COC 528 When Ye Come Together Pt 2

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Episode Transcript

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Where around see what the Lord donfor me? So I don't praise you
in this because you come together notfor the better. Ask yourself the question
any congregation that's having what they calla fellowship, even though I may have

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issues with the terminology or what theycall it, the question in your heart
has to be are they coming togetherfor the better or for the worse?
If you say they're coming together forthe worst, what can you do to
make the coming together better? Now, I know what you're gonna say.
You're gonna say that ain't my job. You sure you sure that it's not

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your job. You see how y'allshut down? I know it ain't gonna
be listen this whole month. I'mprepared for you not to say Amen,
I'm already prepared. I'm already preparedfor that, because what I'm trying to
do is not only encourage you,but challenge you to look at what we

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are to be doing as people ofGod. Why would you watch the service
and then critique negatively and put iton social media? Because my question,

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let me ask you this, Letme ask you this. With all the
hell we go through during the week, and I'm not cursing shouldn't there be
an environment outside of that where youcan come together with other people and be
at liberty, be at peace,and be encouraged and be thankful. That's

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why I'm trying to get you.I'm trying to get you to see that
even though it's spiritual, it's sociales. Some people say, well, I
think we ought to have a secondservice. Okay, I ain't got no

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problem with that. The problem Ihave with here's the issue, not with
having it, and not with theidea. Anything we do, and it
should be along the lines of edificationand beneficial right. We can't even get

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people here at ten o'clock on time, but people gonna stay at two thirty
huh. We can't get people hereon Tuesday night, and and you see
sometime what we do. We canadd a service on Sunday because we already

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here and that's convenient. Mm,but Tuesday not convenient. Uh. Oh.
So so watch this now, i'm'amove you into another space without you
get hopefully you you don't get allworked up. I told you, I'm
tryna move you into a space whereten and eleven don't really mean ten and

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eleven as a dichotomy or line ofdemarcation. Right, so I'm tryna move
you from ten and eleven to tenand eleven and seven thirty mm alright,
okay, but you not listen listen, watch this. You know you gonna
miss you, don't miss this.Don't miss this. Listen, listen,
listen. Worship can take place atten mm uh, let me talk to

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this side. Let me talk tothis then, let let me let me
talk see see I see I Ii'm'a tell you what happened. We were
so focused on the word ten o'clockBible study that we totally disconnected from the
fact that at ten o'clock worship canstill happen. Why because we said,

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this is what we did. Well, we put Arnold in it because he's
humanity, and we said, well, our Arnold is doing it's teaching the
Bible study. But watch this inArnold's teaching, because he's teaching the word
of God. When you hear Godthat or to motivate you or create within
you a sense to worship and saythank you Lord. You mean to tell

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me worship can take place at teno'clock. Yes, but we're not used
to that because we so converted tooh, it's a ten o'clock Bible study.
It's not worship. Right, youmight listen. You might as well
listen. I told you I'm preparedfor you not to say it, but
to get it off of you,you might have to say, man,

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so listen. We can say listen. Worship cannot only be established, but
it can happen spontaneously. See see. Nobody should should have to push you
to be here at ten o'clock ifyou understand the assembly and worship. Now,

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somebody may say, well, youknow I have a hard time getting
up early. No, you don't. That's your excuse that keeps you in
the bed, because you know,you know what I say. Somebody say,
well, you don't know, Ido have a hard time getting up
early. All right, Well doyou ever work a job if you had

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to be at the job before teno'clock, did you get up early for?
Oh? Well, you know what, maybe they do have a hard
time getting up earth that's why you. You don't have a job, because
you have a hard time getting upearly. And you found out now you
know that that wouldn't work with theboss. You went to the ball.
I got a hard time getting upearly. He said, Well, maybe
this ain't the job for you.So I'm trying to get you into a

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headspace where ten o'clock, eleven o'clockand Tuesday at seven point thirty are looked
at through the same lens. Seehow quiet you are? See how quiet
you are? And then you maysay, well, how can how can

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I look at Tuesday through the samelens that I look at the first day
of the week? Is every daythe Lord's Day? Can I worship God
every day? Wait? Wait?Wait? Can you sing on Tuesday?
Can you pray on Tuesday? Canyou hear a word on Tuesday? Can
you give money on Tuesday? Yes? You see how you can look at

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something and diminish your reverence for Godbecause you were more focused on nomenclature and
terminology than you were experiencing God.See, we're looking at when I say
nomenclature or how things are worded.We're looking at Tuesday study rather than you

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know what, I can be there, experience God and I can worship.
How many of you really equated worshipthe Tuesday? You don't? So watch
this just like how some people whenthere was a second service, Why you
saw some people at the first service, but you didn't see them at the
second why because they said I didmy punch lists. They devalued the meeting

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because my obligation was fulfilled. Andthen look, and then Tuesday is like
pulling teeth without novercaane, Tuesday,y'all gonna be there on Tuesday. What
y'all doing down there on? Oh? Oh you know what. Oh,

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that's just a Bible study, that'sall. That's just a Bible study.
I'll watch the Bible study online inmy bed, in my in my sofa,
in my comfy chair and my recliner. I'll just watch the Bible study.
I ain't missing nothing, you ain'tright now, So look at what

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we do. Our lens puts usin a position where we can't even express
worship just because how we look atthat day. And let me just say,
just those that are watching on something, that are here, just because
you're here, that don't mean youworshiped. So shouldn't you or for lack

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of a better term, shouldn't youleave here encouraged knowing that God spoke to
your heart rather than saying I didthe punch list. Now, in giving

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this instruction, I don't praise youbecause you come together not for the better,
but for the worse. Every congregationhas to ask themselves the question,
why are they coming together? Don'tthey Now there was a time that we

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weren't coming together. Well, Igot condemned because somebody tried to say,
well, where's your faith? Well, my faith was in the same person
that was in the same person thatit was in before the pandemic. And

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your faith is only as strong andas valid as the one who is in
So if that person isn't strong orvalid, then you ain't got no faith.
But I had enough faith to knowthat there could be an infirmity that
could kill people. And I'm notgonna I'm not gonna be responsible for putting

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you in jeopardy. So what happenedThat opened the door to be on Facebook?
And we're preaching to more people onFacebook, Twitter, and YouTube than
we were if that door was neveropened. The problem is people took an

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open door to reach people outside ofthe building and said I don't have to
come to the building. Know whathappened? People got lazy, right,
they were so used to staying home. They said, I can just watch
this on my TV. I canjust watch this, you know, on
my phone. I ain't got tocome down there. I can save gas.

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I don't have to give no money. I don't have to be downstairs
while they eating cake or whatever.I don't have to do nothing. I'll
just stay at home and guess whatthey're doing staying at home. So now
everybody's working, right, Oh I'mworking now on Sunday. You know my
schedule is just so hectic. Orother people are saying, you'll see me.

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That's the other people are saying.You reached out to them. They
saying, oh, you don't seeme. Oh yeah, I'm coming back.
Nah, don't come back. Ifthat's how you view it, don't
come back until you come to Jesusfirst, because when you come to Jesus
first, then you'll know the purposeof why you're coming among us. Now

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to them, now you know this, somebody out there just took my words
as saying don't come back. Seesomebody. Somebody today could possibly be on
the line calling somebody saying, didyou hear what Reggie said? He said,
don't come back. They did asound clip, but didn't put the

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clip in context because they didn't hearthe explanation. So they got mad just
by me saying don't come back.But they didn't. They didn't hear the
encouragement. I said, come toJesus first. And now what they gonna
say is, I don't need tocome to Jesus because I'm already in Christ.

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Yes, you do, come onthe Bible say draw near the God,
don't it? Tyy, you gonnasay you you ain't gotta do it,
that's right. So what happens isbecause there was a punch list and
because people got comfortable. Now whenthis begin to be said, you don't

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have to come as an obligation.Your gathering is based upon your love for
him who died for you. Andbecause you love him who died for you,
you're going to want to be aroundother people who love him who died

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for them, who may be goingthrough the same problem, who are looking
for edification, encouragement and being builtup after being beaten down all week.
So I don't want us to cometogether for the worse. I want us
to come together for the better.So if there's a deputy downer or somebody

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that's so negative, we love you, but you ain't gonna serve no purpose
coming here. Being parasitic and notsymbiotic, I remember sermons that I used
to preach. I used to attackpeople. I used to work on people.

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Some of y'all remember them. No, I don't do it. I
don't listen. Listen, listen.Let me tell you this so you don't
misrepresent me. I don't have anythingto prove to any of you. Let
me talk to this side. Letme talk to this side. I don't
have anything to prove to any ofyou, So I don't have to attack

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you because I don't have nothing toprove. I don't have to prove to
you. I can preach. Idon't have to prove to you what I
know. All I gotta do isjust you know. I there was a
time where I felt as though becauseI started off in my twenties preaching,
and I always felt as though Iwas under the gun and I had to
prove something because I was young.How many people, you know start preaching

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in their twenties. Huh, Andlisten, I don't mean just preaching.
I'm talking about being I'm using thisin parentheses, being the minister of a
congregation, meaning you're preaching that.I'm doing the Bible study because there was
a time I did the Bible studyfirst service, second service, and Tuesday,

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and then we had a radio showseven days a week. I would
hey every night of the week duringthe radio show, seven days of the
week. And that's not to brag. That's just to say I don't have
to prove anything to anybody. Solisten to this. Me attacking you is

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not profitable for you, you orme. That's why there's no reason for
me to do it. Now.Don't get me wrong. I can have
my fleshly moment, yes, andyou may say, well, I think
that he's attacking me. Well,if you not doing nothing wrong, how
am I attacking you. I can'thear you. If you not doing nothing

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wrong, why you feel attacked?Because you know what, that could be
a misperception on my part when Igot in the flesh. But if you
know you ain't doing nothing, youcan sit there and say that's like water
off a dunch bak. He ain'ttalking to me. I ain't doing that,
but you sitting in your seat gettingmad, or sitting at your phone

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getting mad, ready to throw yourphone down and rip the TV off the
wall. So in giving this instruction, I don't praise you because you come
together not for the better, butfor the worst. Listen, listen,

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Liten, Listen to this, Listento this. I also want you to
know so that you have a clearerunderstanding. I'm not saying because you don't
come at ten or you don't comeon Tuesday, you're not faithful. I'm
saying I'm trying to get you toa space where you don't look at it
as divisions of worship or exalt oneover the other. That's the space I'm

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trying to get you to where youcan see I can worship at ten with
Brother Arnold, I can worship ateleven, and I can worship on Tuesday
night because some of y'all don't evenwatch on Tuesday night. Okay, any
volunteers one say they don't watch onTuesday night. Huh, Tuesday, Tuesday

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or Thursday. But we want asecond service. Look, you got Sunday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, andyou got it and on a cup
them. All people gotta do ispick up the both on two of them.
All they got to do pick upthe phone. Thursday. All you
gotta do is pick up the phone. Ain't nobody asking you to go to
Sister Dell meet the house. Ifwe say let's go to Sister Dell meet

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the house. You will have anexcuse for that. Hey, that's all.
I'm going with Sister Dell Meetia's Thursdayand have a devotion. Where where
where them? Meeta lives? Sheliving black black? What is that?

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Pa? On New Jersey? Andas soon as somebody say Jersey goes,
I ain't going to Jersey on noThursday night? This did get done?
What time is it? Over?And and and and immediately there there's the
there's the breakdown of why I'm thespirit of why I'm not going in ghost

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your whole body. I got somethingto do on Thursday. I ain't fooling.
I don't really like her like thatanyway. I just got to put
up with her on Sunday because becauseJesus, see, I only I only

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love. Because Jesus said love.That's the only reason I gotta put it.
Well, we gotta put up withyou too, that's right, Come
on, brother Norm verse numbers eighteen. I told you I wasn't gonna get
them eighteen. Look, I'm runningbehind now and I ain't even got started.
That's why I got to teach iton Tuesday. Because I want you
to hear these points, and whatwhere I headspace needs to gravitate to so

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that we all can do better.Number eighteen. Yeah, in the first
place, I've heard that when youcome together as a church, listen,
listen, when you come together Corinthin your gathering or in your symbol.
What's going on? There are divisionsamong list and there are stizma. There

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is stizma. There there are rents, and there are breaks. There's something
going on, ain't it. Ifthere's gonna be a break. You came
together, but you're not coming togetherfor the better. You're coming together for
the worse. You might as wellnot even meet. There's a break and

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and and what you're gonna see,Just to give you a slight preview,
is within a meeting there can besex, not s e X S E
C T S. So the peoplein scripture didn't have as much money as
y'all got. Let me talk tothis. The people in scripture didn't have

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enough money as y'all got on thisside. All right, now, watch
this. Not only did they nothave as much money as you have,
they weren't as educated as you.Amen. They weren't. Here's another thing.
Everybody didn't have a copy of Scripture, right, and that there were

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people that had money, but therewere people that didn't have money. So
you had rich and you had poor, and you had heresies where the people
that had didn't look at the needsof those who didn't have. You gonna

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see that in it, to see, I'm gonna show you in this text
that you got people that had thatsame those who didn't have. See.
Now, now our problem wasn't inin a meal. Our problem wasn't shaming

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those who didn't have. Our problemto a certain extent, was people wanting
to be a part of it butnot participate. Alright. That that,
let me tell you what what whatthe distinction is be a part of it
but not participate. You had towear with all to contribute money or bring

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food, but you rather just eat. And I knew that. I told
you I was prepared for those.Amen. You had to wear with all
to bring something or to participate,but you rather just eat. Then when
you couldn't eat, you got madand claimed respect to a person. Right,

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So when you come together, now, how many of y'all staying today
cause it's food? You staying justfor the food? Well? Some I
see some of y'all eating leaves.I I told y'all this whole month,

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you're gonna be through with me.But I'm trying to encourage you. N
Now, now watch this. Ifit wasn't food, who would just stay
around and talk about scripture? Ohright, now, so you say let's
have a second service, Well wecan have a second service over a meal.
But you don't look at it thatway, cause you rather go home.

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Alright, alright, m The HolySpirit is preaching this morning, ain't
it. Huh? Yeah, thatHoly Spirit is on all of our street,
not just you on my street.And I'm sure it's on the same

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street with people on Facebook, Twitterand you two. I can't believe he
said that. Believe it. Forin the first place, when y'all come
together, I hear that there thatdivisions exist among you, and in part

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I believe it. What are youtalking about, Paul, y'all got something
going on down there that ain't right. But watch this. Nowhere in the
text did he tell anybody to leave, let me talk to this side,
let me talk to this si,let me talk to this side. Nowhere

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in the text did he tell anybodyeven with the's this matter, he still
didn't say, you know what,go to another congregation. You know,
we were meeting down at it wasat Broad and Hunting Park whatever. At
that that place, there was abrother that came out. I ain't gonna

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call his name. See, I'mI'm see y'all. I'm not attacking nobody.
I'm just not gonna call his name. And he came out he saw
I guess people heard. But thenhe saw we weren't using as they say,
one cup. And after the servicehe came to me with a letter
and he said, I'm moving mymembership whatever that means. I'm moving my

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membership the fifty six in Pemberton.He had the letter in his hand,
he was about to give it tome. I said, you ain't gotta
give me no letter. You freein Christ. But but but but here's
the thing. Why did he feelthe need to give me a letter?

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You know why he not free tosee? See when you're not free?
Because listen, nobody and I damnthe grunt whoever watching can say, well,
young is teaching false. Now theycan't say that, you know why,

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because if they, if they ifthere's an inkling that I hear that
they trying to say I'm teaching false. My first question is gonna be when
y'all partaking a cup, do youuse wine? Right now, that's the
first thing I'm gonna say. ButI ain't gonna even start with that.
I'll start with the bread. I'mgonna show you that in the context in

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this month, you take the bread, and you told the people, as
the one loaf goes around, everybodyis to take his own peace. That
ain't the way Jesus did it.When it's Saint Jesus broke bread. Because
you're reading an English translation, youdon't see that it's an active aoris verb,

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which simply means Jesus broke, gave, broke, gave It says he
broke and gave to them, meaningJesus broke all twelve pieces. Well,
who's doing that, Jesus, No, who's doing that? Here? What
congregation? The brother walks around withthe bred, say here's yours, here's
yours, here's yours, here's yourand go no no, no, no,

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no no no. It's been said. Well, it's one loaf,
and each person has to has toand be careful you don't pinch it.
Each person has to take from theone loaf well, Jesus passed it.
He broke here you go, Peter, here you go, Judas, you're
gonna betray me. But he evengave one to Judas. Who's doing that

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right? And watch this when heinstituted it. He instituted it during the
passover meal. I don't know whatI do now, she LOLd. Now
you I don't know what I do. Is our shoe low ow shoes lod