“No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to participate with demons! You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?”
(1 Corinthians 10:20–22, HCSB)
When we get involved in idolatrous practices, or things which draw us away from God, we need to be careful. Paul says that a Christian cannot have dinner with God one day and then dinner with demons the next. The result of this hypocrisy is that God will will get jealous and He will get angry with the way we are acting.
What is the cup of demons? When one makes an idol of something that opposes God and tries to replace God is a tool of demons. When I participate in something that is unholy I need to be careful because I am walking into a trap. This trap is set by Satan, but it releases other consequences from God.
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