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0:00We're in 1 Corinthians [music] chap 11.
0:03And we need to remember that Paul's
0:05overarching theme of this entire letter
0:08is that he [music] wants to end
0:09divisions. He wants to foster unity. So
0:13he [music] is systematically dealing
0:15with the mindsets that create division
0:18and conversely the attitudes that
0:21preserve [music] unity and create
0:23legitimate unity. In chapter nine, he
0:26talked about how we should run in such a
0:28way as to win our brothers. Run in love.
0:33In chapter 8, he talked about how
0:36[music] knowledge puffs up. We all have
0:38knowledge, but if you're just knowing
0:40[music] in that way, you know nothing as
0:42you ought. But when you know in a way
0:45that is anchored in the primary goal of
0:48love, you know as you should. And in
0:51chapter 10, he also [music] talked about
0:53communion. And the pivotal thing we want
0:56to take from chapter 10 is that he is
0:59saying that we are the one loaf. That
1:02the body is the one loaf. And so when we
1:05are broken, we're not just broken in
1:08remembering Christ. We're broken in
1:10giving grace now. So we are expressions
1:14of Christ [music] when we give
1:15sacrificially to one another. We are
1:18expressions of Christ when we give the
1:20wine of his blood forgiveness to one
1:22another. We walk in the light as he is
1:25in the light. We have coinia which is
1:28communion with one another and the
1:30[music] blood cleanses us from all sin.
1:32So in chapter 11
1:36Paul is going to
1:39present
1:41the order of the kingdom.
1:45Basically, this is the closing of the
1:48wound of division. This is when he says,
1:52"I've told you [music] you got problems.
1:53I've told you the what's wrong with your
1:55motivation, knowledge instead of love,
1:58liberty instead of others. I've told you
2:00that you're trying to split the
2:02apostles. I've told you you're trying to
2:04be independent from fatherhood. But now,
2:07I'm going to tell you what fixes all of
2:09this." That's what chapter 11 does. So
2:12he [music] says 1 Corinthians 11:1,
2:17"Be imitators of me just as I also am of
2:22[music] Christ."
2:24The cure to all of their divisiveness is
2:27stop being [music] original. Stop trying
2:30to be the genesis of what God is doing
2:33[music] and just accept your place to be
2:37followers because we're all in a
2:39following journey.
2:42We're walking in the footsteps of those
2:43who went before us. And if you're
2:45blazing your own path, you're separating
2:48from Jesus. So he says, "Be imitators of
2:51me just as I also am of Christ." Now I
2:56praise you because you remember me in
2:59everything
3:00and hold firmly
3:03to the traditions
3:06just as I
3:08delivered them to you.
3:11So there's divisions, but he's also
3:14saying at least some of them are holding
3:17firmly to what Paul gave. So in that
3:21statement, we see what it means to be
3:23imitators. Walk in the patterns that you
3:27were given and stop acting like you've
3:31got to reinvent the wheel in order to
3:33pioneer your own originality and
3:35legitimacy. You don't. And then he says
3:39verse three, but I want you to
3:42understand
3:44that Christ
3:46is the head of every man and the man is
3:50the head of a woman and God is the head
3:55of Christ.
3:58Now he's going to start ordering them in
4:01the basics of kingdom composition.
4:05And he starts with our relationship with
4:08God and he moves to our relationship
4:10between husband and wife and then to the
4:13church. Does this make sense? So this is
4:17him fixing the division.
4:20I want you to imitate me. And here's
4:22what Paul has given them. These are the
4:24traditions or the patterns that Paul has
4:27given them. He says, I want you to
4:28understand that Christ is the head of
4:32every man.
4:33What does that mean? Well,
4:37God has many aspects to his nature just
4:42like I have many aspects to my nature. I
4:46am a father to you kids, but I am a son
4:50to granddaddy and grandmama.
4:53And I am a preacher to the church and I
4:57am a businessman in the market. These
5:01are aspects to my nature. One person,
5:04one being, but different aspects.
5:08And
5:11the covering of your lives as children
5:15is my fatherhood aspect
5:19and the care to grandmama is my sunship
5:23aspect.
5:25So when we think of God, it's one being
5:28but the aspect of his sunship
5:32is what the man should be guided by. The
5:35man is guided by the aspect of God that
5:40is Christ in how he submitted in
5:44obedience to the father. How he did
5:47nothing of his own initiative.
5:49How he spoke as the father gave
5:51utterance. how he was in total obedience
5:55and learned obedience through the things
5:57that he suffered. Let this mind be in
5:59you that was in Christ Jesus. So Paul is
6:02saying for the men in families, I want
6:05you to be a leader guided by sunship
6:09submission.
6:11Okay, so that's the first thing I want
6:14to say. The other thing I want to draw
6:16out here is that this Christ headship is
6:21actually exercised through the church.
6:24There's a very important scripture that
6:26should be pencled into your margin as a
6:30parallel reference here and that is
6:32Ephesians 1:22:23.
6:36In Ephesians 1:22, Paul's tells us that
6:40God has placed everything
6:43under the feet of Christ and gave Christ
6:47to be head over all things. But the
6:51Amplified Bible says it like this. This
6:55is a headship
6:57exercised in and through the church.
7:03So if the head of every man is Christ,
7:07where does that headship come from? It
7:10comes from the spirit. But Paul tells us
7:12in Ephesians 1:22, it is a headship
7:16exercised through the church. So when
7:20Paul is making these commandments,
7:23he is bringing headship to the men.
7:27Okay?
7:28But the way a man submits is different
7:32than the way the woman submits. The man
7:35has no constitutional
7:39individual
7:41in his life saying it should be done
7:43like this. But the woman does. Both are
7:47in complete submission. But one is in
7:50submission to the spirit and the spirit
7:52through the community of the church. The
7:56woman is in submission to the individual
7:58of the man and in that way it is
8:01different. Let's read on. I want you to
8:05understand that Christ is the head of
8:09every man.
8:12But that speaks of the church also.
8:15And the man is the head of a woman.
8:20And God is the head of Christ.
8:26Does that mean Christ isn't God? No. But
8:29the aspect of Christ that he's referring
8:31to is the human aspect. He's referring
8:34to the sunship aspect. So when Jesus
8:38would say there is none good but God
8:40alone, is he denying his own divinity?
8:42No. But he's emphasizing his humanity in
8:47submission to the indwelling divinity.
8:51And that's what man needs to be guided
8:53by. He needs to be guided by the human
8:56sunship agency of God which starts with
9:01Christ and is expressed through the
9:03community.
9:05Every man who has something on his head
9:10while praying or prophesying
9:12disgraces his head.
9:15But every woman who has her head
9:18uncovered while praying or prophesying
9:22disgraces her head
9:25for she is one and the same as the woman
9:27whose head is shaved.
9:31So Paul is saying that a man it needs to
9:37submit. He needs to have headship in his
9:40life to the spirit and to the community
9:43general.
9:44But the woman needs to submit to the
9:47individual man.
9:50And God has given us symbols
9:53to point toward this spiritual
9:57submission.
9:59The reality is spiritual, but there's
10:02also a physical symbol.
10:06Okay? The symbol is a woman has long
10:10hair.
10:12That's signaling that as an individual,
10:15she needs to be individually covered by
10:19an a man.
10:21And the symbol for a man is that he has
10:24short hair and that he should not pray
10:26or prophesy in a manner that is covering
10:30his head. Now, this means that a man has
10:34to take ultimate responsibility for what
10:36he believes is God's will in his life.
10:39But a woman has that responsibility
10:43mediated through her husband. So she has
10:46an excuse before God that the man does
10:48not have. She can say, "I was trying to
10:51honor my husband." Now, she can't honor
10:54her husband to the point of disobeying
10:56God or conscience or harming others or
10:58herself. But she has to obey God through
11:02the agency of her husband in an ordinary
11:05course of life. The man cannot say, "I
11:08was just trying to do what I was told."
11:10He has to believe that whatever he was
11:13told in his own conviction, in his own
11:16conscience was the voice of the spirit
11:19through the church or [snorts] directly
11:21through the spirit. But he has to
11:22believe that he made the evaluation that
11:25this is my conviction. This is God.
11:28doesn't mean it originates with me, but
11:31it does mean I bear witness with my head
11:34uncovered that this is God's will. And
11:37if he pretends that he is obeying God by
11:42just following others, then he may as
11:44well wear a bun because he is covering
11:48his head when God wants him to stand
11:50with his head uncovered in absolute
11:53accountability for how he led his
11:55family.
11:57Does that mean that the writer of
11:59Hebrews is wrong when it says, "Obey
12:01those who have the rule over you?" No.
12:04Does it mean that John is wrong when he
12:07says, "You have no need for any man to
12:09teach you, for you have an anointing?"
12:11No. John is teaching them when he tells
12:13them that they don't need a man to teach
12:15them. But John is teaching through the
12:18anointing. The anointing is teaching
12:20through John. So the man has an
12:25obligation to maintain an atmosphere of
12:29honor and submission toward those over
12:32him in the Lord. But at the end of the
12:34day, he has to make the call. Is this
12:38what the spirit is telling me or not?
12:42He's got to make that ultimate call. The
12:44woman conversely does have an individual
12:47in that mediator capacity
12:50and she can't use that to sin or violate
12:53conscience. But it is a different
12:56orientation of relational behavior that
12:59Paul is giving. For if a woman does not
13:02cover her head, let her also have her
13:04hair cut off. But if it is disgraceful
13:08for a woman to have her hair cut off or
13:10her head shaved, let her cover her head.
13:15So the covering that a woman has in her
13:19life is the covering of a man. And that
13:23is symbolized
13:25by
13:26the symbol of uncut hair on her head. Do
13:31you understand? Now, it could almost
13:33sound like he's talking about a covering
13:36like a piece of cloth, but that's not
13:39what he's talking about. He's talking
13:40about a covering like a man who's
13:43covering her because he's already
13:45established that that's who the head is.
13:49For a man ought not to have his head
13:51covered since he is the image and glory
13:53of God, but the woman is the glory of
13:56man. This means the radiant reputation.
13:59So, man is the image and glory of God.
14:01woman is the is the glory of man.
14:05The man does not originate from woman
14:07but woman from man. So in this he's
14:10saying that authority has to do with
14:13authorship or at least origin and
14:15because woman comes from man. This
14:18orientation of submission predates the
14:21fall. He does not say the woman should
14:24submit because of the fall because of
14:28sin. He says that elsewhere, but here he
14:31anchors it prior to the fall. It's the
14:33way God intended that the relationship
14:35be even before the fall. Does that make
14:38sense? So, it is not taken away because
14:40someone receives the spirit or is saved.
14:44Therefore, the woman ought to have a
14:46symbol of authority on her head because
14:50of the angels.
14:53The angels are the guardians of God's
14:55order. They're the ones who make sure
14:57the the world functions as it should.
15:00And when the woman is outside of God's
15:03order, it invokes the wrath of those who
15:07are protectors of God's order. So in
15:10order to not come under angelic
15:12displeasure, a woman should symbolize
15:16her submission, her headship, and her
15:18covering. So the reality of a woman's
15:21covering is her husband and the symbol
15:24is her hair.
15:26But that the covering is not a piece of
15:28cloth. The covering is a man.
15:33However, in the Lord, neither is woman
15:35independent of man, nor is a man
15:38independent of woman. Now independent
15:42does not describe submission or lack of
15:45submission. It describes
15:48cooperation.
15:49So daddy is not whole without mommy.
15:53Daddy does not have a view of himself
15:56that does not need mommy. Right? So I am
16:01not independent from my spouse.
16:05But that doesn't describe how that
16:07interdependence should be ordered. The
16:10ind interdependence is real but it has
16:13an order. And the order is the head of
16:16every woman is man. and the head of man
16:19is Christ.
16:25For the woman originates from the man,
16:27so also the man has his birth through
16:29the woman. And all things originate from
16:32God. So he's saying we can't have the
16:35kingdom without each other. We need men
16:39need women in their lives as much as
16:41women need men. I would argue maybe
16:43more. But that doesn't describe the
16:46order of submission. That just describes
16:49the order of honor and interdependent
16:51love. That there is a way of loving each
16:54other and needing each other and
16:56honoring each other. That doesn't
16:58necessarily describe submitting to each
17:01other. Though we all submit
17:04if we submit to love. Judge for
17:07yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to
17:09pray to God with her head uncovered?
17:12So he's saying if it's not proper for
17:14her to have her head shaved, why
17:17wouldn't she have a husband? He's saying
17:19that the symbol of her hair is pointing
17:24toward the reality of her relational
17:26covering.
17:29Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a
17:31woman to pray to God with her head
17:32uncovered? Does not even nature itself
17:35teach you that if a man has long hair,
17:37it is a dishonor to him? So I want you
17:39to pay attention to the juxiposition. He
17:42says, "Judge for yourselves. Is it
17:45proper for a woman to pray with her head
17:46uncovered?"
17:49No, it's not proper. So, what is
17:51covered? He says, "But a man, if he's
17:54got long hair,
17:56it's an abomination.
17:58So, what is covered in the in the
18:01symbolic sense? Covered is having long
18:03hair. Uncovered is having short hair."
18:09Does not even nature itself teach you
18:11that if a man has long hair, it is a
18:13dishonor to him. But if a woman has long
18:15hair, now we know what the symbol is, it
18:19is a glory for her. For her hair is
18:23given to her for a covering.
18:28So the real and relational covering is
18:31her husband, but the symbolic covering
18:33that God has given her is her hair. Now
18:38there are several words that Paul is
18:40using here for hair. And the translation
18:43just says hair hair. But the the
18:46different words are thric
18:48and comeo. And these are all very
18:51different things. When he says when when
18:55Paul talks about just hair like the
18:57stuff that's growing on my head, that's
18:59just thick hair. But
19:04it refers to a hairdo.
19:07It refers to neatly bound hair. It's
19:11more than just something growing on your
19:13scalp. It's uncut, neatly bound hair if
19:18you put it all together and ch try to
19:20harmonize it with the meaning. But if a
19:23woman has long hair, it is a glory to
19:26her for her hair is given to her for a
19:28covering. The main covering or the
19:31symbolic covering? Symbolic. The
19:33symbolic covering.
19:36The main covering he's talking about is
19:38her husband. So if you put a little
19:41doily on your head in place of your
19:42husband, that won't fly. The symbolic
19:46covering is long uncut haido. The main
19:49covering is relational submission to
19:52your husband.
19:54But if one is inclined to be
19:55contentious, we have no other practice,
19:57nor have the churches of God.
20:00So he's saying, you want to be difficult
20:02about this? You want to say that we
20:05shouldn't have long hair and that that's
20:06not the covering and we shouldn't have
20:09submission to our husbands. Paul's
20:11saying I want to be clear here. Every
20:14church of God is abiding by this
20:16practice. So this is a universal.
20:20He has just cured the first thing that
20:23brings division in the church disorder
20:26between husbands and wives. That's how
20:28the fall began.
20:31The devil's first utterance recorded in
20:35the earth was basically asking Eve, can
20:39you trust your husband to hear from God?
20:42Because he said, "Did God really say?"
20:48But when God said it, Eve wasn't even
20:50made.
20:52So, she could have only learned it
20:54through her husband. So he's basically
20:56saying, can you trust your husband to
20:59reflect honestly what God is saying for
21:01your family?
21:03If you get that cured, you have the
21:06first step toward a unified body of
21:10Christ.
21:12But if one is inclined to be
21:14contentious, we have no other practice,
21:16nor have the churches of God. But in
21:19giving this instruction, I do not praise
21:21you
21:24because you come together not for the
21:27better but for the worse.
21:31What he means is I'm not happy with you
21:34because when y'all are coming together,
21:36you're not walking away from this church
21:38service stronger and [clears throat]
21:40more unified. You're walking away worse.
21:44Your gatherings are tearing you down.
21:47And apparently they're tearing them down
21:50in the way that wives are not submitting
21:52to the covering of their husbands.
21:55They're not tearing them down in the way
21:56that wives aren't tying on doilies.
21:59They're tearing them down in the way
22:00that wives are not submitting to their
22:02place.
22:04For in the first place, when you come
22:06together as a church, I hear that
22:09divisions exist among you. And
22:12[clears throat] in part, I believe it.
22:15Do you think he's returned to his very
22:17first thesis? He's still trying to cure
22:20what's destroying the Corinthian church.
22:24I hear there are divisions among you.
22:26And in part, I believe it.
22:30For there must also be factions among
22:32you so that those who are approved may
22:34become evident among you.
22:37Paul says, "God's going to use your
22:40factions to show those who won't
22:42participate in them."
22:45It's okay. It's necessary that factions
22:48come in the church because God uses that
22:51to pull out of the church the unserious,
22:54the independent, the arrogant, those who
22:57think they have the gifts, those who
22:59think they're clever, those who have the
23:01worldly wisdom, those who have the
23:04knowledge without the love. Everything
23:06he's been addressing in this book, he
23:08says it's good that they're here because
23:10they take out of the church those who
23:12shouldn't be there.
23:14Therefore, when you meet together, it is
23:18not to eat the Lord's supper.
23:22For in your eating,
23:24each one takes his own supper first, and
23:28one is hungry and another is drunk.
23:32What?
23:34That's what Paul says. What?
23:38Do you not have houses in which to eat
23:40and drink?
23:44Or do you despise the church of God
23:48and shame those who have nothing?
23:53What shall I say to you? Shall I praise
23:55you? In this I will not praise you.
24:01So he is saying that when they come
24:03together for church services, their
24:06motivation is all wrong. They're acting
24:09like communion is just to get together
24:10and have a meal. And he's saying you've
24:13got houses for that. Communion is to
24:17reconsecrate yourself to the order of
24:19God. Communion is to recommmit yourself
24:23to the oneness, the unity, the love, and
24:27especially the spirit of God through
24:30remembering what Jesus has done and what
24:33he is asking of you. Communion is for
24:35you to break yourselves off as part of
24:38that loaf and share your lives with each
24:40other.
24:42And he says, "This is disgusting." What?
24:44He says, "What?
24:47Don't be this way." And his his
24:50indictment is that they are despising
24:53the church of God.
24:56For I receive from the Lord that which I
24:59delivered to you.
25:02Now, this is an important teaching on
25:03communion, but the bigger context is
25:06he's telling them, "You're not imitating
25:08me anymore.
25:10You've abandoned the pattern I gave you.
25:12And he's saying, I didn't get this
25:14myself. I got it from the Lord and I
25:16gave it to you. And the disorder in your
25:19life is because you're reinventing the
25:22wheel.
25:23And it may take a time. It may be a
25:25while, but you're just going to keep
25:27reinventing in order to show your
25:29originality. And before you know it,
25:31you're going to have a terrible mess.
25:34[clears throat]
25:35The Corinthian church is not an example
25:37to us. They did not survive. They fell.
25:42For I received from the Lord that which
25:45I delivered to you.
25:48That's the main point that we want to
25:50get here.
25:52God didn't give them that pattern. God
25:55gave it to Paul and told them to be
25:57imitators, but they wanted to be
25:59originators.
26:01And that's what started destroying the
26:03church. And yes, in its particularity,
26:07it's about communion, but in its big
26:09theme, it's about independence.
26:14For I received from the Lord that which
26:17I also delivered to you, that the Lord
26:20Jesus in the night in which he was
26:22betrayed took bread, not spaghetti, not
26:26beef roast,
26:29bread.
26:30And when he had given thanks, he broke
26:33it and said, "This is my body which is
26:38for you.
26:40Do this in remembrance of me.
26:44In the same way,
26:47he took the cup also after supper,
26:51saying, "This cup is the new covenant in
26:56my blood.
26:58Do this as often as you drink it in
27:02remembrance of me."
27:04Let me paraphrase. Paul is saying, "I
27:08hate your communions.
27:10you are coming together and you're doing
27:13something that you call communion, but
27:15he says it's not the Lord's supper. It's
27:17your supper
27:19and you're doing it because you're
27:21hungry and someone else is drinking too
27:23much. But he's saying you have houses to
27:26take care of hunger in.
27:29Communion is not an ordinary meal.
27:33Communion is a reignment with a certain
27:37attitude toward Jesus, his sacrifice,
27:40and one another. And he says, "What I
27:43gave you that you have improved upon, I
27:46got it from the Lord, but you're not
27:49imitating me anymore. You're not keeping
27:51the traditions, and I'm not happy. For
27:54as often as you eat this bread and drink
27:56the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death
28:02until he comes.
28:05So he's saying true communion is not
28:09just a memory
28:11for the Jews when they remembered the
28:13Sabbath day. That didn't mean they sat
28:16around, oh yeah, yeah, honey, they did
28:19have a Sabbath 2,000 years ago. To
28:23remember the Sabbath was to enact the
28:26Sabbath. And he has said in chapter 10
28:29that those who
28:32serve at the altar partake of the altar.
28:36So he is telling us that we are we are
28:39supposed to remember what Jesus did and
28:42enact what Jesus did. We are supposed to
28:45remember what he did in order to enact
28:49that culture of giving our lives to one
28:52another, of giving forgiveness to one
28:54another, of coming back into alignment
28:57with Christ and one another. So we are
29:01proclaiming his death. We are saying the
29:05cross is our ethos.
29:08Forgiveness is our ethos. Humility is
29:11our ethos. Giving is our ethos. Breaking
29:14and sharing our lives is how we are
29:17living. We are not simply remembering
29:20that Jesus did it all so we can keep
29:22being self-serving babies in this world
29:25today. We are
29:28coming under the weight that he has told
29:31us to take up our cross and follow him
29:34and keep proclaiming what he did in such
29:37a way as to enact it. Remember the
29:40Sabbath day. Remember what he did. Enact
29:44the Sabbath. Enact the cross. Enact the
29:47ethos of sacrifice.
29:50Therefore, whoever eats the bread or
29:54drinks the cup of the Lord in an
29:58unworthy manner shall be guilty of the
30:01body and the blood of the Lord.
30:06Now, the body is symbolized in the
30:08bread.
30:09But he's just told us in the previous
30:11chapter, we are that bread.
30:16So he's saying that the way they're
30:19treating each other, the dishonor, the
30:22disorder is making them guilty of what
30:26the Lord paid for on the cross. They're
30:30guilty of doing again to the body what
30:33was done to Jesus's body, of harming it,
30:36of destroying it. But the body he's
30:38talking about is not just Jesus in his
30:42individual sacrifice. It's what we're
30:44doing to Jesus in his community.
30:48Guilty of the body and the blood of the
30:50Lord. But a man must
30:54examine himself
30:57and in doing so he is to eat of the
31:00bread and drink of the cup.
31:03So, we are supposed to search oursel
31:07because it's very heavy.
31:09We do this wrong and we're guilty of the
31:12body and blood of the Lord. We may as
31:14well be the centurion stabbing his side.
31:18If we're not doing this with the right
31:20attitude,
31:21we are destroying the temple of God and
31:23God will destroy him. So, get out the
31:27divisions. I hear that there are
31:28divisions. That's what he's trying to
31:29fix. So that's what's the wrong thing.
31:33Taking communion casually,
31:35that's the evil thing. You can't be any
31:38more serious than telling someone that
31:40if they don't examine themsel, they're
31:42guilty of the body and blood of the
31:43Lord. So anybody who wants to make
31:46communion a lighter thing, they are
31:49propagating a doctrine of demons counter
31:52to what Paul is commanding.
31:54Let a man examine himself. Search me, oh
31:58God, and know my thoughts.
32:01Is there jealousy? Is there envy? Is
32:04there strife? Is there independence? Is
32:07there arrogance from my knowledge?
32:09Everybody's got knowledge. Have we lost
32:12love? Have we lost order? Have we lost
32:16submission, headship,
32:18or are we still part of that one loaf?
32:22Are we the one wheat berry that makes
32:25the tooth crack when you bite down on it
32:28because we haven't been ground with the
32:29whole lump as Michael Satler taught? Are
32:33we the one grape in the wine that hasn't
32:35been crushed so as to yield up all of
32:38its energy and nutrients? Are we the
32:41independent one? Are we distinguishing
32:44ourselves?
32:46The larger theme of this chapter is that
32:49divisions make communion a fraud.
32:53Divisions based on pride, divisions
32:56based on gift superiority, based on
32:59puffing up knowledge,
33:01divisions based on independence,
33:03divisions that subvert fatherhood,
33:06divisions that reinvent the wheel
33:08instead of staying in the tradition.
33:12So he says that if you drink it or eat
33:15it in an unworthy manner, you're guilty.
33:18So what you're examining is, am I
33:20worthy?
33:22And what makes you worthy?
33:25Not your own righteousness, but the
33:28absolute humility
33:31and sense of unworthiness
33:34to be partakers of Christ. So the
33:37absolute death through all the strife,
33:40all the biting, all the disorder,
33:44that's what makes you worthy. When that
33:45is in the grave, you're ready.
33:49For he who eats and drinks
33:53eats and drinks judgment to himself if
33:58he does not judge the body rightly.
34:03Notice he doesn't say if he does not
34:05judge the wine and the bread rightly. He
34:07says judge the body. He says if you're
34:10not examining yourself and you're taking
34:12communion, you're guilty of the body and
34:14blood.
34:16And he says if you eat and drink, you
34:19drink judgment to yourself. If you do
34:22not judge the body rightly, the body is
34:25the community, the church.
34:28If you haven't submitted to your place,
34:30if you haven't gotten rid of all the
34:32dynamics that are destroying the
34:34Corinthian church, then you're calling a
34:37judgment down upon yourself. You're
34:39drinking and eating judgment. You're
34:40saying, "Let me be cursed
34:43because you're acknowledging that what
34:45Jesus suffered on the cross is the
34:48penalty of for your sin, but you're
34:51still cultivating that sin inside of
34:53you. So the judgment he suffered now
34:55goes into you. But it should go out of
34:58you as you lay it aside. As you say
35:00again, no judgments, no jealousy, no
35:04pride, no independence, no superiority
35:07complexes
35:09all away.
35:12Then we place it under him. For this
35:14reason, many among you are weak and
35:16sick, and a number sleep, literally die.
35:21But if we judged ourselves rightly, we
35:24would not be judged.
35:27So communion should follow a season of
35:31judging yourself,
35:35condemning things about you that need a
35:37change and getting them out of you.
35:39Communion should follow a season of
35:42examination and judgment.
35:45God, I shouldn't be thinking this way.
35:48God, I shouldn't be speaking this way.
35:50God, I should be submitting this way.
35:53Forgive me for not confessing it and
35:56getting it out of you. So that when you
35:59invite the curse that Jesus bore for you
36:02on the tree,
36:05you invite it on what you have renounced
36:08and not on the you that you're still
36:10living in.
36:13But if we judged ourselves rightly, we
36:15would not be judged.
36:17But when we are judged,
36:19we are disciplined by the Lord so that
36:22we will not be condemned along with the
36:24world.
36:26So he's saying God is bringing
36:27discipline, hardship in your life
36:29because you're not dealing with your
36:31sin.
36:33Tragedies can come sometimes when you
36:36won't deal with the judgments inside of
36:38you. Judgment starts coming to to you.
36:42But he says God is disciplining you so
36:44that you will not be permanently
36:46rejected and damned with the world.
36:48That's what condemned means with
36:51damnation.
36:53So he's saying even the discipline, even
36:55the sickness, even the calamities that
36:57are coming, God's using that to turn you
36:59back. Turn you back to fatherhood. Turn
37:02you back to love. Turn you back to the
37:06design and order.
37:08So then, my brethren, when you come
37:11together to eat, wait for one another.
37:17What does that mean? If anyone is
37:19hungry, let him eat at home so that you
37:22will not come together for judgment.
37:26The remaining matter I will arrange
37:28[music] when I come.
37:31So there was probably a practical
37:33manifestation of this.
37:36There were probably people who were
37:38eating too much, people who weren't
37:40eating enough.
37:42But the reason we don't have much
37:43details on the practical aspect is
37:46because that wasn't the problem.
37:49That was merely the lens that
37:51highlighted the attitudinal problem
37:54that needed to be addressed. And to act
37:58like Jesus is going to judge or kill
38:01somebody because they um didn't take the
38:04bread in the right order is
38:08That's delusional.
38:10The judgment that he's talking about is
38:12attitudes toward one another, judgments
38:15toward one another, disorder toward one
38:18another, [music] disobedience to Paul
38:21and what he received from the Lord,
38:23pretending we can reinvent the wheel.
38:25That's the big picture.
38:27And the manifestation of it was that
38:29they just were having really nasty
38:31services.
38:33So then, brethren, when you [music] come
38:34together, wait for one another. He wants
38:38them to do it together because communion
38:41should be the ceremony of the reality we
38:44are living day by day. It should not
38:47replace that [music] reality. It should
38:49express that reality. And it should be
38:51the intentional realignment that we are
38:54all consciously [music] getting out of
38:57us everything that can be judged and
39:00inviting ourselves into the self-giving
39:03loving
39:05ethos and way of the cross.
39:08[music]

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