All Things to All Men

All Things to All Men (1Co 9:19-23) I. Overview. 1. Being free from all men, but a servant to all. 2. Becoming as a Jew to the Jews. 3. Becoming as a Gentile to the Gentiles. 4. Becoming as weak to the weak. 5. Being all things to all men to save some and be a partaker of the gospel with them. II. Being free from all men, but a servant to all. (1Co 9:19) 1. Paul begins this chapter by asking the rhetorical question: am I not free? (1Co 9:1) 2. This answer is obviously "yes" as Paul states in verse ...

V. Becoming as them that are without law (Gentiles) to them that are without law. 1. Them that are without law are the Gentiles. (Rom 2:12-14) 2. Them that are without also refers to unbelievers who are outside the church. (1Co 5:12-13) 3. Paul became as a Gentile to the Gentiles so that he could identify with them. A. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles. (Rom 11:13) B. When Paul preached Christ to the Gentiles, he didn't use the same manner as he did with the Jews by going to the law to show that Jes...