Welcome back to the Ask Pastor John Podcast.

Pastor John, as you know,

scripture gives us pretty clear prohibitions around the Lord's table

and given these parameters in the stern warning passages of the New Testament,

a listener named Rubin writes and asks this,

Pastor John, how do I know if I'm holy enough for the Lord's Supper

under what circumstances would a professing Christian not participate

in the Lord's table?

Let me suggest three answers or three kinds of

answer based on three different passages. First,

you can know you shouldn't eat the Lord's Supper as a professing Christian

if you've been excommunicated by your church.

That's obvious, but he asks, what are the situations?

And first Corinthians 5, 9, following say,

I wrote to you in my letter,

not to associate with sexually immoral people.

Not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world,

or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters,

since you'd have to go out of the world,

but now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who

bears the name of brother.

Now that's what he asked about, professing Christian.

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