“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes”
(1 Corinthians 11:26 NKJV)

proclaim the Lord’s death

1. It should be difficult for Christians to miss the significance of the Lord’s supper, but somehow the Corinthians had managed. Paul first rebukes, then repeats what he had already taught them.
2. “As often” shows the supper is to be repeated, but this passage (1 Corinthians 11) does not specify the time. Acts 20:7 does: “Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread…” Context proves this breaking of bread is spiritual (not a physical meal to satisfy hunger; most of us eat common meals more often than one day a week; what would be the significance of eating a common meal on the first day of every week?).
3. The first day of the week is the day on which Jesus was raised from the dead (see Luke 24:1-8; John 20:1…19, 26, etc.). The Lord’s supper remembers Jesus’ death and His promise to partake of this memorial again with them in His kingdom – “I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom” (Matthew 26:29).
4. The first day of the week is the same day on which the Corinthians were to give into the treasury – “Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come” (1 Corinthians 16:1-2).
5. Paul writes to bring the readers back to the purpose for the Supper—it proclaims the Lord’s death till He comes. They can and must eat their common meals elsewhere. To corrupt the purpose of this action is to court the judgment of God (1 Corinthians 11:27). This supper is serious.

– Rick Duggin