It's Not Your Supper...It's His!
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It’s Not
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the Lords!
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1 Corinthians 10:14-22
and 11:17-34
1 Corinthians
6:1-11
October
21, 2018
June 24,
2018
Background: Paul had deep concern over 3 disruptions that were doing
damage to the church. One was the attitudes and actions of people during
the Lord’s Supper. Another was the attitudes of some of the women about
matters of submission and authority and their own actions in public worship.
A third disturbance which Paul will address is confusion over and misuse of
spiritual gifts in the church.
THE BIG IDEA: The celebration that was supposed to unify the church
was actually bringing disunity, because of failure to focus on Christ and to
consider others. Paul reminded the Corinthians that the central focus of
the Lord’s Supper is the remembrance and proclamation of Christ’s
saving work, in the context of the Church – the one Body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:14–22 (ESV) and 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (ESV)
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Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to sensible
people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 The cup of blessing that we
bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we
break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is
one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one
bread. 18 Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the
sacrifices participants in the altar? 19 What do I imply then? That food
offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that
what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not
want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of
the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the
Lord and the table of demons. 22 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
Are we stronger than he?
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But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because
when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18 For,
in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there
are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, 19 for there must be
factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may
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be recognized. 20 When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper
that you eat. 21 For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal.
One goes hungry, another gets drunk. 22 What! Do you not have houses
to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate
those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in
this? No, I will not.
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For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the
Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when
he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for
you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
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In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This
cup is the new covenant [Jeremiah 31:31] in my blood. Do this, as often
as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
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Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in
an unworthy will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.
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Let a person examine himself then, and so eat of the bread and drink
of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the
body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many of you are
weak and ill, and some have died. 31 But if we judged ourselves truly, we
would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are
disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
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So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one
another— 34 if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you
come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will
give directions when I come.
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See in the Lord’s Supper our deep connection with the living
Christ.
See in the Lord’s Supper the Oneness we have as His Body –
“we who are many are one body” (10:11)
See in the Lord’s Supper the opportunity to consider others
before ourselves.
See in the Lord’s Supper our Sin, His Mercy, and the Father’s
Grace.
“The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness
we shall taste in Christ.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper