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LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 28
I CORINTHIANS 10:18 - 11:30
In our last lesson we were studying about the Lord's Supper and how Paul was having to upbraid the Corinthians because they were abusing it. And remember before they would have the official Lord's supper of unleavened bread, and the communion cup, they would have a pot luck supper. Now again remember the circumstances. Slaves. Now I can imagine, before Paul writes, that the poor people were just gorging themselves with the things that the wealthier people were bringing. I Corinthians 11:22
"What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? It would indicate that the people were also separating themselves during the potluck supper, and the wealthy were saying, "You're not going to eat the good food that I've brought or drink our good wine. Yeah, no wonder Paul was shocked and upset. Now verse 22.
I Corinthians 11:22
"What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Now in verse 23 he is going to come in and give the real purpose for what we call the Lord's Supper or communion table. I Corinthians 11:23a
"For I have received of the Lord..."
From the Lord! Let's go back to the Book of Galatians for a moment and look how Paul received these revelations. This way you can compare Scripture with Scripture. Galatians 1:11,12
Now you have to remember, where is Jesus Christ all during Paul's revelations? Galatians 1:15-17
Now you come into Chapter 2 to a verse that I just semi-quoted in verse 2. Paul, it's time you go up and meet with the Twelve, you go up to Jerusalem.") and communicated unto them(the Twelve) that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,..."
So everything that Paul has revealed to him to pass on to the Roman world was revealed from the ascended Lord in glory. Now come back to I Corinthians Chapter 11 and let's continue our study of the real meaning of the Lord's table.
I Corinthians 11:23a
"For I have received of the Lord (by revelation) that which also I delivered unto you,..."
By the time Paul writes the I Corinthian letter, the Church of Corinth had been operating long enough to build the excesses. I imagine that when they got ready to have the Lord's table they realized that they couldn't satisfy a whole day's energy with a little cup or swallow of wine, and one little piece of unleavened bread. Looking at the verse again.
I Corinthians 11:23-25
Now let's go back to Matthew Chapter 26 and begin with verse 17.
Matthew 26:17-20
So if they were to be standing to eat the Passover lamb with their feet shod, why were they standing? Matthew 26:26-30
Does Jesus give any doctrinal exposition on the bread and the wine. Melchizedek, the high priest and king of Salem, which was a little village that later became Jerusalem. Genesis 14:18
"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."
The Four Gospels hadn't been written so Paul couldn't go to the Gospel of Matthew. But rather Paul's interpretation of the Lord's supper came by revelation. Now read on in I Corinthians, verse 26, and here is the doctrinal reason for the Lord's supper.
I Corinthians 11:26
"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew (or remind yourself of) the Lord's death till he come."
There is no stipulation from the apostle as to how often a Church practices the Lord's supper. I don't care if your denomination practices it every Sunday, that's your prerogative. Because the word is whenever you have the Lord's Supper you had better have the right mind-set when you do partake of it. I Corinthians 11:27,28
"Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup."
I think that's the secret to behavior at the Lord's table. Am I right with the Lord? If you can't, you'd better refrain, because then you are drinking and eating condemnation. Now verse 29.
I Corinthians 11:29
"For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."
That is speaking of someone who partakes of the Lord's table with the wrong attitude. You can't take the Lord's table with that kind of attitude. Now verse 30. I Corinthians 11:30
Hebrews 12:5-8
"...My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."
So the Lord had been chastening the Corinthians because Paul says:
I Corinthians 11:30

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