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                                           Notes on 1 Cor 10:1-33

Introduction: Paul continues to explain the primary goal of every believer, preacher, pastor, teacher, bus driver,
Sunday school Directory, or ant one in the service of the Lord Christ Jesus. That service is to save as many as
possible.
Introduce them to Christ Jesus.
   For a speaker or soul winner’s message to have the effect and power it should, one has to let the Holy Spirit
control their lives ( we say the phrase turn you life over to Jesus. ) The Spirit of Christ cannot lead unless you are
saved. The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of God or of Christ mean the same. There is so much riding on the action of
aservant of the Lord. They need to be aware of their life style. Paul is trying to explain this point. The believers need to ( must ) practice what they preach.
      In the country of the U.S.A. everyone has a freedom of religion whether the religion is Good or Bad, whether
it is of God or not. In this country its citizens are Free thinkers. A religion that does not include the God of the Old
Testament is not the same God we are talking about here.
       The greatest Gift given to mankind is God’s Gift of Salvation through the work of His son Christ Jesus.
        John 3:16. In God’s salvation each believer has liberty.  2 Cor 3:17
When a fellow believer begins to tell you, you shouldn’t read that version of the Bible or commentaries. Beware 
that could be censorship. They are taking a way you Joy.
        In 2 Tim 2:15 each believer is told to study thyself, don’t just take someone’s word. Check it out. Jude 1:3.
     There are numerous translations and commentaries by men of Old.
Several religions don’t use any commentaries except the writings of their founders. This is dangerous they can brain wash their people. They use certain translations that suit there needs.
     Many that tries to take your freedom away, doubt the power of the Holy Spirit that dwells inside each believer.
      1 Cor 2:14. John 14:17; John 16:13; Romans 8:9; Romans 8:11; Romans 8:16; Gal 5:25; 1 John 4:13.
     We as believers are sealed . Eph 1:13; Eph 4:30.
   Why does the church leaders stand in the way of the Lord’s work. Christ had the same problem it will always be the work of the Devil of Your father the devil. John 8:41-45.
     There are some born again minister of the Gospel that are hindered by the powerful ones. So enjoy our
religious freedom. Study God Word. If people will let them speak to their soul they are Living. Heb 4:12
                          Heb 4:12 YLT for the reckoning of God is living, and working,  and sharp above every two-edged sword, 
                                                                             and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, 
                                                                              of  joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
               
                                        From www.e-sword.net   and www.swordseacher.com
     Pick a Good translation or two to help you understand. There are several sites that have Translation you can download even commentaries.
      Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and explained Jesus. Souls were saved. The Lord added to the Church.
        Acts 2:41; Acts 2:47.
      Philip had to show the Ethiopian Treasure the Gospel. Acts 8:31, 35.
It never hurts to be shown. There are many ways today to study or share God's word.
         1. Translations
         2. Commentaries
         3. Personal witness
         4. Church
         5. Bible study
         6. revivals
         7. Preaching
         8. Radio
         9. Television.
        10. Internet. Unlimited.
               Romans 10:9-17
 Their has to be the power of the Spirit to convict.
 A message. God’s word by Speech, Print, and electronic.
 A soul to deliver the message.
So if you are saved start praying for a family member or friend to be saved.
Pray for the Lord to use you to lead them to Christ.
Just trust in the Lord in your studies. The Lord’s sheep hear his voice. John 10:27-30; John 10:1-21.
   Bare in mind that Paul is talking of losing the physical life, Not the lost of eternal life. There are examples
where God has taken believers home early. Paul talks about this. The believer is to bring Glory to Christ name. There is praise in heaven over one sinner that repents. Luke 15:7,10. These are self-righteous.
     There is a difference in Christ righteousness that is imputed and self-righteousness ( self-made man ).
  Romans 4:23.

 The Translation we are using for this lesson is
Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by J.N. Young, 1862, 1898
 (Author of the Young's Analytical Concordance)
Many preachers have used his concordance but yet not trust his translation.
Enjoy.
 

1 Cor 10:1-6 YLT  And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the
                                         sea,
                          2 YLT  and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;
                          3 YLT  and all the same spiritual food did eat,
                          4 YLT  and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them,
                                       and the rock was the Christ;
                          5 YLT  but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,
                          6 YLT  and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.
                                 Notes:
                                 1. This is idolatrous and is real not an imagery peril.
                                 2. The ones that don’t know or understand have to be enlightened. Paul starts to explain this.
                                 3. What does the word Baptized Mean?  To immerse.
                                 4. All were baptized. The Lord provided them a way to escape. The Israelites were brought to
                                     a place before crossing the Red sea that they had to look to God for help. They we being
                                     brought to the point that they and the rest of the world had to know that it was the work of
                                     God. Moses was only the one chosen to lead them.
                                5. The cloud covered them on top, two walls of water on each side and dry  ground on the 
                                      bottom.
                                6. God provided them with manna, the bread of life. Looking forward to  Jesus body who gave
                                    his body for the lost sinners of the world.
                                7. Verse 4 All drink of the same water. From the spiritual rock.  Moses struck the rock God
                                     comanded him to. The rock followed them, the rock was Christ.
                                       Some believe that a stream ran through the camp no matter where they were. Others
                                    believe that a piece of the rock traveled with them.
                                8. Called spiritual food and drank is because it came from above, Christ.
                                9. People can have everything and then nothing will make them happy. Rev 3:17.
                                    God provided for them. They Grumbled and murmured so hard that God saw fit to end their
                                     physical lives here on earth. Paul was trying to make the Corinthians understand the same
                                     fate could happen to them. Only two got to the promised land.  They had to wait till that
                                      generation all died.
                             10. All of the things written in the Old Testament are examples for the believers to learn from.
                                   The New Testament is for education. The believer is not to lust after evil things.
1 Cor 10:7 YLT  Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink,
                                      and stood up to play;'
                     8 YLT  neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in  one day twenty-three
                                    thousand;
                     9 YLT  neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;
                   10 YLT  neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.
                           Notes:
                           1. Paul did not want the believers at Corinth to have anything to do with idolaters, their worship,
                                or feasts.
                           2. The Israelites made a golden calf.
                                Some think this was their image of God.
                                Other think it had to do with their past in Egypt.
                                 Either way under the Ten Commandments it was a sin.
                                                   Exodus 20:3-6 YLT `Thou hast no other Gods before Me.
                                                                                   4  `Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above,
                                                                                          or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth.
                                                                                   5  Thou dost not bow thy self to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, 
                                                                                          am a  zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third  generation ,
                                                                                          and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
                                                                                   6  and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

                                          The Christian religion is by faith. The uses of pictures of Christ are they right?
                                       No one living today knows what Christ looked like. There no descriptions of How Christ
                                       looked found in the Bible.  God cannot be described by a picture.
                             3. God revels Himself to man. When man tries to describe God it is always by man’s idea of
                                  God. This may be why we have difference brands of religion. They are man’s idea. We as
                                  believers are to let God reveal Himself to the believer. God will do this if we read and study.
                             4. The Israelites had their idea of God as a golden calf and that the correct way to worship was
                                  to have immoral sex and get drunk. Lost control. A believer is never to lose control of their
                                  body or mind. I am not talking about sickness.
                             5. Paul describes as twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
                                             The number in Numbers 25:9 is twenty-four thousand.
                                               A1. These may have been rounded figures.
                                               A2.  The twenty-four thousand may be the total of all that died overtime.
                                               A3. The twenty-three thousand was the number in one day.
                             6. They tempted Christ.
                                             Job Question God. We can ask why but be willing to accept God’s way as correct and
                                             righteous.
                             7. The serpents bit them. To live a physical life and be healed, they had to look upon the blazing
                                 Serpent. The one lifted up on a pole. Faith in Christ. The serpent on the pole was a picture of
                                  Christ on the tree ( cross ).
                             8. The Corinthians were acting much like the Israelites. Paul was warning them that the same
                                  peril could befall them.
                             9. Who is the destroyer?
                                                  And were destroyed of the destroyer—That is, they were doomed to die in the wilderness
                                                        without seeing the land of Canaan; Exodus. 14:29. The “destroyer” here is understood
                                                       by many to mean the “angel of death,” so often referred to in the Old Testament, 
                                                       and usually called by the Jews “Sammael.” The work of death,
                                                        however, is attributed to an angel in Exodus. 12:23; compare Heb. 11:28. It was
                                                        customary for the Hebrews to regard most human events as under the direction of angels. 
                                                        In Heb. 2:14, he is described as he “that had the power of death;” compare
                                                        the Book of Wisdom 18:22, 25. The simple idea here, however, is, that they died for their sin, 
                                                       and were not permitted to enter the promised land,
                                                                                              Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament by ALBERT BARNES
                                                                                              Parsons Technology, Inc. Cedar Rapids, Iowa

                          10. Murmuring  See num 14:2-29; Cp num 26:63-65
1 Cor 10:11-13 YLT  And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition,
                                                to whom the end of the ages did come,
                             12 YLT  so that he who is thinking to stand--let him observe, lest he fall.
                             13 YLT  No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to  be tempted above
                                             what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear it .
                                     Notes:
                                   1. These thing did happen.
                                   2. Why were they written?
                                         For a warning, to the end of the age.
                                   3. There is a danger of a person becoming too sure of themselves.
                                     1 Tim 3:7. I have heard preachers say they are always going to serve the Lord and not sin.
                                         Beware. The Devil has just started to work in their life from that moment.
                                                     1 Tim 3:6-7 YLT  not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a  judgment of  the devil;
                                                                    7  and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into
                                                                        reproach and a snare of the devil.
                                           When one preaches the Gospel they have to leave the believers out of it. Christ is the
                                           only one infallible. All believers sin. That is why we must confess our sin daily.
                                             1 John 1:9.
                                     4. Pride is what caused Adam And Eve to sin. Our eyes should always be on God and 
                                         allowing the Holy Spirit to guide and use us.
                                    5. All believers are tempted the same. The temptation is the same as others Humans. Some
                                         gave their Lives. Would you say you didn’t believe in God to save your physical life.
                                         Would that be given another Human and/or the Devil control over you life on earth?
                                    6. God will always make an outlet so we can bear it.

1 Cor 10:14-16 YLT  Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;
                               15 YLT  as to wise men I speak--judge ye what I say:
                               16 YLT  The cup of the blessing that we bless--is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ?
                                              the bread that we break--is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?
                                      Notes:
                                      1. Paul repeats, making it very important to take heed. Don’t have  anything to do with
                                          idolatry. Anytime God is not first there is a danger of idolatry.
                                      2. He knows his audience is wise, so he tells them to take heed and study what he says.
                                      3. When the believer partakes of the Lord’s Supper there is a blessing said over it.
                                      4. How do Christian fellowship?
                                           By the blood and the body of Christ.
                                             Then do we not fellowship with other Christians just because they don’t belong to our
                                           local church?
                                              If they are saved by the blood of Christ, the finished work of Christ then we all belong 
                                            to the Lord’s Church. ( The Bride of Christ. )

                                                                    It is helpful in this regard to understand that receiving Christ is an act of the will which may
                                                                 involve some knowledge of the way of salvation and may be expressed emotionally to some
                                                                 extend, but the fundamental question is, “Have I really received Jesus Christ by faith as
                                                                 my personal Savior?” Until this question is honestly faced, there can, of course,
                                                                  be no ground for eternal security and no real assurance of  Salvation. 
                                                                Many who deny eternal security are merely saying that superficial faith is
                                                                 not enough to save. Adherents to eternal security agree on this point. The question
                                                                  properly stated is whether one who is actually saved and has received eternal life can
                                                                   lose that which God has done in saving him from sin.
                                                      Major Bible Themes , Lewis Sperry Chafer Revised by John F. Walvoord, Zondervan Publication

1 Cor 10:17 YLT  because one bread, one body, are we the many--for we all of the one bread do partake.
                                Notes:
                                1. Christ at the upper room had one loaf of bread and one cup of wine.
                                2. The one loaf represent Christ body. The wine Christ blood that was shed for the remission
                                    of our sins. Sins, past, present, future. Heb 9:22; Heb 10:18.
                                3. Every born again believer is in the family of God.
                                    Every born again believer is a member of Christ’s church.
                                4. These are strong arguments for open Lord’s Supper.
                                     The Lord’s Supper is the Lord’s Supper not the churches supper.
                                     The requirements for partaking of the Lord’s Supper is:
                                       B1. Know Jesus as your personal saviour.
                                       B2. Have all of your sin confessed and prayed for. Have a clean heart.
                                                  1 Cor 11:28-29.
                                                     1 Cor 11:27-32 YLT  so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily,
                                                                                             guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:
                                                                            28  and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;
                                                                            29  for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink
                                                                                   --not discerning the body of the Lord.
                                                                            30  Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;
                                                                            31  for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,
                                                                            32  and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the  world we may not be condemned;
                                  5. The Lord’s Supper is between that person ( the one partaking of it ) and God. The Disciples 
                                      were told to do this often in remerbance of Me. We have Fellowship with God, the Son,
                                      and then Holy GhostThe Church is not held responsible. The Spirit of Christ dwells in every
                                      believer.
                                           Paul went to that church and this one. They all had The Lord’s Supper.
                                      When the Lord’s Supper is closed to everyone but the local members, The Local church
                                      becomes a force over the believer. Christ should be the force over the believer. Is the
                                      Local Church having control above that of God? God did not intend for it to be closed. He
                                      wanted Christians to fellowship. Heb 10:25; Mat 18:20.

1 Cor 10:18 YLT  See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?
                                Notes:
                                1. Paul is leading the though to the next verse. If one eats of the sacrifice to the altar of God
                                    are they not partakers of the altar or service ( worship )?
                                2.  If the believer eats and drinks of the Lord’s Supper they are partakers of the invisible
                                     church of God. In the visible church there may be many that are lost, only professing
                                     Christians. They have never allowed Christ into their hearts.
                                3. A God sent preacher would have a concern for all of the flock that God has given them
                                    to watch over. We are to be alert to everyone that crosses the believer’s path. It did
                                    Happen by change. Romans 8:28
1 Cor 10:19 YLT what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --
                     20 YLT   no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice--they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and
                                      I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.
                            Notes:
                            1. First an idol cannot speak it is nothing.
                                                 Psalm 115:4 YLT Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,
                                                                       5  A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,
                                                                       6  Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not,
                                                                       7  Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;
                                                                       8  Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting
                                                                           in them.
                              2. A sacrifice offered to idols is nothing.
                              3. One cannot serve both.
                              4. They do not know it but by making sacrifices to idols they are making sacrifices to Demons.
                                  Mat 6:24; Luke 16:13.
                              5. There are groups that have a God of their own choosing. Saying everyone worship their God 
                                   in their own way. That is where the problem comes in.
                                   We as believers can only worship God one way, in spirit and truth.
                                   John 4:24; John 6:63.  John 14:6 Jesus is the way the only way. The bible
                                     says. Jesus said.
                                                                   John 14:6 YLT Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life,
                                                                                                                    no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
                                6. Paul put in to them plainly. He doesn’t want them to fellowship with Demons.
                                    Paul has given the examples.  Instead of just telling the flock that a bible or Biblical is
                                    wrong and you should not read it. The pastor takes it on as a study. At least this way
                                    one will have made an educated opinion of the work. Christians are not meant to
                                    be dictated to. The believer has a freedom to chose. God lives inside each believer.
                                    Let Him work through you.
                                      He pointed out that eating meat offered to idols was ok under Christian liberty, but it is   
                                    wrong if it offended a weaker Christian. One possibly is they might end up at idol temples
                                    in idol worship.
1 Cor 10:21 YLT  Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake,
                                         and of the table of demons;
                                 Notes:
                                 1. One cannot serve two masters. John 4:24; John 6:63
1 Cor 10:22 YLT  do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
                                Notes:
                                1. This would provoke the Lord to Jealous. When the Lord is jealous he could issue out      
                                    punishment.
                                     Does he get angry when he gets jealous? Gen 6:6-7.
                                2. Are the human stronger or wiser than the Lord? Stronger than the creator?
                                    Are the human race able to withstand his punishment.
                                     I would hate to be lost with out Jesus to be intercessor on our behalf.
                                 3. God Discipline His own. Heb 12:7-8.

1 Cor 10:23-24 YLT  All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful,
                                               but all things do not build up;
                             24 YLT  let no one seek his own--but each another's.
                                    Notes:
                                    1. Romans 1:16-17 Our all powerful God saves us. It is God’s free Gift.
                                        Romans 6:23.
                                    2. This free Gift gives us as believers’ liberties. All things, which are about to harm a brother
                                       or sister in Christ should be avoided.  Will our actions cause a soul to be lost or cause a
                                       weak Christian to stumble. A Christian can have been a believer for fifty years or more
                                       and still be weak.
                                      1 Cor 3:2; 1 Cor 9:7; Heb 5:12; Heb 5:13; 1 Peter 2:2.
                                          Everything a Christian does should be profitable.
                                              My Grand son we are raising was born 03-24-1994. On his last birth
                                              day, his grandmother and I set up a birthday party for him at school.
                                              His mom died last year 09-11-2001 from problems she had had for
                                              fourteen years. She was a Quad. Well his teacher is very sweet, her
                                              mother is principle of the school he attends. They came to his mom’s
                                              Memorial service.
                                               I noticed that everything she did was to teach these children.  She
                                               taught twenty-plus children for nine months. This is the way we are
                                               to teach our kin and friends about Jesus.  Everything we say or do
                                               should be in order to bring a soul and their family to a saving
                                               knowledge of Christ Jesus. I you win one person over to Christ over
                                               time the rest of the family will follow.
                                    3. Will it build up the ministry? Your actions. Does it educate the Saints?
                                    4. We are to forget about our selves. The Goal of every born again
                                           Christian is to lead some one else to Christ. So Christ can get the Glory.
                                    5. The word wealth in the KJV is a supplied word. A better-supplied word would
                                           have been welfare. The verse gives the meaning of helping someone
                                           down and out. One needing help.

1 Cor 10:25-30 YLT  Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,
                                      26 YLT  for the Lord's is the earth, and its fulness;
                                      27 YLT  and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before
                                                     you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;
                                       28 YLT  and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' --do not eat,
                                                      because of that one who shewed it , and of the conscience, for the Lord's is the earth and its fulness:
                                        29 YLT  and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is
                                                       judged by another's conscience?
                                        30 YLT  and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?
                                               Notes:
                                               1. The old English word for meat-market was shambles.
                                                  1Co 10:25 - Whatsoever is sold in the shambles,
                                                 Notes by John Gill
                                                                           .... the word rendered "shambles", here used, is a Latin word, and is
                                                                           made use of by Latin writers in the same sense as here, for a place where
                                                                            food was sold (i). The original of the name is said (k) to be this; one
                                                                            Macellus, a very wicked and profane man, being for his robberies and
                                                                            filthy life condemned to die, a place was built in his house by Aemylius
                                                                            and Fulvius, censors, for selling of provisions, and which from his name
                                                                            was called "Macellum". The Syria version retains the word here, and
                                                                             so do the Talmudists, and Robbins (l) frequently; who say (m),
                                                                             "Nylwqm, the "shambles", and the butchers of Israel, though flesh of
                                                                            them is found in the hand of a stranger, it is free:''
                                                                            into these places the priests sent to be sold what was offered to their
                                                                            idols, which they could not dispense with themselves, or thought not
                                                                             lawful to make use of; for the Egyptians, as Herodotus says (n), used
                                                                             to cut off the heads of their beasts that were sacrificed, and carry
                                                                             them into the market and sell them to the Greeks, and if there were
                                                                             no buyers they cast them into the river. Now the apostle allows, that
                                                                              such meat that was sold in the shambles might be bought and eat of,
                                                                             but not in an idol's temple; there was a difference between an idol's
                                                                             temple, and eating things sacrificed to idols there, and buying them in
                                                                             shambles or meat market, and eating them at home:
                                                                             that eat; buy, carry home, dress and eat, in your own houses:
                                                                             asking no question; whether it was sacrificed to idols, or not:
                                                                             for conscience sake; either a man's own, which may be hurt, wounded,
                                                                             and defiled, by eating contrary to it, should he know that what he eats
                                                                             had been offered to an idol; whereas if he asks no questions, and knows
                                                                             nothing of the matter, his conscience will not be afflicted: or else
                                                                              another man's that may stand by whilst the meat is bought, and sold;
                                                                              and who hearing questions asked and answered, and yet observes the
                                                                              meat, though sacrificed to idols, dressed and ate by the buyer, his
                                                                             conscience being weak, may be offended and grieved.

                                                                                                   (i) Vid. Suet. Vita Jul. Caesar, c. 43. & Tiber. Nero, c. 34. (k) Alex. Ab
                                                                                                 Alex Genial Diet. l. 3. c. 23. (l) T. Hieros. Chagiga, fol. 76. 2. T. Bab. Menachot, fol. 29.
                                                                                                       2. Bereshit Rabba, fol. 75. 3. (m) T. Bab. Cholin, fol. 95. 1. (n) L. 2. c. 39.
                                                                                           John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, Dr. John Gill (1690-1771) Per www.E-sword.net

                                           2. Paul says it is ok to eat this meat as long as it is not part of worship service of idols.
                                           3. Don’t ask questions be cause of conscience.
                                           4. Everything is the Lords. John 1:3.
                                           5. As long as you can ask a blessing over it, it is ok to go and eat. Don’t offend your
                                                 host by asking a lot of questions about the meat or drink. Just don’t ask Questions.
                                           6. Something’s take time to understand. If someone goes to make a issue out of what
                                                 you are eating, don’t argue just refrain from eating or drinking it.
                                           7. Again Paul repeats the importance of the earth, the Lord’s creation and its fullness
                                                 belong to the Lord.
                                           8. Paul asks why he is judge by someone else conscience.  The Lord is the one to
                                                  make judgments. We are to answer to the Lord and no one else, Some priest are no 
                                                 better than the common sinner, some may not be saved themselves. While we are
                                                  on this earth we are to do everything possible to win souls.
                                           9.  He continues to pose the question in order to make his reader
                                                 think.  Thankful partaking is giving thanks. It has always been if a
                                                 believer could ask a blessing on anything it should be ok. Unless we are
                                                 forbidden in the New Testament. Lots of preachers and deacons smoke that is
                                                 wrong. Some we criminals, more had sex before marriage.  But they want let a
                                                 divorced man be a pastor. Sin is Sin.
                                                         Is it because they don’t think God can forgive?  Look at King David, Abraham,
                                                 Jacob and others that sinned. But God used them Greatly. 1 Tim 3:1-7. The primary
                                                 thrust of the passage Is Good report? Most of theses were living with more than 
                                                 one wife. They had women troubles. The Middle East is having trouble to day is 
                                                 cause of their women problems.

                                                    The following is interesting. It basically has to do with Christian charater. A born
                                                  again believe should be of Good report, And show a fullness of God’s Spirit.
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