Baptized Into Moses
For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
Now these things
occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they
did. Do not be idolaters, as
some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and
got up to indulge in revelry.” We
should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day
twenty-three thousand of them died. We should
not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did —and were killed
by the destroying angel.
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Corinthians 10:1-13
We are baptized into
Moses. The real issue is what we do with that. Life is about rewards and
consequences.
History can give us a
new perspective, but we have to learn from it.
God has given us the
Bible to gain that perspective. The Bible gives us a history of His people, and
we are His people. Biblical lessons contain both examples and warnings to guard
us against our worst inclinations and to lead us into wiser living. The
question is whether we will learn from the lessons of the past or repeat the
mistakes of those who came before us.
Valuable
lessons are learned from examining the lives of God’s people
who have gone before
us.
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