_PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY_ ‘I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; … But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.’ 1 Corinthians 10:1 It is with us exactly as it was... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SPIRITUAL ROCK_ ‘They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.’ 1 Corinthians 10:4 Observe that it followed them. God went before His people in the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire. I. GUIDANCE.—So He was their guide. Christ _ followed_ them in all th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AGAINST MURMURING_ ‘Neither murmur ye.’ 1 Corinthians 10:10 Peevishness and discontent are not Christ-like. His wish for us, ‘Do all things without murmurings.’ ‘Take no anxious thought.’ ‘Fret not thyself.’ Selfishness the root of discontent. I. INSIGNIFICANT PROVOCATIONS.—Petty worries, cros... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE CHRISTIAN’S WARNING_ ‘Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.’ 1 Corinthians 10:12 At the time the Apostle wrote it was a very dangerous thing to profess oneself a Christian. It was very seldom that a Christian apostatised, but sometimes it did happen that the faith of one... [ Continue Reading ]
_TEMPTATION_ ‘There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able.’ 1 Corinthians 10:13 Even Shakespeare, with his great knowledge of character, can help us here:— ‘ ’Tis one thing to be tempted, Escal... [ Continue Reading ]
_A WAY TO ESCAPE_ ‘God … will with the temptation also make a way to escape.’ 1 Corinthians 10:13 The promise is not that we shall be not tempted, nor that our natural strength shall be the measure of the temptation permitted. We have no power of ourselves to help ourselves. I. WHAT GOD PROMISE... [ Continue Reading ]
_WORDS TO THE WISE_ ‘I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.’ 1 Corinthians 10:15 We are met together not to exalt ourselves, but for the great and definite purpose of trying to build one another up in our most holy faith, and of learning how we may the better extend, both at home and abroad... [ Continue Reading ]
_COMMUNION WITH CHRIST_ ‘The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?’ 1 Corinthians 10:16 As those to whom this Epistle was sent read St. Paul’s argument, they might or might not agree... [ Continue Reading ]
_CHRISTIAN LIFE_ ‘Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.’ 1 Corinthians 10:31 From the day of a man’s birth, when he became a creature of God, the whole of his service was due to his Creator. From the hour of his baptism, wherein he was adopted into t... [ Continue Reading ]