Class 1 from this series was used in GCT Episode 355.<\/p>\n
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\nFirst Corinthians 10 verses 19
\nthrough to 1st Corinthians 11 <\/p>\n
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\nverse one, and we’ll ask Brother
\nAlvin Brown to come forward and <\/p>\n
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\nread that to us.
\nHow do you? <\/p>\n
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\nRead this one.
\nReading with your brethren and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters from first Corinthians
\n10 verses 19 three to 11 verse <\/p>\n
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\none.
\nWhat shall I say then? <\/p>\n
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\nThat the idol is anything, or
\nthat which is offered in <\/p>\n
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\nsacrifice to idols is anything
\nbut. <\/p>\n
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\nI say that the things which the
\nGentiles sacrifice, they <\/p>\n
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\nsacrifice the devils, and not to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I would not that you should
\nhave fellowship with devils. <\/p>\n
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\nYou cannot drink the cup of the
\nLord and the cup of devils. <\/p>\n
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\nYou cannot be partakers of the
\nLord’s table and the table of <\/p>\n
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\ndevils.
\nDo we provoke the Lord to <\/p>\n
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\njealousy?
\nAre we stronger than He? <\/p>\n
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\nAll things are lawful for me,
\nbut all things are not <\/p>\n
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\nexpedient.
\nAll things are lawful for me, <\/p>\n
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\nbut all things edify not.
\nLet no man seek his own, but <\/p>\n
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\nevery man another’s wealth
\nwhatsoever is sold in the <\/p>\n
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\nshambles that eat asking no
\nquestions for conscience sake. <\/p>\n
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\nFor the earth is the Lord’s, and
\nthe fullness thereof. <\/p>\n
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\nIf any of them believe not, bid
\nyou to a feast, and you’d be <\/p>\n
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\ndisposed to go whatsoever is set
\nbefore you, eat asking that <\/p>\n
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\nquestion for conscience sake.
\nBut if any man say unto you, <\/p>\n
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\nThis is offered in sacrifice
\nunto idols, eat not for the sake<\/p>\n
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\nthat show that showed it, and
\nfor conscience sake. <\/p>\n
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\nFor the earth is the Lord’s, and
\nthe fullness thereof. <\/p>\n
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\nConscience, I say, is not thine
\nown, but of the other. <\/p>\n
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\nFor why is my liberty judged of
\nanother man’s conscience? <\/p>\n
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\nFor if by grace be a partaker,
\nwhy am I evil spoken of for that<\/p>\n
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\nwhich is for, for that which I
\ngive thanks. <\/p>\n
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\nWhether therefore ye eat or
\ndrink, or whatsoever ye do, do <\/p>\n
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\nall to the glory of God, Give
\nnone offence, neither to the <\/p>\n
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\nJews, nor to the Gentiles, nor
\nto the Ecclesia of God, even as <\/p>\n
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\nI please all men in all things,
\nnot seeking my own prophet, but <\/p>\n
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\nthe prophet of many, that they
\nmay be saved, be followers of <\/p>\n
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\nme, even as I also am of Christ.
\nThanks, Elvin. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, well, we’ll now ask
\nBrother Ben to come forward and <\/p>\n
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\naddress us.
\nAll things are lawful, but not <\/p>\n
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\nall things are expedient.
\nThank you, brother Stephen. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning my dear brothers
\nand sisters in our Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist.
\nAs it’s become a habit now, <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a couple of points I
\njust want to pick up from <\/p>\n
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\nyesterday morning which were
\nraised with me. <\/p>\n
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\nThe first thing to do is to
\nacknowledge actually that I get <\/p>\n
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\nI got the order of the Feast of
\nUnleavened Bread in the Passover<\/p>\n
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\ncompletely wrong.
\nSomeone very helpfully pointed <\/p>\n
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\nout to me actually that the
\nFeast of Unleavened Bread is <\/p>\n
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\nafter the Passover, not before.
\nAnd I apologise for the <\/p>\n
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\nlooseness of of Scripture in
\nthat position. <\/p>\n
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\nInterestingly, the principle
\ninvolved is actually even more <\/p>\n
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\npowerful because it makes sense
\nwith what Paul’s saying there <\/p>\n
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\nwhere he says to take away the
\nleaven for even our Christ, our <\/p>\n
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\nPassover is sacrificed.
\nIn other words, he’s saying the <\/p>\n
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\nthe sacrifice of the Passover
\nhas already occurred and now is <\/p>\n
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\nthe time to remove the leaven.
\nSo I’ll still stand very much by<\/p>\n
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\nthe principle, but thank you to
\nthose who who actually got me to<\/p>\n
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\nuse Scripture correctly.
\nThey’re out of Exodus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the second one is just a
\npoint that someone’s raised, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich I think is very powerful
\nand worth reiterating. <\/p>\n
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\nThat whilst in many respects we
\nare looking at ecclesial life <\/p>\n
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\nand the principles associated
\nwith ecclesial life. <\/p>\n
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\nThat in almost every
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\nbetween our own individual lives
\nand an ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nThat in essence the principles
\nof how we live our individual <\/p>\n
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\nlife are just those which are
\nexpanded into ecclesial life and<\/p>\n
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\nlikewise the principles that
\nwork in ecclesial life are those<\/p>\n
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\nthat can become very powerful
\nfor our individual life. <\/p>\n
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\nSo where the lessons might be
\nmight seem to be focused more on<\/p>\n
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\neclesial life together, which in
\nitself is not bad, but we can <\/p>\n
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\nalso take those and apply them
\nto ourselves personally as well.<\/p>\n
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\nSo we come to our section this
\nmorning which is going to come <\/p>\n
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\nup from chapter 8 through to
\nChapter 11. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Apostle Paul had some
\nunsavouring and difficult <\/p>\n
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\nsubjects he had to deal with in
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\nwe can be eternally grateful
\nthat instead of just answering <\/p>\n
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\nrule that answered that <\/p>\n
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\nInstead, he transcends the issue
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\nprinciple of how issues should <\/p>\n
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\nEcclesia, but he gives us <\/p>\n
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\npowerful insight 2000 years
\nlater on how we can also pattern<\/p>\n
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\nour lives.
\nAlso the power of life lived <\/p>\n
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\nupon the foundation principles
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\nand Co labourers with the Lord.
\nEvery one of the issues that the<\/p>\n
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\nApostle addresses in the
\nCorinthian ecclesia he addresses<\/p>\n
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\nby going back to the principle
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\nAnd so this morning, we shall
\ndeal with another principle at <\/p>\n
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\nstake.
\nYou could call it, because it’s <\/p>\n
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\nthe meat offered to idols from
\nChapter 8 through to Chapter 11.<\/p>\n
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\nWhat we’ll find is that the
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\neating meat offered to idols,
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\nchapter one right through to
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\nSo Chapter 11 and the issues he
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\nChapter 8.
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\nmistake in chapter 8.
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\nhe expands on the outcome of
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\nAnd he shows by Chapter 11 that
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\ndevastating impact upon that
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\nmistake had grown and fested in
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\nthem, as Paul tells us, to have
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\nmeeting.
\nThat one small mistake had led <\/p>\n
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\nto a debacle at the memorial
\nmeeting. <\/p>\n
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\nAt the time they were meant to
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\nA minor, seemingly innocuous
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\njust here in chapter 8 had led
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\nbehavioural change by the end of
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\nWe touched on it yesterday and
\nyou’ll see that our title for <\/p>\n
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\nfor today is this idea of all
\nthings are lawful, but all <\/p>\n
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\nthings edify not, which we
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\nBut it’s because the apostle
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\nthat verse as we read this
\nmorning and and focuses that <\/p>\n
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\nthat principle that we saw
\nyesterday to show how it can be <\/p>\n
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\noutworked.
\nHow just such a little academic <\/p>\n
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\njustification has resulted in
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\nAnaclesia.
\nSo first Corinthians 8 and verse<\/p>\n
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\n1\/3 to verse 4.
\nJust see if you can find the <\/p>\n
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\nkeyword here as we read through
\nnow as touching things offered <\/p>\n
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\nunto idols.
\nWe know that we all have <\/p>\n
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\nknowledge.
\nKnowledge puffeth up, but love <\/p>\n
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\nedifieth and if any man think
\nthat he knoweth anything he <\/p>\n
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\nknoweth nothing yet as he ought
\nto know. <\/p>\n
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\nIf any man love God the same as
\nknown of him as concerning <\/p>\n
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\ntherefore the eating of those
\nthings that are offered and <\/p>\n
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\nsacrifice unto idols.
\nWe know that an idol is nothing <\/p>\n
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\nin the world and that there is
\nnone other God but one. <\/p>\n
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\nNo doubt you’ve seen it.
\nIt’s the concept of know, isn’t <\/p>\n
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\nit to know knowing knowledge
\nthat is actually flows right <\/p>\n
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\nthrough this chapter here and he
\ntakes the the the he talks to <\/p>\n
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\nthe clinger and he says the
\nreality is that we do know. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have a knowledge, a form of
\nknowledge. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got our logical knowledge
\nthat we’ve managed to pull <\/p>\n
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\ntogether and we’re, we’re able
\nto say, I know this. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s often the phrase, isn’t it?
\nI know that this is the case or <\/p>\n
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\nI, I can justify this.
\nIt’s the sense of, of knowing <\/p>\n
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\nand using the, the academic
\nability to know this particular.<\/p>\n
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\nI know that this is the the
\nright case. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, we all know that an
\nthat an idol is nothing. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 4 as concerning the things
\neating of those which are <\/p>\n
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\nsacrificed into idols.
\nWe know that an idol is nothing <\/p>\n
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\nin the world, and so their basis
\nof their reasoning here is based<\/p>\n
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\non that knowledge that that
\nfoundation knowledge that they <\/p>\n
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\nhad, that an idol was nothing.
\nAnd of course we would <\/p>\n
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\nabsolutely agree with that,
\nwouldn’t we? <\/p>\n
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\nAn idol is nothing.
\nIt’s just a hunk of stone or a <\/p>\n
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\nhunk of wood which cannot do
\nanything or change anything. <\/p>\n
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\nSo then we go to the next point.
\nIf an idol is nothing, then I <\/p>\n
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\ncan eat meat that’s been offered
\nto an idol and it won’t have any<\/p>\n
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\nimpact on me whatsoever.
\nAnd that is also exactly right. <\/p>\n
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\nThe reality is, they were
\nexactly right in their knowledge<\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nKnowledge told them, and rightly<\/p>\n
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\nso, that if meat had been
\noffered to an idol, it had <\/p>\n
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\nabsolutely no impact on that
\nmeat whatsoever. <\/p>\n
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\nIf an idol was nothing, they
\ncould legitimately turn around <\/p>\n
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\nand eat meat offered to it, and
\nthat meat would be absolutely no<\/p>\n
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\ndifferent than if it had not
\nbeen offered to an idol in the <\/p>\n
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\n1st place.
\nThere was no physical change, no<\/p>\n
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\nevil that was was attached to
\nthat meat after it had been <\/p>\n
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\noffered to an idol.
\nWe know that that’s the case. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he gives a very strong
\nresponse, doesn’t he? <\/p>\n
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\nIn verse, Verse one is touching
\nthings offered unto idols. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know that we all have
\nknowledge. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve all got that knowledge
\nthat an idol’s nothing and <\/p>\n
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\ntherefore meat offered to it has
\nno impact. <\/p>\n
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\nBut knowledge puffs up and love
\nedifies. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so right here at the
\nbeginning of this particular <\/p>\n
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\nissue of the meat offered to
\nidols, he’s taking us back to <\/p>\n
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\nthe same principles that he
\nraised in our session yesterday.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s about being puffed up, the
\nfact that we’re there in our <\/p>\n
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\npride, pretending to be someone
\nwe’re not, the big puffer fish. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’re coming in our puffed up
\nknowledge that an idol’s <\/p>\n
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\nnothing, but we’re missing the
\nconcept of edification or of <\/p>\n
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\nlove.
\nSo he’s reminding them of that <\/p>\n
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\nearlier principle.
\nTake care not to be puffed up in<\/p>\n
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\nyour own knowledge, taking pride
\nto be able to justify our own <\/p>\n
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\nposition.
\nI’m clever because I know that <\/p>\n
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\nan idol’s nothing and that makes
\nme feel good, that I know that <\/p>\n
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\nit helps me to to feel something
\ngood. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so I’m going to hold on to
\nthat point. <\/p>\n
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\nI can justify it.
\nBut he says, on the other hand, <\/p>\n
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\nlove edifies and this concept of
\nlove edifying the body is 1. <\/p>\n
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\nWe will consider in our session
\ntogether tomorrow a very, very <\/p>\n
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\npowerful concept that he picks
\nup tomorrow. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s interesting just also in
\npassing to to see this contrast <\/p>\n
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\nthat he draws here in verse
\nthree. <\/p>\n
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\nIf any man love God the same as
\nnone of him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here’s one individual who
\nknows that an idol is nothing, <\/p>\n
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\nwho has their knowledge, a
\npuffed up knowledge, and they’re<\/p>\n
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\nusing that as the basis of
\njustification for their actions <\/p>\n
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\nin life.
\nBut on the other hand, he says <\/p>\n
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\nif that man instead learnt to
\nlove God, then actually the <\/p>\n
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\nknowledge would not be one about
\nthe fact that an idol was <\/p>\n
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\nnothing, but would actually be
\nthe knowledge of God himself who<\/p>\n
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\nknows that man as one of his
\nown. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the choice, isn’t it?
\nWe can be puffed up in our <\/p>\n
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\nknowledge and take our position
\nand our justification, or we can<\/p>\n
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\nchoose the love of God and to be
\nknown of God as one of His. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we can technically justify on
\na basis on a legal basis. <\/p>\n
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\nBut remember that question, has
\nit edified, built up and <\/p>\n
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\nassisted our brothers and
\nsisters? <\/p>\n
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\nBut if we love God and edify,
\nthen in turn, God will know us. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we haven’t even actually
\ndealt with the issue of meat <\/p>\n
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\noffered to idols yet.
\nBut right here at the beginning <\/p>\n
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\nis the warning that it’s another
\nmatter. <\/p>\n
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\nYet again, surprisingly, it’s
\nbased upon ego. <\/p>\n
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\nComes out time and time again,
\ndoesn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nEvery ecclesial issue that
\narises, even those that appear <\/p>\n
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\nto have very strong sort of
\nacademic arguments around them <\/p>\n
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\nin the rationale, are actually
\nat their core, matters of ego, <\/p>\n
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\nmatters of individual pride in
\nbeing puffed up. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s warning them that it was
\ntheir clever logic flow they <\/p>\n
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\nwere using to justify their
\nposition was the very thing in <\/p>\n
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\nitself which was puffing them up
\nrather than helping them to <\/p>\n
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\nrespond in edification.
\nVerse 4 As concerning therefore,<\/p>\n
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\nthe eating of those things that
\nthat are offered in sacrifice <\/p>\n
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\nunto idols.
\nWe know that an idol is nothing <\/p>\n
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\nin the world, and that there is
\nnone other God but one. <\/p>\n
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\nFor though there be that are
\ncalled gods, whether in heaven <\/p>\n
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\nor on earth, as there be gods
\nmany and Lords many, but to us <\/p>\n
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\nthere is but one God, the
\nFather, of whom are all things, <\/p>\n
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\nand we in Him and 1 Lord Jesus
\nChrist, by whom are all things, <\/p>\n
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\nand we in Him.
\nThere is a plethora of gods out <\/p>\n
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\nthere, he says, but we all
\nacknowledge together that there <\/p>\n
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\nis only one God, that we are in
\nand by only one God the Father. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we agree both sides of that
\nof that equation agree, don’t <\/p>\n
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\nthey, with the principle that
\nthere is only one God. <\/p>\n
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\nYes, I agree with you, Paul
\nsays. <\/p>\n
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\nWe just need to remember that
\nit’s one God by whom we exist. <\/p>\n
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\nAll of him are all things and we
\nin him. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s just a little reminder that
\nPaul is laying even using their <\/p>\n
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\nargument that actually this is a
\nfocus about God. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s about one God and him that
\nwe focus on and also his son in <\/p>\n
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\nthe way he’s done throughout
\nthis book. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember right from our our very
\nopening sentences in our in our <\/p>\n
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\nsessions together, we’ve seen
\nthis concept of the focus on the<\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ and his work.
\nSo he’s agreeing to their <\/p>\n
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\nprinciple that an idol is
\nnothing, that there is only one <\/p>\n
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\nGod, and that we exist because
\nof and are utterly dependent on <\/p>\n
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\nthe Father and the Son working
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause this becomes an
\nimportant concept as we start to<\/p>\n
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\nwork through this.
\nSo verse 7. <\/p>\n
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\nHowbeit there is not in every
\nman that knowledge. <\/p>\n
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\nFor some with conscience of the
\nidol eat unto this, of the idol <\/p>\n
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\nunto this hour, eat it as a
\nthing offered unto an idol, and <\/p>\n
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\ntheir conscience, being weak, is
\ndefiled. <\/p>\n
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\nSo yes, the principle is
\ncorrect. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can eat meat that has been
\noffered to idol and it will have<\/p>\n
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\nno impact on you.
\nIt can’t have an impact on you <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the idol’s nothing.
\nSo therefore it hasn’t changed <\/p>\n
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\nthe meat.
\nExcept he says that there is a <\/p>\n
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\nbrother here who who has a
\ndifferent knowledge, a different<\/p>\n
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\nway of thinking about it.
\nAnd he looks at it and he says <\/p>\n
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\nthat meat, that that idol is an
\nidol where where people are <\/p>\n
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\nworshipping it.
\nAnd I’m going to go and eat it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut is it because others are?
\nBut as he eats it, his <\/p>\n
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\nconscience is default.
\nHe’s believing that he’s sinning<\/p>\n
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\nas he’s eating that, that he’s
\ngone to eat it, but his <\/p>\n
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\nconscience is eating him out.
\nHe’s saying, I shouldn’t be <\/p>\n
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\ndoing this because this meat has
\nbeen associated with with an <\/p>\n
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\nidol.
\nAnd so we get this situation, <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t we, in ecclesial life,
\nwhere one person says, well, I <\/p>\n
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\ncan see it this way, an idol’s
\nnothing, therefore I can eat it.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd someone else says, well,
\nactually I see it as an idol and<\/p>\n
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\ntherefore I can’t eat it.
\nAnd you get this tension that <\/p>\n
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\narises and occurs as a result of
\nthese different perceptions of <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent matters on, on, on how
\nwe live our life. <\/p>\n
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\nSo yes, the meat itself is
\nirrelevant. <\/p>\n
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\nThe fact that it’s been offered
\nto an idol is irrelevant. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it is possible, even using
\nthat argument, to still have a <\/p>\n
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\nbrother who has a defiled
\nconscience. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here’s the picture that we’re
\nstarting to build up here. <\/p>\n
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\nAn idol is nothing.
\nWas the argument that they were <\/p>\n
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\nputting forward to you, an idol
\nis nothing and therefore we can <\/p>\n
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\neat it?
\nVerse 8 He then says, well, OK, <\/p>\n
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\nlet’s let’s have a look at how
\nimportant it is to eat this meat<\/p>\n
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\noff of the idols.
\nIf if you’re saying an idol is <\/p>\n
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\nnothing and we can eat its meat,
\nlet’s have a look at how <\/p>\n
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\nimportant it is.
\nVerse 8 But meat commendeth us <\/p>\n
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\nnot to God, for neither if we
\neat, are we the better? <\/p>\n
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\nNeither, if we eat not, are we
\nthe worse. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, So what he’s telling us now
\nis OK, so, so you can justify on<\/p>\n
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\na legal basis the fact that the
\nmeat hasn’t changed and <\/p>\n
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\ntherefore it’s it’s edible.
\nAbsolutely correct. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s now take a step back
\nand see what eating that meat <\/p>\n
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\ndoes for you.
\nAnd unbelievably, at the end of <\/p>\n
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\nmeat, eating that meat, you are
\nactually not any better off. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s just like eating any piece
\nof meat or any other food. <\/p>\n
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\nThe eating of that particular
\nmeat has not improved you <\/p>\n
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\nwhatsoever, and if we decided
\nnot to eat that meat, nor would <\/p>\n
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\nthat have hurt us, we wouldn’t
\nhave been any sicker or any <\/p>\n
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\nworse off as a result.
\nFunny enough, we don’t die <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we haven’t eaten meat
\noffered to idols. <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t end up sicker or worse
\noff if we’ve chosen not to eat <\/p>\n
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\nit.
\nSo eating that meat doesn’t help<\/p>\n
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\nour personality or our
\nrelationship with God. <\/p>\n
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\nIt doesn’t even particularly
\nhave an impact on our physical <\/p>\n
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\nwell-being.
\nIf we have other food available.<\/p>\n
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\nIf we don’t eat it, we don’t
\nactually get worse. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd So what we find is, is that
\nthe I get this right? <\/p>\n
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\nThe Corinthians were actually
\nforming this view to say if an <\/p>\n
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\nidol is nothing and therefore
\nmeat offered to an idol is <\/p>\n
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\nnothing, I can actually prove to
\nGod that I accept that idols are<\/p>\n
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\nnothing by eating the meat.
\nThat actually formed this next <\/p>\n
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\nbasis almost of saying if I eat
\nthe meat offered to idols, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nactually commending me to God
\nbecause I’m actually proving to <\/p>\n
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\nGod how much I know that that
\nidol is nothing and therefore I <\/p>\n
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\ncan eat it and it’s and it’s
\nstrengthening my relationship <\/p>\n
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\nwith God.
\nAnd Paul’s just made the point <\/p>\n
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\nvery emphatically.
\nThere is no benefit to you <\/p>\n
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\neating that meat offered to
\nidols. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not going to commend you to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nThere is no physical outcome, no
\nbenefit that you gain from going<\/p>\n
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\nand eating that meat offered to
\nidols. <\/p>\n
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\nIt doesn’t actually help our
\nrelationship with God. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were there in their ego
\nproving to themselves how <\/p>\n
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\nrighteous they were because they
\ncould eat that idol’s meat. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says it has no impact at
\nall. <\/p>\n
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\nThere is there is no benefit at
\nall on that basis. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so the Corinthian brethren
\nwere eating meat offered to <\/p>\n
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\nidols.
\nCan you see that, that this <\/p>\n
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\nprocess of, of argumentative
\nreasoning that’s happening here,<\/p>\n
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\nthey know that an idol is
\nnothing. <\/p>\n
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\nThey can see that that it can
\ncommend me to God if I eat it. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore I’m justified in
\neating the meat offered to <\/p>\n
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\nidols.
\nAnd you’d look at it and you’d <\/p>\n
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\nsay, that’s well, that’s fine,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nThey’ve got their rationale in
\nplace. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:19:37,200 –> 00:19:39,520
\nThey’ve got a logical reason as
\nto why they can eat that meat <\/p>\n
338
\n00:19:39,520 –> 00:19:42,200
\noffered to idols and it has no
\nimpact on them whatsoever. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:43,480 –> 00:19:45,520
\nSo therefore, there’s nothing
\nreally wrong with eating that <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:45,520 –> 00:19:51,160
\nmeat offered to an idols that
\nthat justified themselves and <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:51,160 –> 00:19:55,040
\nthey had justified themselves to
\nothers and they’d given their <\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:55,040 –> 00:19:57,840
\nreasoning and their logic behind
\nit and felt very comfortable in <\/p>\n
343
\n00:19:57,840 –> 00:20:01,760
\ntheir ability to do so.
\nSo Paul’s point here at this <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:01,760 –> 00:20:06,960
\nposition is at best, doing so is
\na nothing is a zero. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:07,920 –> 00:20:11,120
\nThere is no benefit whatsoever
\nthat you get from eating meat <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:11,120 –> 00:20:13,840
\noffered to idols.
\nSo so he’s just laying the <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:13,840 –> 00:20:15,440
\nfoundation, isn’t he?
\nLet’s have a look at this <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:15,440 –> 00:20:18,720
\nconcept of met offer titles at
\nbest is going to do nothing for <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:18,720 –> 00:20:21,800
\nyou.
\nThen he comes to this next <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:21,800 –> 00:20:26,960
\nlittle verse here in verse 9.
\nBut do take heed, he says, lest <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:26,960 –> 00:20:30,640
\nby any means this liberty of
\nyours become a stumbling block <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:30,640 –> 00:20:34,280
\nto them that are weak.
\nFor if any man see thee which <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:34,280 –> 00:20:36,800
\nhas knowledge sit at meat in the
\nidols temple, shall not the <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:36,800 –> 00:20:39,720
\nconscience of him which is weak
\nbe emboldened to eat those <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:39,720 –> 00:20:40,960
\nthings which are offered to
\nidols? <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:41,200 –> 00:20:43,680
\nAnd through thy knowledge shall
\nthe weak brother perish, for <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:43,680 –> 00:20:47,560
\nwhom Christ died also.
\nNow there’s a there’s AI was <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:47,960 –> 00:20:50,360
\ngoing to say a slight change.
\nThere’s a huge change, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:50,360 –> 00:20:53,160
\nThere’s a dramatic cut that
\ncomes across their arguing or <\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:53,160 –> 00:20:56,480
\ntheir their reasoning here.
\nHere they were with this power <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:56,480 –> 00:20:58,840
\nof liberty.
\nWe’re not going to live under <\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:58,840 –> 00:21:02,080
\nthis law, they say.
\nWe’re we’re going to live in, in<\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:02,080 –> 00:21:04,920
\nliberty.
\nWe can transcend the concepts of<\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:04,920 –> 00:21:07,880
\nof this idol.
\nWe’re going to eat meat that’s <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:07,880 –> 00:21:10,000
\noffered to idols because all
\nthings are lawful to me. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:10,360 –> 00:21:14,720
\nI’m at liberty to eat.
\nOh, he says. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:14,720 –> 00:21:19,800
\nJust just be careful because you
\nmay find that an eating freely <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:20,320 –> 00:21:24,160
\nthat meat offered to idols.
\nYou’ve just cast a stumbling <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:24,160 –> 00:21:27,920
\nblock in front of your brother
\nor your young person. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:30,520 –> 00:21:35,120
\nYou’ve just caused another
\nperson, another brother or <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:35,120 –> 00:21:39,040
\nsister, another young person to
\nstumble and fall in the truth. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:41,480 –> 00:21:47,320
\nSo yes, you’re right.
\nYou may be able to justify the <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:47,320 –> 00:21:51,600
\neating of the meat offered to
\nidols, but you’ve just hurt <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:51,600 –> 00:21:56,240
\nsomeone else in doing so.
\nI don’t know if you noticed in <\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:56,240 –> 00:21:59,760
\nverse 10, there’s a there’s a
\nsmall but very explosive <\/p>\n
376
\n00:21:59,760 –> 00:22:05,280
\naddition to the equation here.
\nIf any man shall see thee which <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:05,280 –> 00:22:12,080
\nhast knowledge sit at meat in
\nthe idols temple. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:15,120 –> 00:22:18,280
\nSo the justification had
\nactually gone another step <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:18,280 –> 00:22:23,640
\nfurther and idols nothing.
\nI can eat meat off into idol and<\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:23,640 –> 00:22:26,680
\nit’s not going to hurt me.
\nAnd in fact, because an idol’s <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:26,680 –> 00:22:31,000
\nnothing, I can actually go up to
\nthe idols temple and inside the <\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:31,000 –> 00:22:34,560
\nidols temple I can eat meat
\noffered to idols and because an <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:34,560 –> 00:22:36,080
\nidol’s nothing, it’s not going
\nto hurt me. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:36,560 –> 00:22:39,280
\nCan you see the little
\nprogression of behaviour that’s <\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:39,280 –> 00:22:42,280
\nstarting to occur here?
\nThere’s a logical argument and <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:42,280 –> 00:22:45,040
\nreasoning here.
\nAn idol’s nothing, I can eat <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:45,040 –> 00:22:47,640
\nmeat offered to idols.
\nIt’s just that phrase which <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:47,640 –> 00:22:49,920
\nshivers down my spine when I
\nfirst saw it there. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:50,920 –> 00:22:53,560
\nIf any man see thee which hast
\nknowledge, sit it meat in the <\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:53,560 –> 00:22:55,640
\nidols temple.
\nAnd you can just see Currently <\/p>\n
391
\n00:22:55,640 –> 00:22:59,200
\nthe sense now in which their
\nlegal justification, their basis<\/p>\n
392
\n00:22:59,200 –> 00:23:02,120
\nof self justification, where
\nthey’d said I can do this, has <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:02,120 –> 00:23:05,960
\nnow resulted in them as brothers
\nand sisters sitting in the idols<\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:05,960 –> 00:23:10,240
\ntemple and starting to eat that
\nmeat offered to idols in the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:10,240 –> 00:23:15,080
\nidols temple.
\nI can go up to the temple of the<\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:15,080 –> 00:23:18,120
\nidols and sit in the temple and
\neat that meat offered to idols. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:18,120 –> 00:23:20,280
\nAnd because an idol is nothing,
\nit’s not going to hurt me. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:21,040 –> 00:23:24,640
\nFrom a purely legal sort of
\nrational argument perspective, <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:24,640 –> 00:23:27,800
\nit’s true.
\nIf an idol is nothing, going and<\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:27,800 –> 00:23:29,280
\nsitting in their temple
\nshouldn’t hurt you. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:30,800 –> 00:23:34,160
\nYou’ll have no impact, no, no
\nphysical impact by eating that <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:34,160 –> 00:23:44,760
\nmeat on a purely legal basis.
\nBut his point was verse 10, as <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:44,760 –> 00:23:48,520
\nwe saw the man, the brother sees
\nthem going there. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:48,800 –> 00:23:52,080
\nHis own conscience, which is
\nweak, is emboldened. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:52,560 –> 00:23:54,720
\nHe thinks, well, if they can do
\nit, I can do it as well. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:55,440 –> 00:23:59,920
\nAnd through thy knowledge shall
\nthe weak brother perish, for <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:00,960 –> 00:24:08,200
\nwhom Christ died.
\nSomeone may see you and decide <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:08,200 –> 00:24:10,240
\nthat they can do the same thing
\nas you’ve justified. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:10,240 –> 00:24:12,920
\nAnd they’re emboldened and they
\ngo up to the evil idols temple <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:13,360 –> 00:24:18,120
\nand they eat and they sin.
\nAnd through thy puffed up <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:18,120 –> 00:24:20,040
\nknowledge shall thy weak brother
\nperish. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:20,080 –> 00:24:22,840
\nAnd that that phrase at the end,
\nwhich is just awful, isn’t it, <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:22,840 –> 00:24:27,880
\nfor whom Christ died.
\nSo a little justification here <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:27,880 –> 00:24:30,000
\nto say an idol’s nothing,
\ntherefore I can eat meat off <\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:30,000 –> 00:24:33,200
\ninto idols, has now led to a
\nposition where I’ve justified <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:33,200 –> 00:24:36,080
\nbeing in the idol’s temple and
\nI’ve caused one of my brothers <\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:36,080 –> 00:24:39,320
\nto also go to the idol’s temple,
\nand I’ve lost him to the idols. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:40,960 –> 00:24:43,800
\nAnd there’s just that little
\nphrase of that, brother, by the <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:43,800 –> 00:24:47,600
\nway, that you have just
\ndestroyed is 1 for whom the Lord<\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:47,600 –> 00:24:52,200
\nJesus Christ was prepared to
\nhang on the stake he gave his <\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:52,200 –> 00:24:54,680
\nlife.
\nHow dare we, brothers and <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:54,680 –> 00:24:57,520
\nsisters, be in a position where
\nwe have got our own puffed up <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:57,560 –> 00:25:01,440
\nknowledge and self justification
\nthat justifies our actions in <\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:01,440 –> 00:25:04,400
\nlife.
\nAnd we use that justification to<\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:04,400 –> 00:25:07,400
\nsay we’re righteous and we
\ndestroy someone who’s struggling<\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:08,240 –> 00:25:12,240
\nthrough our bad example, who the
\nLord Jesus Christ was prepared <\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:12,240 –> 00:25:14,320
\nto die for.
\nHe brings them up with an <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:14,320 –> 00:25:17,120
\nabsolute jolt, doesn’t he?
\nActually, your actions are not <\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:17,120 –> 00:25:19,640
\njust puffed up in pride, but
\nthey are causing now a <\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:19,640 –> 00:25:22,520
\ndestruction of your brother.
\nAnd that’s a brother for whom <\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:22,520 –> 00:25:25,760
\nChrist hung on the stick.
\nThere’s a, there’s a dramatic <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:25,760 –> 00:25:28,320
\nchange in perspective that comes
\nover the story here from an <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:28,320 –> 00:25:30,360
\nidol’s nothing.
\nI can easily eat this meat. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:30,360 –> 00:25:33,160
\nOffer to idol and I can eat in
\nits temple because it’s nothing.<\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:33,160 –> 00:25:36,320
\nYes, but in doing so, you’ve
\ndestroyed this brother. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:36,880 –> 00:25:40,040
\nAnd that brother happens to be
\nsomeone for whom the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:40,040 –> 00:25:44,320
\nChrist died.
\nIf we could only keep this <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:44,320 –> 00:25:46,880
\nperspective, brothers and
\nsisters and young people. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:25:48,280 –> 00:25:51,280
\nIf we could only remember when
\nit’s a question of some silly <\/p>\n
440
\n00:25:51,280 –> 00:25:54,600
\nlittle piece of meat that we
\nwant to eat, or some other silly<\/p>\n
441
\n00:25:54,600 –> 00:25:59,080
\nlittle action or activity that
\nwe want to undertake, that we <\/p>\n
442
\n00:25:59,080 –> 00:26:03,600
\ncan never risk the potential
\nthat our own wants and our own <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:03,600 –> 00:26:06,840
\njustification have destroyed a
\nbrother or a young person for <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:06,840 –> 00:26:09,440
\nwhom Christ died.
\nSuffer yourselves to be <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:09,440 –> 00:26:11,920
\ndefrauded.
\nHe says all things edify, not <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:12,040 –> 00:26:16,160
\ndestroy not him with thy meat.
\nHow could we possibly take a <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:16,160 –> 00:26:19,560
\npathetic piece of meat and put
\nthat ahead of the life of our <\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:19,560 –> 00:26:21,520
\nbrother?
\nThat piece of meat which does <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:21,520 –> 00:26:23,560
\nnothing for us whether we eat it
\nor not. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:24,720 –> 00:26:28,840
\nBut so often we do.
\nWe let the little things of life<\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:28,840 –> 00:26:32,160
\nget to us.
\nWe demand our rights. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:26:33,480 –> 00:26:38,120
\nWe want what we want, and it
\ngets not just in the way of us <\/p>\n
453
\n00:26:38,120 –> 00:26:42,960
\nhelping and building up those
\nwho are in real need, but <\/p>\n
454
\n00:26:42,960 –> 00:26:46,920
\nactually cause causes the
\ndestruction of our brethren. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:26:46,920 –> 00:26:56,760
\nChrist verse 12 But when ye sin
\nso against the brethren and ruin<\/p>\n
456
\n00:26:56,760 –> 00:27:01,240
\ntheir weak conscience, ye sin
\nagainst Christ. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:27:02,520 –> 00:27:05,560
\nAnd so the little technical
\nargument had become something <\/p>\n
458
\n00:27:05,560 –> 00:27:08,720
\nnow where the individual
\nthemselves were sinning against <\/p>\n
459
\n00:27:08,720 –> 00:27:10,520
\nChrist, they had destroyed a
\nbrother. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:27:11,840 –> 00:27:15,640
\nAnd that sin, that destruction
\nof a brother, would be held <\/p>\n
461
\n00:27:15,640 –> 00:27:18,160
\nagainst them as a sin against
\nChrist himself. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:21,280 –> 00:27:25,840
\nIf if there is any risk
\nwhatsoever that our actions are <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:25,840 –> 00:27:29,560
\nnot justify, are not edifying,
\nbut could hurt a brother or a <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:29,560 –> 00:27:33,840
\nsister or a young person, then
\nunderstand that if we head down <\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:33,840 –> 00:27:35,680
\nthat route, we are sinning
\nagainst Christ. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:36,520 –> 00:27:39,320
\nIt’s as if we’ve taken the Lord
\nhimself and put him to death. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:39,320 –> 00:27:43,920
\nIsn’t it that that we’ve we’ve
\ndestroyed the power of his death<\/p>\n
468
\n00:27:43,920 –> 00:27:46,840
\non the cross for that particular
\nindividuals? <\/p>\n
469
\n00:27:47,960 –> 00:27:50,640
\nIt’s not about our legal
\njustification. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:27:51,560 –> 00:27:55,000
\nIt’s not about being able to
\nfind verses that justify our <\/p>\n
471
\n00:27:55,000 –> 00:27:58,920
\nposition in life.
\nIt’s not about you deciding that<\/p>\n
472
\n00:27:58,920 –> 00:28:01,640
\nactually it’s fine for me to do
\nthis because of my own process <\/p>\n
473
\n00:28:01,640 –> 00:28:06,200
\nof justification.
\nAll things are lawful unto me, <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:07,800 –> 00:28:11,040
\nbut all things edify not.
\nAnd then the apostle finishes <\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:11,040 –> 00:28:12,560
\nthis chapter in such a powerful
\nway. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:12,560 –> 00:28:16,320
\nWherefore if meat make my
\nbrother to offend, I will eat no<\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:16,320 –> 00:28:18,920
\nflesh while the world standeth,
\nlest I make my brother to <\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:18,920 –> 00:28:20,960
\noffend.
\nAnd he’s completely answered the<\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:20,960 –> 00:28:22,440
\nissue of meat offered to idols,
\nhasn’t he? <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:22,840 –> 00:28:26,440
\nAnd actually more than that,
\nbecause his comment is not just <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:26,440 –> 00:28:30,480
\nif meat offered to idols makes
\nmy brother to offend, he says if<\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:30,480 –> 00:28:34,440
\nthere is any risk that me eating
\na piece of meat could be seen by<\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:34,440 –> 00:28:36,600
\na brother, and they might think
\nthat that’s a piece of meat <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:36,600 –> 00:28:39,840
\noffered to idols and therefore
\ncauses them to sin, then he said<\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:39,840 –> 00:28:43,280
\nI will abstain from eating meat.
\nI’ll become a vegetarian. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:43,280 –> 00:28:45,440
\nAs hard as that would be, I’ll
\nbe. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:28:45,680 –> 00:28:49,000
\nHe said I’ll abstain from eating
\nmeat as long as I live. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:28:50,680 –> 00:28:53,600
\nIf meat make my brother to
\noffend, I’ll eat no flesh. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:28:53,600 –> 00:28:57,040
\nHe says, not just flesh off.
\nI will eat no flesh while the <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:57,040 –> 00:29:00,200
\nworld standeth, lest I make my
\nbrother to offend. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:29:00,200 –> 00:29:05,840
\nAnd the apostles example to us
\nis to say if there is any chance<\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:06,480 –> 00:29:09,480
\nthat what we are doing in our
\nlife has the potential to <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:09,480 –> 00:29:12,240
\ndestroy a brother or sister or
\nyoung person, then take it <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:12,240 –> 00:29:15,080
\ncompletely out of our life, move
\naway from even. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:15,640 –> 00:29:18,520
\nEven if it involves us having to
\ngo vegetarian. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:20,040 –> 00:29:24,280
\nIt’s an extreme example.
\nIf there’s any risk of offence, <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:24,280 –> 00:29:28,960
\nhe says, then we must do that
\nfor the sake of our brothers and<\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:28,960 –> 00:29:31,360
\nsisters.
\nYou know, it comes back exactly <\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:31,360 –> 00:29:33,600
\nto what we saw yesterday,
\nyesterday, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:33,600 –> 00:29:36,600
\nThis principle of what will
\nedify or build up my brother and<\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:36,600 –> 00:29:41,240
\nsister, rather than what can I
\njustify getting away with, what <\/p>\n
502
\n00:29:41,240 –> 00:29:46,400
\ncan I, what can I justify that I
\nwant to do must be removed and <\/p>\n
503
\n00:29:46,400 –> 00:29:49,960
\nreplaced with the concept of
\nwhat will build up, what will <\/p>\n
504
\n00:29:49,960 –> 00:29:53,360
\nassist.
\nOur life cannot be lived on the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:57,960
\nbasis of our own justification,
\nbut focus only on doing what <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:57,960 –> 00:30:01,400
\nwill edify and build up to the
\nglory of God. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:05,800 –> 00:30:09,120
\nWe should also note what I
\nbelieve is a vital point here, <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:10,600 –> 00:30:14,640
\nthat this is not a chapter that
\nshould be used to point the <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:14,640 –> 00:30:17,520
\nfinger at other people and
\ndemand their actions in life. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:19,040 –> 00:30:23,080
\nIf this becomes a chapter, as it
\ncan often do, where people say, <\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:23,080 –> 00:30:25,200
\nwell that’s made off of titles
\nand you shouldn’t be doing that,<\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:25,200 –> 00:30:30,080
\nand they say I can justify this,
\nand the chap becomes used in a <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:30,080 –> 00:30:33,080
\nway that people are pointing the
\nfinger at each other, then we <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:33,080 –> 00:30:37,680
\nhave completely missed the power
\nand the point of this chapter. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:39,280 –> 00:30:43,480
\nIt’s a chapter that works
\nbrilliantly when I’m prepared to<\/p>\n
516
\n00:30:43,480 –> 00:30:46,440
\ntake it as a personal message to
\nme personally. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:30:47,680 –> 00:30:51,200
\nIf every member of this
\necclesias of of our ecclesias <\/p>\n
518
\n00:30:51,200 –> 00:30:55,000
\ncan live by this principle, then
\nit would take out any issue, <\/p>\n
519
\n00:30:55,000 –> 00:30:59,640
\nwouldn’t it, of that controversy
\ncaused by our own interaction or<\/p>\n
520
\n00:30:59,640 –> 00:31:04,440
\nus going after our own wants.
\nBut if we start to fire this <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:04,440 –> 00:31:07,280
\nverse as an arrow in the defence
\nof our own personal position, <\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:07,520 –> 00:31:09,960
\nand we use it against each
\nother, then ironically we are <\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:09,960 –> 00:31:13,640
\nactually starting to break the
\npower of the verses themselves. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:15,080 –> 00:31:18,600
\nWhere there are differences of
\nview in ecclesial life, it’s <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:18,600 –> 00:31:23,040
\nparticularly easy for both sides
\nto use this as a justification <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:23,040 –> 00:31:26,600
\nfor their position.
\nBut Paul, as we have found right<\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:26,600 –> 00:31:29,680
\nthroughout this chapter, is
\nsaying this is an issue of <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:29,680 –> 00:31:33,600
\npeople being puffed up.
\nYou need to examine yourselves, <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:33,600 –> 00:31:38,440
\nto go internally into your own
\nheart, and to see whether your <\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:38,440 –> 00:31:41,640
\nresponse is one of having puffed
\nup knowledge. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:46,800 –> 00:31:50,360
\nIf there is anything that’s
\ngoing to cause my brother to <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:50,360 –> 00:31:53,240
\noffend, then we should cast it
\noff. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:56,040 –> 00:31:58,360
\nHe actually tells us in here
\nthat this is something we need <\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:58,360 –> 00:32:00,280
\nto take personal responsibility
\nfor. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:00,280 –> 00:32:04,320
\nVerse 9.
\nTake heed, lest by any means <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:04,320 –> 00:32:08,360
\nthis liberty of yours become a
\nstumbling block to them that are<\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:08,360 –> 00:32:11,120
\nweak.
\nFor if any man see thee which <\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:11,120 –> 00:32:12,880
\nhast knowledge.
\nVerse 10. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:32:13,440 –> 00:32:16,120
\nVerse 11.
\nAnd through thy knowledge shall <\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:16,120 –> 00:32:18,680
\nthe weak brother perish, for
\nwhom Christ died. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:19,000 –> 00:32:21,360
\nVerse 12.
\nBut when ye sin so against the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:21,360 –> 00:32:24,440
\nbrethren, and wound their weak
\nconscience, ye sin against <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:24,440 –> 00:32:27,280
\nChrist.
\nIt’s yours, it’s thee, it’s thy,<\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:27,280 –> 00:32:29,840
\nit’s ye sin, ye sin against
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:30,240 –> 00:32:34,000
\nHis point is you need to take
\npersonal responsibility here. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:34,880 –> 00:32:38,080
\nIt’s not a chapter about others,
\nbut a chapter of self <\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:38,080 –> 00:32:41,880
\nexamination that pleads with us
\nto look at our own motivation on<\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:41,880 –> 00:32:44,280
\nthe actions and the things we do
\nin life. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:44,520 –> 00:32:46,160
\nCan you see the power of this
\nprinciple? <\/p>\n
550
\n00:32:47,040 –> 00:32:50,320
\nIf everyone in ecclesia is able
\nto say I’m going to live by this<\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:50,320 –> 00:32:53,320
\nprinciple, you would take away
\nthe issues of ecclesial life <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:54,040 –> 00:32:56,840
\ninstead of justifying our own
\npositions that we hold onto. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:58,360 –> 00:33:01,800
\nYou would say actually I don’t
\nmind if I miss a nice roast leg <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:01,800 –> 00:33:05,160
\nof meat tonight.
\nWhat is what is important to me <\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:05,160 –> 00:33:07,960
\nis that I am a Co labourer with
\nGod who is building up my <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:07,960 –> 00:33:11,000
\nbrother and therefore I will do
\nwhat is best for my brother. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:12,600 –> 00:33:16,800
\nIt’s a chapter of self
\nexamination that must be made <\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:16,800 –> 00:33:20,680
\npowerful by personal application
\nin ourselves, not pointing at <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:20,680 –> 00:33:25,120
\nothers but of each of us to 100%
\ncan learn to live by this <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:25,120 –> 00:33:27,560
\nprinciple.
\nThen the eclosure life would be <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:27,560 –> 00:33:31,400
\nso powerful and so united.
\nYou imagine how powerful that <\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:31,400 –> 00:33:36,120
\nenvironment would be if we could
\nlive in that way, live our life <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:37,000 –> 00:33:40,400
\nwhich is not our own, for the
\nsake of those around us. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:43,920 –> 00:33:47,640
\nPaul then comes in Chapter 9 to
\nwhat seems at first to be a <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:47,640 –> 00:33:50,640
\ndigressing argument, a slightly
\nstrange sort of interlude in the<\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:50,640 –> 00:33:52,800
\nargument as we flow through to
\nChapter 11. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:33:53,880 –> 00:33:56,360
\nBut we shall find that there is
\nexactly the same connecting <\/p>\n
568
\n00:33:56,360 –> 00:33:58,560
\nthought in here.
\nAnd in fact, it fits so, so <\/p>\n
569
\n00:33:58,560 –> 00:34:01,960
\nbeautifully into the the flow of
\nhis argument here, because what <\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:01,960 –> 00:34:05,560
\nhe does is he focuses on the
\nwork of the apostles and their <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:05,560 –> 00:34:07,640
\nown way that they fulfill this
\nconcept. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:34:08,239 –> 00:34:12,719
\nSo Chapter 9 and and verse one,
\nwe found the example of the <\/p>\n
573
\n00:34:12,719 –> 00:34:14,639
\napostles am not an I am an
\napostle. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:34:15,320 –> 00:34:17,480
\nAm I not free?
\nHave I not seen Jesus Christ our<\/p>\n
575
\n00:34:17,480 –> 00:34:19,560
\nLord?
\nAre not ye my work in the Lord <\/p>\n
576
\n00:34:20,520 –> 00:34:22,960
\nif I be not an apostle unto
\nothers, yet doubtless I am to <\/p>\n
577
\n00:34:22,960 –> 00:34:24,639
\nyou for the seal of mine
\napostleship. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:34:24,639 –> 00:34:28,560
\nAre ye in the Lord?
\nSo he say it’s his credentials, <\/p>\n
579
\n00:34:28,560 –> 00:34:29,880
\nisn’t it?
\nI am an apostle. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:29,880 –> 00:34:33,040
\nHe says, now my answer verse 3
\nto them that to examine me is <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:33,040 –> 00:34:35,840
\nthis, have we not power to eat
\nand drink? <\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:35,960 –> 00:34:38,679
\nSo there are others who are
\nsaying, well, the apostle Paul <\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:38,679 –> 00:34:39,760
\nsaid, what are you doing about
\nit? <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:40,280 –> 00:34:43,840
\nAnd he says, here’s my answer.
\nI’ve got power to eat and drink,<\/p>\n
585
\n00:34:43,840 –> 00:34:46,639
\ndon’t I?
\nHe says verse 5, have we not <\/p>\n
586
\n00:34:46,639 –> 00:34:49,600
\npower to lead about a sister, a
\nwife as well as other apostles <\/p>\n
587
\n00:34:49,600 –> 00:34:53,000
\nand as the brethren of the Lord
\nin Cephas or I only in Barnabas.<\/p>\n
588
\n00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:54,920
\nHave we not power to for bear
\nworking. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:34:56,400 –> 00:34:59,640
\nAnd So what he starts to do is
\nhe says, OK, what are the rights<\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:59,640 –> 00:35:03,280
\nthat I have in as an apostle?
\nHe says I’ve I’ve got the <\/p>\n
591
\n00:35:03,280 –> 00:35:05,920
\nability to eat and drink.
\nI need to eat and drink. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:35:06,440 –> 00:35:10,560
\nHe says I could also bring a a
\nsister wife with me as well who <\/p>\n
593
\n00:35:10,560 –> 00:35:14,040
\nyou would have to look after.
\nSo I’m here preaching to you as <\/p>\n
594
\n00:35:14,040 –> 00:35:17,080
\nan apostle and you should be
\nlooking after me and I could <\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:17,080 –> 00:35:22,360
\nalso ask you to look after my
\nsister wife in verse six. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:22,480 –> 00:35:25,360
\nYeah, I only in Barnabas have we
\nnot power to forebear working. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:25,520 –> 00:35:28,440
\nWe don’t actually have to work.
\nHe says I could quite easily <\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:28,440 –> 00:35:31,760
\njustify a position where I said
\nI’m here on your behalf and I’m <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:31,760 –> 00:35:33,880
\nasking you to to provide food to
\nme. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:34,600 –> 00:35:37,520
\nVerse 7 who goes a war for any
\ntime in his own charges, who <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:37,520 –> 00:35:40,360
\nplants a vineyard and eateth not
\nthe fruit thereof, or feeds A <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:40,360 –> 00:35:42,160
\nflock and eateth not of the milk
\nof the flock? <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:42,160 –> 00:35:44,920
\nHe he’s saying that as a worker
\nin the in The Who planted the <\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:44,920 –> 00:35:46,840
\nvineyard, he should be able to
\ntake the benefits of the <\/p>\n
605
\n00:35:46,840 –> 00:35:48,840
\nvineyard.
\nHe should be able to eat and <\/p>\n
606
\n00:35:48,840 –> 00:35:50,720
\ndrink from the ecclesia
\nessentially. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:35:51,560 –> 00:35:54,720
\nVerse 8 say I these things as a
\nman or saith not the law also. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:55,120 –> 00:35:58,280
\nAnd he then gives this lovely
\nexample out of Moses where it’s <\/p>\n
609
\n00:35:58,280 –> 00:36:00,880
\nwritten in the law of Moses.
\nThou shalt not muzzle the mouth <\/p>\n
610
\n00:36:00,880 –> 00:36:02,520
\nof the ox that treadeth out the
\ncorn. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:36:02,920 –> 00:36:06,640
\nDoth God take care for oxen or
\nsaith he altogether for our <\/p>\n
612
\n00:36:06,640 –> 00:36:09,440
\nsakes.
\nAnd so he, he draws this picture<\/p>\n
613
\n00:36:09,440 –> 00:36:14,160
\nsaying as an apostle, I have the
\nability to ask you to provide <\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:14,160 –> 00:36:16,320
\nfood for me.
\nAnd he uses that lovely quote <\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:16,320 –> 00:36:19,520
\nout of the law to say, here’s
\nthe ox that’s muzzled up and <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:19,520 –> 00:36:22,200
\nit’s treading round and round
\nand round with all the corn <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:22,200 –> 00:36:23,360
\nunderneath.
\nAnd it starts to get a bit <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:23,360 –> 00:36:26,200
\nhungry because it’s got the
\nmuzzle on it can’t actually bend<\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:30,680
\ndown and eat any of that food.
\nAnd he says no, that that that <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:30,800 –> 00:36:33,240
\nox is not allowed to be muzzled.
\nSo it’s got the ability <\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:33,240 –> 00:36:35,720
\noccasionally when it’s getting
\nhungry to actually bend down <\/p>\n
622
\n00:36:35,720 –> 00:36:40,800
\ninto have some of the benefit of
\nthe corn that it’s treading out.<\/p>\n
623
\n00:36:41,960 –> 00:36:45,400
\nAnd, and he makes the point,
\nwhich is a really clever point. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:36:46,160 –> 00:36:48,640
\nDid God put that law in place
\nfor the sake of the oxen? <\/p>\n
625
\n00:36:48,680 –> 00:36:51,560
\nWell, no, he didn’t actually.
\nAnd oxen is well able to go in <\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:51,560 –> 00:36:54,040
\nto do its work without having to
\nstoop down occasionally and have<\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:54,040 –> 00:36:56,280
\nsomething to eat, provided it’s
\nbeing fed. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:36:56,280 –> 00:36:59,840
\nWell, it can go and do its job
\nand then be fed afterwards. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:37:00,520 –> 00:37:03,080
\nBut he’s making the point that
\nthat principle was put there <\/p>\n
630
\n00:37:03,080 –> 00:37:07,880
\nright in the law as a evidence
\nof the fact that someone working<\/p>\n
631
\n00:37:07,880 –> 00:37:11,480
\nin the ecclesial context could
\nexpect to be looked after and <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:11,480 –> 00:37:15,680
\nsustained on a physical basis.
\nThat the ox Paul, as the ox as <\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:15,680 –> 00:37:19,800
\nthe servant, could expect that
\nthey would look after and feed <\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:19,800 –> 00:37:22,840
\nhim as he came to work in their
\neccleses. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:37:24,440 –> 00:37:28,200
\nVerse 11 If we’ve sown unto you
\nspiritual things, is it a great <\/p>\n
636
\n00:37:28,200 –> 00:37:31,080
\nthing if we shall reap your
\ncarnal things, if others be <\/p>\n
637
\n00:37:31,080 –> 00:37:33,840
\npartakers of this power of you
\nare not we rather haven’t, <\/p>\n
638
\n00:37:33,960 –> 00:37:37,280
\nhaven’t we got more of a right
\nto ask you to feed us when <\/p>\n
639
\n00:37:37,280 –> 00:37:38,720
\nyou’ve already done it for other
\npeople? <\/p>\n
640
\n00:37:40,040 –> 00:37:45,520
\nVerse 12 Nevertheless, we have
\nnot used this power, but suffer <\/p>\n
641
\n00:37:45,520 –> 00:37:48,560
\nall things lest we should hinder
\nthe gospel of Christ. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:37:49,400 –> 00:37:52,480
\nAnd I think what the apostle’s
\nsaying is you Corinthian <\/p>\n
643
\n00:37:52,480 –> 00:37:55,240
\necclesia, when we’re there,
\nwe’re aware of all your <\/p>\n
644
\n00:37:55,240 –> 00:37:57,200
\nparticular issues and struggles
\nwe’re having. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:37:57,200 –> 00:38:00,200
\nAnd we’re saying, if we ask you
\nto feed us, it’s going to cause <\/p>\n
646
\n00:38:00,200 –> 00:38:02,000
\na problem.
\nYou’re going to come back and <\/p>\n
647
\n00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:04,200
\nsay, huh, So we’ve fed the
\napostle Paul. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:38:04,520 –> 00:38:06,640
\nAnd either they’ll go into the
\nPaul good brigade and say, look,<\/p>\n
649
\n00:38:06,640 –> 00:38:09,160
\nI’m the one who looked after
\nhim, or else they’ll start to <\/p>\n
650
\n00:38:09,160 –> 00:38:11,200
\ngrumble about the fact that
\nthey’ve had to use some of the <\/p>\n
651
\n00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:13,200
\nfood out of their own cupboard
\nand and look after him. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:38:13,360 –> 00:38:15,520
\nAnd Paul says, there’s no way
\nI’m going to give you an <\/p>\n
653
\n00:38:15,520 –> 00:38:17,840
\nopportunity to do that.
\nThere’s no way. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:38:17,840 –> 00:38:21,960
\nHe says I’m going to allow the
\nfact that we require food to <\/p>\n
655
\n00:38:21,960 –> 00:38:27,800
\nbecome a stumbling block in your
\necclesial environment and he <\/p>\n
656
\n00:38:27,800 –> 00:38:31,600
\ncarries on through verse 13,
\netcetera to to really reinforce <\/p>\n
657
\n00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:35,560
\nthis this concept of of the fact
\nthat he had the opportunity to <\/p>\n
658
\n00:38:35,560 –> 00:38:39,080
\nrequire them to feed him, but
\nthat they have chosen not to <\/p>\n
659
\n00:38:39,080 –> 00:38:42,200
\nthis 15 I have used none of
\nthose things. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:38:42,200 –> 00:38:44,360
\nNeither have I written these
\nthings that I should be that it <\/p>\n
661
\n00:38:44,360 –> 00:38:47,520
\nshould be done so unto me, for
\nit were better for me to die <\/p>\n
662
\n00:38:47,520 –> 00:38:49,680
\nthan any man should make my
\nglorying void. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:50,360 –> 00:38:54,160
\nHe says, look, I I’ve chosen
\ndeliberately not to use that <\/p>\n
664
\n00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:56,440
\nthat right that I have to
\nrequire your food. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:38:56,680 –> 00:38:58,040
\nAnd in fact, he says I’m writing
\nthis. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:38:58,040 –> 00:39:00,240
\nI’m not writing it by the way,
\nso that next time I come you <\/p>\n
667
\n00:39:00,240 –> 00:39:04,000
\nfeed me because I’m not doing it
\nfor that, because I don’t trust <\/p>\n
668
\n00:39:04,160 –> 00:39:06,600
\nthat it would that it would go
\ndown well. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:39:08,160 –> 00:39:10,640
\nHe says, though I preach the
\ngospel, I have nothing to <\/p>\n
670
\n00:39:10,640 –> 00:39:13,440
\nglorify of for necessity is laid
\nupon me. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:39:13,440 –> 00:39:15,280
\nYeah, woe is me if I preach not
\nin the gospel. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:39:15,280 –> 00:39:17,680
\nAnd he’s saying, look, I’m not
\ncoming to the Corinthian <\/p>\n
673
\n00:39:17,680 –> 00:39:19,920
\necclesia and working there
\nbecause I want you to look after<\/p>\n
674
\n00:39:19,920 –> 00:39:21,680
\nme.
\nBut that becomes my lifestyle <\/p>\n
675
\n00:39:21,680 –> 00:39:24,280
\nand I’ll get nice food and be
\nable to be looked after as I <\/p>\n
676
\n00:39:24,280 –> 00:39:26,720
\nmove around.
\nHe says I’m there to preach the <\/p>\n
677
\n00:39:26,720 –> 00:39:29,960
\ngospel.
\nAnd so from Paul’s perspective, <\/p>\n
678
\n00:39:29,960 –> 00:39:32,600
\nhe’s actually telling or showing
\nus beautifully, isn’t he, this <\/p>\n
679
\n00:39:32,600 –> 00:39:35,560
\nprinciple of the eating and
\ndrinking in an ecclesial <\/p>\n
680
\n00:39:35,560 –> 00:39:38,720
\ncontext, because he’s saying
\nit’s not about me. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:39:39,440 –> 00:39:43,240
\nIt’s not me demanding my own
\nrights little and demanding the <\/p>\n
682
\n00:39:43,240 –> 00:39:44,680
\nright to eat meat off of the
\nidols. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:39:44,680 –> 00:39:47,880
\nHe’s saying it’s not about me
\ncoming to you and demanding my <\/p>\n
684
\n00:39:47,880 –> 00:39:51,240
\nown rights and that you have to
\nprovide that food. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:39:51,640 –> 00:39:55,640
\nWe could require you of the food
\nto be unmuzzled, but we’ve <\/p>\n
686
\n00:39:55,640 –> 00:39:59,080
\nchosen not to be because we are
\nthe ministers. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:40:01,480 –> 00:40:06,600
\nWe haven’t used that liberty.
\nAnd see, what he’s doing is <\/p>\n
688
\n00:40:06,600 –> 00:40:10,080
\nshowing that by his own example,
\nlife and the truth is not about <\/p>\n
689
\n00:40:10,080 –> 00:40:12,880
\nhim.
\nIt’s not about what he can eat <\/p>\n
690
\n00:40:13,280 –> 00:40:15,600
\nor drink or justify eating and
\ndrinking. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:40:16,240 –> 00:40:21,240
\nThat is the important thing.
\nHis whole focus is on the good <\/p>\n
692
\n00:40:21,240 –> 00:40:24,160
\nof the gospel.
\nHe won’t even partake of their <\/p>\n
693
\n00:40:24,160 –> 00:40:27,160
\nfood, lest that would become a
\nhindrance in the work of the <\/p>\n
694
\n00:40:27,160 –> 00:40:29,440
\ngospel that he was there to
\ngrow. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:40:31,160 –> 00:40:33,680
\nAnd so he’s, he’s actually
\npicked up this concept, not just<\/p>\n
696
\n00:40:33,680 –> 00:40:36,600
\nof the eating meat offered to
\nidols and, and whether or not <\/p>\n
697
\n00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:39,520
\nthat was justifiable, but he’s
\nactually shown the whole he’s <\/p>\n
698
\n00:40:39,520 –> 00:40:42,200
\nexpanded it, hasn’t he, in the
\nbroader context of eating and <\/p>\n
699
\n00:40:42,200 –> 00:40:47,120
\ndrinking to show actually, I
\ndon’t, I, I’m careful even with <\/p>\n
700
\n00:40:47,120 –> 00:40:50,240
\nmy eating and drinking to make
\nsure that I’m not going to do <\/p>\n
701
\n00:40:50,320 –> 00:40:53,560
\nanything in the ecclesial
\nenvironment that will subvert or<\/p>\n
702
\n00:40:53,560 –> 00:40:58,800
\nhurt the gospel.
\nVerse 19 For though I be free <\/p>\n
703
\n00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:02,480
\nfrom all men, yet have I made
\nmyself servant or slave unto all<\/p>\n
704
\n00:41:02,480 –> 00:41:05,600
\nthat I might gain them more.
\nAnd then he goes into the <\/p>\n
705
\n00:41:05,600 –> 00:41:08,200
\nsection here where where he
\nactually takes this idea of him <\/p>\n
706
\n00:41:08,880 –> 00:41:11,200
\nnot doing things for himself,
\nbut making sure that it’s going <\/p>\n
707
\n00:41:11,200 –> 00:41:14,600
\nto assist the ecclesia.
\nAnd he he gives us, I think, an <\/p>\n
708
\n00:41:15,000 –> 00:41:19,640
\nincredible, an intense insight
\ninto the way of life that Paul <\/p>\n
709
\n00:41:19,640 –> 00:41:21,920
\nwas prepared to live for the
\nsake of his brothers and <\/p>\n
710
\n00:41:21,920 –> 00:41:24,960
\nsisters.
\nHe said, I’ve, I’m free from <\/p>\n
711
\n00:41:24,960 –> 00:41:28,520
\nanyone, there’s no requirement
\nfor me to be a slave of anyone. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:41:28,520 –> 00:41:32,040
\nHe said, but I’ve made myself a
\nservant unto your he’s he’s <\/p>\n
713
\n00:41:32,040 –> 00:41:33,920
\nunderstood this principle,
\nhasn’t he, that the flesh is <\/p>\n
714
\n00:41:33,920 –> 00:41:35,920
\nnothing and he desires to be a
\nservant. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:41:36,440 –> 00:41:39,720
\nVerse 20 unto the Jews I became
\nas a Jew that I might gain the <\/p>\n
716
\n00:41:39,720 –> 00:41:41,960
\nJews.
\nWhat does that mean? <\/p>\n
717
\n00:41:43,320 –> 00:41:47,400
\nWell, it means that he was able
\nto go into a Jewish house and to<\/p>\n
718
\n00:41:47,400 –> 00:41:50,320
\nlive with those people, to
\ninteract with those people in a <\/p>\n
719
\n00:41:50,320 –> 00:41:54,280
\nway which would not hurt the
\nsensitivities of those people. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:41:54,920 –> 00:41:57,080
\nThat he was aware of the
\nparticular things that would <\/p>\n
721
\n00:41:57,080 –> 00:42:01,120
\nthat would cause an issue if he
\nwent into that house and he made<\/p>\n
722
\n00:42:01,120 –> 00:42:04,480
\nsure that he avoided them.
\nIn essence, when he went into <\/p>\n
723
\n00:42:04,480 –> 00:42:06,640
\nthat house, he was living as a
\nJew with them. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:42:07,880 –> 00:42:10,840
\nThat doesn’t mean he was living
\nin a pharisaical or, or a <\/p>\n
725
\n00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:14,600
\nlegalistic way, but he was
\nliving the principles of Jew of,<\/p>\n
726
\n00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:18,000
\nof the truth, but from the
\nperspective of a Jewish person. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:42:18,840 –> 00:42:22,480
\nSo he could walk into a Jewish
\nhouse and he could live in a way<\/p>\n
728
\n00:42:23,200 –> 00:42:28,600
\nthat that met the sensitivities
\nof a Jewish household to them <\/p>\n
729
\n00:42:28,600 –> 00:42:32,000
\nthat are under the law is under
\nthe law that I might gain the <\/p>\n
730
\n00:42:32,000 –> 00:42:35,600
\nlaw.
\nThen verse 21 to them that are <\/p>\n
731
\n00:42:35,600 –> 00:42:40,240
\nwithout law as without law not
\nbeing as without law to God, but<\/p>\n
732
\n00:42:40,240 –> 00:42:43,720
\nunder the law of Christ, not
\nunder the law of Moses that I <\/p>\n
733
\n00:42:43,720 –> 00:42:45,520
\nmight gain them that are without
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:42:46,360 –> 00:42:48,320
\nNow that starts to get a tricky
\nconcept, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
735
\n00:42:48,320 –> 00:42:52,720
\nBecause he’s saying I can go
\ninto the House of those who are <\/p>\n
736
\n00:42:52,720 –> 00:42:56,360
\nliving under the law and I
\ncannot hurt their sensitivities.<\/p>\n
737
\n00:42:56,360 –> 00:42:59,320
\nIn other words, he’s, he’s
\nliving his life under the law <\/p>\n
738
\n00:42:59,400 –> 00:43:03,440
\nwith them, but he can also turn
\naround on this side and go into <\/p>\n
739
\n00:43:03,440 –> 00:43:07,080
\nthe House of a gentile who is
\nnot living under the law and he <\/p>\n
740
\n00:43:07,080 –> 00:43:10,360
\ncan live that life without
\nhurting their sensitivities. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:43:11,920 –> 00:43:15,520
\nSo there’s only two options
\nhere. 1 is that he lives the law<\/p>\n
742
\n00:43:15,520 –> 00:43:19,840
\nhere and then he works walks out
\nthe door and he changes his, his<\/p>\n
743
\n00:43:19,840 –> 00:43:22,880
\nhis head around, sort of gives
\nhimself a bit of a shake and <\/p>\n
744
\n00:43:22,880 –> 00:43:25,040
\nwalks into the next one.
\nAnd he actually lives completely<\/p>\n
745
\n00:43:25,040 –> 00:43:29,160
\ndifferent lifestyle and makes
\nsure that they’re happy. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:43:30,560 –> 00:43:32,960
\nBut see, the consequence of that
\nwould be that at some stage the <\/p>\n
747
\n00:43:32,960 –> 00:43:34,040
\n2 are bound to meet, aren’t
\nthey? <\/p>\n
748
\n00:43:34,040 –> 00:43:36,200
\nYou go to the memorial meeting
\ntogether and all of this one <\/p>\n
749
\n00:43:36,200 –> 00:43:38,200
\nsays, hang on, you are living
\nthe law, but you’re not. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:43:38,720 –> 00:43:41,520
\nAnd that one says, Hey, you
\nweren’t living but now and the <\/p>\n
751
\n00:43:41,520 –> 00:43:42,720
\nwhole thing would blow up,
\nwouldn’t it? <\/p>\n
752
\n00:43:43,680 –> 00:43:46,360
\nSo the point clearly is not that
\nPaul’s saying, well, I’ll just <\/p>\n
753
\n00:43:46,360 –> 00:43:48,240
\nchange my way.
\nI’m doing for each person. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:43:49,160 –> 00:43:53,840
\nThe point is this that Paul was
\nable to encapsulate in whole in <\/p>\n
755
\n00:43:53,840 –> 00:43:58,120
\nhis life every component of what
\nit would mean for that person to<\/p>\n
756
\n00:43:58,120 –> 00:44:00,840
\nbe living under the law and that
\nperson to be living without the <\/p>\n
757
\n00:44:00,840 –> 00:44:04,320
\nlaw.
\nIn other words, he was prepared <\/p>\n
758
\n00:44:04,320 –> 00:44:07,440
\nto go, and it’s not the phrase
\nlowest common denominator, it’s <\/p>\n
759
\n00:44:07,440 –> 00:44:08,840
\nthe worst one.
\nIt’s probably the highest common<\/p>\n
760
\n00:44:08,840 –> 00:44:11,280
\ndenominator really, isn’t it?
\nHe’s prepared to take on the <\/p>\n
761
\n00:44:11,280 –> 00:44:15,160
\nrequirements, the harshest and
\ndeepest requirements of each of <\/p>\n
762
\n00:44:15,160 –> 00:44:19,760
\nthose groups, but to live them
\nin a compatible way so that not <\/p>\n
763
\n00:44:19,760 –> 00:44:21,600
\none of them would look at it and
\nsay, I’m offended. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:44:23,240 –> 00:44:26,200
\nThat’s a remarkable life that
\nthe apostles prepared to live. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:44:26,200 –> 00:44:27,920
\nHe didn’t have to live under the
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:44:27,920 –> 00:44:32,200
\nHe knew that, and nor did he
\nnecessarily have to live things <\/p>\n
767
\n00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:34,560
\naccording to way the the
\nGentiles with their particular <\/p>\n
768
\n00:44:34,560 –> 00:44:37,360
\nsensitivities did.
\nHe could have made-up his own <\/p>\n
769
\n00:44:37,360 –> 00:44:39,200
\nsort of way that he was
\ncomfortable with himself. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:44:39,560 –> 00:44:42,040
\nBut he’s saying, if there’s any
\ncomponents of my life that we’re<\/p>\n
771
\n00:44:42,040 –> 00:44:44,400
\ngoing to cause a brother to
\noffend, then I’m prepared to <\/p>\n
772
\n00:44:44,400 –> 00:44:46,720
\nadjust that.
\nAnd to a Jew they’ll look at me <\/p>\n
773
\n00:44:46,720 –> 00:44:48,240
\nand they’ll say a Jew, there’s a
\nJew. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:44:48,240 –> 00:44:51,160
\nTo A to a non law keeper,
\nthey’ll say there’s a non law <\/p>\n
775
\n00:44:51,240 –> 00:44:53,440
\nkeeper.
\nAnd they can look at Paul as a <\/p>\n
776
\n00:44:53,440 –> 00:44:57,600
\nperson and say actually there is
\nnothing in Paul that causes me <\/p>\n
777
\n00:44:58,720 –> 00:45:05,440
\nissues or or problems.
\nThat is the full extent of Paul <\/p>\n
778
\n00:45:05,440 –> 00:45:08,200
\nthe Apostle and his work in
\nedifying. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:45:08,800 –> 00:45:11,840
\nI could justify things.
\nAll things are lawful, but all <\/p>\n
780
\n00:45:11,840 –> 00:45:14,520
\nthings edify not.
\nAnd so the the apostle, I think <\/p>\n
781
\n00:45:14,520 –> 00:45:18,400
\nshows an incredible example here
\nand and it just just takes some <\/p>\n
782
\n00:45:18,400 –> 00:45:21,320
\ntime afterwards to stop and
\nreally contemplate the fullness <\/p>\n
783
\n00:45:21,320 –> 00:45:25,240
\nof what this is talking about.
\nBut this is a man who says if, <\/p>\n
784
\n00:45:25,320 –> 00:45:28,600
\nif an if eating meat is going to
\nmake my brother to offend, I’ll <\/p>\n
785
\n00:45:28,600 –> 00:45:31,200
\nput any concept of eating meat
\nout of my life. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:45:32,160 –> 00:45:35,400
\nI will live as a Jew and I will
\nlive as a non Jew in a way that <\/p>\n
787
\n00:45:35,400 –> 00:45:38,440
\nis compatible so that my
\nbrethren are elevated and <\/p>\n
788
\n00:45:38,440 –> 00:45:41,240
\nencouraged.
\nHe’s prepared to be a slave is <\/p>\n
789
\n00:45:41,240 –> 00:45:44,080
\nwhat he said, isn’t it?
\nWe’re ministers, we’re we’re <\/p>\n
790
\n00:45:44,080 –> 00:45:46,960
\nyour servants unto all that I
\nmight gain them all. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:45:47,640 –> 00:45:51,240
\nThat’s what it means, brothers
\nand sisters, to say all things <\/p>\n
792
\n00:45:51,240 –> 00:45:53,320
\nare lawful, but all things edify
\nnot. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:45:54,600 –> 00:45:58,640
\nIs there anything in my life
\nthat is going to cause offence <\/p>\n
794
\n00:45:58,640 –> 00:46:01,360
\ntoo or a problem for for my
\nbrother and sister or young <\/p>\n
795
\n00:46:01,360 –> 00:46:03,320
\nperson?
\nThen I’ll take that out of my <\/p>\n
796
\n00:46:03,320 –> 00:46:07,320
\nlife because this is about
\nworking as a slave to build up <\/p>\n
797
\n00:46:08,000 –> 00:46:16,160
\nthe ecclesial environment.
\nHe’s making sure Verse 22 to the<\/p>\n
798
\n00:46:16,160 –> 00:46:19,200
\nweak became I as weak that I
\nmight gain the weak. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:46:19,680 –> 00:46:23,600
\nI made all things to all men
\nthat I might by all means save <\/p>\n
800
\n00:46:23,600 –> 00:46:24,880
\none.
\nHe’s prepared even to live <\/p>\n
801
\n00:46:24,880 –> 00:46:27,800
\naccording to the weakest
\nconscience, and to lift up and <\/p>\n
802
\n00:46:27,800 –> 00:46:31,680
\ncarry upon his arms those who
\nare weak and who struggle as <\/p>\n
803
\n00:46:31,680 –> 00:46:35,680
\nwell.
\nHe’s showing by his own example <\/p>\n
804
\n00:46:35,680 –> 00:46:38,960
\nwhat it means to live under the
\nlaw of liberty. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:46:39,720 –> 00:46:46,720
\nVerse 22 Halfway through I made
\nall things to all men, that I <\/p>\n
806
\n00:46:46,720 –> 00:46:49,800
\nmight by all means save some.
\nThat’s the only focus that the <\/p>\n
807
\n00:46:49,800 –> 00:46:54,400
\napostle has here is, is if I
\nmight by by by all means save <\/p>\n
808
\n00:46:54,400 –> 00:46:56,560
\nsome.
\nAnd this I do for the gospel <\/p>\n
809
\n00:46:56,560 –> 00:46:59,600
\nsake, that I might be take a
\nthereof with you. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:47:01,040 –> 00:47:03,080
\nHere’s the example of the
\napostle. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:47:04,800 –> 00:47:08,400
\nIt’s not a life based on
\njustification of law. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:47:09,440 –> 00:47:12,400
\nIt’s not a life saying here’s
\nthe minimum standard I can keep <\/p>\n
813
\n00:47:13,120 –> 00:47:15,200
\nor here’s myself righteous
\nachievement. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:47:16,120 –> 00:47:21,560
\nHe transcends that completely.
\nIt’s a life based entirely on <\/p>\n
815
\n00:47:21,560 –> 00:47:23,680
\nthe edification of his brothers
\nand sisters. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:47:25,080 –> 00:47:30,760
\nCan you just see the power of
\nthat life lived on the basis of <\/p>\n
817
\n00:47:30,760 –> 00:47:36,080
\nedification, lived in slavery
\nbecause we are not our own to <\/p>\n
818
\n00:47:36,080 –> 00:47:38,240
\nbuild up and to assist our
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:47:43,760 –> 00:47:48,160
\nSo Paul has shown us this
\nincredible example of how he is <\/p>\n
820
\n00:47:48,160 –> 00:47:51,360
\nprepared to respond to the
\nquestion of, as it were, meat <\/p>\n
821
\n00:47:51,360 –> 00:47:54,280
\noffered to idols and the
\nexpansion of this concept of <\/p>\n
822
\n00:47:54,280 –> 00:47:57,840
\neating and drinking.
\nLet’s come now to to Chapter 10.<\/p>\n
823
\n00:47:59,440 –> 00:48:01,680
\nAnd this really is quite
\nincredible. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:48:02,120 –> 00:48:04,640
\nSo we’ve got the example of the
\napostles that he’s shown us and <\/p>\n
825
\n00:48:04,640 –> 00:48:07,880
\ntheir willingness to to
\ntranscend their own wants and to<\/p>\n
826
\n00:48:07,880 –> 00:48:09,920
\ndo only what is what would
\nedify. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:48:10,480 –> 00:48:13,920
\nNow he goes back to the example
\nof Israel in the wilderness and <\/p>\n
828
\n00:48:13,920 –> 00:48:16,320
\nhe picks out a few little
\nexamples of Israel in the <\/p>\n
829
\n00:48:16,320 –> 00:48:19,600
\nwilderness and just see the
\nconnections that he pulls <\/p>\n
830
\n00:48:19,600 –> 00:48:22,960
\ntogether here.
\nFirst Corinthians chapter 10 and<\/p>\n
831
\n00:48:22,960 –> 00:48:26,400
\nverse one.
\nMoreover, brethren, I would not <\/p>\n
832
\n00:48:26,400 –> 00:48:28,800
\nthat you should be ignorant how
\nthat all our fathers were under <\/p>\n
833
\n00:48:28,800 –> 00:48:30,400
\nthe cloud and all passed through
\nthe sea. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:48:30,400 –> 00:48:33,840
\nWe’re all baptized into Moses in
\nthe cloud and in the sea. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:48:35,960 –> 00:48:38,400
\nSo saying that every single one
\nof them was baptized. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:48:39,440 –> 00:48:42,720
\nHow can he say that that the the
\nthe crossing of the Red Sea was <\/p>\n
837
\n00:48:42,720 –> 00:48:46,240
\na was a baptism in water?
\nWasn’t it just a, a walking <\/p>\n
838
\n00:48:46,240 –> 00:48:49,400
\nthrough the sea?
\nWell, he actually says his words<\/p>\n
839
\n00:48:49,400 –> 00:48:52,920
\nquite carefully, doesn’t he?
\nAll our fathers were under the <\/p>\n
840
\n00:48:52,920 –> 00:48:54,680
\ncloud and passed through the
\nsea. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:48:55,200 –> 00:48:58,440
\nSo the sea has opened up and as
\nthey’re walking through, there’s<\/p>\n
842
\n00:48:58,440 –> 00:49:02,160
\na cloud over the top of them.
\nThey’re immersed in water, <\/p>\n
843
\n00:49:02,160 –> 00:49:04,160
\naren’t they?
\nIf you go back and and look at <\/p>\n
844
\n00:49:04,160 –> 00:49:06,280
\nsome of the Psalms that talk
\nabout it, there is a sense of <\/p>\n
845
\n00:49:06,280 –> 00:49:08,680
\nthis torrential rain and of the
\nstorm that was happening. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:49:09,000 –> 00:49:12,400
\nSo literally the children of
\nIsrael were encompassed about in<\/p>\n
847
\n00:49:12,400 –> 00:49:14,280
\nwater as they crossed through
\nthe Red Sea. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:49:14,800 –> 00:49:16,680
\nAnd he says that’s the symbol of
\nbaptism. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:49:16,920 –> 00:49:20,120
\nIsrael came out of Egypt and
\nthey went through the symbol of <\/p>\n
850
\n00:49:20,120 –> 00:49:22,600
\nbaptism as they crossed the Red
\nSea. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:49:23,680 –> 00:49:26,400
\nThey were all baptized into
\nMoses in the cloud and in the <\/p>\n
852
\n00:49:26,400 –> 00:49:28,920
\nsea.
\nAnd verse three and four, that <\/p>\n
853
\n00:49:28,920 –> 00:49:30,440
\nit all eat the same spiritual
\nmeat. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:49:30,440 –> 00:49:33,000
\nThat was the manner, wasn’t it?
\nThey had the benefit of the <\/p>\n
855
\n00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:36,560
\nmanner that had been provided to
\nthem and that it all drink the <\/p>\n
856
\n00:49:36,560 –> 00:49:39,880
\nsame spiritual drink, for they
\ndrink of that spiritual rock <\/p>\n
857
\n00:49:39,880 –> 00:49:42,880
\nthat followed them, and that
\nrock was Christ. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:49:43,880 –> 00:49:46,040
\nSo he’s going back to the
\nexample of Israel in the <\/p>\n
859
\n00:49:46,040 –> 00:49:48,400
\nwilderness and he’s saying they
\nwere all baptized. <\/p>\n
860
\n00:49:50,040 –> 00:49:52,280
\nAnd he’s starting to draw a
\nparallel here for the Corinthian<\/p>\n
861
\n00:49:52,280 –> 00:49:54,800
\necclesia.
\nHere’s the congregation of <\/p>\n
862
\n00:49:54,800 –> 00:49:56,160
\nIsrael in the wilderness,
\nbaptized. <\/p>\n
863
\n00:49:56,160 –> 00:49:58,920
\nHere’s the congregation of
\nCorinth baptized. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:49:59,040 –> 00:50:02,560
\nSnap, same thing.
\nThey all ate the same spiritual <\/p>\n
865
\n00:50:02,560 –> 00:50:05,560
\nmeat.
\nManner, the provision of daily <\/p>\n
866
\n00:50:05,560 –> 00:50:08,720
\nmanner, the bread of life,
\nprovision of the bread of life. <\/p>\n
867
\n00:50:08,720 –> 00:50:12,760
\nHere they all ate the same
\nspiritual drink, but they drank <\/p>\n
868
\n00:50:12,760 –> 00:50:15,000
\nof that spiritual rock that
\nfollowed them, and that rock was<\/p>\n
869
\n00:50:15,000 –> 00:50:17,320
\nChrist.
\nAnd so he’s saying the spiritual<\/p>\n
870
\n00:50:17,320 –> 00:50:20,520
\ndrink that they have is the
\nwater that precedes from Christ <\/p>\n
871
\n00:50:20,520 –> 00:50:23,560
\nas the water of life.
\nSo he’s actually now starting to<\/p>\n
872
\n00:50:23,560 –> 00:50:25,840
\ndraw a parallel between the
\nCorinthian ecclesia and the <\/p>\n
873
\n00:50:25,840 –> 00:50:28,040
\ncongregation or the ecclesia in
\nthe wilderness. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:50:28,400 –> 00:50:30,560
\nAnd he’s actually saying, look,
\nthey both had the same <\/p>\n
875
\n00:50:30,560 –> 00:50:33,800
\ncircumstances.
\nThey were both baptized and they<\/p>\n
876
\n00:50:33,800 –> 00:50:36,440
\nboth had.
\nAnd note his point here, they <\/p>\n
877
\n00:50:36,440 –> 00:50:40,160
\nboth had the same thing, to eat
\nand to drink. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:50:41,400 –> 00:50:44,440
\nSo he’s still carrying on the
\nconcepts of eating and drinking.<\/p>\n
879
\n00:50:44,440 –> 00:50:47,480
\nHe’s picking up the concept of
\nmeat offered to idols and he’s <\/p>\n
880
\n00:50:47,480 –> 00:50:50,000
\ncarrying on the concepts of
\neating and drinking into chapter<\/p>\n
881
\n00:50:50,000 –> 00:50:52,960
\n10.
\nAm I pushing that too far? <\/p>\n
882
\n00:50:53,320 –> 00:50:56,360
\nWell, let’s just hold judgement
\nfor a moment and and see if I <\/p>\n
883
\n00:50:56,360 –> 00:50:58,160
\ncan prove that through the rest
\nof this section. <\/p>\n
884
\n00:50:59,520 –> 00:51:03,280
\nBut with many of them, God was
\nnot well pleased, for they were <\/p>\n
885
\n00:51:03,280 –> 00:51:08,000
\noverthrown in the wilderness.
\nSo it’s the same for us, He <\/p>\n
886
\n00:51:08,000 –> 00:51:09,520
\nsays.
\nWe’ve we’ve all been baptized <\/p>\n
887
\n00:51:09,520 –> 00:51:12,040
\ninto Christ.
\nWe’ve all eaten the same <\/p>\n
888
\n00:51:12,040 –> 00:51:15,160
\nspiritual meat and drink.
\nWe partake of the bread and the <\/p>\n
889
\n00:51:15,160 –> 00:51:18,720
\nwine together, don’t we?
\nSunday by Sunday, more than <\/p>\n
890
\n00:51:18,720 –> 00:51:21,480
\nthat, we drink the water of life
\nand we eat the bread of life, <\/p>\n
891
\n00:51:21,480 –> 00:51:23,640
\nand we’re in this together.
\nWe’ve come through baptism, <\/p>\n
892
\n00:51:23,920 –> 00:51:27,040
\nwe’ve had our spiritual meat and
\ndrink, and we’re following that <\/p>\n
893
\n00:51:27,040 –> 00:51:29,760
\nspiritual rock.
\nEven Christ, We’re all together <\/p>\n
894
\n00:51:29,760 –> 00:51:34,120
\nhere.
\nBut in verse 5, He becomes quite<\/p>\n
895
\n00:51:34,120 –> 00:51:39,600
\npersonal.
\nBut with many of them, God was <\/p>\n
896
\n00:51:39,600 –> 00:51:42,760
\nnot well pleased, for they were
\noverthrown in the wilderness. <\/p>\n
897
\n00:51:44,160 –> 00:51:47,560
\nSo His point is we can have
\nbaptism and all the advantages <\/p>\n
898
\n00:51:47,560 –> 00:51:50,520
\nof the truth of the eating and
\ndrinking of the spiritual meat <\/p>\n
899
\n00:51:50,520 –> 00:51:56,640
\nand food, and we can ignore that
\nand perish in the wilderness. <\/p>\n
900
\n00:51:59,440 –> 00:52:01,600
\nBut what he’s starting to do,
\nbrothers and sisters and young <\/p>\n
901
\n00:52:01,600 –> 00:52:04,880
\npeople, is actually to start to
\nopen up for us exactly what the <\/p>\n
902
\n00:52:04,880 –> 00:52:08,600
\nissue was for the congregation
\nin the wilderness. <\/p>\n
903
\n00:52:10,560 –> 00:52:13,440
\nHe’s been deliberately
\nparalleling the children of <\/p>\n
904
\n00:52:13,600 –> 00:52:15,800
\nIsrael and the Corinthian
\necclesia. <\/p>\n
905
\n00:52:16,000 –> 00:52:18,600
\nAnd then verse 6.
\nNow these things are our <\/p>\n
906
\n00:52:18,600 –> 00:52:22,120
\nexamples to the intent we should
\nnot lust after evil things as <\/p>\n
907
\n00:52:22,120 –> 00:52:25,240
\nthey also lusted.
\nSo they are our examples. <\/p>\n
908
\n00:52:25,240 –> 00:52:27,240
\nHe’s saying it’s something we
\nneed to learn from. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:52:28,200 –> 00:52:30,880
\nSo he’s he’s asking the brothers
\nand sisters in Corinth to stop <\/p>\n
910
\n00:52:30,880 –> 00:52:32,560
\nand to re examine their approach
\nto the truth here. <\/p>\n
911
\n00:52:32,560 –> 00:52:35,160
\nAnd he’s saying this issue of
\nthe meat offered to idols that <\/p>\n
912
\n00:52:35,160 –> 00:52:38,560
\nwe talked about here, he said,
\nnow I’m actually going to show <\/p>\n
913
\n00:52:38,560 –> 00:52:40,960
\nto you that this concept of
\neating and drinking and the <\/p>\n
914
\n00:52:40,960 –> 00:52:46,400
\nfocus on eating and drinking is
\nactually a major issue that <\/p>\n
915
\n00:52:46,400 –> 00:52:48,920
\ndestroyed the ecclesia in the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
916
\n00:52:49,880 –> 00:52:52,800
\nThat the self justification they
\nused in the wilderness and their<\/p>\n
917
\n00:52:52,800 –> 00:52:55,280
\nattitude in the wilderness
\naround eating and drinking was <\/p>\n
918
\n00:52:55,280 –> 00:52:58,120
\nsomething that caused the
\ndevastation of the ecclesia in <\/p>\n
919
\n00:52:58,120 –> 00:53:01,280
\nthe wilderness.
\nAnd he’s actually going to lead <\/p>\n
920
\n00:53:01,280 –> 00:53:06,800
\nthem in by parts in this chapter
\nto the realization that they <\/p>\n
921
\n00:53:06,800 –> 00:53:09,480
\nwere eating and fellowshipping
\nthe table of the devil. <\/p>\n
922
\n00:53:11,840 –> 00:53:19,840
\nTheir self justification was not
\njust hurting others, but it led <\/p>\n
923
\n00:53:19,840 –> 00:53:23,840
\nto them living a life in the
\nwilderness that rebelled against<\/p>\n
924
\n00:53:23,840 –> 00:53:28,200
\nGod and LED to them partaking of
\na meal and fellowship with <\/p>\n
925
\n00:53:28,200 –> 00:53:32,360
\ndevils.
\nAnd he’s asking us 2000 years <\/p>\n
926
\n00:53:32,360 –> 00:53:36,320
\nlater to stop and to examine our
\nown life, to have a look at our <\/p>\n
927
\n00:53:36,320 –> 00:53:39,560
\nown puffed up self
\njustifications to see whether <\/p>\n
928
\n00:53:39,560 –> 00:53:42,680
\nactually we might just be doing
\nthe same thing. <\/p>\n
929
\n00:53:44,160 –> 00:53:47,200
\nSo, So what examples does he use
\nin the wilderness? <\/p>\n
930
\n00:53:47,200 –> 00:53:49,440
\nWell, the first is this one in
\nin chapter 6. <\/p>\n
931
\n00:53:49,880 –> 00:53:53,520
\nThese things were our examples
\nto the intent we should not lust<\/p>\n
932
\n00:53:53,520 –> 00:53:55,720
\nafter evil things as they also
\nlusted. <\/p>\n
933
\n00:53:56,480 –> 00:53:58,240
\nAnd then he goes through a
\nstring of a whole lot of <\/p>\n
934
\n00:53:58,240 –> 00:54:02,280
\nexamples out of the wilderness.
\nSo why did Paul use these <\/p>\n
935
\n00:54:02,280 –> 00:54:05,160
\nparticular issues that were
\narising in the wilderness? <\/p>\n
936
\n00:54:05,760 –> 00:54:09,400
\nWell, the first is that the
\nissues in the wilderness were <\/p>\n
937
\n00:54:09,400 –> 00:54:11,360
\nmirroring those that were
\nexisting in the Corinthian <\/p>\n
938
\n00:54:11,360 –> 00:54:13,200
\necclesia.
\nThe lasting, the fornication, <\/p>\n
939
\n00:54:13,200 –> 00:54:16,200
\nthe tempting of Christ, the
\nmurmuring issues around eating <\/p>\n
940
\n00:54:16,200 –> 00:54:18,920
\nand drinking, we’re all exactly
\nthe same issues that he had to <\/p>\n
941
\n00:54:18,920 –> 00:54:23,880
\ndeal with in Corinth.
\nThey were all baptized, but not <\/p>\n
942
\n00:54:23,880 –> 00:54:26,440
\nall of them were saved.
\nHave have a look in your spare <\/p>\n
943
\n00:54:26,440 –> 00:54:29,920
\ntime in, in Psalm 78 and just
\nsee the connections between the <\/p>\n
944
\n00:54:29,920 –> 00:54:33,400
\nwilderness wanderings and the
\nperfect link into the Corinthian<\/p>\n
945
\n00:54:33,400 –> 00:54:39,000
\necclesia and their struggles.
\nSo verse 6 to the intent that we<\/p>\n
946
\n00:54:39,000 –> 00:54:42,040
\nshould not lust after evil
\nthings as they also lusted. <\/p>\n
947
\n00:54:42,600 –> 00:54:46,440
\nJust hold your hand here and
\ncome across to Numbers Chapter <\/p>\n
948
\n00:54:46,440 –> 00:54:47,920
\n11.
\nNow I’m going to flick through a<\/p>\n
949
\n00:54:47,920 –> 00:54:50,400
\nfew quotes quite quickly here
\nbecause we’re going to go <\/p>\n
950
\n00:54:50,400 –> 00:54:52,840
\nbackwards and forwards between
\nthe wilderness wanderings and <\/p>\n
951
\n00:54:52,840 –> 00:54:56,160
\nthe Corinthian ecclesia to, to
\nreally start to get the sense of<\/p>\n
952
\n00:54:56,160 –> 00:54:58,920
\nhow it works.
\nSo First Corinthians 11 and in <\/p>\n
953
\n00:54:58,920 –> 00:55:04,240
\nverse 4 they’ve just really just
\nmade it out of of Egypt. <\/p>\n
954
\n00:55:04,720 –> 00:55:07,240
\nAnd verse 4 the mixed multitude
\nthat was among them fell a <\/p>\n
955
\n00:55:07,240 –> 00:55:10,240
\nlusting and the children of
\nIsrael also wept again and said,<\/p>\n
956
\n00:55:10,240 –> 00:55:13,920
\nwho shall give us flesh to eat?
\nWe remember the fish which we <\/p>\n
957
\n00:55:13,920 –> 00:55:16,520
\ndid eat in Egypt freely, the
\ncucumbers and the melons and the<\/p>\n
958
\n00:55:16,520 –> 00:55:18,160
\nleeks and the onions and the
\ngarlic. <\/p>\n
959
\n00:55:18,680 –> 00:55:22,040
\nBut now our soldiers dried away.
\nThere was nothing at all beside <\/p>\n
960
\n00:55:22,040 –> 00:55:26,080
\nthis manner before our eyes.
\nSo what’s the issue here? <\/p>\n
961
\n00:55:26,080 –> 00:55:29,840
\nWell, this corresponds, doesn’t
\nit, to the intent that they we <\/p>\n
962
\n00:55:29,840 –> 00:55:32,600
\nshould not lust after evil
\nthings as they also lusted. <\/p>\n
963
\n00:55:32,760 –> 00:55:35,200
\nThat phrase here is exactly the
\nthe mixed multitude that the <\/p>\n
964
\n00:55:35,200 –> 00:55:37,760
\nmixed multitude lusted.
\nAnd what was the lusting? <\/p>\n
965
\n00:55:38,680 –> 00:55:41,800
\nWell, in their minds, they’d
\ngone back to the food of Egypt. <\/p>\n
966
\n00:55:42,520 –> 00:55:45,720
\nThey wanted all the beautiful
\nfood of Egypt, if you can call <\/p>\n
967
\n00:55:45,720 –> 00:55:48,160
\nsome of those beautiful.
\nThey wanted all the the <\/p>\n
968
\n00:55:48,160 –> 00:55:52,800
\nbeautiful food of Egypt, but in
\ndoing so they had despised the <\/p>\n
969
\n00:55:52,800 –> 00:55:54,720
\nmanner.
\nOur soul has dried away. <\/p>\n
970
\n00:55:54,720 –> 00:55:57,640
\nThere’s nothing beside this
\nmanner before our eyes. <\/p>\n
971
\n00:55:58,560 –> 00:56:00,840
\nAnd so they were looking at the
\nmanner and they’re saying our <\/p>\n
972
\n00:56:00,880 –> 00:56:03,160
\nsouls dried away.
\nWe hate the manner. <\/p>\n
973
\n00:56:03,680 –> 00:56:07,160
\nWe want to go back to the food
\nof Egypt was the particular <\/p>\n
974
\n00:56:07,160 –> 00:56:11,560
\nissue here.
\nSo they lusted and as a result, <\/p>\n
975
\n00:56:12,560 –> 00:56:17,800
\nverse 33 and 34, they were given
\nthe quail, and while the flesh <\/p>\n
976
\n00:56:17,800 –> 00:56:19,440
\nwas yet between their teeth,
\nhere it was chewed. <\/p>\n
977
\n00:56:19,440 –> 00:56:21,920
\nThe wrath of Yahweh was kindled
\nagainst the people, and Yahweh <\/p>\n
978
\n00:56:21,920 –> 00:56:24,440
\nsmote the people with a great,
\nyou know, plague. <\/p>\n
979
\n00:56:25,040 –> 00:56:27,880
\nAnd he called the name of that
\nplace Kibroth Hatava, the graves<\/p>\n
980
\n00:56:27,960 –> 00:56:31,600
\nof the greedy, because there
\nthey buried the people that <\/p>\n
981
\n00:56:31,600 –> 00:56:34,320
\nlusted.
\nAnd so this first example that <\/p>\n
982
\n00:56:34,320 –> 00:56:37,520
\nhe uses of them lusting in the
\nwilderness is an example that’s <\/p>\n
983
\n00:56:37,520 –> 00:56:41,040
\ncompletely related, isn’t it, to
\nthis concept of eating and and <\/p>\n
984
\n00:56:41,040 –> 00:56:45,360
\nof drinking and showing that
\nthey despised the manner that <\/p>\n
985
\n00:56:45,360 –> 00:56:48,320
\nhad been given to them because
\nthey wanted the food of Egypt. <\/p>\n
986
\n00:56:50,640 –> 00:56:52,520
\nOK, what about the next one,
\nverse 7? <\/p>\n
987
\n00:56:52,520 –> 00:56:54,640
\nNeither be idolaters, as were
\nsome of them. <\/p>\n
988
\n00:56:54,800 –> 00:56:57,160
\nAs it’s written, the people sat
\ndown to eat and drink and to <\/p>\n
989
\n00:56:57,160 –> 00:57:01,520
\nrose up to play.
\nSo that’s a a citation directly <\/p>\n
990
\n00:57:01,520 –> 00:57:05,120
\nout of Exodus 32 and verse 6.
\nI won’t actually get you to turn<\/p>\n
991
\n00:57:05,120 –> 00:57:07,720
\nthat one up because Paul’s given
\nus the key part of it here. <\/p>\n
992
\n00:57:08,200 –> 00:57:10,320
\nIf I told you to think about the
\ngolden calf, what would you <\/p>\n
993
\n00:57:10,320 –> 00:57:12,160
\nthink of?
\nYou would think of the fact that<\/p>\n
994
\n00:57:12,160 –> 00:57:15,520
\nthey had made a calf, it is
\nclearly idolatry. <\/p>\n
995
\n00:57:15,520 –> 00:57:19,120
\nIt’s clearly taken them back to
\nthe idolatry of Egypt and then <\/p>\n
996
\n00:57:19,120 –> 00:57:23,000
\nthe fact that they rose up in
\nand indulged in immorality. <\/p>\n
997
\n00:57:23,720 –> 00:57:27,040
\nBut the connecting point which
\nPaul has quoted out of here in <\/p>\n
998
\n00:57:27,040 –> 00:57:31,720
\nExodus 32 is exactly this point.
\nThe people sat down to eat and <\/p>\n
999
\n00:57:31,720 –> 00:57:36,200
\ndrink and rose up to play.
\nSo actually the key issue of the<\/p>\n
1000
\n00:57:36,200 –> 00:57:41,160
\ngolden calf was they made a calf
\nbased on idolatry and then they <\/p>\n
1001
\n00:57:41,160 –> 00:57:44,160
\nindulged in a fellowship meal
\ntogether and eating and drinking<\/p>\n
1002
\n00:57:44,160 –> 00:57:47,600
\nbased around that calf.
\nAnd then they rose up to play <\/p>\n
1003
\n00:57:48,120 –> 00:57:51,280
\nand engaged in immorality.
\nI’ve got a, a table up here. <\/p>\n
1004
\n00:57:52,000 –> 00:57:55,280
\nYou can no doubt look ahead and
\nsee some of the ones before we <\/p>\n
1005
\n00:57:55,280 –> 00:57:57,080
\nquite get there.
\nBut I want you to see the <\/p>\n
1006
\n00:57:57,080 –> 00:57:58,840
\npatterns that are starting to
\nbuild up here. <\/p>\n
1007
\n00:57:59,000 –> 00:58:02,000
\nThe first one is that they were
\nit was associated with eating <\/p>\n
1008
\n00:58:02,000 –> 00:58:04,280
\nand drinking, but it turned them
\nagainst the manner. <\/p>\n
1009
\n00:58:04,840 –> 00:58:07,400
\nThey hated the manner and they
\nwanted the food of Egypt. <\/p>\n
1010
\n00:58:07,600 –> 00:58:11,120
\nThe second one is is eating and
\ndrinking, but in the context of <\/p>\n
1011
\n00:58:11,120 –> 00:58:13,720
\nidolatry and it turns them to
\nimmorality. <\/p>\n
1012
\n00:58:14,760 –> 00:58:17,920
\nSo I’ve given it away here.
\nLet’s just work through the rest<\/p>\n
1013
\n00:58:17,920 –> 00:58:20,440
\nof this verse 8.
\nNeither let us commit <\/p>\n
1014
\n00:58:20,440 –> 00:58:23,200
\nfornication as some of them
\ncommitted and fell in one day <\/p>\n
1015
\n00:58:23,400 –> 00:58:25,920
\nthree and 20,000.
\nNow we know very well that <\/p>\n
1016
\n00:58:25,920 –> 00:58:28,400
\nthat’s the incident of Bale
\npeel, don’t we, that that number<\/p>\n
1017
\n00:58:28,400 –> 00:58:32,560
\nof of 23,000 dying is the
\nincident of Bale peel and this <\/p>\n
1018
\n00:58:32,560 –> 00:58:34,120
\nconcept of committing
\nfornication. <\/p>\n
1019
\n00:58:34,640 –> 00:58:38,160
\nBut I’ll just read to you from
\nNumbers 25 and verse one to <\/p>\n
1020
\n00:58:38,160 –> 00:58:41,000
\nthree, which is exactly this
\nincident of Bale peel. <\/p>\n
1021
\n00:58:42,400 –> 00:58:46,600
\nSo Numbers 25 and verse one to
\nthree. <\/p>\n
1022
\n00:58:46,600 –> 00:58:49,840
\nAnd you won’t be surprised to
\nyou Israel Abode and Chittim and<\/p>\n
1023
\n00:58:50,080 –> 00:58:53,200
\nand the people began to commit
\nwhoredom with the daughters of <\/p>\n
1024
\n00:58:53,200 –> 00:58:56,480
\nMoab, and they called the people
\nunto the sacrifices of their <\/p>\n
1025
\n00:58:56,480 –> 00:59:01,960
\ngods.
\nAnd the people did eat and bowed<\/p>\n
1026
\n00:59:01,960 –> 00:59:06,640
\ndown to their gods, and Israel
\njoined himself unto Baal Peor, <\/p>\n
1027
\n00:59:06,640 –> 00:59:09,160
\nand the anger of Yahweh was
\nkindled against Israel. <\/p>\n
1028
\n00:59:10,720 –> 00:59:14,320
\nSo you find once again that the
\nconcept of the idolatry and of <\/p>\n
1029
\n00:59:14,320 –> 00:59:18,120
\npartaking of idolatry is closely
\nassociated with the concept of <\/p>\n
1030
\n00:59:18,120 –> 00:59:22,440
\neating, that the people were
\ncalled to the sacrifices of the <\/p>\n
1031
\n00:59:22,440 –> 00:59:25,440
\nMoabite gods.
\nAnd the, the, the people of <\/p>\n
1032
\n00:59:25,440 –> 00:59:30,560
\nIsrael ate and bound down and
\nbowed down and joined themselves<\/p>\n
1033
\n00:59:30,560 –> 00:59:33,120
\nto Baal Peor.
\nIt’s exactly the same concept. <\/p>\n
1034
\n00:59:33,120 –> 00:59:36,360
\nThey ate and they drank.
\nThey committed idolatry and it <\/p>\n
1035
\n00:59:36,360 –> 00:59:40,480
\nturned into immorality.
\nThey began to commit whoredom <\/p>\n
1036
\n00:59:40,480 –> 00:59:46,240
\nwith the daughters of Moab.
\nVerse 9 Neither let us tempt <\/p>\n
1037
\n00:59:46,240 –> 00:59:48,320
\nChrist as some of them also
\ntempted him. <\/p>\n
1038
\n00:59:48,320 –> 00:59:51,200
\nWe’re destroyed of serpents.
\nSo clearly this is the incident <\/p>\n
1039
\n00:59:51,200 –> 00:59:54,680
\nof the of the fiery serpents,
\nisn’t it out of numbers 21. <\/p>\n
1040
\n00:59:55,720 –> 00:59:58,120
\nAnd they they tempted Christ,
\nwe’re told. <\/p>\n
1041
\n00:59:58,520 –> 00:59:59,920
\nSo.
\nNumbers 21. <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:00:01,280 –> 01:00:05,080
\nAnd verse 5 to 6, what was the
\nissue in in Numbers 21? <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:00:08,080 –> 01:00:10,480
\nAnd the people spake against God
\nand against Moses. <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:00:10,480 –> 01:00:12,800
\nWherefore have you brought us up
\nout of Egypt to die in the <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:00:12,800 –> 01:00:15,000
\nwilderness?
\nThere is no bread, neither is <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:00:15,000 –> 01:00:17,640
\nthere any water.
\nAnd our soul loathe this light <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:00:17,640 –> 01:00:20,400
\nbread.
\nAnd Yahweh sent fiery serpents <\/p>\n
1048
\n01:00:20,400 –> 01:00:23,960
\namong the people, and they bit
\nthe people, and much people of <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:00:23,960 –> 01:00:26,800
\nIsrael died.
\nIt’s the same issue, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:00:27,960 –> 01:00:29,760
\nThere they were with the fiery
\nserpents. <\/p>\n
1051
\n01:00:29,880 –> 01:00:32,520
\nSorry, there they were in the
\nwilderness and they said there’s<\/p>\n
1052
\n01:00:32,520 –> 01:00:36,320
\nno bread, there’s no water.
\nBut then they answer the fact, <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:00:36,320 –> 01:00:38,440
\nthey say our soul loatheth this
\nlight bread. <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:00:39,440 –> 01:00:41,880
\nSo actually the issue with the
\nfiery serpents and the <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:00:41,880 –> 01:00:44,760
\ndevastation caused by the fiery
\nserpents was because they were <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:00:44,760 –> 01:00:49,240
\nsaying we hate the manner we
\ndon’t like the food of God in <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:00:49,240 –> 01:00:51,320
\nthe wilderness.
\nWe want the food from back in <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:00:51,320 –> 01:00:53,240
\nEgypt.
\nWe want our own food which we <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:00:53,240 –> 01:00:57,600
\nenjoy and so yet again we find
\nthat this concept that Paul <\/p>\n
1060
\n01:00:57,600 –> 01:01:00,640
\npicks out is 1 which hones right
\ninto the issue of eating and <\/p>\n
1061
\n01:01:00,640 –> 01:01:03,040
\ndrinking and the impact of of
\nthat eating and drinking. <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:01:03,040 –> 01:01:08,360
\nAnd in verse 10, neither murmur
\nyears, some of them also <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:01:08,360 –> 01:01:10,360
\nmurmured and were destroyed of
\nthe destroyer. <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:01:10,640 –> 01:01:14,280
\nNow the marginal reference there
\nis in Numbers 14, which which <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:01:14,280 –> 01:01:16,400
\ndoes talk of murmuring, I’m
\nactually going to take you back <\/p>\n
1066
\n01:01:16,400 –> 01:01:20,800
\nto Exodus 1516 and 17 because I
\nbelieve in the context of what <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:01:20,800 –> 01:01:24,080
\nwe’re seeing already here, that
\nthis is the such the example <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:01:24,080 –> 01:01:35,590
\nhe’s talking about.
\nExodus 15, verse 24, they come <\/p>\n
1069
\n01:01:35,590 –> 01:01:39,310
\ninto the waters of Mara.
\nVerse 23, they were bitter and <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:01:39,310 –> 01:01:42,070
\nthe people murmured against
\nMoses saying what shall we <\/p>\n
1071
\n01:01:42,070 –> 01:01:43,880
\ndrink?
\nSo it’s the same. <\/p>\n
1072
\n01:01:43,880 –> 01:01:47,400
\nSo this concept of the of the
\npeople murmuring comes out here <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:01:47,400 –> 01:01:50,800
\nstrongly in Exodus.
\nIn Exodus 15 there was no water,<\/p>\n
1074
\n01:01:51,000 –> 01:01:55,680
\ntherefore the people murmured or
\nchapter 16 and verse verse 2, <\/p>\n
1075
\n01:01:56,880 –> 01:01:59,560
\nthey took their journey to Elam
\nand verse one and the whole <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:01:59,560 –> 01:02:02,600
\ncongregation of the children of
\nIsrael murmured against Moses <\/p>\n
1077
\n01:02:02,600 –> 01:02:05,280
\nand Aaron in the wilderness.
\nAnd the children of Israel said <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:02:05,280 –> 01:02:09,200
\nunto them, would to God, we had
\ndied by the hand of of Yahweh in<\/p>\n
1079
\n01:02:09,200 –> 01:02:11,920
\nthe land of Egypt, when we sat
\nby the fleshpots, and when we <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:02:11,920 –> 01:02:14,800
\ndid eat bread to the full.
\nFor ye have brought us forth <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:02:14,800 –> 01:02:17,840
\ninto the this wilderness to kill
\nthis assembly with hunger. <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:02:18,480 –> 01:02:22,000
\nVerse 4 Then Yahweh said unto
\nMoses, Behold, I will reign <\/p>\n
1083
\n01:02:22,000 –> 01:02:25,000
\nbread from heaven for you, and
\nthe people shall go out and <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:02:25,000 –> 01:02:26,920
\ngather.
\nAnd so that incident is actually<\/p>\n
1085
\n01:02:26,920 –> 01:02:30,200
\nthe incident where the the
\nmanner is commenced for the for <\/p>\n
1086
\n01:02:30,200 –> 01:02:34,240
\nthe people of Israel.
\nAnd so see where their focus is,<\/p>\n
1087
\n01:02:34,240 –> 01:02:36,760
\nthough they’re murmuring because
\nthey’re saying, oh, why would <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:02:36,760 –> 01:02:38,280
\nwhy did we even come out to
\nwilderness? <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:02:38,280 –> 01:02:40,120
\nWould God?
\nWe had died back in the land of <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:02:40,120 –> 01:02:43,880
\nEgypt by the fleshpots of Egypt
\nwhere we had food and abundance <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:02:44,320 –> 01:02:48,200
\nand chapter 17 and verse 3 and
\nrefidom, wherefore the people <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:02:48,200 –> 01:02:51,520
\nchode with to chide with Moses
\nand said, give us water that we <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:02:51,520 –> 01:02:54,760
\nmay drink.
\nAnd Moses said unto them, why <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:02:54,760 –> 01:02:57,920
\ncharge you with me?
\nWherefore do you tempt Yahweh? <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:02:58,400 –> 01:03:01,440
\nAnd the people thirsted there
\nfor water and the people <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:03:01,440 –> 01:03:05,760
\nmurmured against Moses.
\nExcuse me. <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:03:05,760 –> 01:03:08,280
\nSo that context of the murmuring
\nand the idea of murmuring, I <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:03:08,280 –> 01:03:11,760
\nbelieve is actually out of those
\nearly section here in Exodus, <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:03:12,040 –> 01:03:14,840
\nwhich again gives us this
\nconcept of the eating and the <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:03:14,840 –> 01:03:19,640
\ndrinking and particularly this
\nthe the going back to the food <\/p>\n
1101
\n01:03:19,640 –> 01:03:22,400
\nof Egypt and God in response
\ngives the manner. <\/p>\n
1102
\n01:03:25,520 –> 01:03:28,240
\nSo this is a battle, isn’t it,
\nbetween the gods of the nations,<\/p>\n
1103
\n01:03:28,840 –> 01:03:33,680
\nthe lifestyle of the nations and
\nYahweh between the fellowship <\/p>\n
1104
\n01:03:33,680 –> 01:03:37,840
\nmeal of the gods of the nations
\nand the and the fellowship meal <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:03:37,840 –> 01:03:43,880
\nof Yahweh.
\nAnd Paul brings out so <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:03:43,880 –> 01:03:48,040
\nbrilliantly here, using these
\nparticular examples to show that<\/p>\n
1107
\n01:03:48,040 –> 01:03:51,240
\nthe issue is not just one he’s
\nhaving to deal with in Corinth <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:03:51,240 –> 01:03:53,160
\naround the eating of meat
\noffered to idols. <\/p>\n
1109
\n01:03:54,040 –> 01:03:57,120
\nBut he’s showing that the issues
\nthat are arising in Corinth were<\/p>\n
1110
\n01:03:57,120 –> 01:04:01,280
\nbecause of their focus on eating
\nand drinking, of eating and <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:04:01,280 –> 01:04:04,480
\ndrinking of the gods of the
\nnations around them. <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:04:06,080 –> 01:04:09,320
\nThat in Israel, in the
\nwilderness, that focus on eating<\/p>\n
1113
\n01:04:09,320 –> 01:04:15,080
\nand drinking had led to idolatry
\nand immorality and destruction <\/p>\n
1114
\n01:04:15,160 –> 01:04:18,600
\non the one hand.
\nAnd in other examples it relates<\/p>\n
1115
\n01:04:18,600 –> 01:04:22,040
\nto the fact that they despise
\nthe manner of God’s providing. <\/p>\n
1116
\n01:04:22,560 –> 01:04:25,960
\nThey despised the manner because
\nthey wanted to eat and drink <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:04:25,960 –> 01:04:28,480
\nthings the way the world had
\nprovided them. <\/p>\n
1118
\n01:04:29,400 –> 01:04:32,320
\nThey preferred to head back to
\nthe leeks and onions and <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:04:32,320 –> 01:04:35,800
\ngarlics, and so therefore
\nloathed the angels food that <\/p>\n
1120
\n01:04:35,800 –> 01:04:41,160
\nthey had given.
\nAnd therefore, they would never <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:04:41,160 –> 01:04:45,000
\nenter into the land that was
\noverflowing in milk and honey <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:04:45,840 –> 01:04:49,600
\nfrom the abundance of the
\nFather, because they wanted to <\/p>\n
1123
\n01:04:49,600 –> 01:04:52,880
\nfellowship the feast of the
\nidols of the nations around <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:04:52,880 –> 01:04:55,400
\nthem.
\nAnd so in such an incredible <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:04:55,400 –> 01:04:58,560
\nway, Paul brings them right back
\nto the very heart of the issue <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:04:58,560 –> 01:05:01,400
\nin Corinth.
\nIt wasn’t just justification <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:05:01,400 –> 01:05:03,800
\naround mere eating meat offered
\nto idols. <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:05:05,920 –> 01:05:10,160
\nThey actually wanted to indulge
\nin the idols worship. <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:05:11,280 –> 01:05:13,440
\nThey wanted to indulge
\nthemselves in the idols around, <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:05:13,440 –> 01:05:16,200
\njust like Israel in the
\nwilderness who had fallen time <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:05:16,200 –> 01:05:18,840
\nand time again.
\nThey wanted to betake of this <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:05:18,840 –> 01:05:20,800
\nlife and the lifestyle of the
\nnations around them. <\/p>\n
1133
\n01:05:21,960 –> 01:05:26,520
\nThey hated the manner, the word,
\nthe bread of life that had been <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:05:26,520 –> 01:05:29,080
\nprovided.
\nBut you see, they’d found a <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:05:29,080 –> 01:05:31,600
\nlegal justification to do so,
\nhadn’t they, when they said that<\/p>\n
1136
\n01:05:31,600 –> 01:05:34,480
\nan idol was nothing.
\nAnd Paul just turns that on his <\/p>\n
1137
\n01:05:34,480 –> 01:05:38,160
\nhead and and he warns not just
\nthem, but he warns us also, <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:05:38,160 –> 01:05:42,760
\ndoesn’t he, that we need to be
\ncareful in case our own <\/p>\n
1139
\n01:05:42,760 –> 01:05:46,360
\njustification, just such a
\nsimple little academic <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:05:46,360 –> 01:05:49,360
\njustification here should lead
\nto such an incredible <\/p>\n
1141
\n01:05:50,480 –> 01:05:53,200
\nbehavioural transformation that
\nwe end up fellowshipping the <\/p>\n
1142
\n01:05:53,200 –> 01:06:00,280
\nidols of the nations around this
\n15 of of 1st Corinthians 10. <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:06:00,920 –> 01:06:03,560
\nOur speakers to wise men judge
\nhe what I say the cup of <\/p>\n
1144
\n01:06:03,560 –> 01:06:06,440
\nblessing which we bless.
\nIs it not the communion of the <\/p>\n
1145
\n01:06:06,440 –> 01:06:10,120
\nblood of Christ, The bread which
\nwe break isn’t not the communion<\/p>\n
1146
\n01:06:10,120 –> 01:06:14,320
\nof the body of Christ, For we
\nbeing many are one bread and one<\/p>\n
1147
\n01:06:14,320 –> 01:06:15,880
\nbody.
\nWe’re partakers of that one <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:06:15,880 –> 01:06:18,400
\nbread.
\nAnd now Paul starts to pull all <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:06:18,400 –> 01:06:21,200
\nthese ideas together in terms of
\nour own worship and our own <\/p>\n
1150
\n01:06:21,200 –> 01:06:24,400
\napproach to God because he’s
\nbeen building up this context. <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:06:24,400 –> 01:06:26,040
\nYes, an idol’s nothing.
\nYou can go and eat that. <\/p>\n
1152
\n01:06:26,040 –> 01:06:29,480
\nBut actually he’s saying when
\nyou go into the Idols Temple or <\/p>\n
1153
\n01:06:29,960 –> 01:06:32,640
\nhe takes a back a step, he says
\nwhen you come to the memorial <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:06:32,640 –> 01:06:35,640
\nmeeting and you share in the
\nbread and the wine, what are you<\/p>\n
1155
\n01:06:35,640 –> 01:06:38,360
\ndoing?
\nWe’re becoming one body. <\/p>\n
1156
\n01:06:39,240 –> 01:06:43,400
\nWe’re becoming a communion, a
\ncommon union of the body of <\/p>\n
1157
\n01:06:43,400 –> 01:06:46,120
\nChrist.
\nWe’re one bread and we’re one <\/p>\n
1158
\n01:06:46,120 –> 01:06:48,000
\nbody.
\nSo as we share that bread that’s<\/p>\n
1159
\n01:06:48,000 –> 01:06:51,160
\nbroken, as we share the wine
\nthat is passed around, we <\/p>\n
1160
\n01:06:51,160 –> 01:06:54,840
\nbecome, as it were, I’ve sat
\ncarefully, but we become part of<\/p>\n
1161
\n01:06:54,840 –> 01:06:56,040
\nthat body and part of that
\nbread. <\/p>\n
1162
\n01:06:56,800 –> 01:07:01,040
\nWe fellowship, as it were, the
\nsacrifice of the body of Christ.<\/p>\n
1163
\n01:07:01,040 –> 01:07:04,640
\nWe become the communion of the
\nbody and blood of Christ. <\/p>\n
1164
\n01:07:06,240 –> 01:07:09,680
\nHe then expands that verse 18
\nIsrael after the flesh are not <\/p>\n
1165
\n01:07:09,680 –> 01:07:12,040
\nthey which each of the
\nsacrifices partakers of the <\/p>\n
1166
\n01:07:12,040 –> 01:07:14,120
\naltar.
\nSo there were particular <\/p>\n
1167
\n01:07:14,120 –> 01:07:16,840
\nsacrifices where Israel would
\ncome and would join in the <\/p>\n
1168
\n01:07:16,840 –> 01:07:19,640
\neating of the sacrifice that was
\nplaced upon the altar. <\/p>\n
1169
\n01:07:20,280 –> 01:07:25,240
\nAnd it’s saying that it links
\nthe offer and the offering and <\/p>\n
1170
\n01:07:25,240 –> 01:07:29,040
\nthe priest in the process of
\noffering together in one united <\/p>\n
1171
\n01:07:29,040 –> 01:07:34,320
\nfellowship meal together.
\nSo verse 19, he says, well, <\/p>\n
1172
\n01:07:34,320 –> 01:07:36,720
\nlet’s now take that principle
\nand apply it and idol worship. <\/p>\n
1173
\n01:07:36,960 –> 01:07:40,240
\nWhat I say then, is the idol
\nanything or is that which is <\/p>\n
1174
\n01:07:40,240 –> 01:07:41,840
\noffered and sacrificed to idols
\nanything? <\/p>\n
1175
\n01:07:41,840 –> 01:07:43,800
\nWell, they’d argued it wasn’t.
\nNo, it’s not. <\/p>\n
1176
\n01:07:43,800 –> 01:07:46,680
\nSo therefore it doesn’t impact.
\nBut I say that the things which <\/p>\n
1177
\n01:07:46,680 –> 01:07:50,760
\nthe Gentiles sacrifice, they
\nsacrifice to devils and not to <\/p>\n
1178
\n01:07:50,760 –> 01:07:52,720
\nGod.
\nAnd I would not that you should <\/p>\n
1179
\n01:07:52,720 –> 01:07:55,560
\nfellowship with devils.
\nAnd his point here is when you <\/p>\n
1180
\n01:07:55,560 –> 01:07:58,520
\ngo up to the idols temple and
\nyou eat meat that’s been offered<\/p>\n
1181
\n01:07:58,520 –> 01:08:01,560
\nto an idol, you are
\nfellowshipping the table of <\/p>\n
1182
\n01:08:01,560 –> 01:08:04,800
\ndevils.
\nYou are there sharing in a <\/p>\n
1183
\n01:08:04,800 –> 01:08:09,120
\nfellowship that binds you
\ntogether with that idol, with <\/p>\n
1184
\n01:08:09,120 –> 01:08:11,440
\nall of that.
\nIt represents with all of the <\/p>\n
1185
\n01:08:11,440 –> 01:08:14,160
\nimmorality and all the issues
\nassociated with that idol <\/p>\n
1186
\n01:08:14,160 –> 01:08:16,240
\nworship.
\nIf you are prepared to go up <\/p>\n
1187
\n01:08:16,240 –> 01:08:20,399
\nthere and to eat there, then you
\nwill become part of that idol is<\/p>\n
1188
\n01:08:20,399 –> 01:08:23,640
\nwhat he’s saying.
\nSo their little legal <\/p>\n
1189
\n01:08:23,640 –> 01:08:25,920
\njustification here that an idol
\nis nothing and therefore they <\/p>\n
1190
\n01:08:25,920 –> 01:08:29,120
\ncould go up there has now been
\nutterly turned on its head to <\/p>\n
1191
\n01:08:29,120 –> 01:08:32,520
\nsay actually that legal
\njustification has now brought <\/p>\n
1192
\n01:08:32,520 –> 01:08:36,640
\nyou to a position where you’re
\nprepared to instead of having <\/p>\n
1193
\n01:08:36,640 –> 01:08:39,279
\nthe the community of the body
\nand blood of the Lord, you are <\/p>\n
1194
\n01:08:39,279 –> 01:08:41,760
\nactually fellowshipping the
\ntable of devils. <\/p>\n
1195
\n01:08:41,760 –> 01:08:44,439
\nYou are becoming part of the
\nidol itself. <\/p>\n
1196
\n01:08:47,200 –> 01:08:51,479
\nAs we become as as we partake of
\nYahweh’s feast memorial meeting,<\/p>\n
1197
\n01:08:52,319 –> 01:08:55,279
\nwe become the communion of the
\nbody of Christ and we’re bound <\/p>\n
1198
\n01:08:55,279 –> 01:08:58,479
\nin that beautiful fellowship
\nthat the memorial feast becomes <\/p>\n
1199
\n01:08:58,479 –> 01:09:01,479
\nfor us spiritually.
\nWe’ve become part of the body of<\/p>\n
1200
\n01:09:01,479 –> 01:09:06,040
\nChrist.
\nBut he tells us if we’re <\/p>\n
1201
\n01:09:06,040 –> 01:09:11,800
\nprepared instead to go out and
\nto eat in an idol’s temple, then<\/p>\n
1202
\n01:09:11,800 –> 01:09:14,479
\nactually we’re fellowshipping
\nwith devils. <\/p>\n
1203
\n01:09:15,319 –> 01:09:18,560
\nThere’s little justification
\nhere had brought them to a <\/p>\n
1204
\n01:09:18,560 –> 01:09:22,399
\nposition where they were in
\nfellowship becoming one with and<\/p>\n
1205
\n01:09:22,399 –> 01:09:27,560
\npart of the table of devils.
\nYou might be able to justify it,<\/p>\n
1206
\n01:09:28,880 –> 01:09:32,560
\nbut in reality it’s LED you to
\nthe horrible position of being <\/p>\n
1207
\n01:09:32,920 –> 01:09:39,800
\nin fellowship with the idol.
\nYou can’t expect that he says to<\/p>\n
1208
\n01:09:39,800 –> 01:09:42,359
\nhappen.
\nVerse 21. <\/p>\n
1209
\n01:09:43,479 –> 01:09:47,479
\nYou can’t drink the cup of the
\nLord and the cup of devils. <\/p>\n
1210
\n01:09:48,560 –> 01:09:51,760
\nHe cannot be partakers of the
\nLord’s table and of the table of<\/p>\n
1211
\n01:09:51,760 –> 01:09:58,840
\ndevils.
\nWe can’t expect to fellowship <\/p>\n
1212
\n01:09:58,840 –> 01:10:03,160
\nthe table of devils and then to
\ncome to the Lord’s feast on a <\/p>\n
1213
\n01:10:03,160 –> 01:10:06,600
\nSunday morning and expect that
\nwe’ll have fellowship with a <\/p>\n
1214
\n01:10:06,600 –> 01:10:10,320
\nfather.
\nHe says you cannot do it if in <\/p>\n
1215
\n01:10:10,320 –> 01:10:13,480
\nour life we are justifying
\nourselves into a position where <\/p>\n
1216
\n01:10:13,480 –> 01:10:18,760
\ninstead of edifying one another,
\nwe are living our life based on <\/p>\n
1217
\n01:10:18,760 –> 01:10:23,280
\nwhat we want to do.
\nIf that way of life has LED us <\/p>\n
1218
\n01:10:23,280 –> 01:10:26,200
\nto a position where we are
\nindulging in fellowship with the<\/p>\n
1219
\n01:10:26,200 –> 01:10:28,800
\nworld and bringing the world
\ninto our lives. <\/p>\n
1220
\n01:10:30,280 –> 01:10:34,280
\nAnd he says, how can you expect
\nto turn around on a Sunday <\/p>\n
1221
\n01:10:34,280 –> 01:10:35,880
\nmorning and fellowship with the
\nFather? <\/p>\n
1222
\n01:10:37,360 –> 01:10:40,040
\nAnd in such an incredible way,
\nPaul has has shown us that it’s <\/p>\n
1223
\n01:10:40,040 –> 01:10:42,920
\nnot just others we’re hurting
\nwith that little justification, <\/p>\n
1224
\n01:10:43,760 –> 01:10:47,840
\nbut we’re actually destroying
\nourselves that we are in, and <\/p>\n
1225
\n01:10:47,840 –> 01:10:49,640
\nwe’re destroying the fellowship
\nwith the Father. <\/p>\n
1226
\n01:10:49,640 –> 01:10:51,320
\nIt’s that law of consequence,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
1227
\n01:10:51,400 –> 01:10:55,520
\nJust a little academic
\njustification that’s LED <\/p>\n
1228
\n01:10:55,800 –> 01:11:02,320
\ninevitably by tunes to major
\nbehavioral change that put us in<\/p>\n
1229
\n01:11:02,320 –> 01:11:05,640
\nfellowship with the devil and
\nnot with God. <\/p>\n
1230
\n01:11:08,560 –> 01:11:10,760
\nWe haven’t got time to look at
\nit in detail now, but in One <\/p>\n
1231
\n01:11:10,760 –> 01:11:16,320
\nCorinthians Chapter 11, actually
\nthis chapter that we use every <\/p>\n
1232
\n01:11:16,320 –> 01:11:20,120
\nSunday and perhaps use too much
\nevery Sunday as as a basis of of<\/p>\n
1233
\n01:11:20,320 –> 01:11:24,520
\nof words just for for the
\nmemorials is actually a chapter <\/p>\n
1234
\n01:11:24,520 –> 01:11:27,640
\nthat’s pulling together all of
\nthese ideas to show now what had<\/p>\n
1235
\n01:11:27,640 –> 01:11:30,520
\nhappened.
\nAnd what is this in in Chapter <\/p>\n
1236
\n01:11:30,520 –> 01:11:33,880
\n11, verse 20, when we come
\ntogether therefore into one <\/p>\n
1237
\n01:11:33,880 –> 01:11:36,360
\nplace, this is not to eat the
\nLord’s Supper for an eating <\/p>\n
1238
\n01:11:36,360 –> 01:11:39,720
\neveryone taketh before other his
\nown supper and one is hungry and<\/p>\n
1239
\n01:11:39,720 –> 01:11:42,840
\nanother is drunken.
\nWhat have ye not houses to eat <\/p>\n
1240
\n01:11:42,840 –> 01:11:45,920
\nand drink in or despise ye the
\necclesia of God and shame them <\/p>\n
1241
\n01:11:45,920 –> 01:11:47,920
\nwhat have not?
\nSo what had happened? <\/p>\n
1242
\n01:11:48,360 –> 01:11:50,680
\nWell, the memorial feast had
\nactually got to a position where<\/p>\n
1243
\n01:11:50,680 –> 01:11:53,400
\nbefore the memorial feast they’d
\nhave a meal together and one of <\/p>\n
1244
\n01:11:53,400 –> 01:11:55,680
\nthem was so poor that he was
\nsitting in the corner starving <\/p>\n
1245
\n01:11:55,840 –> 01:11:57,640
\nand the other one who was
\nwealthy was sitting there <\/p>\n
1246
\n01:11:57,640 –> 01:12:02,760
\noverindulging and drunken.
\nWhat’s that if it’s not the <\/p>\n
1247
\n01:12:02,760 –> 01:12:05,720
\nidols worship that has now
\nbecome part of the memorial <\/p>\n
1248
\n01:12:05,720 –> 01:12:08,320
\nmeeting?
\nSo it’s not just that they were <\/p>\n
1249
\n01:12:08,320 –> 01:12:11,320
\nfellowshipping the table of
\ndevils up in the idols temple, <\/p>\n
1250
\n01:12:11,640 –> 01:12:15,800
\nbut their self justification had
\nnow led to an outcome where then<\/p>\n
1251
\n01:12:15,920 –> 01:12:19,920
\nthe meat offered to idols had
\nbecome idol worship in the <\/p>\n
1252
\n01:12:19,920 –> 01:12:25,200
\nmemorial meeting of God itself.
\nThey had taken the influence of <\/p>\n
1253
\n01:12:25,200 –> 01:12:29,080
\nthe idols worship and they had
\nbrought the drunken feasting <\/p>\n
1254
\n01:12:29,080 –> 01:12:31,840
\napproach of the idols worship
\ninto the memorial meeting <\/p>\n
1255
\n01:12:31,840 –> 01:12:34,080
\nitself.
\nBrothers and sisters and young <\/p>\n
1256
\n01:12:34,080 –> 01:12:37,560
\npeople, you cannot take little
\nthings which you justify as a <\/p>\n
1257
\n01:12:37,560 –> 01:12:41,640
\nself justification and expect if
\nthey are against the principles <\/p>\n
1258
\n01:12:41,640 –> 01:12:44,600
\nof God, that it will not find
\nits way into influencing the <\/p>\n
1259
\n01:12:44,600 –> 01:12:48,400
\necclesia and by turns we’ll end
\nup in our memorial meetings <\/p>\n
1260
\n01:12:48,640 –> 01:12:51,360
\nimpacting our ability to
\nfellowship with the father. <\/p>\n
1261
\n01:12:53,160 –> 01:12:57,240
\nIt had come into the memorial
\nmeeting itself, and Paul says <\/p>\n
1262
\n01:12:57,240 –> 01:13:01,320
\nthat a man examine himself
\nbefore he takes the bread and <\/p>\n
1263
\n01:13:01,320 –> 01:13:04,960
\nthe wine to see whether we are
\nbringing the idols worship with <\/p>\n
1264
\n01:13:04,960 –> 01:13:09,120
\nus.
\nIt’s the final horrific <\/p>\n
1265
\n01:13:09,120 –> 01:13:11,440
\noutworking of a simple little
\nstatement that an idol is <\/p>\n
1266
\n01:13:11,440 –> 01:13:14,520
\nnothing.
\nWhat is started as a seemingly <\/p>\n
1267
\n01:13:14,520 –> 01:13:18,280
\nminor comment had now drifted
\ninto them eating idols meat in <\/p>\n
1268
\n01:13:18,280 –> 01:13:23,280
\nthe idols temple and by degrees
\nand slips and tones they had <\/p>\n
1269
\n01:13:23,360 –> 01:13:27,520
\ntaken the fellowship of the
\ntemple and bought it into the <\/p>\n
1270
\n01:13:27,520 –> 01:13:32,920
\necclesial life itself.
\nThe reality is that none of us <\/p>\n
1271
\n01:13:32,920 –> 01:13:36,760
\neat meat offered to idols.
\nNone of us have a concern about <\/p>\n
1272
\n01:13:36,760 –> 01:13:38,720
\nthe question of meat offered to
\nidols. <\/p>\n
1273
\n01:13:39,560 –> 01:13:41,400
\nIt’s simply not a problem for us
\ntoday. <\/p>\n
1274
\n01:13:44,200 –> 01:13:47,080
\nBut it’s very easy for us to
\ntake self justification in many <\/p>\n
1275
\n01:13:47,080 –> 01:13:51,560
\nmatters of life.
\nWe’re told all these things <\/p>\n
1276
\n01:13:51,560 –> 01:13:54,120
\nhappen to them.
\nFor examples, there’s no <\/p>\n
1277
\n01:13:54,120 –> 01:13:58,960
\ntemptation touch you, but such
\nas is common to men and I <\/p>\n
1278
\n01:13:58,960 –> 01:14:02,040
\nbelieve, brothers and sisters,
\nthat in the age we live in, <\/p>\n
1279
\n01:14:02,720 –> 01:14:05,400
\nthere is a significant danger
\nthat we are fellowshipping the <\/p>\n
1280
\n01:14:05,400 –> 01:14:08,840
\ntable of devils.
\nThat we can have justified our <\/p>\n
1281
\n01:14:08,840 –> 01:14:13,200
\nown life, our own lifestyle, our
\nown way of life to such an <\/p>\n
1282
\n01:14:13,200 –> 01:14:16,160
\nextent that we have missed the
\nconcept of edifying our brothers<\/p>\n
1283
\n01:14:16,160 –> 01:14:19,360
\nand sisters.
\nIt was the issue in Sodom, <\/p>\n
1284
\n01:14:19,360 –> 01:14:21,040
\nwasn’t it?
\nAbundance of idleness and <\/p>\n
1285
\n01:14:21,040 –> 01:14:24,160
\nfullness of bread.
\nWe live in an age of, of <\/p>\n
1286
\n01:14:24,160 –> 01:14:28,080
\nrelaxation of an age of focus
\nupon ourselves. <\/p>\n
1287
\n01:14:29,280 –> 01:14:31,840
\nOn one hand, we rush madly
\naround in the world that’s going<\/p>\n
1288
\n01:14:31,840 –> 01:14:34,200
\nfaster and faster.
\nAnd on the other time when we <\/p>\n
1289
\n01:14:34,200 –> 01:14:36,520
\nhave that spare time, we we try
\nand fill it up with all the <\/p>\n
1290
\n01:14:36,520 –> 01:14:39,000
\nrelaxations and all of the
\nfocuses of this life. <\/p>\n
1291
\n01:14:39,000 –> 01:14:42,920
\nAnd we actually have to stop and
\nto examine our own life’s <\/p>\n
1292
\n01:14:42,920 –> 01:14:46,960
\npersonally, brothers and sisters
\nand young people, to see whether<\/p>\n
1293
\n01:14:46,960 –> 01:14:49,760
\nour life has lived in the
\nfullness and the completeness of<\/p>\n
1294
\n01:14:49,760 –> 01:14:54,200
\nservice to our brothers and
\nsisters in their edification, to<\/p>\n
1295
\n01:14:54,200 –> 01:14:56,840
\nmake sure that what we’re doing
\nwill not make them hurt or <\/p>\n
1296
\n01:14:56,840 –> 01:15:07,160
\nstumble.
\nAll things are lawful, but not <\/p>\n
1297
\n01:15:07,160 –> 01:15:13,440
\nall things are expedient.
\nThe word expedient there we’ve <\/p>\n
1298
\n01:15:13,440 –> 01:15:15,840
\nlooked at already is the idea of
\nto bear together and to <\/p>\n
1299
\n01:15:15,840 –> 01:15:19,240
\ncontribute.
\nBut now Paul adds another phrase<\/p>\n
1300
\n01:15:19,800 –> 01:15:24,560
\nto edify.
\nHe says in in one Corinthians 10<\/p>\n
1301
\n01:15:24,560 –> 01:15:32,960
\nand verse 23 and 24.
\nAll things are lawful but all <\/p>\n
1302
\n01:15:32,960 –> 01:15:34,400
\nthings edify.
\nNot that word. <\/p>\n
1303
\n01:15:34,400 –> 01:15:39,560
\nEdify interestingly is to be a
\nhouse builder to construct or <\/p>\n
1304
\n01:15:39,560 –> 01:15:42,320
\nconfirm.
\nPaul’s bringing us back to the <\/p>\n
1305
\n01:15:42,320 –> 01:15:46,760
\nconcept of being Co labourers or
\nbuilders with God and the <\/p>\n
1306
\n01:15:46,760 –> 01:15:49,640
\nbuilding we build is our
\nbrothers and sisters together. <\/p>\n
1307
\n01:15:51,600 –> 01:15:55,760
\nThis is God’s salvation that He
\nis working. <\/p>\n
1308
\n01:15:57,240 –> 01:16:02,760
\nHe wants us to to to take each
\nother and to build and to lift <\/p>\n
1309
\n01:16:02,760 –> 01:16:06,280
\neach other up, and therefore we
\nshould be prepared to put <\/p>\n
1310
\n01:16:06,280 –> 01:16:10,040
\nanything aside in life that
\ncould harm or destroy that <\/p>\n
1311
\n01:16:10,040 –> 01:16:14,240
\noutcome.
\nThat way of salvation is shown <\/p>\n
1312
\n01:16:14,240 –> 01:16:17,200
\nby the Lord in the ultimate
\nexample of expedience and <\/p>\n
1313
\n01:16:17,200 –> 01:16:22,200
\nedification, of building us up,
\nof bearing us. <\/p>\n
1314
\n01:16:23,840 –> 01:16:30,480
\nTake, eat.
\nThis is my body which is broken <\/p>\n
1315
\n01:16:30,480 –> 01:16:35,800
\nfor you.
\nThis cup is the New Testament, <\/p>\n
1316
\n01:16:35,920 –> 01:16:41,640
\nthe New Covenant in my blood.
\nGod does not tempt us above that<\/p>\n
1317
\n01:16:41,640 –> 01:16:44,200
\nwe are able.
\nHe has made the way of <\/p>\n
1318
\n01:16:44,200 –> 01:16:47,840
\nforgiveness and reconciliation
\navailable through the life and <\/p>\n
1319
\n01:16:47,840 –> 01:16:52,520
\nthe death of His dear Son.
\nIt’s up to us as individuals to <\/p>\n
1320
\n01:16:52,520 –> 01:16:56,960
\nexamine ourselves, to turn on
\nour heels and to flee from <\/p>\n
1321
\n01:16:56,960 –> 01:17:01,440
\nidolatry and to devote our life
\nin slavery to one another. <\/p>\n
1322
\n01:17:04,120 –> 01:17:11,720
\nWherefore he says, whether
\ntherefore you eat or drink or <\/p>\n
1323
\n01:17:11,720 –> 01:17:17,600
\nwhatsoever you do, make sure
\nthat it’s all to the glory of <\/p>\n
1324
\n01:17:17,600 –> 01:17:17,960
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