1. gfdgfd
gfdfd

2. Bad eating #1: Making food the point

3. Bad eating #2: Eating too much

4. Bad eating #3: Not as much fun to only eat alone

5. Bad eating #4: Not thinking of others

6. Bad eating #5: Eating to bury pain

7. Bad eating #6: Letting yourself get “hangry”
....it can hurt relationships!

8. Bad eating #7: It’s not just to develop romance

9. …although that can happen

10. Good eating: It can develop relationships

11. The idea of eating in the Bible is often called
gfdfd

12. singing to the Lord, accompanied by loud instruments.
2 Chronicles 30:21
So the children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, 
singing to the Lord, accompanied by loud instruments. 

13. 2 Chronicles 30:22-23
And Hezekiah gave encouragement to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the Lord; and they ate throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.
Then the whole assembly agreed to keep the feast another seven days, and they kept it another seven days with gladness.

14. 2 Chronicles 30:24-25
For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep, and the leaders gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 
The whole assembly of Judah rejoiced, also the priests and Levites, all the assembly that came from Israel, the sojourners who came from the land of Israel, and those who dwelt in Judah.

15. 2 Chronicles 30:26-27
 So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. 
Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard; and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

16. Israel’s Feasts
Passover
Unleavened Bread
First Fruits
Pentecost
Trumpets
Atonement
Tabernacles

17. God desired that Israel remember events as a nation.
Israel’s Feasts
God desired that Israel remember events as a nation.
It was a major part of giving and worship.

18. Eating together develops intimacy.
Table Fellowship
Eating together develops intimacy.

19. Matthew 9:10-11
Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

20. Matthew 9:12-13
When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

21. Matthew 9
They were explicitly upset because Jesus ate with them
Eating is linked to repentant hearts

22. Luke 15:1-2
Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.”

23. Luke 15:17-19
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

24. Luke 15:22-24
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.

25. Luke 15:30-32
But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
“And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’”

26. Luke 15
Repentance brought intimacy
Intimacy was expressed in eating
The older brother had exactly the same complaint as the Pharisees

27. Luke 24:25-28
Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. 

28. Luke 24:29-31
 But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them.
Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.

29. Luke 24:32-35
 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” And they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread.

30. It was in eating with Jesus that intimacy with Him was accomplished.
Luke 24
It was in eating with Jesus that intimacy with Him was accomplished.

31. Acts 2:42-45
 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.

32. Acts 2:46-47
 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

33. Acts 2
The early church regularly broke bread together, probably involving the Lord’s Supper.

34. Acts 11:1-3
 Now the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

35. Acts 11
The Jewish believers were not upset that Peter was with Gentiles, but that when he was with them, he ate with them.

36. Acts 11:17-18
If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?”
When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”

37. …but, his memory, like ours, was short…
Acts 11
When they understood that the Gentiles also had a chance to experience life, it was alright with the Jews that Peter ate with them.
…but, his memory, like ours, was short…

38. Galatians 2:12
for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

39. Galatians 2
Again, the issue was eating, this time with Gentile believers, probably during their church service.

40. 1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

41. 1 Corinthians 5
Table fellowship at church is denied a believer in open, defiant, unrepentant sin.

42. 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

43. 1 Corinthians 5
The issue was the destructive influence it was having on this man’s life and those in the fellowship.
Love demanded action!

44. 1 Corinthians 5
There is a big difference between judging a situation and being judgmental!

45. Luke 22:13-16
They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”

46. Luke 22
Jesus desired to enjoy intimacy with those closest to Him before His suffering.

47. Luke 22
The same Passover he enjoyed with Hezekiah and Israel would become the Lord’s Supper proclaiming His death until it finds its realization in the Kingdom.

48. 1 Corinthians 11:17-19
Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

49. 1 Corinthians 11:20-22
Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

50. We are members of the body of Jesus Christ!
1 Corinthians 11
They were not showing respect for other members of the Body of Christ and in so doing, they were disrespecting Christ Himself.
We are members of the body of Jesus Christ!

51. 1 Corinthians 11:23-25
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

52. 1 Corinthians 11
When we break the bread and drink the cup, it is a time to remember that we are together because His body and blood were given for us.

53. That reality demands respect!
1 Corinthians 11
That reality demands respect!

54. 1 Corinthians 11:26-28
 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 

55. 1 Corinthians 11:29-32
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. 

56. This is no ordinary meal!
1 Corinthians 11
This is no ordinary meal!

57. 1 Corinthians 11
For us to disregard members of Christ’s body and treat this as an ordinary time is to not understand the Lord’s Supper.

58. Revelation 3:19-20
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

59. Revelation 3:19-20
This is to believers (“church”)
When God convicted them, those who listened were told to repent
Repentance brought intimacy
Intimacy was expressed in eating together

60. Revelation 3:19-20
God’s wants intimacy with us and wants us to have intimacy with one another.

61. He’s knocking. Is anyone home?
Revelation 3:19-20
He’s knocking.
Is anyone home?

62. Eating together develops intimacy.
Table Fellowship
Eating together develops intimacy.