FAITHFUL FLEEING (8 OF 17)
by Ross Lester
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:1
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Faithful Fleeing (8 of 17)
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 10:1
Proposition Statement:
God helps us to flee from idolatry and so we must flee from idolatry
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Howzit It is so good to be at Rooted this morning/BBC this evening.
We are week 15 of a multi-month study in the epistle, 1 Corinthians. Over the last few weeks, the texts we have looked at have had Paul warning the Corinthians that the gaps between thought and deed, the gaps between belief and behavior, these gaps that they were willing to live with were going to have consequences.In fact, at the end of Chapter 9, Paul said that he didn't want to ever live in such a way that would see him disqualified from the prize that he was offering to others.
And yet, how many of us seem prepared to live with these gaps and tolerate them even if they are wide and never give too much thought to the fact that there might be consequences and the fact that it might actually end up saying something about what we actually believe.
Paul is now going to drop into some alarming examples from the history of the people of God to show how dangerous an unthoughtful posture is in this space.
So please turn with me to 1 Corinthians 10:1
Passage and Main Points:
10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers
Paul is at pains to remind them that the people of God are a family.
He calls them brothers (even though they are acting as enemies towards him at times) and he calls the people of Israel their fathers, even though this is largely a gentile audience.
10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Paul is doing a beautiful job here of ...
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 10:1
Proposition Statement:
God helps us to flee from idolatry and so we must flee from idolatry
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumelang, Howzit It is so good to be at Rooted this morning/BBC this evening.
We are week 15 of a multi-month study in the epistle, 1 Corinthians. Over the last few weeks, the texts we have looked at have had Paul warning the Corinthians that the gaps between thought and deed, the gaps between belief and behavior, these gaps that they were willing to live with were going to have consequences.In fact, at the end of Chapter 9, Paul said that he didn't want to ever live in such a way that would see him disqualified from the prize that he was offering to others.
And yet, how many of us seem prepared to live with these gaps and tolerate them even if they are wide and never give too much thought to the fact that there might be consequences and the fact that it might actually end up saying something about what we actually believe.
Paul is now going to drop into some alarming examples from the history of the people of God to show how dangerous an unthoughtful posture is in this space.
So please turn with me to 1 Corinthians 10:1
Passage and Main Points:
10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers
Paul is at pains to remind them that the people of God are a family.
He calls them brothers (even though they are acting as enemies towards him at times) and he calls the people of Israel their fathers, even though this is largely a gentile audience.
10 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Paul is doing a beautiful job here of ...
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