1 Corinthians 10:1-13

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), 1 Co 10:1-13

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  All right. And we'll make sure that all of our friends online are joining. Make sure that's going to Facebook. All right, go. All right, perfect. Well, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Coffee and devotions is where every day you and I, we get together. We have a little bit of coffee. You're gonna have coffee this morning. No, we're getting to God's word and we grow and I love the Lord together this year 2022. We'll make it all the way from the book of Acts to the book of Lehman. So glad to be with you this morning, Bubba. I saw I woke up this morning, I thought who's walking around the house? And well, little dude was awake. I said you want to go to coffee and devotions? He's like, Yeah, yeah. Not not. Yes. Not No, just yeah, sure, why not so So I brought him along with us. So why don't we go ahead and have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into God's word. You ready, pumped? Okay, let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. And we thank You for Your Word. We pray that as we read your words, your Holy Spirit would be working in us and teaching us Please, Lord, make us more and more like yourself in Jesus's name, Amen. I gotta have some coffee before we started, okay. No, no, no coffee. Is it decaf? No, no, no. Okay. All right. Well, let's see what we're supposed to be at today. I didn't even look at that. Yeah, First Corinthians 10 One through 13. First Corinthians 10, one through 13. You want to read this first part? Over buzzin I do not want you to be unaware that all all fathers were under the cloud. All paths to the sea, all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink for the drink of spiritual work that followed man in that work was close, but most of God will not well pleased. With most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were sacred in the world. Their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things became our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lasted. And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written. The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Nor let us commit sexual immorality as some of them did. And then one day 23,000 fell, nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happen to them as examples. And they were written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the age have come. Who thinks he stands take heed, less D for now Tim Keishon and overtaking you accept such as is common do man but God is faithful. Faith for who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you owe evil, but the temptation also makes a way of escape, and you might be able to bear it Okay, wonderful. So we need to first ask ourselves a, what is this about B? What's the best thing to realize and see what are we called to do now? What are we called to do? Right, good. Wonderful. So what's this about? Well, Paul here This is First Corinthians. And he's going through and now he's giving a whole bunch of examples. When is he talking about all these examples? What do you think could come forward this way? When he's in the city? Well, he's actually so I'm saying like where in the Bible? Is he pulling these examples from? Yeah. Well, he's he's pulling them from when they're in the wilderness. Oh, you didn't? Yeah, I didn't ask that question. Very well. Did I? What time was it? Where is it? Yeah, I'm sorry. So So Paul is bringing up examples from when they're in the wilderness, right? So did just a few people go through the Red Sea, or did everyone go through the Red Sea? Everyone, yeah, all the Israelites went through the Red Sea. That's right. But when they went through the Red Sea, it says they were baptized. Right. So so they were it's like they were baptized through the Red Sea. So all the families all the people that were all baptized. Another reason why we think that even little kids should get baptized because even then, do you think the kids walked through the Red Sea to even the ones carried in their mom's arms? Yep. Okay, so that's just a side note. You're right, but everybody's baptized, but when they get into the wilderness are they all like, oh, great, we're all baptized. We're going to be perfect people. We're going to follow God perfectly. No, no. Some of them grumbling, complain. Some of them start having sex with people that they weren't they shouldn't have. Yep. Yeah. But did God still care for them? Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember when they complained about water? What did God do? As Moses struck the lock, yeah. And what came out of it. Wow. Water. Right. It says that that rock was Christ. Right? Isn't that interesting that he's showing us God's grace. He shows and he flows favor on us. Now God gave us all these things as an example. What do you think the example is? That we should learn from this? Oh, you're so tired. Oh, you're so tired that we complain, okay. We should not complain that sexual immorality or have contentment with what God gives us? Yeah, there's all sorts of examples here. I think the key point is what's in verse 12, and 13 Right. So at the very bottom Dave will let him who thinks he stands sticky last year for No temptation has overtaken you except such as it's come to a man, but God is. God is faithful. God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able but with the Asian will also make the weary escape that you may be able to bet yeah, so do you think we're still going to be tempted? Yep. Just because you're a Christian, you're not going to you think you're What do you think as a Christian Are you going to be free of temptation forever? No, no, no. Get out of here. No. But you've never been tempted. No. Yeah, but what's he promising here in those verses? That you will make a way of escape. What's that mean? Is it a nation is also a way out. That's right. All right. So have you ever been tempted to be mad at your sister? Is there a way out? What do you think the way out would be there? I'm just not getting that I'm just not getting more mad, or maybe walking out of the room or something like that. What about if like we're watching something on YouTube or something and inappropriate ad pops up? And we're the temptation might be there to lust what what can we do? Skip button, press the skip button or shut down the computer. I exit out of the browser. There's all sorts of ways of escape. And Is God gonna leave us alone when that happens? What does he do? Just the Holy Spirit that we might make the right choice. That's right. He gives us the Holy Spirit. We're not alone. Right? He gives us the helper. That's right. He gives us His Holy Spirit that we might stand up under it. All right. We don't need to be like the Israelites who failed and failed and failed and failed and failed. But we could we can glorify God can't win. That's what Paul said in here. That's what I got underlined. In my Bible. I don't actually have underlined I have a triple starred. You see that on the side of my Bible? I think that's what I think 12 and 13 is the are the best verses to summarize that what would you underline in your Bible? Let's talk about calling right let's talk about some specific things in our life. What do you think? After reading this passage, how can you apply it to your life? Um Yeah, could be a temptation to eat too much Kenny. Okay. Oh, play too much video games. Okay, well, let's start with that. Those are two good examples, right. So, if you're tempted to eat too much candy, what could you do? Well, you can not eat any candy or you can eat it in moderation. quantities. Yeah, right. Could you could you when you get the candy, split it up into different baggies, and set it aside so you only eat a little bit at a time. What about video games? What could you do? What Why would video games be a temptation? For you? Just a very addictive okay. Why is that a problem? Because I don't want to spend my whole life just playing video. You don't know. Sometimes when you play too many video games as a do things to your heart. Yeah. So what can you do to help with with if you know that you get addicted to video games? What could you do to help with that? I could set a time limit each day for school. That's a great idea right set a time limit for screen time. So so you can stand up under the temptation when it comes. Good. Hey, great examples, man. I love it. You want to pray? For us? Alright, let's go. Dad, please help us to get out of the evil way not to fall. into temptation. And please help us to see got away so that temptation might not happen again. But if it can happen again. Please keep writing away. out and lose or bust our good morning Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Well, my Lord bless you today. May you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus Christ, made with you find strength in the Holy Spirit. May you stand up when temptation comes take the way of escape and bring your father glory. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Say bye. Bye bye. Thanks for joining me man. Transcribed by https://otter.ai