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0:00So, this is 1 Corinthians [music]
0:01chapter 10 and this begins a whole new
0:05thought section for Paul, but it's all
0:08still integrated. [music]
0:10Remember that his burden for the
0:12Corinthian church is that they are
0:15[music] divided.
0:17And that is his burden and that remains
0:19his burden through the entire thing.
0:21And he feels that that disunity makes
0:25them
0:25>> [music]
0:25>> incomplete
0:27and ultimately threatens to destroy the
0:30temple, the church of God. And he warns
0:32that whoever destroys the temple of God,
0:35God will destroy that person.
0:37And so, [music] out of those sections,
0:40he began to minister to us about love.
0:43He showed us how it was jealousy [music]
0:46and strife that was causing divisions.
0:48And then then he showed us it was
0:50liberty
0:51>> [music]
0:51>> that was causing divisions. Liberty not
0:54anchored in love. People were saying, "I
0:58have knowledge and I know an idol is
1:00nothing." And Paul says, "That's true. I
1:03accept that. But if you don't do it in
1:06love, you're going to hurt somebody."
1:08So, that's the next way of a division.
1:11>> [music]
1:11>> And then in the previous chapter 9, he
1:14kind of returned to what he began with,
1:16the Paul, Apollos, the comparison among
1:19apostles, right?
1:22Now in in the end of chapter 9, he's
1:24telling us to run in such a way as to be
1:28effective, as to win [music] those that
1:31God has called us to win, is to live for
1:34love, ultimately. And now
1:38in chapter 10
1:39>> [music]
1:39>> and chapter 11, these are big critical
1:42passages, he's going to dial in on some
1:46of the
1:47specific contexts where the disunity was
1:50emerging such as around communion.
1:53And what we're going to see is he's
1:54going to warn, he's going to show how
1:56the
1:58ran in such a way as to lose the prize,
2:01as to be disqualified.
2:04Amen. So, that's what chapter 10 and
2:06chapter 11 are going to focus on.
2:10Chapter 9 says the last verse of chapter
2:129 says, "But I discipline my body and
2:15make it my slave so that after I have
2:18preached to others, I myself will not be
2:21disqualified, excluded, rejected, lost
2:26from the race."
2:291 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 1, "For
2:33I do not want you to be unaware,
2:35brethren, that our fathers were all
2:37under the cloud
2:39and all passed through the sea."
2:41So, everything he's about to say is
2:43connecting to the themes of love. And
2:46he's saying,
2:47"You're going to tell me that you're
2:49under the cloud, Corinthians. You're
2:51going to tell me that you feel the
2:53spirit in your meetings."
2:56I bet you do. You're going to tell me
2:58that you passed through the sea of water
3:00baptism.
3:01>> [applause]
3:02>> I bet you do. But he says, "I don't want
3:04you to be unaware of other people who
3:06had exactly what you're boasting in, and
3:08they still lost their way."
3:12"For I do not want you to be unaware,
3:14brethren, that our fathers were all
3:17under the cloud and all passed through
3:20the sea." Now, for Paul, he's saying
3:23they were baptized in water and spirit.
3:25That's what that means.
3:27"And all were baptized into Moses in the
3:31cloud and in the sea."
3:34"And all ate the same spiritual food,
3:38and all drank the same spiritual drink,
3:41for they were drinking from a spiritual
3:43rock which followed them, and the rock
3:46was Christ. Nevertheless,
3:50with most of them, God was not well
3:55pleased.
3:56For they were laid low
3:59in the wilderness.
4:02Paul is saying,
4:03"You guys are complacent,
4:06and you think you have
4:09what should make you be okay,
4:12but I want you to know
4:13that you have the parallel
4:17that the children of Israel had,
4:19and they were not pleasing to God." He's
4:23basically saying, "Stop telling me how
4:25good it's going,
4:26because if there is division and strife
4:29toward the apostles,
4:31among each other,
4:33if there's any of these dynamics, you're
4:36not where God wants you to be. Stop
4:38taking pride that you're under the
4:40cloud. Stop taking pride that you're
4:42eating spiritual food.
4:45That's not going to see you through.
4:47You need to get rid of these divisions
4:49that can destroy your temple.
4:52God was not well pleased.
4:55They were laid low in the wilderness.
4:59Blessings, yes. Provision, yes.
5:01Miracles, yes. A wilderness was coming
5:04that was going to reveal what was
5:05missing, and what was missing was a
5:08solidarity in faith with one another.
5:11That's what we're going to see here.
5:14Now, these things happened as examples
5:17for us
5:18so that we would not crave evil things
5:21as they also craved.
5:24Now, what were the evil things that the
5:26Israelites craved?
5:29They craved meat.
5:32Is that intrinsically evil? No.
5:35They craved leeks and garlic.
5:39Are those wicked and existentially evil?
5:42No.
5:44But they grumbled against Moses because
5:47their appetites wanted something else.
5:52And when they put their priority of
5:54desire above the leading and purpose of
5:57God, desires that would have been fine
5:59in one context became idols in this
6:02context.
6:04Do not be idolaters as some of them
6:07were, as it is written, the people sat
6:10down to eat and drink and stood up to
6:13play.
6:16Eating and drinking and play can become
6:19idolatry.
6:22Let's just have a good time.
6:25Loosen up.
6:26Let's have a different way of eating and
6:29drinking and let's get up and have fun.
6:33Nor let us act immorally as some of them
6:36did, and 23,000
6:38fell in one day.
6:42Nor let us try the Lord as some of them
6:44did and were destroyed by the serpents
6:47through grumbling at authority.
6:51Nor grumble as some of them did and were
6:53destroyed by the destroyer.
6:57Now, these things happened to them as an
7:00example, and they were written for our
7:02instruction upon whom the end of the
7:04ages have come. Paul is saying, "All
7:07these things are going to happen to you.
7:09You who have excellent speech, you who
7:13are clever, you who have who have
7:15knowledge, you who have the gifts,
7:19right? You who are under the cloud, who
7:21are baptized in the sea, you who have
7:24spiritual food, you're still on the
7:26wrong track.
7:30Therefore, let him who thinks he stands
7:34take heed that he does not fall."
7:38So, his whole point is you're absolutely
7:41sure that you're going to stand. That
7:44confidence is the harbinger of the fall
7:47that is coming.
7:50Who does this warning apply to? Anybody
7:52who thinks it doesn't apply to them.
7:55That's who it applies to. Anyone who is
7:57sure they stand, that is the person
8:00who needs to be careful lest they fall.
8:04No temptation has overtaken you
8:07but such as is common to man.
8:11And God, [clears throat] who is
8:12faithful, who will not allow you to be
8:14tempted beyond what you are able,
8:17but with the temptation will provide the
8:19way of escape also, so that you will be
8:22able to endure it.
8:25So, here he says, I want you to
8:27understand something. You're not an
8:29exception.
8:31What you're going through, everybody's
8:32going through.
8:34And it's what caused the first
8:37generation of the Exodus people from
8:39Egypt to fail.
8:42They were disqualified from the race.
8:45They
8:46died in the wilderness. And he's saying,
8:50you you you can't be complacent, but
8:53don't either imagine that God doesn't
8:55have grace for you. If you're being
8:57tempted, God has a way of escape.
8:59You're not going through anything that
9:00anybody else isn't going through.
9:02Therefore, my beloved, flee from
9:06idolatry.
9:07So, he says, God provides a way of
9:08escape. Therefore, flee.
9:12The escape is run away.
9:15Run away
9:18from idolatry. And in his equation,
9:21idolatry is anything that we put above
9:24the purpose of God, above the unity of
9:27the church, and above our love for one
9:29another.
9:30That becomes an idol.
9:32I speak as to wise men. Judge what I
9:35say.
9:37Is the cup of blessing which we bless a
9:40sharing in the blood of Christ?
9:42So now he's talking about communion. He
9:43says, "I'm going to talk to the people
9:45who who have sense.
9:48And they're going to be the only people
9:49who even follow what I'm saying.
9:52I speak to wise men, judge what I say.
9:54Let's let's have a little talk here.
9:56The cup of communion
9:58that we bless when we hold our hands and
10:00say, "Bless this wine as we remember the
10:03blood and sacrifice of Christ." He says,
10:05"The cup of blessing that we bless
10:09is it not a sharing in the blood of
10:11Christ?" It's a question.
10:13Is it?
10:16Is not the bread which we break a
10:18sharing in the body of Christ?
10:23Since there is one bread,
10:26we who are many
10:28are one body for we all partake of the
10:34one bread.
10:36So what Paul is saying
10:38is that
10:40the loaf
10:42of manna provision
10:46is the body of Christ.
10:49That loaf is symbolized in the communion
10:51supper.
10:53But the symbol is we're supposed to be
10:56breaking our lives and becoming all
10:58things to all men.
11:00We're supposed to be putting love first.
11:03We're supposed to be laying down our
11:04lives for one another.
11:06And he says,
11:07"What what are you doing here?
11:09What is communion to you
11:12if it's not the sharing in the blood of
11:14Christ, if it's not the partaking of the
11:17body of Christ? Unless you eat my flesh
11:20and drink my blood," Jesus had said.
11:23"You have no fellowship with me. You
11:25have no life in you." But the Apostle
11:28John would say, "If we walk in the light
11:30as he is in the light, we have
11:31fellowship with one another. And the
11:33word fellowship is the word koinonia,
11:36and that's the word translated from the
11:37Greek as communion.
11:40We have communion. There's something
11:42we're supposed to be taking from each
11:44other. Every time I receive a gift from
11:47you, that's a piece of Christ bread body
11:50broken for me
11:52and giving me nourishment.
11:54Every time I receive a forgiveness from
11:56you, that's the blood of Christ
11:57cleansing us from all sin as we bind on
12:00earth what he has bound in heaven.
12:04Since there is one bread, we who are
12:07many are one body.
12:10For we all partake of the one bread.
12:14Look at the nation of Israel.
12:16Are not those who eat the sacrifices
12:19sharers in the altar?
12:23He's saying the church is supposed to be
12:25the spiritual nation today.
12:27And you can't separate the sacrifice
12:30that Jesus made at Calvary of the altar
12:34from those who are giving it to one
12:36another. We are all sharing the same
12:38thing. We're part of what he did.
12:40No, our efforts don't atone for us,
12:44but we're supposed to pick up our cross
12:45and follow him
12:47and extend him and participate with him
12:50in his love for one another.
12:53What do I mean then?
12:55That a thing sacrificed to an idol is
12:58anything?
12:59Or that an idol is anything? You're
13:00like, what? What What are we talking
13:02about? Paul's all the way back in 1
13:03Corinthians 8. He's two chapters ago. He
13:06hasn't lost his train of thought.
13:08He's still picking on them for why they
13:11are using their knowledge and their
13:13liberty separated from love.
13:17So he's he's still talking about those
13:19burgers that they were eating from the
13:21the Hindu temple in my my allegory.
13:25No, but I say that the things which the
13:28Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to
13:30demons and not to God.
13:33And I do not want you to become sharers
13:35in demons.
13:39Sharers in demons. If you eat things
13:44that are sacrificed to demons,
13:46you're partaking of the demon.
13:49But if you eat what is consecrated to
13:51Jesus, you're partaking of Christ.
13:54You're eating his flesh and drinking his
13:56blood.
13:57You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and
14:00the cup of demons.
14:02You cannot partake of the table of the
14:04Lord and the table of demons.
14:07You can't have them at both at the same
14:10time.
14:11You're going to have to pick
14:12the idolatry that caused the children of
14:15Israel to die or the self-giving love
14:18that we saw at Calvary. You got to pick
14:21the table of the Lord or the table of
14:23demons.
14:25All things are lawful, but not all
14:27things are profitable. All things are
14:29lawful, but not all things edify or
14:32build up.
14:35Let no one seek his own good, but that
14:38of his neighbor.
14:40The whole theme here
14:42is
14:44they're going to come short
14:46through the idolatry of self, through
14:49the idolatry of liberty, through the
14:52idolatry of knowledge that puffs up.
14:55That does not seek the good of its
14:56neighbor. And in this, they're drinking
14:59of the cup of demons, of idolatry. Eat
15:02anything that is sold in the meat market
15:04without asking questions for conscience'
15:06sake.
15:08For the earth is the Lord's and all it
15:11contains.
15:12God does not give a hoot what you eat
15:16in terms of making you righteous before
15:18him or not. That is not what he cares
15:20about.
15:21If one of the unbelievers invites you
15:24and you want to go, eat anything that is
15:26set before you without asking questions
15:28for conscience sake.
15:31But,
15:33if anyone says to you,
15:35"This meat is sacrificed to idols.
15:40Do not eat it
15:42for the sake of the one who informed
15:45[music] you
15:48and for conscience sake.
15:50I mean, not your own conscience,
15:53but the other man's.
15:55For why is my freedom judged by
15:58another's conscience?
16:00If I partake with thankfulness, why am I
16:03slandered concerning that for which I
16:06give thanks?
16:08Whether then you eat or drink [music] or
16:11whatever you do, do to the glory of God.
16:16So, he's saying,
16:18"I can eat food sacrificed to idol, and
16:20it does not hurt my conscience. I could
16:23care less
16:24because an idol is nothing. I have
16:26knowledge.
16:28But if I live by the dictates of my
16:30knowledge and my liberty and not by the
16:32dictates of love,
16:34then I'm living for the idol of self.
16:37I'm using my liberty to destroy the
16:39temple,
16:41the people, the fellowship. I'm not
16:44winning.
16:45I'm using my I'm abusing my liberty.
16:48Give no offense either to Jews or to
16:50Greeks [music] or to the church of God.
16:53Give no offense.
16:55Try not to offend people.
16:58Just as I also please all men in all
17:00[music] things, not seeking my own
17:02profit, but the profit of the many, so
17:05that they may be saved.
17:09He's never lost his train of thought.
17:12Are you living for love? Then you're
17:15drinking the cup of the Lord's
17:18sacrifice.
17:19Are you living for self? Then you're
17:22using [music] even the liberty and
17:23knowledge God gave you
17:26for the idol of self. And you're saying,
17:28"I have a right to eat leeks and
17:30garlic." Mhm. But don't you dare put it
17:32above God's [music] purpose. "I have a
17:34right to like quail." Mhm.
17:37But are you going to go back to Egypt in
17:39order to get it?
17:40That's the idolatry he's talking about.
17:42It's simply the idolatry
17:45of self
17:46that can only be displaced
17:49by the priority of love, of laying our
17:51lives down in love
17:53>> [music]
17:53>> for others.

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