Day 30 - 1 Corinthians 10:27-33

27 If someone who isn’t a believer asks you home for dinner, accept the invitation if you want to. Eat whatever is offered to you without raising questions of conscience. 28 (But suppose someone tells you, “This meat was offered to an idol.” Don’t eat it, out of consideration for the conscience of the one who told you. 29 It might not be a matter of conscience for you, but it is for the other person.) For why should my freedom be limited by what someone else thinks? 30 If I can thank God for the food and enjoy it, why should I be condemned for eating it?
31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Don’t give offense to Jews or Gentiles or the church of God. 33 I, too, try to please everyone in everything I do. I don’t just do what is best for me; I do what is best for others so that many may be saved.

Terrie's Comments:

One of the themes of this letter seems to be the theme of living a life that is others focused motivated by your relationship with Jesus Christ for the sake of saving many and not causing fellow believers to sin.

Tori's Comments:

"if you want to" (v. 27) This amuses me. I can say no!!!

"So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." My mother actually sent me this verse recently! It'd been on my heart.

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Day 29: 1 Corinthians 10:18-26

18 Think about the people of Israel. Weren’t they united by eating the sacrifices at the altar?
19 What am I trying to say? Am I saying that food offered to idols has some significance, or that idols are real gods? 20 No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don’t want you to participate with demons. 21 You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too. 22 What? Do we dare to rouse the Lord’s jealousy? Do you think we are stronger than he is?
23 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is beneficial. 24 Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.
25 So you may eat any meat that is sold in the marketplace without raising questions of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.

Tori's Comments:

This seems rather polar opposite of what the world tells me, That I live life for myself. 

God has given me freedom, but not selfish freedom. I am free to live for others. 

Terrie's Comments:

So why is Paul raising questions about eating food offered to idols?  I believe he is just confirming that if you are a part in the sacrificing of meat to idols or other gods it would be wrong to eat them because offering any meat to anyone or anything other than God is offering them to demons.  But if you buy meat at the market and you happen to purchase meat that was sacrificed to a god but you weren't a part of the sacrificial ceremony then it doesn't matter.  It is not about the meat itself it is about you not partaking in any sacrifices other than the Lord's table, which unifies us with Jesus and with all other believers in the body of Christ.

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Day 28 - 1 Corinthians 10:11-17

11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.
12 If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall. 13 The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
14 So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols. 15 You are reasonable people. Decide for yourselves if what I am saying is true. 16 When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t we sharing in the body of Christ? 17 And though we are many, we all eat from one loaf of bread, showing that we are one body.

Terrie's Comments:

So when we are basically mocking the Israelite's in our heads for their ignorant behavior they actually were serving the purpose to warn us so we would not look like fools like them.  We should be thanking them for giving us the examples for what not to do in our own lives.  Kind of like a reverse blueprint.  A blueprint that guarantees disaster and leads to our own demise.  

I am glad that if we are abiding in Christ and following the guidance from the Holy Spirit dwelling in us that we will be shown a way out of every temptation so that we are guaranteed not to fail if we choose to listen.

Tori's Comments:

Verse 12 is super powerful and hits you in the gut.

I am adding verse 13 to my list of promises. Super important one, and very applicable to life every single day. 

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Day 27 - 1 Corinthians 10:1-10

I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

6 These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, 7 or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.” 8 And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.

9 Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites. 10 And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death.

Tori's Comments:

I'm not exactly sure what this passage is warning us about. I understand that the beginning is meant to show that they 'followed God' and did what they assumed they were supposed to do, but how does that relate to the second half?

Terrie's Comments:

A couple of years ago I went through the old testament and was studying specifically where Jesus was throughout the Bible.  It is amazing to me how many images of Christ there are in the old Testament, Like the rock who is referred to as Jesus.  It is all relevant and reveals more about the character of God and specifically who Jesus is and what he accomplished in his time here on earth.  I think it is amazing how harmonious the scriptures are.

As far as the second part of this passage is concerned I think humanly speaking first run through I am like "what were they thinking"... but then it quickly turns inward as I realize how quickly I too can be in a place of grumbling or questioning what God is doing in my life.

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