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2 For one believes he amay eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.  
3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and alet not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.  
4 aWho are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.  
5 aOne person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.  
6 He who aobserves the day, observes it to the Lord;1 and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for bhe gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.  
7 For anone of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.  
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Romans 14:4

Yes, God has given us a promise of becoming judges, kings, and priests in the World Tomorrow, but He has not given us the authority to be judges now. We are to be making evaluations and learning how to judge. But, right now, unless we have been appointed to a certain position in which such judgments must be made, if we take it upon ourselves to make them, we are stepping into the muck. We have gone beyond our sphere.

He is telling us that, if we decide to take it into our own hands to judge another man's servant (think of it in terms of every other person being God's servant), then we have begun to be presumptuous. We are meddling in another's matters.

Jesus would have been meddling in somebody else's affairs had He decided to arbitrate the dispute in Luke 12:13-14. He would have been what the Bible calls a busybody—someone who is doing something that he has not been called to do or been given the authority to do.

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
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Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Romans 14:4:

Psalm 116:15
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