<TITLE>03. Par -</TITLE>L-3-5 If you would like to turn tonight in the sacred writings to the 1st Book of Corinthians 11th chapter, we would read a portion of the Scripture, beginning with the 23rd verse:
For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take and eat: this is my body, which was broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner he took the cup, also, and when he had given thanks, saying, This is the cup of the new testament, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as oft as you eat the bread, and drink the cup of the Lord, you shew forth his death until he comes.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread,... drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. (Now, I want to read the--my text out of the 20--of the 29th verse.)
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, shall be guilty of the body of the Lord. (Now, wait, I have read that wrong.)
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily not discerning the body of the Lord... shall drink unto himself damnation, not discerning the body of the Lord. (I have wept over this Bible, and It's got a--some faded places in It.)... not discerning the body of the Lord.
Now, my subject tonight is: "Discerning the Body of the Lord."

L-4-2 Now, our eternal destination is not altogether determined by what we see and what we hear, but it's determined on what discernment we have of what we see and what we hear.
Paul was not disputing with them for taking the communion. Their act was right, but their discernment was wrong. For taking the Lord's Supper is the commandment of the Lord, but to take it unworthily, not discerning the Lord's Body, is where the wrong lays.

L-4-4 These Christians was taking the communion and not living the Life. Christianity is a experience and a life. And these Christians was just living any kind of a life, making a poor example of their profession. And Paul says, "That this cause, many are sick and weakly among you, and many are asleep," which means they are dead, because they haven't discerned the Body of the Lord.
And we who call ourselves Christians, we have no right to take the communion unless we are living above a reproach of the world. We have no right. The communion are for those who are living right as an example of Christianity.

L-5-2 The worst thing there is in the world is a person to try to impersonate something, and there's too much of that in the world today. Not only do we, in this day, are guilty of the same crime that Paul was rebuking the Corinthian church for, but of trying to do something that the Lord had commanded without discerning the Body of the Lord, and the Body of the Lord is the believers. But today we are doing things not discerning any of the Word of God. We should have a discernment on everything that we do. It ought to be measured by the Word of God. All that Christians do and say should be measured by the Word of God.

L-5-3 Today people have changed quite a bit, and they sometimes put more reliability on what the church says than what the Word says. They believe then that the church has better rights to discern our taste than what the Word of God has. For instance like this: The church might say, "The days of miracles is passed," and many people will believe it, because they think the church knows more about it than the Holy Spirit that wrote the Word. Therefore, we are not capable of discerning the things of God.


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