All Christians have been made free
by
Christ (John 8:36), but not all have an
equally strong grasp of what this means
in practice. Some are weakened by
scruples about things which are
strictly neither right nor wrong, while
others assert their liberty in a way
which risks doing violence to the
consciences of the weak. It was this
situation which the Apostle Paul
addressed in Romans 14. He insisted
that, while Christian liberty was to be
maintained, it was never to be asserted
in such a way as to hurt the
consciences of others, or to embolden
them to do what they believed to be
wrong. In this the last volume of the
series, Dr Lloyd-Jones explains the
implications of this issue for the
church today. The fitting conclusion of
his exposition of Romans is that true
Christianity is not, in the end,
concerned with such matters as what may
be eaten or what days should be
observed, but with a divine kingdom,
characterized by inward righteousness,
peace and joy.