Monday, August 11, 2025

OUR FATHER WHO SAVED US FROM  BONDAGE

1 Corinthians chapter 10 verses 1 -  14 contains the Apostle Paulˋs caution to believers to avoid idolatry, immorality and ungrateful complaining for it is these types of things that caused the children of Israel to fall in the wilderness even as they were on their way to the promised land having been saved from slavery in Egypt.

The children of Israel all shared in the spiritual water that was provided for them in the desert and yet their conduct displeased God and they died with their bodies strewn over the sand. These realities were record for the benefit of believers in Christ so that they understand that there are behaviours that can invoke the displeasure of God.

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.

Believers are subject to temptation but God regulates the temptations that they are subjected to and provides a way of escape for them.

With this in mind, we should always take and be careful to watch ourselves because if we presume we are able to stand, we can fall.

Amen.

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