Monday, August 2, 2021

BLESSINGS FROM COMMUNAL EATING

My Dear Precious Child,
    Paul in his first recorded letter to the Corinthians addressed the proper way to meet together.  He said that when they gather together for meetings that the meetings are like the Supper instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ.   Paul criticized them that when they met together that everyone hurried to eat instead of waiting for the poor and that some people went hungry while other people got drunk, which was reported to him by other apostles. 
   "What?" Paul wrote.  "Don't you have your own houses in which to eat and drink, or do you despise the house house of the Lord and mean to show contempt for it while you humiliate the poor in your midst?"  He asked if they wanted to be commended for that?  He wrote that, "No," he will not commend them for their selfish behavior.  He said that he had received the revelations from Me that he passed on to them, that it was given as a gift freely from Me, that the Lord Jesus on the night of His betrayal took bread and shared it with His disciples.  When He had given thanks for it, He broke it and told them to eat it as remembrance of his body which is broken for them.  Likewise, when the meal was ended, He took the cup saying that it was the cup of the New Covenant established in His blood, and that they should do it in remembrance or it, to call it to attention.  Jesus Christ said that evening that every time they ate the bread and drank the wine that they were proclaiming the Lord's death until He comes again. (I Corinthians 11:22-26)  He wrote that anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy way, such as in order to be selfish or gluttonous would be guilty of the body and blood of Christ.
    Paul's instruction was that every person should examine his own mind and thoughts for any evil motive and if there are no nefarious thoughts or intents that he should then eat the bread and drink of the cup.  Anyone who eats and drinks indiscriminately eats and drinks a sentence upon himself or herself.  He advised them that it was because of that careless participation in the communion that many people were sick and weak in the church and many had died.  (I Corinthians 11:27-30)
   He wrote that if everyone came to the table of the Lord and examined his or her own thoughts and motives and finds no evil being there, then no one would be judged by the devil and receive the divine judgment of him.   He made it clear that when they fell short of judging the presence of the devil in their own thoughts and motivations that they are chastened and condemned along with the world. ((Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 11:31-32) Paul's final instructions were that when they came together to meet that they must wait for everyone and that if anyone was famished that he or she should eat at home or they would bring themselves to be judged by the devil by their rushing to eat before allowing the poor to partake of the food.  He wrote that he had more to say about that when he came to be with them again.
     Paul's views about the Lord's communion meals were that the Corinthians had caused them to become occasions for their flesh in order for the devil to control them instead of their Spirits controlling them, which were always done as remembrances of the last Supper of the Lord! 
   When your spiritual enemies gain control of your religious celebrations, it becomes a celebration to the devil instead of a celebration to Me.  It is Paul's revelations of them that should enhance your knowledge of the devil's plans and interruptions of your communal meetings which are meant to glorify Jesus Christ and bless the participants.
    Your Father of Unfolding Truth

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