Discerning the Lord's Body

Well, good morning again, brethren. It's always wonderful to be able to be here and be able to see you, and be able to be a part of the work that God is doing, part of what He is doing in each of our lives.

And it's wonderful to be able to hear, to hear what was covered already in the sermonette, what Tom has added as we're thinking about the Passover, as we're thinking about the days of Unleavened Bread, this spring Holy Day season. It's fascinating to see that even though you read about the Passover, and you read about the days of Unleavened Bread in the Gospels, and we read about it in the book of Acts, you actually find in 1 Corinthians statements directly about keeping the feast, directly the Feast of Unleavened Bread in 1 Corinthians 5, and then later in 1 Corinthians 11, as Brian was covering earlier today. You see Paul explicitly stating about the observance of the memorial of the death of Jesus Christ. And as you read there, you see that he's kind of telling the Corinthians, you really are messed up. Yeah, you're not doing this right. You need to be able to be humble before God. You need to be able to be united in your approach to God, in your service to God, and in your love for one another. And so it's always, I think, the proper text for us to be able to look at what it says here in 1 Corinthians 11, and be able to gain the insight that Paul wanted to have available to the Corinthians, but not only to them, but to all of the members of the Church of God over the past 2,000 years. And of course, it's as applicable to us right now as it was any time since the time it was written. Well, whenever we look here in 1 Corinthians 11, again, as we already covered in the sermonette, it tells us, as Paul describes the bread and the wine that Jesus instituted to use as symbols of his body and of his blood, he tells us to come together and to eat the Passover. He tells us that we are to do that, but we are to prepare to do that, as I know all of you have already been doing, and I know we've had other messages that have mentioned this, but we're to prepare to do that in two ways. And I want to read those here. In verse 28 of 1 Corinthians 11, it says, examine yourself. Examine yourself and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

And so I know, again, that this is not unknown. All of us are aware of that. We can be examining ourselves. We can be thinking about our lives. We can be thinking about our devotion to God. We can be thinking about our prayer life. We can think about, you know, do we really hunger and thirst for the Word of God? Do we hunger and thirst for righteousness? And these are all things that we can analyze throughout all of the year. But specifically, we're told to examine ourselves.

And then it says here in verse 28, then we should eat of the Passover. We should eat of the bread and of the wine. But I want to also focus. That's one of the things that's very clear that are here.

The second thing that I believe we ought to focus on, it says in verse 29, all who eat and drink without discerning the Lord's body, eat and drink judgment to themselves.

So there's another, not only examining myself and perhaps even seeing some of my weaknesses, some of my need for forgiveness, but also to properly discern the Lord's body.

And so I know we surely have been thinking about examining. I want to talk about and cover the topic of discerning the Lord's body. And again, the sermonette ties in directly with this as well.

But we want to, as we come and as we take of the Passover, we want to properly discern the Lord's body. What does that mean? And could it give meaning to our suffering and to any pain that we have as we wait for God to heal us? Is that tied together? Is there a connection? I think we ought to think about it. How is discerning the Lord's body going to improve your worship of God and your respect for the sacrifice of the Lamb of God?

The discerning the Lord's body is directly tied into that. You know, could this key element of discerning the Lord's body, could it help us in our victory over sin throughout the entirety of the year? Because we do want to become victorious over sin. That's not solely on our efforts, but it does involve the body of the Lord. It does involve an understanding and a connection and a communion with the body of the Lord. And so, maybe all of these elements tie together, and yet I think we should think of them as we are approaching the time of the Passover.

I thought of three different things that I would say should maybe be thought of. Whenever we think of discerning the Lord's body or discerning the body of the Lord, what does that mean? Well, first of all, the first thing that comes to mind to me is actually a complete understanding of the sacrifice that was given for us. See, a thankfulness for the shed blood of our Savior for the remission of our sins. It's not simply a matter of realizing that that's what He gave His life for. That's what He allowed His blood to be shed for. And He said, you know, the wine is going to be a symbol of my blood that is given for you and that is given for the remission of your sins.

But see, it's a matter of being truly thankful for that shed blood. And I think that is a part of discerning the Lord's body. If we go over to 1 Peter chapter 1, you actually find numerous verses that tie together in connection with this. But as we think about discerning the Lord's body, which we're told to do, we are told that, you know, the description is really wonderful here in 1 Peter chapter 1. Actually, Peter has a lot to say to Christians who are continuing to grow. They're continuing to grow throughout their lifetime, throughout their relationship, their budding relationship with God. Now we may have thought we had that when we were younger, and I certainly wanted that when I was younger. I looked back and think, well, that was pretty pinheaded of me to think that I had a wonderful relationship with God when it was pretty limited. It has been improving.

Maybe it doesn't show, but it has been improving. It has been, I know my understanding is growing, and I believe that God is causing more of his divine nature to be able to be expressed through me. At least that's my desire, and I know he has the capacity to do that. But it says here in verse 18 of 1 Peter 1, it says, you know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but in verse 19, with the precious, the precious blood of Jesus Christ, like that of a lamb without defector blemish.

See, Peter describes the blood of Jesus, the shed blood that was given for us a symbol of what we want to be grateful for and be thankful for. He describes that as being precious.

See, what are precious things to you? Well, you know, you could describe the things that are really precious to you, and many of them would be physical things. Many of them would be family, or would be things that have some worth or value or maybe special value to you. But here, it's described as, you know, the blood that's been given for us or given for our eternal life.

It goes on in verse 20 to say, he was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the age for your sake. And so this has been a part of the plan of God before Adam was created. This was a part of the plan of God before the creation of the physical universe, and perhaps even before the creation of the angelic realm. The plan was from the foundation of the world that he would come, and through him, in verse 21, you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and who gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God. See, that's where we have security. That's where we have stability.

And that is clearly, you know, where we want our mind focused as we come and take the Passover, as we eat the Passover. We want to discern the body by being thankful for it. In Isaiah 53, and this may have already been covered here in the last few weeks. I really haven't covered everything that you all would have had given here in the service, but in Isaiah 53, you see a description. 52, the latter part of it, and then throughout 53, you see a description that Jesus inspired Isaiah to write about what he would eventually go through. And it says, starting in verse 10, this of course deals with his sacrifice, Isaiah 53 verse 10, it was for the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. And when you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days, and through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.

This is talking about the servant who would come, the one who was willing to divest himself of the God-kind that he was and take on the humankind. And then verse 11, out of his anguish, he shall see light. He shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquity. See, how is it that I'm going to be righteous? I'm never going to be able to be good enough. I'm never going to be able to be obedient enough to say, okay, I am now righteous. That righteousness comes from Jesus Christ. That righteousness comes from faith in God and a belief in the sacrifice that Jesus gave.

And so it says, this servant shall make many righteous. He shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great. He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out himself to death, and he was numbered with the transgressors. He bore the sin of many, and he made intercession for their transgression. See, now, of course, Jesus' sacrifice is going to be ultimately applied to the entirety of humanity.

You know, however many billion people have ever lived and died, or who currently live, which is about, what, seven billion now. You know, that sacrifice is able to atone for all.

But see, we want to be specific about it to realize that sacrifice was given for me. It was given for my sins, for my iniquity, so that I could have intercession made for my transgressions. And so that involves, you know, my thankfulness for what the body of the Lord has done.

I want us to look in Luke chapter 7. This is an example that I think perhaps can help us in thinking about the way in which we are grateful for the shed blood of our Savior. Clearly, the wine that is a part of the Passover service is emblematic of His shed blood. And yet it should be more than that to us. It should be something that we are extremely grateful for. And I think here in Luke 7, Jesus gives an illustration. And this is actually a long section that I'm only going to read parts of.

But you see, starting in verse 36 of Luke 7, of Jesus coming to the Pharisee Simon's home.

And there were a number of things that the Pharisee did not provide. I don't know that he was entirely impressed with who he was dining with. I don't think he really realized. I'm sure he didn't realize. I know he didn't realize who this was. And yet there were some who were coming to see who he was and what he was able to do and why he was here. And it says in verse...

let's see... Jesus said in verse 40, he said, Simon, I've got something to tell you. And so Simon said, teacher, go ahead and speak. And Jesus said in verse 41, a certain creditor had two debtors and one owed 500 and one owed 50. When they couldn't pay, he canceled both the debts.

Now, which of those two, which of those two do you think would love him more?

And of course, Simon's answer in verse 43 was, I suppose, the one for whom he canceled the greatest debt. The one very obviously, the one who had been owing 500, having that dealt canceled, was far, far greater, far more significant. He would love that forgiveness even greater than the one who had 50 forgiven. Jesus said, you have judged rightly in verse 43, but in verse 44, he turned to the woman. Now, we didn't read the experience of what this woman had been doing. And you can read that later, if you would like, in verse 36 on down to about verse 40. But Jesus said, turning toward the woman who had been washing his feet with her tears, and who had anointed his feet, and who had actually come and bowed before him. He said in verse 44, do you see this woman?

When I entered your house, Simon, you didn't give me any water for my feet, but this woman has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

He said, Simon, you didn't give me any kiss, but from the time I came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet.

Verse 46, Simon, you did anoint my head with oil, and yet she has anointed my feet with ointment.

He was making a huge contrast here. Simon, you don't even know who I am.

You don't even acknowledge that I'm the Son of God. You maybe have even seen some or heard tell of some of the miracles that I've been able to do, but you don't really believe. You don't see that you need me. And yet, obviously, he was showing that this woman very much knew her sins.

She knew that she needed the blood of Jesus. She knew that she needed forgiveness from him.

And so, it says, therefore, in verse 47, I tell you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven.

Her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, and hence she has shown great love for the one to whom little is forgiven loves little. And he said, where your sins are forgiven.

And, of course, that created a problem with those who were there.

Who's he? Why is he forgiving sin? Well, it was a matter of who he was and what he could do.

And, of course, he told her in verse 50, your faith has saved you. Go in peace.

See, now, I mention that illustration simply because whenever we think about how thankful we are, how thankful we are for the shed blood of Jesus Christ, this illustration of this difference between Simon, who did not see his knee, he did not see his sins. He thought he was pretty, I mean, he was pretty epity in the community. He's a Pharisee. He's, you know, acclaimed by others.

He's given honor. He's given respect. He didn't see his sins. He didn't see that he needed the blood of the lamb. Of course, that was yet to be given. But clearly he was able to forgive sin, even as he did with this woman, as he did in many other occasions whenever people came to him and wanted to be healed. In some cases, he said, your sins are forgiven. And so he healed them. And yet, I point out the fact that this woman truly saw what she needed. She saw the extent of her sins.

And so, you know, whenever we think about the body, discerning the body of the Lord, I think it should involve a deep gratitude and thankfulness and a recognition of our sins. Maybe recognizing them more is better. It's not so much that we want to be greater sinners, but really, as we understand more thoroughly the way sin in this world just permeates us.

It infects our heart and our mind, and it corrupts our vision of what is right and what is wrong.

And then we come to see certain things initially, and hopefully we see more things and even more things that where we are so thankful that we have the blood of Jesus to cover our sin.

So recognizing our sins and having faith toward God, as he explained about this woman having faith for the one that she had come to for help. She had come to, she had been, she recognized who he was, and she recognized the enormous amount of sins that she needed to be forgiven of, and so she was commended. The second thing that's very clear as we keep the Passover and observe the bread and wine that Jesus said would be a part of that service.

Secondly, we want to appreciate the body of Jesus that was broken for us.

Now these are statements, again, I know you're familiar with, but they're statements that we need to think about in connection with the body of the Lord. And we read here in 1 Peter, again, as I mentioned, Peter has a lot to say about things that Christians need to identify with, but it says in 1 Peter 2, starting in verse 21, he says, For to this, you, you Christians, you have been called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.

Now it's bad enough that Jesus was crucified. It's bad enough that His blood was drained from His body and He died. And yet what did He go through prior to that time? What did He endure?

What did He suffer as He was abused in almost every way imaginable? And certainly you can think about, and even the short description that we have in the Gospels of the last few days of Jesus being with His disciples and actually teaching or telling them certain things, and them really not understanding. You know, they got it a little bit at times, and then they didn't.

And certainly, ultimately, they were going to, you know, just turn tail and run. They were all going to deny that they had anything to do with Him. And of course, Peter claimed that he wouldn't do it. He didn't really know his heart. He didn't know his mind. He didn't know his sins.

He was needing to learn that, well, just because I say something, that doesn't mean I do it.

He could say all He wanted. Jesus said, you won't do it. You will turn. And again, Jesus said, even though everyone has turned from me, I'm not alone. So His communion with the Father was such that He knew I'm here on a mission. I'm here with a purpose in mind. And whenever I am being flogged and scourged, as you see described in each of the Gospels, you have a little different description, although, you know, all of them are pretty brief.

Whenever you read about the Roman scourging, you know, it was disfiguring. It was, you know, humiliating not only to go through that, but to feel the pain and the suffering and know that everyone has now turned on me. And yet ultimately then to be crucified with the cruelty that the Roman soldiers were able. You know, it should just cause all of us to cringe whenever you even see the way in which He was treated. You know, people spitting on you, people calling you all kinds of names, people being disrespectful of you, but respectful of whatever official, whether it was a church official or whether it was a government official, you know, they were respectful of them, but they weren't respectful of the one who had created them.

They didn't know who He was. They didn't know what He was doing.

They were completely clueless in that. But what we read here, in verse 23, it says, Jesus committed no sin and no deceit was found in His mouth. When He was abused, He didn't return abuse, and when He suffered, He didn't threaten, He simply entrusted Himself to the one who judges righteously.

See, that's a beyond human response. That was a response that Jesus had knowing, I'm here for a reason, I'm here for a purpose, I'm here in close communion with my Father, and I'm here to allow myself to be offered in a sacrificial way for the needs of our creation, for the needs of the men and women who will make up the family of God, people who will desire, more than anything else, to closely commune with Jesus Christ and with God the Father and have eternal life. See, He always had that in mind. It says, Peter wrote in verse 24, He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree or cross, so that free from sin we might live for righteousness. Yes, we can be forgiven, and then we seek and we desire to live for righteousness.

It says, by His wounds or by His stripes or by His bruises, you have been healed.

For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and the guardian of your soul. See, too many times we read about a connection between the suffering that Jesus went through and even the suffering that we do go through. You know, at times we suffer. At times we're in misery. At times we're in pain. In Matthew 8, you see Jesus, again, healing a woman.

Matthew 8, verse 14, Jesus healed Peter's mother-in-law by simply touching her and the fever that she had, the high fever left her. That's miraculous healing. That's divine healing. That's what any of us want whenever we're sick, whenever we are in pain, whenever we suffer. It says in verse 17, it also talks in verse 16 about Him healing others, casting out demons with the Word and curing all who were sick. This was, in verse 17, to fulfill what had been spoken to the prophet Isaiah. He took our infirmities and he bore our diseases. See, again, this was a part of the prediction that we didn't read earlier, but we can go back and read now here in Isaiah 53.

Isaiah 53, starting in verse 3, see, it was prophesied that He would not only give His life, His blood for our sins, but that He would also, as it says in verse 3, be despised and rejected.

A man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity is one from whom others hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him of no account. I would say that probably Simon's attitude toward Jesus was one of despising him. He didn't like the fact that he did what he did. He didn't like the fact that he commented about how poorly Simon had been a host, or lack of a host, at the dinner.

And yet, this is going to go on to describe in verse 4, surely He bore His born our infirmities and carried our diseases, yet He accounted him stricken and struck down by God and afflicted, where He was wounded for our transgressions and crests for our iniquity, and upon Him was the punishment that made us whole, and by His stripes or bruises we are healed.

Again, all we like sheep have gone astray. See, Peter was recording that in the New Testament that is clearly written here in the Old and predicted by Jesus through Isaiah about what He would endure. See, and whenever, you know, we are sick, we have the wonderful blessing of looking to the One who can make us whole immediately. Whenever we are ill, you know, all of us have certain infirmities at different times. Sometimes they linger longer. Other times, you know, it seems like, you know, the other, maybe we even look at neighbors or others and say, well, you know, they may be sick, but I'm not sure exactly what they're, you know, maybe they're, you know, seeking whatever treatment they can find, but are they really seeking an understanding of the broken body of the Lord that in a sense offers restoration and offers healing and offers hope? Because that's really, you know, what we're able, if we discern the body of the Lord, we can look to Him knowing that He is clearly able to heal. And yet we also know, because if obviously God doesn't always heal, because He lets people die. You know, if He did always heal, then nobody would ever die. You know, people ultimately die. And yet, whenever we're sick, you know, there's a component of that that we want to keep in mind, that we can come to the source of power. We can come to the great position. We can ask for mercy. We can request to be relieved. And here in Matthew chapter 8 again, we were there earlier, but in Matthew 8 you have in the first few verses a section that I want to also add to this. It says in Matthew chapter 8, and I think in some ways I've read this and maybe not understood exactly what it's referring to. But I believe that, you know, perhaps this is a part of what I also need to keep in mind. Whenever we have delays in our healing, because we often, you know, sometimes we're healed relatively soon, and we can thank God for that. Other times, you know, it may go on for weeks or months, or maybe it seems indefinite. Whenever we have delays, I think we should recall what it says here in Matthew 8 verse 1.

When Jesus had come down from the mountain, he gave crowds, the great crowds followed him.

And there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. Now, I know I've read that before, and I thought, okay, it must, it's talking about the will of God, or talking about the will of whether Jesus wants to heal me or not. I don't really know that that's what that's referring to, but that's what I've thought. And it goes on, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. And he stretched out his hand and he touched him, which wasn't something most wanted to do regarding leprosy. But Jesus was able to touch him and said, I will be thou clean. And immediately that leprosy was cleansed.

And so that's the part I want to focus on. I want to read this in the New Revised Standard here, because I think it helps me understand it a little better, because the leper came to him and knelt before him. He was recognizing who he was. He was recognizing the power and the authority that he had. And it says here in this translation, he says, Lord, if you choose, you make me whole. If you choose, or as you choose, whenever you choose, you are able to heal.

He was expressing a belief. He was expressing faith in who Jesus was. He was acknowledging that clearly Jesus had the power. He had the power. And so I think maybe I haven't looked up that particular word, but it seems to have an implication that, well, if he chooses, as soon as he chooses, or as long as it takes for him to choose, he can heal. And verse 3, when he stretched out his hand and touched him, he said, I choose. I do choose. Be clean. See, is it a matter that we are always, as we come to God and ask for healing, and as we discern the body, we realize what he went through was for us, what he suffered was also extended to us a miracle of a blessing of healing. But whenever we come to God and ask for that, we are always subject to his will in our appeals. We're always subject to that will, whatever that will is. And I know I was struck by one note that Pat received, and she's received not only many from you all, but from many other people around the world, around the country, and around the world. And one woman wrote to her, and I know that this lady was expressing a...she was talking about discouragement and how, certainly when things linger for a while, you get discouraged. It's easy to get discouraged, and she had even expressed a certain level of discouragement herself. And yet she also wrote in what really stuck out, what stuck in my mind, where she had talked about, you know, maybe something that had gone on longer than you had ever hoped. She said, God is more interested in making me. She was writing this about herself and her own struggles. God is more interested in making me holy than just healthy or happy. He wants us to be close to Him. He wants us to identify. Whenever it says that Jesus suffered, He clearly knows what it is. He was human at that...going through that suffering, going through that scourging, going through that despising, going through the humiliation, going through the embarrassment that would be connected with a human thought. But He is always able to rise...He was able to rise above that. He tells us there in Peter that, well, you know, we may suffer as well.

We may follow that example. He went through that suffering as an example, and we may also suffer some.

But whenever we experience loneliness or discouragement or despair and suffering and pain, you know, we want to be reminded that we believe in God's power. We believe in God's ability. We know God can do. We can...Jesus could clearly heal immediately. So we believe that, but we wait.

We wait for Him to choose to heal us. We wait for His mercy and His healing. So I think that's a part of the body of Christ, of what it is we think about, not only the total sacrifice for eternal life, but also for what He extends to us now in causing us to be close to Him, causing us.

He knows more what I need than I do. And of course, maybe that's what I should be asking, that He will show me. He will help me see what I need, help me see what I need, where I need to grow.

The last part, I think, ties together with what was already mentioned in the sermon, but clearly where it talks about discerning the Lord's body, which we're to do, you know, we want to make a connection between the Lord's body and the Church of God, the body of believers that are called the Church of God. And we want to be able to see others, those of us seated here and those of us scattered around the world who have been drawn by God to Jesus Christ and who are growing in a divine nature.

We want to see others with the love of God. That's what Jesus told His disciples. You're going to be identified by your love for one another, by that togetherness. And even here in 1 Corinthians 11, where we kind of started here today, you see Paul follows this up in chapter 12 with an elaboration of what it is, in a sense, in chapter 11. And as was mentioned in chapter 10, you have some misunderstanding and some confusion and some correction that is there. In chapter 12, he says in verse 12, just as the body is one, has many members, all the members of the body, though many are one body, so it is with Christ. He says this is discerning the body of Christ.

See how I relate to you personally and individually with the love of God is important to discerning the body. And of course, it goes ahead to describe in verse 14, indeed, the body doesn't consist of one member, but many. If the foot says, because I'm not a hand, I'm not going to belong to the body, that would make it less part of the body. If the ear said, because I'm not an eye, I don't belong, that would not make it any less a part of the body. We drop one down to verse 18 and says, as it is written, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them as He chooses or chose.

And if all were a single member, wherever the body be, as it is, there are many members, yet one body. And so, you know, this is something that we realize, we understand, but discerning the body of Christ involves our love and care and concern and our interaction with the members of the body in, out of love, out of caring, out of a desire to serve and care for them. And even as He goes on to say in verse 22, on the contrary, talking about different body parts here, He says the members of the body that seem to be weaker are really indispensable.

You know, often, humanly, you would look at something and say, well, you know, if, if, if there was a weak part of anything, you know, you think, well, you know, that needs to be improved, that needs to be changed, that, that's not the case with the body of Christ. Even those who may seem weaker are indispensable in those members of the body that we think less honorable, we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, whereas our more respectable members do not need this.

But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no division, no dissension, that there may be unity and harmony, that there may be a closeness that is connected with the love of God, a closeness among the members in the body, but the members may have the same care for one another.

And if one member suffers, then all members suffer together with it. And if one member is honored, then all rejoice together with it. Now, I think he describes this in chapter 12 for a reason, as we've already had explained. You know, there was a lot of confusion and division and jostling for position and distress in this congregation. They needed to properly discern the Lord's body. They needed to properly have a relationship with the Father and the Son, and they needed to have a proper relationship with one another where, what we see in verse 26, if one member suffers, then all suffer together, and where one is honored, then all rejoice together with it.

See, I think that that clearly is a big part of what God is wanting us to learn, and I think it's a great part of what he expects us to do, not only examining ourselves, which I believe that you are already doing and perhaps have already done, and even prior to the Passover tomorrow.

You know, we do that as thinking about how much we need, but we also want to discern the body of the Lord, because it does involve all of these areas, and it can give greater meaning to our suffering and pain. It can give greater meaning to that as we await him to choose to heal or to help us. It can improve our worship of God and respect for the sacrifice of Jesus, and it can help us to be motivated to overcome sin.

See, we have to have a reason to overcome sin. We have to come to see sin and hate sin, and then be victorious over sin with the help of God, and all of those are tied together. So I wanted to point that out, and again, I know I've not been here, and I don't know what all has been covered over the last few weeks, but I know it's all been leading up to the Passover and to the foot washing service.

I guess we've had a couple of different sermons on the foot washing service or the meaning of that, the significance of that fabulous example that Jesus set. He did that for us. He did that for our benefit. He did that so that we would know what a legitimate human life is supposed to exhibit, the attitude of service and love toward others.

So I hope that we will all, as we take the Passover, that we will do so not only having examined ourselves and then eating the Passover as we're told to do, but that we will also do so by properly discerning the body of the Lord.