COC 532 When Ye Come Together Pt 6

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Episode Transcript

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Around fellowship, and they met housethe house, breaking bread. Right,
they continue daily, So they wasmeeting every day. Y'all ain't ready for
that, and y'all ready for that? Huh, you already got an excuse

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if I if I preach it matterof 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 is,where is the command, Reggie, where's
the theological import of this hermeneutical exogeticalpoint that you're making. Where is that

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that I have to be here everydays? You're talking about walking down the
corridors of what the author intended meaningof. I don't see the author's intended
meaning. Why do we have tomeet every day? I didn't say that.
I said they met daily. SoI listen. I gave you a
narrative. I gave you a tellingof what Luke recorded, of what he

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was given to Theophilis, because hesaid, in my former treaties, O
Theophilists, of all that 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 wesaid, 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?Do you? Why? Huh? I

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don't you know. I can toleratenorm on Sunday, but I don't know
about the rest of the week.I mean, he getting to pass on
Thursday because he went arnold. ButI just don't know if I could.
You know, is that the Churchof Christ way every day? We seeing

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each other every day and eating polkcake every day. That might change things,
right, that may change things.But then watch this, watch this.
So in his writing he said theymet daily, and then we got
to Acts twenty and seven and said, upon the first day of the week

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when disciples met together to break bread, and then we said, well,
just one day exactly, So thisis not the Lord's supper you eat.
He's gonna tell you. Why.Look at the explanatory term for in eating
everyone takes it before his own supper. So that means at this communal meal

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where the lord's supper was gonna beobserved, they brought food, right,
but what did they do? No, no, watch this, that's true,
but watch the big picture. Theybrought food, but what they brought
they ate what they brought. Don'tmiss the point. The point is they

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ate what they brought and didn't sharebecause what they were bringing was to be
shared among the assembly. But theyjust what they brought, they ate.
It's like sister Janeda bring in thepok cake and then say you I'll see
her slip out and go downstairs andthen she say it's all gone. You

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say, since the Janeda you ateall the pocake? Yeah, you took
too long to get here. Now, now somebody may say, somebody may
say, how do you know?Because I hear you saying wine, but
the Bible don't say wine. TheBible says fruit of the vine. How

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do you know they have wine?Because he said one is drunk. That's
the actual Greek word for drunk,drunk, not just drinking drunk. Let

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me talk you see how we listen? Listen? Well, how is one
hungry? Because since the ate allthe po cake, right, so so
well, now Arnold comes for hispeace, and sister why Nita says,
you came too late. Ain't nomore right, ain't no more so?

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Now you see Sterling and Sterling,whoa? What happened Sterling? Sterling drank
up all the wine. I can'tremember the death of the lord because all
what was brought. Anna brought bread, right, that's going right. What

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happened to the bread? And y'allgot here too late? Jade up all
the bread. Sterling drank all thewine. So now by the time Marjorie,
uh, Mario Delmeta and Sister Barbget there, they say, well,
where's the bread and the wine?Is he strolling over there in the

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corner? Hiccupping? That's what happenedto the wine. You see sister Anna
over there? Yeah, you seesister Anna. You see sister Ann over
there, blushing. She ate allthe bread. That's the text. That's
what people were doing. So onein eating everyone taken before his own supper.

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One is hungry and another is drunken. How many of y'all had grape
juice before outside of the assembly.Any you'll ever drank grape juice? Outside
dissembly has ever made you drunk?Huh? Okay, So does that not

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yes? Say that it was wine, yes, and not grape juice.
Well, how do we get thegrape juice? You know? You know
how we got the grape juice?The the teetotalers who taught, who took

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the Bible and misrepresented the Bible,who taught total abstinence from wine. That
because if you ask him, didJesus drink wine? No, Jesus didn't
drink wine. Jesus drank grape juice. No Jesus drank wine. Well,
well you mean to tell me Jesusdrank wine. Well, he turned the

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water into wine. You remember howyou were growing up. Maybe kool aid
was the drink of the era,r or whatever y'all used to drink.
Well, in that era and inthat culture in Palestine, guess what was
the drink of that day? Wine? Now, don't think they didn't know
how to make it where you couldget intoxicated, or you could drink it
and you could abstain because you didn'thave to get drunk. You didn't have

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to get drunk, but some peoplechose to. That's right. Now.
If within the meal, here's theother thing about the meal. Just just
to show you this thing about thecup. And you may have never heard
this before. In Exodus chapter twelve, when Moses wrote the instructions in the

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tor about the passover, did younotice that there were no instructions about a
cup in the passover? And letme go to this side. Did y'all
notice that there were no instructions abouta cup in the passover? Wow?
Just the lamb, Just the lamb. They talked about the lamb. It

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talked about the bit of herbs.But it was nothing said about a cup
of wine. Nothing. Well,it came from somewhere, because then it
showed up in the gospel, didn'tit. So at evidence somehow wine was
in the passover. But here's thepart people miss. There was more than

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one cup of wine. Now listento this. Listen to this. Listen
to this. Have you ever noticedanytime you talk to somebody that's trying and
I used to do it, theytry to push the point about one cup.
Never go to luke where Listen tothis. Listen to this where it

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says he took the cup before thebread. They said he took the cup
and said, divide this among yourselves, for I will not drink again of
the fruit of the vine till Idrink anew with you in my father's kingdom.
Then it says, and then hetook bread. You mean Jesus took
a cup before he took bread.Well, according to Luke, the historian,

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who said that with diligence, Iresearched this information in his gospel.
Luke was down to the letter.So Luke gave us more information than Matthew
and Mark. Luke said he tooka cup before he took the bread,
and he told them to divide thatcup among themselves. But anytime you talk
to somebody about the one cup,you know where they're gonna go. Matthew,

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ain't nobody going to Luke. Youknow why, because they go to
Luke. Now they got to dealwith this cup before the bread. Yes,
I'm almost done. Five more minutes. Watch this, Watch this,
watch this, watch this one ishungry. So he came to the meeting,

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But you didn't give consideration to himcoming to the meeting to have a
meal with you. Right, youdidn't give consideration to even give him drink,
because you got drunk. Give methe next verse, brother, marriag
We're gonna stop there. Okay,it reads two uh huh. Don't you

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have at home to eat and drinking? Listen to this? Listen to this.
What does he mean by what sometranslations? Do you not have houses
to eat and drink in? Whatis he saying? He's not saying that
having a congregational meal is wrong.What he's saying is, if you're gonna

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eat what you cook, you cando that at home, right right,
Yeah, this is something that youcan do. If you're gonna eat the
food that you prepared, you cando that at your house. But in
this we're talking about a communal whereother people are there who want to participate,

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and you're not giving consideration or allowingthem to participate. Don't you have
house? People have used this verse. See Paul said don't don't you have
houses to eat or drinking? Hecondemned having a meal in the building.
No, he didn't. What hewas talking about is, if this is
the this is the behavior that you'regoing to portray, you can do that

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at home, because at your house. Listen, when you're at your house
eating, are you concerned about myportion? No? Look, I don't
feel bad because yesterday, when Iwas out at Redstone eating meat loaf and

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asparagus, I wasn't concerned about yourportion. Then the lady came by and
said, the dessert men, giveme some of that chocolate cake. I
wasn't concerned about your portion. Andlisten, I wasn't home. I was
out, so let me make ithome. Let me make it at home.

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When when I'm home with my portion, I ain't thinking about Delmeter Arnold
Mario. When I'm eating my salmon, I ain't sitting there saying, I
wonder should I save this portion forMario? I wonder what norm like some

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of this caesar salad? Why?Because I'm home, and the same thing
for you. When you're eating yourcereal, or eating your spinach, or
eating your rice and beans, oryour spaghetti or your script and then Robster
calls, whatever you eat, you'refilet mignon. You ain't saying I think
I should save a piece for Reggie. I'm going to get oxtails and I'm

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bringing them back to my house.I ain't thinking about barb. These my
hostails. I go to get somechean ware, Dallas ain't getting none.
This is my chane wa. Yes, I went down to pats Well Gino's

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and got a Philly cheese steak,got the long one. Wow, I
ain't thinking about nobody at fourth andChu getting a slipper. That's my cheese
steak. And we do it.You eat your food, and look,

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anybody that ain't in proximity ain't gettingnone. Right, you ain't even thinking
about you ain't getting none. Ian I wasn't here, And listen,
you ain't calling nobody saying, hey, I got I got a cheese steak
over here, I got some cheanewire over here. Anybody ever call you
from the body of Christ while theywas eating dinner and said, hey,
I got some meat loaf over here, and you want to come get something?

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Now? If they call, wouldyou come get it? Yep?
Okay, all right, well that'sall right. At least we know that
you would come get it. Okay, okay, But don't miss the point.
Don't miss the point, he says, don't you have ourses to eat
and drinking? But watch this.What's the next question? Four questions?
Right? What's the next question?Orse you know the obvious answer is,

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yeah, you got a house toeat and drinking? Go ahead, or
do you despise the Church of God. Listen, listen, listen, listen.
How were they despising the assembly orthe congregation? Was it because they
wasn't thinking about Jesus doing communion.It was because of how they were treating
those who came to the meeting,and because of their behavior of eating and

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drinking. And then when someone gotthere, now they didn't have nothing,
so there wasn't a concern for thebrothers and sisters in Christ that were less
fortunate. Right, he said,do you despise who? Or do you
despise the Church of God? Now, now, before you want to argue
with me about one cup, let'stalk about the Lord's Supper, because I

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don't know no congregation is having supper. Let me talk to this. I
don't know no congregation is having supper. Do you know? Matter of fact,
you bring up supper, they'd belike, they'll say Lord's Supper,
but it won't register. Despise yethe Church of God? And do what

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or do you despise the Church ofGod by humiliating? By doing what?
Humiliating? Humiliating? Who's the thosewho's the those who have not those are
your brothers and sisters. We ain'ttalking about the world we're talking about humiliating
or are you despising those who don'thave Listen to this, Listen to this,

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Listen to this. Listen to this. Everybody didn't have it, and
the ones that did have it.Jesus said, I brought y'all all to
the table. One is not higherthan the other. The rich is at
the table along with the poor,and they're one in Christ. The rich

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is not closer to me because theygot more money than the poor who don't
or the slaves who don't. SoI say that to say, don't ever
allow anyone to get in your headand have you to believe you're less of
a saint in Christ than them becauseof what they have in the secular world.

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Does that make sense? Don't allowanyone to get in your head space.
They ain't paying rent anyway, Kickthem out. Don't let nobody get
in your head and have you thinkthey're somehow closer to the Lord than you
because you don't have what they havein the world. I got more money

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than you, Marrio. You knowI'm closer to him. You you call
him father, I call him obfather. See I'm closer. No,
I'm not closer. I'm not closer. I'm not closer than normal or dell
me or no, no, sister. Yeah, yeah, she got a

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pH d. Praise God, shegot a pH d. She ain't no
closer, you said, you said, well, you know, I only
got I only got my Uh,I only got what they what they call
the thing when you don't graduate andyou get it. Yeah, I got
my ged ed. You still onthe same level as the person with the

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double PhD in Christ because your educationallevel don't put you closer. Your status,
your money don't put you closer.And that's Listen. This is something
that Paul in writing to at Corinth, that he had to deal with.
He had to deal with the mindsetof and think about it. You don't

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think that mindset exists in Aboudy ofChrist. There are people that think they're
better because of what they have inthe world, and Jesus is saying you
ain't better. The only reason whyyou rich was because I became poor.
Let me talk to this so thentalk to this side. The only reason
why you're rich is because Jesus becamepoor. He said, well, how

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did Jesus become poor? Well,listen to this you may have never heard
it from this perspective. How didJesus become poor? Are we talking about
money? Are we talking about prestige? How did Jesus become poor? Well,
Jesus became poor when he became you. You'll get that when you get

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hold. You'll get that when youget hold. Jesus became poor when he
became one of us. Had hebecome poor? Now I can't imagine this.
Maybe somebody can, but I can't. How do you come from existing
is God but then come in theform of humanity? But it says he

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became poor for our sakes. Now, that didn't mean he gave up being
God. That just mean two naturesmet together, divine nature and human nature.
For all you Bible thumpers, youknow it's called the hypostatic union where
humanity meets divinity. But then it'sjust one Jesus. So you got houses,

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they eating, drinking? You cando that at home? Yes?
Or do you? Are you ina headspace where you're humiliating those who don't
have Yes? Well, here's thethird question. What can I say to
you? Yes? What can Isay to you? Well, listen,

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Shall I praise you for this typeof behavior. Huh, you see what
the focus is. The focus ison sharing and a communal activity. That's
where the focus is. He didn'tsay nothing about you didn't know that that
was his body. You didn't knowthat was his blood. He didn't say
that. He's talking about their mindsetthat led to a behavior that those who

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were less fortunate were being shunned ordespised. But what but you know what,
they got there, Yes, theygot there, and all their poorness
they got there to the table,and then you had the nerve to nothing

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was left for them to be apart of this community. Even though Jesus
made him a part of the community, Your behavior and your conduct humiliated or
gave the the manifestation of despisement becausethey were less fortunate. Let me stop

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right there, Let me stop rightit's a good place to stop. Good
place to stop, good place tostop. If you're out there and you're
you're not in christ on YouTube,Twitter, or Facebook, let me say
you can have your place at thetable. Well, how you have your
place at the table by believing thathe died and was buried and rose again,

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by repenting of your sins, byacknowledging him as Lord and Son of
God and being immersed in water forthem, mission of your sins. And
guess what, listen to this,to this, the Lord's table is so
humongous, it's enough room for everybody, and the table is so balanced.

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So called black people can be atthe table. So called white people can
be at the table. So calledHispanic people can be at the table.
Jesus said, I don't care whatlanguage or nationality you're from. If you
obey me and acknowledge my messiahship,you got a seat at the table.

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See, can't nobody put up thosesigns whites only? Can't nobody put up
noose signs? Blacks only? Can'tnobody put up a sign Puerto Ricans or
Russians only at Jesus's table to sayall nations welcome, all nations are welcome?
Well, how can you do that? Jesus? The very one,

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my brother you know, Judas wasa brother, brother j brother Jay had
But the problem with brother Jay wasbrother j love money. Right. Did

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y'all know that about brother Ja?That sounds like some of y'all, don't
it. He was covetous and hehad the bag y'all know he had Listen
Listen, it's funny how slang today. And you hear people say I'm going
to get the bag. Well,no, look, Judas already had the

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bag. He just loved the bagmore that he was willing to betray the
one who could have given him abigger bag. So he loved the bag
metaphorically that was filled with holes.And then listen, then when he saw

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the bag that he loved didn't bringhim where he needed to be, he
killed hisself. Well what am Isaying. I'm gonna show you how tired
is send of those who ain't inChrist. You gotta drop the bag because

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all you chas him for is abag full of holes. And then you
gotta redirect your focus and your attentionto Jesus and then say he got Now
he got something for me, andI can be rich in him, and
that bag won't be full of holesno more. And this man, maybe,
just maybe you won't kill yourself.See, people don't realize I'm using

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this not only now Judas literally killedhimself. I'm using this metaphorically. People
are killing himself because they are notacknowledging what Jesus did for them. Y'all
know the scripture the wages of sinis death. That's the bag. You

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know. You get a bag forsin. Oh you missed that. Oh
you missed that. That's ohno.That's twenty more minutes, a good preacher's
twenty more minutes. You get abag for sin, But you know what
the bag is, bag of death. Wages of sin is death, not

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now a but is in there thisbut gonna take you in a different direction.
Listen to this. The wages ofsin or the payment of sin for
sin is death. But the giftof God. Right, So you gotta

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ask yourself, do I want thepayment or do I want the gift?
Huh se you keep talking about youwant the bag, but the bag you
talking about you want is the bagof death. And Jesus is saying I
got a gift for you. Butthe reason why you can't hear me tell

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you about the gift because you're toobusy chasing the bag. But the gift
of God is eternal life. Somebodysaid, dan ain't no money. That
something money can't buy. But thegift of God is eternal life through Jesus

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Christ. Not only can money.Not why you live forever and don't need
no money? God bless you,got bless you, gotta bless you.
I don't know what I do now, she LOLd now, I don't know

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what I do. It's our shoeLOWD with our shoes load