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Monthly Question Page
Q. Could you please explain, “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep” (1 Corinthians 11:30)?
A. The believers at Corinth had failed to judge themselves and the sins that had been allowed in their lives. When they came together to remember the Lord in the breaking of bread it was a serious thing to be at the Lord’s table with unjudged sin. Paul’s exhortation gives a very strong warning: “For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body” (1 Corinthians 11:29).
They were true Christians, and hence God, in His government had to chasten them by bodily sickness even unto death, in order that they might not be condemned with the world. No doubt others were called to learn and take warning from the discipline exercised upon those erring ones.
The government of God in the life of a believer is a very real thing, and we are reminded that “There is a sin unto death” (1 John 5:16). If we act in a way that dishonors the Lord, and we do not heed His chastening He may call us home to Himself through death.
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