- The Stern Rebuke
- 1 Corinthians 11:17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
- The Corruption Of The Lord’s Supper
- 1 Corinthians 11:18-22
- There were divisions and cliques within the church which corrupted the Lord’s Supper
- 1 Corinthians 11:18-19 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. 19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
- There was self-deception which corrupted the Lord’s Supper
- 1 Corinthians 11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
- There was selfishness and neglect of others which corrupted the Lord’s Supper
- 1 Corinthians 11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
- There was the abuse of the sanctity of the church and the shaming of the poor which corrupted the Lord’s Supper.
- 1 Corinthians 11:22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.