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SBS Sermon Notes Note 13/06 Is Thy God Able to Deliver Thee? Readings: 1 Kings 13 or Daniel 6 1. INTRODUCTION Most Bible stories have literal and symbolic meanings. Many stories are even prophetic. That is why it is important to study the Old Testament; because if you don't you will never understand the New Testament or the meanings of events occurring in our day. The Apostle Paul writes in: 1 Cor.10: 1: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2: And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3: And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4: And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5: But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6: Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7: 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. 8: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9: Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 10: Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 11: Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Here we are all admonished not to delude ourselves into thinking that we can continue in sin and that, because we have faith in the rock Jesus Christ and have been baptised, we will be saved! The above passage proves that tens of thousands of ancient Israelites perished on their way to the Promised Land - all because they thought of little else but 'food, drink, entertainment, idolatry, lust, fornication' and 'constant murmuring against Moses and the law Yahweh gave through him.'