Learn From The Past

Opening:

Story

An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a sarcophagus containing a mummy.

After examining it, he called the curator of a prestigious natural-history

museum.

"I’ve just discovered the 3,000 year-old mummy of a man who died of heart

failure!" the excited scientist exclaimed.

The curator replied, "Bring him in. We’ll check it out."

A week later, the amazed curator called the archaeologist.

"You were right about the mummy’s age and cause of death. How in the world

did you know?"

"Easy. There was a piece of paper in his hand that said, ’10,000 Shekels on Goliath’.

Intro

Learning from history

The Example (10:1–5)

The Symbol

Baptized into Moses (10:1–2)

All Israelites (old/young - Faithful/Rebellious) followed the cloud or went through the sea

All baptized into moses this way

The Israelites baptism (symbolic) was similar to the Corinthians baptism into Jesus

The Israelites are our spiritual forefathers

The Spiritual

Spiritual food and drink (10:3–4)

Mana & water from the rock

They came from the spirit of God

similarly Christ is the corinthians spiritual food & drink - ie communion

John 6:31-35

The Physical

God killed them (10:5)

Pauls main concern was not all who partake will live

5X in 4 verses Paul says “all of the Israelites”

God was not pleased with the multitude

why, they hadn’t changed

ignorant

prideful

The Reason (10:6–13)

The Trap

Christians should not set their hearts on evil things (10:6–10)

5X He warns them not to behave like the Israelites (10:7-10)

He shows them 5 times that the experience in the wilderness were examples of bad christian behavior

#1 - Avoid desiring evil things

setting their hearts - ie. desire

#2 - Avoid Idolatry

things that take the place of our worship of God

#3 - Avoid Sexual Immorality

avoid unlawful sexual desire

only one correct- sex & marriage between one man & woman

#4 - Avoid Testing God

Num 21:4-9/

They rebelled, rejected the manna, and yelled at God

#5 - Avoid Complaining

The Israelites complained from day 1

The Fall

Christians may fall as Israel did (10:11–13)

Paul warns them not to follow in the wrongful steps of the Israelites

Paul explains that in doing so would keep you out of relationship with God

The same word he uses is found only twice

Num. 11:34 & Prov. 1:22/

Only two that left Egypt were allowed in The Command (10:14–22)

Paul exhorted them to live as the “fulfillment of the ages”

echos Heb.10:26-30/

we must not be overconfident

lest we fall

The Body

Lord’s Supper (10:15–17)

Jewish sacrifices (10:18)

The Demons

Pagan sacrifices (10:19–20)

Flee/resist idolatry (10:14, 21–22)

The Process (10:23–11:1)

The Neighbor

Seek the good of others (10:23–24, 32–33)

The Creator

Do all for God’s glory (10:31)

Follow Paul’s example (11:1)