Jesus Christ The Sure Foundation for a Troubled

“Jesus Christ The Sure Foundation for a Troubled Church” Saturday, September 2007 1 Corinthians chapter 10: 1 -8 “Lessons from the Old Testament” “…don’t be pornos…” vs 8 1

Duke Knepper update Men’s Ministry Missionary to Cork City, Ireland 2

Arrived in Cork City, Ireland Thursday am Aug 23! 3

First Week • Hotel for a few days • Short stay with a Raleigh(!) family • Attended church Sunday at Calvary Chapel Cork City (CCCC) • Town-home quarter mile from city center 4

Second week: attending Calvary Chapel Cork 5

They’re now mobile! 6

…and they have a fixer-upper home! 7

Ready for a surfing ministry! 8

OK, here’s the real home! 9

Check out their updated website! • www. wbfireland. org • Walking By Faith Ireland. org 10

PRAY 11

AWESOME NEWS: Get the Teaching online! www. Ever. Lasting. Strength. org Isaiah 26: 4 12

Read 10: 1 -14 Read the whole passage (10: 1 -14) 13

Old Testament Story Pictures • Red Sea - salvation baptism in water • Desert - dying to self, dying to slavery, learning obedience • Promised Land - Overcoming life, strongholds destroyed, Abundant life • Jordan - second baptism, empowerment under Yshua (Moses, Law cannot take you in). 14

Old Testament Story Pictures • Red Sea - salvation baptism in water • Desert - dying to self, dying to slavery, learning obedience • Promised Land - Overcoming life, strongholds destroyed, Abundant life • Jordan - second baptism, empowerment under Yshua (Moses, Law cannot take you in). 15

Compare Israel & Corinthians • • • Both recently born Both in desert Both receiving fresh Scripture Both looking back to slavery Both waiting for the return of their leader Both complaining, grumbling, testing God, idolatry and sexual immorality 16

Corinthian society was filled with worldliness!! • • Greek - Olympics - Athletic idols Port City Enslaving Prosperity $$$$ idol Corinthianize = Sexual immorality - idols University - Worldly Wisdom - Gnostics San Francisco + New Orleans + Las Vegas = Corinth, Greece, AD 56 17

…and that Rock was Christ. (10: 4) • In Exodus 17 Moses is told to strike the Rock once: the Law broke the Rock and water flowed. • In Numbers 20 Moses is told to speak to the Rock and water comes out, but Moses struck it twice 18

It is possible to displease God in your life and yet be saved. 1. God was not pleased with Moses because he violated the pattern. 2. God made him die in the desert. 3. God prevented Moses from going into the Promised Land. 4. Luke 9: 30 has Moses and Elijah talking with Jesus on what appears to be Mt Hermon “in glory” Luke 9: 31. 5. Moses was saved eternally. 19

Now these things were our examples… • • What follows are four stories that are examples Please do not forget the story of Moses while you read these – Consequences – Grace 20

…to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted (10: 6) vs 7 idolatry – 3 k people died vs 8 sexual immorality - 23 k people died vs 9 testing God - killed by snakes vs 10 grumble - killed by destroying angel … vs 14 - “Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. ” 21

…to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted (10: 6) vs 7 idolatry – 3 k people died vs 8 sexual immorality - 23 k people died vs 9 testing God - killed by snakes vs 10 grumble - killed by destroying angel … vs 14 - “Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. ” 22

Neither be ye idolaters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. (10: 7) Drink the water with the ground up idol in it. Reminds us of the test for an unfaithful wife in Numbers 5. Idolatry and sexual immorality often linked 23

Modern Greece in the news 24

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (10: 8) Look word by word (Greek) 25

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (10: 8) Look word by word (Greek) 26

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (10: 8) Look word by word (Greek) Blue letter Bible 8 Reproduced by courtesy of The Chester Beatty Library © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (near Cork) 27

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Detailed definition 29

Prostitution in Ancient Greece 1. Pornai - fr πέρνημι pernemi “to sell” the property of pornoboskós - pimps. Foreigners or those abandoned by their fathers. About 1/6 th of a drachma. 2. Metic fr Gk μέτοικος, metoikos “out of the house” white lead makeup mulberry juice lips, studded sandals imprinting ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙ / AKOLOUTHI ("Follow me") on the ground, 5 -20 drachmas. Hetairia ἑταίρα "companion” or temporary concubine 300 drachmas Hierodule, "sacred servant". Temple prostitute Corinth & few others fr. Babylon temple harlots the "women of Ishtar", Ishtaritum, ‘starlets’ 3. 4. 30

• • • • • Porneo isfornication complicated Sex before the covenant Sex with an unbeliever - necrophilia Sex with more than one spouse - polygamy Sex with another besides spouse - adultery Sex with someone of the same sex - homosexuality Sex with a close relative - incest Sex with an image - pornography Sex in the heart - lust Sex by yourself - masturbation Sex as your master - idolatry Sex for money - prostitution Sex for pain - S&M Sex for control - rape Sex with a child - pedophilia Sex with a group - orgy Sex used in religious ceremonies - temple prostitution Sex with non-human - sick 31

…as some of them committed… • • • Numbers 22 -31 Balaam the false prophet Baal his god Moabite women Deadly Passion in the Desert 32

Numbers 25 in the acacia grove (Hebrew Shittim) 33

Prostitution in Ancient Greece 1. Pornai - fr πέρνημι pernemi “to sell” the property of pornoboskós - pimps. Foreigners or those abandoned by their fathers. 1/6 th drachma. Cost: your life 2. Metic fr Gk μέτοικος, metoikos “out of the house” white lead makeup mulberry juice lips, studded sandals imprinting ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙ / AKOLOUTHI ("Follow me") on the ground, 5 -20 drachmas. Cost: your life Hetairia ἑταίρα "companion” or temporary concubine 300 drachmas Cost: your life Hierodule, "sacred servant". Temple prostitute Corinth & few others fr. Babylon temple harlots the "women of Ishtar", Ishtaritum, ‘starlets’ Cost: your life 3. 4. 34

Ancient Greece in the Bible 35

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. 1 Co 11: 1 • Are you going to follow Paul’s example? • Or are you going to find yourself led by pornos to the grave? ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΙ 666 36

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Can you change your orientation? • No. • But God can! • See http: //www. christianitytoday. com/ct/2007/ marchweb-only/112 -52. 0. html • Charlene Cothran, editor of a magazine for African-American gays and lesbians, on how she renounced homosexuality and came to Christ. 38

Passover: A Replacement Ceremony! • Idol feasts – Periodic ritual – Festive Gathering – Feasting – Sexual immorality – Drug abuse – Idol worship – Blood sacrifice – Death for food – Divided families – Meaningless • Pasover feast – Annual ritual – Festive Gathering – Feasting – Sexual purity – Wine in moderation – God worship – Blood sacrifice – Death for life – United families – Filled with meaning 39

Idolatry & Psychology • Pathological Psychology cannot be discussed apart from a Biblical understanding of idolatry • Modern Psychology leaves out the Bible because intellectuals have idolized themselves and their knowledge 40

Idolatry of Paul in Corinth • Identifying, Idealizing, worshiping their imagined father Paul in Ch 1. • Vilifying, nullifying, and comparing Paul the real father in ch 9, 2 Co 11 41

Idolatry is all around you • Knowledge - Gives worth to what I know about rather than being known by Him. A covering for foolishness • Athletes - Gives worth to seen physical heros that is due to the unseen hero. Gets worth from trying to imitate them. A covering for your missing father • Money - Gives worth to worthless paper to feel powerful or in control. Gets worth by having more. A covering for unseen poverty • Sex - Gives worth to seen beauty, takes away to get pleasure, losing worth, A covering for missing manhood • Power - A sense of control, a sense of worth, an intense pleasure from taking control from others. Manipulation. 42

Idolatry is all around you • Abuse - Takes away worth from another to steal it for yourself, losing worth. A covering for the abuse you received • Self esteem - Give worth to yourself by what you do. A covering for the missing cross. • Pleasure - Satisfying an ever-increasing desire. A search for happiness is a cover for lack of Joy. Using God-given pleasure (e. g. eating) in a forbidden way (forbidden tree) is a search forbidden knowledge. 43