Communion 11/01/2020

A Table for Two

Whenever you go to a restaurant, the hostess will greet you and want to know how many are in your party.  You respond by telling her how many; she then will seek to find a table to accommodate your needs.

Can you imagine going to a restaurant and being asked that question, and not being able to give the hostess an answer?

You would think that person was quite confused.  

When you go to a restaurant, you need to know:

Why you’re there Who you’re going to be with

When it comes to the Lord’s Table, you need to know the same two things:

You need to know why you’ve come to His Table You need to know who you’re going to be there with.  How many are in your party?

The very word Communion implies being with someone.

The word means:

A having in common A partnership A fellowship recognized and enjoyed The share which one has in anything

Communion is related to the words common and communication.

We must see that having communion is more than eating a little wafer of bread and drinking a little cup of juice. 

A person can go through the external motions without experiencing the inward sense of fellowship and partnership that this ordinance was meant to express.

Let me say it this way:

You can have communion (the ordinance) without having communion (the fellowship).

On the other hand, you can have communion (the fellowship) without necessarily having communion (the ordinance).

For example, you could sit down for a meal with your wife or family, but mentally be a million miles away, and completely ignore them.

We should come to this table and partake of these elements because Jesus said we should.

We should maintain a continual awareness of God’s presence in our life, but we should come to this table periodically as a continuation of our ongoing fellowship, to remind ourselves of and to celebrate the very foundation of our relationship and fellowship with Him: the broken body and shed blood of the Lord Jesus.

First of all, Communion always involves a “table for two.”.

Jesus died for you personallyJesus shed his blood for you personallyYou’ve been forgiven personallyYou’ve been made a child of God personallyHis Spirit has been sent to dwell in you personallyJesus’ body was broken for you personallyHis healing and restoring power is available to you personally.

Note these three things:

You must know that His body was broken for you.You must examine yourself.You must discern the Lord’s body.

1 Corinthians 11:25-26

25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.