1 Corinthians 11:33 (KJV)
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
We live in a day when many place no stock in doctrine. Subjects such as baptism and the Lord’s Supper, over which early professors of faith divided, defended and even died, have been relegated to secondary matters over which charity must prevail.[1]
We’ve come to the place that unity is so prized that nothing is considered an essential.
The chapter we consider today is all about authority.
The bulk of the chapter has to do with the Lord’s Supper but the Apostle introduces that topic first with a treatise on the chain of authority beginning at Almighty God. His conclusion is that it is not customary or proper for a Christian to be contentious against authority.
The bulk of the chapter has to do with the Lord’s Supper but the Apostle introduces that topic first with a treatise on the chain of authority beginning at Almighty God. His conclusion is that it is not customary or proper for a Christian to be contentious against authority.
From there the subject of the Lord’s Supper is introduced with a few words about heresy.
I take it that the Apostle would have considered misuse of the Lord’s Supper as both contentious and heretical.
I take it that the Apostle would have considered misuse of the Lord’s Supper as both contentious and heretical.
Next comes the bulk of the teaching.
Finally the subject ends with a warning.
To eat the Supper unworthily brings illness and even death upon wayward believers.
To eat the Supper unworthily brings illness and even death upon wayward believers.
And then we are given this conclusion
“Wherefore my brethren” on account of the serious nature of the practice of the Lord’s Supper “tarry one for another.” The point isn’t to wait for others to arrive before we begin but to wait on one another. When it comes to the Lord’s Supper we ought to consider it our duty both to serve one another at the table and to serve one another in preparing ourselves spiritually and doctrinally before the table.
“Wherefore my brethren” on account of the serious nature of the practice of the Lord’s Supper “tarry one for another.” The point isn’t to wait for others to arrive before we begin but to wait on one another. When it comes to the Lord’s Supper we ought to consider it our duty both to serve one another at the table and to serve one another in preparing ourselves spiritually and doctrinally before the table.
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1 Corinthians 11:33 (KJV) Our Duty
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