Coming Together for the Lord

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Studies in 1 Corinthians 35

• Coming Together for the Lords Supper
• 1 Cor. 1117-34

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When You Come Together

• They DID assemble
• Regularly
• First day of the week? 1 Cor. 161-2, cf. Acts
  207

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When You Come Together

• How often should we assemble?
• How often does first day of the week occur?
  Cf. Exodus 208, Remember the Sabbath day How
  often?
• Because nothing else is stated, it is implied
  that EVERY first day of the week is a day of
  assembly.

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When You Come Together

• Other thoughts on the first day of the week
• Christ arose on that day, Matt. 281, Jn. 241,
  etc.
• Pentecost was on that day, Lev. 2315, Deut.
  169-10

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When You Come Together

• Assembling is NOT an option
• Heb. 1024-25
• Assembling is clearly something they did
  regularly

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Divisions in Their Midst

• The worship service ought to unite us!
• 1 Cor. 1212-27
• Sadly, there is not unity in every congregation,
  i.e. the party spirit.
• Sometimes doctrinal differences

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Divisions in Their Midst

• The worship service ought to unite us!
• 1 Cor. 1212-27
• Sadly, there is not unity in every congregation,
  i.e. the party spirit.
• Sometimes doctrinal differences

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Divisions in Their Midst

• IN our text
• Abuses concerning the Lords Supper and social
  factions

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Divisions in Their Midst

• 1119Can good come out of division?
• Repentance from errors
• Exposing those not interested in truth
• Strengthening resolve to do right.
• A combination of the above

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Divisions in Their Midst

• Matt. 1347-52 Within the kingdom there is
  good and bad
• Similarly, Gods word can distinguish the good
  from the bad Heb. 412, 2 Tim. 215, Eph. 58-13

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Divisions in Their Midst

• Doctrinal issues will come.
• Such serve to confirm ones own faith.
• The result can be either a resolve that you have
  been doing right, or a realization for the need
  to repent.

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They were NOT eating the Lords Supper

• Stated so as to imply what they OUGHT to be
  doing, but they were not doing that!

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They were NOT eating the Lords Supper

• How is the Lords Supper to be observed?
• WHEN? Acts 207, on the first day of the week
• No indication of a special service. See
  context of Acts 201-7 our context

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They were NOT eating the Lords Supper

• How is the Lords Supper to be observed?
• NOT a common meal! (1123-26)
• It was a memorial meal
• Done when they came together as the church!

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They were NOT eating the Lords Supper

• Their abuse
• It was more like a covered dish dinner
• They were not doing it together despising the
  poor
• Pauls reaction, eat at home!

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They were NOT eating the Lords Supper

• Lesson
• The assembly is NOT a social occasion. It is a
  time to solemnly worship God. Rom. 1417
• We WILL be edified, but only as we properly
  praise Him

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They were NOT eating the Lords Supper

• Lesson
• Does our conduct despise the church of God?
  1122
• NO praise when such conduct is present.

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As we worship God

• may we seek to completely respect His pattern!