Shalom, my dear brothers and sisters. I would like you please to open your Bibles and turn with me to the book of 1 Corinthians and in the 11th chapter. And in this ministry meeting, we will continue to share the second half of 1 Corinthians chapter 11, continuing from verse 17 to the end of the chapter to verse 34. This portion of Scripture that Shaul Paul wrote that Shaul Paul wrote to the believers of Corinth is a very important portion of the Word of God. Because in this specific portion of Scripture, 1 Corinthians chapter 11, from verse 17 to the end of the chapter, the apostle Paul, the apostle Paul is dealing with one of the most important subjects in the Word of God.

And this is the remembrance of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, who came from heaven to give his life a ransom for many, who came in the fullness of the time. As we read in Galatians 4.4, in the fullness of the time, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, that is Miriam, made under the law. This is under the Torah among the people of Israel. And then the reason he came in order to redeem them which were under the law. Galatians chapter 4 and verse 4. And he came to redeem, to save all who will trust in him. We read in John 1.29, that "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of this world." And in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, this portion is very precious, that the apostle Shaul Paul is writing to a local assembly, the Corinthians, which were positionally saints, but practically they did not behave as saints, es mekudashim.

In their practice they failed to live out that which the Lord had called them. And he is challenging them, and he is charging them, and he is encouraging them, and he is leading them to realize the importance of the work of our Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. And especially in connection with remembering him, and what he had done for us all, when he died for us on the cross, on the tree. So 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 17 we read: "Now in this, that I declare unto you, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all, when ye come together in that church or as an assembly, as a congregation, I hear that there be divisions among you.

And I partly believe it, for there must be also heresies among you, that they which I prove may be made manifest among you. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating everyone taketh before others his own supper, and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not. For I have received of the Lord, that which also I have delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the Lord Yeshua, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread.

And when he had given thanks, he breaketh, and said, Take, eat, this is my body, which is for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup. When he had supped, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let the man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come together unto condemnation, and the rest will I set in order when I come. Well, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, I read this portion of scripture that is found in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 from verse 17 to the end.

To the end of the chapter to verse 34. This is a very important portion of scripture written to the Corinthians. Again, we are constantly reminded of the sad condition that was existing among the believers in the local assembly at the city of Corinth. I am repeating this many times as a reminder to us all because it is showing to us that this kind of condition can prevail in the life of people who are believers if they are not walking as they are guided by the Holy Spirit. When God's people are not allowing the Spirit of God to guide them, they have divisions among themselves. They have immorality.

They have problems with marriages and divorces. They are lacking understanding of the liberty of the believers. They have problems at the Lord's table. They are taking each other to court. They have issues with spiritual gifts and with even understanding truths such as the resurrection and issues such as money. And all these problems are found here in this letter when the Apostle Shaul Paul is dealing with the Corinthian believers. And so here we are now in this portion. Paul, in the first 16 verses of chapter 11, he has dealt with the issue of the necessity to have order in the local assembly. He said in order the fact that the head of every man is the Messiah, is Christ.

And the head of the woman is the man. And the head of the Messiah, the head of Christ, is God. This is a fact. This is a truth that he wanted them to understand this divine order, the creation order that God has set here in this world. When he created Adam and Eve upon the face of this earth. God is the one who is the head of all things. And God the son who became a man and became that anointed, the Messiah, who died and was buried and raised again. And was raised again. God has set him to be the one that is ruling over all things.

The Lord Jesus restored to man what man lost when he fell into sin in the garden of delight in Gan Eden. And so he is now the head over all things. That's why we read in chapter 11, that the head of every man or every person is Christ, is Mashiach, is the anointed one. And because there was a problem in the city of Corinth, and the women needed to learn their place in the public assembly, that in the public assembly, the man takes the headship, the responsibility. It's not an issue of superiority, but an issue of the divine order. He has dealt with it, the apostle Paul, in the first 16 verses of 1 Corinthians chapter 11.

He mentioned that there is no preference, it's just order. For man is not of the woman, but the woman is of man. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. For this cause of the woman to have power, authority, a covering, which is a sign of authority, that she is under authority over her head because of the angels. The angels look from heaven, they see the behavior in the public meeting of the believers, the God of saints, and they observe to see whether God's people are submissive to God's creation order. And they learn, and they are amazing at the way and the grace of God who took sinful people and brought them into relationship with himself.

But now that we have arrived to the second half of this 11th chapter, here in this 11th chapter, in the second half, the apostle Paul now, he is pointing to the error that existed in relation to the Lord's table, the Lord's supper in the local assembly at Corinth. And so in verses 17 to verse 22, apparently there was those feasts that were included within the Lord's table, when the remembrance of the Lord, where the believers would gather together, they would have these love feasts, and there were problems right there. When the feasting when the feast, the meals were taking place, during the time that also there will be the remembrance of the Lord in the public assembly.

Now let me remind you that when Yeshua the Messiah came to this world, he lived among our people, the Jewish people in the land of Israel. He himself was celebrating and keeping the feast of Pesach, the God-ordained feast that was to be kept on the 14th day of the month of Nisan every year, to remind the people of Israel of God's redemption. Not only the physical redemption, that he took them out of slavery, but also they were redeemed by blood because an animal, a blood, had to be shed of the lamb. And the lamb is a picture of Yeshua HaMashiach, of the Lord Jesus the Messiah.

So they were delivered physically from bondage, but they were also forgiven and came out to liberty because the blood was shed. When I see the blood, when I see the blood, Exodus chapter 12, I will pass, Pasach, Pasachti, I will pass over you. In other words, without the blood, he would not pass on these homes of the Hebrews. And surely, every one of the Hebrews who were faithful and obedient to God, he, as the head of the house, would take the lamb, kill the lamb. On the 14th day of the month of Nisan, take the lamb's blood, put it on the dopers and the lintel. And inside the home, the Jewish people, the Hebrews would feed on the lamb of God.

This celebration we have been keeping for 3500 years until today. And every Jewish home, keep that feast in one way or another as a memorial to remind our people of the deliverance from the land of Egypt. But, beloved brothers and sisters, in the fullness of the time when the Messiah had come, the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, he himself was born in Bethlehem. He lived in Natseret. And among his own people, he kept the feast of Passover, the feast of Pesach, every year. In fact, keeping all the seven feasts of the Lord that were given in Leviticus chapter 23, including the feast of unleavened bread, which is linked together with the feast of Passover.

And so we read of this in the Brit HaChadashah, in the New Covenant, and it's very interesting that in Matthew 26, verse 25 to 29, in Mark 14, verse 22 to 25, in Luke 22, verses 14 to 20, and even in John 13, verse 1, and then later on, verse 23 to 27, you read of that feast of Pesach. In Hebrew, in Hebrew, we call it Moed Pesach, Chag Pesach, the feast of Passover. And as he was celebrating with his own disciple, the Talmudim, those that have followed him, as he was celebrating the Pesach, the feast of Passover, out and as part of the feast of Passover, he introduced what is known today, the Lord's Supper, And the Lord's Table, and the Lord's Tables, the Remembrance Meeting.

And you remember, beloved brothers and sisters, where we do read, specifically in Matthew, at chapter 26, And as they were eating, Yeshua took bread, and blessed it, and break it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take it, this is my body. And he took the cup, and he gave thanks, and he gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remissions of sins. But I say unto you, that I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the day when I drink it anew, with you, in my Father's kingdom.

Looking forward, for the messianic kingdom, it will come in a future day, when Israel will be restored, and the Messiah will rule and reign over a restored nation, and a world that will come to acknowledge him as the King of kings, and Lord of lords. So they were eating the Passover meal, in every home, and in including Yeshua with his disciples, who have sent the disciples to prepare the Passover seder, the Passover meal. And so, in a very similar way, as time passed by, there was meals that were connected, and associated with the celebration, or the remembrance meeting, as we call it today. And so the Corinthians, in a very same way, they had these love feasts, these feasts that are part of the believers coming together, And sometime during these meals, as they have recorded in the apostles, Paul's instruction, they would also remember the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, in his death for them, by participating with the breaking of the bread, and the drinking of the cup of wine.

So, it is a memorial meeting, a memorial meeting, which the Lord has desired to have this with those that belong to him. You see, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, never wanted us to forget what he has done for us. The Lord Yeshua HaMashiach always wanted to remind all that he came from heaven to die for the sin of this world. And he suffered, and he died, and he shed his precious blood, and he established this new covenant based upon his own blood that was shed on the cross, on the Roman cross, some 2,000 years ago. And so, this is important in light of the text which we are reading today, dear brothers and sisters, in the study of the Word of God of 1 Corinthians chapter 11.

And so, we read now in verse 17 to verse 22, that there was a problem in the midst of the Corinthian believers of the saints of God, imagine, even when they were gathering together, and they were, first of all, having a meal which will follow up by the remembrance of the Messiah. Let me remind you, beloved friend, that in the early days of the assembly of the church, when the church was born in the city of Jerusalem, they were already there. They continue on in the remembrance meeting. Let me remind you, we read in Acts chapter 2 and verse 42. That was in the land of Israel. It says, and they continue steadfastly.

Verse 42, in the apostles' doctrine, this is teaching from the Word of God that the apostles taught. And then in fellowship, they had in fellowship with one another, in meals, in participation, in homes, in various homes. And then in the breaking of the bread, in the breaking of bread, and in prayer. In other words, they continue on a regular basis to have an ongoing instruction from the Word of God. They had fellowship with one another, the early believers. They broke bread with one another, and they had a time of prayer. Now, the breaking of the bread that is mentioned in Acts 2 and verse 42, some take it to mean just eating food, because it's customary among our people, even today.

Every Friday night, Shabbat comes in. There is the breaking of the bread, giving thanks. We said the bracha, the blessing. We give thanks to God. We tear the bread, and we give one piece to everyone around the table before the Shabbat, as the Shabbat comes in. And we give thanks for God, who provided us the bread out of the earth, and of the fruit of the vine, giving thanks for the cup of wine that reminds us of the fruit of the vine. That is a custom that the Jewish people still do today in Israel, and all the Jewish world do so today. It's a custom that has been developed over the years in Jewish history.

And remember, in the first century, all the believers in the land of Israel were Hebrew Christians, Messianic Jews, Jewish believers. And they themselves continue with this custom, but they had, in addition to that, they also remembered the Lord Jesus the Messiah, who gave his life for them. In fact, we read Acts 2, 42, and they continue steadfastly, in apostles' doctrine, and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayer, and fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together, and they had all things in common. They sold their possession, goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

And they, listen to this, verse 46 of Acts chapter 2, They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with a meal with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church, to the assembly daily, such as would be saved. In other words, they were day after day after day, meeting together as believers, including the breaking of the bread, and including the eating of their meals. It had been suggested that the early believers of the assembly in the land of Israel remembered the Lord on a day by day when they were meeting together.

As they were gathered together, remember it was a time of transition. The transition was that Israel, the nation, because they haven't accepted the Messiah, as it was predicted by God at the first coming, and the assembly was born, which was a mystery, hidden God. The church age had been introduced, and so they were in a transition. In the early days, they met every day as believers. It was an amazing period of time in the history of the ecclesia, of the kehilah, the assembly, where they were daily continuing with one accord, and they did so initially in the temple in Jerusalem, breaking bread from house to house, and eat their food with gladness and singleness of heart.

Later on, in the history of the church, of the assembly, later on, it became more of a pattern to remember the Messiah, Jesus, on the first day of the week. According to Acts chapter 20, in verse 7, we read, 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 moro, and they continued his speech until midnight. So you notice that Shaul Paul arriving to Troas. Troas is not Jerusalem. Mostly non-Jewish people live there. So they met on the first day of the week, and they broke bread. And you notice it was an evening meeting.

Not a day meeting, not a morning meeting. But it was apparently, it may have very well be, biblically Saturday evening after sundown, which is the first day of the week, according to Leviticus chapter 23, and verse 32. From even to even ye shall celebrate your Shabbats. In other words, biblical day always began at evening, not in the morning. And that's why we often call the Lord's table, we call it the Lord's Supper. That's why it is said in verse 20, When ye come together, therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. And Supper is an evening. And it was an evening. The Passover was always kept on the evening.

On the evening. And so, beloved brothers and sisters, listen to this. Here it would become a customary thing to do, is to eat a meal together. It used to be called love feast. And then, at the same time, as the meal is over, then they remember the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, in His death, burial, and resurrection. In fact, it was a Jude, when Jude was writing and warning the believers, He said, concerning certain men that crept in unaware, who were before of all ordained to this situation, they were ungodly men turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, He mentioned that they were coming in the middle of the feasts of the believers.

Notice it says, in verse 12 of Jude, These are spots in your feasts of love. When they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. In other words, there were feasts of love that God's people were celebrating and enjoying with one another, which came historically from the lessons that we learn in the history of Israel, that the Passover was a meal and a remembrance of what God had done for Israel historically, but the Messiah, during that Passover meal, He broke the bread and gave thanks and passed it to all. Then He took the cup and said, Take, drink of it. This is the blood of the new covenant, which is in my blood.

And so now notice this, beloved brothers and sisters, as we enter to this portion. In verse 17, or 1 Corinthians 11, Paul said, Now in this I declare unto you, I praise ye not. Why? That ye come together. Notice again, it's a public gathering together. You come together not for the better, but for the worse. So when the believers in Corinth were gathering together, they should have come to enjoy the Lord, to enjoy one another, to enjoy a meal together, and then ultimately to remember Him, what you have done for them. And so He said in verse 18, that the Corinthians were divided. Imagine. You come to a meeting where you enjoy a meal together, and you ultimately are going to remember the Messiah Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.

But He said, for first of all, when you come together in the church, this word for church always means the people, the gathered saints. It's not a building, because church ecclesia in the Greek, it means called out individuals, called out ones. He said, I hear that there is divisions among you, and I partly believe it. I am hearing that there is divisions among you. I partly believe it, He says to them, as He writes to them this letter. And He continues in verse 19, Paul to say, He says to them, for there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

So, there are divisions among you, there are many opinions among you, but then He says, okay, there must be these heresies, or these groups among you, why, or these sects among you, why, the day which are approved may be made manifest among you. In other words, what is the evidence that there is, there are godly believers among the saints of God is the behavior in the midst of the assembly among the people of God. How does one behave when there is frictions and various opinions and various desires when the assembly, when the believers come together? There are divisions. There are skizzing among you. And I believe it, he said, I partly believe it.

For there must be also heresies among you, verse 19, the day which are approved may be made manifest among you. The word for heresies is the word sects, in Hebrew, there are all sorts of sects and groups among the people of God. You remember that same problem was already earlier, according to 1 Corinthians, the same book in chapter 3. Remember what Shaul Paul said to them, earlier? He said, That I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk and not with meat. For hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

For ye are yet carnal, for where is there is among you envying and strife and division. Are ye not carnal? And walk as men. For while one say, I am of Paul, and another say, I am of Apollos, are ye not carnal? You see, there was carnality in the midst of the assembly, and it's a problem that existed in past days, and it is existing today. Why? Because we all have this all-sin nature, the flesh, and we all want to have our own way, and often times, when we are not walking with the Lord, and in humility before the Lord, and sensitive to the work of the Spirit of God in our hearts, there are these divisions.

So, Paul knew, and he said, those things have to happen among the people of God, among the assembly of the believers. Why? Because those that are approved must be made manifest among you. In other words, the spiritual brother, the spiritual sister, the spiritual person can be a blessing to the people of God. He and she can be used by the Lord to edify and to encourage the people of God. That's what is showing to us here in this passage. Paul is saying, these things have to happen among God's people because this way you can discover who are the spiritual-minded individuals among the people of God.

It's not a matter of salvation. Because both are saved, but those that are approved are those that behave spiritually and not carnally. Acting in the power of the Spirit and not in the power of this old sinful nature. And beloved brothers and sisters, we cannot blame everyone else, but we have to search our own hearts because this is a problem that we all face every time, every day. That's why in Galatians 5 we read, Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. And so we continue here in verse 20, 21 and 22, the Corinthians came into one place with a wrong attitude of heart.

They came with a wrong attitude of heart. Notice how sad. We read, When ye come together, therefore into one place, another way, you come to the meeting room, to the hall, to the building where the gathered saints meeting. This is not, he said, to eat the Lord's supper, he is saying to them. For in eating, everyone takes, takers before other his own supper, and one is hungry and another, notice, is drunken. He said, What? Have ye not houses to eat and to drink? Or despise ye the church of God? Again, the church of God it's not the building. Do you despise the people of God, the assembly of people that are redeemed by the Lord which belong to God?

And shame them that have not? What? Shall I say unto you? Shall I praise you? In this, I praise you not. Shaul Paul is saying to them very bluntly, You see, you need to set your selfishness aside and think of your brothers and of your sisters. Think of the assembly of God. Think of the believers. Don't think only of yourself. In eating, everyone really takes before the other. Even his own supper. When they are coming to enjoy this love feast, to enjoy one another as believers and instead of being sensitive to one another and then continue on and flowing into the remembrance of the Lord Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, well, everyone takes his before the other, his own supper, the one is now remaining hungry because he or she do not have and even another being drunken.

In other words, they were drinking and they were already there. How can you come into the remembrance of the Lord, into the Lord's supper, the Lord's table when you are drunken? For in eating, everyone takes before other his own supper. The one is hungry, another is drunken. He says, what, don't you have houses to eat and to drink? Do you despise the assembly of God, the ecclesia, the called out of God? Do you despise the people of God? You're shaming them that do not have, perhaps some were poor and not able to bring like others? There was insensitivity there. He says, what shall I say to you?

I'm not going to praise you. I praise you not. And that section, beloved brothers and sisters, from verse 17 to verse 22, it is the a charge and a challenge that the Apostle Paul presented before the Corinthian believers in their love, in connection with their love feast, which was part of the remembrance of the Lord Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah. Now, it should have been an imagine, a feast that you, when loving one another, enjoying one another, serving one another, and then to flow from there into the remembrance of the Lord, into the Lord's Supper, and there to be occupied with Yeshua, with Jesus, our Lord and our Messiah.

You see, but how can you be occupied with Him when you are so much occupied with yourself? And that is very sad. And so, from here on, beloved brothers brothers and sisters, from verse 23 to the end of the chapter to verse 34, the Apostle Paul is responding to the sad abuse that existed among the believers at Corinth concerning the Lord's Supper. Again, to remind you that the local assembly gathered together as the company, and as they gather together, they come to meet the Lord. They continue steadfastly in the Apostle Doctrine, and then we have the breaking of the bread, enjoying fellowship with one another and prayer, and they should have such an attitude that gives them joy in their heart as they are now to anticipate the remembrance of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah in His death, burial, and resurrection.

And so, in the next verses, Paul is emphasizing the abuse that was going on there. And so, a few things that are important to emphasize as we enter into verse 23 onward. First of all, to remember, beloved brothers and sisters, that the Lord Jesus the Messiah, Yeshua the Messiah, gave basically two ordinances to the church, to the assembly. Only two, basically. The one was baptism, tevila, immersion. You remember where he said at the end of chapter 28 of the Gospel of Matthew, Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo, I am with you all the way even unto the end of the age.

So, the requirement of baptism, physical, putting, the body put under water representing death and burial and coming out of the water, resurrection, it is a symbolic act in which he commanded his own people to practice. But then secondly, beloved brothers and sisters, the second ordinance that the Lord had given, it is the Lord's supper, the Lord's table, in which the believers are called to remember him in his death, burial, and resurrection. This is important. It is found in actuality of reminding the introduction of the remembrance meeting is found already in the Gospels, specifically in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, where he is clearly saying to the disciples to remember him.

Do this in remembrance of me, beloved brothers and sisters. Remember in Luke chapter 22 and verse 14 we read, And when the hour was come, he sat down and the twelve apostles with him, and he said unto them, I have desire to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I say unto you, I will not eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup and he gave thanks and said, take this and divide it among yourself. For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread and he gave thanks and he break it and gave it unto them saying, This is my body which is given for you.

This doing remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you. Luke 22 verse 14 to 20. And so the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah is the one that introduced the Lord's supper, the Lord's table, the remembrance meeting. He said, do this in remembrance of me. So, baptism and the Lord's supper, tevilah, immersion, and saudat ha'don, the Lord's table, the Lord's supper, is given in the scripture by the Lord himself. And in order to enjoy this, the value of the experience of these two symbols, the baptism, the tevilah, the immersion, representing symbolically to identify with his death and resurrection, identifying with him when one is being baptized.

They remember the Lord's supper is remembering him, the Lord Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, who gave his life for us. So, in order to enjoy, to be in a proper enjoyment of these two ordinances, it's dependent upon the condition, the spiritual condition of those that participate in this remembrance meeting. And therefore, if one is not in a proper spiritual condition, he or she can never enjoy properly these two ordinances that God had given to the assembly, to the ecclesia. Thirdly, because it is so serious, specifically the remembrance meeting, both are serious, these ordinances, then for every believer, a believer's life, must be with the help of the Lord led in such a way that it is pleasing to the Lord.

Why? Because God is judging his people. The Lord, Jesus, the Messiah, is disciplining his people, whom the Lord loveth, he chastened. so one cannot come approach the Lord's supper with an attitude in his lifestyle that is not seeking to live for the Lord. Remember 1 Peter 4 verse 17, for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. In other words, the believer in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah must be in a sensitive condition where he or she realize that they need to have a repentant heart as we approach the remembrance meeting, the Lord's supper. And also, beloved brothers and sisters, all believers who take part in the Lord's supper are called to have their hearts occupied with the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, of the Messiah himself.

Why? Because he is the one that we are called to remember. Do this in remembrance of me, we read in the word of God. And therefore, as one partake of the bread and the wine, one has to realize that he and she are as believers that are saved and forgiven are to remember him, to remember Yeshua Jesus, to remember the Lord. And that is important. So as we are moving now to these verses, notice there are four things that we learn here from verse 23 onward to verse 34. First of all, the believers are called to look back in remembering the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah in his death.

Paul is saying in verse 23, 24, and 25, notice what Paul is saying, for I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Yeshua, the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given things he break it and said take it. This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. We read in verse 25, after the same manner he took the cup and when he had stopped saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood this do ye as often as you drink it not as in remembrance of me.

Now notice brothers and sisters we know that Shaul Paul was not in the Aperum in Jerusalem when the Mashiach was celebrating Pesach with his disciples. And when Yeshua Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples he introduced the remembrance meeting along with the feast of Pesach. Out of the feast of Pesach along with the feast of Pesach looking for the forward what believers are called to do after his death burial and resurrection. But Paul was not there. Of course Shaul was not yet a believer. Shaul became a believer later on on the way to Damascus as he was persecuting the early Hebrew believers.

When he was on the way to Damascus with letters from the high priests going to the Beit Hakneset to the synagogue in Damascus to bring these wayward Jewish believers in Yeshua back to Jerusalem so they will punish them so the early Hebrew Christians suffer tremendously by Shaul who persecuted them but now we learn that Paul received a special revelation from the Lord notice he said I have received of the Lord that was a unique revelation that Paul had received from the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah he used this expression in 1st Corinthians 15 and verse 3 for I delivered unto you first of all that which are also received you see he received from the

Lord it is a unique revelation remember that Paul Shaul Paul he was a unique apostle he saw the Lord on the way to Damascus and the Lord revealed to him truth and therefore at some point of time he received that revelation concerning the Lord's table the Lord's supper for I receive of the Lord that which I also deliver unto you that the Lord Jesus now notice that he received from the Lord that which the Lord Yeshua have done when he was here on earth the Lord told him this that the same night in which he was betrayed he took bread that word that bread was the unleavened bread of Passover because in the Pesach you

could never have unleavened bread because because the unleavened represent that sin was removed and the Lord Jesus the Messiah the sinless one the bread spoke of him he is the undefiled the separate from sinners no leaven in him no yeast in him no sin in him the same night in which he was betrayed he took bread and when he given things he break it and he said take eat this is my body which is the king james says which is broken for you well there were no bones broken in his body eat over this is a speak of my body which is given for you this do not as in remembrance of me beloved brothers

and sisters the Lord Jesus the Messiah wants us to remember him he is the center he is the object of the gathering of the saints to remember him he is the object he is the bread of God for God he is the joy of God's heart no wonder we read in the gospels concerning the person of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah that how God was so pleased with him you remember there was a voice that came from heaven that said notice this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased Matthew chapter 3 and verse 17 he is the beloved of the father and God the father is he is the food for God

the bread of God and therefore he wants us to remember him so he took the bread Paul is saying that he received from the Lord this information and he said to the disciples in the upper room in the city of Jerusalem take it this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me it is my body he gave his life this represented the unleavened bread represented his body symbolically which was given on the tree on the Roman cross and after that in verse 25 in the same manner he took the cup and when he had supped saying this cup is a new covenant in my blood this do as often

as you drink it notice once again in remembrance of me let me just make a point here that I think it is very important the wine the cup was added to the Passover some hundred years before coming of the Lord Jesus the Messiah to this world as the Jewish people were keeping Passover you don't find the cup of wine in Exodus chapter 12 in Exodus chapter 12 when Israel initially was delivered out of Egypt there was the unleavened bread the bitter herbs and the lamb that's it that was the only three emblems at the first Passover but somehow that was added into the Passover table by our people of all by the spiritual leaders of

Israel it had been suggested some hundred years before the Messiah Yeshua came and it must be read representing of course here the blood of the Messiah the Lord Jesus the Messiah himself took that cup and notice that we read in verse 25 the same manner he took the cup and when he had supped saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood this do as often it drink it in remembrance of me now beloved brothers and sisters to remind you that in the Passover even during the day of the Lord Jesus the Messiah there were more than one cup in the Passover table and it is very interesting that the Lord Jesus the Messiah

took the third cup according to the history and he this called the cup of redemption and he took that cup applying to himself and he said do this in remembrance of me just to show you that there were more than one cup even on the table when the Lord was there when Yeshua was there some 2000 years ago listen to what we read in Luke chapter 22 we read in verse 14 and when the hour was come he sat down and the twelve apostles with him and he said unto them with desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I said to you I will not anymore eat thereof

until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God so notice verse 17 and he took the cup and he gave thanks and said take this and divide it among yourselves for I said to you I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come notice that is the first cup mentioned in Luke chapter 22 then in verse 19 he took the bread and he gave thanks and he break it and he gave it unto them saying this is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me and then after this in verse 20 he took another cup notice likewise also the cup after supper

saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you so in Luke chapter 22 in the upper room in the city of Jerusalem there are two cups mentioned in verse 17 one before supper and in verse 20 another cup after the meal after the supper now let me mention that it is very instructive because there are four cups that are still being drank out of in the Passover that our people Israel are celebrating even today the first cup is called the cup of sanctification in Hebrew Kiddush the second cup is called the cup of plagues in Hebrew Makot the third cup is called the cup of redemption in Hebrew Yeshuaot

and the fourth cup is called the cup of praise in Hebrew Halel and and it is very interesting that the cup of redemption this is the third cup is always taken after the meal after supper and the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah according to Luke chapter 22 and verse 20 likewise also the cup after supper he said this cup is a new covenant in my blood which is shed for you and this third cup in the Passover that is still kept by the Jewish people is called the cup of redemption in Hebrew redemption Yeshuaot salvation redemption no wonder that the name of Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua the cup of Yeshua the cup of salvation

the cup of Yeshua this is the cup of redemption and that reminds us of the redemption that the Lord Jesus the Messiah provided not even his name you shall call his name Yeshua Matthew 1 21 Jesus for he shall save Yoshia he shall save he will redeem his people from their sins so the first thing that we learn from this passage is that believers should look back and remember the Lord Jesus the Lord Yeshua the Messiah as he said to the apostle Paul what he said to the disciples in Jerusalem in the same night in which he was betrayed he took the bread and he gave it to them and he said this is my

body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me remember me in the next verse in verse 25 of 1st Corinthians 11 he took the cup when he has given thanks and he says this is the cup of the new covenant in my blood this do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me beloved brothers and sisters when we gather together to remember the Lord on the first day of the week we are called to remember him to be occupied with the person and the work that the Messiah Yeshua Jesus have accomplished for us remember what he have done in the past when he died when he paid for our

sins every sin that you and I committed he had to pay for that he was lifted up there on the shameful cross and he died for your sins and mine beloved brothers and sisters and dear friend we are called to remember him in his death do this in remembrance of me it is me who gave my life for you the Lord Jesus the Messiah said but secondly in the next verse verse 26 the believers who participate in the Lord's Supper and the Lord's table should really not only look back at past history what he has done for us in the past but to look also ahead to the future coming of the Lord to his

return he's coming back you see Jesus the Messiah our Lord he died on the cross he was buried but he rose again for our justification and he's now seated at God's right hand and he's returning back and so notice what we read in verse 26 of 1st Corinthian 11 for as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do show the Lord's death notice until he come every time when believers are gathered together the saints of God the redeemed the born from above the forgiven people are gathered around the Lord to remember him and participating in the drinking of the cup in the participating with the eating of the bread we are

showing forth the Lord's death it specifically speaks of his death why because he was the just one who had to die for us who are unjust it specifically speak about his death and sometimes it is we are sad when we look back what it meant for him to die no wonder he cried when he was on that Roman cross Elohi Elohi lama shvaktani my God my God why hast thou forsaken me you see the holy God of Israel had to forsake the Messiah he had to judge him for the sin of this world because there was no other solution the lambs and the rams could not take away sins the only temporarily covered sins made

kapara atonement temporarily but the Mashiach came the Messiah came and he was punished the just for the unjust in order to bring us to God there was no other person that could bear our sins except the Lord Jesus the Messiah to bear our sins in his body on the tree but we are to show forth the Lord's death until he comes in other words we are to look to the future he is coming he is coming beloved brothers and sisters the Lord Jesus the Messiah is returning he is going to come back and he will take us to be with him in heaven what a wonderful truth to learn from these beloved brothers and sisters

do you know that the Lord is returning let not your heart be trouble ye believe in God believe also in me in my father's house there are many mentioned I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and I will receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah is coming back he is coming back beloved brothers and sisters and therefore we are called to remember him to remember him in his death to do this until he comes 1st Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 26 amazing when you think about this wonderful promise

that the Lord Jesus the Messiah he's coming back but there's another thing that we are called to bear in mind as every one of us approach the remembrance of the Lord in participating with the drinking of the cup with the breaking of the bread and the drinking of the cup the believers should also to search our own hearts not only to look back and look at the person of the Lord by faith and what you have done for us not only to look forward and to look to the day when he will return and to remember him in his death until he's to also search our own hearts the Lord doesn't want his own people

to come to his supper to his table without to search our own hearts that's why notice what we read in verse 27 all the way to verse 32 Paul is saying as he's writing to the Corinthians who were so occupied with themselves and had divisions even in these love feasts doing the Lord's table which dishonored God and was not pleasing to him and that's why he had to discipline some as God must discipline even his own people whom he loved and whom he had redeemed and so we read well for notice verse 27 there is a need to remember the Lord in a right manner he says wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink

this cup of the Lord unworthily in other words in an unworthy manner you you none of us is worthy it's not a matter of being worthy none of us are worthy that's why we need forgiveness of sins but when believers that have been forgiven practice these important meetings and gathering around the Lord in an unworthily manner they will bring upon themselves judgment wherefore verse 27 whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily in unworthy manner shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord he or she shall be guilty the body of the blood of the Lord in other words they will be the one that will

be guilty in the manner whereby they are behaving in their remembrance meeting to remind you that in verses 20 21 and 22 we did read for in eating everyone taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken what have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise ye the church of God and shame them that have not what shall I say unto you shall I praise you in this I praise you not Paul said and so anyone who does not search his or her heart as we approach the Lord's supper the Lord's table one will bring upon themselves they will be guilty and the Lord will have

to discipline his own people we read in verse 28 each believer must examine themselves but let the man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the cup notice it's very interesting it says let the man or let the person examine himself and eat not examine himself and not eat in other words the believers are called to participate in the Lord's table and eat and to remember the Lord and drink grapefruit of the wine to remind for us of the body and the blood of Yeshua the Messiah who died for our sins so it's not a matter of refraining from eating and drinking but to examine the heart search search

search me and know my heart try me and know my thought and see any wicked way in me and lead me in a way everlasting David said to the Lord in his prayer the king of Israel so we are to search our hearts to confess to repent and remember and forsake that's what Paul Shaul is saying to the Corinthians in verse 29 eating and drinking the Lord's supper in an unworthy manner will bring the judgment of God for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lord's body a person that is not searching his or her heart and practicing this remembrance meeting in an unworthily manner the way

in which things were going people are drunk others are outside and not taking care of one another don't have a sensitive heart that will bring judgment damnation on themselves the Lord will deal with that person you notice what he says in verse 30 God sent discipline upon his own people because we read for this cause not as many many are weak and sick sickly among you Paul is saying to the Corinthians in other words because of this sad condition in the local assembly in Corinth where there was remembrance of the Lord in an unworthily manner because of this carnality many are weak and sickly among you and notice he added the end of verse 30

and many sleep that expression with sleep has to do with death there is a sin unto death we read in first John 5 16 God judged his people Hebrews 10 tells us this God does judge his people and he ultimately will have to remove a believer out of this world take him or her to heaven because of the manner whereby they approach the Lord's supper you remember what we do read in first Thessalonians chapter four this expression falling asleep is an expression only applied to believers not to unbelievers for believers who die he or she are really sleeping through Jesus through Yeshua they are redeemed they are saved but they are sleeping waiting the day

of resurrection it's not a soul sleep it's a body sleep it's a body that dies considered to be asleep in first Thessalonians chapter four we do read in verse 13 but I do not want you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep these are believers that died physically and the scripture consider them sleeping it it is body sleep waiting the resurrection but the soul and the spirit is redeemed and in the presence of the Lord he continued in first Thessalonians 4 verse 14 for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep through Jesus through Yeshua will God bring with him for this we say unto you

by the word of the Lord that we which are asleep a believer who died he or she are sleeping their body is sleeping the soul and the spirit is absent from the body and present with the Lord and this is exactly beloved brothers and sisters what Paul is saying some of you have fallen asleep the judgment of God took them out of this scene into heaven because of the behavior that they had at the Lord table and so in verse 31 and verse 32 for if we would judge ourselves we would not be judged and when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord for that we should not be condemned with the world

the Lord is dealing with his own people in discipline whom the Lord loveth he chastens and he scourges everyone whom he receives so it is serious to approach the Lord's supper the Lord's table in an unworthily manner without to search our hearts and to realize that we are remembering the one that died for our sins who died who was punished who shed his blood who gave his body Yeshua the Messiah for our sins and therefore we are to approach the table of the Lord with an attitude of searching our own heart looking within our heart in verse 32 we do read but when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should

not be condemned with the world and then finally beloved brothers and sisters and I'm closing with this in verse 33 and 34 1st Corinthians chapter 11 believers should look around not only to look back and remember the Messiah in his death himself verse 23 to 25 not only to look ahead to wait for the coming of the Lord until his return longing for the return of the Lord not only to search our own heart to look within in verse 27 to 32 but believers as we approach the Lord's table should look by faith around us and realize that there are others that we are to be concerned with and so we read in verse 33

and 34 of 1st Corinthians chapter 11 wherefore my brethren when you come together to eat tarry for one another and if any man is hungry let him eat at home that ye come not together unto condemnation and the rest will I set in order when I come Apostle Shaul Paul was anticipating to come to Corinth and to set things in order but until he would do so if he would get to do so he charging the Corinthian believers to realize that they should not abuse the Lord's table that every believer should look back and remember the Lord approach the Lord's table seriously remembering the Lord's death for them do this in remembrance of me that

they should look forward for the return of the Messiah first of all for the assembly and also for the people of Israel and for the whole world thirdly they should look within their own hearts and search their hearts realize that judgment will come upon them if they will come in an unworthily manner without self judgment and fourthly they have to look around to care for one another and realize that we are brethren and we are to take care of one another well my dear friend God bless you may the Lord help us God bless you until the next time we say to you all Shalom Shalom