by Ray Viola | Apr 21, 2022 | Communion Messages, Devotionals
When Jesus gave us the ordinance that we call communion, He said that it was to be observed in remembrance of Him. There is the responsibility on our part for self examination, and it is important that we allow God’s Spirit to search our hearts for any areas of...
by Ray Viola | Apr 3, 2022 | Communion Messages
When Jesus instituted what we Gentiles call communion, He was actually ‘tagging on’ to the Passover feast a visible expression of the doctrine of grace through His substitutionary death on Calvary. ‘In remembrance of Me’ is the focus of communion. In John 6:48-58,...
by Ray Viola | Feb 7, 2016 | Communion Messages, Corinthians
11.23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 11.24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do...
by Ray Viola | Sep 6, 2015 | Communion Messages
In this section of the epistle to the Romans, the implications of justification by grace through faith in chapters 1-4 are now drawn out. The transition from wrath (Ro 1:18) to grace (Ro 3:21) transforms both the status and the experience of the believer. Instead of...
by Ray Viola | Aug 2, 2015 | Communion Messages
Now that the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas has been completed. The churches, which God established through them in the Galatian country, are nearly 100 percent Gentiles. This presents the church with its first great crisis. Here is the crux of the...
by Ray Viola | Mar 1, 2015 | Communion Messages
Ecclesiastes 3.11 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun The city of Corinth, like most metropolitan cities today, prided themselves in their universities and...