Saturday, November 25, 2017

You MUST Take Communion



Every born again child of
God must have communion with Him, must participate in the table of
the Lord, because as Jesus said, as I read from John 6:53 "Truly,
truly, I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink His blood you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh
and drinks My blood, has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the
last day." Our fellowship, our communion, is with Jesus Christ.
We must live in communion with Him and we must participate in the
table of the Lord. We must have communion with Him. That communion is
communion primarily with Jesus, not with other believers, with Jesus
Christ Himself, and then secondary, if there are some other Saints
present, they can participate in that table of the Lord, that
communion as well.
Our communion is with
Jesus Christ, our Fellowship is with Him, if we follow and obey Him
as the Apostle John wrote in 1John 1:3 "what we have seen and
heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship
with us and indeed our Fellowship is with the Father and with His
Son, Jesus Christ. These things we write so that your joy may be made
complete. This is the message that we have heard from Him and
announce to you that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at
all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the
darkness,we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the
Light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one
another and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. if
we say that we have no sin we are deceiving ourselves and the truth
is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we
say that we have not sinned we make Him a liar and His word is not in
us." We have to live in holiness. We have to obey His words and
walk in the light to be in fellowship with Him. If we are not living
in holiness and in obedience to Jesus Christ we cannot be in
fellowship with Him and then we should not be participating in
communion, because if we do so, we will eat and drink judgment on
ourselves. We read the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians
chapter 11 verse 23:"For I received from the Lord that which I
also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He
was betrayed, took bread and when He had given thanks He broke it and
said:"This is My body which is for you, do this in remembrance
of Me." In the same way He took the cup also after supper,
saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood, do this as
often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me, for as often as you eat
this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the Lord's death until He
comes." Very important now: "therefore whoever eats the
bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner shall be
guilty of the body and a blood
of the Lord, but a man
must examine himself and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and
drink of the cup, for he who eats and drinks eats and drinks judgment
to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly. For this reason
many among you are weak and sick and a number sleep. (He means they
have died already because they were under the judgment of God because
they participated in the table of the Lord in an unworthy manner)
verse 31:"but if we judged ourselves rightly we would not be
judged, but when we are judged we are disciplined by the Lord so that
we will not be condemned along with the world." We must live in
holiness and in obedience to Jesus Christ. We must live in communion
with Him and we must also participate in the table of the Lord, or
else we are not of Him, we are not part of Him.
We must be free from sin,
we must be baptized in water, and we must examine ourselves before we
participate apart in the table of the Lord. If we have any sin,
un-repented sin or anything that is between us and the Lord, we have
to first repent of it and plead His forgiveness, purify our hearts,
and then we can participate in the table of the Lord. Further we must
not have communion with, or fellowship with sinning Christians,
sinning believers. As the Apostle Paul also wrote in 1st Corinthians
chapter 5 verse 9 " I wrote you in my letter not to associate
with immoral people, I did not at all mean the immoral people of this
world or with the covetous and swindlers or the idolaters, for then
you would have to go out of the world, but actually I wrote you not
to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person or
covetous or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard or a swindler."
T that disqualifies most of the church people in the world today,
because most church people are professing sinners. They say:"We
are all sinners." They are not Saints and therefore they do not
live in, and they are not in communion with Jesus Christ, and we do
not fellowship with them .
We ought to be holy, and
we must worship Jesus in holiness. We must fellowship with Him and we
only fellowship with those who are serious followers of Jesus Christ,
and who prove by their walk, by their deeds that thy are children of
God, holy men and women. Our communion is with Jesus Christ, and our
communion must be holy. If we have communion and there are other
saints with us, the true followers of Jesus Christ we may participate
with them in the table of the Lord, but not with sinning Christians,
because they are not in communion with Jesus. Prepare for yourself a
tray with bread and wine or grape juice. Prepare yourself, examine
yourself, that you are in right standing with Jesus, that there is no
sin in your life, that there is nothing between you and Jesus, and
then participate in the table of the Lord. Have communion with Jesus,
strengthen your relationship, your communion Him. It has required of
us to participate in the table of the Lord, because if we do not take
communion we are not of Jesus, we are not of Him. Take a communion in
your house, with Saints if there are Saints with you, or else take
communion on your own, but do it frequently and stay in communion
with Jesus Christ.
May Jesus bless you.

2 comments:

  1. It is unhealthy and harms our body. Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit for Jesus to dwell in. If we destroy God's temple, He will destroy us.

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