BAD EXAMPLES--GOOD WARNINGS

1 CORINTHIANS 10:5-11(NASB)

Nevertheless, with most of them[Israelites] God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.Now these things happened as examples for us, that we should not crave evil things, as they also craved.

And do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written,'The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.'

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Nor let us test the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.

Nor [let us] grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages have come."