True communion or fellowship requires the heart to be engaged in the fellowship. We do not have fellowship with the Lord by going through religious rituals, but only when our hearts are turned toward Him. To partake of the sacraments, the bread and the wine, without your heart feasting upon the Lord, means you have not had communion either with the Lord or with others within His body. Likewise, there can be no spiritual fellowship with demons without turning one's heart toward them. Paul is not telling the strong believers in Corinth that somehow, unbeknown to them and unconnected with their hearts, that they were actually committing idolatry. In chapter 10 Paul shows the strong that they were polluted by the idolatry of the weak. Since they were one body, they could not think about themselves as strong and thus safe—atomistic individualism is unheard of in God's Kingdom. Thus, Paul argues, seeing that the weak were contaminated by idolatry, this pollution of demon worship has been brought into the whole body and how can a polluted body come to the Lord's Table and have communion with Him?
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Derek Carlsen is a native Zimbabwean and was a resident in that country until he was called to be the pastor of the Church of Christian Liberty from April 2003 to September 2005. Following this, he became founding pastor of Covenant Reformed Church of Elk Grove in Elk Grove...
