![]() But one reason, Shem was where Abraham came from his line. I believe Noah was prophetic in naming his sons for several reasons. Shem, now this one will throw you for a loop because you don't know quite what it means, but I'll explain it. And there's something real interesting about Noah's sons, and that is their names. But then in Genesis 6, God starts all over with Noah and his family and three sons. But that 30% is very distinctive, plus we have a soul. It's about 70%.Īnd I'm doing everything my wife says sometimes it's 98 in my case, but it's really only about 70%. I know sometimes they'll say 98% of us have monkey DNA. We didn't come from monkeys, just to let you know in case you have bought into that. So some people don't even know where it came from. It's amazing to me, but it's simply the color of your skin. It's amazing how light-skinned people want to be darker and dark-skinned people want to be lighter. And it refers to a genetic DNA in our bodies that determines what our color of skin is.Īnd you can try to change it, but you can't change it much. It does refer to color, but it refers to color of skin. Pigmentation, I think we all think we know what the word means. But a lot of times we don't even realize where pigmentation came from. He ministered to the Samaritan woman that was considered interracial. He ministered to the Roman soldiers, the centurion's slave, his servant. ![]() And I don't have time to go into that, but he ministered to the Syrophoenician woman. He was sent to the house of Israel and there are very specific theological reasons why grace came to where there was a foundation of law. So first of all, we need to know Jesus ministered to everyone. And it has now become personal to me, not just an issue.Īnd I think we've got to come to a place where it's personal. I've been learning some things for the past several years as I've met with pastors and friends of mine to help me understand. It doesn't mean that we're rebellious or anything like that. Is that okay? So I'm just letting you know, I think really that we're ignorant of the problem to the depth it is. So it's going to be a sobering, serious message, but I'm going to put some humor throughout to kind of lighten it up every now and then. ![]() What do you see? What do you feel? And not see it as an issue or as history, but as people. Why don't we sit down and say what do you what are you hearing? But we'll never know unless we ask instead of simply arguing about a protest or demonstration or something like that. And we need to take the time to walk around the issue and see what our brothers and sisters are seeing and see what they're feeling. Mainly because white people don't understand. Unless I take the time to walk around the bottle and look at it from your perspective.Īre you following me? We have a problem in our country. Okay, but we're looking at the same bottle, right? Everyone right? But I'll never see what you see. And then I see some words that are too small to read. I don't see the word Ozarka is not on this side. Everyone see that? Okay, I don't see that. So what, what do you see on that? What do what word do you see? Okay, so what I mean, there we go.Īll right. And if y'all if you guys could get a close up of that water bottle so everybody can see it on every campus. And so let me let me give you an illustration. I don't think that we have really understood the depth of this problem. Hosea 4.6 says, My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. Now, when I talk about a lack of understanding, let me show you a Scripture. ![]() And I want us as a church to take a stand. I don't believe the church has taken the stand that the church needs to take. But I believe the reason we still have this problem today is because of the church. And I believe, obviously, all of us know Jesus is the answer. And what I want to do today is address racism and talk about how the Bible addresses racism. And again, I'm saying this to help us understand that if you've come from a white world, you don't understand you need to walk around the other side of the bottle.Īnd so this message is going to help you walk around the other side of the bottle.
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