Where’s Jesus?

For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep. If we were properly evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged, but when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we may not be condemned with the world. (1 Corinthians 11:29-32 HCSB ©®)

Saul didn’t notice when the Spirit was removed from him Who had anointed him to be Israel’s king (1 Samuel 16:14-15). His servants had to inform him that he was now anointed by tormenting spirits rather than the Spirit of God.

Unless we are willing to look, we cannot see the Lord in His people. It is especially difficult to see His presence in the people with whom we disagree. It is especially difficult to see Him in the people who are immature.

The unworthy manner Paul mentioned as the wrong way to eat the Lord’s Supper was to eat without discerning His body. The people Paul was writing correction to in Corinth were the people who owned houses, who had food in them, and who were looking with disdain on the people who had nothing. The rich were eating at the meeting of the ekklesias in Corinth without waiting on the poor. Paul told them that they were not discerning that their insults and disgust were being directed to the body of Jesus when they were directed at His people, and they were, therefore, cursing His body and then eating what they had cursed when they ate the bread and drank the wine.

Their hearts were too hardened to notice Who they were mistreating.