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2 Issues in the Corinthian communion.
Both have to do with failing to “discern” the Lord’s Body.
1 Cor.
They were failing to make communion something other than a mere fellowship meal.
1 Cor.
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2. They were failing to recognize the equal dignity of all who are Christ’s in the way the rich wouldn’t wait for the poor and ate and drank to excess.
This then gave rise to a 3rd issue:
One group failed to take their union with the other group seriously enough.
And the other issue while it isn’t mentioned overtly here, grows out of when Jesus instituted the Supper.
I want to highlight
The point is simple: In Jesus will go on to explain that they - the Disciples - and we, are “clean” through the word that He has spoken to us.
In believing the Gospel, we find cleansing for our sins.
So why then the footwashing here when Jesus acknowledges that those who have bathed, have been fully cleansed - don’t need another full bath?
Because we still get dusty, dirty from walking in this present world.
As cleansed and as forgiven as we are, we still get dirty.
And how is this to be dealt with? - We are to wash one another’s feet!
And here we are back to discerning the body of Christ rightly.
For you see in the 1 Cor.
situation, some Christians were sinning against other Christians in the way they handled the communion table.
And so those sinning, were in need of those sinned against to forgive them.
To wash their feet.
And both groups needed to be called to a good “discerning” of the Lord’s Body.
For when we sin against one another, we sin against His Body - not just “them.”
Now in our present context, we prevent the failure to discern the Lord’s Body in the table by separating it from being an ordinary meal, taken for mere sustenance and physical enjoyment.
So far, so good.
But what of failing to discern how this table unifies all those in Christ, and so being careful not to come here in the state of sinning against our brothers and sisters sin Christ?
Perhaps you need to confess that heart and mind before you come tonight.
Perhaps there are those in Christ whom you have slighted, sinned against, and need to repent of having done so.
But even more, what of our needing to wash the feet of those brothers and sisters who may have sinned against us?
Will we come to the table tonight, reminding ourselves that He died to cleanse us from our sins, and has called us to wash one another’s feet of their dusty, dirty sins?
Especially sins against us?
For how else can we hope to come to the table to acknowledge our unity in Christ - while holding the sins of others against them?
As though the blood of Christ was, is, sufficient for our sins - but not for theirs?
Let’s take our moment once again and ask the Spirit to seach our hearts.
To be sure we discern the Lord’s Body as the sole sufficiency for our own sins.
As the opportunity to discern the joint dignity of our brothers and sister in Christ and repent of any sin against them we need to put away tonight.
For I cannot sin against them, without sinning against Him.
And to discern the Lord’s Body in our washing the feet of fellow Christians who might have sinned against us.
To acknowledge our union with them in Him.
And to serve them in it.
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