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“Jesus Christ The Sure Foundation for a

Troubled Church”

Saturday, October 20071 Corinthians chapter 10:1-10

“Lessons from the desert”

…don’t tempt Christ vs 9

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Duke Knepper update

Men’s Ministry Missionary to Cork City, Ireland

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Check out their updated website!

• www.wbfireland.org• Walking By Faith Ireland.org

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Building furniture, building believers….

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Recording ministry begun at Calvary Chapel Cork

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Ring the doorbell to get in!

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Reaching out to the community!

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Sunset in Cork City….

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PRAY

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Get the Teaching online!

www.EverLastingStrength.orgIsaiah 26:4

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Read 10:1-14Read the whole passage (10:1-14)

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Old Testament Story Pictures

• Red Sea - salvation baptism in water• Desert - dying to self, dying to slavery,

learning obedience• Promised Land - Overcoming life,

strongholds destroyed, Abundant life• Jordan - second baptism, empowerment

under Yshua (Moses, Law cannot take you in).

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Old Testament Story Pictures

• Red Sea - salvation baptism in water• Desert - dying to self, dying to slavery,

learning obedience• Promised Land - Overcoming life,

strongholds destroyed, Abundant life• Jordan - second baptism, empowerment

under Yshua (Moses, Law cannot take you in).

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CompareIsrael & Corinthians

• Both recently born• Both in desert• Both receiving fresh Scripture• Both looking back to slavery• Both waiting for the return of their leader• Both complaining, grumbling, testing

God, idolatry and sexual immorality

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…and that Rock wasChrist. (10:4)

• In Exodus 17 Moses is told to strike the Rock once: the Law broke the Rock and water flowed.

• In Numbers 20 Moses is told to speak to the Rock and water comes out, but Moses struck it twice

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It is possible to displease God in your life and yet be saved.

1. God was not pleased with Moses because he violated the pattern.

2. God made him die in the desert.3. God prevented Moses from going into the

Promised Land.4. Luke 9:30 has Moses and Elijah talking with

Jesus on what appears to be Mt Hermon “in glory” Luke 9:31.

5. Moses was saved eternally.

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Now these things were our examples…

• What follows are four stories that are examples

• Please do not forget the story of Moses while you read these

– Consequences– Grace

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…to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted

(10:6)vs 7 idolatry – 3k people diedvs 8 sexual immorality - 23k people diedvs 9 testing God - killed by snakesvs 10 grumble - killed by destroying angel…vs 14 - “Wherefore, my dearly beloved,

flee from idolatry.”

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Neither be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to

play. (10:7)You grind it up, you mix it with the water

of the Word, and you drink the water with the ground up idol in it. (Ex 32)

Reminds us of the test for an unfaithful wife in Numbers 5.

Idolatry and sexual immorality often linked

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…to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted

(10:6)vs 7 idolatry – 3k people diedvs 8 sexual immorality - 23k people diedvs 9 testing God - killed by snakesvs 10 grumble - killed by destroying angel…vs 14 - “Wherefore, my dearly beloved,

flee from idolatry.”

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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (10:8)

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Prostitution in Ancient Greece1. Pornai - fr πέρνημι pernemi “to sell” the property of

pornoboskós - pimps. Foreigners or those abandoned by their fathers. 1/6th drachma.

2. Metic fr Gk μέτοικος, metoikos “out of the house” - white lead makeup mulberry juice lips, studded sandals imprinting ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙ / AKOLOUTHI ("Follow me") on the ground, 5-20 drachmas.

3. Hetairia ἑταίρα "companion” or temporary concubine 300 drachmas

4. Hierodule, "sacred servant". Temple prostitute -Corinth & few others fr. Babylon temple harlots the "women of Ishtar", Ishtaritum, ‘starlets’

Cost: your life

Cost: your life

Cost: your life

Cost: your life

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Ancient Greece in the Bible

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The camp of Israel at the beginning of Numbers (1-3)

Simeon 59,300Gad 45,650

Reuben 46,500151,450

Naphtali 53,400

Dan 62,700Asher 41,500

157,600

Benjamin 35,400Manassah 32,200

Ephraim 40,500108,100

Judah 74,600Issachar 54,400Zebulun 57,400

186,400

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Visible from Heaven

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The camp of Israel at the end of Numbers (26)

Simeon -37kGad -5k

Reuben -3k-45k

Naphtali -8k

Dan +2kAsher +12k

+6k

Benjamin +10kManassah +21k

Ephraim -8k+23k

Judah +2kIssachar +10kZebulun +3k

+15k

… a broken picture of the cross

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…to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted

(10:6)vs 7 idolatry – 3k people diedvs 8 sexual immorality - 23k people diedvs 9 testing God - killed by snakesvs 10 grumble - killed by destroying angel…vs 14 - “Wherefore, my dearly beloved,

flee from idolatry.”

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Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of

serpents. (10:9)• Numbers 21:4-9• Paul doesn’t put the stories in order• Serpents bite between idolatry at the

beginning (Ex 32) and sexual immorality at the end (Nu 25-31)

• Read it

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Background: Fear and Presumption back to the desert

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Numbers 21Where did this take place?

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A Second Chance: winding through the dysfunctional family

Ammon

Moab

Edom

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Paul’s Life History tracked that pattern: desert then family

MEDESMEDES

ELAMELAM

PONTUSPONTUS

Roman Empire

30 AD 40 AD 50 AD 60 AD 70 AD35 AD 45 AD 55 AD 65 AD

http://www.anova.org/sev/atlas/htm/index.html

1st 3rdEphesus

Arabia Antioch

2ndCorinth

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And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. (Nu 21:5)

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of

serpents. (10:9)

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The serpent as a type of Jesus?

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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The Serpent as a type of Jesus!

• Look back and get tired. • Look forward and get afraid. • Look around at family issues and grumble. • Look down and get bitten and the poison of sin is in

you• Jesus became sin for us like a bronze serpent while

still alive on the cross• Look up to him and see your sin on him and believe

and live

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The Star of LifeEmergency Medical Care

Symbol

http://www.qac.org/depts/des/ems/star.htm

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Caduceus, the staff of the Greek god Hermes

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Snakes on a staff!Tell your doctor what it

means!

WHO

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