Romans 14:7-8: Belonging to God in life and death

Introduction: The portion in Romans that we are presently studying in confounding to the modern-minded person.  Paul is talking about accepting each other, not judging each other and the liberty that we ought to extend to each other, all of which are popular distinctives today.  The confounding part is where in the middle of a discussion about liberty, he talks about being slaves of Christ and everything we do either in life or death we are the Lord’s.  Romans 14:7-8, ‘For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.  For if we live, we...

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