Message Notes / Sunday, June 5, 2022
Communion With God
First Corinthians 11:17-29
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*Communion With God *
About Today’s Passage:
+ Contains a special teaching on Communion
+ Includes instructions from the risen Christ outside the Gospels
+ Presents the opportunity to make healthy and spiritual choices
1.Choose to
First Corinthians 11:17-22 / ESV, “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 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.”
Selfishness creates:
— Distance
— Distraction
— Dissension
— Doubt
— Debt
— Delusion
— Distress
First Corinthians 13:5 / ERV, “Love is not selfish…”
Philippians 2:3-4 / ERV, “In whatever you do, don’t let selfishness or pride be your guide. Be humble, and honor others more than yourselves. 4 Don’t be interested only in your own life, but care about the lives of others too.”
2.Choose to
First Corinthians 11:23-25 / ESV, “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.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
3. Choose to
First Corinthians 11:26 / ESV, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
Colossians 3:17 / NLT, “And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.”
4. Choose to
First Corinthians 11:27-29 / ESV, “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 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.”
Psalm 139:23-24 / NLT, “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!”
My next steps
Read: First Corinthians 11
Memorize: Philippians 2:4; Colossians 3:17; Psalm 139:23-24
Make choices that bring me into communion with God.
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