The Permissible and The Beneficial

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. - 1 Corinthians 10:23

Not everything you do legally that is good for you. Because the law says you can drink acohol doesn't mean it's good for you.

‘What harm is there in betting a few thousans? I can well afford to lose it, and I can keep myself from the feverish wish to risk more.’ Yes, and you are thereby helping to hold up that gambling habit which is ruining more thousands.

‘I can take alcohol in moderation, and it does me no harm, and I can go to a church after just a bottle, and I am within my Christian liberty in doing so.’ Yes, and you take part thereby in the greatest curse that besets our country, and are, by countenancing the drink habit, guilty of the blood of souls.

How any Christian man can read these verse and not abstain from all intoxicants is a mystery. They cut clean through all the pleas for moderate drinking, and bring into play another set of principles which limit liberty by regard to others’ good.

Because the law permit you to divorce your wife doesn't mean it's ok. Divorce is injurious to the development of our kids.

Whatever you do, apart from asking yourself. 'is it legal?' also ask 'is it good for me'?

The earth is of the Lord and the fullness there doesn't mean you can eat whatever you like.

Everything you do should be unto the Glory of God.

Good Morning and have a Happy Sunday!

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