Lord's Supper - I
Corinthians 11:17-34
Kelly's Idiot Notes from the Gospel Advocate
Commentary along with his own notes
17. Reproof on Account of Gross Perversion
of Lords Supper.
18. Object weekly meeting unite more
closely Lord
proclaiming His death
doing this, draw into closer union w/each other:
services were perverted produced strife/ separation
instead unity.
The clicks had different leaders,
which had been reported to him by house of Chloe I
Cor 1:10-11
each click accompanied divisions
when they met for worship.
Facts possibly been exaggerated … but not much …
19. It is part policy of God in governing
the Kingdom God
to test / try those serving Him,
To that end He allows evil men to come
into their midst. …
Church of Christ,
like Jewish nation, continually falls away
from steadfastness in the faith.
God trials and tests
are to determine
who among them the faithful.
This was and is permitted to prove and to
show who among them
could and would stand firm and steadfast
under temptations.
Every one who cannot stand fast to the
truth despite the divisions unworthy of Christ.
Popular currents sweep through churches carry them
away
Eph. 4 14 That we hence forth no more children
tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the
slight of men and cunning craftiness where by they lie in wait to deceive.
These are God’s tests to purify the churches.
So divisions come to every church
to make manifest
those who are approved.
It is God bringing the churches
to judgment in this world.
All we have to do is to stand true and firm
to
God’s word, leave
results with Him.
20. Meeting or coming together did not result in
their eating the Lord’s Supper properly.
They so perverted it that it made it impossible for
them to do so.
21. Their eating was a feast w/attendant
gluttony,
drinking led many
to attend like the worship in idol temples.
Each family brought its own portion,
each partook of his own.
The rich
eating and drinking to satisfy of their abundance.
The poor were shamed by the
scantiness of their food
and went hungry. This was all wrong.
It is thought by some that this feasting preceded
The Lord’s Supper, so that some were filled & stuffed, while
others were hungry when partook of the emblems of Lord’s body
& blood.
22. He shames them with these questions. If
they had a feast in public, brotherly love for each other
would have suggested a common table at which all would have fared
alike, and as a consequence those without food at home
would have had their wants supplied. The course they pursued caused
shame to the poor and left them hungry. Their
practice was such a perversion that he could not praise them for
doing it.
23. Paul himself had received from the
personal communication of the Lord himself, … express injunction …
appointed for their observance. …Not his own devising, nor
that of any man, but divinely instituted … by God through
Jesus Christ consequently it is binding on all Christians.)
(He is transmitting to them the very
thing which he had received from the Lord,
This is what ought to make these disorders
impossible.
The betrayal of Jesus to enemies was going on when
Lord instituted Supper. … “was betrayed,” This Confines the meaning to the
action of Judas: it is not the Father’s surrender of the Son (John 19:11)
Jesus’ self-surrender (John 10: 17, 18)
Paul mentions the sad solemn occasion
in contrast to the irreverent revelry of the Corinthians,
to show how they perverted the Supper.
bread used was unleavened bread of the
Passover week.
24. In Matt. 26:26, Mark 14:22, it is “blessed.”
In Luke 22:19, it is “had given thanks,” … two
expressions, being used interchangeably, mean the same thing.
Both express the act of consecration, by
prayer
Let us place ourselves in the position of the
apostles …
If, as Jesus spoke these words, He had suddenly
disappeared, and they had seen nothing but the bread, they would
have understood that the body had been miraculously transformed into
the bread. But when his body was still there: … bread … was also
there; … his body … there after the bread had been broken and eaten, …
impossible that the apostles could have understood him as meaning that the
bread was literally his body. Could not have `understood it otherwise
than as a representation or symbol of his body to them.)
This solemn sacrifice versus their
selfish greed …
To do remembrance of his sacrifice
for them …
wholly different spirit
from the way in which they acted.
25. The covenant was the one mentioned by
Jeremiah (31:31-34) God set forth in his blood …
This is the memorial of that blood to seal &
confirm new covenant. Old covenant sealed with blood of animals;
this
sealed with the blood of Jesus Christ
shed for the remission of sins
… represented as furnishing the purpose of the
meeting,
… to be done in memory of Him, to
commemorate the shedding
of his blood …
not as a feast to gratify the appetite.
26.Monuments are designed to commemorate the
worthy deeds of those in whose memory they were built, …
hope future generations,
…
When we learn the deeds commemorated by
monument …
inspired w/ same spirit & led to emulate
those worthy deeds.
In the Church those who practice these memorials
… deeds and death of Jesus will drink into the same spirit, be led to
emulate His life and deeds of self-sacrifice for good of others.
Man builds monuments
of marble and granite;
seeking the imperishable; …
God, through Jesus,
selected the perishable bread and fruit of the vine
as the material … build a monument …
endure forever “till He comes”.
Only God could breathe into it a spirit that would
render it immortal, that would cause it to continue in its freshness till
Jesus comes again.
27. (… come to the Lord’s table in a careless
irreverent spirit, without the intention or desire to
commemorate the death of Christ as the sacrifice
for sins,
The way in which the Corinthians ate unworthily was
that they treated the Lord’s table as though it were their own;
making no distinction between it and an ordinary
meal;
coming together to satisfy their hunger, and
not to feed on the blessings of the body and blood
of Christ.
