Living for God’s Glory

Living for God’s Glory

1 Peter 4v1-4 (BSB)
Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.  Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.  For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.

1 Corinthians 10v27-33 (BSB)
If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.  But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience— the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own.  For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?  If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.  Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God— as I also try to please everyone in all I do.  For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

“For the very thing in which they ought to speak well of you, men will speak evil of you.  If you will not drink as they do, if you will not follow after sinful pleasures as they do, if you will not sing their songs, or use their language, then straightway they will hate you and call you a hypocrite.  It is a pity that, if we are not willing to go into sin as they do, they should for that reason speak ill of us, yet this is what we must expect.”

Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. 43, sermon 2549

(BSB Berean Study Bible)