No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.
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… idols, you are making sacrifices to what Leviticus 17.7 refers to as goat demons. In the New Testament, Paul reminds his people of this same phenomenon. 1 Corinthians 10.20, he says, I do not want you to participate with demons. God is spirit, but he is not the only Spirit. You and I have real spiritual enemies who will try to hurt you because they hate your God, and if they can do that by pulling you away from the God-honoring worship of the living and true God, they will. finally the most relevant problem in this section for us tonight I think would be most likely that you and I in our pride would not forget God would not try to serve other gods but would through our worship try to fashion a God who looks like us this is our great pride as sinful fallen men that we think to ourselves that God is just a little bit bigger and a little bit better than us, and so he must be pretty much like us. Numbers 1539 describes this phenomena this way, God warns his people not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes like you are inclined to. …
… or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too. You cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons. Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than He? Don't miss the picture. These people thought they'd take the Lord's Supper, eat the bread, drink the cup, that they're good and then they can walk away and go participate in idols' feasts. The dangerous thing is millions of Christians are doing the exact same thing today in the Lord's Supper. We look at the Lord's Supper as a grace dispenser where we eat the bread and we drink the cup and we're safe, and then we can go off and live our lives however we want to, and it's just not biblical. How can you look at the death of Christ reflect on its meaning for your life now and the weight of your sin now and to feel his promises and then to walk away and not obey him and not live a life that it's identified with him so first we renew our commitment to christ in the lord's supper that's part of what this whole thing is about many times in camps or conferences or even invitations in the church we we make a decision to rededicate our lives. Well, that's exactly what the Lord's Supper is about. Every …
… anywhere else, and they were still hanging on to some of their previous idolatrous behaviors. He says, you have to stop that, verse 20, because the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not want you to become sharers in demons. False religion was participating with demons. And he says bluntly in verse 21, you cannot drink the cup of the Lord at the table of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons, or you're going to provoke the Lord to jealousy. That's not a good idea, since you're not stronger than He is. You must separate from that. What was going on in Corinth was that some of the behaviors from their pagan experience were being dragged into the life of the church and even into the Lord's table. If you go over to chapter 11 for just a moment and look at verse 20, he's still talking about the Lord's table. …