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LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 28
Lord's Table Order
Now in the Book of I Corinthians, as we have been stressing ever since we started teaching this little letter, evidently from Chapter 7 verse 1 some questions had arisen, and I think this is the clue for Paul writing this letter of I Corinthians. Every word has been directed by the Holy Spirit, and yet every author maintains his personality. I Corinthians 7:1a
Now we just came out of the situation of eating meats that had been offered to idols. Paul says, "That's not the way you do things when you are a believer." And so the whole Book of I Corinthians is dealing basically with problems that were besetting the Corinthian Church. I Corinthians 10:16,17
The bread which we break, is it not the communion (or fellowship) of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread."
When we get into Chapter 12 we will see Paul make the analogy of the Body of Christ being put together like the human body with all our various functions of fingers and toes, and the rest of the body. From wheat. Kernels. All right, that's the analogy. Every time you eat a loaf of bread, what has comprised that loaf of bread? Umpteen kernels of wheat that were ground into flour, and then made into bread. What are we as members of the Body of Christ? We're just like that loaf of bread that has become a composite of those individual kernels of grain. I Corinthians 10:16,17a
The bread which we break is it not (in picture form) the communion (or fellowship)of the body of Christ? We're blood bought.
I Corinthians 10:17b,18
If Israel took a sacrificial animal up to the priest, who could eat of that meat first? So even the Jew who brought the sacrifice could end up partaking of that sacrifice, and that is what Paul is saying in verse 18. Now verse 19 and here Paul is going to bring in the idolatry side of it.
I Corinthians 10:19
Now you know it's hard for us to comprehend Paul's thinking. On the one hand he makes it sound like there's absolutely nothing wrong with eating meat offered to idols. As far as Paul was concerned that idol was nothing more than dead stone or wood, it could never have an effect on that meat so far as he was concerned, he could eat it without compunction. But on the other hand he would warn people that there was something associated with those demonic gods, and these gods had power, and so there were instances where Paul says, "Don't eat of it." Satan works through idolatry. Now verse 20.
I Corinthians 10:20
Demons. Why did they sacrifice to demons instead of the true God? They didn't know the true God. They didn't know Who God was. So Paul comes into Athens and now verse 16:
Acts 17:16
Now look at verse 23: I'm just doing this so you can get the picture of these people among whom Paul is ministering.
Acts 17:23
Now let's come back to I Corinthians again.
So these were idol worshiping heathens as we would call them. Now verse 20:
I Corinthians 10:20
"But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils (demons), and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." (demons)
Oh horrors, that's why when we get to II Corinthians Chapter 6, Paul says, "You can't have fellowship with God and demons." Also remember that Paul is building his case for the communion table. Verse 21.
I Corinthians 10:21
"Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: (demons) ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. "...You cannot serve God and mammon." Now verse 22.
I Corinthians 10:22
Remember the argument that Paul is building is that they have to be careful how they practice the Lord's table. In verse 23 we find Paul shifting gears again, and here in this verse he seemingly changes the subject and drops into something totally different, but it's still coming home to the effect of the Lord's table, compared with fellowship with demons, and fellowship with the Lord and His work of the Cross.
I Corinthians 10:23
Well, there was no set law resting on Paul's shoulders that says, `Thou shalt not.' Remember Grace is not a license.) Paul does use the expression that everyone is a living epistle.
II Corinthians 3:2
Now verse 24, and remember he's still building to the practice of the Lord's table.
I Corinthians 10:24
Now verse 25:
I Corinthians 10:25,26
"Kill and eat." "Not so Lord, I have never eaten anything common or unclean." Now verse 27.
I Corinthians 10:27
See in verse 28:
I Corinthians 10:28
"But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, (Why? Offering it to that idol didn't affect the meat one iota. It's nothing but a dead, dumb idol.
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