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Comment Scripture

The first priest in the Bible, namely And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest Gen
14:17-20
Communion Melchizedek, blessed Abram by using of THEOS the Most High.) [JESUS in comparison is our High Priest] And he
bread and wine. blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by THEOS the Most High, who created
heaven and earth; and blessed be THEOS the Most High, who has delivered
your enemies into your hand!”

JESUS Himself showed us how to take Now while they were eating JESUS took bread and, after giving thanks, He Mat
26:26-29
communion and how to remember Him. broke it, and giving it to the disciples, He said, “Take, eat, this is my body.” And
after taking the cup and giving thanks He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from
it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many
for the forgiveness of sins. But I tell you, from now on I will never drink of this
fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the Kingdom of
my FATHER.”
And He took bread, and after giving thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, Luk
22:19
saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of
me.”

The early church followed CHRIST's And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to Act
2:42-46
teaching. fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers. [...] And every day, de-
voting themselves to meeting with one purpose in the temple courts and
breaking bread from house to house, they were eating their food with joy
and simplicity of heart ...

Paul taught it to be a custom for the And on the first day of the week, when we had assembled to break bread ... Act 20:7
New Covenant. For I received from KYRIOS what I also passed on to you, that the KYRIOS 1Cor
11:23-26
JESUS, on the night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and after He had
given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this
in remembrance of me.” Likewise also the cup, after they had eaten, saying,
“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it,
in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim KYRIOS' death until He comes.

Communion is even a requirement for ... unless you eat the flesh of the SON of Man and drink His blood, you do not Joh
6:53-56
entering the eternal Kingdom of THEOS. have life in yourselves! The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. [...] The one who eats my
flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him.

We should examine ourselves for any So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of KYRIOS in an unworthy 1Cor
11:27-32
unconfessed sin and take communion manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of KYRIOS. But let a person
with due reverence and respect. examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink
from the cup. For the one who eats and drinks, if he does not recognize the
body, eats and drinks judgment against himself. Because of this, many are
weak and sick among you, and quite a few have died. But if we were evalua-
ting ourselves, we would not be judged. But if we are judged by KYRIOS, we
are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.
[Old covenant example - good for seeing the principle of cleanliness] 2Chr
30:17-20
For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves
[which would equate today to wash and anoint oneself before attend-
ing a church]. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for
everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to KYRIOS. For a majority of the
people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had
not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as pre-
scribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good KYRIOS
pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek THEOS, the KYRIOS, the THEOS
of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of clean-
ness.” And KYRIOS heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

We should not allow unbelievers to The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of 1Cor
10:16-21
partake in communion ! CHRIST? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of
CHRIST? [...] You are not able to drink the cup of KYRIOS and the cup of
demons. You are not able to share the table of KYRIOS and the table of
demons.

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