Bible study- what is the Holy Communion?
Bible study- what is the Holy Communion?
Posted on January 18, 2009 Updated on January 17, 2009
bMemorise: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow: though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18)
Read: Psalm 24:3-5
Pastor E. ADEBOYE
Some believers access God’s presence with fear, doubt and uncertainty. You cannot receive from Him that way. Anxiety has robbed many people of their blessings, hence Matthew 6:25-28 commands that you should not be anxious. God prepares a table before His children in the presence of their enemies. Yet today’s reading says to partake of the blessings, you must have clean hands and a pure heart. The elders say, ‘It is the child who knows how to wash his hands that can eat with elders’. I
f you approach the Communion table with defiled hands or polluted heart, you will be disqualified from eating at the table. Defilement of either hands or heart turns you into a spectator like the enemies God invites to watch helplessly.
Unfortunately, many enemies God invited to be served shame, disgrace and heartache at the dinner table went home celebrating, because some believers who came as guests to the table were denied partaking of the blessings because of sin. Enemies shall not rejoice over me! If you do not want the enemy to rejoice over you, never allow any sin in your heart or hands, before approaching the Holy Communion table.
Before I became born again, I lectured at the University of Lagos.
We had diverse stationery used for official purposes. One day, after my conversion, I wrote a personal letter and wanted to use one of the official envelopes to encase it, and my hand suddenly froze. If your hands must partake at the table, keep them from touching anything that is defiled. Sin causes your hands to lose its fingers. Can you hold a cup without fingers? Coming to the table with sin in your life gives you hands without fingers!
Your entire life can be Heaven on earth. But it takes hard work. When the food is set at the table before you, who will do the eating? You. When God prepares wine on the table, who will do the drinking? You. When God opens the door, it is your duty to enter. That is hard work. Some people are so slothful that it is a problem for them to put food into their mouth after it has been served.
Proverbs 12:27 says it is laziness that will make a hunter to watch his game rot in his eyes without roasting and eating it. Are you prepared for hard work? Many are praying for the bigger blessings but God is not hearing because He sees that they are not ready.
It is your level of preparedness that will determine how much you can take at the table. While some are taking healing for headache, some who are more willing and better prepared are taking contracts of millions of pounds, a car, house, new liver, heavenly heart transplant, healing for HIV/AIDS, etc. How willing and prepared are you?
Ask God to deliver your hands from evil so that they will not stand in your way to fuller joy.
