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1Remember our history, friends, and be warned. All our ancestors were led by the providential Cloud and taken miraculously through the Sea.

2They went through the waters, in a baptism like ours, as Moses led them from enslaving death to salvation life.

3They all ate

4and drank identical food and drink, meals provided daily by God. They drank from the Rock, God's fountain for them that stayed with them wherever they were. And the Rock was Christ.

5But just experiencing God's wonder and grace didn't seem to mean much--most of them were defeated by temptation during the hard times in the desert, and God was not pleased.

6The same thing could happen to us. We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way as they did.

7And we must not turn our religion into a circus as they did--"First the people partied, then they threw a dance."

8We must not be sexually promiscuous--they paid for that, remember, with twenty-three thousand deaths in one day!

9We must never try to get Christ to serve us instead of us serving him; they tried it, and God launched an epidemic of poisonous snakes.

10We must be careful not to stir up discontent; discontent destroyed them.

11These are all warning markers--DANGER!--in our history books, written down so that we don't repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel--they at the beginning, we at the end--and we are just as capable of messing it up as they were.

12Don't be so naive and self-confident. You're not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence.

13No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come through it.

14So, my very dear friends, when you see people reducing God to something they can use or control, get out of their company as fast as you can.

15I assume I'm addressing believers now who are mature. Draw your own conclusions:

16When we drink the cup of blessing, aren't we taking into ourselves the blood, the very life, of Christ? And isn't it the same with the loaf of bread we break and eat? Don't we take into ourselves the body, the very life, of Christ?

17Because there is one loaf, our many-ness becomes one-ness--Christ doesn't become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in him. We don't reduce Christ to what we are; he raises us to what he is.

18That's basically what happened even in old Israel--those who ate the sacrifices offered on God's altar entered into God's action at the altar.

19Do you see the difference? Sacrifices offered to idols are offered to nothing, for what's the idol but a nothing?

20Or worse than nothing, a minus, a demon! I don't want you to become part of something that reduces you to less than yourself.

21And you can't have it both ways, banqueting with the Master one day and slumming with demons the next.

22Besides, the Master won't put up with it. He wants us--all or nothing. Do you think you can get off with anything less?

23Looking at it one way, you could say, "Anything goes. Because of God's immense generosity and grace, we don't have to dissect and scrutinize every action to see if it will pass muster." But the point is not to just get by.

24We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well.

25With that as a base to work from, common sense can take you the rest of the way. Eat anything sold at the butcher shop, for instance; you don't have to run an "idolatry test" on every item.

26"The earth," after all, "is God's, and everything in it." That "everything" certainly includes the leg of lamb in the butcher shop.

27If a nonbeliever invites you to dinner and you feel like going, go ahead and enjoy yourself; eat everything placed before you. It would be both bad manners and bad spirituality to cross-examine your host on the ethical purity of each course as it is served.

28On the other hand, if he goes out of his way to tell you that this or that was sacrificed to god or goddess so-and-so, you should pass. Even though you may be indifferent as to where it came from, he isn't, and you don't want to send mixed messages to him about who [you] are worshiping.

29But, except for these special cases, I'm not going to walk around on eggshells worrying about what small-minded people might say; I'm going to stride free and easy, knowing what our large-minded Master has already said.

30If I eat what is served to me, grateful to God for what is on the table, how can I worry about what someone will say? I thanked God for it and he blessed it!

31So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you--you're eating to God's glory, after all, not to please them. As a matter of fact, do everything that way, heartily and freely to God's glory.

32At the same time, don't be callous in your exercise of freedom, thoughtlessly stepping on the toes of those who aren't as free as you are.

33I try my best to be considerate of everyone's feelings in all these matters; I hope you will be, too.



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