quinta-feira, 5 de novembro de 2015

THE HOLY SUPPER PART 2

"The Celebration of the Lord's Supper (I Corinthians 11: 17-34). Those who use only the Corrected Version of Almeida when they read Jesus' words" This is my body, this is my blood ", and playing outside context, end up practicing papist idolatry of transubstantiation when he says that "bread and wine" become literally the body and blood of Christ. When Jesus spoke these words, He was alive and therefore not turned literally into his body and blood but these elements are intended to symbolize the rescue: Do this in memory (memory) Me.
In this context, "IE" has the same meaning of "THIS MEANS" as many Bible translations render more accurately. Same is the case when Jesus says, "I am the Door, the Way, the vine"; of course that Jesus is not literally "port, road and vine", but it means, symbolizes.
Many churches do the Lord's Supper the day a tremendous oppression, no longer commemoration of liberation. They cite the Biblical text that whoever does not participate in Holy Communion has no part in the Lord; but who takes unworthy takes to his conviction; ie, outside the historical and doctrinal context, leaves the believer dead, for no sincere believer is found worthy by itself; it is Jesus who makes us worthy.
Then the indignity of which Paul speaks is not about sin, but the fact NOT DISCERN between the Lord's Supper and a common meal, and that's what made the brothers in Corinth. Celebrated with a feast of love (agape) and beyond show no love for the poor, they got drunk and came the celebration of the Supper as if it were a common feast to eat and drink; They took it unworthily without discerning.
For the believer who has committed a grave sin is the opportunity he has to recognize in Christ the One who redeems us from sins, and if a Biblical church is his chance to reconcile and return to communion.
Of course serious sins and who have become public must have a discipline of time before one who sinned fall itself, and to serve as an example to the rest of the congregation does not condone such sins; but Paul taught that this discipline should be suspended as soon as he shows sincere repentance (II Corinthians 2: 1-11).
The same mistake is committed with the words: "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Mt 16:19); wrongly apply as if the minister had the power to turn on and off as salvation. The text refers to the keys of knowledge given to Peter, and used by him to open the door of grace; Jews on the day of Pentecost and the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius (Acts chs 2:10).
Can be applied in relation to the individual believer in the following sense: When the penitent repents of his sins, he must be "on the ground" [communion], as it once was "bound in heaven" through faith in the atoning blood; On the other hand, when he rejects the Word of Scripture, does not show repentance, should be "off the land" [communion] because they think loosed in heaven.
The foregoing thought this text is: "Whatever you forbid on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you allow on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven."

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