Examining Ourselves
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
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🗓️ 6 September 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Lord’s Supper is to be received only by those who have believed in Jesus Christ. It is an ordinance that Jesus himself gave to the church. Yet we are told that we must still examine ourselves before partaking. What are we examining? Plus, Jimmy takes Joe Steve out for dinner.
Baptist Catechism Q. 104
Q. What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?
A. It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lords supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord’s body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience, lest coming unworthily they eat and drink judgment to themselves..
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a podcast that explores Christian faith and practice |
| 0:18.1 | from a reformed Baptist perspective. |
| 0:19.9 | My name is Joe Thorn, I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm John Fowler, executive pastor at Redeemer Fellowship, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, |
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| 7:00.0 | I would be like potluck style, obviously, more evidence for this being a Baptist church. So I have potluck style, everybody would bring food, but it really wound up that these groups were kind of isolating themselves and sort of secluding or marginalizing the poor congregants, not sharing the good spread, keeping the good stuff for themselves, and they'd be drinking too much wine. They'd drink it too much wine. What the heck. Okay, so overindulging. Yeah, getting dropped, I mean, oh, |
| 7:30.0 | getting drunk is wrong, but if you're going to do it, maybe don't do it at church when you're actually fellowshiping and trying to worship and observe the Lord's Supper, and so this was going on, and as a consequence of that, God was bringing judgment or discipline upon the congregation, and so like some people were getting sick, some people even died, and Paul understood this to be, you know, |
| 8:00.0 | essentially God's response to their wickedness to stop them in their tracks, right? So here on the front end, what Paul's saying is, the big word here is examine. If you're going to engage in the Lord's Supper, if you're gathering for worship and you're eating this meal together and you're going to receive the bread and the wine representing the body and blood of Christ, then you have to examine yourself. And with that word that I mean, it really leads into this is not a passive participation, right? Like when we're coming to it, there is some sense of, |
| 8:30.0 | approaching in a certain manner, and you know, one is, you know, humbly, we're going to be talking more about that kind of stuff later, but in this case, it's that examining and looking at oneself, right? As we come to the table, I mean, this is the, this is, you know, we're celebrating the Lord's Supper, we're celebrating what the Lord has done for us, we're celebrating the Lord that his body was broken, his blood was spilled, and so we do not know what the Lord is doing. |
| 9:00.0 | We're going to take this in an unworthy manner. Yeah. Now there's one big passage, right? That's one, a couple of verses that this is pointing directly at, right? Mm hmm. First Corinthians 11, 28, 29. Yeah. Let a person examine himself then, and so eat of the bread and drink the cup for anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. |
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