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Our daily testimony should be inline with our salvation.
What we confess with our mouth should be daily lived out within our families, within the community, at the grocery store, at the courthouse, at the library.
Everywhere, we should be asking the question: what does it mean to live as a follower of Christ in this situation.
This is an important question, because sometimes, we might engage in activities that are not only anti-Christian, but idolatrous.
They are worshiping another god.
If that is the case, we should not just abstain for those activities, but we should flee from them.
In our passage, for this week and next week, Paul is coming back full circle to the meat question.
In chapter 8, he is answering a question posed by the Corinthians about buying and eating food that has been sacrificed to idols.
Here in chapter 10, he talks about eating food at a temple or at a religious celebration.
Next week, he will talk about eating meat at a friend’s house.
He really gives a good well-rounded answer, studying the different facets of the question.
The point he keeps coming back to is the primacy of the Gospel and living a life in line with the Gospel.
What are we willing to give up for the sake of the Gospel, so that our daily testimony will be in line with it.
Let’s read the text:
Paul says: We are to have fellowship with Christ, not demons.
You say: We don’t have to worry about that in America today.
Well, before we unpack that, let’s pray.
We are to have fellowship with Christ
Paul says that we are to have fellowship with Christ.
Which is a nice phrase.
But, what in the world does it mean?
Paul says:
This is a description of the Lord’s supper.
Communion.
The Eucharist.
Whatever term you want to put with it.
Paul rarely talks about communion, but in 1 Corinthians, he speaks of it twice, because of its important symbolism to the Christian.
In chapter 11, he is going to more fully express a theology of the Lord’s Supper.
Here, he explains the symbolism to the Christian life.
And he does it uniquely, because he reverses the order.
The first Sunday of every month I stand up here and read 1 Corinthians 11, and then two men help distribute the elements.
We start with the bread and then we pass the juice.
We do this because Jesus did it in this order.
We could talk about the traditional order of the Passover feast, and how this lines with that, but we won’t.
In our passage today, Paul reverses the order.
Every good Christian in the Corinthian church would be reading this and saying: “Paul, what are you doing?
That’s not how we take communion.”
He reverses the order to highlight what fellowship with Christ means.
Participation in a pledge
Everyone who is truly a follower of Christ has made a pledge to follow Christ.
That’s the process of saving faith.
We have voluntarily made the decision to trust Jesus as our Savior.
We are not believing in some deity.
We are not trusting in our good works.
We are not joining a social club.
We are believing and receiving Jesus as our Savior.
If you have never made that decision for yourself, make it today.
Jesus died that you might be saved and that you might have a personal relationship with the creator of the universe.
You were created for that relationship and you will continue to feel lost until you come back into that relationship.
So today, confess your faith in Jesus Christ.
Don’t let another day go by.
Once we place our faith in Jesus Chrsit, we follow him through believer’s baptism, declaring to the world that we are on Jesus’ team.
This summer, we baptized four people.
All confessed their faith in Jesus Christ.
All wanting to show their faith through that act of baptism.
If you need to be baptized, let me know.
That is the first step of obedience after salvation.
Identifying with Christ.
Paul says: the cup of thanksgiving is a participation in the blood of Christ.
Christ’s blood saves us.
This is the pledge of belonging to him and following him.
He is our God.
He is our savior.
There is no one else.
We are on his team and we will never switch teams.
Participation in a lifestyle
Once we have made a pledge to follow Jesus, we are called to a participation in the “actual physical lifestyle and stance toward life” that Jesus had.
There used to be a movement called WWJD.
People had bracelets and bumper stickers with it on it.
What would Jesus do?
More people displayed WWJD than actually lived WWJD.
There were so many flaws with the movement and teaching around it.
But the basis is true.
If we are to have fellowship with Christ, we are to join him in his life.
He loved everyone
He spent time with those society did not like.
He spent time with those that didn’t like him.
You might say, “well, he really called out the Pharisees for their hypocrisy.
He wasn’t very loving toward them.”
Well, but he still spent time with them.
He still pursued a relationship with them.
He never refused to have a meal with someone.
Loving someone means to give them worth as an image-bearer of God and to do right by them because of that.
He stood up for truth
Going back to that Pharisee situation.
He always spoke truth.
He was the perfect example of the verse:
He always spoke truth, but the truth that he shared was that people might know God better.
If they were hypocrites, he shared with them who God was and who they were, so that they might get over themselves and seek God.
He showed how the religious understanding and the cultural lifestyle was not in keeping with godliness, so that people would turn to God.
He loved everyone.
He stood for truth.
He gave himself completely so that others might know God.
This ultimately means that he died for the world.
The ultimate act of love.
But, this wasn’t just one instance.
His whole life was about giving himself so that others might know God.
He left the glories of heaven, to come to earth.
That’s sacrifice.
He was born in a stable, in poverty, so that a bunch of shepherds could know the savior.
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