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sicknesses, and I partake receiving His health. I’m
approving what He has already approved.”
Can you see? To examine yourself does not mean
to check yourself for sins committed. Notice that
verse 28 says, “Let a man examine himself, and so
let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.” It does
not say, “Let a man examine himself for sin and
abstain from the bread and the cup.” In fact, to
partake with sin-consciousness after all the Lord has
done to secure our forgiveness and healing is to
partake “in an unworthy manner,” and according to
verse 29, such a believer “eats and drinks judgment
to himself.”
Judgment in the Greek is krima (Strong’s
#2917), which means “condemnation of wrong.” The
reflexive pronoun himself indicates that this believer
(not God) is performing the judgment upon himself.
He is condemning himself when he partakes with
self-condemnation and sin-consciousness. To partake
like that is to partake unworthily, because the cup is
proof that the blood of Christ has remitted the
believer’s sins, yet he is still seeing them on himself.
Partaking with sin-consciousness is also “not
discerning the Lord’s body” (v. 29). The word
discerning is diakrino (Strong’s #1252), which
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon defines as “to separate,