Title: Racism is Opposed to God Meta: The division that is created in racism is part of a system that is organized against God. Racism opposes the love of God the Father. Our greatest identity is not our skin color, it is whether we belong to Jesus Christ or not. Tags: racism,black,white,skin,Christian,black lives matters 1 00:00:00,261 --> 00:00:01,671 Wherever I find works 2 00:00:01,671 --> 00:00:03,013 like rivalry, 3 00:00:03,013 --> 00:00:03,843 dissension, 4 00:00:03,843 --> 00:00:05,433 and division 5 00:00:05,433 --> 00:00:06,813 these are works of, 6 00:00:06,813 --> 00:00:07,952 not the Spirit; 7 00:00:07,952 --> 00:00:09,129 these are works of 8 00:00:09,129 --> 00:00:10,140 the flesh. 9 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:11,024 And remember this 10 00:00:11,024 --> 00:00:12,183 works of the flesh 11 00:00:12,183 --> 00:00:12,775 come 12 00:00:12,775 --> 00:00:13,535 from 13 00:00:13,535 --> 00:00:16,255 the desires of the flesh. 14 00:00:16,255 --> 00:00:17,255 And John says 15 00:00:17,255 --> 00:00:18,769 that the desires of the flesh 16 00:00:18,769 --> 00:00:20,676 are the stuff that's in the world. 17 00:00:20,676 --> 00:00:22,940 This is exactly what racism is. 18 00:00:22,940 --> 00:00:25,675 It's rivalry between races. 19 00:00:25,675 --> 00:00:26,976 It's a fight for who's best, 20 00:00:26,976 --> 00:00:27,967 who's on top. 21 00:00:27,967 --> 00:00:28,907 It's dissension. 22 00:00:28,907 --> 00:00:29,680 It causes 23 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:30,774 a divide. 24 00:00:30,774 --> 00:00:31,748 It's division 25 00:00:31,748 --> 00:00:32,482 causing 26 00:00:32,482 --> 00:00:33,697 between races. 27 00:00:33,697 --> 00:00:36,705 That's what racism is. 28 00:00:36,705 --> 00:00:38,236 And remember, 29 00:00:38,236 --> 00:00:39,519 remember 30 00:00:39,519 --> 00:00:42,098 this dissension, 31 00:00:42,098 --> 00:00:44,785 division, 32 00:00:44,785 --> 00:00:46,890 rivalry, 33 00:00:46,890 --> 00:00:47,800 this enmity 34 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,020 it characterizes the world. 35 00:00:49,020 --> 00:00:50,429 And what's the world? 36 00:00:50,429 --> 00:00:51,411 It's a system 37 00:00:51,411 --> 00:00:52,411 that is organized 38 00:00:52,411 --> 00:00:53,841 against God. 39 00:00:53,841 --> 00:00:54,601 And so 40 00:00:54,601 --> 00:00:56,461 when you see racism, 41 00:00:56,461 --> 00:00:57,401 it is part 42 00:00:57,401 --> 00:00:57,971 of that 43 00:00:57,971 --> 00:01:00,902 which is organized against God. 44 00:01:00,902 --> 00:01:03,492 God doesn't support racism. 45 00:01:04,002 --> 00:01:06,482 God doesn't promote this. 46 00:01:06,482 --> 00:01:07,872 This racism 47 00:01:07,872 --> 00:01:09,419 does not go hand in hand 48 00:01:09,419 --> 00:01:10,474 with the love of the Father. 49 00:01:10,474 --> 00:01:13,054 It goes hand and hand wth the love of the world. 50 00:01:13,054 --> 00:01:15,881 You are worldly if you are racist. 51 00:01:15,881 --> 00:01:17,772 And you are passing away. 52 00:01:17,772 --> 00:01:20,686 Racists go to hell. 53 00:01:20,686 --> 00:01:21,775 Do you get that? 54 00:01:21,995 --> 00:01:25,015 This is serious stuff. 55 00:01:25,015 --> 00:01:26,285 A divide between races, 56 00:01:26,285 --> 00:01:28,455 this is not the way Christians should walk. 57 00:01:28,455 --> 00:01:29,213 Remember 58 00:01:29,213 --> 00:01:30,157 the world 59 00:01:30,157 --> 00:01:30,992 is 60 00:01:30,992 --> 00:01:31,997 opposed 61 00:01:31,997 --> 00:01:32,847 to God. 62 00:01:32,847 --> 00:01:33,847 Racism 63 00:01:33,847 --> 00:01:35,114 is bad. 64 00:01:35,121 --> 00:01:38,568 It's a manifestation of the anti-God system 65 00:01:38,568 --> 00:01:40,443 that John is telling us, 66 00:01:40,443 --> 00:01:41,193 "don't 67 00:01:41,193 --> 00:01:42,933 love this." 68 00:01:43,173 --> 00:01:44,173 This is true 69 00:01:44,173 --> 00:01:46,579 whether I am black or white. 70 00:01:46,579 --> 00:01:48,290 And those of you that are able 71 00:01:48,290 --> 00:01:49,790 to look past 72 00:01:49,790 --> 00:01:50,660 color 73 00:01:50,660 --> 00:01:52,270 and ethnicity 74 00:01:52,270 --> 00:01:54,129 and show kindness, 75 00:01:54,129 --> 00:01:54,829 God would say, 76 00:01:54,829 --> 00:01:57,551 "Hey, that's what it is to know me. 77 00:01:57,551 --> 00:02:00,490 You see that one over there that's doing that, 78 00:02:00,490 --> 00:02:02,071 they're not allowing racism 79 00:02:02,071 --> 00:02:03,071 to color 80 00:02:03,071 --> 00:02:03,811 the way 81 00:02:03,811 --> 00:02:05,181 they think. 82 00:02:05,181 --> 00:02:07,790 And to not wrongly judge others 83 00:02:07,790 --> 00:02:09,272 but to seek to help 84 00:02:09,272 --> 00:02:10,872 and to seek 85 00:02:10,872 --> 00:02:12,964 to manifest justice; 86 00:02:12,964 --> 00:02:17,033 and to cast off oppression and free people from it." 87 00:02:17,033 --> 00:02:19,615 God would say, 88 00:02:19,615 --> 00:02:22,476 "Ah that's to know me." 89 00:02:22,476 --> 00:02:25,688 And you see when you don't live that way, 90 00:02:25,688 --> 00:02:28,167 that's to not know Him. 91 00:02:29,207 --> 00:02:32,187 You go around spewing out 92 00:02:32,187 --> 00:02:33,667 your.. 93 00:02:33,667 --> 00:02:34,844 and you can cloak it 94 00:02:34,844 --> 00:02:35,831 with 95 00:02:35,831 --> 00:02:37,908 Christian expressions, 96 00:02:39,048 --> 00:02:40,488 but you spew out 97 00:02:40,488 --> 00:02:42,049 your racism. 98 00:02:42,049 --> 00:02:45,608 And God would say that is not to know me. 99 00:02:45,608 --> 00:02:47,369 And you know 100 00:02:47,369 --> 00:02:51,604 it may be an indication that you don't know Him at all. 101 00:02:52,494 --> 00:02:54,140 Proverbs 28:5. 102 00:02:54,140 --> 00:02:56,810 "Evil men do not understand justice. 103 00:02:56,810 --> 00:02:58,981 But those who seek the Lord understand it completely." 104 00:02:59,381 --> 00:03:02,421 Our greatest identity is not whether I'm a black man 105 00:03:02,421 --> 00:03:04,031 or a white man 106 00:03:04,031 --> 00:03:05,093 an Hispanic man, 107 00:03:05,093 --> 00:03:07,083 an Asian man. 108 00:03:07,783 --> 00:03:09,663 Our greatest identity 109 00:03:09,663 --> 00:03:13,353 is that we belong to Christ. 110 00:03:13,353 --> 00:03:16,909 And if they belong to Christ, 111 00:03:16,909 --> 00:03:23,066 Christ regards what I do to them as though I do it to Himself. 112 00:03:24,196 --> 00:03:26,255 The black man, 113 00:03:26,255 --> 00:03:28,617 the Hispanic woman, 114 00:03:28,617 --> 00:03:30,786 the Asian man, 115 00:03:30,786 --> 00:03:33,136 the American Indian. 116 00:03:33,136 --> 00:03:37,048 If they are saved, 117 00:03:37,048 --> 00:03:38,449 we are one with them. 118 00:03:38,449 --> 00:03:40,463 Our identity is with them, 119 00:03:40,463 --> 00:03:42,159 as it is in Christ. 120 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:44,116 We need to stop viewing people 121 00:03:44,116 --> 00:03:46,137 according to the flesh 122 00:03:46,137 --> 00:03:47,903 the way the world does. 123 00:03:47,903 --> 00:03:48,695 Jesus 124 00:03:48,695 --> 00:03:49,607 says, 125 00:03:49,607 --> 00:03:52,730 "Learn of me". 126 00:03:52,820 --> 00:03:56,971 We have a lot to learn from Him in that sermon. 127 00:03:56,971 --> 00:03:58,419 In Luke 4. 128 00:03:58,419 --> 00:03:59,892 A lot to learn.