1. Applying the principles for establishing authority

2. The Lord’s Supper Acts 20:6-11  Only place where a specific day is explicitly stated  An approved apostolic example  An exclusive example  Is the example of day binding on us today?  Is this the only information we have from God?

3. The Lord’s Supper Acts 20:6-11  Consider every relevant passage to the subject (The Lord’s Supper)  Note the specific details given in the instructions (Direct statement or command; necessary implication)  What choices may or must we make to carry out the instructions? (Generic authority)

4. This example contains both specific instructions being obey and generic options being chosen. Their obedience and choices had the authority of Divine directive. We need to know what details were specifically stated by God and what acts they choose under generic authority.

5. The actions of Acts 20:6-11  From Philippi to Troas  On the first day of the week  One assembly  Gathered in a upper room with many lamps  Brought back to life  Waited seven days  Came together to break bread  Preached until midnight  Man fell from the third story and died

6. The actions of Acts 20:6-11  From Philippi to Troas  Waited seven days Back by the specific instruction to go Acts 22:21 Then He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.' “ Both actions demonstrate generic authority

7. The actions of Acts 20:6-11  When the disciples came together to break bread Obeying specific instructions - assembling Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

8.  When the disciples came together to break bread Obeying specific instructions – assembling to partake of the Lord’s Supper Necessary implication from 1 Cor. 11 1 Corinthians 11:17 Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.

9.  Paul spoke (preached) to them Obeying specific instructions – assembling for edification Necessary implication from 1 Cor. 14 1 Corinthians 14:26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

10. Actions in response to specific instructions:  Assembled together  Shared the Lord’s Supper  Edification – Paul preached unto them (what he preached we don’t know) The Actions of Acts 20:6-11

11. Generic choices based on specific instructions  One night time assembly  Paul spoke until midnight, interrupted by the death of Eutychus, partook the Lord’s Supper (timing), and continued speaking with them.  Upper room with many lamps The Actions of Acts 20:6-11

12. What about “the first day of the week”? The Actions of Acts 20:6-11 Weaker arguments:  THE Sabbath (Exodus 20:8 – a command) equals THE first day of the week (Acts 20:7 – a description)  Stayed (tarried) seven days Not parallel statements

13. Follow the evidence Matthew 26:29 But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom.“  God had a day in mind for Christians to eat the Lord’s Supper  Action to be repeated a some frequent interval  Communion between disciples and disciples and Christ

14. Follow the evidence “When I drink it new with you”  “Drink” is in the Greek present tense and denotes both continuous and habitual aspects  The day and recurrence is not revealed, but the action prescribed is frequent and repetitious  1 Cor. 11:25 – “as often as you drink it” – specifies repetition at some interval without identifying it

15. “Until that day”  Literal translation – “until the day that”  Day is emphasized and identified by the definite article that precedes it  Every case where this Greek phrase occurs it is talking about a literal twenty-four hour day  A particular day in the Kingdom that would provide a frequent and repetitious time

16. Acts 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.  Pentecost was always on Sunday (the first day of the week)  “Continued steadfastly” indicates that they kept doing faithfully what they had done before (They ate the Lord’s Supper – a frequently repeated act)

17. 1 Corinthians 11:25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.“  No indication as to the specific day here  “As often as” – a repetition of something at a regular interval

18. 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 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.  In the Greek – “On the first day of every week” English Standard Version Revised Standard Version 1898 Young’s Literal Translation New Revised Standard Version

19. Was there are special day to the Lord and Christians? Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

20. Acts 20:7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight. This event took place one year after Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and about 26 years after Acts 2 An example of Christians doing what they had always done – on that special day, providing a frequent and repetitious time Following the specific instructions