1 Corinthians  10 : 25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: 26 For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof. 27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

When you are offered meat to eat you should not run an investigation to find out where it came from. If it had been offered to an idol then it would not have been a sin to eat it so don’t ask and there will be no guilt for eating it. Paul continues in this last verse to say eat whatever is set before you and pray over it to make it clean and if you do not ask where it came from then you do not feel guilty. 1 Timothy 4: 4-5 says it in a good way what Paul is saying here “For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.” We can see from this scripture that sometimes we do not need to question what God is leading us to do we just need to do it  because the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness there of.

1 Corinthians 10 : 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

The liberty the Christian has must not be used to do anything that might provoke God but must be used in such a way to build God up. We should never use the privilege the Lord has afforded us for self-edification instead  all things should be done decently and in order. Next we see that greed is one of the main cause of sin when we know God promised to take care of all our needs, but he did not promise to take care of our greed. If we spend our time to help someone in need we will be blessed by God. To use another scripture,  in Philippians 2:3 it says, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. These two verses help show how edification is better than gratification and how you should put others above our selves.

1 Corinthians  10 : 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Paul is telling the people here these two things are not compatible. He is letting them know they can not be on both sides of the fence, it has got to be one or the other. They cannot no longer worship the idols they were worshiping if they are a partaker of the cup of Lord. The Lord is the light of the and darkness cannot share space with the light.  God is a jealous God and he tolerates no competition but rather punishes it. The first of the commandments is “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” We must be very careful not to even think, or speak of another god. We should know also no that no one is stronger than God because we know Satan thought he could be more powerful than God but we know how that turned out.

1 Corinthians 10 : 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Paul is again telling these people that they ate from the temple when they used to sacrifice but now it is not  necessary and if they eat of that sacrifice now they worshiping an idol. He goes on to say that an idol can be anything and to worship that idol means you are worshiping nothing because an idol is nothing. When Paul mentions the gentiles here he is talking about the heathen world and they sacrifice or worship they are worshiping devils. They do this because they know not God. Christians should not have anything to do with demons or devils in any way because they belong to God. We really need to aware of the things and people we  keep company with that we do not give the devil a chance to lure us away from God.

1 Corinthians 10 : 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

From what we have learned so far now Paul is saying to flea from idolatry and run the other way. This is also good advice for us today because there are so many things in our society today that we try to put before God and when we do this it becomes an idol. Paul continues by telling them that he already knows they know what to believe because  they were wise enough to line up with those who know Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. Plus he reminds them to take heed of what he teaches to remain in good standing with the Lord and to think carefully before joining with doing he things of this world that can carry you down the wrong. This still applies to us today with this teaching because it is even more convenient from us to fall into a worldly trap because of all things pulling at us today.

1 Corinthians 10 : 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

First here Paul is telling the people and us not to fall into trends and patterns that the children of Israel did but to learn them so we do not make the same mistakes. He continues by saying do not let pride keep you from learning from the mistakes of others but to examine yourself so the Lord will not have to and remember pride goes before a fall. Lastly is a good verse to remember and in simple terms it means that God will not let you be tempted above what you handle without giving you a way to get away from it. If you will allow God to be a part of your life these temptations, that come from Satan not God, will not only be easy to escape but God will help you to not put yourself in a position to have to face something you do not need to. We have to remember that when these temptations come, if we do not have God’s help we can not resist them and we will fall into sin and put our self in a position where Satan can do more damage. So we need o let God control our lives and not Satan.

1 Corinthians 10 : 7 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. 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Paul continues in these verse reminding the people of how the people took little time in set up a god they could see to worship. This was while Moses was receiving the Ten Commandments from God. Not only did they worship the false god they also began to party and get drunk and commit all kinds of sexual sins. This caused God to destroy three and twenty thousand in day because of there disobedience. They continued to test God and He sent serpents to destroy the people who were being disobedient Finally he reminds them of the time an entire Assyrian .was sent to destroy Jerusalem because the people were murmuring against God. A lot of these things Paul is reminding these people of is the same things we face today in our world of what is leading so many away from Christ. So we need to let people know when they  are doing wrong or what their consequences could be.

1 Corinthians 10 : 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Paul wanted the people to know God was not pleased with the report brought back out of the promised land. When he said many died he meant all those that were over the age of 19 when they left Egypt died except for Joshua and Caleb. Paul was letting the people know they did not need to go back to those things that could pull them away from God. It seemed they were never satisfied and was always murmuring against God. They died in the wilderness because they could not learn from their mistakes.  This helps us to see that we need to stay in touch with God at all times to be able to receive what He has for us and not miss the opportunity to receive it.

1 Corinthians 10 : 1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Paul begins this chapter reminding these people of how God guided Israel for 40 years in the wilderness with a cloud in the daytime and a pillar of fire at night and how to begin with they passed through the Red Sea and  the ea closed down on the Egyptian army. All this helped the people to see that this made Moses their leader. That they were also all feed everyday by the manna that God provided and all drank from the Rock that provided the water for them which that Rock was Jesus Christ.  the water that was received from the rock was real water but it was spiritual in the sense that it was given through God’s direct intervention.This is intended to mean that the source of supply was Christ and not the rock and so this passage is an impressive affirmation of the preexistence of Jesus Christ.