The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you do The Bible teaches that as Christians we can rest assured in the security of our

salvation but there is such a thing as overconfident living.

We'll find out what that looks like today on Truth for Life and learn about the pitfalls

of presumption. Alistair Begg is teaching from the opening verses in 1st Corinthians chapter 10.

What we have here in chapter 10 at least in these opening 13 verses is essentially

a history lesson. Now last time we concluded by acknowledging that Paul was concerned that those

who were running the race of the Christian life would finish strongly. He had

applied this truth to himself, saying that in his running, he wasn't running

aimlessly, in his boxing he wasn't simply beating the air. Having applied it to himself, he now goes into Chapter 10, still on the same theme,

and addressing some in the church in Corinth who were presumptuous people, who were overconfident people or if you like

self-confident people. Because these individuals as we were about to see, found their confidence in the fact that they believed they had the right kind of background and they had been through the right kind of experiences.

They were, if you like, the original proponents of, I'm okay, you of it was the furthest thing from their minds.

And so in response to this, Paul reminds them of the blessings that have been known by their forefathers.

The opening phrase of Chapter 10 is an example of LITOTES.

You know what LITOTES is?

It is a using of, well we should get an English teacher up here to do it for us,

but essentially what he is doing is he's

downplaying something for emphasis.

When he says, I do not want you to be ignorant, he says, I want you to definitely know.

And so when saying this, he uses it for emphasis. This is something he says that you

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