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I Corinthians 10:1-5
Excerpted from: Passover and I Corinthians 10

When Paul wrote this he used very vivid terminology, and he literally means that all across the desert, their bodies were scattered. In other words, they fell aside as they went along the way and they did not make it. They were buried where they fell. The Israelites left a trail of graves all the way from Egypt, through the Sinai, and up into the borders of Israel.

When it says in verses 1 and 2 that they all went under the cloud and they were baptized into Moses, they were not literally baptized in the same sense as we are, but they did pass between the waters. When they went through the Red Sea they walked on dry land, but the water was completely surrounding them. The apostle Paul picks on that as a type of the baptism we go through.

They were buried into Moses, as it were. They became partners in the Old Covenant. Moses, who was the mediator of that covenant, was a type of Jesus Christ.

What this is—as we begin to read through these first five verses that also adds to the alarm that we need to have ringing in our minds regarding where we stand in regard to this way of life—is that here is decisive proof (most of it contained in the books of Exodus and Numbers) that though a person goes physically through all the ordinances, it does not mean a thing spiritually.

You see where it says, "They were under the cloud, they all passed through the sea, they were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; they ate the same spiritual food [in other words they were sitting at Sabbath services, listening to Moses preach] and they all drank of that same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Jesus Christ"?

They were in the presence of Jesus Christ. He was in the cloud. He was in the pillar of fire. He was there. He was the Angel that was leading them, the Messenger of God who was leading them through their pilgrimage on to the Promised Land.

The alarming warning is: One can still lose salvation if one is living a life of divided loyalties. That is the message here—that a person can lose his salvation if he is living a life of divided loyalties.

Articles

Eating: How Good It Is! (Part Four)
Elisha and the Shunammite Woman, Part I: Reviving God's Children
The Mixed Multitude
What Did Jesus Do?
Why Did God Command Israel to Go to War?

Essays

Consequences of a Wrong Focus (Part One)

Sermons

Christ Our Rock
The Commandments (Part Two)
Change and Hope
Themes of I Corinthians (Part 4)
Following God Through a Spiritual Wilderness
Foundations
Five Major Problems in the Wilderness
What's Wrong With Christmas?
The Measure of Christ's Gift
Numbers (Part Two): Graves in the Wilderness
Hope to the End (Part Three)
Go Not Out of the House
Truth-Based Worship Vs Spiritual Confusion
Jesus' Pre-Existence
The Continuous Testing of Our Faith
The Bethel Stone
Escape From Box Canyon
Lessons from the Count to Pentecost
Four Warnings (Part Four): Founded on the Rock
Flee From Idolatry (Part Two): Faithfulness
Flee From Idolatry (Part Two): Faithfulness
Pioneers: Our Job Is the Journey
Where Do We Go From Here?
Wandering or Pilgrimage?
Numbers: The Book of Judgment
Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part 5)
Would Our God Do That?
Would Our God Do That?
Testing Spiritual Character
Baptized in the Sea
The Purpose of Israel
God Alone Can See
Think Soberly (Part Two)

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