Page 68 the principles laid out in this chapter, it will save a church from many splits and conflicts. There are many things that are not sinful. But they are not spiritual either. Morally speaking, they are neutral in God’s eyes. They are parking spaces. And God leaves the choice to us. God’s moral will is one thing. But the application of it is another. When Christians differ on the boundaries of the parking lot, it is typically a case of a difference on how the moral will of God should be applied. For instance, God’s moral will is that Christians be separate from the world (John 15:19ff.; 2 Cor. 6:14ff.; Rom. 12:2; Jam. 1:27; 1 John 2:15ff.). But how exactly a Christian is to be separate from the world is an open question. With that said, the Holy Spirit must bring the rest of this message. You will not find any specific rules to follow in the ensuing pages. But you will be introduced to some broad principles that are envisioned in the New Testament. Principles which will help you to follow the mind of the Spirit in such matters. The Holy Spirit give you light and apply these principles specifically to your life. Returning to Mount Sinai I have been a Christian for over thirty years now. And I have met scores of believers who had their own convictions about the
What we're asking people to do is to come into a kingdom and submit their lives entirely to a King, an absolute monarch who has the right to determine everything without our consultation and who has revealed His will to us in the pages of the Word of God and calls on us to live in absolute submission and obedience to that revelation.
John MacArthur