You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
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… And I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too. You cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons. Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than He? Don't miss the picture. These people thought they'd take the Lord's Supper, eat the bread, drink the cup, that they're good and then they can walk away and go participate in idols' feasts. The dangerous thing is millions of Christians are doing the exact same thing today in the Lord's Supper. We look at the Lord's Supper as a grace dispenser where we eat the bread and we drink the cup and we're safe, and then we can go off and live our lives however we want to, and it's just not biblical. How can you look at the death of Christ reflect on its meaning for your life now and the weight of your sin now and to feel his promises and then to walk away and not obey him and not live a life that it's identified with him so first we renew our commitment to christ in the lord's supper that's part of what this whole thing is about many times in camps or conferences or even invitations in the church we we make a decision to rededicate our lives. Well, that's exactly what the Lord's Supper is about. Every time we take the Lord's Supper to renew our commitment to Christ. …
False religion was participating with demons. And he says bluntly in verse 21, you cannot drink the cup of the Lord at the table of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons, or you're going to provoke the Lord to jealousy. That's not a good idea, since you're not stronger than He is. You must separate from that. What was going on in Corinth was that some of the behaviors from their pagan experience were being dragged into the life of the church and even into the Lord's table. If you go over to chapter 11 for just a moment and look at verse 20, he's still talking about the Lord's table. Therefore, when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper. You're not coming to the Lord's Supper. You may say you are, but you're not, because in your eating, each one takes his own supper first, and one is hungry and another is drunk. …
… 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. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. This is such an outrage. You can't. Verse 22 adds, or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We're not stronger than He are we. Are you so foolish as to think you can do that and provoke the Lord to jealousy and get away with it because you're stronger than He is?" Clearly what was happening was the forms of their old religion were hard to let go of. …