Page 45 - Reasons for Sickness

I'm reading in 1 Corinthians chapter 11,

verses 30 through 32. This is the context of

the Lord's Supper. Now, don't be afraid to

take the Lord's Supper, but in the context,

many in the church weren't treating one

another very well. They were disregarding

one another, disregarding the church. Some

of them were even despising and

disrespecting the Lord's church. You can

back up into the chapter to verse 17 and see

what some of them were doing to each

other. They weren't kind to each other. In

verses 30, 31, and 32 the apostle Paul says,

“For this cause many” — many, not all

— “For this cause many are weak and sickly

among you, and many sleep.” Sleep means

that they're dead. So God allows sickness in

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