“The Lord hath said, ‘I will bring My
people again from Bashan : I will bring them
again from the depths of the Sea’” (Psalm 68:22, Geneva Bible). Paul calls the
passage through the Red Sea a “baptism” (1
Corinthians 10:1,2).
The Lord does not forget His promise
to those baptized; neither should we: “And did all eat the same spiritual meat,
and did all drink the same spiritual drink (for they drank of the spiritual
Rock that followed them [in the wilderness before reaching the Promised Land]:
and the Rock was Christ)...the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion
of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of
the body of Christ? For we that are many, are one bread and one body, because
we all are partakers of one bread” (1 Corinthians 10:3,4,16,17).
The Lord does not forget His warning
to the baptized; neither should we: “But with many of them God was not pleased:
for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things are our examples,
to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 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.’ Neither let us commit fornication,
as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty
thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted Him, and were
destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and
were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things came unto them for examples,
and were written to admonish us, upon whom the ends of the world are come...wherefore
my beloved, flee from idolatry” (10:5-11,14).
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