Good morning, so good to see you all here for our Sunday morning service.
At this time, if you would please find your seats and grab a hymnal and go to hymn number
322.
We'll begin this morning.
Hymn number 322, "Living for Jesus."
Hymn number 322, "When you found your place, we'll sing it out together on that first living
for Jesus, a life that is true."
Hymn number 322, lift your voice together now on that first hymn number 322.
Before Lauren has a blessing on the service, let's go ahead and back this together.
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we just come before you this morning.
We give you thanks for allowing us to safety, to be able to be here this morning to assemble
together and to worship you, lift our voices unto you in praise.
We just ask, Lord, your blessing upon us as we assemble here and just sing unto you, Lord.
We just ask you to fill us with your spirit, help us to focus on the words of the hymns
that we're singing and that we be a blessing to each other as we lift our voices to you.
Lord, we thank you for bringing Pastor Dylan Oz here to preach for us this morning.
We just ask your blessing upon him that you fill him with your Holy Spirit, that he may
preach with power, with authority, with function, that he may preach unto us and that we may
have open hearts and ears to receive the message this morning and that all that said and done
would bring back the honor and the glory that you deserve for it and we'll thank you for
it in Jesus' name, amen.
Back to hymn number 196.
Hymn number 196, I will sing the wonder story.
Hymn number 196, I will sing the wonder story of the Christ who died for me.
I was lost and went astray, still I'll sing.
All right, at this time, if you need a bulletin, please raise your hand and the ushers will
bring one to you as soon as they possibly can.
If you have a bulletin, go ahead and open it up.
On the upper left-hand side is our service times.
Right below that is our sowing times and at the very bottom is our salvations and baptisms
for the year.
On the right upper corner, congratulations to the Betty family on the birth of their
precious baby boy, Luca Alfred, born on May 18th at 3.13 a.m., weighing 9 pounds 9 ounces,
measuring 21 inches.
We do have a Father's Day weekend sowing and hiking trip coming up on Friday, June
13th.
That day is going to be the actual sowing.
The following day, Saturday, June 14th, that's when the hike to Mount Humphreys will be.
And note, there is a deadline to RSVP.
Please RSVP by this Wednesday, May 28th.
Please RSVP by emailing the church at faithfulworldone@gmail.com.
Turn your bulletins around.
And please join us next Sunday, June 1st, for our morning and evening services with
our special guest preacher will be Pastor Jonathan Shelley from Steadfast Baptist Church.
And we will have donuts and coffee as well before the morning service at 10 a.m. in honor
of those celebrating their birthday in the month of June, and the upcoming events are
right there.
Take a look at those when you get a chance.
And in case you don't know, Pastor Dylan Oz and his family are here.
Pastor Oz will be preaching this morning and tonight.
It's a big blessing for him to come down here all the way from Oklahoma to be able to preach
for us while our pastor is in Germany having the time of his life with his family.
But he'll be back.
Don't worry.
We'll go back to our regularly scheduled program.
But then he does plan to do another soul winning missions trip.
You know, since he's down there, he's going to hit Greece and hopefully he can get a lot
of souls saved down there.
So pray for him as he continues to live life for the Lord and win as many souls as possible.
Other than that, that's all I got.
Brother Daniel.
There you go.
All right.
You should find the insert in front of your hymnal with the hymn entitled, "Give of Your
Best to the Master."
If you don't have an insert, please raise your hand and we'll sing it together on that
first now.
Give of your best to the master, give of the strength of your you.
Give of your best to the master, strength of your you, fresh flowing, Jesus has set
the exact the earth, strength of your nations, full on in your service, strength of nations,
Good thing everybody go your him knows now to him number 437 him number 437 battle him of the Republic him number
437 or 37 mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord him number
437 lift it up together now
Lightning of his hair
Oh
At this time we're gonna pass the offering place and as we're passing out the offering place
Please turn your Bibles to Titus chapter number one Titus chapter number one for one all a servant of God
Apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth
Which is after godliness in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world began
But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior
to Titus
My known son after the common faith grace mercy and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior
For this cause left I thee in Crete that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city as
I had appointed thee if any be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly
For a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God not self-willed not soon angry not given to wine
No striker not given to filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men sober just holy
Temperate holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
Gainsayers for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
Especially they of the circumcision whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses
Teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre sate one of themselves even a prophet of their own said the Christians are always liars
Evil beasts slow bellies this witness is true
Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith not giving he to Jewish fables and commandments of men
That turn from the truth under the pure all things are pure but under them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
But even their mind and conscience is defiled they profess that they know God but in works
They deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate Father in heaven
We love you Lord and we we thank you Lord that we are able to hold in our hands right now the truth
Which is the King James Bible, but we thank you for preserving it for us Lord
We ask now the Lord that you would bless the preaching of your word
We pray that you would fill pastor Oz with your spirit Lord that you give them utterance and sound mind to declare your truth to us
Lord and that we would receive it with readiness of mind and be changed more into your image
We ask now for your blessing on this time in Jesus name. We pray amen. Amen. All right. Well, thank you all for coming
It's great to be here this morning. Thank you. Pastor Anderson for the great opportunity of coming here
I always love visiting faithful word and just Arizona in general
I love the great American West. So yesterday I hit all the hikes did all the things only got mildly sunburned
So that was a great success for the day
But I'm very happy to be with you all this morning and we are here in Titus chapter number one
And we're gonna start reading in verse 9, which is of course the verse text of faithful word Baptist Church right here
The Bible says holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine
both to exhort and to convince the gain sayers and of course to remind you a little bit of the context of this chapter is
The Apostle Paul has left Titus in Crete and he's given them this charge to ordain elders in every city
So there's all these congregations throughout Crete and Paul wants Titus to ordain these pastors to take care of these churches
And he kind of lists out the qualifications of a bishop
He starts by talking about that he needs to hold fast the faithful faithful word so that we could by sound doctrine
Exhort and convince the gainsayers. So of course it's implying that there's always a spiritual battle that's going on
Did I already lose this thing? I could see why Brothers and Girls kept losing this lately. It's probably gonna happen a lot
We'll keep it going
So look at verse number 10
It kind of gives the reason why it says for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
Especially they of the circumcision. So Paul's saying hey
There's lots of false prophets that are out there these unruly and vain talkers
But he kind of gives a special shout out to the Jews. He's saying well, especially those of the circumcision
There's lots of those guys going around then he says in verse 11 whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses
Teaching things which they ought not for filthy Luker's sake
So he's saying hey the pastor needs to be preaching against these individuals because these false prophets are subverting whole houses
What does that mean? They're causing damage to people. They're harming people
Spiritually, so we have to by preaching shut their mouths
If you will by preaching the truth and preaching against them then it says in verse 12
It says one of themselves even a prophet of their own said the Cretians are always liars
evil beasts slow bellies now this verse has kind of a controversial interpretation amongst Christianity the
traditional view of this
Verse I believe is wrong and I even talked to pastor Anderson about he agrees with my interpretation on this verse
But basically the mainstream view of this verse is when it says one of themselves
Even a prophet of their own said the Cretians are always liars evil beasts slow bellies
The traditional view is that this is a Cretian
Prophet or a Cretian poet saying this quote basically that the Cretians are always liars evil beasts slow bellies
But if you look at the context of what we've been reading so far, what is Paul been talking about the false prophets, right?
He's been talking about false prophets false false prophets, especially those of the circumcision
So I interpret this to say one of themselves
Meaning one of the false prophets that we were just talking about because that's how pronouns work
They have to have an antecedent. The only antecedent so far is the false prophets or those of the circumcision
So one of themselves even a prophet of their own said the creations are always liars evil beasts slow bellies
So what I think Paul is doing is he's quoting something that one of these false prophets said, right?
So we don't want to use this statement and say like oh this statement is right
This statement is good
No
He's simply quoting what one of the false prophets said as an example of how these false prophets are subverting whole houses
How they're teaching things that are harming people but you know surprisingly all the Church Fathers
Which we don't care what the Church Fathers think amen now sometimes it's interesting just to see what people believed in history
But we're not basing our doctrine off their opinion, but here's the the Church Fathers
So Clement, Jerome and Chrysostom also everyone knows Matthew Henry. He's got the Matthew Henry commentator
Bible they all interpret that one of themselves to be talking about this Cretan poet named
Epimendes and you know I say that all those Church Fathers are wrong because it would make this whole chapter make no sense
You know he's like hey watch out for these false prophets. They're teaching dangerous things. They're subverting full houses by the way
Here's a quote of one of the things that they said and it's good
It's actually right now that makes no sense because look at the next verse it says this this witness is true
Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith
So some people will say see Paul is endorsing this quote Paul is saying that this is a good quote
No, Paul is simply establishing the authenticity of the quote
He's not agreeing with the quote of one of these false prophets because this is a very similar attitude that many of the Hasidic Jews
Have to this very day like all the Gentiles are all dogs. All the Gentiles are all swine and they kind of make this
Generalization about a whole group of people and just preach that as doctrine, right?
So Paul is sitting here saying yes
This is true in the sense of this statement was made
But Paul is not agreeing with this statement because he says wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith
He's saying rebuke these false prophets for this wrong attitude so that other people will be sound in the faith
now the reason why I bring up this portion of scripture and talk about this idea is
Because it seems to me that this idea of racism or just preaching as doctrine that a certain group of people
Just are a certain way is actually making a resurgence today in America
And we need to make sure we have a biblical view on these things
But look at the next verse it says notice not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth
So again this further goes to prove that my interpretation is correct because he's saying that quote
I just read for you is a Jewish fable that's turning from the truth now
Like I said this attitude that this one of themselves this prophet of their own
this attitude that this person has is
Kind of resurgent today in America
And I even did a post on X recently where I did a poll and I just said does race matter
That was the question does race matter now here were the results
56.8 percent of people who answered said yes
So more than half of the people when asked does race matter said yes
And this is something that is making a resurgence today only
43.2 percent said no all I did is I simply posted that question with a Bible verse and I had all these people commenting
You're a Marxist. You're a communist. You hate white people. Just like have you ever looked at me before?
Like I just think about going outside and I get sunburned. I put on sunscreen like five times yesterday going hiking
Okay, look, I'm white and I'm not ashamed of being white, but I'm also not proud of being white either
There's nothing wrong with being white and I don't I shouldn't glory and being white either why because race doesn't matter folks
Race is completely superficial and does not matter and it's just this increase and bolstering of carnality
That's rising in our country that is bringing people back to this idea of racism. It's insane
and so the title of my sermon this morning is simply this race and religion race and
Religion because you know over the last ten years
There's been a lot of brainwashing
to call things racist that aren't racist and try to make every white person seem like they are racist and you
Critical race theory being taught in school where kids are being told you're just inherently racist
You've just victimized people by your existence and you know back in 2020
we had black lives matter where we watched a group of people burn cities to the ground and
Loot things and steal things and commit acts of violence and then we were told. Oh, we're racist
They're doing this because they're being oppressed, right?
So there's all this just an insanity that's being pushed down people's throats for the last decade or even more
And what happens is people are constantly being told you're racist. You're racist and for a while people
Resist that and they're like no, I'm not but sometimes people all of a sudden let the pendulum swing way too far the other direction
Where they just embrace it and there's like, yep. I'm a racist. Yep. Hey Adolf Hitler was wonderful, right?
Yeah, Nazis were great. Like if you spend any time on X, you know, if you're of my generation Gen Z
You know what? I'm saying is true right now. Like Adolf Hitler is making a comeback
I'm not kidding. Like you're laughing you think I'm joking. No, I am dead serious
There are tons and tons of people who think Adolf Hitler was good Nazis are cool
Racism is good. You know, we need to make sure that we have a biblical perspective on these things and just like you know
There's there's Trump derangement syndrome. There's pastor Anderson derangement syndrome
It seems like this kind of Jew derangement syndrome too where it's like we recognize that the Jews are wicked that their religion is evil
That they're the synagogue of Satan but then some simple-minded people just say like well anything that Jews say is good must be bad
And anything that they say is bad must be good
They just take like this simple-minded view like we've been told. Oh Adolf Hitler was bad. Therefore. He was saved
He was a good Christian, you know
I saw pastor Shelley had an X spaces where all these people were calling saying Adolf Hitler did nothing wrong
Adolf Hitler was great and just like you have a simple-minded view you have like Jew derangement syndrome right now, you know
I saw pastor Anderson. He posted this X post where it said like, oh, you know Trump's cabinet is planning on cutting taxes
Praise the Lord, right? That's great. And pastor Anderson was saying like yeah, this is good and someone commented
Well, there's Jews in his cabinet. So that must mean it's bad. It's like bro. If a Jew says ice cream tastes good
I'm not gonna start disagreeing with that statement
Okay
We need to use our brains a little bit and more importantly our Bibles and actually base what we believe on what the Bible says
Go to Acts chapter 17 Acts chapter number 17. So we want to have a biblical view on race and religion
Number one this morning race is not a biblical concept
It is a man-made idea that is not taught in the Word of God. Look at Acts chapter number 17 verse 24
The Bible says God that made the world and all things therein
Seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands
Neither is worshipped with men's hands as though he needed anything seeing he give it to all life and breath and all things
Notice verse 26 and hath made of one blood all nations of men
For to dwell on the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and their bounds and the bounds of their
Habitation so notice of all the nations of the earth God has made us all of one blood
There is no such thing biblically speaking as multiple races. There is simply the human race now, of course
We're not going to deny that there are different
Superficial characteristics in different part of the world with different peoples and hey, that's fine
There's nothing wrong with that
But when it comes to intrinsically who we are as human beings God has given us the same nature
God has given us the same sin nature that is God's given us the same blood and there's no difference between us
We all have that common ancestor of Adam and Eve or even more specifically Noah
If you will so we have been made all of one blood
But I want to read for you a quote from Adolf Hitler who seems to be making such a weird
Resurgence in our culture and you know
I read his manifesto mind comp several years ago and it sucks people in because he does make some true statements
You know, usually the devil deceives you by mixing in some truth and some lies
But if you actually read mine comp and if you've ever read the Bible
You'll realize that is extremely an anti-christian book that Adolf Hitler had an antichrist mentality
That nazism is not compatible with biblical Christianity whatsoever. So this is one of his quotes
He said he said German Austria, maybe I could have Anselm or Moses come read this. No, I was kidding
said German Austria
Must be restored to the great German motherland and not indeed on any grounds of economic calculation
whatsoever, no, no, even if the Union were a matter of economic indifference and even if it were to be
Disadvantages from the economic standpoint still it ought to take place
So he's saying I want to reunite Germany and Austria and he's saying I don't care if it doesn't make a difference
Economically on our country. I don't care if it's even at the detriment of our country's economic development
He's saying I want to reunite these countries. The question is why well, this is what he says next
He says people of the same blood should be in the same, right?
So again, his focus is on that superficial characteristic of race and he's in his mind
He thinks that there's a different blood from the black person and the white person and the Jew and the barbarian
Whatever race you want to say in his mind
He's got to reunite Germany and Austria simply by merit of blood, right?
Then he says this the German people will have no right to engage in a colonial policy
Until they shall have brought all their children together in the one state
when the territory of the Reich embraces all the Germans and finds itself unable to assure them a livelihood only then can the
moral right arise from the need of the people to acquire
foreign territory, so his main driving factor is he wants to have this unified nation of
Aryans right of just white people he wants to make sure that the Germans and the Austrians that they're have that blood uniting them
You know, this is why he had this
Moniker that was repeated all over Nazi Germany is like ein Blut ein Sprache ein Führer, right?
One blood one language one fewer and look one language. That's no problem with that
We should have a language in our country, right one leader. You could even debate issues like that
But you know one blood guess what all nations already have one blood because God is already made of all the nations of the earth of one
blood so it doesn't matter if our church or if our
Nation is filled with people from all over the world with all sorts of different skin colors
We already have a nation of one blood because there's only one blood folks. It's just an idiotic
Mentality here of saying like oh the white person's blood the black person's blood. No, we already have the same blood
We have the same creator Jesus Christ
He said this the plow is then the sword and the tears of war will produce the daily bread for the generations to
Come so notice his mentality was look
I got a unite Germany and Austria under one racial state and even if we can't provide for them
Even if you know, they're hungry only then will the moral right arise to go and grab other lands
He constantly talks about in mine comp Liebensraum, which just means living space, right?
So, you know, I've read this book and I had people come up to me and be like, you know
We're lied to about so many things, you know, is it really true that Hitler was bad? Was he actually racist?
Did he actually instigate World War two? It's like yes folks
Just because some conspiracies are real does not mean that every stupid tick-tock video that you see on the internet is true
And this is just the unbelievable stupidity of our culture today. It's like people don't read books. People don't read the Bible
They watch a 60 second tick-tock clip of one of Adolf Hitler's speeches and be like wow
He said something true there. Hitler must be great. Oh Nazi Germany must be awesome, right?
Or they'll see some stupid video be like all the earth must be flat. I saw it on tick-tock
It's like no, okay the simple believe it every word
We need to make sure that we're actually checking these things doing the research reading what the Bible says. Yes
Hitler was a wicked person. Yes. Hitler actually was a racist like definition of racist put his face in the dictionary
He absolutely was a racist folks go to Genesis chapter number one
Genesis chapter number one Genesis 1 verse 27 very well-known verse Bible says so God created man in his own image in the image
Of God created he him male and female created he them, right?
So God has made man in his own image
Doesn't say that he made the white man in his own image or that he made black people in his own image
Only and not other people. No
He just made man in his own image and we today are the descendants of Adam and Eve
We all have the exact same common ancestor. So race is not a biblical
Concept go to 1st John chapter 2. Here's another thing that Adolf Hitler said in Mein Kampf
He said this the anti-semitism of the Christian socialists was based on religious
Instead of racial principles the reason for this mistake gave rise to the second error also
So catch what he's saying there. He's
Criticizing Christians or Christian socialists, whatever he's describing there. He's criticizing Christians for being
Antisemitic or against Jews based on a religious principle rather than a racial principle
So he actually thinks it's crazy and he makes fun of Christians in Mein Kampf for being against Jews because of Judaism
He's not focused on the religion of Judaism because Adolf Hitler doesn't care about religion
He cares about race and he thinks it's crazy and silly and laughable
For Christians to be against Jews because of their religion because he's against them because of their blood
Because of their racial whatever makeup look at first John chapter 2 the Bible says in verse 22 who is a liar
But denieth that Jesus is the Christ
He is antichrist that denieth the father and the son
Whosoever denied the son the same have not the father he that acknowledged the son hath the father also
Hey, guess what? Yeah, the problem I have with the Jews today is not their race. It's their religion
He's exactly right. He rightly perceived that Christians. We don't have anything against Jews because of their race because there's only one race idiot
It's the human race. But yeah, we are against Jews because of their religion
Why because they deny that Jesus is the Christ and that is an antichrist?
Religion look we don't have problem and I hope you in this room
I hope that no one in here thinks that we preach
Jews are bad because of their blood because of they have certain racial tenets like that's ridiculous
That's not what we believe. That's not what I've ever heard any new ife preacher preach
But again, it just kind of seems like this idea is creeping in amongst especially the young people that Hitler's cool
Nazism school but look no the Bible's cool first of all and the reason I'm against Jews is because of their religion not because of
Their race go to Romans chapter 2 and you know if you claim to be a Christian and claim to believe the Bible
You know what a silly at what a silly idea just to be against Jews in general because I have a new slash for you
We are Jews. I am a Jew today. Look at Romans chapter 2 verse 28
The Bible says for he is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision
Which is outward in the flesh. So notice the people that you would just look at outwardly and be like, oh, that's a Jew
Oh, you've got the curly hair. Oh, he's you know, he's bowing at the wall. Oh, he's got you know, the flack tree
Whatever's going on the circumcision. That's not even a Jew. Here's what a real Jew is verse 29
but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and
Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God
I stand before you today a blonde haired blue-eyed white person
That I'm sure Germans would have accepted in World War two and I tell you I am a Jew
I am a spiritual Jew because I believe in Jesus Christ
I'm the real Jews the people who are hourly Jews in the flesh. Those people are imposters. They are not real Jews
Hitler said this he said it was obvious
However that this kind of anti-semitism did not upset the Jews very much simply because it had a
Purely religious foundation. So notice he's pointing out Christians are against Jews from a purely religious foundation
Amen, you're exactly right. That is exactly correct
If the worst came to worst a few drops of baptismal water would settle the matter hereupon
The Jew could still carry on his business
Safely and at the same time retain his Jewish nationality on such superficial grounds
It was impossible to tell with the whole problem in an earnest and rational way
So notice he's saying Christians think that Jews could just have a couple drops of water sprinkled on them
And that we're gonna be good to go, you know
First of all, his Catholic roots are definitely showing here as Adolf Hitler grew up Catholic
You know us as real Christians
We reject the idea of sprinkling as baptism because baptism means to fully immerse John the Baptist
He was baptizing where where there was much water, right?
And every time you see a baptism in the Bible, they go down into the water
They come up out of the water, but even just in his warped mind if we just implement something else here
Let's say oh a Jew gets saved and we say yeah, it's all good. Yeah, if a Jew got saved he'd be good to go
Yeah, we would accept someone who has a Jewish upbringing, but then repents of their false religion
Embraces Christianity accepts Christ. Yeah, we would accept that person because religion is actually what matters not race
And notice the hypocrisy of Adolf Hitler. He says oh on such
Superficial grounds so religion is what's superficial religion is superficial to Adolf Hitler
Religion is what's superficial to the Nazis. No, no race is what's superficial my friend your outward characteristics
The color of your skin. These are actually the true superficial characteristics
Let me tell you what really matters is religion and let me tell you something
Nazism the worship of Adolf Hitler
Hey, it's really cool
If you're a super carnal person if you are super super carnal then yeah
Wow, it's gonna be so cool because all it is is a worship of self
Let me just explain to you what the what the philosophy of Nazism is. It is the worship of
humanity specifically of white humanity
it is the worship of self as
The Aryan man and the Aryan woman is just the epitome of good of humanity
And it needs to lead the way in the world. Look that is extremely carnal. That is the superficial
Mindset the real mindset that matters is that religion is important not race. You're there in Romans 2, right?
Have you go to Romans 2? Okay before we go there
I want to read for you Romans 8 5 the Bible says for they that are after the flesh
Do you mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit you want to know why?
Racism is kind of having a resurgence today in America is because people are extremely carnal
That's why and that's why if you notice if you go on X and you see these pages that are promoting
Racism like true racism
Nazism worship of hate of Hitler. You know what I've noticed is it's often coming from Catholics
It's often coming from Catholic run
Accounts why because they're not saved. They're extremely carnal. And so the carnality of Nazism
I'm sorry is attractive to the unsaved mind
So number one race is not a biblical concept number two
God is not a respecter of persons Romans 2 verse 5 the Bible says but after thy hardness and impenitent heart
Treasurer's up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God who will render to every man
according to his deeds
To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality
Eternal life but unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness
indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil of the Jew first and also
Of the Gentile but glory honor and peace to every man that work of good to the Jew first
And also to the Gentile notice verse 11 for there is no respect of persons with
God you are not just born into this world and god looks down with some sort of extra favor
Or care or love for you simply because you're born into this world as a white person or on the flip side
You're just born into this world as a black person. It's not like god cares either way. These are superficial
Characteristics about us. God's not a respecter of persons
He's like hey to those who are having faith and doing good god's going to bless those people whether it's a jew or a gentile
Right, and if you're just have an impenitent heart and you're just rebellious and you're wicked
Well god's going to recompense to you tribulation and wrath and anguish upon every soul that does evil to the jew first
And also to the gentile, you know things are on a level playing field spiritually
And so what really matters is getting saved what really matters is living in a community of people
Who believe on the lord jesus christ and beyond that what really matters is being around people
Who have chosen to go beyond just getting saved and want to serve god with their lives want to follow his commandments
And you know living in any part of the world any nation could be great at any time
If it just decides to believe in jesus and do his commandments and when you see differences between people groups
Or colors in this world what you have to realize is that it's not that god has just arbitrarily
Shown favor to one nation and shown wrath and anguish and and you know judgment to another nation
No, it's a response of the people's hearts how they responded to the truth how they responded to christianity
And you know perfect example of this is you look at areas of the united states where we would see statistics of black community
Where they have a very high violent rate or violent crime rate and people sometimes get the idea
Oh, you know black people are just inherently racist or i'm, sorry inherently violent. No, that's that's ridiculous
Your skin color doesn't just make you do things
Your blood type if you will doesn't just make you do things because why is it when we go to the bahamas?
It's an entirely black nation and they're all reading the king james bible
They're all super receptive not just a crazy amount of crime going on around there
Men have their pants pulled up with a belt on you don't hear a bunch of stupid rap music going on
Why because their skin color has nothing to do with it
What matters is the culture god didn't just say like the bahamas is going to be great and south chicago is going to be wicked
No, god's not a respecter of persons
That's not how it works. It's a response to how people respond go to john chapter number eight john chapter number eight
now the biggest
Racists of this world are truly the zionists and the jews themselves because they think that just by their racial identity as
Descending from abraham that they have some extra favor with god, you know
They think that god is a respecter of persons and that if someone is a descendant of abraham
That they're just automatically god's chosen people that god's going to have favor with them
But look at what the bible says in john 8 verse 33. They that's the jews answered him jesus
We be abraham seed and we're never in bondage to any man how sayest thou ye shall be made
Free jesus answered them verily verily I say unto you
Whosoever commiteth sin is the servant of sin and the servant abideth not in the house forever
But the son abideth forever if the son therefore shall make you free you shall be free
Indeed and notice verse 37. I know that ye are abraham seed
But ye seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you. So notice jesus even acknowledges their carnal
Ancestry, he's saying I I agree I assent. I will agree to this that you are of abraham seed
But does that make them accepted with god does that make them special?
Does jesus have favor to them notice because he says but ye seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you
So even though they were of the seed of abraham god was angry with these people
Why because of their actions because of their unbelief in the messiah
They rejected the messiah and they actually wanted to kill jesus christ
So them being of the seed of abraham racially speaking doesn't help them get any favor with god
They were of the seed of abraham, but god was still extremely angry with them and he goes on to say
Verse 38 I speak that which i've seen with my father and ye do that what you have seen with your father
They answered and said unto him abraham is our father
Jesus sayeth unto them if you were abraham's children you would do the works of abraham
But now you seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth
Which I have heard of god this did not abraham you do the deeds of your father
Then said they to him we'd be not born of fornication. We have one father even god
Jesus said unto them if god were your father
You would love me for I proceeded forth and came from god neither came I of myself, but he sent me
Why do you not understand my speech even because he cannot hear my word ye are of your father
The devil and the lust of your father ye will do
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there was no truth in him
When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it
Hey, it sounds like jesus cares about religion not race
Sounds like jesus cares about who you're serving who you're worshiping not from where you come from right because they're showing
Oh, man, we're of abraham's seed. We're god's special chosen little people because we came out of abraham's loins
And he's like, oh, I know you did but you're worshiping satan. You're actually of your father the devil
Hey, I actually came from god. I'm speaking the words of god to you
And what do you want to do?
You want to kill me you want to reject me and he said so you're of your father the devil
You know adolf hitler's view would not have jibed with jesus's view here right because adolf hitler's saying oh, man
Religion what a superficial thing what a superficial thing to dislike someone over their religion
Meanwhile jesus is saying like hey
I recognize that you're of the race if you will the descendants of abraham yet
You're wicked as hell yet you're of your father the devil because you denied that jesus is the christ
So religion is what matters go to james chapter two james chapter number two
And you know we don't even just see this only with white people and these weird nazis and hitler lovers
Like this mentality exists all throughout the world like there are truly racist people all throughout the world
And that is not going away anytime soon. You know, here's a racist group the black hebrew israelites
Who's ever dealt with these people out soul winning?
They are extremely racist and I will tell you a story when I was working for steadfast baptist church
There's a couple really big black hebrew israelite churches in the dfw area
And I actually called one and asked if I could just visit and long story short
They told me no, they told me I have to have some sort of black ancestry
In my lineage to be able to go and i'm like, well, I don't know. I haven't tracked that
I I haven't taken a dna test. What if I do like, you know, 5 000 years ago, who knows?
What what if I do?
And they're like, well, you will know you'll know i'm just like how do you know you'll know if you're black you'll know
Okay, so they just said no, I can't go could you imagine today someone calls, you know anchor baptist church
Hey, i'm black. Can I come visit? We're just like no, you know, you have to be white to attend. That's that's insane
That's absolutely nuts. That's such a carnal mind to make the identity of your church
The color of your skin. It's ridiculous. Our identity should be in christ
In his word in the king james bible in soul winning in hard preaching. That's our identity
Why because god's not a respecter of persons look at james 2 verse 1
My brethren have not the faith of our lord jesus christ the lord of glory with respect of persons
For if they're come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel
And they're come in also a poor man in vile raiment and you have respect
To him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him sit thou here in a good place
And say to the poor stand thou there or sit here under my footstool. Are you not then partial in yourselves?
And become judges of evil thoughts, you know, imagine just someone comes to church and you don't know anything about them
You haven't asked them about their salvation. All you've done is you've laid eyes on some superficial
Exterior characteristic about that person whether they're dressed in really nice clothes and they look rich and well to do
Or if they're dressed in kind of ragged clothes and they look poor to you and immediately you just treat the other one great
You just roll out the red carpet for the rich guy
You bring them in you let them sit in the nice place and then someone else just because they're poor
You just all sit way back there. You know, no one cares about you. We're not going to talk to you
We're not going to be friendly to you. You know, that'd be a wicked attitude to have you know
It's the same exact thing with skin color and you know we had in our country for a long time
Segregation wears literally like oh you're black just immediately different business different water fountain different bathroom
Different church. I mean that is wicked that is being a respecter of persons verse 5 says harken
My beloved brethren hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom
Which he hath promised to them that love him, but you have despised the poor
Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats
Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called if he fulfilled the royal law according to the scripture
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself you do well
But if you have respect of persons notice this ye commit sin and are convinced of the law as
transgressors look do not get sucked into this attitude of real racism because you know what if you are a
Respector of persons the Bible says ye commit sin
Let me tell you the Nazi movement is a sinful wicked movement Adolf Hitler was a wicked
Sinful person who is burning in hell today. It is not cool to exalt him to make him look like he's some wonderful person
No, he was a wicked person with a wicked
Mentality go to Acts chapter number 10 Acts chapter number 10
You know, I'm not interested in going to a church where we just make our identity based on what we look like
You know, I'm much more interested in having unity and camaraderie about the things of the Bible
Because you know, I'm looking around today at a really diverse group of people but yet there's so much unity here today
Why because of what we believe because of the values that we share and you know
What is detrimental to a nation is not having people of different skin colors or blood in the nation
What's detrimental to a nation is having a whole bunch of different religions that you know
Multiculturalism is bad multiculturalism is bad, but multi-racial having different skin colors
You know, there's nothing wrong with that
We need to have a country a church a family a business that's unified around the right things
You know
I would rather live in a neighborhood full of black people from the Bahamas than a neighborhood of white Jews that hate Jesus Christ
I mean just use some common sense here today folks being white does not automatically make you great
Have you ever heard of Iceland? Have you ever heard of these crazy European countries? You know, how about Germany?
Persecuting Christians. Oh, yeah, Germany's so great
Germany's still pretty white today and a lot of the government is still pretty white yet. They're persecuting Christians today
It's wicked Acts chapter 10 verse 34. The Bible says this then Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth
I perceive that God is no
respecter of persons but in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is
Accepted with him notice every nation you find me today a brown person in
Afghanistan who is saved who believes the Bible who fears God that person is accepted with God
Hey, you show me a white person living in suburbia
USA and loves God and believes in Christ that person's accepted with God you show me a black person believes in Jesus that
Person is accepted with God. Why because your race doesn't matter. God's not a respecter of persons
He cares about your belief and you know a lot of
cultures today when we look at certain groups of people and
There are certain attributes about them that are common to many. It's often as a result of their culture of
rejecting Christianity of rejecting the teachings of the Bible of not being an independent fundamental Baptist Church that leads to all these
Wicked cultures that in turns destroys a group of people, you know
Like there absolutely is a big problem today with you know inner city
Young black people today getting caught up in crimes doing a bunch of drugs not having fathers raise them
These are just facts that I'm saying right now and this is not racist because I'm just acknowledging
These are facts that are happening. But let me tell you what's driving it
What's driving it is people rejecting the teachings of the Bible. What's driving it is people not getting in church
What's driving it is a bunch of black guys going out committing fornication, which the Bible says flee fornication, right?
and guess what if we had a group of we had just this massive group of white people and we're all just
Committing rampant fornication and not raising our children
You'd see the same exact issues and in some places you do but you know, you have wicked
Drivers of culture today like this guy. How about Kanye West and you know, what's what's so insane about Kanye West is that?
He's a black guy who adores and loves Adolf Hitler. I mean talk about just what are you?
Huh, this makes no sense. Like it's bad enough and stupid enough when blonde haired blue-eyed white guys like Hitler
I think you're cringe and weird but it's like you got black dudes
Adoring Adolf Hitler and we wonder why certain parts of the black population today are being destroyed maybe because you're you know
lifting up a guy like Kanye West and
Singing his music instead of singing to God be the glory, you know
Maybe it's you're spending your Sundays listening to you know, his new song. Heil Hitler instead of going to church
Okay, here's here's Kanye West's most recent song. It's called Heil Hitler. You ready for this niggas
See my Twitter, but they don't see how I be feeling so I became a Nazi what Oh pastor Oz you're making this up
There's no adoration of Hitler happening today. There's not a bunch of people liking Nazis. Okay, here's Kanye West
I mean everyone knows who he is even in an independent fundamental Baptist Church. Everyone knows who this guy is
You don't think that just millions and millions and millions of people are listening to this music. It's happening. It's weird. It's cringe
He says yeah, be I'm the villain nigga. Heil Hitler nigga. Heil Hitler
They don't understand the things I say on Twitter nigga. Heil Hitler
They don't understand the things I say on Twitter all my niggas Nazis nigga. Heil Hitler Wow
The folks from Germany are just shocked that I even said that because it's probably illegal to even quote that song in Germany
Look, you know
I'm not advocating that like all these weird freaks on X that like Hitler that we should like restrict their free speech
But what I'm saying is that they're retarded is what I'm saying
What I'm saying is that you know Kanye West?
I'm not for censoring this guy and shutting down his life or any of those things
But I am for warning people that this guy is a moron that this guy is wicked that this guy is
Harming the black community and it's not preachers like me who just point out facts like hey, you know
The black community today in inner-city Chicago has an issue with fatherlessness. Oh
Crazy. No, that's a fact guys. That is a fact
But you know what's causing harm to the black community is rap music this absolute trash
I mean, what a joke we have a whole philosophy based on
Idolizing white blonde blue-eyed people and we got a bunch of black people going around saying all my niggas Nazis. Heil Hitler
So what is going on? This is absolutely insane folks. We need to reject this mentality
Go to Jeremiah chapter number nine
Jeremiah chapter nine. So, you know, God's not a respecter of persons number three pride in one's skin color is foolish
I'll start speeding it up a little bit
Jeremiah verse 9 or chapter 9 verse 23
The Bible says thus saith the Lord let not the wise man glory in his wisdom
Neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches
Now the Bible has to tell you not to glory in these things because this is kind of natural for man's natural sinful tendencies
To want a glory in things like wisdom right because to become wise you have to put in effort
You have to seek wisdom you have to read and so you could see just from our own human fallen nature
How man would want to be prideful about being wise right or about having riches people who get riches
They usually have to put in a ton of work
They build businesses and they want to be prideful of those things might you know it takes a lot of effort to be strong
You know putting in the time working putting in the time in the gym these things
It's kind of like okay from like from just a purely human perspective. I can understand why people get prideful about these things
It's not right. We need to remind people not to be prideful about these things
Which is why the Bible's saying this but you could at least understand this right?
But verse 24 says but let him that gloryeth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which
exercise loving kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these things
I delight saith the Lord so hey don't be prideful about being wise even if you've put in a ton of time getting wise
Don't be prideful about being rich even if you've worked your tail off building a business and gaining all this money
Hey, don't be prideful about being strong even if you put in a ton of work to get strong in the gym
Why because if you're in a glory in anything, why don't you glory in the fact that you know Jesus Christ?
Why because that should be your identity. Why don't you glory in the fact that you are a saved child of God?
Okay. Now imagine how much more stupid it would be if we can't glory in strength and wisdom and riches
Imagine being prideful about the color you were born. What did you do for that?
Absolutely nothing see God saying even if you put in the time and the effort to get wise and strong and rich you still shouldn't boast
About it. You still shouldn't be prideful about it. You should sit here and say you know what?
I glory in the fact that I'm a child of God and that I know God okay now
It's like oh, I was born white aren't I so cool. Hey, let's you know have a little Nazi worship party cuz I'm white
No, that's retarded folks. That's gross. That's un-christian behavior flip the page to Jeremiah 13
Jeremiah 13 verse 23 there's this can the
Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots
Hey
You did nothing to be born white or black or brown or red or yellow or whatever you are
You did absolutely nothing and you can't do anything to change it unless you want to go like down Michael Jackson's path
But you know if changing your skin color makes you know if skin color is the difference in this world
Why was Michael Jackson a perverted pedophile when he was black and then he was still a perverted pedophile when he was white
Isn't that interesting how that works? Oh, yeah, cuz your skin color doesn't matter. It's your heart. It's your religion
Go to 1st Corinthians or I'm sorry go to a psalm
139 so, you know being prideful about your skin color. It's foolish but also number four being ashamed of your skin color is foolish
As well. There's no reason that you need to feel bad about whatever skin color you are
And you know that has been so annoying over the last few decades
Which I think has kind of sparked and caused a lot of this real racism is people are getting tired of being told like you're white
So you're evil you oppress people you hate people people get sick and tired of that cuz it's garbage
And you know what you shouldn't put up with that
There's no reason to be ashamed of your skin color whether you're white or black or brown or whatever
Notice what the Bible says in Psalm 139 verse 14
I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made
Marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well
God made you the individual that you are to be who you are and you do not need to be ashamed of that
You do not need to be ashamed about the color of your skin what nation you hail from these are nothing
These are things you can't change these are things that you did nothing to attain
You were just born into this world the color you are and the Bible says that you're fearfully and wonderfully made
Praise the Lord for that don't be prideful about your skin color, but don't be ashamed of it either
I'm not gonna fall into white guilt. I'm just not gonna put up with it
I'm not gonna believe it cuz I didn't own any slaves. I didn't do anything
I haven't been oppressing anyone. In fact, I go into the black neighborhoods of OKC every week of my life and get black people
Saved every week of all the salvations that I've had this year
One has been a white person one the rest have all been blacks and Hispanics
So go ahead and just cut the crap with the accusations of racism folks
No, but I'm not gonna be ashamed of who I am of what I look like. God made me this way
Yeah, I get third-degree sunburns by thinking about going outside. Oh white privilege, bro
I have to put sunscreen on my scalp. What are you talking about white privilege?
Brother Sakura probably doesn't have to deal with that. I say he's privileged
Go to first Corinthians chapter number seven
But you know we want to have a balanced view on this because the Bible is a balanced book the Bible is not into these
Crazy extremes that people claim all the Bible so extreme. No, the Bible is very balanced, right? So number five
I want to say this having preferences is not sinful having preferences is not sinful
Look at first Corinthians 7 verse 39. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth
But if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will
You see that right there only in the Lord
Hey
You get to get married to whoever you want and you shouldn't listen to people that you know talk down on whatever your preferences are
You know if you're a white person and you know, you're a young single new IFB guy
I could probably guess your preference right now. It's probably Asian girls from the Philippines, right?
Hey, if that's your preference praise God, that's fine
If you're a white guy and you say my preference is European white girls, that's totally fine
That doesn't make you a reference or a racist
The Bible says that you get to get married to whoever you will only in the Lord
Hey, if you're a black guy, you like white girls. You're a white guy. You like black girls
Hey, whatever you want as long as your spouse is saved you get to make that decision
And you should not allow people to look down on you or call you a racist or say you're a terrible person
For having whatever preferences you want to the Bible says you get to get married to whoever you want
You're the person that's got to live with this person for the rest of your life
You should marry to some you should get married to someone you are attracted to don't listen to the brow beating
Hey get married to whoever you want go to 2nd Corinthians chapter number 6, you know in the Old Testament
We did see that marrying between other nations was forbidden now
This was not because of skin color. It was because of religion. This is what we've been talking about the whole time
Hey, don't go to all these strange and foreign women because they're gonna turn away your heart from following the Lord
Your God doesn't say don't go to the strange women because it's gonna taint your Aryan blood
You're gonna mix the nations the poisons of the nation, you know this insane Adolf Hitler view. No, it's like hey
We don't want to mix religions, right? Hey and in the Old Testament religion was very closely with your
Closely identified with your nationality right because the people of God was the nation of Israel and people could join the nation of Israel
By serving and believing in the Lord second Corinthians chapter 6 verse 14 be not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness in what communion hath light with darkness and what concord hath Christ with
Belial for what part hath he that believeth with an
Infidel so notice we are not supposed to be unequally yoked together with
unbelievers it does not matter what color of person you want to marry someday if you are single you need to make sure that they're
Saved and you will have a way better chance of having a successful marriage
Being married to someone of a different skin color who's saved then just oh, I'm white got a merry white chick
Doesn't matter if you save no no salvation is the number one most important thing in looking for a spouse
Now thank the Lord you could still have your preferences to there's lots of safe people in this world
You can get married to whoever you will as long as it's in the Lord go to Exodus chapter number
22 now just really briefly number six. I want to talk about what about illegal immigration
This is something that is coming up a lot in our culture right now
And when it comes to the idea and topic of racism this topic is almost always brought up
Next to it, and I'm not really gonna give you just a ton of information about it today
I just want to give you a couple short things
Exodus 22 verse 21 the Bible says thou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him
For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. So what is the Bible saying here not to vex or oppress?
Strangers in your land and to that I say amen
We shouldn't just treat people bad take advantage of people harm people who are strangers in our land
But I've almost heard some people read this verse and act like this is just saying like open borders is good
And it's like oh having any immigration laws is wrong look
There's a big difference between not vexing someone not oppressing someone and just having wide open immigration
Oh, don't oppress them. That means we have to give them, you know millions of dollars of hard-working American taxpayers
There's a big difference between not oppressing someone and saying the whole world could just come in no problem. No stipulations. No rules
We'll just give you all the money. No problem folks
There's a big difference between those two things and having any type of immigration law is not inherently racist. That is ridiculous
No, we need to have laws in our country. Even New Jerusalem comes down from heaven with borders. My friend
There's nothing wrong with having walls or borders or rules
you know I say we get rid of all the handouts that were given to people because it just
Anecdotally, it seems like people used to want to come here because they wanted to get on the team
They wanted to learn English. They wanted to embrace the culture
They wanted to work hard and and give to this country and you know, even my great-great grandfather who came from Norway
I have his diary and he writes hey today is a new day for me because today I become an American and I'm done speaking
Norwegian I'm leaving Norway behind I'm contributing here to the United States
But you know, it seems like today many subcultures of illegal immigrants just stay in America
They never learn English like go soul winning in Houston. Like you will run into people from all the world
They just never learn English. They're here for 30 years
You know that is a problem and it's not racist to say that when you join a nation you should join their culture
You should join their language. You should follow their laws, you know come to America to embrace the Christianity that started this country
Not oh, let's bring Islam to America Springs, you know Catholicism and Hinduism to America
Oh, yeah, you know the religion that destroyed India. Let's just bring that into the United States
No, no, that's ridiculous. Having immigration laws is not racist. But amen don't oppress them. Don't vex them
Don't treat them poorly, but there's a big difference between those two things and and again, you know
People will use this verse to kind of just preach. Oh, just no problem. Have all the illegals come in no big deal
But go back a few verses look at verse 18 that shall not suffer a witch to live sounds like there's some rules here, right?
Oh, don't impress the strangers. Let's bring in all the African voodoo witches from Africa
Oh, no, those people should be put to death
Those people should not be allowed in our nation thou shall not suffer a witch to live
Okay, verse 19 whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death
Oh all cultures are deserving of respect all cultures are wonderful and beautiful
No, no, no if you come from a culture that does this you should be killed by the government
Should not be allowed into our country, you know
Oh you come from a nation that exalts and promotes sodomy and not coming in that should be the rule
Not just all wide open border whoever wants to okay
How about verse 20 he that sacrifice it unto any God save unto the Lord only he shall be utterly destroyed
Look the immigration in the Bible was way more strict than today and people want to use verse 21 is being like oh, yeah
You know legal immigration is totally fine, you know, no rules no borders
It's like the Bible's saying in verse 20 that you weren't even allowed to be in the nation of Israel if you're gonna go
Sacrificed to another God big difference go to Proverbs chapter 14 last point this morning
And I've reiterated this a few times throughout the sermon
Religion is what matters not color
Religion is what matters not color one of my favorite verses in the Bible is Proverbs 14 verse 34 notice
righteousness
Exalted a nation but sin is a reproach to any people, you know
There is no nation today. Like I said that just inherently has the curse of God just because of their skin color
Just because of their race no no
Righteousness exalted a nation and you want to know why the United States became the greatest nation in the world
It was because it was founded on Christianity and you want to know why nations like India are absolutely
Disgusting countries. I'm talking physically disgusting. You want to know why because it has a wicked religion
Oh, you know people want to make all these memes. Look at what Africa looks like today. Look at the hut of these people
Oh, isn't it? It's their skin color. No, no, no, it's rejection of biblical Christianity
Because I could show you a bunch of very smart very successful black people who follow what the Bible says
I could show you the nation of the Bahamas where the culture there is wonderful
The culture there is Christian you go into the public schools there
It's just King James Bible verses on the wall
Women wearing skirts and dresses young men in shirts and ties at school learning the King James Bible in school, man
I wish we had that culture in America
You know, we've been drifting far away from Christianity as a nation and we're going to reap the results of that
but also at any time any nation could just decide to be righteous could decide to follow the Bible and you'll see God bless that
Nation and the nations throughout history that have been the most blessed by God are not white nations black nations brown nations
It's been Christian nations. It's been Christian communities, right?
And obviously, you know, we're not gonna have a pure theocracy until Jesus Christ comes on the scene
But you know what our country can get better any country can get better if we decide to follow what the Bible says
Now I just want to give you a quick little historical reminder because there's there's been a lot of revisionist history
there's a lot of people that don't read and
The idea when I say that America was founded as a Christian nation
What I mean by that is not that every single person was saved
What I mean by that is that not every person in government was saved
but what I mean by that is that the people in general believed the Bible the people in general ascended to Christianity and
Wanted to follow the Word of God had respect under the Word of God
And I think a really good way to prove that is by reading the original state
constitutions of the 13 colonies because everyone's really familiar with the federal constitution and the
Federal Bill of Rights and the First Amendment and some people get you know confused of what separation and Church is talking about
You know that phrase is not even found in the Constitution or the Declaration
But people will say oh, you know our country was not founded on religion our country was not founded on Christianity, okay?
So you had the federal?
Constitution that was established and it was established to be purposefully
General because it was applying to a large amount of people then states they had their own
Constitutions ratified where they got a lot more specific and I'm gonna read for you some of those. This is the Massachusetts
State Constitution in 1780 in Chapter 6 article 1 it says any person chosen governor lieutenant governor
counselor senator or representative and
Accepting the trust shall before he proceed to execute the duties of his place of office
Make and a subscribe the following declaration
I insert your name do declare that I believe the Christian religion and have a firm persuasion of its truth
Did you know that this morning that to be the governor of the state of Massachusetts when our country was founded?
You had to publicly say that you believed in Christianity and that you were persuaded of its truth
Our country afforded freedom of religion because it didn't want the government running a state-run
Church like you have in England and in Europe
But you know what to serve in government and to be a representative of the people as governor of Massachusetts
You had to be a Christian. You could not be a Muslim. You cannot be a Hindu. You cannot be a Catholic
You cannot be an atheist you had to be a Christian folks. That is not a secular society
Here's Delaware Delaware State Constitution article 22
Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house or appointed to any office or place of trust
before taking his seat or entering upon the execution of his office shall take the following oath or affirmation if
conscientious
Conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath to it. I it's your name will bear true allegiance to the Delaware State
Submit to its Constitution and laws and do not act wittingly whereby the freedom thereof may be
Prejudiced and also make him subscribe the following declaration to it
I your name do profess faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his only son and in the Holy Ghost
One God blessed forever more and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament
To be given by divine inspiration
That was in the United States of America folks that that was post-revolution
That was not Oh British colonies. No. No that was post-revolution. That was our country
How did America become such a great nation? How have we been a powerhouse for the gospel of Jesus Christ?
How have we gone out into the world and turn this world upside down for the gospel?
It's because this is what we were started like what a shame that we've gone so far from it
What a shame that you know during the presidential election people were considering a Hindu Vivek
Ramaswami when it used he wouldn't have been able to be governor or even a representative in the original 13 colonies because he doesn't believe in
Jesus Christ because he didn't believe in the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments. This is real history
I'm giving you here's a few more new New York Constitution says this and whereas the ministers of the gospel are by their profession
Dedicated to the service of God and the care of souls and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their function
Therefore no minister of the gospel or priest of any denomination whatsoever shall at any time hereafter
Under any pretense or description whatever be eligible to or capable of holding any civil or military office or place within this state
Let me explain to you what this is saying this saying that no pastor could ever serve as a representative governor or in military office
And you say well that seems kind of anti-christian
No, did you hear what it said it said their duties and their responsibilities as ministers are way more important than anything else
So they're barred from that they need to keep being pastors. They need to keep feeding the flock
They need to keep preaching the gospel now other Christians could fill in other Christians could go be a governor other Christians can go be
Representative but not pastors why because of the immense respect that our country had for the office of a bishop
Because of the immense respect that our country had for the Word of God. Isn't that amazing?
Here's a couple more Pennsylvania Constitution section 10 and each member before he takes his seat shall make and subscribe the following
Declaration I do believe in one God the creator and governor of the universe
The rewarder of the good and the punisher of the wicked and I do acknowledge the scriptures of the Old and New Testament
to be given by divine inspiration and no further or other religious test shall ever hereafter be required of any civil officer or
Magistrate in this state. So notice we're not gonna ask you. Are you a Methodist Baptist Presbyterian non-denomination?
We're not gonna ask you that but we do need you to say that you believe that the Old and New Testaments are divinely
Inspired by God to serve in government, North Carolina
Last one that no person who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant religion
Which many people understand Protestant just mean non-catholic
no person who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant religion or the divine authority either of the Old or
New Testaments or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the state
Shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this state
Oh, man, America was just found a totally secular religion. Oh, yeah, you know atheists Hindus Catholics
No, no, no, you could not be in office if you were those groups
You could not be in office if you denied the Christian religion
You cannot be in office if you're an atheist or a Muslim or a Hindu
I mean our country was founded on respect for the Word of God and again
I'm not saying oh everyone was saved all the founding fathers were saved
No, but what I am saying is that the society highly respected the Word of God highly respected the Word of God
Hey righteousness exalted the nation but sin is a reproach to any people
Hey, if any nation today in this world wants to make rules like this
Where to serve in government you have to believe that the New and Old Testaments are divinely inspired by God you watch how quickly that
Country turns around but you got it
you know your Supreme Court is full of Jews that hate and reject Jesus Christ and
Catholics that believe in a false gospel in a works-based salvation. Oh, I wonder why there's no good judgment in our courts
Oh, I wonder why things are messed up in our country because we're disobeying Christ
We need to get back to exalting not whiteness not all our European race
Look the whiteness did not make America great and never made it great Christianity made it great believing in Jesus Christ made it great
Following his commandments made it great. That's the only way it could ever be great again
That's the only way it could ever have any rebound into greatness that it once had let's go to Galatians chapter 3
I'll read two more verses will be done Galatians chapter number 3 verse 28, you know
I saw on your guys bulletin today. You had the American flag
Did you guys know you were having a history lesson this morning on what's going on Galatians 3 verse 28?
There is neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither bond nor free
There's neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus
And if you be Christ's then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Hey, let us identify as
Christians let us identify as sons of God. Let us have unity around that last verse
I'll read is Psalm 133 verse 1 the Bible says behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
Unity do not allow this unbiblical
worldly
Parnell mentality of racism to creep into this church to creep into the new IFB
To cause the wrong type of division how good and how pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity
How are we gonna have that unity? Well, we actually have to be spiritually minded
We actually have to remind ourselves that what matters is not the color of our skin. It's the God that we serve
It's the Bible that we read. It's the church that we go to it's the scriptures that we preach
That's what you should should unify us not our skin color. Let's have a word of prayer Lord
We thank you for Faithful Word Baptist Church and thank you for bringing all these people
Here together today from so many different backgrounds to worship your son to hear preaching from your word
I pray that you would not allow this wicked mentality to creep into this church or my church or churches like it
I pray that we'd be unified around serving your son
Jesus Christ and please bless pastor Anderson on his trips and bring him home safely in Jesus name we pray. Amen
Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, take your him knows, please go to him number 317 number 317
Keep in mind the chorus is hidden within the verses. There's not written within the regular verses
So just keep that in mind as you're singing number 317. I'll live for him
My life my love I give to thee the lamb of god who died for me him number 317 sing it out together now
my life my love
I give to thee
the lamb of god
the saviour and god
live for me that I shall be
I'll live for him
God, I now believe
thou dost receive
for thou hast done
that I might live
and thou hast for trust in me
my saviour
and my god
live for him
Good singing this morning, we are dismissed.