For years, I approached the Lord's supper like the Galatians.

I thought that I needed to be in some advanced state of worthy to partake.

Rather than to partake worthily:

I Corinthians 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

In my mind, I changed the scriptures, from an adverb to an adjective.

Unworthily is an adverb, modifying the verb eat, and the verb drink.

In this case, the adverb describes how eating and drinking is done.

But in my mind, I changed the word to, "unworthy", an adjective describing me.

So, instead of remembering Jesus and his crucifixion, I was busy remembering my sins.

But his blood cleanses us from sin, and washes us from our sins.

And Jesus, himself, does not remember our sins, but there I was remembering for him.

I considered that my recent sins disqualified me from remembering the crucifixion at the Lord's supper.

As if, I could make myself more worthy, by how I felt, and by keeping cleaner for a period of time.

Somehow, I made the whole thing about me, instead of about Jesus.

I did not have to make myself worthy to come to the cross when I first believed.

But, to remember the cross, do I have to be sure to maintain a state worthiness?

I started in the Spirit, but like the Galatians, but I was now doing it by the works of the flesh.

Every time I let the plate go by, in my false humility, I considered that I had to be worthy of the blood.

No one is ever worthy of the blood, the only one worthy is Jesus, worthy is the Lamb!

However, if I do partake unworthily, then the warning is definitely there.

The Corinthians, it seems, were kind of having a party at the Lord's supper, not good.

If I decided to party at the Lord's supper, or to come to it stoned out of my mind, there could be trouble.

Or if we let lost people partake with us, that also is not good.

Or if I, like the Nicolaitans, have an antinomian attitude about sin,

thinking an abomination, like, "since I'm saved, I can do whatever I want",

and then with that wicked attitude about sin, come to the Lord's supper,

then there could also be trouble for me.