04-08-18, 1 Corinthians 11;17-34, Remembering the Sacrifice

1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Remembering the Sacrifice
April 8, 2018
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

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The Glory of God!

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1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you
do, do all to the glory of God.

April MemoryVerse
1 John 4:7-8 NASB
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is
from God; and everyone who loves is born of
God and knows God. 8 The one who does not
love does not know God, for God is love.

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1 Corinthians 11:17-29
Remembering the Sacrifice

BryanT. Huie
1/17/1964 - 1/26/2014
Dennard, Arkansas

Skip Heitzig
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1 Corinthians 11:17 NASB
17 But in giving this instruction, I do not praise
you, because you come together not for the
better but for the worse.
(You can leave a church meeting, not helped
but harmed!)

Come together, synerchomai, is mentioned 5
times in this passage, it is when they would
come together as a church to celebrate the
Love Feast (the Agape Feast).
Communion = come union

The celebration of the Lord's Supper (sacred
meal) was linked with, and was perhaps an
extension of, the Agape Feast, a common meal,
which Christians were in the habit of sharing
together.

Instead of abolishing the common meal that
was eaten before the taking of the symbols (the
Lord’s Supper), Paul gives instructions about
how this combined occasion is to be properly
observed.

The fellowship meal (Agape Feast) was
continued until theThird Council of Carthage
(A.D. 391) decreed that the Eucharist should be
taken while fasting.

He is my Lord, but He is also our Lord.
Our Father who is in Heaven, …
The Lord’s Supper is to be a fellowshipping of
believers that share a bond that transcends
everything else.

In Corinth, the Lord’s Supper had become a
demonstration of their disunity.
The element of unity is paramount in the
Christian faith and it was not happening in this
early church.

1 Corinthians 11:18 NASB
18 For, in the first place, when you come
together as a church, I hear that divisions
(schisms/schismata) exist among you; and in
part I believe it.

1 Corinthians 12:24b-25 NASB
24b But God has so composed the body (of
Christ), giving more abundant honor to that
member which lacked, 25 so that there may be
no division (schisms/schismata) in the body, but
that the members may have the same care for
one another.

John 19:23-24 NASB
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified
Jesus, took His outer garments and made four
parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic;
now the tunic was seamless, woven in one
piece.

24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear
(schismata) it, but cast lots for it, to decide
whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the
Scripture: “They divided My outer garments
among them, and for My clothing they cast
lots.”
John 19:23-24 NASB

Tear (schismata) – to take a garment and rip it
to shreds.
That is what had happened to their fellowship.

1 Corinthians 11:19-22 NASB
19 For there must also be factions among you, so
that those who are approved may become
evident among you. 20Therefore when you
meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper,
21 for in your eating each one takes his own
supper first; and one is hungry and another is
drunk.

22What! Do you not have houses in which to eat
and drink? Or do you despise the church of God
and shame those who have nothing?What shall
I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not
praise you.

The groups would have met in the homes of the
rich (since they alone could accommodate
them).
These occasions were full meals with plenty of
food and drink - at least for some members.

The rich brought plenty of food for themselves
(including meat), whereas the poorer members
had to make do with their own scanty fare.
The main point stands out quite clearly.

There was over-indulgence on the part of the
rich and feelings of envy on the part of the poor
who were made to feel inferior (1 Cor. 12:15).
For Paul this was inconsistent with the intended
character of the meal.

Both hunger and drunkenness are out of place
in a church meal.
Rowdy festivity and social divisions alike ruined
the occasion.

Paul criticized the Corinthians for their carnality
and instead of Christian fellowship, some
brethren were only seeking to satisfy their
fleshly desires by eating before the entire group
had arrived.

This caused the late-arriving poor who had
been able to bring only little or nothing with
them to go hungry.
Others were drinking to excess and getting
intoxicated, transforming a spiritual event into
carnal revelry.

Paul tells everyone to wait for all the brethren
to arrive before beginning the Lord's Supper.
Those who, because of hunger, could not wait
were told to eat at their own houses before
coming together to partake of the Lord's
Supper.

Paul laid down that the rich should eat privately
in their own houses if they wished to have a
larger meal or more expensive fare, and thus
avoid importing social divisions into the
meeting of the church.

Paul was not counseling that the occasion
should cease to be a meal at this point.
Communion later became the token
consumption of a morsel of bread and a sip of
wine.

The Lord’s Supper
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also
delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the
night in which 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.”
(At the Lord's Supper, Jesus is present in the
hearts and minds of the community of the
church.)

25 In the same way He took the cup also after
supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant 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.
27Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks
the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner,
shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the
Lord.

28 But a man must examine himself, and in so
doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the
cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and
drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge
the body rightly. 30 For this reason many among
you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.
31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would
not be judged.

(Paul proclaims here that the cause of much of
the sickness and even death afflicting the
Corinthian congregation was because of their
carnal behavior at these spiritual events.)

32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined
by the Lord so that we will not be condemned
along with the world.
33 So then, my brethren, when you come
together to eat, wait for one another. 34 If
anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that
you will not come together for judgment.

28 But a man must examine himself, and in so
doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the
cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and
drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge
the body rightly.

But let a man examine [dokimazeto from
dokimazo] himself, to test, prove, scrutinize (to
see whether a thing is genuine or not), discern.

Examine yourselves before taking communion,
people must examine their conscience in order
not to partake unworthily [anaxios]; they must
discern the true nature of this sacred meal,
which is entirely different from an ordinary
repast.

Here Paul admonishes the Corinthians to
personally be cognizant of the character and
meaning of the Lord's Supper.

This was designed to ensure that they are
partaking of it in the right attitude with the
proper understanding of what it represented.
When the Apostle Paul gave the Corinthian
believers guidelines on the proper way to
celebrate the Lord’sTable, he included a key
element, a soul exam – a self-examination.

While the Holy Spirit is the best Soul’s Detective,
here are some basic areas for a self-examination
starting point:
1. PersonalWorship (called the “Sanctuary” of a
believer’s life)
2. Personal lifestyle
3. Interpersonal relationships
4. Attitude

In a parallel passage, Paul cautions believers,
“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God”
(Ephesians 4:30).

The larger context of Ephesians 4 exposes how
heart’s attitudes and human relationships can
grieve the Spirit, and so quench His influence.
Ephesians 4:31-32 NASB
31 let all bitterness and wrath, and anger and clamor
(commotion) and slander be put away from you,
along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another,
tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in
Christ also has forgiven you.

Christ must be Lord of our attitudes and words
as well as our deeds.
Our influence is measured not just by not doing
wrong but by doing right.
Choices must be made for a lifetime and
moment-by-moment.

2Timothy 1:6-7 ESV
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame
the gift of God, which is in you through the
laying on of my hands, 7 for God gave us a spirit
not of fear but of power and love and self-
control.

How can a believer fan the Flame of God rather than
quench the Holy Spirit?
One answer is in the Lord’s Supper – the observance
of Communion.

In the Christian life it is necessary to encourage
ourselves and each other to “keep on keeping
on”.

It is easy to be discouraged in well doing, but we
dare not.
We encourage each other by remembering the
words to a chorus we sang as teens atYouth for
Christ meetings: “It only takes a spark to get a fire
going!”

Don’t put out the fire!
Go light one!

1Thessalonians 5:19 NASB
19 Do not quench the Spirit;

27 and do not give the devil an opportunity. 28 He
who steals must steal no longer; but rather he
must labor, performing with his own hands
what is good, so that he will have something to
share with one who has need.

29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your
mouth, but only such a word as is good for
edification according to the need of the
moment, so that it will give grace to those who
hear. 30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by
Whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption.

31 Let all bitterness and wrath and
anger and clamor and slander be put
away from you, along with all malice.
32 Be kind to one another, tender-
hearted, forgiving each other, just as
God in Christ also has forgiven you.

It is only by forgetting yourself that you draw
near to God.
The focus is upon Christ and only through Him
do we draw near to God.

Hebrews 4:16 NASB
16Therefore let us draw near with confidence to
the throne of grace, so that we may receive
mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

This is how we must learn to think about the
sacraments so that the focus is not so upon
ourselves – “I have been baptized”, “I never
miss a Communion.”
The focus is upon Christ.

If, in your thinking about the sacraments, self
has intruded where Christ should be, on the
basis of God’sWord: “Do not grieve the Holy
Spirit of God” (Ephesians 4:30), “Do not quench
the Spirit” (1Thessalonians 5:19).

Let the Holy Spirit lead you beyond the
sacraments to the Savior.

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1 Corinthians was written to a church that was
being adversely affected by the immoral culture
around it.
Skip Heitzig relates some teachings that seem
very contemporary to us today.

The Lord’s Supper
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also
delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night
in which He was betrayed took bread;
Paul showed the Corinthian saints the real
meaning of the Lord’s Supper by taking them
back to the Upper Room.

Spurgeon said “never mind the bread and the
cup unless you can use them as people use eye
glasses.
Folks don’t look at glasses, they look through
glasses.

Use the bread and the cup as glasses to say,
‘Yes, I can see the Lamb of GodWho taketh
away the sins of the world’”.

Paul has them look through the bread and the
cup in five different ways.
1) We look backwards, together at a past
event. See verse 24.

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.”

Just as the lamb was a memorial of the
sacrifice that brought the Israelites out of
Egypt (Passover), these elements (the wine
and the bread) are symbolic of the death of
Jesus.
They help us to remember the act.
When Jesus wanted them to remember
something, He gave them a meal.

He did not say, “Build Me a mausoleum.”
The location of the tomb of Jesus is in
dispute.
We really don’t know for certain which is
the correct one.

He did not say, “Build Me a large marble
statue where I gave the Sermon on the
Mount.”
No, He said, “Have a meal. Do this in

When we break the bread and drink the
wine we are deliberately focusing our
attention off of one thing and onto
another.

We are to pause our lives long enough to
refocus upon the cross, the one act – the
supreme act – of the love of God giving His
Son for your sins and for my sins and that is
the act of remembrance.

When we look back, when we remember
the sacrifice, we disconnect from ourselves
for a few moments and we connect with
Him.

You live in a society that is sending you
constant messages to connect you with
yourself, your needs, your pleasures, your
wants, with what you feel, with what you
“deserve” – so by the end of the day you
are programmed: “Me, Me, Me, Me, My,
My, My, My! What about Me? What about
my needs?”

Communion does the opposite.
It disconnects you from that and connects
you to the sacrifice that Jesus made over
2,000 years ago.

And you remember – Oh Lord! ThankYou
so much!
Our society is called narcissistic, named
after the Greek god, Narcissus, who fell in
love with his own reflection.

Poem:
“There once was a nymph named
Narcissus,
Who thought of himself very delicious,
He stared like a fool at his face in a pool,
And his folly today is still with us.”

Narcissism is a fixation with one’s self.
Today, one of the personality disorders is
even called narcissistic personality
disorder.

Narcissism is looking and gazing on myself
while the Love Feast focus is on Christ – we
focus on others, not ourselves.
The saints in Corinth were not doing that
and they were forgetting the essential
element.

2) We not only look back, we look at the present.
See verse 25.
25 In the same way He took the cup also after
supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant
in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in
The world drinks to forget, we drink to
remember!

We are living in the present age, the New
Covenant, the once and for all time,
finished work of Christ for our salvation.
Not our righteousness, it is a brand-new
covenant!

Christianity is to be a present reality, not
just a past tense experience.
Some folks live in the past saying, “I
remember when I gave my life to Christ
back in 19__ during the Jesus Movement.”
or something similar and they reminisce to
some event in the past.

What about last week?
What about today?
Can your past experience be translated
into a present reality?
Are you living under the New Covenant?

The past should be a guidepost not a
hitching post.
Look at the past but it should also be
brought into the present.

We are living under the New Covenant
when we celebrate the sacrifice at
Communion – we are reminding ourselves
that we are not our own, we have been
bought with a price; therefore, glorify God
in your body and in your spirit which are
His (1 Corinthians 6:20).

3) We not only look back into the past, and at
the present but we also look forward. See
verse 26.
26 For as often as you eat this bread and
drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s
death until He comes.

4) We look within. See verses 27 and 28.
27Therefore whoever eats the bread or
drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy
manner, shall be guilty of the body and the
blood of the Lord. 28 But a man must
examine himself, and in so doing he is to
eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

5) We look around. See verses 33 and 34.
33 So then, my brethren, when you come
together to eat, wait for one another. 34 If
anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so
that you will not come together for
judgment.

Verse 21 spoke of getting ahead in line and
not sharing.
Verse 34 speaks of eating at home because
the Agape Feast is not a common meal but
a sacred one.

How can we remember the Lord’s death if
we are forgetting those He died for?

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Sunday

1 Corinthians 12:4-12, 21-26
Serving God’s People
April 15, 2018
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NASB
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not
perish, but have eternal life.”
John 14:6 NASB
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father but through me.”

Romans 3:23 NASB
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NASB
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death,
died in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

Revelation 21:8 NASB
8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable
and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and
idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that
burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second
death.”
Romans 6:23b NASB
23b but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 NASB
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 NASB
7 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will
be his God and he will be My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be overcomers.

Romans 10:9-10 NASB
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and
believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead,
you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes,
resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he
confesses, resulting in salvation.
Romans 10:13 NASB
13 for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE
SAVED.”

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