A Biblical Response on Race | Sermon by Tony Evans

Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.

or we need you today at a level that

that is beyond the ordinary we need the

supernatural extraordinary now because

you have allowed it to be clear that we

have human limitations so we cry out to

you Lord for wisdom and knowledge and

understanding starting in this house and

then where you take us in Jesus name we

pray amen

every four years there are the Olympics

where the elite athletes of the world

come together to compete they have

worked hard to be viewed and understood

and seen as the very best of the best

and so they come and they compete

against other athletes from other

countries aspiring ultimately for the

gold medal

the ultimate recognition of their

superiority however when the gold

medalist stands on the platform to

receive the gold medal they do not ask

him or her what’s their favorite song

they play the national anthem of the

country of what of which they are apart

with their flag flying high because it

is understood while that athlete used

their talents and their skills and their

efforts and their hard work they

represent a bigger country they

represent a bigger kingdom it’s not just

about them

it includes them it utilizes them but

it’s bigger than them and so they want

it to be made clear that they did this

under the banner and under the flag of

the kingdom that they represent God has

a kingdom it’s made up of citizens some

black some white some red yellow Spanish

backgrounds and his intention was never

that their individual uniqueness is

whatever cause in the lose sight of the

flag flying over them the flag of the

cross and the flag of our commitment to

Christ America in particular is reaching

an all-time low and this issue of race

and culture and class just under the

surface there’s this ever bubbling

problem that has gone unresolved this is

sinful evil disease of racism

culturalism and classism is too deep for

over-the-counter remedies radical

surgery is needed any any sicknesses

last this long and run this deep

Walgreens is insufficient for CVS cannot

give you an antidote we need something

more radical and much deeper to address

this chaotic confusion in the culture so

as clearly as I know how I would like to

spend my time with you this morning

– as specifically as possible address

this issue of race of culture of class

that has been muddied by a million

different voices

we’ve got voices about which life

matters all life is created in the image

of God all life is created in the image

of God therefore all lives matter

however underneath the banner that God

has created all people in His image

there are equities that must be

addressed for example the life of the

unborn matters and so there is this

emphasis on injustice in the womb but

that injustice in the womb must be under

the umbrella that that is life and

because all life matters that life

matters black lives matter as a subset

of all lives matter so any injustice is

to a particular group must be addressed

specific to that group but under the

banner that all life is created in the

image of God and so on and so forth but

once you astray extract any specific

scenario and remove it from the umbrella

of God’s creation you create your own

independent cause there is no discussion

of sociology that at least from a

Christian point of view that should not

be plugged into theology that is God’s

view about

so I’m going to seek today to give you

God’s view of race culture and class

because the principles can apply to any

one of those areas so that when you

leave here you have a better view of you

and you have a helpful understanding

biblio centrically of how to help others

to look at this from God’s point of view

now let’s make it clear if people do not

start with God they’re not going to stay

with you so so we’re gonna make that

clear if they’re not if they reject that

they will reject you but the Bible says

that is to be expected but if they

rejected me they’re going to reject you

if you bring me into the equation but

what he does not want you to do is leave

him out just because they don’t bring

him in so I must speak to this issue

from a field century Christocentric and

Biblio centric perspective God Christ in

scripture in John chapter four we have a

definitive statement on this issue

coming out of an event that took place

in Jesus’s life Jesus has become popular

we’re told in verse 1 he’s now baptizing

more people than John and it has become

clear he is emerging and people are

beginning to see that this was no

ordinary man or prophet but Jesus is not

yet ready to make his full public

declaration of who he is the eternal son

of God and so he leaves Judea and goes

to Galilee but we’re told in verse 4 he

had to pass through Samaria a little

geography Judea is in the South Galilee

is in the north and right between Judea

and Galilee

Lee is Sumeria so it was part of the

direct week but the reason John puts it

here is because no Orthodox Jew had to

pass through Samaria

because in Sumeria lived the Samaritan

dogs that’s what they were called by

Jews the unclean ones a little bit of

history in 722 BC Assyria invaded Israel

as part of God’s judgment they took many

of the Jews back to Assyria and

transplanted some Assyrians into Israel

so there was interracial marriage the

interracial marriages created this new

group of people called the Samaritans

who were despised as you’ll see in a

moment by the Jews because of this

interbreeding racially and so they

wouldn’t deal with the Samaritans

because they were half-breeds and they

were unclean and so they anyone have

anything to do with them but the Bible

says that Jesus had to pass through

Samaria the reason he had to pass

through Samaria is because at twelve

o’clock noon or as the scripture says

the sixth hour that’s 12 o’clock there’s

a woman coming to the well we’re told in

verse 5 and so he came to the city of

Samaria called Sychar near the parcel of

ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph

and Jacob’s Well was there so Jesus

being wearied from his journey was

sitting by the well it was about the

sixth hour that came a woman of Samaria

to draw water jesus said to her give me

a drink notice a lot of attention is

given to this well when I just totally

stopped by oh well witness the well is

described this is Jacob’s Well that he

gave to his son Joseph located in the

vicinity of Sychar which was the city of

Samaria he he wants us to know that this

is not an ordinary well this is a

a given to his son well why would that

be important for the author of John John

the Apostle to tell us that well in a

moment you’ll see the Jews didn’t get

along with the Samaritans and the

Samaritans didn’t get along with the

Jews but they both loved Jacob for Jacob

was the father of the Jews and the

Samaritans of course of the Jews Abraham

Isaac and Jacob but also of the

Samaritans because the Samaritans

accepted the first five books of the

Bible Genesis is the first book of the

Bible

Jacob is in the first book of the Bible

since they accepted the first book of

the Bible they accepted Jacob so in

order to make this thing work Jesus met

her on common ground he met her at a

place of agreement and the place of

agreement was scriptural related because

they were both related to Jacob the Jews

didn’t like the Samaritans as smartened

didn’t like the Jews but they both love

them some Jacob so he met her at a place

that they could both agree on he meets

her there and we find out that he wants

a drink of water from her cup you got to

be kidding me you’re going to put your

Jewish lips to this woman Samaritan cup

now we know it’s a shocker because look

at verse 9 verse 9 tells us therefore

the Samaritan woman said to him how is

it that you being a Jew

asked me for a drink since I am a

Samaritan woman for the Jews have no

dealings with the Samaritans now before

I go on I want to call your attention to

verse 8 for his disciples had gone away

into the city to buy food probably

chicken

because there were all preachers so they

have gone into the city to buy food and

he just drops that in and then goes back

to the story because that’s going to

become a critical part of the story in

just a moment that they’re in town bad

food the Samaritan woman looks at Jesus

after Jesus is offering to drink from

her cup and she is shocked stupefied

mesmerized she she can’t figure out you

being a Jew ask me a Samaritan for a

drink of water why is this important

question number one how did she know he

was a Jew he never identifies himself as

a Jew he never says that he’s a Jew so

evidently he’s obviously a Jew just by

looking at him seeing his dress hearing

his accent cuz all she doesn’t see him

and hear him he’s obviously Jewish so

recognizing he’s a Jew she shocked in

other words Jesus didn’t stop being who

he was to reach somebody else he didn’t

go to Samaria and find out how to speak

Samaritan and then find out how they

dressed so I can dress like them in

order to hide who he was

he was visibly verbally a Jew and it was

evident so he didn’t give up his own

creation to talk to a different kind of

creation he was able to maintain his

racial and cultural identity but even

though he maintained his racial and

cultural identity he didn’t let it get

in the way of doing what his father had

called him to do and that is to reach

across the railroad tracks to somebody

who was different than him who the rest

of his culture would not reach out to

for the Jews have

dealings with the Samaritans while God

is not calling any of us to give up how

he made us he is not expecting us to use

how he made us to relate inappropriately

to people he has made different than us

God is not asking you to be anything

other than what he’s made you as long as

you submit to how he has made you to how

you relate to other people who he has

made different than you

it is technically incorrect technically

to call yourself a black Christian or a

white Christian or Hispanic Christian

because then you make your color or your

culture and adjective it’s the job of an

adjective to modify a noun so if you put

Christianity in the noun position and

your color or culture in the adjectival

position you have to keep shaping the

noun so that it looks like the adjective

that describes it so if your color or

culture stays in the adjective or

position you got to keep shaping

Christianity to look black or to look

right or they look red or to look yellow

cuz that’s the agitator description

you’ve given it your Christianity must

always be in the agitator position your

color and culture must always be in the

noun position so that if anything must

be adjusted it is the noun of your

humanity and not the adjective of your

faith

you and I are to define of our humanity

in terms of our faith not our faith in

terms of our humanity Jesus stayed who

he was but he operated from Heaven’s

point of view he didn’t give up being a

Jew to reach her

God is not asking you to give up who you

are to touch somebody else but don’t let

the fact that all the mother folk in

your race won’t drink from a cup to keep

you from drinking from a cup don’t be so

committed to your own race that you

operate outside of the Christian faith

while staying true to what God has made

you and so Jesus Christ says can I have

a drink of your order the woman is the

woman is overwhelmed because he’s doing

something no Jew does he’s doing

something that his people don’t do and

this has been going on since 722 BC so

this has been going on for hundreds and

hundreds of years and so she is awed by

the fact that he’s going to put his

Jewish lips to mine Samaritan cup now

please notice something he hadn’t given

her any Bible yet hadn’t preached to her

yet he had witnessed to her yet he had

and he hadn’t given her theology yet she

doesn’t even know who he is

all she knows is he’s a nice man that’s

all she knows see a lot of folk want to

tell folk about Jesus who are not

willing to drink out of the cup

I want to get your soul to heaven I just

don’t want to deal with you on earth our

witness to you but I won’t eat with you

I witness to you but I won’t drink with

you I’ll talk about God Jesus hasn’t

even talked about who he is yet but he

demonstrated by his touch and by his so

see his sociology gave validity to the

theology that was to come and a lot of

folk have rejected God because how can I

believe in a God who who’s not social

enough for you to sit down and eat and

drink and fellowship with me because I’m

a Samaritan because I’m of a different

history and background and race and

culture so the woman is just shocked

just because he’s gonna put his Jewish

lips Tara Samaritan cup he’s gonna do

what his own race won’t because it was

the right thing to do so Jesus tells her

verse 10 if you knew the gift of God and

who it was who you were talking to who

said give you give me the drink you

would have asked him and he would have

given you living water a little

transition to the spiritual he given you

living water everyone who drinks your

water verse 13 has gone thirst again but

whoever drinks the water that I will

give him shall never thirst but the

water that I give him will become a well

springing up to eternal life

hmm woman says well shucks I want that

water I don’t have to come out here

twelve o’clock every day and do this do

this well thing if you don’t do that guy

where is this living water I don’t know

where you going with it what is this

well he says to her go call your husband

okay

the heating gone from drinking water to

who she’s sleeping with

he gone from drinking water he’s all up

in her boudoir he’s all up he’s all up

in her business he’s all up in her stuff

go call your husband she says I don’t

have a husband Jesus said you got that

right verse 17 you have correctly said

because you’ve had five husbands and the

one you have now is mr. Jones me and mr.

Jones is the one you have now is not

your husband this you have truly said he

confronts her with her sinfulness her

looseness your impropriety

he could have never gotten that far if

he wasn’t willing to drink from her cup

but his Sociology opened up an

opportunity for theology she said sir

verse 19 I perceive you our prophet I

guess so

he’s all opinion stuff like that he

knows about your life just having met

you I perceive you our prophet she says

our fathers worshiped in this mountain

verse 20 and you people a racial slur if

I ever heard one you people say that in

Jerusalem is the place where you are to

worship jesus says woman believe me the

hour is coming and now neither in this

mountain nor Jerusalem will show you

worship the father you worship that

which you know not we worship what we

know for salvation is of the Jews an

hour is coming and now is when the true

worshipers will worship the father in

spirit and truth for such people the

father seeks to worship Him God is

spirit and those who worship Him must

worship Him in spirit and truth notice

something when race comes up earlier he

was a Jew she was a Samaritan he asked

to drink from her cup Jesus makes me no

comment no no just the reality here do

I’m Samaritan no comment

but now she brings up race in

relationship to Jesus’s father where we

worship our fathers worshiped in this

mountain behind her is mal gerzean mal

girls iam is whether the Samaritan

temple was located and that’s where we

go to church we go to church of mal

Garcia you people y’all y’all go Church

over there y’all go to church over there

you go to church in Jerusalem watch this

we were raised different because she

says our Father our Father that’s how

you were raised Jesus let me explain

this my daddy told me that when you want

to get close to God you go you go back

here the girls here and my daddy told me

that cuz my granddaddy told my daddy who

told me

but this is God’s Way and the only

reason my granddaddy told my daddy who

told me is cuz my great granddaddy told

my granddaddy who told my grand my daddy

who told me that this is how we live

this is how we worship this is our view

of God this thing has been passed down

from my father’s it’s part of my history

it’s part of my Harry just part of my

background it’s how I was raised

and you people the only reason you do

what you do is cuz your daddy told you

cuz your granddaddy told your daddy who

told you your great granddaddy told your

granddaddy who told your daddy who told

you we got two different histories we

got two different background we were

raised on different sides of the track

Jesus we’re different

when she brought up race the first time

Jesus had nothing to say but when she

brought his daddy into it he gives her a

whole lecture we can have our racial

differences lady but when you bring my

father into the discussion

I got a clarify and boy does he clarify

you worship what you know not your daddy

was wrong your granddaddy was wrong your

great granddaddy was wrong and your

great-great granddaddy is wrong all your

people are wrong they’re all wrong

because they’re not worshipping

correctly they’re not worshiping the

true God you are following a tradition

passed down by your parents passed down

by your race and all of them are wrong

when you bring my father into the

equation because theology must rule

anthropology and sociology and all the

other allergies you’re wrong because

when you bring my father into it it has

to have two qualification spirit and

truth

it’s got to be the right heart spirit

it’s got to imitate from the right

motivation and truth it’s must it must

operate on an objective standard oh

here’s a problem we are operating on

illegitimate standards that are not

rooted in God rooted in culture rooting

the history rooted in background and all

of that maybe backs but the question we

must ask is is it the truth because

you’re going to have facts and it not be

the truth your information could be

accurate and it not be the truth

because the truth is an objective

standard by which reality is measured

it’s God’s point of view on any subject

so just because you were raised a

certain way once how you were raised

disagrees with what God says how you

were raised was wrong and I’m talking

about your mama and your daddy I’m

playing the dozens on you and the

problem is people reach back in their

history to legitimize their decisions

today when their decisions today go

against the kingdom of God and God

himself but because this is me this is

my background this is what my daddy told

me this is what my people say so that

goes on forever year after year decade

after decade and in our country two

hundred and forty years later it looks

like we’ve made some progress but then

we back up to very little progress

because it’s rooted in facts that are

not necessarily truth the story I like

to to visit on misses you can read it

sometime Galatians 2 verse 11 through

the end of the chapter

my board Peter Peter Peter was a super

Jew if Peter was a soul singer his

favourite song will be say it loud I’m

Jew and I’m proud he’s a super Jew one

day he’s having devotions on his rooftop

and a sheet comes down from heaven with

all these unclean animals on him and God

tells him eat Peter said I can’t eat

that

I can’t eat that that’s all unclean all

unclean God says don’t call unclean what

I call clean I don’t care about your

background your history I don’t care

about all that if I call it legit it’s

legit whether it’s part of your history

or not so what I want you to do is I

want you to go to conveniences house and

I want you to tell him about me and he’s

a Gentile I know you know you didn’t

grow up with Gentiles you’re not used to

Gentiles

you don’t like Gentiles but I told you

what to do and so don’t you talk about

those people like you’ve been raised to

thinking about those people because I

just told you from heaven what I want

you to do with those people despite of

the background you have and so Peter

obeys he goes to kane’ is his house in

acts 10 and he tells him about God and

Canadians and they they all make a

commitment to God and now it’s Jews and

Gentiles and all Christians and stuff

and Peter discovered something then

people knew how to cook

hey Peter discovered something he

discovered food he knew not oh he

discovered pork chops cuz it could mean

pig a god but God told me you can eat

anything now so he discovered hog laws

chitlins pig feed he’s discovered this

Gentile menu huh he now knows he can

have bacon with his eggs now he has

discovered he’s discovered some good

stuff so in Galatians 2 Peter is eating

with the Gentiles he’s eating he’s I

mean he’s at Sweet Georgia Brown he’s

eating with the Gentiles cuz he can eat

any pork now okay so he’s eating with

the Gentiles and you know he’s sucking

on neck bone he’s he’s he’s he’s just

enjoying his pork pig eating self we

talking pork ribs here this guy is now

eating with the Gentiles something he

would have never done growing up until

he ran smack dab into God while he’s

eating with the Gentiles some of his

boys from the hood show up and says some

of his Jewish brethren came and saw

Peter Keating with the Gentiles what way

might be way might be women PETA now and

we gonna have to live with him in heaven

but we don’t have to hang out with him

on earth

this is unacceptable for you to be with

them people they says the circumcision

the Jews who showed up intimidated Peter

so much that Peter got up from his chair

and left the Gentiles it says the rest

of the Jews who were with him got up too

and walked away from the Gentiles cuz

they didn’t want to offend their own

race Peter gets up and he’s the leader

the rest get up cuz a missed in the

pulpit is a fog in the Pew

see if our pulpits were right we would

have solved this problem of racism a

long time ago slavery would have been

solved Jim Crow would have been solved

segregation would have been solved all

this would have been solved but because

the pulpits were anemic and allowed to

take place the evil in America we are

still fighting that evil today because

the pulpit were silent

biblically on this issue maintaining a

manifest destiny ideology that was in

contracts to biblical theology but that

also explains why the civil rights

movement was able to change it because

the church got out in front of it so

Peter Peter gets up he walks away and

there’s another statement made in the

story in Galatians 2 it says even

Barnabas was carried away by their

hypocrisy oh not my boy Barney

anybody but Barney why is Barnabas’s

he’s the only name of the group that was

there who singled out why why do you say

even Barnabas what was so special about

Barnabas well when you read the life of

Barnabas he’s the encouragement he’s the

one who who encouraged folks he’s the

one who who and when Paul wanted to get

rid of John Mark he says no don’t get

rid of John marks because he’s got

potential and he he’s the guy who is

keeping things going giving you hope

well the reading he singled out is

because we’re told in Scripture Barnabas

was born in Cyprus

Cyprus is a Gentile colony of Rome so he

lived with Gentiles grew up with

Gentiles went to school with Gentiles

played ball with Gentiles he he grew up

in a Gentile environment so he knew what

it was to live with other folks but

that’s how bad racism is it’ll make a

good man bad even Barnabas not Barney

but to satisfy not offending his own

race he disobeyed God he had probably

gotten away with it except Paul wanted

some pig feet

because according the Galatians 2 Paul

says when I saw what Peter was doing I

condemned the Peter before them all

he acted a fool in public I in public

said to Peter you are embarrassing the

truth of the gospel you’re making Jesus

Christ look bad yeah this is not some

social decision you made you have

embarrassed Jesus Christ and the good

news of the Cross which means he brings

people together across racial and

cultural lines at the cross the only

qualification you need at the cross is

your sinner who needs a Savior

regardless of your class or your culture

and you have messed with that message

one of my favorite verses of Scripture

Galatians 2:20 I’m crucified with Christ

nevertheless I live yet not I as Christ

who lives in me the life which I now

live I live by faith in the Son of God

who loved me and gave himself for me

that great verse many people don’t know

comes at the end of this story so Paul

is giving that verse to Peter to tell

Peter you got the wrong identity your

identity first is not in your culture

your class your background in your

history your identity first is in your

Christ and then your Christian

commitment because Peter truth overrides

tradition truth overrides color black is

only beautiful when it’s biblical and

white is only right when it agrees with

Holy Writ there must be a standard by

which you judge your race

and as long it is as under as long as

it’s under that standard then you have

the right to be different

God is not asking you to like soul music

and he’s not asking me to like

country-western thank God hey you can

have all the differences you won’t as

long as it doesn’t conflict with the

authority of God the rule of God the

person of Jesus Christ and your

Christian commitment you must be

Christian first and if we could get

enough Christians to be Christian before

white Christian before black Christian

before Spanish

it doesn’t take 240 years to fix this it

takes about 2 minutes and 40 seconds we

had a guy who came in our church some

years ago and he was noticing more and

more Anglos coming to the church and

he’s getting a little upset

he said we get normal angle I was

joining our church I said yeah he said

well you know how they are so what you

mean and well you know they got this way

of doing things they can try to take

over above all though you went through

all this stuff and I could tell he had

some bad experiences maybe and so so he

said so I said well you better keep

winning blacks to Christ so we are

number

he said well well I don’t know if if I

can stay here that’s it

bye anything long

I didn’t offer him a seminar a workshop

or let’s get to know each other program

okay I’ll give him the benefit of the

doubt maybe he had some negative

experiences racially that effect I was

feeling good again instead that happens

so we will work with you to deal with

that but what we will not let you do is

let your experience control how the

Church of Jesus Christ life works

so what we have done is we’ve allowed

culture and color to overrule the faith

and so you got even Christians divided

all over the place don’t know where to

stand on issues don’t know which

position to take that’s because you’re

trying to dissect it culturally and

color wise rather than biblically and

spiritually which would save you a whole

lot of time the Bible says that God be

true and every man alive when they

conflict with him so so the story

thickens as we get to this last section

the woman says verse 25 I know when

Messiah comes he’s called the Christ

when he comes he gonna make everything

all right about a dozen that sound

spiritual when Jesus comes everything is

gonna get better when we all get to

heaven

what a day of rejoicing that will be

when we all see Jesus well sing and

shout the victory Jesus said I who speak

to you and he our lady I’m already here

I’m already you waiting for something

that you don’t have to wait for right

wait let me explain something just in

case you don’t know whatever race you

are now will be the race you will be in

heaven okay let me get that straight

whatever race you are now will be the

race you won’t have you are eternally

black you are eternally white you are

eternally Spanish Indian you know you

whatever you are now will be what you

are in heaven you are intentionally

racially profiled by God John says in

Revelation chapter 5 verse 9 Revelation

chapter 7 verse 9 he said I looked up in

heaven and when I looked in heaven I saw

people from every nation every tribe

every kindred and every tongue he says I

could see the differences among the you

so whatever you are is what you will be

so stop putting that cream on your face

stop staying out in the Sun all day to

become something different than you’ve

been made you have been made that way

eternally

so

remember our disciples remember our

disciples verse 27 at this point the

disciples came and they were amazed that

he had been speaking with a woman yet no

one said what do you seek or why do you

speak with her now the disciples don’t

they went to get the chicken they come

back and they notice he’s speaking with

a woman they’re not surprising speaking

with a female they’ve seen Jesus speak

to Martha they’ve seen Jesus speak to

Mary they seem to speak to Sarah

Phoenician woman they say the people

Jesus speak to the woman with the issue

blood they’ve seen Jesus speak to a lot

of females what’s messing with them as

he’s speaking to us American female

which explains why he let them go into

town to buy food he could have never

dealt this woman with this woman with

these races hanging around but neither

did he let them stop him from doing what

he was supposed to do so just cuz all

your Posse isn’t right doesn’t mean you

don’t do what’s right Jesus did what’s

right and he told them I catch up with

you later

so they come let me get through this

they come in and when they come the

woman runs in the town and she says

verse 29 come see a man who told me all

the things I’ve done so she goes to the

city and she goes to the men of the city

in verse 28 so the men of the city are

on their way out to check out this Jesus

because of the cross-cultural

cross-racial witness of Jesus to this

woman the disciples in the meantime was

saying but rabbi eat verse 31 because we

went all the way in the town

it’s about a five mile trip down a five

mile trip back that’s a 10 mile trip to

bring Jesus and lunch because it’s 12

o’clock noon so they bring Jesus some

lunch and they say okay rabbi we got

your lunch eat Jesus says I have food to

eat that you do not know about save

we didn’t go on 10 miles and you’ve

already eaten

I can see Peter now who Feder my cutoff

is here cuz it goes the 10-mile trip and

you’ve already eaten cycles were asking

verse 33 who brought him something to

eat as we then gone into town to buy

food and Jesus hits them what here is

the bottom line message verse 34 my food

is to do the will of him who sent me and

to accomplish his work what fills me

satisfies me is doing the Father’s will

not satisfying your racist socialists

culturalist agenda and then he says in

verse 5 45 35 don’t say for months and

then comes the harvest he says lift up

your eyes and look on the fields they’re

already white unto harvest stop putting

it off don’t say we don’t get around to

this point four months from now you’ll

get around to this later we’ll fix this

later

he says if you’ll pay attention and look

up you’ll see the fields are already

ready now when they looked up what did

they see they saw all those Samaritan

men coming across the field so what did

Jesus do he set off an opportunity for

them to great relate to people of

different races he set up a scenario

that scenario must always be set up by

the body of crisis to reflect Christ

where anybody can come through these

doors who respect our faith in Jesus

Christ and regardless of history

background race or culture they are

welcome in the family of God

because we have a standard and I love

how it closes

verse 39 from that city many of the

Samaritans believed in him because of

the word the woman who testified he told

me all the things I’ve done so when the

Samaritans came to Jesus they were

asking him to stay with them and he

stayed there two days did you did you

just hit one man when we started the

woman is shocked he’s willing to drink

out of her cup a couple of hours later

he hanging out on the weekend he stayed

with him two days how do you go from

people don’t even drink from the same

cup – a couple of hours later why don’t

you stay with us for the weekend cuz

when you do it God’s Way your doesn’t

take that long

that’s why but now it’s real easy in

here see it’s really easy in here cuz

yeah we can all get along in here what

happens when you go out and you have to

face your own race what happens when you

go out when when when your biblical view

is not the popular view what happens

when when you reject it for not being

black enough white enough red enough

yellow enough Spanish enough when when

you have to take that stand responsibly

kindly in love but clearly because when

a lot of folk hid messages on love and

unity and all that is good inside the

house like the story of The Lone Ranger

and Tonto Lone Ranger range Lone Ranger

Tonto are going to cross the plains and

in a group of Indians they go to the

northern ridges group of Indians show up

and they get ready to attack The Lone

Ranger

so Tonto says Kemosabe what we do now so

the Lone Ranger said well we got to go

east so they go east now as a group of

Indians on the eastern Ria’s they get

ready tack The Lone Ranger Tonto

so Tonto say Kemosabe what we do now you

say we got to go west they go west when

they go west as as longer power Indians

on the Western Ridge getting ready to

attack go Kemosabe what we do now

well there’s only one place we can go we

gotta go south so they go south when

they go south as a group of Indians on

the Southern Ridge and then they’re

being closed in in four directions by

the Indians so now the Lone Ranger has

the question long raisin said Tonto

these your people what we do now

Todd don’t say what you mean we paleface

see folk jump ship when the going gets

tough but what God is looking for some

serious Christians on this issue who

start biblically and spiritually and

work it down racially socially and

culturally you do not start with your

culture and work it up you start with

the word and the authority of your faith

and work it in may God help us to do our

part

locally personally in our families and

through our influence to bring people to

a spiritual biblical approach to the

issue of race culture and class so that

at least we can model before the world

biblical solutions to a society in chaos

shall we stand