{"id":147,"date":"2019-06-09T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2019-06-09T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:01:59","slug":"fellowship-with-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship With Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1 Corinthians 10:16- The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every\nfirst day of the week we come together to partake of the Lord’s\nSupper. This meal is used as a memorial of Jesus’ death, burial and\nresurrection and helps us to remember what He did for us. However,\nit is so much more than that. To the faithful child of God, it also\nis a symbol and declaration of our unity to Him. Even then there is\nmore to it and many Christians fail to recognize or do not realize at\nall what our communion here symbolizes. Today, we are going to look\nat two aspects of the Lord’s Supper that are just as important as\nremembering Christ’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. It\n\tsymbolizes a deep relationship: <\/strong>Christ\n\tin coming to this earth and dying for us was the greatest sacrifice\n\tever made in history. In doing so He not only redeemed us but also\n\testablished something truly wonderful. Now, we can have a deep and\n\tmeaningful relationship with God without the weight of sin sitting\n\ton our shoulders. While yes there still needs to be a fear of God\n\tand obedience to His will, we may call Him \u201cAbba Father.\u201d Not\n\tonly that but Christ, who sits at the Father’s right hand, is our\n\telder brother. This communion is a declaration of that closeness\n\tand should bring us great joy in the partaking.\n\t<\/li>
  2. It\n\tsymbolizes our absolute loyalty to God: <\/strong>Again,\n\tthis is something that many Christians, even if they understand it,\n\toverlook. When we partake of the Lord’s Supper, we say that we are\n\tHis and wholly dedicated to His cause. This also means that we\n\tcannot be living in any sort of sin. In 1 Corinthians 10:21, Paul\n\tmakes the statement \u201cYou cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the\n\tcup of demons.\u201d What does this mean? It means that we cannot\n\thave one foot in each door. We have to be wholly God’s or wholly\n\tSatan’s. If we try, then we are partaking \u201cin an unworthy manner\u201d\n\tand are \u201cguilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.\u201d (1\n\tCorinthians 11:27). That does not sound like a situation we want to\n\tbe in.\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \tSo\nas we partake, yes let us think back to the sacrifice of God but also\nremember what it means to us. We must not forget our relationship or\nour death to sin. Without them, we are just as lost as before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    1 Corinthians 10:16- The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Every first day of the week we come together to partake of the Lord’s Supper. This meal is used as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}