I Corinthians VIII
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when He was betrayed took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said… (I Corinthians 11:23,24 ESV)
Credentials
I taught some students a few years ago to play chess. And really, they should have been more impressed with my pedigree.
I learned how to play chess from my grandfather.
He learned the game from a mysterious stranger. A man who apparently was a Grand Master. (He taught my grandfather while they traveled together train-hopping during the depression.)
Supposedly, that stranger learned chess from Emmanuel Lasker, one of Chess’s great players in the early 20th century.
Lasker’s skills, however, did not descend to me.
When Paul writes that he received instructions from the Lord in how to take the Lord’s Supper, we should sit up and take notice, though.
Paul really knew what he was talking about. And therefore, HIS instructions have real weight.
And we get to follow the Lord’s instructions, too. Because Paul wrote them down in God’s book.