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Today we are in 1 Corinthians 10.
Please open your bibles or bible apps to that passage.
1 Corinthians 10 has a couple verses which are at least familiar to many Christians.
And,
Context?
We use these passages a lot in our lives, and they do apply broadly to life.
However, we need to remember that no verse is without a context.
1 Corinthians 10 begins with, “For.”
This word signals that the following is a reason for the thoughts that came before.
We need to keep in mind what Paul has been talking about in the context order to really understand this passage.
Let’s remember the context because we will see the argument began in 1 Corinthians 8, continued and come full circle here in 1 Corinthians 10.
The Historical Context
Meat sacrificed to idols, and sold in the market place.
Business dealings were done at the temples.
Some Christians felt free to eat the cheaper meat: Idols are not real.
There is only one God
Other Christians, having just come out of idol worship, felt that eating that meat, or going to a meal at the temple was getting involved in idol worship.
Seeing other Christians do it, led them to live in their old life, worshiping God and worshiping idols.
They argued.
The Scriptural Context - Knowledge vs. Love
The Scriptural Context - Rights vs. Love
Paul’s conclusion:
That’s easy for you to say.
You don’t have to do it.
You don’t live here.
The Scriptural Context - Giving up Rights for the Gospel
16 questions, rhetorical questions showing how Paul gave up his rights to come and share the gospel with them that they might be saved.
Giving up my rights for the sake of others and the gospel is not easy.
It goes against my very nature.
It takes work.
Paul ends with this phrase, not wanting to be disqualified for the prize.
Earlier he mentioned “I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.”
What does he mean by that?
That is where Paul picks up in what we call chapter 10.
Remember, Paul did not write in chapters.
He wrote a letter without breaks as we have them in our Bible.
He continues his explanation in chapter 10, by saying, For...
Let’s read it together, and discuss it as we go.
Examples
In talking about being disqualified, Paul uses the illustration of Israel.
They were all saved coming out of Egypt.
They all were led by the same cloud.
They all went through the Red Sea.
They all experienced God’s miraculous salvation and divine guidance in their lives.
They all experienced God’s provision for them physically and spiritually.
Paul also makes the observation that Christ was the spiritual rock that led and provided for them.
Christ is found all through the Old Testament, long before He was born as a human baby and named, “Jesus.”
However, even though they all had these same advantages, many of them died in the wilderness.
Why?
God was not pleased with them.
God’s Discipline
God disciplines His people when they sin against Him.
We saw that with Israel, and we saw that earlier in 1 Corinthians 5, when there was a brother engaged in sexual immorality.
This one was to be handed over to Satan to be disciplined.
We are going to see it in 1 Cor 11, when we cover Communion.
There, Paul will speak of some in their church who had died because the Lord was disciplining them for not living as they ought as Christians.
The Lord does discipline those He loves, right?
Paul was saying in chapter 9, that he disciplines himself in giving up his rights for the sake of the gospel because he did not want to face God’s discipline, and thus miss out on some of the blessings of salvation.
Paul was not speaking of losing his salvation, but the discipline of God.
Example of child missing out of blessing.
Discipline Warning - Idolaters
Exodus 32 They wanted to worship the Lord, the God who brought them out of Egypt.
Aaron made an idol and all it God.
They worshiped, and it went south because they worshiped the way they worshiped the idols, the gods, of Egypt.
Idol - idols are anything more fundamental than God for our happiness, meaning, and identity.
They are inordinate desires for even good things such as material possessions, a career, family, marriage, achievement, work, independence, political cause, financial security, human approval, romance.
All of these things are good in and of themselves.
But what ends up happening for many people is that these created things become ultimate things.
Stephen T. Um, 1 Corinthians: The Word of the Cross, ed.
R. Kent Hughes, Preaching the Word (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015), 179.
Discipline Warning - Immorality
Numbers 25.
Already addressed in this letter.
Discipline Warning - Testing Christ
Numbers 21.
Testing.
Knowing God has, and can, approaching Him to test if He will do what we want, rather than approaching with humility and faith.
Discipline Warning - Grumbling
Numbers 16.
Grumbling against the leader Moses.
These were examples to us.
Warning - This is for you when you take your stand
1 Cor 8.1-2 “Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.”
But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.”
Warning - Fleeing is better than Standing
Those idols are nothing… however, your actions are viewed from other’s eyes.
You have an audience.
What message are you sending?
So, about eating food sacrificed to idols...
Don’t sin against a brother by exercising your rights (sinning against Christ) | Flee any form of sin against the Lord
Give up rights for the Gospel | Seek the good of others
God’s glory is more important than my rights.
Theodore Monod, Looking Unto Jesus,
Looking Unto Jesus … Unto Jesus ... and not at the interests of our cause, of our party, of our church -- still less at our personal interests.
The single object of our life is the glory of God; if we do not make it the supreme goal of our efforts, we must deprive ourselves of His help, for His grace is only at the service of His glory.
If, on the contrary, it is His glory that we seek above all, we can always count on His grace.
What about me?
Flee any form of sin against the Lord
Give up rights for the Gospel - Seek the good of others
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