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Judging Ourselves Truly: Self-Examination, Divine Discipline, and the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11:31) · Reformed Thinking

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Reformed thinking, Welcome back to the Deep Dive.
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We're opening the sources today on a subject that, well, it
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makes many believers instinctively flinch.
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And that's the idea of God judging, or maybe a better word
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is disciplining his own people. It's a concept that just clashes
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so intensely with the modern focus on pure affirmation.
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But it's a sobering and you know, a vital teaching when we
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look at the actual consequences Paul describes for the early
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church. Our central text for this is
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going to be First Corinthians 11.31.
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It's a short verse, but it carries immense theological
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weight. For if we judged ourselves
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truly, we would not be judged. So the mission of this deep
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dives to get at what Paul really means.
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Here. We want to grasp how this idea
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of self judgment is presented. It's not some kind of morbid,
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debilitating introspection that's just designed to create
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anxiety. Instead, what the sources show
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is that it's a gracious, proactive and genuinely
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preventative measure. It's the God-given way believers
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can spare themselves from heavier, sometimes really
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painful, corrective discipline from their Father.
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We want to see why it's a mercy, not a burden.
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And setting the stage for that is it's non negotiable because
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this teaching doesn't just appear in a vacuum as some
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general principle. These insights come directly,
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and I mean forcefully, from Paul's stinging rebuke of the
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Corinthian church. This specific historical context
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is their shockingly poor and irreverent conduct around the
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Lord's Supper, which he details from First Corinthians 11, verse
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17 all the way through 34. The immediate trigger for Paul's
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letter, and this is critical and for the severe physical
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consequences that came after, was that the Corinthians were
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grossly misusing Christ's sacred ordinance.
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They were turning a meal meant to proclaim Christ's sacrificial
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death and symbolize the unity of his body into, well, the sources
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call it an arena of selfishness and social pride.
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This was just an open insult to Christ and to his people, and it
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had severe consequences that Paul addresses with frankly
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terrifying specificity. So by carefully organizing and
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analyzing what Paul teaches here, looking at the sin, then
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the consequence, then the theological distinction he
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makes, and finally the solution, you gain critical knowledge.
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Knowledge about true Christian piety, about the often
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misunderstood nature of divine fatherhood and correction, and
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about how we participate in the means of grace, especially the
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Lord's Supper. When you understand it
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correctly, it completely changes the concept of self judgment
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from something fearful into a necessary spiritual maintenance
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check that actually preserves life.
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OK, so let's unpack that initial scandal, because you really
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can't grasp the severity of the discipline without internalizing
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just how irreverent they were being.
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The sources detail what the Corinthians were doing wrong,
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and the entire root of the problem was the social divisions
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they brought with them right into the church assembly.
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The misconduct was basically taking a sacred communal meal
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and stripping it of its spiritual character, completely
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turning it into something profane.
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The sources note that what should have been the Lord's
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Supper became, in effect, your own supper.
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A private affair? Exactly.
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A private act of selfish indulgence rather than the
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communal proclamation of Christ's death and the oneness
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of his body. This wasn't just, you know, a
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simple mistake in organizing A potluck.
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It was a deep theological failure about the very nature of
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the church. And we have to look closely at
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the specific sins of this selfish indulgence, which were
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tied directly to the social hierarchy in that congregation,
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Corinthian assemblies. They often involved a kind of a
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gape your love feast before the bread and wine were shared.
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And the wealthy members who, you know, they owned the large homes
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where the church met. They had more free time, more
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food. They were behaving
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disgracefully. The sources explained that these
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wealthy individuals would arrive early and just consume food
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selfishly. They were having a private
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banquet while waiting for everyone else.
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Paul says they would eat and drink to the full and even
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mentions drunkenness. This wasn't just rude, it was a
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self-centered feast that completely negated the purpose
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of the gathering. Which was supposed to be about
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mutual dependence and equality under the cross.
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That's it. And the selfish indulgence
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created a profound and very visible social divide.
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And that's what Paul saw as the real scandal.
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You have to remember the early Christian Church had a huge
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proportion of poor and enslaved people.
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Many of them worked long hours, so they would arrive late to the
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assembly. So all the wealthy had already
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feasted and were, you know, some were drunk.
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The poor brethren, slaves, laborers, they'd arrive hungry
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and find nothing left. Just awful to picture.
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It is this public shaming, this disparity.
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It meant that the rich shamed the poor.
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They were publicly demonstrating that the Gospels unifying power
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meant nothing to them compared to keeping up their cultural
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status and satisfying their own appetites.
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Paul saw this failure to wait for one another and this blatant
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social disparity as manifesting divisions and factions in a
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really shameful way. Instead of showing the unity of
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Christ's body, they were reinforcing the very worldly,
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class based hierarchies the Gospel is meant to tear down.
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So their physical behavior translated directly into a
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spiritual violation. And Paul stated this violation
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in the sternest possible terms. He says whoever eats the bread
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or drinks the cup in an unworthy manner becomes guilty of
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profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
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I mean, just think about the weight of that statement.
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They were just being impolite at dinner.
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Paul is saying that they're loveless classes.
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Behavior was so reprehensible that it amounted to a sin that
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directly desecrated the very meaning of Christ's sacrifice.
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The very act that secured their forgiveness in the 1st place and
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the violation was rooted in a critical failure.
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The failure to discern the body, which is a key phrase in Paul's
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argument in verse 29. Their selfish factional conduct
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showed a well, a willful lack of understanding about the dual
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meaning of the ordinance. The sources clarify this body
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refers to two things at the same time, and the Corinthians failed
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on both counts. First, it refers to Christ's
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sacrificial body, broken for them on the cross.
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By treating the memorial so casually with such a reverence,
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they failed to honor what that body accomplished.
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But secondly, and maybe more immediately for their sin, it
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refers to the corporate body, the Church itself.
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The lack of love and unity they showed toward the poor brethren
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contradicted the very truth the Supper was meant to represent,
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that all believers, regardless of wealth or status, are one
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body in Christ. When they failed to treat the
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poor as part of the unified body of Christ, they failed to
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discern the body. This is the core insight.
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You cannot honor the head Christ while dishonouring the parts of
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the body He redeemed. So Paul is making it clear that
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the visible physical unity of the church is part of the sacred
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ordinance itself. That's right.
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Which brings us directly to the consequence.
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I mean, given the shocking irreverence and the active
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dishonouring of both Christ's sacrificial body and his
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corporate body, the next question is obvious.
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What kind of response did Paul say this provoked from God?
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And this leads us to what many find to be the most sobering and
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frankly frightening part of the passage, the severity of the
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divine discipline that followed. This wasn't some hypothetical
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threat of future judgement. Paul says this corrective
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judgement was already present in the congregation.
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This was observable reality for them.
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It was happening. It was happening.
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The physical manifestation of this judgement was terrifyingly
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specific. And I was struck by how specific
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Paul gets. He's not just talking about
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spiritual unease or general misfortune.
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He explicitly states that weakness, illness, and even
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death had come upon some of the Corinthians.
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This was a direct, demonstrable and physical consequence of
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their irreverent and loveless Yeah.
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Verse 30 the sources confirm the Verse 30 explains that many are
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weak and I'll among you, and some have died precisely because
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of God's decisive response to the ongoing, unrepentant,
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selfish participation at the Lord's table.
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These consequences were introduced by Paul as divine
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responses to sin, and they served as God's corrective
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judgement. It shows us that God takes the
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reverence of his ordinances and the unity of his people
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incredibly seriously. So seriously that he was
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intervening with physical chastisement in a way that,
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should, you know, shake us out of our modern complacency.
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And to properly interpret this discipline, we have to grasp its
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nature. This is where the theological
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nuance is just critical. The sources stressed that these
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temporal judgments, though incredibly severe, I mean even
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resulting in physical death, were fundamentally acts of
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fatherly discipline from God. They were not retributive
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punishment designed for condemnation.
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Their purpose was entirely corrective.
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It's. Hard for people to all of that,
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isn't it? That death can be a corrective
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act of love? Doesn't that risk minimizing the
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tragedy? Well, the sources guide us here
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by explaining that these judgments fall under the scope
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of temporal chastisement, which is reserved for those God
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acknowledges as his own children.
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Now, historical interpretations vary on the specifics.
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Were these miraculous diseases? Or was God just withdrawing His
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providential protection and allowing natural consequences to
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run their course, magnified by His displeasure?
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But either way, the theological purpose remains the same.
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God was saying, You are my child, and I will not allow you
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to continue on this path of unrepentant sin.
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Therefore, the purpose of God's intervention was not
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condemnation, but specifically to awaken repentance.
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The severity, the heavy strokes of weakness, illness and death
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was designed to confront their blatant irreverence, to shatter
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their self-centered complacency, and to awaken repentance, to
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summon them back to genuine faith and love within the body
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of Christ. So that makes the distinction
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between temporal judgement and final judgement absolutely
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essential. This discipline was the Lord
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intervening with these heavy strokes because they utterly
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failed to judge themselves truly.
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And if they would continue to that unrepentant sin, they
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risked proving by their actions that they didn't truly belong to
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Christ, and so they would risk facing that final condemnation
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reserve for the world. But Paul immediately clarifies
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that the pain they were experiencing was paradoxically,
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a sign of their spiritual safety.
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And this brings us to the core theological hinge of the entire
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passage in verse 32, which clearly separates discipline
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from condemnation. Paul's axiom here, his
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distinction is central to understanding God's relationship
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with his adopted people. It is the core theological axiom
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from First Corinthians 11.32 is definitive.
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When we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we
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may not be condemned along with the world.
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The sources highlight that the distinction between discipline
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and condemnation is based entirely on three factors,
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purpose, recipients and outcome. So look at the difference in
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recipients. Discipline is for believers.
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It's presented as evidence of sonship and fatherly love.
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Condemnation, however, is reserved for the world, for
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those who refuse Christ and have no relationship with the Father
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and. The purpose is dramatically
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different. Discipline is restorative.
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It's corrective. It's designed to stop harmful
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behavior and lead the believer toward life and holiness.
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Condemnation is destructive and final.
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It's the ultimate verdict of wrath.
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You just can't conflate those two concepts when you're talking
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about a believer. And the nature of divine wrath
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is what fundamentally distinguishes them.
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The source material states unequivocally that for those in
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Christ, there is no retributive condemning wrath left.
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And why is that? Because God's wrath against sin
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for believers has been fully exhausted in Christ's atoning
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death. That's Romans 8.1.
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That's it. It harmonizes perfectly with the
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assurance in Romans 8.1. There is therefore now no
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condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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If the believer is in Christ, the debt is paid, so the
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temporal pain they face, the weakness, the sickness, even the
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death can't be retributive punishment.
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It has to be an act of love designed to sanctify them.
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Which means the temporal judgments that Corinthians faced
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were severe, yes, but they were acts of love designed to pull
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them back from the brink of spiritual ruin.
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Discipline is presented as evidence of sonship, and that
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connects directly to the teaching in Hebrews 12 about the
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goodness and necessity of the Lord's chastening hand.
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Critically, this discipline is enacted to preserve believers
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from spiritual ruin. God steps in with these
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corrective strokes because He is preventing His people from
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living in unrepentant hypocrisy and therefore proving by their
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actions that they belong to the world that will be condemned.
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Discipline is the Father's mercy that spares His people from a
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far worse fate. And to make this distinction
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more concrete, let's look at those helpful analogies from the
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sources. The first one is the surgical
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analogy. It compares discipline to a
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doctor surgically removing a dangerous tumor.
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The surgery is painful. It's severe.
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It involves cutting. There's genuine suffering.
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But its entire purpose is healing and restorative.
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It proves the patient is under loving expert care, determined
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to restore health even at great cost.
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Condemnation, on the other hand, is like a judge issuing a final
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sentence. It's purely punitive.
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There's no hope of restoration, and it leads to irreversible
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destruction. The knife of discipline cuts to
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save. The verdict of condemnation cuts
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to destroy. And the second analogy is the
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parental 1 discipline is like a loving parents sharp corrective
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time out or chasing. It's uncomfortable, it's
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painful, and it requires submission from the child.
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But the purpose isn't to destroy or reject the child.
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It's to correct harmful behavior and restore the relationship on
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right terms. And this prevents the child from
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continuing on a path that leads to self destruction or exclusion
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from the family. In every case, discipline is
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oriented toward life and holiness.
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Condemnation is reserved for that final, destructive
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outpouring of wrath against those who refuse Christ.
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The difference in motivation and outcome is just absolute, and
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it's why receiving temporal discipline, even severe
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discipline, is a confirmation of sonship.
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That differentiation is so vital because it sets up the next
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critical piece of instruction. The concept of true self
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judgement as the gracious preventative Paul isn't just
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terrifying them with consequences, he's giving them
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the mechanism to avoid that painful corrective surgery
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entirely. Let's recite the conditional
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principle again, knowing the context now.
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For if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
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This principle of aversion highlights that the practice of
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self judgement is God's gracious preventative measure.
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It is the spirit LED action that preempts the necessity of the
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Lord stepping in with those heavier corrective strokes of
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discipline, strokes that could result in illness or even death.
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The believer chooses the correction now, making the
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forced involuntary correction unnecessary later.
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So now we need to look at the nature of this true self
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judgement because it's so far removed from the morbid
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introspection that just leads to despair.
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It's defined in the sources as an act of spiritual health and
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accountability. It requires submitting 1's own
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heart, motives and conduct to God's searching scrutiny.
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The Greek verb for judged. Here it carries the sense of
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discriminating, evaluating and passing a verdict.
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True self judgment has to be Spirit LED, scripture governed,
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and Christ centered. It means voluntarily submitting
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your life to the searching, sanctifying verdict of God's
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Word. We're asking the Scripture,
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guided by the Spirit, to reveal where we are out of alignment
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with God's will. And that reflexive pronoun
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ourselves is so important it stresses the internal focus.
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The proper focus is on bringing our own lives under God's
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searching gaze, not primarily critiquing or passing verdicts
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on others. This is a sober readiness to
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compare your own life, your affections, your relationships,
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your habits, including your financial habits, as the
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Corinthians needed to do, to the revealed will of God.
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This concept creates a very clear contrast then between two
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types of judgement, voluntary and involuntary.
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Voluntary spirit LED self judgement in the action Paul
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commands and commands involuntary divinely imposed
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judgement of the discipline is the painful consequence that is
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avoided. Right, and when believers refuse
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to deal with their own known sin, the Lord has to step in and
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that is often a traumatic experience.
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True self judgement is defined as the believers spirit moved
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agreement with God's verdict about his sin.
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It's a proactive spiritual declaration, and this agreement
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has to involve concrete steps, confessing, repenting, and
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amending their ways. It requires turning away from
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the specific sin that the Word exposes.
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It's not enough to just feel guilty.
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There has to be a change of direction.
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And this is where it stops being theoretical and becomes acutely
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practical. The action required is about
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refusing to cling stubbornly to the sins for which Christ died.
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It's about bowing beneath God's verdict now, choosing the
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painful but restorative course of repentance.
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By doing this, by choosing the necessary correction through
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repentance, the believer satisfies the requirement for
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correction, and the Lord, seeing their voluntary action, spares
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them from the painful involuntary discipline of
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sickness or loss. It's the ultimate expression of
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Christian maturity, acknowledging fault and taking
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immediate steps to rectify it. So having established the nature
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of self judgement, we can turn now to its specific application
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within Protestant piety, and most immediately at the Lord's
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Supper, which was the original context for all of Paul's
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teaching. Here.
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Paul's explicit command, which comes before the statement about
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self judgement, is let a person examine himself then, and so eat
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of the bread and drink of the cup.
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That's First Corinthians 11.28. This examination is the
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necessary prerequisite for worthy participation, and we
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have to slow down and ask worthy how?
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Right. Not worthy in the sense of
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earning grace. No, not at all.
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Worthy in the sense of approaching the table in the
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right manner and with the right reverence and intention.
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So for the Corinthians specifically, this meant
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scrutinizing their conduct and their relationships.
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They had to examine their attitudes toward their poorer
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brethren. They had to recognize how their
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social habits utterly contradicted the meaning of
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Christ's death and the unity of his body.
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Their self examination had to start with the obvious visible
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sin of class discrimination and drunkenness in the holy
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assembly. But for us today, the principle
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of examination is broader. In the Westminster tradition,
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which, you know, informs much of our Protestant approach to the
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means of grace, this concept of self examination is explicitly
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taught as preparation for the table.
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Communicants are taught to consider five key areas, their
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knowledge, faith, repentance, love to God and neighbor, and
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new obedience when they're preparing for the table.
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And why those 5? Well, because they are the basic
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markers of genuine saving faith that align with the supper's
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purpose. The Corinthians clearly failed
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on knowledge. They didn't understand the body.
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They failed on love. They shamed their neighbors and
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they failed on obedience. They were drunk and selfish.
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And the goal of this examination is clear.
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The believer must not approach the Supper with known cherished
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sin and a hardened heart. The table is designed to comfort
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the penitent, those who have confessed their sin and are
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running to Christ for refuge. It is not designed to flatter
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the presumptuous, those who are clinging to their sin while
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claiming Christ. Which means this self judgement
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has to maintain a gospel centered goal.
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It has to. Self judgement doesn't stop at
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mere accusation because accusation alone detached from
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grace. It just leads to one of two
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spiritual errors, Despair thinking you'll never measure
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up, or self righteousness, thinking you measure up better
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than others. Both are dangerous.
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Very healthy self judgement ends by directing the believer to
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Christ. When sin is uncovered, the
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proper response is to confess, repent, seek reconciliation
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where you need to, and then come humbly, trusting in Christ's
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righteousness alone. The believer has to remember
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that the wrath against their sin has already been exhausted in
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Christ. The confession is simply
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agreeing with God that the sin is repugnant.
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And the act of self judgment actually enhances the experience
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of grace at the table. How so?
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Because we come freshly aware of our need and the sheer magnitude
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of Christ's payment. It's a positive, normal feature
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of Christian piety. So it allows believers to
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cooperate with God's sanctifying work voluntarily.
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Exactly. Instead of God having to force
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them into correction through heavier outward chastisements,
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bring themselves under the scrutiny of His Word,
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anticipating discipline and making those painful involuntary
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measures unnecessary. This is the definition of
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spiritual maturity, Doing voluntarily what God would
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eventually make you do involuntarily.
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Finally, we have to. Consider the corporate
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implications. Because this principle is self
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judgement, it applies not just to the individual believer, but
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to the church as an assembly. This is particularly relevant
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today, where the desire for comfort often outweighs the
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requirement for fidelity. The neglect of discipline,
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whether that's in preaching, in church membership, or at the
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table. It means the church refuses to
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judge themselves at the corporate level.
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The sources point out that local churches that habitually ignore
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public sin, or refuse to confront divisive or heretical
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behavior, or allow the unrepentant to partake
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indiscriminately in the table, are failing to practice this
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essential corporate self judgement.
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And what does this look? Like in a modern context?
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Well, it means ignoring ethical lapses in leadership.
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It means refusing to uphold clear membership standards
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because of a fear of offense, or declining to preach God's
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verdict on cultural sins in favor of mere affirmation.
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When a church refuses to use the keys of discipline, admonition,
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suspension, or even excommunication, it is refusing
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to judge itself. So this corporate.
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Neglect. Far from creating a kinder or
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more welcoming environment, it does the opposite.
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It does it. Simply postpones and intensifies
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the Lord's own discipline. When corporate sin is left
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untouched and cherished by the congregation, God has to
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intervene with heavier, corrective judgments on the body
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as a whole. The Lord doesn't just shrug at
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the disobedience of His collective people.
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The conclusion then? Is that by embracing the
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discomfort of self judgment now, both individually in our prayer
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closet and corporately in the functioning of the church,
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believers walk under the smile of God's fatherly favor rather
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than under His heavier hand. It is the God ordained means of
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walking in holiness and avoiding those severe chastisements of
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weakness, illness, and even death that Paul warned the
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Corinthians about. And it requires spiritual.
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Courage, it does it. Requires courage to look
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squarely at your life and agree with God's verdict, knowing that
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if you don't, He will intervene to prevent your spiritual ruin.
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So to summarize. The core principle we have
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extracted from Paul's instruction to the Corinthians,
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self judgement, is a mercy. It is a proactive, preventative
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measure that believers engage in against God's temporal fatherly
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discipline, which can manifest as physical weakness, illness,
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and death. Right.
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And the motivation for this practice rests entirely in the
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Father's sovereign love. God's discipline confirms
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sonship and is always restorative.
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It's designed to lead to repentance and holiness, and by
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that, ensuring we are spared from condemnation with the
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world. By willingly agreeing with God's
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verdict on our sin now, we ensure that the Lord doesn't
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need to step in with painful, involuntary judgement later, the
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world insists. Today that affirmation and the
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avoidance of all judgement lead to life, that we should always
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be true to ourselves, no matter what God's standard says.
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Scripture, however, insists that life is found in agreeing with
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God's judgement on our sin and fleeing immediately to the
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crucified and risen Christ. So considering the clarity and
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severity of Paul's warning that God will use illness and even
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death to correct His children, the question for you to consider
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is this. What specific area of corporate
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or individual life, governed by cultural comfort or self
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justification, rather than the searching light of Scripture,
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might currently be inviting the Father's corrective hand?
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And what steps of repentance, of judging yourself, truly bowing
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beneath His verdict now, will you take today to honor the body
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of Christ?