DCLM HIGHER EVERYDAY 28 February 2022 — The lord’s supper
DCLM Higher Everyday 28 February 2022 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — The lord’s supper
TOPIC: THE LORD’S SUPPER
TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 11:24-30
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
27 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.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
MEMORY VERSE: “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup” (1 CORINTHIANS 11:28).
MESSAGE:
The story was told of a church member who went to observe the Lord’s Supper with his ‘drinking horn’. He thought that it would be a session with a lot of wine to drink with hilarity and without the solemnity that is required of the Lord’s holy symbolic ordinance. How wrong he was.There are many youths today who have faulty perceptions of the Lord’s Supper, and fail to approach its observance with the required solemnity that it deserves.
The Lord’s Supper is a solemn ordinance to be observed by all those who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour, in remembrance of His vicarious death at Calvary and His imminent return to take believers to heaven.Beware of so called Lord’s Supper that is observed with alcoholic drink and leavened bread. Some avoid the Lord’s Supper. Whatever keeps you away from the Lord’s Supper will shut you out of heaven.
It would be to one’s detriment to partake unworthily. Determine to partake at the next opportunity. Examine yourself and be sure there is no sin in your life; and partake in its glory.
QUOTE: The Lord’s Supper is a solemn ordinance.
CHALLENGE: Examine yourself.
PRAYER: Lord, help me to be a worthy partaker of the Lord’s Supper.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
