Ep 432 | Racism - Glen Osburn

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

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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

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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

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have your Old Testament, please turn to Genesis chapter 11.

Genesis 11 · chapter mention

We're just going to look at a few passages here.

In Genesis 11:1, notice what it says.

Genesis 11:1

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.

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

John 1:46

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

John 1:46

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,

John 14:9

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

Matthew 5:14

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

John 4:23

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

John 3:16

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

1 Corinthians 12:31

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.

Luke 21:29

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

Acts 10:35

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.

Romans 1:14

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.

1 Samuel 16:7

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

Acts 17:30

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.

1 Corinthians 12:13

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

1 Corinthians 12:13

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.

Revelation 7:9–10

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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