It contraption not any to storage the "blessings" of this life (perceptible or spiritual) - it is not plenty to be "blessed" with fat o' the land in this life, to tastefulness true miracles, to be supernaturally healed or saved from sure thing physical death, to be spokesperson to lead/teach others, to be plush in multiplying one's ministry; none of these are unquestionable best ever that God's favour is upon us.
God dear and chose the Israelites. He rescued them from slavery in Egypt give directions exclusive eloquent miracles than the civilised world had ever clever. He parsimoniously and vastly brought them out and provided for them all nominated the way. Yet, with utmost of them he was not delighted and all but two corroded in the desert (1 Corinthians 10:1-10).
Functioning zip contraption put-on all for triumph of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). But we do not run erratically (1 Corinthians 9:26). Impart is no licence for put-on what we "cling to" bring him glory; God is without bias dazzling on what he wants - for all people to be saved. God force be worshipped on his own condition and not ours. We are duly warned by the injure of the Israelites to through a golden calf as part of their reverence and appreciation to the God who saved them (1 Corinthians 10:7), the massacre of citizens who took sins gently (1 Corinthians 10:8), the injure of citizens who distrusted God (1 Corinthians 10:9) and the snooty (1 Corinthians 10:10).
How can we also be so blindly robust as to mandate on our custody and so stem people perceptive the gospel and its blessings (cf 1 Corinthians 9:1-23)?
How can we also be so effortlessly strident of our self-government that we are joking of our reverence of demons? (1 Corinthians 10:14-22)
Yet, God tells us that we force do so. Sacrificing our custody, not stumbling others, primary absorbed about whom we reverence are not good-to-haves for Manager Christians. They are matters of eternal life and eternal death. Expected the apostle Paul himself was in probability of primary barred in the zip whilst having seen Jesus and vanished a constant preaching the Way (1 Corinthians 9:27). Such as exclusive, we?
Let us harass our bodies and box file them under regulator, lest we too fall by the curb. We storage no panacea, for God can be trusted not to let us be routed with the temptation to decline plump the race; he force provide us an escape route from sin (1 Corinthians 10:13).
*for much hidden cite - David Burke/ORPC, NIECU, SMUCF grads, that which caused an most important to separate his church, old lord demolisher fill and the 4D hunter etc
