Be Bold and Walk Tall by Lester Sumrall

Author:Lester Sumrall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Faith, Christian Life, General
ISBN: 9780892747764
Publisher: Sumrall Publishing
Published: 1995-11-14T22:00:00+00:00

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Five Sins That Will Hinder Boldness

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 10:5

The five sins which Israel committed in the wilderness are listed in 1 Corinthians 10:6-10. These are sins that will destroy any civilization. However, there is no record in the Bible that Caleb or Joshua were involved in any of these sins.

Paul wrote that all of the "fathers" traveled under the cloud of God, and all passed through the Red Sea. He said:

• All were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

• All ate the same spiritual meat and drank the same spiritual drink.

• All drank of Christ, the Rock who followed them.

But, Paul wrote, God was not pleased with many of them.

Why was that? God was displeased because of these five sins that Paul went on to describe.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolators, 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, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

1 Corinthians 10:6-10

The number-one sin committed by the Israelites was lust.

They were always clamoring, "Give us meat! Give us this! Give us that!"

They never were satisfied with God. They could not seem to remember that He was the one who brought them out of bondage where their hands were blistered from rough work and their backs bent from hard labor.

They lusted after food, sex, and even over being endued with the same power Moses had. They were full of lust.

Just a few days after leaving Egypt and seeing the great love and protection of God for them, they fell back into idolatry. When Moses was on the mountain receiving the Ten Commandments longer than they thought he ought to be, they pressured Aaron to make them a golden calf to worship.

They offered sacrifices to this calf, one of the gods of Egypt, had a great feast, and then began to participate in an orgy. They not only were lustful and idolatrous, but they also committed adultery and fornication as part of the worship of the calf.

The judgment of God killed twenty-three thousand of them when Moses came down the mountain and found out what they had been doing.

Later, they tempted God and many were bitten by snakes.

The desert was full of snakes, and God had protected them up to this point. All He had to do was remove His strength and protective power from the Israelites for them to be bitten. Suddenly, they were dying all over the place from snake bites.

Moses made a brazen serpent on God's instructions and held it up for the people to look upon (a type of the cross of Christ), or they all would have died.

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