The Lord's Supper

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Do you still have a quick moment before you go to get out of another question?
Sure, go ahead.
It is the Lord's table.
My understanding, and my belief, I don't remember the verse, I believe it's in Corinthians, where Paul is arranging to Agrippa, an arrangement where he is giving to Agrippa about when he was given the what happened during the time when Jesus met with the twelve and cut the bread and broke the bread and took the wine.
I believe it was not that Paul was trying to implement or to encourage or to teach the body of Christ that we should be participating in the Lord's table.
I believe our communion is not that which was spoken in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John where Jesus was actually partaking in the Lord's table with the Twelve, and then he was telling us to do this in remembrance of me, because they didn't know that there was going to be a change of program, right?
Paul was not in the equation, so they were preparing for the coming of Christ, right?
And so they had to do that in remembrance of him until he returned.
But then there was a change of program.
I believe what Paul was narrating there is not saying to us that we need to be participating of the body of Christ and the blood of Christ in memory, because if we are heavenly people, spiritual, working in the Spirit, we have the Spirit in us, why would we be needing to remember Christ in the element of participating in the body or the blood?
So, my thinking of us taking communion is us, when we meet and fellowship, if we choose to eat together, share a meal or whatever, and the Word of God, is that not our taking in communion as in fellowship?
I don't know, am I making sense in whatever I said?
Because this keeps coming up about us participating in the Lord's table, and I don't know where you are in this, because some rightly divided in their churches do partake in the callings, some call it Lord's table, some call it Lord's supper, some call it communion, even within the rightly dividing, but I kind of have, I differ even with the church that I go, which is rightly dividing, but the pastor there teaches, believing that when Paul was narrating, he was teaching the body of Christ also to take in the elements in remembrance of him.
What is your take in this, the Lord's table?
Well, in the wedge practice today, that's a Catholic practice, and you know, you've got Protestants, and the very word Protestant is protest, so without protest there would not be Christianity, there would not be the Apostle Paul's gospel of the grace of God, the gospel of Christ.
It took protest for this to happen, and it was a protest against the Catholic Church, and against all these practices that are not for us today.
So, I can't add a whole lot to what you said there, 1 Corinthians chapter 11, he actually is scolding them, he's not telling them to partake in the Lord's Supper, he's scolding them in 1 Corinthians 11 verses 20 and 21.
When you come together he says, therefore into this one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper, for in eating everyone taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry and one is drunken.
He's telling them not to do this, but you have people who come in, even they go under the, uh, the title of grace believer, and they change these things around.
So now I don't practice it, if someone wishes to do so and take part of some ritualistic thing, you know, I mean we're complete in Christ, so I don't see how we can add anything to that.
I wouldn't have a day that I would need to set aside to remember, because I think about that every day. There's not a day go by that I am not in communion, as they're saying, but it's a spirit, it's not a physical place, and a meeting, and a time, it's just a way of my grace life.
Amen, because I'm thinking at the point when Jesus was telling them, he was leaving them.
If he was leaving them, and he knows the plan of God, and these people are looking forward for him returning, so he wanted to leave them with some kind of hope that we have the hope already, we already have the joy, we are at peace with Christ because our program is different.
So I'm thinking, do I need to be taking on some elements and breaking in the bread, whether it's a real cooked bread, whether it's a little waffle, or a juice, or something, in order for me to remember Christ, who is already in me?
Exactly, I mean we're the church, the body of Christ, we're a part of the mystery, it hadn't even been revealed when they were there at the table.
That was Jews looking ahead, not to the church, the body of Christ, which was a mystery, they had no clue, they had no idea, and we were not in prophecy, so they're not looking ahead to us, they're looking ahead to their kingdom come, and well at the time too, they're looking ahead to Pentecost.
This is just more rightly dividing the word of truth, and you know, if some come up a little short, then let them do so, let them go about to have their meetings, and their rituals, and do what they will, but I hope that they do understand the completeness of what took place, and that we are now in Christ, and need not to add anything to that.
Amen, Amen, Amen. Thank you so much, Brother Trey.
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