- Concerning How Christians should live in their community.
- True Freedom in Christ,
- Use your Freedom to edify others and proclaim the Gospel
- The Drive: to love Jesus Christ and Love our neighbor.
[1Cr 10:1 ESV] For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
[1Cr 10:2 ESV] and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
[1Cr 10:3 ESV] and all ate the same spiritual food,
[1Cr 10:4 ESV] and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Cloud, Sea, Food, Water. Physically Real or Spiritual? YES! Cloud: [Exd 13:21 ESV] And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
Red Sea Event[Exd 14:27 ESV] So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
[Exd 14:28 ESV] The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
[Exd 14:29 ESV] But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
[Exd 14:30 ESV] Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
[Exd 14:31 ESV] Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.
[1Cr 10:3 ESV] and all ate the same spiritual food,
- Manna
- I. manna
- A. the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings
- B. means 'What is it?'
[Exd 16:13 ESV] In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp.
[Exd 16:14 ESV] And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.
[Exd 16:15 ESV] When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
[1Cr 10:4 ESV] and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Water from rock 1 Exodus 17
Location: Outside of Egypt, the tract of wilderness between Elim and Sinai
[Exd 17:2 ESV] Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"
[Exd 17:3 ESV] But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"
[Exd 17:4 ESV] So Moses cried to the LORD, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me."
[Exd 17:5 ESV] And the LORD said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
[Exd 17:6 ESV] Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
[Exd 17:7 ESV] And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
Water from rock 2 Numbers 20Location: the wilderness of Zin, name given to a portion of the desert tract between the Dead Sea and Arabah on the east in which Kadesh-barnea was located
[Num 20:2 ESV] Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
[Num 20:3 ESV] And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!
[Num 20:4 ESV] Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?
[Num 20:5 ESV] And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."
[Num 20:6 ESV] Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,
[Num 20:7 ESV] and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
[Num 20:9 ESV] And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
[Num 20:10 ESV] Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?"
[Num 20:11 ESV] And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
[Num 20:12 ESV] And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."
[Num 20:13 ESV] These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them He showed himself holy.
- Cloud, Sea, Food, Water. Physically Real or Spiritual? YES!
- Physical Manifestations of God, His Power and His Provision.
Rock & Roll!The Rock: A description of God. 5xs in Deut 32.
[Deu 32:3 ESV] For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!
[Deu 32:4 ESV] "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
[1Sa 2:2 ESV] "There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
[2Sa 22:2 ESV] He said, "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
[2Sa 22:3 ESV] my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.
[2Sa 22:32 ESV] "For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
[2Sa 22:47 ESV] "The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,
[2Sa 23:3 ESV] The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,
[Psa 18:2 ESV] The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
[Psa 19:14 ESV] Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
[Psa 28:1 ESV] Of David. To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
[Psa 31:2 ESV] Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
[Psa 42:9 ESV] I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
[Psa 62:2 ESV] He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
[Psa 78:35 ESV] They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
