Rebound revisited, part 2. 1Co 11:28; 1Jo 1:8-10; Eph 4:17; 2Ti 2:25.

Title: Rebound revisited, part 2. 1CO 11:28; 1JO 1:8-10; EPH 4:17; 2TI 2:25.     

 

As we saw last night in order to recover from sin, evil, human good, darkness, the world, etc. you are to judge or evaluate yourself (which isn’t introspective for after enough knowledge of what sin is you can recognize it quickly), acknowledge the wrong or sin, cease from it or do it or speak it or think it no longer, and finally change back over to the light, which is the mind of Christ.

 

The work of the Holy Spirit in Helping you, empowering you is constant. The filling of the Spirit means being fully influenced by the Spirit. Since this process would take but a few moments it seems silly to me to argue over when exactly you are fully influenced by the Spirit, the word of God does not give us such details about it, so if I were to put a pin somewhere in this I would say after acknowledging wrong doing or sin.

 

When you are in sin, the Spirit wars with the flesh, and so He convicts you of wrong doing, the word in your soul protests the sin, occupation with Christ shines light on the sin, and so the whole Trinity is helping you when you are out of fellowship as well as in your recovery and when you are spiritual.

 

Remember the miracles, remember the resurrection, and no one believed and everyone doubted, did the Lord abandon them in their sin, or was He constantly helping them to recover and have faith?

 

This all happens in an instant.

 

1.Judge yourself throughout, separating divine thoughts from sin and human good.

 

1CO 11:27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

 

1CO 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

 

“examine” - dokima,zw[dokimazo; present active imperative] = to test, to prove quality, to approve, to test with the hope of showing purity.

 

1CO 11:29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly.

 

Judgment is the noun that is always the result of the verb to judge. In the case of the unbeliever it is judgment of works at the GWTJ that do not add up to perfect righteousness. For the believer in this context it is divine discipline.

 

Here, judgment it would specifically refer to the believer’s ignorance to not discern the proper significance of the Lord’s supper and that needs to change.

 

1CO 11:30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

 

1CO 11:31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.

 

“we judged” - diakri,nw[diakrino; imperfect active indicative] = to separate throughout, to judge, discriminate, discern throughout.

 

The imperfect is an auxiliary to the present tense. It dwells on the course of an event instead of merely stating its occurrence. It denotes something that was or was not being done in the past, but needs to be done in the present but it incomplete, so it needs to continue into the future.

 

Krino means to separate, select, choose, to determine to as to judge of pronounce judgment. Diakrino is stronger than krino and means to discern right and wrong, good and evil, hence the definition to separate.

 

Now it would be morbid for you to be so introspective that you examined and re-examined every thought you had all day. It won’t be long before a positive believer recognizes any errors in his thinking. If you spend time scanning your memory banks for sins all day then you are focusing on sin and not the Son. Eyes on Christ would open the eyes of the soul to wrong doing.

 

I am not alone to recognize sin nature function:

 

GAL 5:17

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

 

So please stop scanning for sin. If you have been out of fellowship with God all day and didn’t know it then either you don’t have the Spirit and are therefore an unbeliever or you are very young in doctrine, which is understandable, or you are simply a foolish believer who is not positive towards God’s word.

 

Remember, the CWL is by grace and not by works.

 

And if I need correction of thinking that has been leading me always out of fellowship with God, where is it to come from?

 

PHI 3:15

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you,

 

In discipline, is not God acting on my behalf in love while I am not in fellowship with Him?

 

HEB 12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

 

HEB 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author [Prince Ruler] and perfecter [Completer] of faith, who for the joy set before Him [in the place of His present joy] endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

HEB 12:3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.

 

HEB 12:4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;

 

In other words keep resisting the temptation to sin [ROM 6:1]:

 

“striving” - anvtagwni,zomai[antagonizomai; present middle participle] = to struggle against, to strive against.

 

HEB 12:5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

"My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,

Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

 

HEB 12:6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,

And He scourges every son whom He receives."

 

HEB 12:7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

 

HEB 12:8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

 

HEB 12:9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

 

HEB 12:10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

 

HEB 12:11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

 

HEB 12:12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,

 

HEB 12:13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

 

 

1CO 11:30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

 

1CO 11:31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.

 

“not be judged” - negative with kri,nw[krino; imperfect passive indicative] = to separate, select, choose, to determine so as to judge or pronounce judgment.

 

1CO 11:32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord in order that we may not be condemned along with the world.

 

“Judged” is krino again followed by discipline by the Lord.

 

“disciplined” - paiedu,w[paieduo; present passive indicative] = to train children through education, to instruct, or to chastise with words or with blows.

 

This word is used in two key passages:

 

HEB 12:6

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,

And He scourges every son whom He receives.

 

REV 3:19

'Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; be zealous therefore, and repent.

 

Paul does not indicate confession of the sin here, but emphasizes a full overhaul of the evil thinking of the Corinthians to an attitude of grace, unity, and full appreciation for the spiritual reality and to discern the spiritual significance of the Lord’s Supper. Obviously they would have to acknowledge their wrong doing if they were going to change it.

 

1CO 11:33 So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

 

“wait” - evkde,comai[ekdechomai; present middle imperative]     To continue to remain in a certain state until an expected event, to receive or to accept, to wait for.

 

Christ is “waiting” until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet and the same word is used. The Corinthians are instructed to receive one another as equals in the body of Christ, waiting for one another in an attitude of grace and thanksgiving, concentrating on the true principle that the Lord’s supper represents, and to stop the pot luck dinner turned into a selfish Lord’s Supper nonsense. 

 

1CO 11:34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you may not come together for judgment.

 

Christ was judged, that’s the reality to our one ritual, so why turn it into an instance requiring divine discipline?

 

The Corinthians were not discerning good and evil in their own lives. They thought that grace meant that they didn’t have to.

 

1. Judge yourself throughout, separating divine thoughts from sin and human good.

 

I will see the errors in my thinking, speech and action by means of God the HS’s war with my flesh and divine discipline if necessary, and then I will make the proper evaluations as I have learned them from my perception of the word of God.

 

Self evaluation or self judgment is not confession. I could determine myself guilty of a crime and confess nothing.

 

2.Acknowlege the sin, evil, wrong, error, human good, etc.