11-19 - 1 Corinthians 10 14-24

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☀️ 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? {They did it literally during meal time/breaking of bread, but it’s also meant for us as a spiritual formula? For truest spiritual success, our daily bread, the written logos to us, dipped liberally into the new wine of God’s Spirit/Presence.. Especially in these days of high information technology, it’s better to be “mind-washed” by GOD’s message - logos means “reasoning expressed in words” so God’s reasoning - than by the world’s reasoning and voice. We can easily get past the human translator errors in the message, which has more or less hijacked the message! And, like we dump the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle out on the table, and we then separate the pieces which are the border.. and then the color matching parts.. We need to know the bible, to see the pieces and where they fit.}

     17 There is the one bread (Christ) and we who are many are one body. For we all partake of the one bread. 18 Consider the people of Israel, were not those who ate the sacrifices, participants in the altar? 19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols of the nations is anything? Or that an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. Surely you shouldn’t 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 “Such things are lawful” {like eating meat from the market place that has been offered to an idol of the world} but not all things are helpful. “Such things are lawful,” but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. {Don’t argue about days and foods?! ..Paul was saying if eating food sacrificed to an idol will offend your brother or sister, consider that, instead of what our own wishes might be.}

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 10:25-33

11-11 - 1 Corinthians 8 1-8

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☀️ 1 - Now concerning food offered to idols, we know we all possess “knowledge.” This “knowledge” can puff up. {Become an idol? Or our own ideas become our lord?} But love is what builds up. 2 If anyone imagines they know something, they don’t yet know as they ought to know! {Our knowledge and knowing, is SO incomplete, lol.} 3 But if someone loves God, they can know, that they are known by God. {THE knowing/gnosis.}

     4 Therefore, as to this eating of food offered to idols, we know an idol is nothing. That there is no God but one. 5 For although there may be many supposed ‘gods’ in the heavens and upon earth, many ‘gods’ and lords, 6 yet to us there is but one God. The Father, of whom is the all, and we for him. And one Lord, Jesus Christ, by and through whom are all, and we for him.

     7 However, not all know this. But some, through former observances and rituals with idols, eat food as actually offered to another ‘god’, and their conscience is harmed. 8 But food will not commend us to God. Whether we eat or we don’t eat, we’re no better off, nor are we worse off.

Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 8:9-13

Golden Calf

ACTS 7:40
Contemporary English Version (CEV)

⁴⁰ The people said to Aaron, “Make some gods to lead us! Moses led us out of Egypt, but we don’t know what’s happened to him now.”  ⁴¹ Then they made an idol in the shape of a calf. They offered sacrifices to the idol and were pleased with what they had done.
- Will it work if mankind makes government to be Providence?