For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:17
In the early church there was a lot of disagreement about what Christians should and should not eat. There were converted Jews who still abstained from pork and there were Gentiles who ate everything.
What the Apostle Paul told them was it did not matter what they ate or drank because they were redeemed by Jesus and and made right in the sight of God, and God would not judge them based on their diet.
We too can sometimes become encumber by man made rules that will cause us to question our salvation. Let us be diligent in evaluating whether rules are from God or from man, and so act on them so that we can know the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.
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