They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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… 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. no one name philo argued can fully capture the essence of god you heard that actually in our opening hymn today no solitary name can adequately answer the question who is god there's no label out there that plums the depth and the breadth of the divine We have to acknowledge, says Philo, that it's absurd to try and name God. …
They all passed through the sea, rescued by God's deliverance. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea and all ate the same spiritual, supernatural food and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ. But with most of them, God was not pleased. For their bodies were scattered through the wilderness. Now these things happened as formative patterns for us to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not commit idolatry. Do not worship false gods as some of them did. As it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to indulge in pagan revelry. And we should not practice sexual immorality as some of them did. and 23,000 fell dead in a single day. And we should not put Christ to the test as some of them tested him and were being killed by snakes and do not grumble as some of them grumbled and were destroyed by the destroyer. …
… 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. They never entered the Promised Land. They were the half converted. They never made it to Canaan. Metaphorically speaking, they never made it to heaven. They had all of the experience with none of the reality. …