1 Corinthians 10:1-13 - Part C

Here's the miracles of the wilderness covering of the cloud and the water from the rock in the parting of the Red Sea and the manna from heaven all of its forgotten in a single trifling, and so it talks about enrollments that they complained so start blessings God is sometimes the struggles like shadow God's goodness today on connect with Skip Skip shares you can counter complaining with gratitude you can experience God's richest blessings. Now we want to tell you about a resource that shows you how God's love and grace empowers you as you live for.com recently published an article with 22 tips for how to completely change your life in one year found complicated. The Bible tells a different story about how to change your life. Repent and return to God reminds us we need to always insert God into every situation here. Skip, I think what God is a phrase that appears 45 times in Scripture. It's a game changing phrase means that no matter who you are what you have done no matter how you may have failed. The truth is God can make things different for you, from now on, but God discover the power of God in Scripture and why it's a game changer for your own life with the black-eyed teaching theories from pastor skip. I think our thanks when you get $35 or more to help keep Bible teaching ministry on the air. Get your CD collection today. Call 819 to 1884. Get online securely connectwithskip.com/offer chapter 10 skip-starts today stood something about these giant zombies cities fortified walls and towers. All that all 12 of them saw the same. It's not like Joshua and Caleb were in a restaurant, drinking a Diet Coke when the Giants walked finally saw the they also same thing that the same experience was a shared experience but the reports were so different. Why because of the way they measured. They measured the circumstance, the situation attended by the Giants that they saw the two Joshua and Caleb measured the situation by the giant God.

They couldn't see Joshua and Caleb saw a big God, you see a big God. You see little man, but if you have a little God you see big men and big problems.

So I said on many occasions, difficulty must always be measured by the capacity of the agent doing the work is difficult. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty difficult for you or for me, but regarding the situation. Is it that everything changes game changer. The bread for us. No problem. Let's take them but their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things verse six point poking along sorry. Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lost after evil things as they also lusted in the book of numbers it says they came to a place and they had intense cravings, intense cravings for leaks and garlic's and onions and meet the flash pots called in the Old Testament the flex or the in the King James called the meat the flesh pots of Egypt. The pots that were served up with just an enormous portions of meat they missed all that God was giving them.

I believe all the protein all of items all the minerals all the nutrients in the manna but it says they set our soul loads this bread from heaven that you and I would love to see manna would we not, I'd love to go and see manna but I suppose if you're seeing manna every day for 40 years. It might get a little bit old but that's her only choice you're pretty stoked to have some yeah Amanda Berger but they lusted or they craved we shouldn't do that. Verse seven 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 Plano is introducing something that is already introduced and that is idolatry. Okay, so when the Corinthians. Ask is it okay for us to eat meat that has been sacrificed to an idol.

It's because Corinth was filled with worship systems and temples of gods and goddesses everywhere. All of social life was involved in the religious affairs of the Greek gods, so if there was a political rally if there was a business meeting. If there was any kind of social function always involved some sort of sacrifice of a pagan god or goddess was part and parcel of the life of Cora and some of the believers. Ours are struggling with. Can I eat meat from those places are what about people who see me eating that kind of stuff so the idea of idolatry is being introduced from the children of Israel into the situation, but we shouldn't become idolaters a sum of them as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. So what did they do with their liberty. They sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play now when they rose up to play is not there when it rose up to play the game of golf or chess or checkers. They rose up to play and party sensually and that was when Moses was up on that mountain receiving the accolade.

The 10 Commandments from the Lord, and he came down and he heard them partying and God's a good down quickly.

These people of already turned aside so he gets. Moses comes down with the 10 Commandments.

You know how it goes and there's Erin.

And when Moses was up there. They said you know Moses that the long time you know it's become a guide, you know.

They said Aaron get we want to, you know we want we want out some visible representation representation of God.

So Aaron took an offering. Got all their jewelry or gold and threw it into the fire and then he made a golden calf, but he told Moses. Here's the here's the excuse he said to Moses was yeah well it was really weird. I took their goal and I chucked it into the fire and out came the staff must've been a really powerful fire to have an automatic idol maker inside of it is out pop this false idol that they worship just a little lame excuse. It was Billy Sunday the evangelist to set an excuse is just the skin of her reasons stuffed with ally and that's what happened with them in the wilderness and Erin telling Moses was the skin of a reason stuffed with ally.

The people sat down to eat and drink and they rose up to play so they were eating food sacrificed to an idol. You get the connection. The idol of the golden calf in the wilderness, nor let us commit sexual immorality as some of them did and in one day 23,000 fell no work work work. He's picking out different portions of the wilderness wanderings and showing that the children of Israel who had liberty squander their liberty so a numbers chapter 25, 23, 24, 25, you know that area. That's when they lick the son of Sapor called for bail him to come and curse the children of Israel, so bailing comes from Mesopotamia comes to political bail pay or looks over the encampments of Israel. The 10th of Israel and sees God's people and begins to bless them and basically say these are God's people gods bless them their awesome look at that. Check it out and Bailey just get sport and he says I called you here to curse the children. Visual your blessing them as he said how can I curse what God is. Bless and so this happened a few diabetics it will go from this rigid person over there and he goes overleveraged blesses them over there that didn't work.

Go over that ridge and personal vehicles are there. Bless them again. So when bailiwick is at his limit and so upset with Belo and Zeno go home get out here you're not worth anything, bail and said well I can't curse the ones God has blessed but you could do something they like you could have the Moabite women, your women go into the camp of Israel were the Israelite men are the soldiers the front line at the back of a possible battle go into their the man would get those women who are idol worshipers and introduce them to your worship system.

Another worship system as they would come onto a guy for sexual favors.

That's how the gods of the Canaanites and goddesses were worship are they would often engage in a procreative act. They would bring out the idol, it would say a prayer to it and so what Damon was saying is look. If if you tempt them sensually, sexually and then bring in the idolatrous thing you don't have to have me curse them. God himself will curse you bring a curse that will bring a curse on themselves. If you introduce that kind of idolatry.

So that was the idea behind what Balin did to the children of Israel so that is exactly what happened and when that happened on that day they started dropping like flies is 23,000 fell in one day. Now some of you know your Bibles going away to escape.

I've I've actually read Numbers 25 and it doesn't say that it's is 24,000 fell and so what you have your people to see there's a discrepancy in the Bible.

There are so many discrepancies in the Bible there's always contradiction they love the stuff, but every time they do that they did their digging a hole for themselves and they try to do that because of the argument. First of all Paul the apostle, a Jewish rabbi knew the text of Scripture that's plain and simple you think it was like an idiot not all. I forgot to add that I hadn't read it recently so you know I'm just rounding up the number know he said here. Listen 23,000 fell in one day. Do you want to be brilliant to figure this out 24,000 died in the entire place on one day alone, 23,000 and a total of another thousand 24,000. Paul's point is 23,000 died. This judgment was swift and it happened in one day, nor let us tempt Christ as some of them also attempted and were destroyed by serpents night that that is yet a difference with us numbers chapter 21. The people were complaining. You know will bring us water, bring us food our soul hates this horrible junkie manna. I'm tired of the manna bread and manicotti and I'm tired of it done and so the Lord allowed serpents to crawl through the camp and the encampment of Israel by people and they died from the service as a judgment upon their attitude but you know the rest of the story. Moses cried out to God, God said, you know, Mo, you can cure this plague if you take a serpent of brass serpent make one at a breast really quickly to shape under Skippy's breath shaping a serpent tack it up on this whole lift up the pole until people look at the brass serpent anybody who looks at that serpent will be healed. Just look at the serpent to be healed so Moses didn't put it up. Hey you guys look all the people looked and they were healed, but I'm sure there are people on the other side of the encampment of Islam is a mile and 1/2 away. The whole gamut of that many people thought I met a wok or 1/2 a mile to walk 1/2 mile across the campus. Somebody said look at a brass serpent and I'm to be healed. That's the stupidest nonscientific thing I've ever hurt the science says only medicine will will cure you Moses said look at a brass serpent. He's denying the science it was unscientific. It was illogical, but it worked. So whoever looked by faith was healed of the corollary is what Jesus said to Nicodemus as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness of the Son of Man will be lifted up, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. You tell people believe in Jesus. All you have to do is trust in Jesus and he will give you salvation from your sin, your passes washed away.

He will not hold it against you will promise peace and meaning in the present and eternal glory in the future. All you gotta do is look to Jesus will look at Jesus. Christ crucified, look to him a look of faith and trust in him a lot so unscientific, illogical, but it works.

Ask anybody who's done it his life is been transformed. Check it out. It really works, nor let us tempt Christ as some of them also attempted were destroyed by serpents nor murmur verse 10 as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happen to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the end of the ages have come just a word about verse 10, nor murmur.

No murmuring, complaining is an easy thing to get into the habit of doing the bad habit.

Some people are really good at it. Some people have perfected the art of complaining to me the AC a negative in every thing in the complaint under better in their palmed and there they murmur mama mama next time you feel tempted to complain about something fellow American.

Just remember your garbage disposal eats better than 30% of the people that live on this planet, nor let us murmur as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer is why the Bible says and here's here's the solution if you're kinda given to that you know that the antidotes murmuring us Thanksgiving making sure you're the kind of a person that thanks God for the tender mercies it was CH McIntosh, one of my favorite old dead guys who said 10,000 mercies are forgotten in a single trifling moment. You know, here's the miracles of the wilderness and the covering of the cloud and the water from the rock in the parting of the Red Sea and the manna from heaven all of its forgotten in a single trifling moment and so it talks about enrollments that they complained, neither were they thankful so start counting the blessings God has given you, I breakfasted a wow II can II can drive a car today.

I have friends around me. I have a roof over my head's turn into a thankful person. These things were written for our examples for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stand take heed lest he fall really important Scripture really great text. One of my favorite but it was thinks he stand take heed lest he fall. Maybe that is a truth that simply could be stated this way you're not as strong as you think you are all I can handle that temptation. All I can handle those people you're not as strong as you. You think you are when you are self-confident as a person. That's a the world would say that's a great trait and it's good to have a confidence but not I think it's misplaced. If it's all self-confidence. If you are in Christ and it's a God confidence so it's your confident in God working through yourself. Yes, good. But self-confidence by itself is a bad trait because self-confident people don't depend on God or depend less and less and got the more self-confident you are, the less and less you depend upon God. That's why Paul in second Corinthians will say God showed me that his strength was perfected in my weakness. The thorn in the flesh. Second Corinthians 12 sauna post in my weakness because when I'm weak, then I'm strong, I'm not self-confident confident in him but I know my own weaknesses in my limitation so really great text of Scripture in Proverbs 16 that I think this is based on you know it well. Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly. Then to divide the spoil with the proud. Think of examples in the Bible of those who were self-confident, Peter. When Jesus said Peter you can deny me oh Lord, I'd never deny you all go to death with you the other flaky disciples of yours they might deny you but I'm Peter Barack remember I'm good self-confidence.

The church at Laodicea, self-confident in Revelation 2 and 3 to 7 letters to the seven churches. They said we are wealthy we have need of nothing but self-confidence. Jesus said, actually you are wretched and miserable naked and blind. So your evaluation of yourself is very different than my evaluation of you so therefore let him who thinks he stand take heed lest he fall. Here I'm ready to go through the whole chapter and then some, but yeah, probably just and here no temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear the Yacht is this God gives you a way to escape the temptation you and I we need to look for the way and take it and hightail it there as quickly as possible. The temptations are going to come. We are taught to pray lead us not into temptation below will never personally himself lead us into a comfortable place, but he does allow Satan he allows us to be in the world controlled by Satan.

And so we do get tempted, but no temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man and God is faithful. He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able with the temptation will also make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear, so the children of Israel. This is their history. This is their background and I will take that example next week, and in using that example springboard into the whole liberty thing and and and and tie absolute sense.

If I only had two hours to go to the text, it would be better but I don't so let me let me say this. When the children of Israel were delivered from Egypt and it was the miracle of the Red Sea, the miracle of the man on the water.

All those provisions, they were off to a great start, but a good start doesn't guarantee a great finish. They started well. They finished poorly and so often we talk about finishing well and I had a dear brother and our fellowship was that I'm praying for you Skip that you finish well. Thank you. Pray for that I want to finish my course. Well, that's what Paul said in acts chapter 20 was on his way to Jerusalem. He said I know that the Holy Spirit is told me that things are happening in Jerusalem and Emma to get beat up and arrested. None of these things move me nor do I count my life dear unto myself that I might finish my race with joy in the ministry that I've been given of the Lord Jesus said, my food is to do the will of him that sent me into finish his work. So let's all be about. We been delivered. God has given us glorious freedom, glorious liberty in Christ. Let's not squander the liberty let's not abuse the liberty like Israel did. And again I said last week, will tie altogether next week for how chapter 8, nine and 10 should be taken as a whole. This person would then Skip the message from the series expound first Karen you Skip to share. You can keep this broadcast going strong connecting you and many others to the Lord, you know we face a lot of uncertainty in the future right, but there's one thing that certain and stands forever. That's God in his word. We do love to come alongside believers around the world and encourage them to hold fast to the truths of the Bible and today you can help connect people with the unchanging steadfast truth of God's word. Here's how does it connectwithskip.com/donate to give a gift that's connectwithskip.com/donate or call 800-922-1888, 800-922-1888. Thank you for your generosity and come back tomorrow escape heights of shares why the Old Testament is as important as ever for your life today Old Testament is relevant to New Testament believers. In fact, the old testament anticipates the New Testament is the Old Testament. You remember that predicted a new covenant got to make a new covenant in Jeremiah with the house of his