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do you do Most of us wouldn't willingly put ourselves in harm's way to test the limits of safety gear like a parachute or a helmet.

We wouldn't see how close to the edge of the cliff we could get without falling over.

So why do so many people test the limits of Christian freedom by playing around with sin.

Today on Truth for Life, Alistairbegg examines the danger that comes with compromise.

One of the ways that we might describe the 10th chapter of First Corinthians is as a threefold warning issued by Paul the warning relating to

the dangers of freedom the dangers of freedom we probably don't immediately

associate danger with freedom, but in actual fact there are dangers that attach to freedom.

Every mother and father, I presume, who takes the car keys on that first faithful evening and says to their son or their daughter

You are now free to drive my car you passed your test this afternoon have a good time

There are dangers in that freedom. There are many dangers that attach to spiritual freedom and Paul addresses three. Last time we dealt

with the danger of presumptuousness, the kind of person who says I can do what I want because I'm free.

And this morning in verses 14 to 22 we're going to deal with the danger of compromise. If we have any

difficulty understanding the language of these verses here that we have just

read we should certainly be no doubt as to the application.

It seems perfectly clear that Paul is pulling no punches.

He makes it very obvious to all who read you cannot be a guest at the Lord's table and a guest at the table of demons

Now just exactly what all of that means is what we're going to spend our time discovering this morning,

but if we miss everything else we need to realize that there is a great gulf set between

what it means to be meaningfully participating in the Lord's table and what it means to be

involved in other tables that are certainly not the Lords. Some of his readers were obviously taking their Christian freedom in questionable matters a little bit too far.

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