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Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the
    disciples came together to break bread, Paul
    preached unto them, ready to depart on the
    morrow and continued his speech until midnight
    (Acts 20).

2
  • The Lords Supper is the greatest memorial ever
    given to man. It is a celebration of the death
    of the sinless Son of God and the declared
    anticipation of His return.

3
  • Brief biblical facts
  • Instituted by Jesus (Matt. 26 26-30).
  • 2. Observance set forth (I Cor. 11 23-26).
  • A. In remembrance (Luke 22 19).
  • B. With anticipation (I Cor. 11 26).
  • C. Self-examination (I Cor. 11 28).
  • D. Worthily (I Cor. 11 27).
  • 3. Place and time (Luke 22 29, 30 Acts 20 7).

4
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • We know of the instituting of the Lords Supper,
    how to partake, and where to partake from various
    verses, however, Acts 20 7 provides us with when
    to partake.
  • Acts 20 7 is presently under attack by all
    extremists, having special interests and an
    agenda to effect change in the body of Christ.

5
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • The Lords Supper, the spiritual hub for Lords
    Day worship. Jesus himself instituted the Lords
    Supper (Matt. 26 26-29). This memorial of
    Jesus death and announcement of his second
    coming is a Kingdom act, performed by Kingdom
    citizens and done in the Kingdom (Luke 22
    15-20). The fact that the early church observed
    this memorial of Jesus death declared not only
    its place in public worship, but also the reality
    of the establishment of the Kingdom (cp. I Cor.
    11 23f.).

6
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • The expression, breaking of bread (Greek,
    klasei tou artou) in Acts 2 42 was something in
    which they regularly engaged and constituted part
    of their worship. The expression as spiritually
    applied, appears to have derived from, Jesus
    took bread, and blessed it, and brake it.
    (Matt. 26 26).

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Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • The unleavened bread and fruit of the vine
    present during the typical feast associated with
    Jewish worship (the Passover) constituted the
    milieu for Jesus introducing his feast, the
    unleavened bread and fruit of the vine taking on
    a new, sublimated meaning that would symbolize
    his own sacrificial body and blood.

8
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the
    disciples came together to break bread, Paul
    preached unto them, ready to depart on the
    morrow and continued his speech until midnight
    (Acts 20).

9
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • The expression, "first day of the week" in Acts
    20 7 is from the Greek, mia ton sabbaton.
    Literally translated, mia ton sabbaton is
    rendered, "one or first (mia) of the (ton)
    Sabbaths (sabbaton). As you can see, mia ton
    sabbaton is idiomatic and thus rendered, appears
    awkward in English. Relevant verses to aid in an
    understanding of mia ton sabbaton or "first day
    of the week" are Matthew 28 1 Mark 16 2 Luke
    24 1 and John 20 1.

10
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Matthew tells us that Mary Magdalene and the
    "other Mary" came to Jesus sepulcher, "In the
    end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward
    the first day of the week." Mark mentioned it
    was early on the first day Luke said on the
    first day, very early in the morning and John
    described the time as early, still dark, on the
    first day of the week.

11
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Regarding Matthews time statement, commentator
    Albert Barnes thus comments
  • "The word end here means the same as after
    the Sabbath that is, after the Sabbath was
    fully completed or finished, and may be expressed
    in this manner In the night following the
    Sabbath, for the Sabbath closed at sunset, as it
    began to dawn" (Barnes on the New Testament,
    Vol. 1, pg. 317).

12
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Albert Barnes observes the following regarding,
    "Upon the first day of the week" in I Corinthians
    16 2
  • "Upon the first day of the week. Greek, "On one
    of the Sabbaths." The Jews, however, used the
    word Sabbath to denote the week the period of
    seven days, Matthew 281 Mark 169 Luke 1812
    241 John 201,19. Comp. Leviticus 2315
    Deuteronomy 169. It is universally agreed that
    this here denotes the first day of the week, or
    the Lord's-day" (Barnes on the New Testament,
    Vol. 5).

13
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the
    disciples came together to break bread, Paul
    preached unto them, ready to depart on the
    morrow and continued his speech until midnight
    (Acts 20).

14
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • The syntactically linked wording, when the
    disciples came together to break bread (Greek,
    sunegmenon klasai) is not only indicative of
    purpose but also of practice, especially when all
    pertinent matters are considered. As seen, the
    breaking of bread was a regular and static act of
    Lords Day public worship performed by the
    Jerusalem church (Acts 2 42).

15
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Many of the early historians remark that the
    frequency of the Lords table was each Lords
    Day. Tertullian (204 A.D.) wrote "The church of
    Christ composed of baptized believers, doesmeet
    each Lords day topartake of the Lords Supper."

16
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • John Mason, noted Presbyterian scholar, wrote
    "Communion every Lords day was universal, and
    was preserved in the Greek church till the
    Seventh Century" (Church History for Busy People,
    pg. 86, I might add, I Cor. 11 26, "for as
    often", does not negate or preclude the verses
    which show how often). The acclaimed Pulpit
    Commentary states regarding, to break bread in
    Acts 20 7, This is also an important example of
    weekly communion as the practice of the first
    Christians (Vol. 18, p. 143).

17
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Since there is this attitude of sacredness in
    relation to staff of life, there grows out of
    it the universal Eastern custom of breaking
    bread and not cutting it.To cut bread would be
    thought of as cutting life itself. This custom of
    breaking bread rather than cutting it, is found
    throughout the scriptures. In Lamentations 4 4
    we read The young children ask bread, and no
    man breaketh it unto them. Thus the expression
    breaking of bread came to mean the taking of a
    meal whatever was included in the meal. Because
    Christ broke bread when he instituted the
    ordinance of the Lords Supper, the expression
    came to refer to that ordinance. Matthew 26 26
    Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it,
    and gave to his disciples. Thus we read in Acts
    20 7 And upon the first day of the week, when
    the disciples came together to break bread, Paul
    preached to them. (Manners and Customs of Bible
    Lands, p. 45, by Fred Wight).

18
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • In all fairness, how do we distinguish between
    the breaking of bread as a social act and the
    breaking of bread as an act of public worship
    (Lords Supper)? This question is especially
    pertinent in view of the social gospel and its
    glorification of social meals.

19
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • A growing controversy now dividing some churches
    of Christ is whether or not Acts 20 7 is to be
    viewed as general in terms of meeting(s) or
    exclusive, authorizing only one meeting on the
    Lords Day. Some would insist on wording this,
    Authorizing one meeting in which the Lords
    Supper is observed.

20
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • I do not believe one has a total understanding of
    the institution Jesus introduced at the last
    supper without understanding the Passover
    observance. There are many, I submit,
    similarities. Both the Jewish Passover and the
    Lord's Supper are God's appointments for the Jew,
    in the case of the Passover, and the Christian,
    in the case of the Lord's Supper (Ex. 12 14
    Matt. 26 29).
  •          

21
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Both the Passover and Jesus' spiritual feast are
    memorials (Ex. 12 14 I Cor. 11 25). The Jew
    remembered his liberation from bondage and the
    Christian remembers Jesus, his spiritual
    liberation.
  • The unleavened bread and fruit of the vine were
    present and served as the key elements for both
    the Passover and the Lord's table (Ex. 12 8
    Matt. 26 26, 27).
  • These two institutions were designed for God's
    peculiar people, the Jews and Christians,
    respectively (Deut. 16 5 Lk. 22 29, 30).
  • Both feasts stressed the absence of sin and
    impurity (Num. 9 6 I Cor. 5 7).

22
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Both the Passover and the Lord's Supper depended
    on the shedding of blood, animal blood and Jesus'
    own blood, respectively (Ex. 12 7 Matt. 26
    28).
  • The Passover and Jesus' observance both have a
    specified time for their observance (Ex. 12 3
    Acts 20 7). The Jew would not have even thought
    about randomly observing the Passover and the
    early Christians partook of the Lord's memorial
    on a designated day (Acts 20 7).
  • Both the Passover and the Lord's Memorial involve
    a nation, the Jewish and Christians. Upon closer
    examination, they both generally involve
    distributive action (Ex. 12 3, 4 I Cor. 10 16,
    17, 11 18ff.).
  •     

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Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Regarding the Passover and Jesus spiritual
    feast, there is, generally speaking, what we call
    "same time action" (Ex. 12 3, 4-7 Lk. 22 17).
    However, this "same time action" is not truly
    simultaneity action. Regarding the Passover,
    there was specific provision to allow those who
    were unable to attend the Passover at the regular
    time to attend one month later. Consider the
    provision

24
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • "9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10
    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any
    man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean
    by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar
    off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the
    LORD. 11 The fourteenth day of the second month
    at even they shall keep it, and eat it with
    unleavened bread and bitter herbs" (Num. 9).

25
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Consider Paul's statement to the Christians at
    Corinth regarding how they (he and they) partook
    of the Lord's blood and body (I Cor. 10 16, 17)?
    They partook together even though there was a
    distance of about 275 miles and the Aegean Sea
    physically separating them.
  • Many of the problems and division surrounding the
    Lord's Memorial are introduced and experienced
    when we journey to areas in addition to the known
    static truths.     
  •     

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Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • When man starts to focus and bind regarding the
    number of containers, whether or not those
    serving the bread break it before it is passed
    out or insisting on "simultaneity action" in
    addition to distributive, individual action in
    the assembly, the wrong emphasis surfaces. Our
    attention is not to be on such exacting matters,
    I am convinced, but on Him who loved us and died
    for us. It is in the assembly setting that each
    Christian remembers Jesus' suffering and
    anticipates the Second Advent. Wrangling over
    matters of the policing of the Supper and Jewish
    as oppose to Roman time distract from the deep
    spiritual meaning of the Memorial.

27
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Regarding the day, elements, place, and
    individual manner of observance, we must not
    yield to any other practice. However, regarding
    providing the means for those unable to attend
    the morning service, we need to exercise love,
    consideration, and patience. 

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Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the
    disciples came together to break bread, Paul
    preached unto them, ready to depart on the
    morrow and continued his speech until midnight
    (Acts 20).

29
Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • The Greek word often used in Acts by the
    historian Luke to describe Paul's preaching, even
    in Acts 20 7, is the word dialegomai (often
    translated "reasoned" and "disputed" in the KJV).
    The root meaning of dialegomai is twofold in
    action, to think or reason, considering different
    and conflicting ideas). W. E. Vines comments thus
    on dialegomai, "To think different things with
    oneself, to ponder, then, to dispute with
    others." (Expository Dictionary of New Testament
    Words).

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Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • Dialegomai is weakened when translated
    "lectured." Thayer observes regarding the use of
    dialegomai in Acts, "mingle thought with
    thoughtargue, discussto draw arguments from the
    scriptures with the idea of disputing" (Thayer's
    Greek-English Lexicon, pg. 139).

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Acts 20 7, an Important Verse
  • 7 And upon the first day of the week, when the
    disciples came together to break bread, Paul
    preached unto them, ready to depart on the
    morrow and continued his speech until midnight
    (Acts 20).
  • Let us ever derive from Acts 20 7 what is
    intended, but also be careful not to forcefully
    extract from it what was never intended.
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