Favor and judgment
This week's verses are 1 Corinthians 10:1-5: For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness. Paul here is talking about the favor Israel had when God led them out of Egypt. They were led by God's physical presence that looked like a giant black cloud. God split the sea for them to pass and drowned their pursuers. He gave them perfect free food, providing all of the calories and nutrients they would need. He provided water out of a solid rock when they were thirsty. Most of us, if not all of us, have never directly experienced God's power in our lives lik...