Loves Feast
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He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.
Who we invite to our feasts matters.
His Guest List.
His Guest List.
On the contrary, when you host a banquet, invite those who are poor, maimed, lame, or blind.
And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
What is a love feast
What is a love feast
It starts with a Greek Word
AGAPE [ä gäˊ pā] (Gk. agápē “love”).† In its basic sense the Greek word designates the divine, selfless love which will go to any length to attain the well-being of its object (see LOVE). The term is used in a technical sense in the New Testament to indicate the love feasts (cf. Jude 12) of the early Christians, communal meals which provided religious fellowship and were a means of charity for the poor, widowed, and orphaned of the community.
The Greek word
if we look at what Agape is we realize that Jesus gave the foundation for what a Love Feast was supposed to be.
Divine…Selfless Love…goes to any length.
We find in Acts
None of us will ever be divine that is impossible, but we are supposed to strive to be more like Christ which is what was supposed to be going on with the Love feasts found in Jude. They started out strong. Look at what was going on in Acts.
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to the prayers.
This is more than just Communion. This was intentional fellowship. Taking the words of Jesus to heart. Love Feasts were a regular part of the early church.
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple complex, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with a joyful and humble attitude,
praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.
When it all goes wrong!
When it all goes wrong!
These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots;
Now I want to remind you, though you know all these things: The Lord first saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;
and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.
In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Nevertheless, these dreamers likewise defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.
Yet Michael the archangel, when he was disputing with the Devil in a debate about Moses’ body, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.
Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
We all know people like this, sometimes we are like this. These passages are not talking about people who don’t claim a relationship with God, on the contrary they think they are okay. They were rescued just like everyone else. But the Agape Feast, the feast used to bring closer relationship to God and others and to be a outreach to the ones that were hurting changed into a meal for the chosen few…and they picked who the chosen few were.
We all know people like this, sometimes we are like this. These passages are not talking about people who don’t claim a relationsip with God, on the contrary they think they are okay. Expound.
Expound.
This Weeks Challenge
This Weeks Challenge
Find someone to invite to your Thanksgiving Dinner that will make things uncomfortable. Feed them, make sure it’s someone that can’t return the favor. Turn down the fights, turn down the football turn down the traditions that are so important and see someone else with the eyes of Christ.