Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder, and president of The Urban Alternative and author of over 100 books, booklets, and Bible studies. The first African American to earn a doctorate of theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, he has been named one of the 12 Most Effective Preachers in the English-Speaking World by Baylor University. Dr. Evans holds the honor of writing and publishing the first full-Bible commentary and study Bible by an African American. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on over 1,400 radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. Dr. Evans’ sermons are also streamed and downloaded over 20,000,000 times annually.

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 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 blacks some white some red

yellow Spanish backgrounds and his

intention was never that their

individual uniqueness is whatever caused

them to 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 in 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 it’s too deep for

over-the-counter remedies radical

surgery is needed any any sicknesses

last bit long and run this deep we need

something more radical and much deeper

to address this chaotic confusion in the

culture so as clearly as I know how I’d

like to spend my time with you this

morning to 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 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 it 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 they’re not

if they 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

cuz they don’t bring him in

so I must speak to this issue from a

feel century Christocentric

and Biblio centric perspective God

Christ in scripture in John chapter 4 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 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 is Samaria so it was part of

the direct route but the reason John

puts it here is because no Orthodox Jew

had to pass through Samaria

because in Samaria lived of the

Samaritans the unclean ones 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

Americans 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 12

o’clock noon or as the scripture says in

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 Jacob 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

says 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 their place of agreement

was scriptural related because they were

both related to Jacob the Jews didn’t

like the Samaritans as smart and didn’t

like the Jews but they both loved him

some

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 gonna put your Jewish lips to this

woman Samaritan cup now we know it’s the

shocker cuz 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 shopped in other words

Jesus didn’t stop being who

he was to read somebody else he didn’t

go to Samaria and find out Hollis speaks

Samaritan and then find out how they

dress 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

no 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 adjectives 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 a

vegetable 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 opposition you gotta keep

shaping Christianity to look black or to

look white or to look red or to look

yellow cuz that’s the agile title

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 it’s not asking you to give up who

you are to touch somebody else but don’t

let the fact that all another 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 gonna 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 hadn’t 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 folks 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 I witness to you but I

don’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 soul 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 there a 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

either 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 a woman says 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’re gonna do that

what is this living water I don’t know

where you’re going with it what is this

well he says to her go call your husband

okay

the heathen gone from drinking water to

who she’s sleeping with he’s 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

he’s the one you have now is not your

husband this you have truly said he

confronts her with her sinfulness her

looseness your improprieties 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

these dolloping and stuff like that he

knows about your life just having met

you I perceive you are a 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 ought to worship jesus

says woman believe me the hour is coming

and now neither in this mountain Lord

Jerusalem which they 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 him no

comment no no that’s the reality

did you 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 where that 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 to gerzean and my daddy told me

that cuz my granddaddy told my daddy who

told me that 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 heritage it’s

part

background it’s how I was raped 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 backgrounds we were

raised on different sides of the track

Jesus but different when she brought up

race the first time Jesus had nothing to

say but when she brought his daddy into

him he gives her a whole lecture we can

have our racial differences lady but

when you bring my father into the

discussion I gotta clarify and boy does

he clarify you worship what you know not

yo daddy was wrong your granddaddy was

wrong your great granddaddy is 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’re 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 emanate 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 rooted in history

rooted in background and all of that

maybe backs but the question we must ask

is is it the truth because you can 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 cuz 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 with 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 all a missus you can read it

sometime Galatians 2 verse 11 through

the end of the chapter my boy 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 it

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

Kunia is his house and I want you to

tell him about me and he’s a Gentile no

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 it’s fight of the

background you have and so Peter obeys

he goes to Canaan is his house and acts

10 and he tells them about God and

Keynesians and they they all make a

commitment to God and now it’s Jews and

Gentiles and they all Christians and

stuff and Peter discovered something

then people knew how to cook

Peter discovered something he discovered

food in new natto he discovered pork

chops cuz they couldn’t eat pig oh god

but God told me you can eat anything now

so he discovered hog laws chitlins pig

feed he’s discovered this Gentile menu

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 neckbone

he’s he’s he’s just enjoying his pork

pig eating self we’re 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 eating with

the Gentiles what way met Pete when it

be women Pete 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 the Bible 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 mist 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 pulpits 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

Galatians two 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 you why do you

say even Barnabas what was so special

about Barnabas

well when you read the life of Barnabas

he’s the encourage he’s the one who who

encouraged folks he’s the one who when

when Paul wanted to get rid of John Mark

he said no don’t get rid of John marks

because he’s got potential and he he’s

the guy who was keeping things going

giving you hope

well the read means 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 to

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 you this is not some

social decision you may 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 truths

overrides traditions truth overrides

color black is only beautiful when it’s

biblical and white is only right when it

agrees with Holy Writ that must be a

standard by which you judge your race

and as long 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 you 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 Angelo’s coming to the church and

he’s getting a little upset

he said we get more more Anglos joining

our church I said yeah he said well you

know how they are so what you mean then

well you know they got this way of doing

things they can try to take over 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 I don’t know if I can stay

here I said 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 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 what works and 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

alike 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’s gonna make everything

all right about that doesn’t that sound

spiritual when Jesus comes everything is

gonna get better when we all get

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 me

lady I’m already here come already you

waiting for something that you don’t

have to wait for my way 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 want have you are eternally

black you are eternally white you are

eternally Spanish Indian you know

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 at 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 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 the chicken they come back

and they notice he’s speaking with a

woman they’re not surprised and speaking

with a female they’ve seen Jesus speak

to Martha they’ve seen you to speak to

Mary they seem to speak to our financial

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 is he’s

speaking to a Samaritan 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 goes to the middle of the city and

verse 28 he told me all the things I’ve

ever done

which explains why she only went to the

men

and he told me all the things I’ve done

while he told you was your lifestyle

which explained she went to the men and

that’s all the things she’d ever done 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 rabbi 8 verse 31

because we went all the way into town

it’s about a five mile trip down a five

mile trip back that’s a ten 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 ten miles and you’ve

already eaten I can see Peter now who

fed on my cutoff is here cuz it does the

10 mile trip and you’ve already eaten

sciples were asking verse 33 who brought

him something to eat that’s the way then

gone into town to buy food and Jesus

hits them what here’s 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 35 don’t say for months and then

comes to 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 won’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 up an opportunity for

them to break relate to people of

different races he set up a scenario and

that scenario must always be set up by

the body of Christ as 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 fully 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 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 because when you do

it God’s Way it doesn’t take that long

that’s 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 get messages on love and unity and

all that is good inside the house 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

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

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