The Lackadaisical Christian
- 1. Paul links what he is about to write in chapter 10 with the Preceding Passage.
- 2. Paul Parallels the Corinthian's experience with the people of the wilderness wanderings.
- a) Paul had begun his epistle addressing the Positional blessings and Privileges that belonged to the Corinthian Christians.
- b) Like the Corinthians, the people of Israel had Participated in some great blessings from the Lord.
- 3. Despite myriad blessings that God Poured into their lives, God was not Pleased with many of them.
- a) The word "overthrown" Pictures the wilderness strewn with corpses, not by natural causes, but by the sentence of God against rebels who refused to live God's way.
- b) Despite all the Privileges they enjoyed, they were Penalised, Prohibited from Possessing the Promised land and they Passed away in the desert, as God said they would be.