Since the dispensational divide of Acts 28:28 ‘communion’ is not to be considered today as it was during the Acts period. Yet, this verse is misused today as a religious command for believers.

1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Some religious leaders say ‘communion’ is a good time to examine or check yourself to make sure things are clean in your life or clear between you and others before taking communion. The fear that in taking the ceremony “unworthily” (1Cor. 11:29), judgment will be on them. Once again, man’s religious tradition has been received over the Truth. Fact: Every believer has already been judged and “justified” unto everlasting salvation “in Christ.” (Rom. 6:3-4)

“… being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:” (Rom. 5:1)

We must realize that The Word of God centers around Jesus Christ, NOT around our performance. If we go to God’s Word with the mindset of: I would like to get to know the Lord, instead of: “What can you show me, God, to help me get through the day,” He, in turn, will begin to work those things out in our life that we thought were so important. Phili. 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

Getting back to our subject, ‘communion’; 1 Cor. 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

When Christ said to do this in remembrance of me, what was He saying?

First, what meal were He and His disciples having? Answer: The Passover feast.

What was the Passover? About 1500 years before Christ, the night before Israel was allowed to leave Egypt, where they had been in slavery and bondage for 400 years, the Lord was going to ‘pass thru’ the land and the destroyer was to come in unto your houses to smite the firstborn of every family. But, If the children of Israel had slain a lamb that was without blemish and marked the doorposts of their home with the blood of the lamb, the Lord would ‘PASS OVER’ them. From that time on, once a year, the Passover would be celebrated in Israel, remembering how the Lord had delivered Israel from bondage in Egypt.

Fast forward … to the night Jesus was having His last Passover feast meal with His disciples. The Bible says Christ looked forward to having this last Passover with His disciples. Luke 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire, I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: 

Why did He ‘desire’ this?  He was about to show the disciples the deeper and fulfilled meaning of the ‘Passover.’ Israel in bondage was a shadow or metaphor for the bondage that sin has on mankind. The spotless lamb that was slain each year was but a picture of Jesus Christ, the Perfect Lamb of God, being slain upon the cross “for the sin of the world.” If the blood of the lamb was placed on the doorposts of the home where the Passover meal was being held, that blood would ensure life, not death. That blood was a shadow of the blood of Christ that He shed on the cross and His blood that can give everlasting life. So Christ was showing His Jewish Disciples the true meaning of “the Passover.” He no longer wanted the release from Egyptian bondage for them to be remembered … but rather remember the blood that He was going to shed, and did shed on the cross that would free all men from the bondage of sin forever.

He, by the broken bread, He showed how His body was soon to be brutally mangled and broken to provide for our spiritual healing (Isa. 53) and our eventual healing of our being by the resurrection, making us free from the effects of sin, its penalty and eventually its presence.

So from then on, as often as the Jews ate that bread and drank that cup, they were to remember Christ and His suffering. How often would they have that meal? Once a year at Passover. But surely Christ's sacrifice and resurrection were to be meditated upon daily by them that believed. And once the Gentiles of that day during the Acts-period were invited into The Kingdom message, they too could partake of the Passover tradition, but in remembrance of Christ’s Cross-work, not being deliverance from Egypt.

1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this does ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Christ was not saying do this often; He was just saying when you do it, do it in remembrance. Those Jews would observe Passover once a year, thereby the Passover, has its true meaning is revealed.

Luke 22:20 … This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

This was not a time to examine one’s own life for the worthiness of eating the bread or drinking the cup. 1 Cor. 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. No, the only worthiness involved was wrapped in Christ’s Worthiness to merit the salvation of the world by the sacrifice of Himself on the cross. When Paul suggests that in finding ourself unworthy, we ought to realize and be thankful for Christ as our worthiness… by faith in Him;

Then there were some in the Corinthian church who were partaking because they just wanted to party, eating and drinking, they weren't considering the message behind the bread and wine. This is why many were sick and died, because they were just eating and drinking for self-indulgence, not considering the sacrifice of Christ. This at that time during Acts was not set up for self-examination but for remembering the merits of Christ as God’s sacrifice ‘for the sins of the world.’

Now, fast forward to the end of Acts and the change that occurred.  Acts 28:28 Be it known therefore unto you [Israel] that The Salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it. 

Now the message of The Kingdom to Jews and proselyte Gentiles was paused (set-aside) because of unbelief of the Jewish nation. Thus, Israel had “fallen” (Rom. 11:10-12, 15, 25). A new message was delivered to Paul for ALL men regardless of race. Wherein there is no more distinction at all between Jews and Gentiles, a message not pertaining to ceremonial feasts, Sabbath days, holy days or ordinances (i.e., communion) or washings (baptisms).

It is a message with a new “hope” looking to the ‘appearing of Christ and His grace believers in heaven’s glory’ (Col. 3:4). This is not Him coming in clouds with a shout and sound of a trumpet to Rapture Israel. It is the blessed hope of “HEAVEN,” not a city on earth built by God with 12 pearly gates, but rather “Spiritual blessings in HEAVENLY Places,” not sign gifts but a walk by faith, not by sight. Then worshiping Christ “in spirit and in Truth.” – void of religious externalities. Today we are to;

“Let no man therefore judge you in meat [foods], or in drink, or in respect of an [religious] holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Colossians 2:16 (KJV)

So, Paul’s POST-Acts Gentile message is distinctly new, it was never prophesied. Rather it was “hid in God since before the foundations of the world.” It has no likeness with earthly things, only the Heavenly. We don't need the physical emblems of bread and wine or to have a Passover remembrance of what Christ did for us (cf. Col. 2:16). We simply know and “worship Him in spirit and in Truth.” We of “His body” today are not spiritual Israel or the ‘Bride.’ We are “The Church” of “His Body.” We don't wrestle with flesh and blood politicians, but with the angelic “principalities and powers” of the darkness.

God’s message that was spoken by the prophets and Christ in the flesh, and then by His disciples, was rejected by Israel. Likewise God’s Pauline message of “The Mystery” of Christ’s Gentile “His body” that is for us today, is still largely being rejected today among Christendom. Paul also experienced such rejection; “… all they which are in Asia be turned away from me.” (2 Tim 1:15) Yet a small band has been faithful to the message of grace for all believers alike … throughout the ages since Paul.

Paul had been given a new pure (100%) grace message that completed or fulfilled God’s Word (Col. 1:25), but most don't realize it even exists. Yet if we are diligent in seeking Christ and His Word, which are one and the same, and remember to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, Rightly Dividing The Word Of Truth (2 Tim 2:15), then we can see the truth and be part of Gods fulfilled Word, having The “Blessed Hope” of HEAVEN;

“Looking for that blessed Hope, and the Glorious appearing of The Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.” Titus 2:13

“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in [heaven’s] glory.” Col. 3:4