Sharing in the Lord's Supper 1 Corinthians 11:17-31
(
Matthew 26:26-30;
Mark 14:22-26;
Luke 22:14-23)
17In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.
18First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
19And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
20Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.
21For as you eat, many of you proceed with your own meal to the exclusion of others. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
22Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No I will not!
OBVIOUSLY ST. PAUL WAS VERY ANGRY OVER THE IRREVERENCE IN THE GATHERING, SEEMS HE PUT A LOT OF STOCK IN THE LAST SUPPER. He reprimands the lack of honor shown.
23For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,
24and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you;
a do this in remembrance of Me.”
25In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
Why proclaim His death until he comes......because it is the death to sin in all and therefore is LIFE!
27Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
28Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
29For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
How can one sin against that which he is not truly present in?, by not doing it in HIS MEMORY, NOT VALUING IT! AS YOU PEOPLE DO NOT!
31Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
YOU ARE BEING JUDGED BY CHRIST so that you will not be condemned with the world for this FALSE DOCTRINE!
33So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
34If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.
ANOTHER WORDS, this is a partaking in a Holy Sanctified RITE which means participate with reverence and not as a basic meal like you have at home with much eating. This is a SACRED MEAL, which as a church we come together in , in HIS MEMORY and where two or more gather in His name there too is He in their midst. He is truly present!
