1 Corinthians 10:18-22 – Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
2 Corinthians 6:16 - What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Deuteronomy 32:21 - They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Exodus 20:5-6 - You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Application:
· Do I compromise with idolatry?
· Do I understand the good news about Christ?
· Have I devoted myself to God? Or do I oppose Him?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
One Loaf
1 Corinthians 10:17 - Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
Romans 12:4-5 – For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
John 6:35,37,39-40,44-46 - Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst…All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out…And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”… No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Application:
· Partaking of one loaf symbolizes the unity of the body of Christ, which is nourished by the bread of life.
· It is only in Jesus Christ that any unity in the church is possible.
· Is Jesus my bread of life?
· I am saved mostly by God’s action, not mine.
· Does Christ have a firm hold on me? Am I persevering?
· Death cannot destroy the life that Christ gives.
· Did I come to Christ strictly on my own initiative? Or did the Father draw me?
· Only those who learn from God come to salvation. Am I learning from God?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Romans 12:4-5 – For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
John 6:35,37,39-40,44-46 - Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst…All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out…And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”… No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Application:
· Partaking of one loaf symbolizes the unity of the body of Christ, which is nourished by the bread of life.
· It is only in Jesus Christ that any unity in the church is possible.
· Is Jesus my bread of life?
· I am saved mostly by God’s action, not mine.
· Does Christ have a firm hold on me? Am I persevering?
· Death cannot destroy the life that Christ gives.
· Did I come to Christ strictly on my own initiative? Or did the Father draw me?
· Only those who learn from God come to salvation. Am I learning from God?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Cup Of Thanksgiving
1 Corinthians 10:15-16 - I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 11:23-25 – For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Mark 14:22 - And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”
Luke 22:16,19-20 - For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”…And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Application:
· Does the Lord’s Supper remind me of Him?
· The Lord’s Supper is a memorial supper, recalling and portraying Christ’s death for me.
· The cup signifies God’s bestowal of salvation upon me.
· All Biblical accounts of communion include: taking bread, giving thanks, breaking bread, saying “This is my body”, taking the cup and explaining the blood covenant.
· At Jesus future coming, He will renew fellowship with those who have commemorated the Lord’s Supper.
· The bread provides remembrance and proclamation of my deliverance from the bondage of sin
· God’s saving grace is founded and sealed by the death of Jesus.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
1 Corinthians 11:23-25 – For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Mark 14:22 - And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”
Luke 22:16,19-20 - For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”…And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Application:
· Does the Lord’s Supper remind me of Him?
· The Lord’s Supper is a memorial supper, recalling and portraying Christ’s death for me.
· The cup signifies God’s bestowal of salvation upon me.
· All Biblical accounts of communion include: taking bread, giving thanks, breaking bread, saying “This is my body”, taking the cup and explaining the blood covenant.
· At Jesus future coming, He will renew fellowship with those who have commemorated the Lord’s Supper.
· The bread provides remembrance and proclamation of my deliverance from the bondage of sin
· God’s saving grace is founded and sealed by the death of Jesus.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Monday, September 24, 2012
Flee From Idolatry
1 Corinthians 10:12-14 – Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Hebrews 6:9 - Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.
1 Peter 2:11 - Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Jude 3 - Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Exodus 32:6 - And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
Application:
· Temptation in itself is not sin. Yielding to the temptation is sin. I have been enabled to resist the temptation to sin.
· God may be trusted to do what He has promised. He will keep me strong to the end.
· Am I fleeing from idolatry?
· Is my life changed? Is there evidence of regeneration?
· Am I separated from the corruption of this world? Am I yielding to the world’s destructive sinful desires?
· Am I contending for the gospel and all its implications?
· Do I tend toward idolatry?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Hebrews 6:9 - Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.
1 Peter 2:11 - Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Jude 3 - Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Exodus 32:6 - And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
Application:
· Temptation in itself is not sin. Yielding to the temptation is sin. I have been enabled to resist the temptation to sin.
· God may be trusted to do what He has promised. He will keep me strong to the end.
· Am I fleeing from idolatry?
· Is my life changed? Is there evidence of regeneration?
· Am I separated from the corruption of this world? Am I yielding to the world’s destructive sinful desires?
· Am I contending for the gospel and all its implications?
· Do I tend toward idolatry?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Idolaters
1 Corinthians 10:6-7,11,14 - Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”… Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come…Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Exodus 32:6,19 - And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play…And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
Application:
· Have I been heeding the warnings written down for me?
· Am I fleeing from idolatry?
· Do I tend toward idolatry?
· Am I breaking my covenant with God?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Exodus 32:6,19 - And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play…And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
Application:
· Have I been heeding the warnings written down for me?
· Am I fleeing from idolatry?
· Do I tend toward idolatry?
· Am I breaking my covenant with God?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Friday, September 21, 2012
God Was Not Pleased With Most Of Them
1 Corinthians 10:1-5 - For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:28-30,34 - Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun…According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
Joshua 1:2 - “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Application:
· In spite of the remarkable privileges given to me, do I fail to obey God? Am I incurring His displeasure?
· Am I in submission to Christ as my Savior and Lord?
· Is Christ my sustenance, my bread and water of life?
· Have I brought upon myself my punishment?
· Am I in rebellion against God?
· Are God’s promises being fulfilled with me, or without me?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Numbers 14:28-30,34 - Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun…According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
Joshua 1:2 - “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Application:
· In spite of the remarkable privileges given to me, do I fail to obey God? Am I incurring His displeasure?
· Am I in submission to Christ as my Savior and Lord?
· Is Christ my sustenance, my bread and water of life?
· Have I brought upon myself my punishment?
· Am I in rebellion against God?
· Are God’s promises being fulfilled with me, or without me?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
That Rock Was Christ
1 Corinthians 10:1-4 - For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Exodus 17:6 - Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Numbers 20:11 - And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
Psalm 105:41 - He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.
John 6:32,35 - Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven… Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Application:
· The water and the manna were supernatural sustenance through Jesus Christ
· Christ is the supernatural Rock
· Do my actions show a lack of trust in God? Do my actions offend God’s holiness?
· God’s power is redeeming.
· God still gives the true bread from heaven (life through the Son).
· Have I come to Jesus? Do I believe in Him?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
Exodus 17:6 - Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Numbers 20:11 - And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
Psalm 105:41 - He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.
John 6:32,35 - Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven… Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Application:
· The water and the manna were supernatural sustenance through Jesus Christ
· Christ is the supernatural Rock
· Do my actions show a lack of trust in God? Do my actions offend God’s holiness?
· God’s power is redeeming.
· God still gives the true bread from heaven (life through the Son).
· Have I come to Jesus? Do I believe in Him?
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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