Remembering Christ

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Remembering Christ

• 1 Corinthians 10 vs. 14 to 22
• Inverkeithing Baptist Church
• 2nd August 2009

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Introduction

• Therefore, my dear friends, flee from
  idolatry. I speak to sensible people judge for
  yourselves what I say. 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? Because there is one loaf, we,
  who are many, are one body, for we all partake of
  the one loaf.  Consider the people of Israel Do
  not those who eat the sacrifices participate in
  the altar? Do I mean then that a sacrifice
  offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol
  is anything?

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Introduction

• No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered
  to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to
  be participants with demons. You cannot drink the
  cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too you
  cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and
  the table of demons. Are we trying to arouse the
  Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• 1 Corinthians 10 vs. 14
  to 22

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Introduction
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1/ Flee from idolatry
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1/ Flee from idolatry

• 1 Corinthians 10 vs. 15
• Exodus 32
• Krinate
• Koinonos

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1/ Flee from idolatry

• Blessed art thou O Lord our God,
• Who gave us the fruit of the vine
• (3rd cup of the Passover)
• 1 Corinthians 10 vs. 18 to 20

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1/ Flee from idolatry

• Consider the people of Israel Do not those
  who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
  Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an
  idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
  No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to
  demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be
  participants with demons.
• 1 Corinthians 10 vs. 18 to 20

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1/ Flee from idolatry

• Because there is one loaf, we, who are many,
  are one body, for we all partake of the one
  loaf.
• 1 Corinthians 10 vs.18 to 20

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2/ There is no neutrality in idolatry

• The Devils or demons make use of mens readiness
  to worship idols
• Morris

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2/ There is no neutrality in idolatry

• No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered
  to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to
  be participants with demons.
• 1 Corinthians 10 vs. 20

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2/ There is no neutrality in idolatry

• Some were in the patronage of pagan deities,
  they went to their temples, took part in feasts,
  and in doing so, had some acknowledgement of, and
  even worship, towards the idol.
• F.F.Bruce

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2/ There is no neutrality in idolatry
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3/ To men and women of faithBe strong in the
Lord

• Neutrality is not an option, we are either for
  the Lord or are against him

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3/ To men and women of faithBe strong in the
Lord

•   "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all
  faithfulness. Throw away the gods your
  forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in
  Egypt, and serve the LORD. But if serving the
  LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for
  yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether
  the gods your forefathers served beyond the
  River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land
  you are living. But as for me and my household,
  we will serve the LORD."
• Joshua 24 vs. 1415

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3/ To men and women of faithBe strong in the
Lord
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