COC 531 When Ye Come Together Pt 5

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Episode Transcript

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Around see lor don communal, whichis the purpose of why we came together
in the first place. You sitcloser. Listen to this. You sit
closer to people on the bus thanyou do any assembly. Remember I just

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said was sinful. I'm just saying, what is your mindset for what you
do? What you do? Youmean to tell me you wouldn't want to
sit next to your brother or sisterand sing with them, pray with them,
read the Bible with them. Youwant to be separate. Maybe some
brothers sit in the back of theysay I don't want them to call on
me to do nothing. We don'tneed to call on you to do nothing.

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If that's your attitude, If youlisten, if if for the love
of God, you don't want todo something for the kingdom, then what
we need to call on you for? But but who's gonna say that.
Who's gonna say the reason why I'msitting where I'm sitting is because I don't
want them to call on me fora song. I don't want them to
call on me for a prayer,or I no longer want to get involved

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in the service. Well, listento this, Listen to this, Listen
to this. The service is toserve people, but the reality is it's
to give God the glory. Soyou mean to tell me you didn't think
of God first before you started crossingoff what you wasn't gonna do for me?

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I don't preach for you. Ilove God and listen to this.
Listen to this. Whether you won'tadmit it or not, you benefit from
my love for God and his word. You benefit from that. Now?

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How do I benefit for your lovefor God and his word that reciprocates back
to me? Huh? Sometime wego downstairs and I ain't saying this wrong.
Y'all talk more about nothing than youdo scripture. Let me talked to
this side. I told you you'reprobably gonna be through with me. But

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watch this, watch this. Howcan you talk about scripture if you're not
in scripture? See if somebody bringup a conversation, did you hear what
happened in Tennessee? Oh yeah,that sure was a shame, and I'm
not making light of it. Youknow somebody went and shot something up or
somebody said, you hear what happenedover here? Oh yeah, I saw

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that on the news. Boy,people are going crazy. They can talk
about that for an hour, butthen you bring up you remember when Jesus
walked through Galilee, and they said, yeah, I remember. But let's
get back to what happened in Tennessee. Somebody bring up you remember what happened
with Moses? Oh yeah, Iknow what Moses did. But let's I

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want to talk about I want totalk about action news. You see how
we are we so quick to deflect. And the reason why we have the
deflection is there's a possibility the loveof his word is not there, but
we more quick to talk about somethingthat's nothing. Did you hear Donald Trump

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got arrested. I want to talkabout well, I don't want to talk
about Jesus right now. Listen,listen, And this is how we do
some of us you want to talkof Everybody wants to talk about Jesus now,
But when the amen is said atthe end, nobody wants to talk
about Jesus. No more do they. Nobody want to talk about I mentioned

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to you last week about the differentwhat's called fellowships that we attend, and
I didn't say you was wrong oris sinful for you not attending. My
question to you was why are wemore adept at doing things that don't help
encourage and build up spirituality. Wemore adepted, we quick to do that.

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I'd rather leave and go home.You going home to do nothing?
What you're going home to do?But you're going home to cook? You
ain't going home to sing hymns.You ain't going home to pray. You
ain't going home to read no moreBible. You ain't going home to hear
another sermon? Are you no?No? Maybe you are. I don't
know. I'm just throwing it outthere for you to think about. And

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some people say, well, Idon't want to go out there because last
time I went out there, theydidn't treat me right. Why how many
people didn't you treat right? Ican't hear you. I don't want to
go out there because somebody don't likeme. Well, what makes you likable?
Huh? I don't want to goout there cause I just don't feel

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like driving that long distance. Willyou drive a long distance to do what
you want to do? Yes?Yes, As a matter of fact,
you don't have no why. I'mjust doing it, and you know what
you're saying. You'll get up beforeyou leave and say, can the church
please pray for me for traveling mercies. Yes, Lord, but you going

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to a fellowship. You don't needthose traveling Look, it's no longer traveling
mercies. You know where it is. I don't want to go, but
you're going somewhere where you want togo. You skip to my lou my
darling to go. Guess where I'mgoing? How you getting there? I'm
driving? How far away is it? It's about a five hour drive?

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Are you driving back? Yeah?I know, I know, but yeah,
I'm going. But if it comesdown to meeting with the Saints,
it ain't even an hour. Iain't going. Forget them people. They
don't like me. I don't likethem. They a bunch of phonies and
blah blah blah and this that andthe other. Well, I tell you
what I tell you. You don'thave to go. I'm not condemning you

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if you don't go. The partthat I'm dealing with is the attitude of
why not In gathering situations of God'speople, somebody said I don't feel good,
and it's like you impressed yourself thatyou didn't feel good, but you

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made it to the service. Well, you love him, right, Listen,
he never said that loving him isyou're going to be spared of internal
infirmities. He never said that,Diddy, but he said, listen,

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look at what Jesus had to putup with. But yet he kept going
to the Cross. He had toput up with people calling him Beelzaba,
people who were afraid that confess him, people who was after his life,
but he kept the mission. Couldyou imagine if Jesus was like some of
us, Huh? I mean I'mtalking about from an attitude perspective, that

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if he had the attitude that someof us had, Like people will say,
well, I ain't got no friends, I don't want to be around
the world. I don't want tobe around nobody. Then people in the
world, they get on my nerves. Well, said Jesus was a friend
of sinners. Maybe you haven't learnedhow to be a friend, but not
condoned, So you don't have toaccept a behavior to show a kindness to

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someone who's not saved, even inthe body of Christ. Just because you
disagree with somebody or something, doesthat nullify the relationship. Well, and
then some people get on this bandwagon. Well I ain't going unless you go.

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You see what I'm saying. Iain't going unless you go. And
you know, COVID has exposed amindset of the assembly is optional. It's
optional, I mean, and it'slisten, here's your two barometers. There's
no command, but it's not optional. So how do you have an equal

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balance? The equal balance is itgot to start with him. Remember I
said you can encourage someone to cometo service, right, But I said,
for me, I encouraged somebody tocome to Jesus. Because if you
ever't first came to Jesus, youcoming to the Assembly ain't gonna help you

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because you'll say, and you knowwhat they'll do. They'll even tell you,
see, I can't and it missedfour weeks in a row, whatever
the case may be, all becausethey say, well, you asked me
to come. And let me say, even when you're asked to come,
that brother or sister is not askingyou to do God a favor exactly.
And maybe that's where some people's hadspaces they believe, well, if I

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come to the Assembly, I'm doingGod a favor. No, God did
you a favor? You talking abouthere? You talking about you doing him
a fact? What favor can youdo for God? He don't need no
money if he was hungry, hesaid, I wouldn't tell you. You
can't drive him nowhere. You don'tknow more than him. What favor can

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you do for God? They're like, well, I made a disservice.
I did y'all a favor. Mypresence is favorable. No, you just
a beggar looking for a piece ofbread, like all the other beggars in
here that want a piece of bread. That's all you are. So he

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says that when you come together inone place, this is not to eat
the Lord's supper. Yes, listen, now watch this. How is it?
And I can begin to see thelight in this today? You emphasize

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one cup, but you don't emphasizesupper. Let me talk to this side,
he said, when you come togetherinto one place, this is not
to eat the Lord's supper. Now, some brothers over the years have taken

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this passage in Corinthians seventeen to thirtyfor this block to say that means you
can't eat in the building. Well, if that means you can't eat in
the building, that sure enough meansyou can't have bathroom in the building.
That sure enough mean you can't havea water fountain in the building. Are

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y'all seeing this because you start takingthings out, Well, you can't eat
in the building. Well, theydidn't have a quote unquote church building.
They met at homes, right,So they were meeting in someone's home for
a meal, right. And duringthe time of meeting for the meal,

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they remember what Christ did. Sowhen he says, when you come together
into one place, this is notthe Lord's supper, it's not the Lord's
supper. Listen to this. Thebases wasn't what they thought about Jesus.

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The basis was what they thought abouteach other. There, okay, and
let me talk to this. Sothis already, I'm gonna repeat it again.
The basis wasn't what they thought aboutJesus. The basis was what they

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thought about each other. Listen,Listen, listen, listen, listen,
listen. He didn't say in thetext, you are not mindful of what
Christ did for you. He said, you're not mindful of those who are

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less fortunate than you. All right, let's keep let's keep reading. I
told you that's why this has tospill over into Tuesday evening, because there's
no way that I can cover allthis information. But because over the years
in the Church of Christ. Weonly read verse twenty three. That's all

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we did. Every time we wentto First Christs Eleven's we didn't go seventeen
to twenty two. We always startedat verse twenty three. For our receivers
of the Lord, that's which Ialso delivered unto you the same night,
and which he was betrayed, tookbread, and when he had given thanks,
he broke in and said, takeye, this is my body which
is broken for you. At thesame man, also he took the cup
with his soup, said this cupis the new Testament in my blood,
for as often as you drink itin remembrance of me. We did it.

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That's all we did. We didn'twe didn't have no clue what was
going on at Corinth exactly. Andthen we were focus on and I'll get
into this in the Bible study.We will focus on stop everything, get
every thought out of your mind,because we don't want nobody to drink unworthily.

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Right. As a matter of fact, some congregations push this to the
where he said, let a manexamine himself, and that meant examine yourself
to see whether or not you wereworthy. Paul wasn't saying, examine yourself
to see whether or not you worthy, because Paul already knew wasn't nobody worthy?

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Do y'all know that that none ofus are worthy? He said,
well, how come I'm at thetable because he gave me a seat.
He gave me a seat. Listen, listen, listen. Regardless of what

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someone has to say about how acongregation communes, you're not in position to
say anything because you didn't put meat the table. That's right, that's
right. Decide. I don't knowthey I thought, y'all know, right,

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you can't say anything about communing becauseyou didn't make the provision. Let
me throw that word in. That'sa good word right there. You didn't
make the provision for me to beat the table, So how are you
gonna disqualify me at the table becauseI don't do what you do. Listen,

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listen, listen. When we werecondemning people about multiple cups and stuff,
we were acting as if, well, not y'all, I'll say me,
because y'all didn't do it. Iwas acting as if I put them
at the table. So I wasremoving them from the table. And then

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I had to come to the realasay, I didn't put nobody at the
table. Listen, listen. Jesusknew what Judas was gonna do, but
Judas was at the table. Hedon't already know what Judas was gonna do.
He didn't say when he said makeready to pass over, Jesus didn't
say, Judas, you don't comeright now. Judas had a seat.

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Matter of fact, Oh my goodness, Judas was such in proximity to the
master. He said he that dippedthe sop. He was right there at
the bowl dip in the soth whenJesus been down. We sometimes don't make

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this connection because of how we lookat uh the Synoptic Gospels. In John,
when Jesus took the basin and girdedhimself with a towel, he didn't
say, I'm not washing your feet. Judas he washed all their feet.

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You mean he allowed the betrayer aseat at the table. He ain't telling
them to go nowhere. But whatdo we do? We kicked people.
You ain't got no seat on him. You ain't got no seat, Marrio,

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you ain't a one cupper. Y'allain't got no seats. Get out
of here with that multiple cups stufflooking like shot glasses. You ain't got
no seat at the table. Youdon't know no better than it, and
d cup, you don't know nobetter than that. Get up from this
table. And they can't hear Jesussaying to them, looking back at them

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to scripture saying who put you atthe table? All right, that's a
hard lesson to learn. It washard for me to learn, because when
your headspace is in because you thinkyou do something that makes you better than

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someone else, it's hard to comeout of it. So here you have
a classic scenario. You got membersof the church who financially are well off,
not waiting for those who are notin the class that they're in.

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And listen, listen, listen,listen, And it's all over a meal,
all over a meal. I'm gorgingand drinking, and I have no
concern for you and your well being. So he said, he said,

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this ain't the Lord's supper, y'alleating. And this connection to the passover.
The passover was representative of God.Remember he said, you strike the
doorpost with the blood of the lamb, and I'll pass over you talking about
the first born. And then Jesussaid I desire to eat this passover with
you before I suffer. Jesus hada communal meal with his disciples. But

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then he took the bread and thewine. It wasn't grape juice because doctor
Welch wasn't even born yet. Sohe took the bread and the fruit of
the vine. And then he said, this is me, This is my
body given for you. This ismy blood which is said for you for

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the remission of your sins. Butwatch this. He never told them how
often to do it. Let metalk to this side. He never told
them how often to do it.He just said, do this in remembrance

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of me. Remember, I said, on Tuesday night. Now an acts
too is said. They continued inthe Apostles doctrine of breaking the bread,
prayers and fellowship, and they methouse to house breaking bread. Right,
they continue daily, So they wasmeeting every day. Y'all ain't ready for
that. Ain't y'all ready for that? Huh? You already got an excuse

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if I if I preach it,matter of fact, you're gonna get theological.
I would think you have a seatin the seminary. I was in.
The First thing you're gonna say isWhere is the command, Reggie,
where's the theological import of this hermeneutical, exegetical point that you're where? Is

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that that I have to be hereevery days? You're talking about walking down
the corridors of what the author intendedmeaning of. I don't see the author's
intended meaning. Why don't we haveto meet every day? I didn't say
that. I said they met daily. So I listen. I gave you
a narrative. I gave you atelling of what Luke recorded, of what

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he was given to Theophilis, becausehe said, in my former treaties,
old Theophilists of all the Jesus beganboth to do and to teach. So
he said, I already told youin my gospel. Now let me share
a little more information with you.They were meeting daily, breaking bread from
house to house. First thing,we said, you ain't coming over my
house. Oh look, look,look look. Not only are you not

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coming over my house, you ain'tcoming over every day because I don't want
to see you like that. Anyof y'all feel like that about me.
You don't want to see me everyday. Don't be afraid you don't want
to see me every day? Doyou why, huh, I don't you

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know. I can tolerate norm onSunday, but I don't know about the
rest of the week. I mean, he getting to pass on Thursday because
he with Arnold. But I justdon't know if I could. You know,
is that the Church of Christ wayevery day, we seeing each other
every day and eating polk cake everyday. That that might change things,

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right, that that may change things. But then watch this. Watch this.
So in his writing he said theymet daily, and then we got
the Acts twenty and seven and said, upon the first day of the week,
when disciples met together to break bread, and then we said, well
just one day. So this isnot the Lord's supper you eat. He's

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gonna tell you why. Look atthe explanatory term for in eating, everyone
taken before his own supper. Sothat means at this communal meal where the
Lord's supper was going to be observed, they brought food, right, But
what did they do? No,No, watch this, that's true,

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but watch the big picture. Theybrought food, but what they brought they
ate what they brought. Don't missthe point. The point is they ate
what they brought and didn't share becausewhat they were bringing was to be shared
among the assembly, but they justwhat they brought. They ate. It's

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like sister Juanita bringing the po cakeand then say you I'll see her slip
out and go downstairs. And thenshe says all gone. You say,
sister Juanita, you ate all thepro caake. Yeah, you took too
long to get here. Now,now somebody may say, somebody may say,

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how do you know? Because Ihear you saying wine, but the
Bible don't say wine. The Biblesays fruit of the vine. How do
you know they have wine? Becausehe said one is drunk. That's the
actual Greek word for drunk, drunk, not just drinking drunk. Me you

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see how we listen? Listen?Well, how was one hungry? All
right? Because since they ate allthe pok cake? Right, so now
Arnold comes for his peace. Andsince the Juanita says, you came too
late, ain't no more right,ain't no more? So now you see

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Sterling and Sterling, whoa what happened? Sterling? Sterling drank up all the
wine. I can't remember the deathof the lord because all what was brought
an I bought bread, right,that's gone? Right? What happened to

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the bread, And y'all got heretoo late. Jade up all the bread,
Sterling drank all the wine. Sonow by the time Marjorie, Mario
Delmeta, and Sister Barb get there, they say, well, where's the
bread and the wine? She's strollingover there in the corner hiccupping. That's

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what happened to the wine. Yousee Sister Anna over there. Yeah,
you see sister Anna. You seeSister Ann over there, blushing. She
ate all the bread. That's thetext. That's what people were doing.
So one in eating everyone taken beforehis own supper. One is hungry and

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another is drunken. How many ofy'all had grape juice before outside of the
assembly. Any of you ever drankgrape juice outside dissembly? Has ever made
you drunk? Huh? Okay?So does that not yes, say that

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it was wine and not grape juice. Well, how do we get the
grape juice? You know? Youknow how we got the grape juice?
The teetotalers who taught, who tookthe Bible and misrepresented the Bible, who

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taught total abstinence from wine. Becauseif you ask him, did Jesus drink
wine. No, Jesus didn't drinkwine. Jesus drank grape juice. No
Jesus drank wine. Well, youmean to tell me Jesus drank wine.
Well, he turned the water intowine. You remember how you were growing

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up. Maybe kool aid was thedrink of the era or whatever y'all used
to drink. Well, in thatera and in that cold, trim Palestine,
guess what was the drink of thatday? Now, I don't think
they didn't know how to make itwhere you could get intoxicated or you.
I don't know what ow shoe low. I don't know what our shoe lo