Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast

with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. In today's Devo, Bryce, who leads in Watermark's

Recovery Ministry, Regeneration, reminds us, freedom from your sinful actions is not habit modification,

it's heart transformation.

Bryce wrote an excellent divo aimed at the practical application of 1 Corinthians 10.

Idolatry is whenever you love something more than you love God, and sometimes things become idols on accident.

But even unintentional idols can help us identify our intense longing for God.

What do you crave and what are you using to satisfy that craving?

Because Bryce's Devo is so strong, we're going to focus on something else. First Corinthians 10 starts off with a reference to the Old Testament.

Sometimes these Old Testament references can be confusing so we skip them. Or maybe you're partially familiar, so you kind of track, but you don't understand the fullness of what's being said.

Or maybe you are familiar, and so you just say, yeah, yeah, yeah, let me get to the good part.

Ever been there?

Chapter 10 starts off like this.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were

all under the cloud and all passed through the sea. It's important we notice verse one starts

with the word four. Similarly to when we read the word, therefore, as we talked about in episode

36, we've got to ask what the four is there for. And in this instance, we've got to look at

what came before this verse. At the end of chapter 9, Paul talked about the self-control and

discipline all athletes must employ in order to avoid being disqualified from the competition.

Here in chapter 10, he's illustrating something similar.

Think about it like this. Just because an athlete makes it to the Olympics does not mean

they'll get to compete. They could cheat and be disqualified. I mean, we all hear those

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