1 The fact is, brethren, baptism and partaking of the bread and wine, and your membership in the Church of Christ show forth your status as the spiritually elect of God — but remember, you are not thereby perfected. There may yet come another falling away, as with those who were called in the old days in a similar manner to us.
2 What though they were all under the cloud in the moment of revelation, and all passed through the sea,
3 and all ate the spiritual manna
4 and drank the spiritual drink which flowed from the rock. The rock is said to have followed them wherever they went. That rock means the Christ.