much love shapes what you do with what you know?
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  It is possible to? Be right and still hurt people.
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  It is possible to be. Gifted and still selfish.
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  It is. Possible to run fast but in the
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  wrong direction. Proverbs chapter 15 verses 20 to
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  21 speaks about wisdom, diligence, and the danger of
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  foolishness. First Corinthians chapter 8
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  verses one to two says knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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  If anyone imagines that he knows something he does not yet know,
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  as he ought to know, then First Corinthians Chapter 9 verses 24
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  to 25 compares life to a race, saying that runners run to
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  receive a prize and every athlete exercises self-control.
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  That gives us a powerful picture of Christian life.
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  God is not just calling you to avoid bad things.
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  He is calling you to live with purpose, to think about how your
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  choices affect others, to use your freedom with love to
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  discipline your desires instead of being dragged around by them.
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  This matters in everyday life. Before you post, ask if it
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  builds up. Before you speak, ask if love is
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  guiding you. Before you make a choice, ask
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  whether it helps you run the race God has marked out for you.
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  Not every fun thing is fruitful. Not every popular thing is wise.
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  Not every freedom should be used just because you have it.
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  Living beyond self means choosing long term faithfulness
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  over short term attention. It means saying no sometimes,
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  not because God wants to ruin your joy, but because He is
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  training you for something eternal.
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  Let's pray, Heavenly Father, help me live beyond myself.
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  Let love shape what I say, what I choose, and how I treat
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  others. Give me self-control to run the
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  race you have set before me. Keep me from pride, impulse, and
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  selfish freedom. Teach me to build others up and
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  to seek the eternal prize that comes from following you
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  faithfully in Jesus name, Amen. What if the battles hitting your
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  family are not random and your home can become a place where
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  darkness loses every right to stay?
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  believers who want to guard their households with biblical
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  authority, peace and confidence in Jesus Christ.
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  and entry point with prayerful protection.
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  Book 2, Cleansed Rooms, helps reclaim spaces marked by fear,
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  unrest, and spiritual defilement.
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  Book 3, Closed Breaches, exposes hidden access points and severs
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  every agreement with darkness. Book 4, Broken Assignments,
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  confronts oppression, torment, and attacks against your family.
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  Book 5, Consecrated Walls, dedicates every space and rhythm
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  of the home to God. Book 6, Abiding Peace, shows how
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  Proverbs chapter 15 verses 20 to 21 World English Bible A wise
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  son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
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  Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of
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  understanding keeps his way straight.
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  First Corinthians chapters 8 to 9 World English Bible Now
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  concerning things sacrifice to idols.
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  We know that we all have knowledge.
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  Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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  But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet
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  know, as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, the
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  same is known by him. Therefore, concerning the eating
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  of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything
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  in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
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  For though there are things that are called gods, whether in the
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  heavens or on earth, as there are many gods and many Lords,
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  yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things,
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  and we for Him, and 1 Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all
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  things, and we live through Him. However, that knowledge isn't in
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  all men, but some with consciousness of the idol, until
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  now eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience
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  being weak, is defiled. But food will not commend us to
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  God. For neither if we don't eat are
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  we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
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  But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours
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  become a stumbling block to the weak.
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  For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's
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  temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat
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  things sacrificed to idols? And through your knowledge he
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  who is weak perishes the brother for whose sake Christ died, thus
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  sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience.
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  When it is weak, you sin against Christ.
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  Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat
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  no meat forever more that I don't cause my brother to
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  stumble. Am I not free?
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  Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ our
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  Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?
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  If to others I am not an apostle yet, at least I am to you, for
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  you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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  My defense to those who examine me is this Have we no right to
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  eat and to drink? Have we no right to take along a
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  wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles and the
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  brothers of the Lord and Cephas, or have only bar Nabas, and I
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  know right to not work? What soldier ever serves at his
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  own expense who plants a vineyard and doesn't eat of its
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  fruit? Or who feeds A flock and doesn't
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  drink from the flock's milk? Do I speak these things
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  according to the ways of men, or doesn't the Law also say the
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  same thing? For it is written in the law of
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  Moses. You shall not muzzle an ox while
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  it treads out the grain. Is it for the oxen that God
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  cares, or does he say it assuredly for our sake?
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  Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who ploughs
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  ought to plough in hope, and he who threshes in hope should
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  partake of his hope. If we sowed to you spiritual
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  things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
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  If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more?
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  Nevertheless, we didn't use this right, but we bear all things
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  that we may cause no hindrance to the good news of Christ.
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  Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat
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  from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar
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  have their portion with the altar?
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  Even so, the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the good news
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  should live from the good news. But I have used none of these
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  things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in
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  my case, For I would rather die than that anyone should make my
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  boasting void. For if I preach the good news, I
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  have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me.
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  But woe is to me if I don't preach the good news.
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  For if I do this, of my own will I have a reward, but if not of
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  my own will I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
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  What then is my reward? That when I preach the good
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  news, I may present the good news of Christ without charge,
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  so as not to abuse my authority in the good news.
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  For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage
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  to all that I might gain the more to the Jews I became as a
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  Jew. That I might gain Jews to those
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  who are under the law as under the law.
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  That I might gain those who are under the law to those who are
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  without law as without law, not being without law toward God,
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  but under law toward Christ. That I might win those who are
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  without law to the weak I became as weak.
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  That I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all
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  men, that I may by all means save some.
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  Now I do this for the sake of the good news, that I may be a
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  joint partaker of it. Don't you know that those who
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  run in a race all run but one receives the prize?
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  Run like that, that you may win. Every man who strives in the
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  games exercises self-control in all things.
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  Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an
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  incorruptible. I therefore run like that, not
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  aimlessly, I fight like that, not beating the air, but I beat
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  my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means,
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  after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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