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when you come to Christ God is not

trying to fix something old he’s trying

to make something new he calls it one

new man he does not mean by this you

lose your identity what he is saying is

your previous identity is no longer your

point of reference the life which I now

live I live by faith in the Son of God

that he is my point of

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[Applause]

reference

one of the most daunting issues that

we’ve had to Grapple with as a country

and as a

culture is the issue of

race the problem of race has

dominated us from beginning to end and

every day in one form or another it hits

Us in the

face and we wonder often is there ever

going to be a solution ution to

this problem that lives in infamy in our

minds and our

hearts and in our

relationship one of the things that has

divided people along political social

cultural and class

lines is the issue of

race and the sin of

racism I’ll never forget my

first confrontation with racism at about

10 years old when my father was driving

me in Baltimore past a White Tower

restaurant and I asked my dad about

getting a hamburger and he informed me

we couldn’t go in there to eat because

they didn’t allow Negroes as he would

say then into the place

confused I wanted to get a little

Clarity on on why and he began to give

me my basic orientation to the problem

of race to the problem of

racism it became more

Amplified growing up in Baltimore when I

found out that there were some quote

unquote Evangelical churches that we

could not visit or go

in because of

segregation and illegitimate

divisiveness and so that began a journey

for me to look at this subject now not

only culturally but biblio centrically

and

theologically the issue of race is not

new or unique to

us it was replete in biblical times as

well for

example in Numbers Chapter

12 there was an interracial marriage

between Moses and an African woman twice

in verse

one she’s called the Kush

the African woman that Moses

married this caused a a sibling

chaotic abandonment of their brother and

spiritual leader of the nation because

of the interracial

marriage to a black woman so incensed

was

God at their racist mentality at the

institution of marriage that he himself

had established that God came down and

he judged them particularly Miriam his

sister turning her skin white until she

repented of her

racism what exactly is

racism racism is a conscious or

unconscious belief in the superity of

One race over another race that manifest

itself in the use of power or influence

or re resources or communication used to

reject or oppress people of another

ethnicity and it has em bibed

itself not only in individual Hearts but

in structural

realities so that whether it’s economic

or social structures or political

structures or educational structures or

medical

structures uh they filter themselves

through so that whether known or unknown

it becomes just the way people accept as

normal ways to operate what makes it

worse is when this attitude and or

action Finds Its way in the

life of God’s

people and the reality is that unless we

can can fix it in the church house why

would we

expect it to be

transformational in the

culture so rather than skip the issue

since God doesn’t skip the issue and

since we are continually in this Mirage

and this mix of racial confusion and

Calamity why don’t we appeal to the word

of God to

understand how we are to relate to one

another in the church house so that we

can bring transformation all the way up

to the White

House because when God’s people can get

it right then we have something to offer

the

culture when writing to the church at

Ephesus Paul spends the first half of

the chapter talking about the

Magnificent Grace of

God he tells us we are saved by grace

through faith he tells us that in the

ages to come God wants to manifest his

grace he comes in verse 10 and he says

it’s because of this grace that we are

now workers we need to get to work and

get the job done now that we’ve been

redeemed by Jesus

Christ but

curiously when he finishes talking about

Grace he goes to race he moves from

grace to race and he says that the first

work of Saved people of people who Nam

Jesus Christ ought to be the work of

racial reconciliation he says that the

very first thing because in verse 10 he

tells us about our

work but then beginning in verse 11 all

the way through verse 22 he talks about

race that Grace should lead to fixing

the problems of race or to put it

another way if you aren’t if I’m not if

we’re not fixing the problem of race

it’s because we haven’t fully understood

the glory of

Grace and he comes and he opens it up to

the biggest racial problem in the New

Testament it was the problem between the

Jews and the

Gentiles therefore based on the grace of

God that ought to produce the work in

the people of God remember that you

forly the Gentiles In the

Flesh who were called uncircumcised by

the so-called

circumcision which is performed in the

flesh by human hands the uncircumcised

were the Gentiles the circumcised were

the Jews and like the Berlin wall that

separated NATO from

Warsaw there was a division not to be

crossed the Jews rejected the Gentiles

they were not racially pure they were

not religiously

acceptable and there was a divide

between the two but now both were

claiming the same

Faith Paul speaks into This calamity and

he says now that you’re saved you got to

fix this the problem of race that leads

to racism and other form and all of its

form of

inequities is because we bring our

histories with us the Gentiles only knew

how to be

Gentiles and the Jews only knew how to

be

Jewish but yet they find themselves

sharing the same faith and now belonging

to the same church but they brought

their past with

them you and I know it’s not easy to let

go of yesterday especially when you’re

used to it or maybe there’s pain in it

but yet now you’re this new creature in

Christ and how do we fix this rather

than have it go on year after year

decade after decade Century after

century and so it was that these Jews

and

Gentiles or to put it in everyday

language black and white or Hispanic and

black or whatever the group

is yesterday can so confining to how you

were raised what you were taught what

you

experienced he says but now in Christ

Jesus you who formerly were far off have

been brought near by the blood of

Christ for he himself is our peace

making both groups into one and broke

down the barrier of the dividing wall by

abolishing it in his flesh FH which is

the law of Commandments contained in

ordinances so that in himself he might

make the two into one new man thus

establishing

peace now these are Christians he’s

writing but they weren’t at

peace they were in conflict with one

another four

times between these verses up through

verse 17 he uses the word peace peace

peace

peace and he says that this peace comes

with an understanding of what you are

now Christians across the racial line

color line culture line and class line

have not understood the root of what has

happen when you come to Jesus Christ we

bring all of that stuff and fight over

it because we’re not going back to the

root he says when you come to Christ God

is not trying to fix something old he’s

trying to make something new he calls it

one new man not fixing two old racial

people he does not mean by this you lose

your

identity what he is saying is your

previous identity is no longer your

point of reference let me say that again

he’s not saying Jews AR Jews and

Gentiles AR Gentiles because he talks

about Jews and Gentiles throughout all

of his letters what he is saying is that

this new thing this new

relationship is your starting point for

everything else in your experience with

one another and how you are to view

yourself the moment that this new

relationship in Christ

is not the starting point for your

racial identity you will forever live in

racial conflict and confusion and debate

and crisis why because you’re starting

at the wrong place he says he himself is

our

peace in Galatians 2:20 Paul says I’m

crucified with Christ nevertheless I

live yet not I Christ 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 you know what Paul is

saying I’m Christian first that he is my

identity and he is my point of reference

now you know when he said that he said

that in the midst of a racial problem

because Peter stopped eating with the

Gentiles he found out that the Gentiles

could cook he started eating with the

Gentiles and so he started eating with

them until his voice from the hood

showed up beginning in Galatians 2:1

when the when when his Jewish Brethren

showed up he left the G Gentiles cuz his

Jewish Brethren wouldn’t accept the

Gentiles and he didn’t want to lose

Acceptance in his own race and Paul says

when I saw that he was not acting in

concert with the truth of the Gospel I

confronted Peter before them all because

he was embarrassing the

cross I don’t care what his background

was I don’t care what his racial

identity was he was messing with Jesus

Christ what we have not discovered in

our racial conflict and confusion is

that we’re messing with Jesus Christ

because he is our peace he is our point

of reference he is the one who has

established one new man or to put it in

everyday language you are Christian

first and your color your culture must

adapt to

that my color and culture I don’t lose

it I adapt it I adapt it to my

relationship with Jesus Christ

which means he overrules

it that’s why you can’t say first of all

I’m a black Christian or a white

Christian because then you make black

and white an adjective you make

Christian a noun and it’s the job of the

adjective to modify the noun so if you

got Christianity in the noun position

and your color in the adjectival

position you’ve got to keep adjusting

the noun of your Humanity to the noun of

your faith to the adjective of your

Humanity you’ve got to put Christianity

in the adjectival position your color

and your culture in the noun position so

if anything changes it is the noun of

your humanity and not the adjective of

your faith until black Christians white

Christians Asian Christians Hispanic

Christians decide I am Christian first

and I must ad I don’t have to lose my

culture I don’t have to give up my

culture but I must submit it to the

authority of Christ when it comes in

conflict with him you say how can we all

get along with all these

differences he says uh you

know oil and water doesn’t mix their

makeup doesn’t allow them to integrate

their makeup doesn’t allow them to

unify and as soon as you force them

together they’re gonna go back to their

own political a social ows you know I

get mayonnaise because of

emulsification that even though oil and

water can’t get along when I introduced

the egg I have created something new

without oil becoming less than oil and

water becoming less than water but I’ve

created something brand new it is time

for the Church of Jesus Christ to create

something

new to create something that the world

has never

seen to create a brand new church under

the lordship of Jesus Christ without us

losing our uniqueness but creating

something new because Jesus is our peace

he is the the one who establishes a

whole different way of operating one new

man and he uses this concept this

truth to let us know that verse 16 he

might reconcile both in one body to God

through the

cross Jesus

Christ wants to reconcile these are two

races he wants to bring

Harmony

Unity

togetherness and he wants to do it

through the cross see the cross is not a

2,000 year old Relic it is a

contemporary reality why because the

cross was

established watch this to deal with

sin did you hear

that we spend our time W to talk about

skin the cross was established to deal

with

sin but we want to spend all of our time

talking about

skin and if you spend all of your time

talking about skin You’re Gonna Miss sin

because the only reason there’s a

problem with skin is because we won’t

address the sin you don’t reconcile by

simply saying let’s all get along let’s

meet together let’s have a by your

services together no you must identify

the sin apply the cross address the sin

through repentance so that the

reconciling work of Jesus Christ can be

ignited oh we we we mentioned the cross

but the cross is not the final say

so and that’s why he

says having been built together he says

in verse 20 on the foundation of the

apostle OST Les and the

prophets Christ Jesus himself

being the Cornerstone the Cornerstone

was the alignment stone that you lined

up all the other stones with if it it

lined things up like a surveyor lines

things up the Cornerstone lined things

up and he says based on watch this the

apostles and the

prophets now the apostles and the

prophets were set

up

for the writing of the word of God so

when he talks about the prophets and the

apostles they’re not just people they

are biblical

authors so what is he

saying he is saying if you’re going to

align with Christ you have to align with

the word of

God but what we’ve got people doing

Christians is going secular and then

have the audacity to judge the sacred

the in arent errorless perfect word of

God by their secular University or by

their secular the Bible calls it human

wisdom man’s thoughts no you don’t get

to you don’t get to have man’s that’s

why all this all this edication we got

and we still hav solve the racial

problem you know why because we starting

in the wrong place we’re not starting

with what God says about race black is

beautiful when it’s biblical white is

only right when it agrees with holy writ

and until you start there then you will

not be seeing the emulsification of

Jesus Christ and the power of the Cross

to deal with the sin of racism so that

there can be bibloc Centric

reconciliation he says we’re reconciled

through the

blood in Acts 17 verse 26 Paul says

there’s only one race many ethnicities

but there’s only one race see we even

got the concept of race all mixed up

God expresses himself in a multiplicity

of ways but he says unless you

understand where I am in this

process and that I have set this thing

up for there to be differences so that

the whole body can benefit from the

differences you gonna argue your point

somebody’s gonna argue their point and

you will never have reconciliation

because you won’t create something new

so important is this issue of

reconciliation so important the Bible

says in Romans chap 16:1

17 watch out for folk who bring division

in the

church not in accordance with the

teaching of

Christ watch out for racist in the

church because you don’t come into the

Church of Jesus Christ and bring your

secular rules you come into the Church

of Jesus Christ to get the teachings of

Christ and to adjust to

that and the angang pastors would have

taken their stand and say you don’t you

don’t you don’t bring white culture into

the church and deny people equal

opportunity equal access to worship the

Living God you don’t get to do that in

the Church of the Living God now maybe

there were some problems maybe there was

some inequities maybe there was some

pain yes we must show empathy we must

say I see you were hurt I see you were

struggle and we will walk with you in

empathy but you don’t let empathy change

the rules you don’t say because I’m

being empathetic Christ no longer has

the final say so we love you to the

teachings of Christ he says watch those

who would divide the church why because

as the Book of John chapter 17 verse 24

says perfect them in unity so that they

will see my glory you know why the

church isn’t seeing God’s glory is

because we’re illegitimately racially

divided we we use our culture and our

race as an excuse not not to

reconcile and as a

result the world doesn’t have a model to

look at so we’re fighting in here and

they’re fighting out there we just

sanctify our fight with a little Jesus

on

top I love the

way the scripture puts it the scripture

says in Colossians 1: 19 to

203 that if you want to see God you

better focus on reconciliation because

Christ came to reconcile people

reconcile people vertically to him

reconcile people horizontally to one

another it’s time for racism to

end it is time for the racists to

confess their sins it is time for those

who refuse to forgive to confess the sin

of unforgiveness no justice no peace got

that no forgiveness no peace you better

get that both must be

simultaneously true for the one new man

why because of this scripture in 2

Corinthians chapter

5 listen to what he

says he

says beginning in verse

16 therefore from now on WE recognize no

one according to the

flesh oh yeah he did you don’t judge

people by their Earth suit you don’t

judge people by the color that skin

their flesh their physical Humanity he

says we know no man we don’t judge

anybody by their whiteness or

Blackness or

brownness we don’t we don’t well that’s

not where we

start we don’t look at people like that

that was the old life that’s how hell

looks at people first he says now that

you know Jesus Christ that’s never the

starting point he says but

now he says if people are in Christ they

are a new creature now look at Verse 18

now all things are from God that’s our

new reference point who reconciled us to

himself through Christ and gave us here

it is the ministry of

reconciliation namely that God was in

Christ reconciling the world to himself

not counting their trespasses against

them and he has committed to us the word

of reconciliation therefore we are are

ambassadors for Christ you know what an

ambassador is an ambassador is somebody

who goes to another country on behalf of

their country to represent their country

on foreign soil he says you are an

ambassador for heaven you’re on Earth

that’s the foreign country but you are

an ambassador from heaven and what’s

your ambassadorship about the ministry

of

reconciliation and don’t get so high and

mighty that you forget you’re an

ambassador for another country and you

and I and we should be agents and

ministers of reconciliation they ought

to be healing you ought to be healing

stuff wherever you go why because Christ

forgave you so you got to help folk

forgive each other so that we can

addressing the sin not skipping the sin

but going toward the reconciliation as

the

goal let me tell you something as we

wind

down John said in Revelation

7:9 he looked up in heaven and guess

what he saw he saw people from every

nation every tribe every Kindred and

every tongue and he said he saw them so

there were visual differences so

whatever you are is what you forever are

G to be so anybody who doesn’t like who

they are you have insulted God you don’t

have the right if you black to want to

be white and you don’t have the right if

you white to want to be black cuz you

are who he is and what you ever going to

be cuz God has set it up for eternity to

operate that

way in the

meantime you and I are supposed to be

modeling what is going to be

there but how we’re working it out down

here thy kingdom come thy will be done

on Earth as it is in heaven folks you

see a little bit of reconciliation now

cuz for every

we’re going to be reconciled up there so

let’s get it

on let’s get it on and let’s give the

world something to see that overrides

racism that overrides evil whether it’s

individual or

structural and that demonstrates what

the kingdom of God looks like when

people are held to that standard which

will fix the things that are wrong in

their lives because now they’re not

trying to please another race they’re

trying to please the the King of Kings

and the Lord of

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lords

f

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when you come to Christ God is not

trying to fix something old he’s trying

to make something new he calls it one

new man he does not mean by this you

lose your identity what he is saying is

your previous identity is no longer your

point of reference the life which I now

live I live by faith in the Son of God

that he is my point of

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[Applause]

reference

one of the most daunting issues that

we’ve had to Grapple with as a country

and as a

culture is the issue of

race the problem of race has

dominated us from beginning to end and

every day in one form or another it hits

Us in the

face and we wonder often is there ever

going to be a solution ution to

this problem that lives in infamy in our

minds and our

hearts and in our

relationship one of the things that has

divided people along political social

cultural and class

lines is the issue of

race and the sin of

racism I’ll never forget my

first confrontation with racism at about

10 years old when my father was driving

me in Baltimore past a White Tower

restaurant and I asked my dad about

getting a hamburger and he informed me

we couldn’t go in there to eat because

they didn’t allow Negroes as he would

say then into the place

confused I wanted to get a little

Clarity on on why and he began to give

me my basic orientation to the problem

of race to the problem of

racism it became more

Amplified growing up in Baltimore when I

found out that there were some quote

unquote Evangelical churches that we

could not visit or go

in because of

segregation and illegitimate

divisiveness and so that began a journey

for me to look at this subject now not

only culturally but biblio centrically

and

theologically the issue of race is not

new or unique to

us it was replete in biblical times as

well for

example in Numbers Chapter

12 there was an interracial marriage

between Moses and an African woman twice

in verse

one she’s called the Kush

the African woman that Moses

married this caused a a sibling

chaotic abandonment of their brother and

spiritual leader of the nation because

of the interracial

marriage to a black woman so incensed

was

God at their racist mentality at the

institution of marriage that he himself

had established that God came down and

he judged them particularly Miriam his

sister turning her skin white until she

repented of her

racism what exactly is

racism racism is a conscious or

unconscious belief in the superity of

One race over another race that manifest

itself in the use of power or influence

or re resources or communication used to

reject or oppress people of another

ethnicity and it has em bibed

itself not only in individual Hearts but

in structural

realities so that whether it’s economic

or social structures or political

structures or educational structures or

medical

structures uh they filter themselves

through so that whether known or unknown

it becomes just the way people accept as

normal ways to operate what makes it

worse is when this attitude and or

action Finds Its way in the

life of God’s

people and the reality is that unless we

can can fix it in the church house why

would we

expect it to be

transformational in the

culture so rather than skip the issue

since God doesn’t skip the issue and

since we are continually in this Mirage

and this mix of racial confusion and

Calamity why don’t we appeal to the word

of God to

understand how we are to relate to one

another in the church house so that we

can bring transformation all the way up

to the White

House because when God’s people can get

it right then we have something to offer

the

culture when writing to the church at

Ephesus Paul spends the first half of

the chapter talking about the

Magnificent Grace of

God he tells us we are saved by grace

through faith he tells us that in the

ages to come God wants to manifest his

grace he comes in verse 10 and he says

it’s because of this grace that we are

now workers we need to get to work and

get the job done now that we’ve been

redeemed by Jesus

Christ but

curiously when he finishes talking about

Grace he goes to race he moves from

grace to race and he says that the first

work of Saved people of people who Nam

Jesus Christ ought to be the work of

racial reconciliation he says that the

very first thing because in verse 10 he

tells us about our

work but then beginning in verse 11 all

the way through verse 22 he talks about

race that Grace should lead to fixing

the problems of race or to put it

another way if you aren’t if I’m not if

we’re not fixing the problem of race

it’s because we haven’t fully understood

the glory of

Grace and he comes and he opens it up to

the biggest racial problem in the New

Testament it was the problem between the

Jews and the

Gentiles therefore based on the grace of

God that ought to produce the work in

the people of God remember that you

forly the Gentiles In the

Flesh who were called uncircumcised by

the so-called

circumcision which is performed in the

flesh by human hands the uncircumcised

were the Gentiles the circumcised were

the Jews and like the Berlin wall that

separated NATO from

Warsaw there was a division not to be

crossed the Jews rejected the Gentiles

they were not racially pure they were

not religiously

acceptable and there was a divide

between the two but now both were

claiming the same

Faith Paul speaks into This calamity and

he says now that you’re saved you got to

fix this the problem of race that leads

to racism and other form and all of its

form of

inequities is because we bring our

histories with us the Gentiles only knew

how to be

Gentiles and the Jews only knew how to

be

Jewish but yet they find themselves

sharing the same faith and now belonging

to the same church but they brought

their past with

them you and I know it’s not easy to let

go of yesterday especially when you’re

used to it or maybe there’s pain in it

but yet now you’re this new creature in

Christ and how do we fix this rather

than have it go on year after year

decade after decade Century after

century and so it was that these Jews

and

Gentiles or to put it in everyday

language black and white or Hispanic and

black or whatever the group

is yesterday can so confining to how you

were raised what you were taught what

you

experienced he says but now in Christ

Jesus you who formerly were far off have

been brought near by the blood of

Christ for he himself is our peace

making both groups into one and broke

down the barrier of the dividing wall by

abolishing it in his flesh FH which is

the law of Commandments contained in

ordinances so that in himself he might

make the two into one new man thus

establishing

peace now these are Christians he’s

writing but they weren’t at

peace they were in conflict with one

another four

times between these verses up through

verse 17 he uses the word peace peace

peace

peace and he says that this peace comes

with an understanding of what you are

now Christians across the racial line

color line culture line and class line

have not understood the root of what has

happen when you come to Jesus Christ we

bring all of that stuff and fight over

it because we’re not going back to the

root he says when you come to Christ God

is not trying to fix something old he’s

trying to make something new he calls it

one new man not fixing two old racial

people he does not mean by this you lose

your

identity what he is saying is your

previous identity is no longer your

point of reference let me say that again

he’s not saying Jews AR Jews and

Gentiles AR Gentiles because he talks

about Jews and Gentiles throughout all

of his letters what he is saying is that

this new thing this new

relationship is your starting point for

everything else in your experience with

one another and how you are to view

yourself the moment that this new

relationship in Christ

is not the starting point for your

racial identity you will forever live in

racial conflict and confusion and debate

and crisis why because you’re starting

at the wrong place he says he himself is

our

peace in Galatians 2:20 Paul says I’m

crucified with Christ nevertheless I

live yet not I Christ 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 you know what Paul is

saying I’m Christian first that he is my

identity and he is my point of reference

now you know when he said that he said

that in the midst of a racial problem

because Peter stopped eating with the

Gentiles he found out that the Gentiles

could cook he started eating with the

Gentiles and so he started eating with

them until his voice from the hood

showed up beginning in Galatians 2:1

when the when when his Jewish Brethren

showed up he left the G Gentiles cuz his

Jewish Brethren wouldn’t accept the

Gentiles and he didn’t want to lose

Acceptance in his own race and Paul says

when I saw that he was not acting in

concert with the truth of the Gospel I

confronted Peter before them all because

he was embarrassing the

cross I don’t care what his background

was I don’t care what his racial

identity was he was messing with Jesus

Christ what we have not discovered in

our racial conflict and confusion is

that we’re messing with Jesus Christ

because he is our peace he is our point

of reference he is the one who has

established one new man or to put it in

everyday language you are Christian

first and your color your culture must

adapt to

that my color and culture I don’t lose

it I adapt it I adapt it to my

relationship with Jesus Christ

which means he overrules

it that’s why you can’t say first of all

I’m a black Christian or a white

Christian because then you make black

and white an adjective you make

Christian a noun and it’s the job of the

adjective to modify the noun so if you

got Christianity in the noun position

and your color in the adjectival

position you’ve got to keep adjusting

the noun of your Humanity to the noun of

your faith to the adjective of your

Humanity you’ve got to put Christianity

in the adjectival position your color

and your culture in the noun position so

if anything changes it is the noun of

your humanity and not the adjective of

your faith until black Christians white

Christians Asian Christians Hispanic

Christians decide I am Christian first

and I must ad I don’t have to lose my

culture I don’t have to give up my

culture but I must submit it to the

authority of Christ when it comes in

conflict with him you say how can we all

get along with all these

differences he says uh you

know oil and water doesn’t mix their

makeup doesn’t allow them to integrate

their makeup doesn’t allow them to

unify and as soon as you force them

together they’re gonna go back to their

own political a social ows you know I

get mayonnaise because of

emulsification that even though oil and

water can’t get along when I introduced

the egg I have created something new

without oil becoming less than oil and

water becoming less than water but I’ve

created something brand new it is time

for the Church of Jesus Christ to create

something

new to create something that the world

has never

seen to create a brand new church under

the lordship of Jesus Christ without us

losing our uniqueness but creating

something new because Jesus is our peace

he is the the one who establishes a

whole different way of operating one new

man and he uses this concept this

truth to let us know that verse 16 he

might reconcile both in one body to God

through the

cross Jesus

Christ wants to reconcile these are two

races he wants to bring

Harmony

Unity

togetherness and he wants to do it

through the cross see the cross is not a

2,000 year old Relic it is a

contemporary reality why because the

cross was

established watch this to deal with

sin did you hear

that we spend our time W to talk about

skin the cross was established to deal

with

sin but we want to spend all of our time

talking about

skin and if you spend all of your time

talking about skin You’re Gonna Miss sin

because the only reason there’s a

problem with skin is because we won’t

address the sin you don’t reconcile by

simply saying let’s all get along let’s

meet together let’s have a by your

services together no you must identify

the sin apply the cross address the sin

through repentance so that the

reconciling work of Jesus Christ can be

ignited oh we we we mentioned the cross

but the cross is not the final say

so and that’s why he

says having been built together he says

in verse 20 on the foundation of the

apostle OST Les and the

prophets Christ Jesus himself

being the Cornerstone the Cornerstone

was the alignment stone that you lined

up all the other stones with if it it

lined things up like a surveyor lines

things up the Cornerstone lined things

up and he says based on watch this the

apostles and the

prophets now the apostles and the

prophets were set

up

for the writing of the word of God so

when he talks about the prophets and the

apostles they’re not just people they

are biblical

authors so what is he

saying he is saying if you’re going to

align with Christ you have to align with

the word of

God but what we’ve got people doing

Christians is going secular and then

have the audacity to judge the sacred

the in arent errorless perfect word of

God by their secular University or by

their secular the Bible calls it human

wisdom man’s thoughts no you don’t get

to you don’t get to have man’s that’s

why all this all this edication we got

and we still hav solve the racial

problem you know why because we starting

in the wrong place we’re not starting

with what God says about race black is

beautiful when it’s biblical white is

only right when it agrees with holy writ

and until you start there then you will

not be seeing the emulsification of

Jesus Christ and the power of the Cross

to deal with the sin of racism so that

there can be bibloc Centric

reconciliation he says we’re reconciled

through the

blood in Acts 17 verse 26 Paul says

there’s only one race many ethnicities

but there’s only one race see we even

got the concept of race all mixed up

God expresses himself in a multiplicity

of ways but he says unless you

understand where I am in this

process and that I have set this thing

up for there to be differences so that

the whole body can benefit from the

differences you gonna argue your point

somebody’s gonna argue their point and

you will never have reconciliation

because you won’t create something new

so important is this issue of

reconciliation so important the Bible

says in Romans chap 16:1

17 watch out for folk who bring division

in the

church not in accordance with the

teaching of

Christ watch out for racist in the

church because you don’t come into the

Church of Jesus Christ and bring your

secular rules you come into the Church

of Jesus Christ to get the teachings of

Christ and to adjust to

that and the angang pastors would have

taken their stand and say you don’t you

don’t you don’t bring white culture into

the church and deny people equal

opportunity equal access to worship the

Living God you don’t get to do that in

the Church of the Living God now maybe

there were some problems maybe there was

some inequities maybe there was some

pain yes we must show empathy we must

say I see you were hurt I see you were

struggle and we will walk with you in

empathy but you don’t let empathy change

the rules you don’t say because I’m

being empathetic Christ no longer has

the final say so we love you to the

teachings of Christ he says watch those

who would divide the church why because

as the Book of John chapter 17 verse 24

says perfect them in unity so that they

will see my glory you know why the

church isn’t seeing God’s glory is

because we’re illegitimately racially

divided we we use our culture and our

race as an excuse not not to

reconcile and as a

result the world doesn’t have a model to

look at so we’re fighting in here and

they’re fighting out there we just

sanctify our fight with a little Jesus

on

top I love the

way the scripture puts it the scripture

says in Colossians 1: 19 to

203 that if you want to see God you

better focus on reconciliation because

Christ came to reconcile people

reconcile people vertically to him

reconcile people horizontally to one

another it’s time for racism to

end it is time for the racists to

confess their sins it is time for those

who refuse to forgive to confess the sin

of unforgiveness no justice no peace got

that no forgiveness no peace you better

get that both must be

simultaneously true for the one new man

why because of this scripture in 2

Corinthians chapter

5 listen to what he

says he

says beginning in verse

16 therefore from now on WE recognize no

one according to the

flesh oh yeah he did you don’t judge

people by their Earth suit you don’t

judge people by the color that skin

their flesh their physical Humanity he

says we know no man we don’t judge

anybody by their whiteness or

Blackness or

brownness we don’t we don’t well that’s

not where we

start we don’t look at people like that

that was the old life that’s how hell

looks at people first he says now that

you know Jesus Christ that’s never the

starting point he says but

now he says if people are in Christ they

are a new creature now look at Verse 18

now all things are from God that’s our

new reference point who reconciled us to

himself through Christ and gave us here

it is the ministry of

reconciliation namely that God was in

Christ reconciling the world to himself

not counting their trespasses against

them and he has committed to us the word

of reconciliation therefore we are are

ambassadors for Christ you know what an

ambassador is an ambassador is somebody

who goes to another country on behalf of

their country to represent their country

on foreign soil he says you are an

ambassador for heaven you’re on Earth

that’s the foreign country but you are

an ambassador from heaven and what’s

your ambassadorship about the ministry

of

reconciliation and don’t get so high and

mighty that you forget you’re an

ambassador for another country and you

and I and we should be agents and

ministers of reconciliation they ought

to be healing you ought to be healing

stuff wherever you go why because Christ

forgave you so you got to help folk

forgive each other so that we can

addressing the sin not skipping the sin

but going toward the reconciliation as

the

goal let me tell you something as we

wind

down John said in Revelation

7:9 he looked up in heaven and guess

what he saw he saw people from every

nation every tribe every Kindred and

every tongue and he said he saw them so

there were visual differences so

whatever you are is what you forever are

G to be so anybody who doesn’t like who

they are you have insulted God you don’t

have the right if you black to want to

be white and you don’t have the right if

you white to want to be black cuz you

are who he is and what you ever going to

be cuz God has set it up for eternity to

operate that

way in the

meantime you and I are supposed to be

modeling what is going to be

there but how we’re working it out down

here thy kingdom come thy will be done

on Earth as it is in heaven folks you

see a little bit of reconciliation now

cuz for every

we’re going to be reconciled up there so

let’s get it

on let’s get it on and let’s give the

world something to see that overrides

racism that overrides evil whether it’s

individual or

structural and that demonstrates what

the kingdom of God looks like when

people are held to that standard which

will fix the things that are wrong in

their lives because now they’re not

trying to please another race they’re

trying to please the the King of Kings

and the Lord of

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