I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
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… The church shares in the work of Christ as they eat the Lord's Supper. Let me show you this one chapter before what we just read in 1 Corinthians 10. 1 Corinthians 10, verse 14, Paul begins to talk about idolatry in the Lord's Supper, which we'll get to a little further in just a second. But he says in verse 14, Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. I speak to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what I say. Now pay attention close to verse 16 and 17. Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Just by chance, anybody know what the original language of the New Testament is saying there, the Greek for participation? Anybody know? You said it a little louder. Koinonia. Alright, don't you feel smart? You know the Greek? All right? The Greek koinonia, what we talked about, if you weren't here last week and you feel really left out right now, we talked about the fellowship. …
… from 1 Corinthians chapter 10, beginning with the first verse. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors 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. Our final passage for today is a short but familiar one from the book of Psalms. Here King David embraces in a personal way the notion that God is a rock. Listen again to Psalm 19, verse 14. Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. This is the word of God for you, the people of God. Thanks be to God. Back in the first century, a fellow by the name of Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher and theologian, described the hurdles faced by humans who risk opening their mouths and speaking a name for God. …
… warnings to those kinds of people. So let me try one more time. Here is a warning to hear. the Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians chapter 10, I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea. Speaking about the generation that came out of Egypt, they were all immersed into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all had this same miraculous experience of being delivered from Egypt. They all ate the same spiritual food. They all received the manna in the wilderness created by God on a daily basis. They all drank the same spiritual drink, the water from the rock. They were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was actually Christ. Nevertheless, with all of that shared experience as the people of God being delivered from Egypt, But most of them, most of them, God was not well pleased with. How do we know that? Because most of them were laid low in the wilderness. …