How to Receive Your Healing Part 8
Discerning the Lord’s Body
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
I. How to Receive Your Healing
A. Discerning the Lord’s Body
1. The Lord’s Supper is recorded in Matt. 22, Mk 14, and Luke 22, and Jesus taught on the life in eating His flesh and drinking His blood in John 6. Paul expounds on the Lord’s Supper in 1 Cor. 11. This is all rooted in Israel’s Passover Meal (ref. Exo. 12:3-11; [Ps. 105:37 GNT]).
2.(1 Cor. 11:23-30) What the Lord revealed to Paul about the Lord’s table. Some of the most misunderstood scriptures.
a. (v27)“…whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner…” The “unworthy manner” is not having some sin in your life; it’s not discerning (understanding) the Lord’s body properly!
b. (v28) “…let a man examine himself…” in the way he discerns or understands the Lord’s body.
c. (v29) this “judgment” is not damnation from God it relates to the “divine sentence” on man in the Garden of Eden.
d. (v30) Notice he didn’t say this is ONE among many reasons that the body of Christ is weak, sickly and sleep. “…not discerning the Lord’s body. For THIS reason…”
3. Two aspects of discerning the Lord’s body.
a. The broken body of Jesus – Jesus is our Lamb and Passover Meal. He is the substance to all the OT types and shadows.
~(John 1:29; 6:32-35, 53-56) Jesus was saying we have to mix faith with what His blood provided (forgiveness of sin) and mix faith with what the breaking of His body provided (healing).
~(Isa. 52:14 AMPC; 53:3-5 all AMPC) the suffering Savior paid for our sin and sickness.
b. His Body – the Church
~(1 Cor. 10:16-17) we are one bread, one body
~(1 Cor. 11:17-22) honor the Lord’s body by not just looking out for yourself but for others.
-(Acts 9:1-5) Saul’s conversion
-(Matt. 15:32-40) the brethren are His body
~(1 Cor. 12:7, [12-27 AMPC]) love and respect every member of the body.
~(Eph. 4:11-16) the importance of unity in the body.
[Pastor Lee Stokes]