", The veil was two things. Therefore whoever eats this bread and drinks this cup of the Lord in an unfitting way is guilty of a sin against the body and blood of the Lord. There are those who interpret the bread to be transubstantiated into the actual body of Christ by some miracle. His habits of speech and life were not at all up to the mark that they supposed seemly before the world in a servant of God. All this they thought the fruit of indiscretion and avoidable. You can eat and drink in your own homes. That isn't really, to me, the best use of a person's time.He is establishing the chain of command. Mark, they must put away. But then, as he shows, there was not only this great source of blessing in Christ, but there is the power that works in us. The apostle urges the truth of that liberty in Christ which Christendom has well-nigh forgotten that if I am Christ's servant I am emancipated already. They were prostitutes, and the temple was supported by their prostitution. He alludes to the mystery (1 Corinthians 2:1-16), but does not develop here the blessed privileges that flowed to us from a union with Christ, dead, risen, and ascended; but demonstrates that man has no place whatever, that it is God who chooses and calls, and that He makes, nothing of flesh. We have got a crude name for it. On the face of the case we have the working of liberty and responsibility in their mutual relations; and the apostle Paul is the very one to tell us that Apollos's will was not to go as he himself wished at this time. So oftentimes there would not be enough food to go around. He does not here say, "the blood" or the "body of the Lord." And we glory in such a declaration; we show forth his death, and spread it before God, as our accepted sacrifice and ransom. The motto on this ordinance, and the very meaning of it, is, When this you see, remember me. That is all it is. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. This, of course, gets into issues which are being debated today in our society as we find all of these E.R.A. The whole and sole means of communicating blessing to us must be the Holy Ghost. It was not merely getting rid of the obnoxious man. He had vindicated the glorious character of the resurrection; he had proved how fundamental, and momentous, and practical, is the truth that the body is to be raised again, which they were disposed to deny as though it were a low thing, and useless even if possible. It will make the section easier to follow if we set out at the beginning the various parts of which it is composed. So here he says, "Lest I myself become a castaway," not " you." [Note: See David Lincicum, "Paul and the Testimonia: Quo Vademus?" The cross writes total condemnation on the world. The fact is, church discipline supposes and goes on the ground that those on whom it is exercised are Christians; but when it is a question of discipline, it is not the season for the display of Christian affection. Here we must not look for the great foundations of Christian doctrine. They had forgotten that what God gives He gives in time, but in view of eternity. Body - 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; Body spiritually is the church. Then he broke it in pieces and said, "This is my body, which is given for you. Christ crucified is the death-knell on all man's wisdom, and power, and righteousness. But in the Church at Corinth things had gone sadly wrong with the Love Feast. You remember those days of the Mansion Messiah and the Lord's House and the House of Psalms and these various houses that we had. So long is a relative term.I have seen some fellows whose hair I would say was indeed a shame with flowing hair down to their waist. It seemed that the wealthier people were those that were just sort of pushing their way ahead. I have got to be in submission to him." (1 Corinthians 4:1-21). But is there not another danger? And the woman is not without the man and the man is not without the woman. 23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night 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.". The divine authority of the Lord's supper is here expressed; it was not only instituted by him as Lord, having all power and authority in and over his churches, to appoint what ordinances he pleases; but the plan and form of administration of it were received from him by the apostle. The Believer's Freedom 23 "I have the right to do anything," you saybut not everything is beneficial. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! "Put away from" not the table of the Lord merely, this he does not say, but "Put away from among yourselves." If a woman has a gift for prophecy, which she certainly may have as well as a man, for what is it given of the Lord but for exercise? Who could say the gift of prophecy given to a woman is to be laid up in a napkin? He sees the bread, but not the body; and he damnifies himself, condemns himself, by such eating. 11:23: For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; This verse is very similar to 1 Corinthians 15:3 (Paul received information and delivered it to the Corinthians). We may not know it; but a younger or a weaker brother is often looking to us for a lead. They were unleavened, and therefore should be a new lump. They provoke God, and are likely to bring down punishment on themselves. They yearned after the fire of Peter and the rhetoric of Apollos. God having spoken to our hearts and now we impart that which God has spoken to us.As we mentioned this morning, the first work of the Spirit in our lives is subjective. The problem was whether or not in the Christian Church a woman had the right to take part in the service unveiled. After the same manner also he took the cup, after their supper, and he said, This cup is a new covenant in my blood: this do ye, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. They started ripping off their clothes. They broke the legs of both of the thieves on either side of Jesus, but when they came to Jesus, they saw that He was already dead. We have translated it slightly differently, "This cup is the new covenant and it cost my blood." The rich greedily ate their own food without sharing it with others and without even waiting for everyone to arrive. Standing in the consciousness of the power of God's grace, they need to be continually looking out that they be devoted to Him. Verse 5. His absence had given occasion for the breaking out of their carnal wishes after the world's wisdom. Do this, as often as you drink it, so that you will remember me." What Paul taught here came ultimately from the Lord Jesus Himself. Every word of the book of Job is inspired; but did all the speakers utter necessarily the mind of God? It will show great faith if, before you enter into the burning fiery furnace, you can sing psalms unto the Lord who redeemeth his people. What was not directly edifying, as speaking in a tongue, is forbidden unless one could interpret. Was this to be slighted? We call it the Lord's Supper; but supper is to some extent misleading. "This cup," said Jesus, in the usual version, "is the new covenant in my blood." This was as much an apostle's boast and glory as anything that God had given them. Their state was such, and God had so overruled it in His ways, that the apostle had received nothing from them. Such actions of Christ as are not intended for our imitation, should not be reckoned as belonging to his institution. The suggestion has been made, what does the broken bread truly symbolize? He is a loser rather than a gainer by eating and drinking unworthily. In the sense of responsibility they were utterly wanting They seem to have forgotten completely that the Lord from whom the liberty had come is the One in whose sight, and for whose glory, and according to whose will, all power was to be used. Find answers to your Bible questions with Bible Gateway Plus. And therein God is glorified as He is nowhere else. To an unbeliever it would be nothing; to a lover of Christ it is the way to his presence. He shows that the distinctive feature of that which the Spirit of God leads to is the confession, not exactly of Christ, but of Jesus as Lord. When was the body of Christ broken?We read that because it was the preparation for the Sabbath the Jews came to Pilate that they might have permission to break the legs of the prisoners that their bodies would not be hanging on the Sabbath day, and so Pilate gave them permission. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------, As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. 1 Corinthians 11 | KJV Bible | YouVersion So then when you assemble together in the same place it is certainly not the Lord's meal that you eat; for each of you, when you eat, is in a hurry to get his own meal first, and the result is that some go hungry and some drink until they are drunk. Again, we have the eloquent Alexandrian thus introduced: "As touching our brother Apollos I greatly desired him to come unto you, but his will was not at to come at this time." After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drinketh it, in remembrance of me. When they got back up to the steps of the Antonio Fortress, Paul said, "Can I speak to these guys?" He sought to be a faithful steward with Gods revelation to him (1 Corinthians 4:1-2) and he condemned any man or angel that would seek to alter it (Galatians 1:8-9) because he had received the Lords commandments (14:37). Indeed, such were the habits of the ancient world, it would only defile the ears and minds of God's children to have any proofs of the depravity in which the world then lay, and that too in its best estate, the wisest and the greatest not excepted, those, alas. . But we pass on to another and a still more important theme, a wonderfully full picture even for God's word, that most perfect and beautiful unfolding of divine love which we have in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. Accordingly, in 1 Corinthians 2:1-16, still carrying on the thought of Christ crucified, and connecting it with their condition, he intimates that he was in no wise limited to it. How it traverses all the thoughts, circumstances, and hopes of flesh! These had eaten of the same spiritual meat, for so he calls it; they had the heaven-sent manna, had drunk of the same spiritual drink; yet what became of them?
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