COC 529 When Ye Come Together Pt 3

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Episode Transcript

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Where around. See what the Lorddon Now, well we're they having an
evening meal. Huh. So theywere having an evening meal, right,

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and that's when Jesus did it.Well, what did the church do?
The church had a meal and withinthe meal they remembered his death. Now
what congregations, you know, havea meal in the midst of the meal.
Now now that's something that we needto look into to say, how

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can we have a meal if we'reactually going to follow the pattern. I'm
not saying we're wrong for not doingit, but I'm saying how can we
get close to that? See onething about the brotherhood. We try to
say we mimic the first century church, and we don't. We just made

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traditions and thought that it's stuck.Just like somebody will read Acts two forty
two. They continue step fast andthe apostles doctrine, breaking of bread,
fellowship and prayers and say, seethat's four out of the five worship acts.
But Luke didn't write that. Hedidn't write that was four out of
the five worship acts, did he? That's what somebody said? And then

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before each thing there's a definite article. They continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine
the breaking of bread? Well,what is the breaking of bread? You
ever thought about that? The fellowship? What is the fellowship? Is this
something that's done on the first orsecond, or third or fourth of this

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Sunday of a month? What isthe fellowship? And the prayers? Well,
I told you before what the prayerswere, didn't I? That was
the Jewish times of prayer. Soeach one has a definite article that wasn't
written to say, check off apunch list. You see how we we

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we say we mimic, but wegot away. So what we ended up
doing was ceremonializing things to say,well, we don't do an altar call.
So we switched the verbage and sayI'm extending the invitation. Oh you
missed that. See see we switchedlanguage to make us feel better about certain

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things, to say we're not doingwhat they doing. So so so all
we'll do, we'll we'll just we'llwe'll switch the name. So so watch
this. We'll say we don't havea choir, right, do you have
the one person they're up there likethis leading leading a choir. And we'll

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say we don't have a choir director. We'll just call him a song leader.
Yeah, y'all, y'all see thelingo so so so you won't say
we're denominational. We won't say wehave a choir. We'll just say we
have a song leader. Right,Okay, Now now watch this, Watch

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this, Stay calm. We area choir. Let me talk to this
sud. Let me, let me, let me, let me talk to
this out. We are a choir. We are the Lord's chorus. We
are the singers of praise to yahweh. But we're afraid to say we're acquired.

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Listen, listen, listen, watchthis. Listen, listen, listen,
listen, listen. This is gonnaopen your nostrils. What's the difference
in ten people sitting in the balconysinging and ten people sitting in the seat
singing. Let me talk to thisside, Let me talk to this side.
Let me talk to this side sincethe bar. What's the difference and

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ten people sitting in the balcony's singingand ten people sitting in the seat singing.
But from what we saw, itmade a difference, didn't it.
I'm glad y'all brought that up.You know why. I'm glad, y'all

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brought that up because if you satin the seat with a robe on,
what would be the difference. Oh, it would be a difference because we
all came in here in robes andthey saw that on Facebook and Twitter and
YouTube. The first thing they weresaying, what he got them doing?
And you know what else they wouldsay when they saw the robes, then
they would say, and I bethe gonna bring in instrumental music next.

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Yeah. You see how nomenclature inwording changes how you view thing. But
then when you strip that thing naked, you can say, I'm glad to
be a part of the Lord's choir. I don't care whether you call it
choir, acapella singing. You dealwith the labels. Let me handle my

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praise to him. But we condemnedthat, we condemned. They got a
choir that's hell bound, and yousitting right in the pew part of one.
All because of nomenclature, all becauseof how we how we say things,
and how how things look. Justlike I could say to the brotherhood,

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where's the book chatter in verse fora song leader? It ain't one?
So who came up with that?Huh? Who can? So?
Now listen so listen. So youmean to tell me we got a Lawrence
Welk or Mitch Miller in the church. Y'all remember Lawrence Welk. Yeah,

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y'all remember Mitch Miller. Huh.But but we said we called it song
leader. We were afraid to saypraise leader. That that sounds too denominational.
That's all he is, he leadingthe praise of the choir. The
choir is just sitting down in thepews rather than up in the balcony.

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But watch this. I'm gonna showyou how this flew over people's head.
The choir stood up, But itwas okay for us to stand up and
sing, right, it was okayfor us to stand up and sing.
Just stand at your seat. Butcould you imagine if if someone was if
brother Norm was leading to him andhe said, can you all stand for

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this him and then move together?And then people be like, whoa,
that'll look too much like a choir? Are you sinning? So how does
your posture change your praise that much? Where somebody says, well, I
don't want to do that because I'mafraid they're gonna put a label on.
They're gonna do that anyway, theygo ahead and condemn the people up.

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As a matter of fact, I'lltell you what them people that be up
in the balcony or wherever they aton the stage, that they call a
choir. One thing I know,boy, they sing folk in the Church
of Christ. Try to be cool. I'll be somewhere listening. I'll be

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somewhere for my name. As soonas they see they feel a beat the
sweat day, I can't. Ican't go hard like that. But then
when you hear your song on theradio, that's my song. Look,
pop up the volume. I gottawatch that move boy, that's to throw

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your back out. Move or listen. Or you be in your car and
it come on in you shaking yourhead doing like this. You come in

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service. Where he leaves, Iwill follow you. See how we do
we give We give more credence tothe worldly artists, but then the one

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that saved us where the praise orto be poured into. We try to
be as robotic as possible, andafraid of how people gonna look at us
if we go outside the box.Don't let them put you in the box.
And then you ain't got to stayin there. I'm trying to get
you out the box for in thefirst place, when you come together in

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the assembly, I hear their divisionsamong you, and I believe it.
Go ahead, brother norm nineteen,No doubt there that there's to be differences
among you. That's the word heresies. Some translations say factions. So the
factions are the sex sects or thegroup that has a certain opinion onion about

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another group. Y'all got that.Now. I don't say this to say
we purposely do it, but thereare groups of congregations who have something to
say about us. Well, whatwhat direction are they going in? What

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is that they doing? I hearthis, this teaching about this, this
resurrection stuff. What what direction arethey going in Firsus the communion? I
guess they are. And especially ifyou don't say things the way people want
you to say it, see likelike like if it's said that all the

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scriptures and out of all the scripturesyou got in the New Testament that say
sing, none of the scriptures sayor are teaching instrumental music is sinful.
So listen this. Somebody will fillin the blank and say, See he's
saying that it's not sinful. Butthe brotherhood is saying that it's sinful.

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Watch this. But I'm not boundby what the brotherhood is saying. I'm
only bound by what the scripture issaying. So if you say it's sinful,
and you got a problem with mesaying it's not sinful, I want
to see the scripture that says itis sinful, right, because listen to
this. By the time you getto the Book of Revelation, you're gonna

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really have a problem. Because evenif you try to say, well,
you know what, that's apocalyptic literatureand it's figurative language. I can go
along with that. But now here'smy issue. Even with that, if
it's sinful, why is he usingit even figuratively right now? So s

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So, there are factions or groupingsbased upon opinions. Look at what we
did now watch this, Watch this, and it'll probably get back to them.
I don't y'all know, I don'tcare. How is it We went
to a fellowship and some people thatwere at that fellowship used to be at

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this congregation but left. I cansit down with you at two thirty,
cause that's with whatever time it started, but I can't sit down with you
at eleven o'clock. Y'all see thehypocrisy. I can sing with you at
two thirty, but I can't singwith you at eleven. And here's the
other side of that. I don'thave a problem going to a congregation drinking

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from one cup. I don't havea problem with that. If I go
there in the morning, I'll partakeone. You know what the problem is.
The problem is if they come overhere, they can't partake. So
now who got the problem? Rightnow? Y'all see the difference. That's
the problem that they have over pottery. But nobody didn't say Jesus didn't die.

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Nobody didn't say Jesus is not theSon of God. Nobody didn't say
Jesus is not God in the flesh. All we did was say, we
need to look at this for whatthe message and the intent of what the
Holy Spirit is saying, and notsome brotherhood tradition that has caused separation and
clicks. I said this on aphone call on Friday night. There are

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people right now that are at congregationsnot because they're being edified and taught and
learning. They're there because of somethingand that's being done that they believe justifies
them. So they sitting there,ain't learning nothing, hearing the same old
ABCD sermon. The Baptist is wrong, the Catholics is wrong, the Muslim

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everybody's wrong, and then they feeljustified because we're one coppers. We're justified.
Okay, after you condemn everybody andsend them to hell, how do
you get through a trying of yourfaith? Because all you know is everybody

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wrong? Right, All you knowis everybody's wrong. You don't know nothing
about peace, You don't know nothingabout edification. You went home because you
felt picked on. Right, youwent home. If you came in disgusted,

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you're left disgusted. So watch howthis goes together. And given this
instruction, come on, start ofverse seventeen, let me give you a
review. I'm done. I'm donein five minutes. I'm done. I
can't get to it like I wantto. That's why I gotta go in
on, gotta go in again onTuesday. I don't even know if I'm

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being able to do this in twosessions, just on one Corinthians eleven.
But I'm gonna have to tie inHebrews ten and Romans chapter twelve, just
to show you how all of thisgoes together. Keep reading in the following
directors, I have no praise foryou. And let me say why to
all of those that are watching.When are you gonna turn from a watcher

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to an attendee? And let mesay something to you, brothers and sisters.
It's nothing wrong with reaching out topeople, texting people, asking them
how they doing, or whatever thecase may be, until that person has

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a face to face with the Lordabout why they have removed themselves from the
assembly. It's not a whole lotyou can do. Y'all got that.
I'm not telling you don't talk tothem. It just ain't a whole lot
that you can do. And thereason why you listen to this everybody didn't

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believe Jesus, So what makes herthink that we want them to believe us.
They didn't believe him, and hedid miracles before their eyes and you
know, change water, the wine, raise the dead, and they still
didn't believe them. And sometimes peoplejust they'll ignore you. You call them.

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I call some brothers, I callsome sisters, go to voicemail.
I say, hey, I'm callingthe check on you, you know,
holler back. They don't call back. What can I do? I love
them, but they got to havea face to face with Jesus. They
gotta have that. They gotta havethat Nicodemus moment, right, They gotta

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have that moment in the night wherethey talk to Jesus and and and Jesus
gotta tell him like you, yousay you Church or Christ and you don't
know these things? Right? Hetold Nick. He was like, yo,
Nick, you are the rulers andyou don't know this. That's what

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he said. That's what they haveto have. You don't know at what
point you've abandoned the assembly for yourown selfish motive. They know the point
that they reached. Where's where's abandonment? And not see watch this. You

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don't have to preach you're going tohell for this for somebody to get mad
at you. Did y'all know thatyou have to preach your going to hell
for this for somebody to get madat you. All you gotta do is
let the spirit talk to their heartand they gonna get mad, but they
gonna blame you. They ain't gonnaget mad at God because they try to
get mad at God. The wordis saying, did I not wake you

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up this morning? Did I notstart you on your way, did I
not allow you to be in aposition where you can leave and go unhindered
and you chose not to. Aren'tyou thankful that you're free? Aren't you
thankful that we're being free, thatwe're freed up, that we're not caught

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in nobody's boxing looking for other people'saccolades or other people to say, yeah,
y'all, sure are doing something goodor we're not looking for that.
All were looking to do is passthe word. That's all we're looking to
do past the word. So Paulsaid, in these instructions, I don't
praise you because you know the wayy'all coming together, this is just a

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dud. For in the first place, when you come together in assembly,
there's scis matter, and I believeit. In part I believe it.
There also gotta be heresies among youso that those who are approved may become
evident among you. Don't you knowGod allows heresies and division because that's gonna

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fine tune those who are holding onto the Lord. I knew when we
left one cup it was gonna bepushed back and people was gonna leave.
But my preaching isn't based upon retaining. Let me talk to this side.

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I'm not preaching to retain any ofyou. You know why because if I
was doing that, I shouldn't bepreaching. And some brothers are preaching to
retain members, so they gonna saywhat needs to be said to keep that
retention level. But why you preachedit of you that that sound harsh?

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You ain't preaching to retain members.Nope, because don't none of y'all belong
to me. None of y'all.You you belong to Jesus. Don't you
know that you don't belong to me. You prolong to Jesus. So how
can I retain you? You don'tbelong to me? So then, so
then what are you preaching for soyou can stay with Jesus? Wasn't that

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simple? I'm just preaching so youcan stay with Jesus. Now. I
know sometimes you look at me andsay, well, look like you getting
in the way. I know thathappens. But you got to look past
me and say, oh, Isee him. I heard what you're saying,
Reggie, and you got all inthe way, but I still saw
them. You got to be likethe climb up and say, ken,
where's he? Ain't I got tosee him. Look if you got to

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climb up in your chair to seehim get by me. I ain't trying
to retain No listen, I ain'ttrying to retain nobody on Facebook or YouTube,
all the other people that's all preachingat this time. All it takes
is a click and you switch tosomebody else. But you know what happened.

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It's the same thing that happened thesummer, y'all. You remember when
we used to be on TV andy'all was like, I hate to watch
him, I hate to listen tothat on the radio. But then next
week you was right there with iton, wasn't you? Wasn't he?
He was like, I don't wantto hear them. They keep talking about
this, they get on my nerve, and then what time they come on

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next week? That's how That's howsome people are. They talk about it.
But listen in the background, youhear are no preaching. Why they
talk. I don't want to listenin the background, you hear me preaching.

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I thought you didn't like it?Is that my voice? I hear
back there? Watch this. I'mgonna stop at verse twenty. Here's a
conclusion. Therefore, when you cometogether it is not to eat the Lord's

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supper. Now, that doesn't meanthat it wasn't possible. What it meant
was their behavior. And this isthe thing sometimes we miss because a lot
of times how we were groomed withthe Lord's supper, and I'm not saying

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you shouldn't do that. How wewere groomed and taught is not the intent
of the text. What do Imean by that we were groomed and taught
remember the Lord. The Lord's suppercomes around, and I'm not saying you
should be acting a fool. Wewould say be quiet, and maybe sometime
my brother would get up and say, right now, I want everybody to

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focus on the cross. Nothing wrongwith that. I want everybody to focus
on what happened to Jesus. Nothingwrong with that. The text though,
even though that's an application, whatthe text is saying, and you're gonna
you're gonna see this brought out thatwe may have missed was Jesus's death was

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sacrificial and because of him sacrificing hislife, people are to be self less.
But they were being selfish towards theirbrothers and sisters. That's the text.
So listen, I'm not saying yourmind shouldn't be on the Lord.

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I'm saying that's the way we weregroomed. But we never looked at the
connection of how am I treating mybrother and sister during this time? Right,
because we would go in the verseI get in. I'll get into
that too, about he that edithand drinketh unworthily and we put unworthily on?

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Well, what were you thinking aboutas far as Jesus rather than how
am I treating my brother? Right? Okay, y'all, y'all see that.
Y'all see this thing. Not notthat you don't think about Jesus,
but what I'm saying is, inthinking about Jesus, how can you not
consider your brother who's poor. I'mgonna stop right there. I'm gonna stop

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right there. I know, y'all. Y'all, y'all had enough of me.
Y'all had enough of me? Right, let let let let let let
let me tell you again, letme tell you again in conclusion, I
love you, but I have toexpose the texts so that you can see

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what the Holy Spirit is saying toyou and how we are to to uh
within our environment. You know,they say it takes ay, they it's
an African proverb that it takes avillage. Well before the African proverb it
takes a village, God is sayingit takes an assembly. Yes, it

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takes a gathering. And now youhave to ask yourself the question, am
I more devoted to him and thegathering? Or am I more devoted to
another gathering? A gathering at theTV, A gathering Sunday afternoon, a
gathering over this place. If somebodyasks you to go somewhere, some of
us quick to go, ain't wearen't? We We said, hey,

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you want to go somewhere, Butoh yeah I'm going. You want to
go to movies? Yeah you going? You want to go out to eat
hoop paying? All right, Ohyeah I'm going. You want to go
on vacation? Oh yeah I wantedto go there anyway, Yes, yes,
right. And somebody say we're havingwe're having another service? When,

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what time? Where? How longis it gonna be? Whoa? Whoa?
Is it a Bible study? Isit a And now we want to
get into particular. Is it aBible study? Is it a song service?
Is it a worship service? Arethey gonna be doing communion? Are
they taking up the collection. Whereare they gonna do? What are y'all

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gonna do with this service? Soso now you got to go through a
checklist and say, well, we'rejust gathering for the cause of Christ,
that's it, right, Or we'rejust gathering because of Him. We love
him, so we're gonna come together. But somebody gonna say, well,
that ain't a word. I ain'tgot to be there then, because if

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you don't listen, if you don'tuse the key Church of Christ's words,
it's a worship service. And watchthis. Remember when I said to you
earlier about how is it I cansit down with you at two thirty and
sing with you, pray with you, here a sermon with you, right,

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and the cup ain't got nothing todo with it. It's all about
Jesus. And everybody's talking about howwonderful it is to be together and how
beautiful everybody is singing, and howwonderful. And then as soon as we
leave, you go back to yourbusiness as usual with your issue about the
pottery. Wow, you see howhypocritical that that is, that that that

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one thing says in the way ofme and your relationship. But yet everybody
that's there at that congregation. Don'tagree with everything. I don't know what
DOW show you, I don't knowwhat dude is. OW you low ow