Daily Bread Pastor Mike Anderson

1 Corinthians 10 Enduring Word Commentary Warnings From Israel’s History 10 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Paul gives the Corinthians a warning from Israel's history. Though they were God's people and had experienced the blessings and benefits from it, they rebelled against God and never made it to the promised land. Paul says the spiritual rock they drank from was Christ. What does he mean by that? The phrase "drank from the same spiritual rock" from 1 Corinthians 10:4 means that the Israelites' miraculous supply...

1 Corinthians 9 - NIV Enduring Word Commentary Paul’s Rights as an Apostle 9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? 2 Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. Paul was constantly defending his apostleship, because he wasn't one of the original disciples. Even though he had his " Damascus road encounter with Jesus" , the believers in Corinth still did not fully accept his status as an apostle. But Paul says the proof of his apostleship is the church he planted in Corinth, which they were a part of. We should not get caught up in titles. What is more important is the fruit we bear for Jesus, which is lives transformed by Jesus Christ, our Lord.   3 This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 4 Don’t we have the right to food and drink? 5 Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the o...