The Meal That Heals by Perry Stone

Author:Perry Stone
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Body, Prayer & Spiritual, Religious Aspects, Christian Rituals & Practice, Lord's Supper, Christian Life, Christianity, Religion, Spiritual Healing, Healing - Religious Aspects - Christianity, Prayer, Mind & Spirit, Biblical Studies, Soteriology, General, Spiritual Growth, Sacraments, Christian Theology, Healing
ISBN: 9781599793979
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2006-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

THE MEAL THAT KILLS

“Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.”

John 13:26-27

There is a warning penned in the Scriptures to those who would carelessly partake of the Lord’s Supper. Here is the warning Paul gave to the church at Corinth:

“For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lords 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 a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eatest and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lord body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”

1 Corinthians 11:26-30

W. E. Vines, in his expository dictionary of New Testament Greek words, notes that the word unworthily means “treating it as a common meal, the bread and cup as common things, not apprehending their solemn symbolic import.”

The very meal that should have brought healing, unity, and restoration to the individual had instead brought judgment to those who did not discern it properly. A person should never partake in the Communion service in an unsaved condition or as a careless religious ritual. Before receiving Communion, we as believers should examine ourselves inwardly to determine it we have sinned against God or against our fellow man. We are to search and repent to God and man for any hidden sin or act of disobedience. In this manner, we keep our spirit and soul pure.

There is a threefold purpose for this self-examination:

1. to make sure we are in the faith (2 Corinthians 13:5)

2. to make sure there is no hidden sin in our heart (Hebrews 12:1)

3. to make sure we are in proper relationship with the family of God (1 John 3:23-24)

If a person partakes of the sacred supper in a sinful condition, both the spiritual results and the healing effect of the meal are made void. The divine purpose is hindered and, in the case of Judas, the meal intended to heal brought death.

Partaking Unworthily

At the Last Supper, Christ revealed that the broken bread was His body and the cup with the fruit of the vine represented His blood.

“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body And he took the cup, and gave thanks and gave it to them saying, Drink ye all of it.

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

Matthew 26:26-28

Judas, one of the twelve disciples, dipped the bread in the cup and ate from the Lord’s table.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.