Today’s Thought “Liturgical Unrest” G. Ward

1 Corinthians 11

³⁰ For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number are asleep (die). ³¹ But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. ³² But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

To be crystal clear, everyone deserves HELL (*Ro.3:10, 23). Good, is only relative to the Father. His sending the Son through the generations of mankind to become man, yet Divine (*John 1:1-3, 14) and happened because our sinfulness (from the beginning, cf. Ge.8:21, Jer.17:9) cannot enter such Holy presence the Almighty embodies. We have however, a Perfect Mediator in Christ; Who paid our sin debt, but only when our lives surrender (i.e., through confession of sins) to HIS lead in every step thereafter and whereas we’re imperfect in this, ours (as believers) hates the participation in sin’s reality that exists in us; going to our Savior often (*not just once daily, but as often as our committals are realized).

 Before addressing the Lord’s Supper (communion), we’re called to personal evaluation comparable. We know the seriousness in this sacrament; remembering our Savior’s sacrifice (an unprecedented actuality that redeems), then commitment to remain HIS, particularly as we deny ourselves of selfish pursuits (Matt.16:24).

Another author would elaborate, “Believers are kept from being consigned to hell, not only by divine decree, but by divine intervention. The Lord chastens to drive His people back to righteous behavior and even sends death to some in the church (v. 30) to remove them before they could fall away (Jude 24).”