“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
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… You can see in 1 Corinthians 6, verse 12. all things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be dominated. I mean, is that addiction or what? I will not be dominated by anything. When I played basketball at Florida State, I don't know if you know I did, but I... I played. We lived in a co-ed dorm, privately owned dorm, all the basketball players. We got our own rooms, maid service. I don't know how we did it. Well, we got in trouble later, but we did it. The bottom floor in this dorm was a full bar. I remember coming home from class, it's Margaritaville in the Florida State Room head down to the basement I've not talked to very many people who had a full bar in their dorm. Maybe you have, I haven't. I just wanted to throw that in. Also, the mastery of alcohol, it... it helps me work in the flesh. …
… Paul is talking about the things that we maybe aren't commanded not to do. He says, all things are lawful for me. All things that are lawful are lawful, if there's not a biblical prescription forbidding it. And there are a lot of things like that in life, a lot of things that the Bible doesn't say are sins. All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. The older translation was expedient. I love the word expedient. It's an English word that has at its core ped, which means feet. And ex, that word literally comes from a root, a Latin root that means to have free feet, to not be bound up. So what he's saying is, there are plenty of things that aren't forbidden, but they're not going to keep me free. They have the potential to bind me. And to what extent? Well, the rest of the verse. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by any. I will not be dominated by any. …
… Corinthians chapter six verse 12? He said, all things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient. What does that word expedient mean in the way? It's just a big double jointed word. Think about it. What, what word do you hear in there? Expedition. What is an expedition? An expedition is A trip. Well, what do you do on a trip? You're going somewhere. Now what the apostle Paul says when he says, all things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient is this, that I have a goal. I'm getting to that goal. Now if anything hinders me from my goal, even though it might be legal, it might be lawful, if it keeps me from getting my goal, then it's got to go in my life. That means any friend, any pleasure, any sleep, any rest, any job, any ambition, any hobby, anything that keeps me from making Jesus Christ number one in my life, it's got to go. Anything, any job, any friend, any love, any hobby, any, any emotion that pushes me this way, it's got to stay. …