Thursday, 19 April 2012

Numbers 25

"These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come."
{1 Corinthians 10:11} (NIV 1984) 

This passage of Scripture serves as the key to understanding the relationship between the history of Israel and the Christian church. Paul tells us that they were in fellowship with Christ. He compares them to us and then warns us of what will happen if we persist in the sins they committed. He mentions idolatry, sexual immorality, testing the Lord, and grumbling against God. Paul makes it clear that God killed them and his warning is straightforward; be careful- don’t make the mistakes they made. 

Do we live in fear, trembling that we will fall into temptation? No- we pray as Jesus taught; “Father, lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil.” And we look for the way out of the temptation- “For God is faithful;… when you are tempted, he will provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13)

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