COC 534 Not Forsaking The Assembly Pt 2

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Episode Transcript

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Where around and no robbery where somebodyshoot me. Well, let me tell
you something. Let me just giveyou a secret. You don't choose,
but it happens. But the headspacehas to be regardless of what situation I'm

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in When I die, was Iin Christ's situation? So therefore, brothers
and sisters, Yes, since wehave confidence, listen to this, Listen
to this. He didn't say ifor perhaps, or peradventure or by chance.
He said, since we listen,have is present tense. Since we

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have presently confident confidence. Let letme say this, Let me say this,
Let me say this. Notice thatthere are many saints that are not
confident because they haven't begun to seewhat Christ did for them. So you're
not gonna have confidence. See,the assembly becomes a chore or it becomes

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bondage to you when you don't knowwhat Christ did for you that freed you
up to be at the table.Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we
have confidence, yes, to enterthe most holy place. Now listen to
this. Y'all heard me read it, you heard Mario read it. But

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you can't have confidence in something andyou don't even know what it means.
So what did he say, youhave confidence in You have confidence not to
be at the door, not toknock at the door, not to look
through the window, not to lookdown through a hole in the roof,
not to look from a block away. But since you have confidence to enter

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in now the translation says most holyplace. It's actually in the plural,
it's to enter in the holies.The most Holy Place was referred to as
the Holy of holies. The onlything that separated the Holy Place from the

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most Holy Place was the curtain.But that curtain was writ once Jesus died.
But here's the thing. The onlyone that was allowed to go beyond
the curtain was the high priest.But now the Hebrew writer is saying,
everybody can enter into the presence ofGod by what Jesus did. Y'all getting

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this, Yes, thank you.The curtain blocked access. Look, look
you now listen to show you thepower of the text. An Israelite wouldn't

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think of going in the Most HolyPlace. Why he knew he ain't had
no business in that. The onlyone that was to go in there to
see the chicana glory of God overthe ark of the Covenant with his fingers
dripping with blood was the high priestright as long as that curtain was up,

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there were specific instructions. You can'tgo in the presence of God.
That high priest is interceding for you. So now he's telling and there's possibility
not only were their gentiles, buthe's telling converted Jews who acknowledge Christ as

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the Messiah. In a metaphorical term, you have access to God without a
blockage because of your high priest afterthe order of melches Dick. Because you
are a priest yourself. Don't youknow where a kingdom of priests? So

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there is no forbiddence of going inthe presence of God. Now, now
you ask yourself this question. Askyourself that this question. At ten o'clock
do we go in the presence ofGod? Or do we only do that

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at eleven? How about seven pointthirty on Tuesday? Do we go in
the presence of God or only ateleven o'clock? Watch this beyond that,
do you go in the presence ofGod any day during the week or did
you not know you can go inthe presence of God? We just minimize
it. So we got these peoplegathered at ten o'clock in the presence of

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God and other people who say Idon't want to be in that gathering.
Ain't nobody going to admit that?You know why? You know why we
won't admit that. It's just likethe drug addict that don't want to admit
they got a problem. I knowthat there's a possibility. Some people may

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think that, well, Reggie,the only reason why you come is because
you're preaching. Nope, that's notwhy I come. Because I've came and
I haven't preached that. Right,Well, why do you come? Because

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I love God first and I loveGod's people. So whatever capacity that God
will use me in, I wantto make sure that I'm available. Now
you have to ask yourself what's youravailability? We got people now that are

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no longer available now. They maybe available on social media, but they're
not available in a social construct.So if you're not available in a social
construct, how you gonna help me? How you gonna help me if you're
not available socially Because listen, listen, we are socialized, and you had
to ask yourself, in my socialenvironment, does my social environment build me

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up, tear me down, ormake me more crazy? I told you
some of y'all used to do inchurch. We're not used to it.
And listen, I'm just as I'mjust as guilty because I was in the
headspace before. Because this is whatwe were taught, this is what the

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older brothers taught about to come together, the five acts of worship. Don't
miss the assembly or you're going tohell. Don't miss act of worship where
you're going to hell. But therewas no real focus on the purpose,
and the thing that they made thepurpose was blinded by tradition, rules and
Phariseeism. That's what that's what blinded. And we didn't know no better because

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nobody thought that the brothers were tryingto tell us things that hurt us.
But all they were doing was passingdown the traditions and ceremonies that were passed
down to them, and they wantedto keep order. I would say,
now it was really about control.It was I'm gonna teach. And maybe

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they didn't look at it this way, but when you skin it back,
that's what it looks like. Itwas about how can I control people?
How can I make people come toservice? Tell them they go on to
Hell if they don't. Rather thansaying your motivation for gathering or to be

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based upon your love for the onewho put you in position to gather.
Listen, there wouldn't be no gatheringif he wouldn't have died, because you
know where you would be today.You'd be home doing what you normally do.
Some of y'all be working, wouldn'tyou. And I'm not saying it's

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to send the work on the firstday of the week. What I am
saying is you would look at thingsfrom a different perspective because you would say,
ain't no reason for me to gonowhere. And some of us are
coming from backgrounds where we don't carefor people anyway. So now you gotta

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be nurtured in an environment where youcan begin to say, I'm concerned for
you, brother, I'm concerned foryou, sister. Even if you were
brought up in a household where momdidn't care for you, Dad didn't care
for you, or you was alwaysthe black sheep. In Christ, somebody

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cares for you. As a matterof fact, He cares so much.
He says, cast all your anxietiesupon me. Put them all on me,
all your anxieties. And you knowwhy, I'm thankful that I can

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cast them on him, because ifI put them on you, you collapse.
I know you think you strong andyou think you're some super hyper Christian.
No, you would collapse. That'swhy he said put it on me.
You say, I ain't know youhad all that anxiety. As as
a matter of fact, you mightbe a turncoat. I ain't know you

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was going through all that, brother, Reggie. I don't want none of
that. And as a matter offact, some of the stuff that I
that I would would would put onyou. You know, some of y'all
look at me different. You'd belike I always knew. I knew he
had that in the that skeleton inthe closet, And then every time you

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see me, that's all you see. Listen, listen, listen. I'm
gonna show you how true this isjust by this example. Have you ever
found out something about somebody that youdidn't know and it was true, and
when the person that told you toldyou about whatever the situation was, every

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time you see that person now youlook at them different, but you look
at him through the lens of whatthe person told you, even though it
was true. And the reason whyyou're looking at him through that lens is
because you think you're better. You'resaying, well, I didn't do that,
and then you found out about thatperson and you're always looking at him
through that lens. That's right now. It's funny how with our parents,

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we as children knew what our parentsdid, but but we knew how not
to look at them through that lensdifferently right like like like growing up,
I saw my mom and dad andheated arguments, heed it, but I

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wasn't gonna get in it because Iwanted to eat. I wasn't gonna get
it because I still wanted a manthat lay in. I still want a
toothpaste soap, and I still wantedmy sandwich just for lunch. But watch,
this's right for right, right,But I didn't look at them and
say they always arguing. You Seehow when it's depending upon who the person

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is, we we know how toin our mind block out and then see
this is the person nurturing me.But when it comes down to other people,
we hold on to it and sayI'm looking at you different now,
or we say I got my eyeon when you know them and all of

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us, haven't you seen your parents? You've seen your parents argue as a
matter of fact, I push itfurther. You've seen your parents almost come
to blows, haven't you did?You didn't really look at them differently though,
you just said, Oh, that'sthat's that's what they do. I
ain't. In that matter of fact, you tried to do something not to

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hear it then you. So,therefore, brothers and sisters, we have
confidence to enter into the holies.There's no longer a barrier between me and
God's presence. Let me let letme say this. Even before you came

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to service, God already knew whatyour heart intentions were, and if it
was more focused on submission to Him, worshiping Him, acknowledging Him and submitting
to him, or if it wasfor your agenda, He already know that.

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He knew that where you woke up. Look, if you live till
next Sunday, he already know whatyour mindset is eating seven days in advance.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, sowe have confidence to enter the Holy
of holies. The only even reasonwhy we can have confidence to enter into

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the presence of God is because ofChrist's blood. Do you notice it?
Don't say our confidence is because wechecked off the punch list. Did y'all
notice that that wasn't in the text. Or we have confidence because I did
everything right today, Or we haveconfidence because I picked a certain song that

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got everybody up and shouting, orI preached a good sermon. Are y'all
seeing this? Or because I prayedfinally prostrate on my knees. None of
that is even on the table.The only reason why we have confidence to
enter. The question is have yougoing in? Talk to this side.

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The question is have you going in? Because he said, since we have
confidence to enter? Listen, listen, listen, why are you going in
if you don't have confidence? Huh? Look, if you playing around and

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you're not sincere and you don't haveconfidence because of what he's done, you
can go in because the access isopen, you can still go in,
but you ain't confident going in.Come on, Brother Mariel. Therefore,
brothers and sisters, you see whyI said this takes so long. I

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think I've been preaching almost forty fiveminutes and I just got beyond the introduction.
Keep reading. Therefore, brothers andsisters, Therefore, brothers and sisters,
since we have confidence, since wehave confidence, we entered the most
holy place by the blood of Jesus. Listen, listen, we sing to

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him. My hope is built onnothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
Your confidence to enter in is basedon the blood of Jesus. The blood
of Jesus. Right, that's theonly reason that I can go in to
the presence of God, where formerlyI was blocked by a curtain that wouldn't

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allow me in. Listen. Asa matter of fact, the other reason
why I couldn't go in, youcouldn't go in there because you had too
much sin on you. And listento this. Listen to this. The
high priests that went in not onlywent in for the other people's sins,

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but he went in and he wasa sinner. Now Jesus is the only
one that's the priest the sacrifice andain't had no sin, but shed his
blood. So since we have confidenceto enter into the holies by the blood

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of Jesus, Yes, by anew and living way. Now listen to
this, Listen to this. Allof this is connected to Jesus. Not
only do we have confidence by hisblood, but then verse twenty says by
a new you see the word new. Yes, Now the translators translated the

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word new, but the Greek wordis freshly slaughtered. Wow. Watch this.
This is resurrection language because when itsays by a new, freshly slaughtered
and living way, that's saying hewas crucified, but he got up.

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Yes. So it's how can youhave confidence to enter in? He shed
his blood, they killed him,but he got up yes. So that
even though they translated it new.And I want you to check this out.
Don't just look at it as you'relearning something new because I said it.

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You need to go back and lookat it so you can better appreciate
what the Holy Spirit is revealing inthe text. So he says by a
new, by a new and livingway. So you got his blood,
you got him being crucified, andyou gotta being resurrected. Because watch this.

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If he would have never got up, what way would we have?
Huh? What way would we haveif he would have never got up?
We only thing we'd be reading thisscripture is dag he died. But you
know what, then we could turnaround and say he died and he wasn't

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truthful because he said that he wasgetting up. He didn't get up.
He said that he was giving hislife a ransom for me, and he
didn't get up, and he didn'treally. So the Hebrew writer is using
this this language of the holy,of the holy of holies, he's using
this language of sacrifice, the languageof blood. But we know it all

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took place because Jesus did shed hisblood, he was killed, he was
crucified, and we know that hegot up. So if you want to
fully appreciate going into God's presence,then you have to fully begin to appreciate
his blood was shed, he diedfor you, and that he got up.

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Now, y'all see why this assemblycan be entertainment? Huh? You
know why it can't be entertainment becausebecause there was too much at stake of
what Christ done, and all ofit was true, of every bit of
it was true. And there wasa lot at steak. Well you mean

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there was a lot at steak.Let me say in this language, maybe
this will help you begin to appreciateit. God made himself vulnerable. What
do you mean God made himself vulnerable? Well, Jesus, who was God
in the flesh, made himself vulnerablenot only to the attacks of men,

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but opened up himself to the extentwhere he allowed himself to be crucified.
But he didn't just go it acrossto be crucified because he just wanted to
die. They knew by what happenedin the beginning at the garden, this
is how we're gonna gather everybody back. But I got to come in Adam

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to get you back in the garden. See, I got to come as
Adam because Adam was the one thatgave the directive. And Adam was the
one even though Eve sin first,Adam was the one responsible for everybody glory
glory. So Jesus volunteers to gobefore the world was see God, don't

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move in our time, amen,Jesus said, I'll go. You imagine
what Jesus gave up for you,huh. You imagine what Jesus gave up
for you, What he had toendure for you, what he had to
put on for you. That heleft heaven even though we didn't stop being
God. But just look at howhe made himself vulnerable. And you afraid

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to be transparent. You got folkswatching and sitting in here right now want
to act like they ain't got noproblems. And the problem is you acting
like you ain't got one. Everybodyin this building got a problem, don't

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matter if it could be financial,it could be marital, it could be
mental, it could be spiritual.You going through something. But you know
what we've learned. We've learned howto put makeup on the problem so that
it looks pretty. You know whywomen wear makeup? I ain't saying it's

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simple. You know why they wearmakeup? Y'all, sisters know why do
you wear makeup? I can't hearyou. Why do you wear makeup?
Well? Well, watch this,watch this, watch this. If it's
natural, why does it need enhancement? You know why they make so much

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money on makeup and products because theyfound ways to cover imperfections up. You
wear lipstick because you want your lipsnot only to be a certain color,
but to look a certain way.Even today they got these, Uh,

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I'm trying to be nice. Theyused to just have the thing with the
little brush and you'd brush your eyelash. Now they done turn that into a
little miniature rug. And these womengot rugs on their eyes doing like this.

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What are they covering up? Whatare they covering up? The eyelashes?
They get their eyelashes done. Theywear rouge highlight color foundation. What
are you covering up acne wrinkles?Now? Men? Now it got so

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bad? Now men doing it?That's right, that's right. If a
pimple break out on my forehead,guess what you just gonna see it.
I ain't putting on no foundation.Gray hairs start breaking out, I ain't
getting the stuff that make your hairblack. Why it is what it is.

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Matter of fact, it's a wasteof money anywhere. You got all
that stuff caked on you, andthen when you start sweating, then the
real you start showing up in sweatdrops. I didn't say it was sinful.
I'm just giving you an illustration ofhow people are in a masquerade.

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You know, have you ever heardabout There was a a man he won
He won day a woman. Youknow, most of the time when people
go out, they put on theirbest right. And he knew what the
woman looked like. And he said, yeah, we gonna meet such and
such. We're gonna have dinner blahblah blah. You know, be there
a certain time blah blah blah.And she got all dressed up, dialed

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up, make up on and whenhe got to the restaurant, he waited
say, they supposed to be thereeight o'clock at eight thirty, he said,
where is she at? So hecalls her and she says, where
are you at? I've been heresince eight o'clock. Is now it's eight
forty five. Where are you?You know what the problem was? Huh?

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He she had on so much makeup. He ain't know who she was.
He in there waiting and find theyfinally flagged each other down after all
that cover up. Let me saythis to you, sisters that ain't married.

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If your quote unquote natural beauty becausethat's relative, if your natural beauty
ain't enough for a man, thenhe ain't a man. What do you
mean that that that he ain't aman? Because when you can no longer

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perform with Maybelene Mascara and get dialedup, what do he see in you?
I'm just giving you some premarital counselingadvice. That's all I'm giving you.
If he it it, listen,listen. And then you said when
I say he's not a man,what I'm saying is he don't understand manhood
in the realm of what the spiritrevealed, because not only is he looking

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at the outer he don't even understandlove. And I'm not saying that being
attracted is wrong, because we dolook at people and say who's cute,
who's a true active, who's handsome, who's pretty, blah blah blah.
But then at the end of theday, it gotta be about what is
that person working with in here.I don't know what is shoe low.

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I don't know what dude is ourshoe low.