Good morning. It's good to see you all were
here and we have a lot of young children here this morning as
well. So I'm looking forward to the
competition. So anyway, I really appreciate
their their, full-throated singing, and it's wonderful to
hear children singing in the audience.
It really is. And, and just, as parents are
proud to hear their children sing.
So, is everyone else? And that's great.
It's good to see all those who are here this morning this
morning for the last couple months, I've been thinking about
different lessons that are foundational, things that are
just essential. And that sometimes we need to
resurrect, because they are so foundational.
And this morning, I want to talk a little bit about racism.
Racism is something. It's a word that's not found in
the scriptures. You might be surprised at that,
but it's a It's even a concept that's not really found in many
places in the scriptures but I think we need to talk about it
and have an answer or be able to give an answer for the truth
that lies within us. We need to be able to give
people a response for history in the way sometimes people have
behaved and doctrines that come from men, sometimes it's really
amazing, what all can happen if you will.
If you have your scriptures, I really want to open with two
passages of scripture. This morning one is acts the 17
chapter and acts 17 and verse 26, through 29.
We found, we find here. Paul's sermon to the Athenians
and he is telling these people in Athens about the nature of
God, he said I see all of your Idols.
I see, all of these God's all around off obvious.
This place is very religious and has a Lot of concern about their
worldview and how God fits into this world view.
And as he begins to speak upon that occasion, he talks about
the nature of God. In other words, he talks about
the things that they should or he has in common with his
audience. He says God noticing into verse
26 of Acts Seventeen. God has made from one man at
that is one person Adam and Eve if you will mankind every nation
of men to dwell on The face of the Earth and has determined
their pre appointed times and boundaries of their dwelling.
And as I began to study that that verse it has some
interesting Concepts within it. It's not saying that God.
It's not saying that God put natural boundaries into place to
keep people in nations in certain areas.
Now that is true, especially if you look at the European
continent, we find the Alps have Divided a lot of different
countries and on one side of the mountains people speak a certain
language and on the other side of the mountains they speak
another kind of language. And the same is true with
continents that people have different languages and
different things that go on. But basically what he's saying
here, the emphasis In this passage According to Hebrew
writers is the fact that God is the one that put the nation's on
the earth? He's not talking necessarily
about the boundaries. He struck him out.
He's talking about how God created them and put them all
over the world. So that they should seek the
Lord verse 27. See he goes on, and he talks
about the nature of humans about us, and he says that they may
seek the Lord in hope that they might grope for him and find him
though. He's not far from any one each
and every one of us for in him we live move and have our very
being you know, great thinkers throughout history especially
those who even wrote our Constitution have Recognize that
we have been endowed by our creator with certain abilities
in certain motives in our lives, life liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness is that which is common amongst us and that is
basically what Paul is saying here.
He says, in him, we live move and have our being, as some of
your own poets. Have said he quotes human poets
and he says, for we are also his offspring.
In other words we are all come from God.
God is the originator of all humans.
It says, therefore since we are The Offspring of God, we ought
not to think the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone
or something shaped by Art and man's devising.
Okay. Now he's talking about idolatry
and he's going to go ahead to talk about the true nature of
God and how that God is not an idol.
God cannot be divided into all of these little sections.
There's a God of the night and of the day in a vegetables and
of Of fruit and different kinds of different gods, for all the
different kinds of things. He says, that's not God.
God is not made God's nature is not like that.
Well, Paul's all-encompassing statement here to the Athenians
is a gigantic world view that we as Christians, all share that
God is the source of all that. We are all from the Divine that
God has created us in His image and such the Book of Genesis
says, Yes. But you know what racism
whatever it comes there. People are obvious that people
are aware that we have different colors and different
conversation. We have different languages.
And so we like to put things into categories, we like to
split them or divide them up, but I want you to know, it
doesn't come from God. God, when Paul talked to the
Athenians, he said, listen, God's a source of everything.
He is the one who made us all and put us all here and he says
that's a something that we have in common are something that we
share in unity. Well now this is a bunch of
labradors People will tell you that each of these different
colors of labradors have different kinds of traits.
But in reality they're all just dingy Labradors so to speak.
We find that there's chocolate and there's vanilla.
And, you know, I don't know how many flavors you want, but the
whole point is, is they're all different kinds of with it.
We all know that those are the same dogs.
We're not going to say, listen very carefully.
We're not going to say some of them have a soul and others,
don't have a soul. Those are chihuahuas.
They don't have a soul. Now, what we're going to say is
we're not going to say that we know that they're different
colors but this doesn't mean they are of a different nature.
They're all dogs. And so something happens
sometimes with racism racism, kind of defaults kind of comes
to it to a dehumanization of certain traits are certain
Trends here on the earth and it becomes racism, what we know of
as racism. Mm dehumanization happens.
Whenever we start treating certain individuals or group of
individuals, as if they were not human.
Now, where did this idea really come from?
Believe it or not? It comes from the atheist.
It comes from Eugenics, it comes from the idea that we're not
sure the species of everybody. We're not sure when someone
transformed from an animal into a human or if some are not there
yet, that's where we get some of this idea is sometimes we treat
people like they're animals and people have always had that
distinction but some people dehumanize other human so to
speak. In the original origin of the
species, bye-bye. Oh, what's his name?
I can't even think of his name, notice he says the original over
the name. The original name of the book is
the original of species by means of natural.
Selection of the preservation and favoured races in the
struggle for Life Darwin. Charles Darwin, I wondered why I
threw out his name. But there's some people who
wonder whether all the different races, some of them have
developed to where they can be civilized, and others are
uncivilized and even within the last 100 years or so.
We find these kinds of discussions going on amongst
people on the Earth, that's a form of racism, but it's not,
it's not unique to us, it goes back.
A long, long ways, it goes back to the hatred of Kind of races
in the in the scriptures we're going to talk about that.
But basically I want to say this is the basic issue.
Whereas right here are all men men, do all men have a soul, all
men and women are do we share this in common or are we going
to make some or treat some like animals?
Well let's use some terminology. Let's talk about term and even
though we don't use the Bible doesn't use the word.
Racism. In the Scriptures, it does talk
about discrimination. It does talk about some of this
kind of thing, this kind of behavior.
In fact, notice in the New Testaments, if you have your New
Testaments in Galatians, Chapter 2, and by the way, start taking
notes here, because we're going to talk about a lot of different
passages this morning. In Galatians, the second chapter
We find that because of the religious differences between
Christianity and Judaism, there were some who said there because
there's no difference. We're going to bind circumcision
some parts of the law. We're going to bind it on people
and others were not going to bind it on people.
Now where did this kind of attitude come from?
Well it you go back to to Abraham and you say well the
distinction was circumcision and that's it.
Well that was way after God, first chose Adam, in fact that
book that's it. Noted in the Book of Romans how
they he was justified before he was circumcised.
So this Jewish Gentile kind of nature God, picked Abraham while
he was still the Gentile, so to speak.
And he had that kind of recognition as being a good man.
A man who would serve him with his whole heart, a man of Faith.
A man who did what was right, because he knew that Idols were
wrong. But notice, he says here about
this, false Doctrine verse 4, it's Galatians Chapter 2, but it
was because of false Brethren secretly brought in who had
sneaked to spy out our Liberty Pretty where we have in Christ
Jesus. In order to bring us into
bondage. He's saying, listen, there's
some people here that have come in and they've spied it out and
they want to bind the Jewish law on people.
Do to whom the law was not even given.
They want us to bring us under subjection once again to that
law. But verse 5 but we did not yield
to them for even an hour for that the truth of the Gospel
should remain with you but those who are of high reputation what
they Our makes no difference to me, God shows no partiality.
Interesting, The New American Standard deals with the idea of
discrimination. And if you will this
discriminate discrimination between people, right here in
this very passage, he says it doesn't make any difference to
me. God shows no partiality verse 6.
We are those who are reputation. Contributed nothing to me.
But on the contrary seeing that I had been entrusted with the
gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter.
Had been to the circumcised. For He Who effectively worked
for Peter and his apostleship to the circumcised effectually
worked for me to the Gentiles and recognize the grace that had
been given to give gaming, James, and cephas and John who
have reputation to be pillars. Gave to me Barnabas the right
hands of Fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles and
they to the circumcised. He basically.
Ali is saying here listen there was a time whenever we had peace
and we had unity and everybody was on the same page.
He said we understood that God had sent these guys over to
evangelize the Jews and some of us had been sent to the Gentiles
and but we were in peace. We were Harmony, we were all at
one. But notice they asked us only to
remember the poor. This we eagerly do, but notice
verse 11, Notice verse 11, but when cephas came to Antioch, I
opposed him to his face because he stood to get condemned.
Why notice for prior to the coming of certain men from
James? He used to eat with the Gentiles
but when they came he began to withdraw himself and hold
himself, aloof fearing. The party of the circumcision
and the rest of the Jews. Joined him in Apocrypha.
See Result being that even Barnabas was carried away by
their Apocrypha. See.
But when I saw that, they were not straightforward about the
truth of the Gospel. I said, to cephas in the
presence of all, if you being a Jew lived like the Gentiles and
not like the Jews, how is it that you compelled the Gentiles
to live like the Jews? Oh, what now that is
discrimination and it's written for us and it happened.
Even in the church, the first century of the church.
Was it approved of God, not at all.
Paul says, I withstood him to his face because he was to be
blamed. He was wrong and he was
corrected upon this occasion because he wasn't behaving
correctly. Now, some people are fine with,
you know. Yeah, I believe every God, you
know, saves everybody unless they come to my church, Unless
they come to my congregation and then I have a problem, I tell
him to go have their own congregation. now, in my life
time, I've heard that There's a certain part of the country that
I'm don't hold meetings in very often because people know who I
am and what I believe. But this we need to withstand to
their face that the truth of what the gospel has to say about
discrimination sometimes and that's happened right there
right there in the gospel right there.
He says God had the answer and you messed it up Peter You
withdrew yourselves, you caused a problem between these
different nations and such is not to be.
Well, I want us to be aware of some things as we continue on.
Not only do we use the idea of discrimination as being wrong
for God, is not a respecter of persons.
As the King James says, God does not discriminate.
God doesn't have that kind of judgment.
God looks upon the heart. When we find that in the
scriptures we're going to Notice that just a little bit about the
David King, David, but anyway, stereotyping happens between us
stereotyping is a name that we're concept that we're
familiar with its where it's it's too simple of a judgment.
And therefore, distorts the image of a group dictator,
com.com says, that's what stereotyping me in.
Other words, you make something so simple that it becomes almost
exaggerated and exaggerated Point stereotyping All Irish
people have red hair. All certain people have big
noses. All other people are short, all
other people are tall, you know, different kinds of the, it's
funny how in Africa, you can have all the tall ones and all
the short ones on the sink. So, but the whole point is, is
we like to diss make distinctions among ourselves
There's the people who you know, can have facial hair and people
who don't have facial hair men and women.
So the whole point of getting at is what are we?
What are we going to do here? Are we going to talk about all
of these things and divide everybody up into different
classes of cuteness, or or ugliness, or height?
Or how are we going to differentiate between all of
these people? We're not.
And that's what we need to talk about here.
How in Christ Christ is a book of Ian says broke down the
middle wall of partition, so making peace.
There's something unique about the world view of Christianity.
God is our father, and we're all his children.
And there's to be no distinctions.
Other than that, it's a lazy way of trumping together all those
who come from a certain class or race.
And so, we begin stero. Piping.
People statements, which attempt bike to characterize the group
of people by saying all such and such are either inferior to us
in certain ways, or, you know, whatever, which leads then to
Prejudice an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or
without knowledge thought. Or reason whenever we have
Prejudice, we prejudge see people to have certain character
rather because of their skin color or height or width or
depth or whatever you want to use to try to say that.
When we start making these distinctions amongst ourselves,
the Bible says, we commit sin Whether it has to do with
economics, rich, and poor weather has to do with genetics,
male, or female. We find it in Christ Jesus.
We're all one. And he's not supposed to we're
not supposed to be using stereotypes to talk about
whether somebody should be followed respected or anything
else that prejudice that comes that unfavorable potential
opinion. Prejudice comes from a closed
mind. Without any desire effort,
purport to learn the facts, and other words, we need to learn
the facts about a certain person. whenever I was young and
I'm going to date myself here, I'm old I listen to Martin
Luther King. And his his speech about the
mounted talk, is still causes emotion with it.
He talked about one day whenever he sees that a person will be
judged on the nature of his character rather than the color
of his skin. And I just applauded, it was
just amazing. Yes, he saw that day.
They killed him for it. The whole point I'm getting at
is this is God's perspective when we look at each other with
God's eyes, what do we see? we don't see their outer
characteristics, their stature, Their ugliness are cuteness.
To the Chagrin of some young men, you know, women God looks
at the heart, he looks somewhere else.
Well Where did the nation's come from?
Let's just go on. Where did the nation's come
from? I'm glad we have so many young
people here today. Let's talk about this for just a
little bit. This is a picture of a real
place. It doesn't show up.
Well, I got to pixelated, sorry about that.
I have to get a better picture. This is the, what's the
foundations of Babylon? The Tower of Babel.
You can see it today in the Middle East and the in the
valley where it is. It cost you a lot of money to
get there but nonetheless you can see it.
The Tower of Babel, something happened at the Tower of Babel,
we find the languages working. Used.
Now, there's all kinds of languages and dialects and And
accents within our language. I made rebuilt fun of Reba a
long time. because she came from Texas, and when we got married,
I said Reba Reba, my mom wants to hear you count to ten sheikah
1T, 3, 4, 5, And I'd say, what was that five again?
I was at five or was it five? She goes, it was five.
She still hates that to this day, if I asked her, what was
that five anyway? The whole point is we have
different accents, different things.
And whenever he talks about languages, but there are common
things, people who study, it's like, nobody ever studied this.
Yes, we've studied this. There are about 100 over 100
different languages, but there's there's gobs and gobs of
dialects, and And and little intricate things but that you
kind of better when you boil it down.
There's really not that much distinction between these but
yet at the Tower of Babel they all spoke one language.
Didn't they? In Genesis chapter 11, if you
have your Old Testament, please turn to Genesis chapter 11.
We're just going to look at a few passages here.
In Genesis 11:1, notice what it says.
Now, the whole earth used the same language and the same
words, there you go. Now when was this was, this was
just after, after the flood Genesis 9:1.
But notice what it says here happened after the flood, we
find it, you know, we're all one in Adam and Eve as Romans
argues, but then the world got big and then God had to flush
the world with the flood. And and we got all of these, the
children of Noah. And it says the world and they
were all one. They weren't spreading out over
the world. So they had, yes, they had.
But they hadn't, they there was a big group of them.
That hadn't. And here's why.
And at that, they journeyed East, they found a plain in the
land of shinar and settled there.
And they said, to one another come, let us make bricks and
burn them thoroughly, and use the brick for stone.
And they used Harper mortar. And they said, come, let us
build ourselves a city and a tower, whose top will reach into
into heaven and let us make ourselves a name.
Otherwise, we will was scattered abroad over the face of the old
Earth and the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, behold.
They are one people and they all have the same language and this
is what they began to do, and how nothing, which they purpose
to do will be impossible for them come.
Let us go down and there confused, their languages.
So they will not understand one another in speech.
Now, the Lord they don't think the Lord did this because he was
upset at himself or or what he meant.
He was upset at, man. For this idea of man was going
to become God. There is nothing impossible for
us. If we all stick together, if we
all stay together and have one language, we are going to be
able to build this into heaven. The Hebrew is really interesting
here and The New American Standard captures that
uniqueness by saying not unto heaven, but into heaven.
And other words, they were literally going to go have war
with God and take over Heaven, become Gods themselves.
It was the idea that we are God of the world and of the cause of
everything. Thing we see, we're going to be
gods and God says, that's not healthy for, man.
That's not healthy. They're going to kill themselves
pretty quick. And so he confused their
languages verse 8. So the Lord scattered them
abroad from over there, over the face of the whole earth and they
stopped building the city. Therefore, the name was called
Babel because the Lord confused the languages of the whole earth
and from there from there. The Lord scattered them abroad,
over the face of the whole earth.
If you want to know wherever all the races came from and all over
the Earth, it's because of that. Now did they all come from the
same source does? Does our studies does our
language studies and studies about history?
Does it confirm this idea? Yes, the land where they had
settled was in that Middle Eastern area of Mesopotamia,
that that we talked about among the Jews, and they were there in
that, in that area. Now, those who are genetic the
study said, well, some maybe it's a little bit lower into a
northern They're in Africa and other say, no, it was in the
Middle East. More room over near Babylon.
The fact of matter is, is where Eden was was between the
Euphrates River. It's a Middle East and a lot of
science says, yeah, that's probably where all of humanity
really came from from there. And notice After the flood,
they're still there and notice what happens.
They're building. They're going to become and God
says, no and scatters them over the face of the whole Earth.
Is there a genetic link between all of us on the earth like a
thankfully? During our generation, we find
the double helix. We have people who have
discovered all these things started tracing things down and
they find out that even the American Indians, that they were
in a different continent but they have Asian connections,
they came over the land bridge. That was up north and what about
the people Australia? Yeah, they have connections to
what about all? Of the other people in the
world, we all have connections. It all is amazingly.
We're all of One people, all of mankind.
We all came from the same place and then we were scattered over
the face of their. That's where all of the things
came from. Well, wait a minute, don't we
have different colored people in different places?
We obviously have different languages.
Why? Where do we get the different
colors in the different genetic? Predisposition, so to speak.
that comes from who you marry, you know and whenever you only
got so many women and men into just a certain area you pick
them to marry with and so you reinforce certain traits and we
have certain traits amongst us that our unique one of the
things whenever I was studying for this, it was really funny.
What I found out about carita. Did you know that Koreans many
Koreans don't smell very much when they sweat?
They they don't some of them don't even have sweat glands,
very much very much, you sweat glands and I thought, you know
what I have never just conscientiously smelled a Korean
Yeah, but there's somebody that does that more power to you.
Somebody goes around the world smelling people and I guess.
Well, no, they figured that. That's a giant.
A genetic difference, there's eyes difference.
There's facial features, there's balm has all of these different
things, as I point to myself, there's ball that the whole
point is, we each have different things and that becomes whenever
we marry somebody that has those genetic we dispositions, we
often develop those freezes positions in a certain area.
But does God say there's some people that have different
physical characteristics that are evidence of how not having a
soul. No.
We know that all men, everywhere have a soul, I do not believe it
is without notice that in Acts the eighth chapter verse 26
through 40. The Ethiopian eunuch is one of
the first converts mentioned in the scriptures.
Now, don't tell me Ethiopians. Don't have a soul, whenever God
and the Holy Spirit, picked an Ethiopian to write an entire a
chapter almost about and his conversion.
That's Doctrine. That's Bible.
You have the Ethiopian eunuch. I'm not going to talk about
eunuchs. So I'm gonna tell everybody
Ethiopians firm in the church, historically in Northern Africa
was huge. It was big.
It was a place where Christianity took, foothold in
the world. And how people can develop a
doctor. I heard whenever I was a young
man someone in a place tell me. That black people don't have a
soul. And I said, are you serious
that? Somebody actually believes that.
They said, yes. That's ridiculous.
My friend. The Holy Spirit took care of
anybody that would even kind of come up with that idea by
putting the Ethiopian eunuch in the scriptures and saying he was
worthy of Salvation, and God spent the time to send somebody
there to have him hear the truth.
And obey the gospel and to spread Christianity in that
country. Jesus even suffered from racism
in John 1, verse 46 Nathaniel, said to him, can any good thing
come out of Nazareth? Where did that come from?
We say can anything good come out of fill in the blank.
That is wrong thinking. This is obviously prejudiced.
This is obviously stereotyping in the scriptures and God
condemns it in. John 1, verse 46, can anything
good. Philip said, come and see this
guy is this guy is the Messiah, the Messiah came out of
Nazareth, which wasn't a good place to come from.
Evidently Because back then they stereotypically said people from
Nazareth, weren't worthy of respect.
Philip said, come and see. You've got to see this person,
you've got to see you and hear what he says and see what he
does, and how he is, indeed the Messiah, in John 14 verse 9,
therefore the Samaritan woman. Now, who were Samaritans,
Samaritans were Jewish people that had intermarried with the
people around them, the other Gentiles and were considered by
the pure race of Jews. The Hebrew of Hebrews.
If you will. They were considered half-breeds
and to be reduce respected. And notice this woman even
viewed herself that way. Therefore the Samaritan woman
said to Jesus. How is it that you being a Jew?
Ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman.
In other words, she was aware that there was racism way back.
Then that there was stereotyping And she says, how come you're
talking to me? I'm a Samaritan, you know, I'm a
Samaritan. Why are you talking to me?
And, of course. Jesus went ahead, says, woman.
If you would have asked, I could give you living water, you'll
never thirst again. He would say she was worthy of
Salvation. And she went around guy that
everyone around to understand that Jesus was different than
anything else that she had ever heard of that.
Jesus was speaking for the mind and the Heart of God.
Well, what does the bible directly say about racism?
And I'm going to have to get down.
The bottom, the bottom Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only true
and Lasting solution to the problem of racism.
Not some more human Concept in our land.
There are in our country right now.
There is another world fruit view that's trying for
dominance. And it's trying to split us up
into groups by our skin color and by our genetics and by all
kinds of little things that you can identify groups identity.
It's called identity politics. It's called this idea of where
you can separate people buy into two basic groups oppressor and
oppressed. And and that's what you've got
to be worried about is which are you and it can happen, even in
homes but that's why I think the home is got to go is because as
long as the structure of male and female, then the Bible says,
you know, because of the relationship that has got to be
destroyed or at least the Western concept of it, the home
needs to be restructured. But notice this, the gospel
really does have the problem solved in the way we are to view
one. Another Christians are to be
different from the world. The Bible says, notice Matthew 5
verse 14, if you're taking notes, Mmm.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be
hidden. Nor does anyone light a lamp and
put it under a basket but on a life's lampstand and it gives
light to all their in the house. Let your light shine before men,
in such a way that they may see, your good works.
And glorify your father who is in heaven, this is a Christian
he is Deeds, are to be Authentically.
Offered to all, just like God's was.
We're supposed to imitate our father in that when Jesus came
to the Earth. Did he come to only parts of the
Earth are? Did he come for the whole world?
John 4:23 and 24, John. All these other passages that
talk about the nature of God. God came to the world acts, 60
God. All in all of these passages,
Jesus came. Tasted death for every man.
Jesus came to save the world, he names the world.
God, so loved the world. John 3:16 that he gave his only
begotten son. He named the world.
As it metonymy, by the way, to suggest its contents and that's
people us people to save all those who are in the world, God
loved the world that he gave his only begotten son for all of the
humanity that would live on the surface of the planet for
everybody. Everybody.
Jesus came for everybody that Jesus was going to come and
bring Salvation to all these and glorify.
Your father who is in heaven? Love is the more excellent way
in First Corinthians 12 verse 31 but during ladies, the desire
greater gifts and still, I showed to you a more excellent
way. This way.
Involves love, Agape. Love First.
Corinthians 13. They though I have the ability
to speak all kinds of tongues and have not love it.
Profits, me nothing. And then he goes on down, and
tells us about how love is freely given how it's selfless
is given without regard for the loved ones condition.
Just like the parable of the Good Samaritan Samaritan.
This is supposed to be an illustration of what racism.
No, it's an anti-racist story. Here we have a Jew that's caring
for a Samaritan and takes care of Amy's.
Fell among robbers. And so, he takes him and takes
care of him. Things like that.
Jesus consistently taught against this kind of ideology.
That's what I'm trying to. To get at.
There isn't any verse that is expressly says racism is
suspenseful, but the stories the people Jesus talked to the
things Jesus experienced the way he expressed himself all.
Tell us God's perspective. And he says, I want you to love
one another if I speak with the tongues of men and angels and
don't have love, I become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of Prophecy, know all Mysteries and have all
knowledge and have all Faith. So as to remove mountains and
don't have love, I am nothing. That means nothing valuable in
the eyes of God. Notice he goes on to say and if
I give all my possessions to feed the poor and surrender, my
body to be burned and don't have love it, profits me nothing.
Love is patient. Love is kind.
Love is not jealous. I want to say the primary
statement about the nature of God as God is love.
Love is the answer. Love does not brag and is not
arrogant loved. In other words, love doesn't
brag about its excellent seeds. Are there distinctions between
different peoples of different nations?
Yeah, some are taller. Some are shorter, some have this
and some have that I thought it was so humorous.
I was watching a black man, preach about racism and he said,
he said, I want you to know That just because you don't have as
much melon. And as I do, I want you to know.
God loves you just as much. And I so appreciated that
statement. We talk about colors.
Let me talk about colors because I'm gonna get off here.
I knew I would colors. What kind of colors do we have
our we green and chartreuse and whatever other colors you want
to come up with our? We have all those things.
No, we basically have one color and we're different shades of
brown. Some of us are dark brown and
some of us are light brown. Some of us have different spots.
My brother has a thing that eats he has a bacteria that eats all
of his melanin. And so his hands.
He's got real white spots and then he's got really dark spots
because he's out in the sun a lot.
And he says, I'm a rainbow Well, I don't care what your spots
are. If you have unique little
blemishes that their wine stains or whatever it might be, I don't
know. But I'll tell you what, all men
have underneath that. God made of one blood all men.
You take blood out of a person and that's whenever you find out
if they're human or not. Because blood you can get the
blood of all different kinds of colors of people and sometimes
you need that blood and it doesn't matter what color the
person had that it came from. And so love, does not seek, its
own is not easily provoked. Don't let Pride about your red
hair or your non-red hair, your kinky hair, your long, straight
hair, your Lack of smell whatever it might be.
That's not something that we should use to feel arrogant,
does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into
account a wrong suffered does not rejoice in unrighteousness.
But rejoices in the truth Bears, all things believes all things,
hopes all things endures, all things, and the second is like
an intuitive. You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. Love God with all our heart
soul, mind strength, love your neighbor as yourself, the Golden
Rule, we're supposed to love. All our neighbors that somebody
outside I'd of yourself the Bible.
Never, never tells you to love yourself.
It tells you to love one. It assumes that you do.
And says you love one another like you love yourself.
We know that that's a lot. So, he says, I want you to care
for one another Law Office, the answer Jesus Christ, really did
bring peace to mankind. Luke 21 verse 29.
Who's my neighbor but wishing to justify himself.
He says he said to Jesus, who is my neighbor, you see back, then
they're still fighting over it. Stereotyping discrimination,
they wanted. They like it, it makes them
proud, it makes America. I'm better than you.
Jesus stop it. Will you just stop it?
Who's my name? The which of these do you think
proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?
And he said the one who showed Mercy to him.
Then Jesus said to him, go do the same.
This is that parable of the Good Samaritan that we were talking
about. This is how God wants us to have
our worldview. I want you to know.
God says I want you to care about everyone regardless of
their genetic family. Everyone is our neighbor and
God's eyes. Everyone is deserving of Love,
including those who have been, we have been taught to hate and
those who have been taught to hate us in Matthew 5, but I say
to you love your enemies. Now, he gets really specific.
I don't know who you consider to be enemies, but Whoever they
are. Here's your command.
Love your enemies. Bless them that curse, you do
good to them. That hate, you pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
That's right. you know, in the early church racism between Jews
and Gentiles in the first century, we've already noticed
the book the entire book of Galatians But the hatred between
the Jews and the Gentiles is specifically mentioned.
So clearly in the scriptures that there can be no doubt that
all Christians ought to share the same perspective.
And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said
to them brother and, you know, in the early days, God made a
choice among you that by my mouth.
The Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.
And God, who knows the heart. Testified to them, giving them
the Holy Spirit. Just as he did, to us acts 10
acts 11, notice, he could going on in here in Acts 15, it's
repeated again. Three times.
Notice just as he did to us and he made no distinctions between
us and Them cleansing their hearts by faith.
There That's why that's why there should absolutely be no
racism in the Lord's church. Now, there may be racism in some
Churches but it should not be in the Lord's church.
We should not make those kinds of distinctions amongst
ourselves. now, that doesn't mean because there used to be I
get to claim victim status. No.
I'll tell you, whenever it comes to enslavement, every people in
the world have been enslaved by somebody who dominated them.
Africans took slaves of other Africans whenever they dominated
them in the scriptures. Whenever a Wars, even look at
Goliath David and Goliath. If we went, then you get to be
our slaves. That's the way they did it back.
Then, when a war would go dominated land, you would take
those feel asleep, everybody practice slavery back then God
didn't Jesus Christ came and changed the perspective of
everyone in the world. The effect of Jesus Christ on
this world is amazing and people don't give God credit.
Notice what Peter says in Acts 10 opening his mouth.
Peter said, I most certainly understand now that God is not
one to show partiality, but in every what?
Every 435, yeah, every nation the man who fears him and does
what is right is welcomed to him.
That's a significant statement and acts 10 verse 35 in every
nation he who fears him and does.
What is right, is welcome to you.
That's how God designed us to bring Unity is for everybody to
acknowledge our creator. And Obey him.
He became the author of Eternal salvation unto all them, that
obey him, Hebrews 5 and verse 9. Oh everyone.
We don't have to question. If you address as father, the
one who impartially judges according to each one's work,
its individual. This is God's concept where I
got to be saved as a race. We're not going to be saved as
any other group other than the church.
Not some human Arrangement, not some human category.
Not some intersectionality identification.
God says each one's work according to conduct yourself
during fear the time of during your time of your stay on the
earth. Let's look at Romans 1 verse 14.
I am under obligation, both to the Greeks, and to The
Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
So for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you who are
at Rome for notice for I'm not ashamed.
Of the gospel. For it is the power of God to
for salvation to everyone, who believes to the Jew first and
also to the Greek. What is he trying to say here?
He's trying to say stop looking that these nationalities.
Stop looking at races and recognize the from God's
perspective. All he wants people to do is
obey the gospel. And the Lord will add him to the
family of God. Spiritually for God is a spirit,
John 4, 23 and 24. Whenever were made in the image
of God. For there is no partiality with
God. No partiality James to James to
my brother, and do not hold the Faith of Our glorious.
Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.
New American Standard says, notice my brother's do not show
partiality, as you hold the Faith of Our Lord.
Jesus Christ, the lord of Glory English Standard Version.
The Bible says no partiality. There's something unique about
the Christian mindset. And that is a weird to have no
partiality. I'm going to get really I'm
going to get into your business. You ready?
Glenn. Have you ever married the
interracially married people? Yes, right here in Oklahoma
City. Is that something that's talked
about the God? Is that all right with God,
first of all, why are you even asking the question?
Do you have to have a pre-check on the race race of somebody
before you can marry them? Make sure they're not.
Hispanic, or Some other race or whatever, you know.
I don't know, I don't know my children, I don't know.
I want to be able to speak their language, so I don't know if I
should marry Joseph banished person or not.
I don't know if the thinking of some people You may be slightly
different. Are there may be a whole
spectrum of difference and God doesn't care.
God doesn't care. That some of these as you might
not be able to say that not so that's unfortunate.
Because during the time of Christ, I think God and the Holy
Spirit work, really hard to make sure that never happened.
God wants to know if you're headed to the same place.
If you have the same father, if you have the same inheritance,
all he wants all people to come to know him.
But my friends there is no partiality and we should not
hold the Faith of Our Lord. Jesus Christ.
Lord Of Glory with partiality. It's not a problem.
It's not a problem with God. First Samuel, 16 verse 7.
But the Lord God said to Samuel do not.
Look at his appearance nor the height of his stature because I
have rejected him for God sees, not as man.
Sees for God sees not as man sees That's a pretty poured
statement for man. Looks at the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks at the heart. God was saying this Samuel about
David. James 29, but if you show,
partiality, you're committing sin and convinced by the law as
transgressors. Notice the new King James.
But if you show partiality, you were committing sin and
convicted by the law as transgressors, my friends, it's
a sin to have racism in our hearts.
It just is however, you are fulfilling the Royal law corny
to scriptures. You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. You are doing well.
But if you show partiality verse 9, you are committing sin and
are convicted by the block. That's the preface.
That's just that, that's the verse just before this verse You
shall love your neighbor as yourself, my friends, there's no
place for this. The unity of the human race,
anyone made of one man, every nation of mankind to live on the
surf, on the face of the Earth, having determined their
appointed times in the boundaries of their habitation.
He made us all into this into this way.
We have overlooked the times of ignorance God is now declaring.
That all people everywhere should repent.
God will It's the whole world to repair that acts 17:30, he wants
everybody to hear the gospel and be saved.
That's why we go into the whole world and preach the gospel
because he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in
righteousness through that man. He is appointed, having
furnished proof to all men by raising him from dead.
There's the thing God wants us to go into a whole world.
Even though Christians are to exposed to accept diversity in
culture and race, it doesn't mean that we're supposed to
accept diversity in religion and immorality.
No we can still say something is right?
And something is wrong but racism is a sin of Pride.
Race makes no difference to God instead of focusing on the
differences in the color of our skin, maybe we would all be
served to concentrate on our similarities.
We are human made in the image of God and we're all in need of
in savior, we all have something in common, the image of God, the
image of God, God created man in his own.
His own image in the image of God created.
He them male and female and female created, he them, God
made us spiritual and a spiritual solution, is the only
solution to the problem of racism.
Listen to this passage, I want you to write down This is
important significant passage First Corinthians, 12 verse 13.
We're all baptized by one spirit that word baptized by one
Spirit, or in one Spirit are /. Take of one Spirit.
It all means that we share in the blessings that come from the
one spirit of God. Whether Jews or Gentiles slaver,
free, and we were all given the one Spirit to drink is a very
good translation of this passage.
We're all given to one Spirits drink First Corinthians, 12
verse 13, where We're all baptized, we're all to form.
The one body. This is God's desire.
This is how God looks at things. Prove it Revelation there are
last verse Revelation 7 verse 9 through 10.
And after these things, I looked and behold a great multitude
which could not count from every nation And all Prides and people
and tongues standing Before the Throne and before the lamb
clothed in white robes and Palms breach of branches were in their
hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to
our God who sits on the throne and unto the lamb.
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