STOP, WATCH AND LEARN

READING: 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-13

Verse 11: “Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.”

An old saying states that experience is the best teacher. The saying has a great deal of merit since we usually do learn better from personal involvement than from another person’s activities. However,  this saying goes out the window when the experience involved is a destructive one. A person may  learn very well during a harmful experience, but then it can become a problem of the consequences overshadowing the learning. The Bible sharply illustrates this in 1 Corinthians 10. This passage  informs us that many met destruction who lusted after evil things, became idolaters, committed sexual immorality, who tested the Lord, and who murmured. Those, for our instruction, are examples of paths to destruction that we definitely want to be taught to avoid; and not to learn by experience. Our loving Father wants His people to learn in manners that save us from destruction, or even from harm. His admonition in verse 12 is to take heed to instruction so that we won’t fall. That’s a thought – about God’s Word.

RESPONSE

1. What message do you receive from examples written for our admonition?

2. Upon whom have the ends of the ages come?