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10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,1 that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown2 in the wilderness.
6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil 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 rose up to play.” 8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ3 to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, 10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. 18 Consider the people of Israel:4 are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? 19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 22 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—29 I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
[1] 10:1
[2] 10:5
[3] 10:9
[4] 10:18
(ESV)
When I was a teenager, I would ride the bus to and from high school. Now, although I'm ashamed to admit it, as a high school student, I did not always exercise my best manners. I inhaled my food at supper and never asked to be excused, I chatted on the phone endlessly without regard for anyone else who might want to make a phone call, and I was also known to crack an occasional inappropriate joke at an inopportune time. But if there is one thing that I remained consistently mannerly about, even through my tactless teenage times, it was my etiquette toward senior citizens while riding the bus. If I saw an older lady or gentleman board the bus and the all the seats were already occupied, as they many times were, without fail, I would offer my seat to my elder. The rule was, always yield your seat to your seniors.
In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul opens by recounting the sin of the ancient Israelites during their wilderness wanderings after their Exodus from Egypt. And it's interesting how Paul describes the Israelites' posture while sinning: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to engage in pagan revelry" (verse 7). It seems as though, whether sitting or standing, the Israelites were not being mannerly. Indeed, they were being out and out wicked. But here's what's so fascinating about the Israelites' sin: the Israelites' sin started with a sit.
Psalm 1:1 reminds us that sin is often engaged in while sitting: "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers." Notice that the Psalmist writes about a man who walks with the wicked. He then pauses to stand with sinners only to eventually take a lengthy sit with mockers. From a passing walk to an extended sit, we watch this man sink deeper and deeper into sin.
Paul would remind us that we need not sit in sin! That's why, after recounting the sin of the Israelites, Paul encourages us with this promise: "When you are tempted [by sin], God will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it" (1 Corinthians 10:13). Paul says when you are tempted to sit in a seat of sin, remember your manners and stand up. Yield your seat of sin so that you can stand with Christ. And remember that God will help you. As Paul elsewhere writes, "The Lord is able to make us stand" (Romans 14:4). So today, don't sit with sin. Rather, as the old hymn exclaims, "Stand up, stand up for Jesus!"
27:1 In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day,
“A pleasant vineyard,1 sing of it!
3 I, the LORD, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
4 I have no wrath.
Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me.”
6 In days to come2 Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
8 Measure by measure,3 by exile you contended with them;
he removed them with his fierce breath4 in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:5
when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10 For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 In that day from the river Euphrates6 to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 13 And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
28:1 Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong;
like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,
like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,
he casts down to the earth with his hand.
3 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
will be trodden underfoot;
4 and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like a first-ripe fig7 before the summer:
when someone sees it, he swallows it
as soon as it is in his hand.
5 In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory,8
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7 These also reel with wine
and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,
they are swallowed by9 wine,
they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
they stumble in giving judgment.
8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
with no space left.
9 “To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”
11 For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the LORD will speak to this people,
12 to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
yet they would not hear.
13 And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
[1] 27:2
[2] 27:6
[3] 27:8
[4] 27:8
[5] 27:9
[6] 27:12
[7] 28:4
[8] 28:5
[9] 28:7
(ESV)
This chapters continues the vision of Judgment Day that began in Isaiah 26:21, "See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins." The prophet describes how the LORD will vanquish every evil force, symbolized by the image of Leviathan, the ferocious sea monster referred to elsewhere in Scripture. The vineyard here described is once again Israel. In Chapter 5, God threatened to destroy the unfruitful vineyard. Here He promises to make the vineyard fruitful. God promises refuge and peace to those who repent. Even though God chastens His people Israel because He loves them, He will not treat them as He does the enemies who have attacked His chosen people. Israel's sins would have to be atoned for by her exile, but the fruit of that atonement would be seen in the destruction of the pagan altars and the Asherah poles of her former idolatry. For a time, God had to withhold His compassion from His people, leaving their city desolate during the Exile. But God promises that there will be a time when the scattered people of God will be gathered up again and will worship the LORD in Jerusalem. God's word of judgment against His chosen people continued by describing Ephraim, the Northern Kingdom as a drunkard, and the capital city of Samaria as a beautiful wreath thrown down and trampled under foot. Instead, Israel's true glory, the LORD Almighty, will become a wreathed crown for the remnant of His people. We see how horrible the situation was in Israel when Isaiah says that the people were so drunk that every place was covered with vomit and filth! The words in quotations (vv. 9-10) are probably those of the drunken priests and staggering prophets, who resent having Isaiah teach them as though they were little children, and despise his words because they seem like childish babble. Then Isaiah said that since they didn't want to hear his children's talk, the lips of foreigners would speak judgment upon them instead. Because they despised God's teaching, they would experience judgment at the hands of people whose language they did not understand, so that it sounded like a little child's babbling to them.
30:1 I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up
and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O LORD my God, I cried to you for help,
and you have healed me.
3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;
you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.1
4 Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name.2
5 For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime.3
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I shall never be moved.”
7 By your favor, O LORD,
you made my mountain stand strong;
you hid your face;
I was dismayed.
8 To you, O LORD, I cry,
and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death,4
if I go down to the pit?5
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me!
O LORD, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
[1] 30:3
[2] 30:4
[3] 30:5
[4] 30:9
[5] 30:9
(ESV)