Written For Our Admonition.

We've all heard the saying about those who don't pay attention to history are doomed to repeat history's mistakes, yes? It makes sense doesn't it? When we don't listen to our own personal histories the same thing happens. We are doomed to repeat our same mistakes over and over and over again as long as we refuse to learn from our past. The fact that we have a past to pay attention to, to learn from is a blessing. Every single mistake we've ever made whether it was fifty years ago or two hours ago is a lesson for us to learn from. We have an opportunity to recognize our weakness and to open our hearts before God and seek His strength. We are given a chance to ask for forgiveness, to repent- desiring not to repeat our mistakes, and to live in the newness of life found only in Christ Jesus.

Biblically we are told we need to remember, we are told to learn so we are not ignorant of the truth.

Let's look at one instance…

1Co 10:1  Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 

What fathers were under the cloud? What cloud?

Exo 13:18  But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 

Those slaves freed from Egypt by the Lord through Moses- these were the forefathers of those being spoken to.

Exo 13:21  And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 

Exo 13:22  He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. 

The LORD - in a pillar of a cloud.

1Co 10:2  And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 

Exo_14:16  But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

The cloud of the LORD, and the LORD parted sea.  Led by the LORD through Moses.

1Co 10:3  And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 

Exo 16:4  Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. 

Psa 78:23  Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 

Psa 78:24  And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. 

Psa 78:25  Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. 

Deu 8:3  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 

Bread from heaven rained down upon the people by the LORD. Spiritual meat.

1Co 10:4  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 

Isa 48:21  And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 

Joh 4:14  But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 

1Co 10:5  But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 

Num 14:11  And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? 

Num 14:12  I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 

Jud 1:5  I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 

Heb 3:16  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 

Heb 3:17  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 

Heb 3:18  And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 

Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. 

1Co 10:6  Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 

EXAMPLES FOR US.

WE SHOULD NOT LUST AFTER EVIL THINGS.

What evil things?

1Co 10:7  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. 

Deu 9:12  And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 

God commanded one way and the people turned away from the way God commanded- and made themselves idols of other things, in this instance it was a molten image they chose to have made so they could worship that image. What do we worship today, what takes the place of God in our hearts? We may not have an image of a golden calf set up in our house to bow down to, but there may be other things we are giving our hearts and minds to.

1Co 10:8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 

Num 25:1  And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 

Num 25:2  And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 

Num 25:3  And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 

Num 25:4  And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 

Num 25:5  And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. 

Num 25:6  And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 

Num 25:7  And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 

Num 25:8  And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 

Num 25:9  And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. 

Choosing others than God to commit our lives to fully and wholly. Choosing flesh over Spirit.

1Co 10:9  Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 

Exo 17:7  And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? 

Num 21:5  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. 

Num 21:6  And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 

1Co 10:10  Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 

Exo 16:2  And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 

WRITTEN FOR US - EXAMPLES. WRITTEN FOR OUR ADMONITION.

1Co 10:12  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 

TAKE HEED.

We need to take heed! We need to listen to God, not to ourselves! We need to read the examples and realize that God is NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH. By our standards today those people God destroyed were not guilty of any crime worth death. We've glorified evil until we've convinced ourselves that evil is good and we will no longer feel the wrath of God. God has come around to our way of thinking… LIES ALL LIES!  God hasn't changed! LORD please, please help us to know Your way and follow in Your way not in our own way! Give us all we need to be YOURS WHOLLY YOURS! Satan would have us confused and deceived so we think that we are Yours when we are not. Please LORD, please let us truly be YOURS. Open our blind eyes! Lead us in the way everlasting! Keep us from EVIL! 

More on all of this tomorrow, God willing!

May we be blessed in the Lord, all through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, now and forever!!!!!!!

Amen.