1 Corinthians 10:11 Commentary - Dr Peter Masters

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1 Corinthians 10:11

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There is the same word again: ‘for ensamples [dies, templates, patterns]’ – of course they are. What good was it to the exodus generation that Moses, in time, wrote all this down and made a record of it? They had died by that time; they had passed from the scene. What good was the record to them? Of course, the record is for us. They failed the Lord, or proved him, and were either blessed or reproved, accordingly. But the record was not for them; it was for us. Paul says the obvious. It is so important to see the lessons in the Old Testament; to see how the children of Israel were, as it has been said, the unwitting actors on a stage. God was dealing with them. These are literal, historical events, and yet, God superintended everything that happened in such a way that they are wonderful pictures of how God saves spiritually; of how Christ would come and what he would do, it is all there; and the conduct which is required of Christians; and the lives we should live; and the dangers we will encounter; and the sins into which we may fall. We should not be ignorant of these things. God preserved these lessons. The record is there so that subsequent ages, and the last ages in particular, should learn. So the deliverance and the journeyings of the children of Israel are types.They are written for our admonition, to put these things in our minds. But we need to know these things. Our admonition – a glorious word – our warning, if you like. The word ‘admonition’ is difficult to translate. It means something like this: ‘they are written for printing upon our minds, impressing upon our minds’, the implication being, as a warning and a message to us, a direct message. ‘Upon whom the ends of the world are come’ – the gospel age, the last age, leading right to the final judgement. We are those who live in the last stage of the world history.

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Love him; go to him every day. Give him at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Don't come and say, ‘How do I fill the fifteen minutes?’ Put a slip of paper in the back of your Bible. Write on it all the departments of prayer: worship, adoration, thanksgiving, thanksgiving for God's plan of salvation, thanksgiving for my salvation. There are so many things to pray for! Then you pray to intercede for others. It is a good thing to pray early prayers of intercession, because they are unselfish prayers. Adore the Lord, intercede for loved ones. Why are they not being saved? Because I am not interceding. My intercessory prayer for loved ones may be ten years, twenty years long. The longer you delay, the later they are saved. Yes, it is not cause and effect, but it is food for thought. Intercede early. Make a list of the people on your intercessory list. Remember your predicaments and your problems. Remember to thank God for your blessings, for the answers to prayer yesterday, last week, and the week before. Your fifteen minutes is gone. You will be coming to say, ‘How outrageous you should say fifteen minutes is enough!’ And love the Lord, thank him, and praise him. Praise him for your husband, praise him for your wife. You praise for your wife and your husband and pray for them every day, and the children, and then you are much more sweet tempered, and patient. Come out to worship; bare your soul to the Lord, to his reproof, to his encouragements, to his word of doctrine, word of exhortation. Never as Christians do we want to be those who are complacent and proud, and imagine that we cannot fall.

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1 Corinthians 10:11 Commentary and Bible Study