Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we all partake of the one bread.
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… The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread who we are many, who we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. Let's pray together. Father, as we come to you tonight, we want to acknowledge that we are people who forget. We forget your goodness. We forget your promises. We forget just how much you love us sometimes. So as we come to you, we pray that you would meet us in your word. You would strengthen our weak faith. In Jesus' name, amen. in. We live surrounded by signs. Signs are all around us. Most days, we don't think twice about them. I'm sure in some parts of the world, a red octagon on the side of the road might not mean anything. But for you and I, we know this sign, even if it doesn't have the letters S-T-O-P on them. An invitation in the mail is a sign that you were invited to a wedding, a party, maybe a graduation. …
… And verse 17 says, Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. So what you've got is a picture of the church, of believers, Christ followers, sharing together in the body and blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper. Now, throughout church history, this has been maligned at different points. For many, many years, the Catholic Church necessitated that only clergy, only leaders in the church should take the Lord's Supper. And the majority of believers would sit back passively and watch as the leaders took the Lord's Supper. We don't see anywhere in Scripture where this should be relegated to a certain class of believers. There are some people who say that the Lord's Supper should really only involve baptized believers. And I understand in a sense where they're coming from. In just a second, we're going to see how the Lord's Supper involves reflecting on our sin in any areas of our life where we're being disobedient and committing our lives to identifying with Christ. …
… Yes. there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. Look at the nation Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices, sharers in the altar?" What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No. I'm not saying an idol is anything. Why does He bring idols up? Why does He start by saying, flee from idolatry? Why does He then talk about the cup of blessing, the blood of Christ, the bread, the body of Christ, and then go back to idols and sacrifices to idols? Because the people had dragged their behaviors from their idolatrous, pagan perversions into the table of the Lord, and that becomes very obvious. Verse 20, the things which the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. No part of that can be imported. I don't want you to become sharers in demons. And then verse 21 explicitly says it, you cannot drink the cup of the Lord, which was a cup of wine, symbolizing His blood, and at the same time, the cup of demons, which was a cup by which you became drunk. …