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 nine,
which is of course the verse text
of faithful word Baptist church, right?
Here the Bible says holding fast the faithful word
as he have been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine
both to exhort and to convince the game 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 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 going to 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 lucars' 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 all-way liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
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 it. 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 all-way liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
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 has Paul been talking about? The false prophets, right? He's been talking about false prophets, 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 Cretians are all way 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 church fathers, so Clement, Jerome, and Chrysostome, 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 Cretian poet named Epemendes. 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 whole houses.
By the way, here's a quote of one of the things that they said and it's good.
It's actually right.
No, that makes no sense.
because look at the next verse that 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.
Oh, 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 that we have a biblical view on these things.
But look at the next verse that says,
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 resurging 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% 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% said no.
All I did was 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 sunburn. 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 in 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 10 years,
There have 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 got 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
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, 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
And it seems like there's 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 ex-spaces
where all these people were calling saying,
Adolf Hitler did nothing wrong.
Hey, y'all, I feel it was great.
And it's 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 ex 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 worshiped 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 have 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 parts 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 mind comp and if you've ever read the Bible you'll realize that is extremely an anti-christian book
that Adolf Hitler had an anti-Christ 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 Onslam or Moses come read it. No, I'm just kidding.
He 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
disadvantageous 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 rite.
So again, his focus is on that superficial characteristic of race.
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.
We'll 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 have that blood uniting them.
You know, this is why he had this
a moniker that was repeated all over Nazi Germany is like,
Ein Blut, Ein Sprache, Ein Führer, right?
One blood, one language, one Führer.
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 to 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 Mein Kampf
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 a racist? Did he actually instigate World War II?
Folks, just because some conspiracies are real
does not mean that every stupid TikTok 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 TikTok 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 and be like,
oh, the earth must be flat.
I saw it on TikTok.
It's like, no.
Okay, the simple believe in 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 one 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.
So God has made man in his own image.
It 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 anti-Semitic 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 Meinkopf
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 1st John chapter two, the Bible says in verse 22.
Who is a liar, but denyeth that Jesus is the Christ.
He is anti-Christ that denyeth the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denies the Son, the same hath not the Father.
He that acknowledges 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 anti-Christ 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 IFP 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 idea just to be against Jews in general because I have a newsflash 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, you know, he's bowing at the wall.
Oh, he's got, you know, the flackery, 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 II
and I tell you I am a Jew. I am a spiritual Jew because I believe in Jesus Christ.
I am the real Jews, the people who are outwardly 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 going to be good to go.
First of all, his Catholic roots are definitely showing here.
Adolf Hitler grew up Catholic.
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, 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 going to be so cool because all it is is a worship of self.
Let me just explain to you 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?
Do I have to 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 mine 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?
It's 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 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 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 five, the Bible says,
but after thy hardness and impenitent heart,
treasure us 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 and 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 worketh 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 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, a 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
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.
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,
ye shall be free indeed."
And notice verse 37.
I know that ye are Abraham's seed.
But you 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's 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 you 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 have seen with my father, and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father.
Jesus saith unto them, if ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God.
This did not Abraham.
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We 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 is 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
points 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.
He said, so you're of your father, the devil. You know, Adolf Hitler's view would
not have jibed
Right? Because Adolf Hitler is 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 2, James chapter number 2.
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 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 there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring and goodly apparel,
and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment,
and ye 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 ye not then partial in yourselves, and have 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're just, oh, sit way back there,
you know, no one cares about you,
we're not gonna talk to you,
we're not gonna be friendly to you.
You know, that'd be a wicked attitude to have.
And you know, it's the same exact thing with skin color.
And we had in our country for a long time, segregation.
Whereas 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,
Harkin, 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 ye 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 ye are called?
If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture,
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well.
But if ye 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 respecter 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.
I'm not interested in going to a church where we just make our identity based on what we
look like.
I'm much more interested in having unity and camaraderie about the things of the Bible
because 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 multiracial 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 still 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 is accepted with God.
You show me a black person that 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 and 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
It'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, what, 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.
Maybe you're spending your Sundays listening to his new song, Heil Hitler, instead of going
to church.
Okay, 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, Bea, I'm the villain.
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.
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 Hile Hitler
It's like what is going on? This is absolutely insane folks
We need to reject this mentality go to Jeremiah chapter number nine
Jeremiah chapter 9, so, you know, God's not a respecter of persons.
Number 3, 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 sayeth 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 to glory in things like wisdom
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 fall in nature
how man would want to be prideful about being wise.
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.
It takes a lot of effort to be strong,
putting in the time, working, putting in the time in the gym.
these things, it's kind of like, okay, 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 is saying this, but you can at least understand
this, right? But verse 24 says, but let him that Glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and
knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in
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's 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.
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
because 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, notice 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 wanna 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?
It's your heart. It's your religion go to first 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 because it's garbage
And you know 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,
You do not need to be ashamed about the color of your skin,
what nation you hail from.
These are nothing, these are things that 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 going to fall into white guilt.
I'm just not going to put up with it.
I'm not going to believe it because 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?
Bro, this girl probably doesn't have to deal with that.
I say he's privileged.
Go to 1st 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.
Oh, the Bible is 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 1 Corinthians 7, verse 39.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth.
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?
Just kidding.
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 someone,
you should get married to someone you are attracted to.
Don't listen to the brow beating.
Go to 2nd Corinthians chapter number six, 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 going to turn away your heart from following the Lord your God.
It doesn't say don't go to the strange women because it's going to 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 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 verse 14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
And what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with beelial?
Or 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.
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 than just, oh, I'm white,
got to marry a white chick, doesn't matter if she's saved.
No, 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 too.
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 going to 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 hardworking 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 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, you go soul-winning in Houston.
Like, you will run into people from all over the world
that 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.
Let's bring, 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 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 oppress 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 shalt 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.
You 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, oh, wide open border, whoever wants to.
Okay, how about verse 20?
He that sacrificed 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 as being like,
oh yeah, you know, legal immigration is totally fine.
You know, no rules, no borders.
It's like the Bible is saying in verse 20
that you weren't even allowed to be in the nation of Israel
if you're going to go sacrifice 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 exalteth 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, no. Righteousness exalteth 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 can 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, and 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
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 going to 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 been a lot of
revisionist history. There's a lot of people that don't read. And 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
The people in general assented 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 confused of
what separation in church is talking about.
That phrase is not even found in the Constitution or the Declaration.
But people will say, oh, 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 going to read for you some of those.
This is the Massachusetts State Constitution in 1780 in Chapter 6, Article 1.
It says,
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 could not be a Hindu.
You could not be a Catholic.
You could not be an atheist.
You had to be a Christian, folks.
That is not a secular society.
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 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
to not act wittingly whereby the freedom thereof may be prejudiced and also make and 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 forevermore.
And I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine
inspiration.
Amen.
That was in the United States of America, folks.
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 turned 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,
Now let me explain to you what this is saying.
This is 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 can go be a governor, other Christians can go be a 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 going to ask you, are you a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, non-denomination.
We're not going to 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 in a totally secular religion.
Oh yeah, you know, atheists, Hindus, Catholics, no, no, no, no.
You could not be in office if you were those groups.
You could not be in an office if you denied the Christian religion.
You could not be in an office if you were 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 reproached 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 three.
I'll read two more verses, we'll be done.
Galatians chapter number three, 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 is neither bond nor free.
There is neither male nor female.
For ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye 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, carnal 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 going to 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 unify us, not our skin color.
Let's have a word of prayer.
Faith 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.