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I was recently challenged (on a another blog) about a couple of verses in 1 Corinthians 10 (verses 23 and 24). The challenger insisted on only reading starting at verse 23 to justify his point, instead of going back to verse 1 which is where Paul begins the teaching and sets the context.

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There was a certain king who had two adopted sons. They were the children of servants who had been tragically killed in the king’s service, so he had adopted them as his own.

The first appeared to be of quite average intelligence. There was nothing particularly distinguishable about him or his achievements, and he often seemed to lack initiative. He only did what he was asked – no more, and usually no less. He never did anything without first finding out exactly what was expected – how the king wanted it done and what was the expected result. Many people thought he was rather pedantic about following the “rules” and sometimes got rather annoyed with him, but that didn’t seem to bother him. He just kept plodding along, doing what was asked, no more and no less.

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