Friday, August 28, 2015

We have an example. 8/28/15

Day 238- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/1Cor.10


1 Corinthians 10:1-18

Warnings From Israel’s History

10 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”[a] 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9 We should not test Christ,[b] as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. 10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come. 12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! 13 No temptation[c] has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted[d] beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,[e] he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

Idol Feasts and the Lord’s Supper

14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf. 18 Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?


Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

The perfect church August 28th

“Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” MATTHEW 5:48
The love of God moves us, preserves us, keeps us, and reaches us wherever we are. And this very love is the love we have toward one another in the church. This unconditional love of God is the love with which we love each other. This is what makes the perfect church. All the members, with all their imperfections, are in a fellowship with one another in the love of God. The perfect church is the church that has the love of God flowing in all the imperfect members toward all the other imperfect members. In Matthew 5:48 when the Lord said, “You shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect,” He was not speaking of a moral kind of perfection — having a completely righteous and rectified life without any problems, faults, or sins. Of course, we are not condoning sin; but here the Lord was not referring to a sinless life. When we think of “perfect,” we think of living a perfect life of absolute holiness according to God’s standard. But here the context of being perfect is Matthew 5:44: “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.” This means love the unlovable. Love the ones who are irritating to you. Love your enemies. Then He says, “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” This means that the Father’s love is perfect toward all sinful men. That is the meaning of perfection. Also, in Colossians 3:14 Paul tells the believers, “Put on love, which is the bond of perfection,” or “the bond of perfectness.” Thus, there can be a perfect church.

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