To the beloved in Africa, Russia, China, Poland, Ukraine, South America, North America, to the 7 continents, greetings from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Racism is one of Satan's ugliest tools. And one of his most absurd. That speaks volumes about just how depraved and foolish and utterly wicked humanity is, including many who profess faith in Jesus Christ. Do you not know how preposterous hating someone because they're of a different ethnicity is? Do you not know that those who say they love God whom they have never seen yet hate a brother whom they have seen are liars and not children of God?
1 John 2:9 The one who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 4: 19 We love, because He first loved us. 20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
The ubiquitous and egregious existence and popularity of racial supremacy by itself should call out to the redeemed in Christ of the dire need for the gospel in all the world, including within the walls of the visible church. The only cure for racism as for any sin is the new birth and the process of the on-going sanctification of the disciple of Christ.
The residuals of racism remain within the redeemed after conversion (as do all our sins) and must be faced head-on through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, the written word of God, and the fellowship of the saints. We are all wretched to a greater or lesser degree but with the knowledge that we are delivered and we are being delivered from the source of our wretchedness, "the body of this death" (Rom. 7:24-8:4).
Racism is a man-centered lie from the pit of hell. Racism is, after all, merely a symptom of the deadness and corruption of man's soul. Blatant racism is hatred; hatred is murder; no murderer will inherit the kingdom of God except it should be that he or she is granted repentance by the grace of God (2 Tim. 2:24-26).
We are to take the gospel, of course, to all the nations, making disciples of them, teaching them all that Jesus taught, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. If your racism stands in the way of the gospel, stay home.
Racism is one of Satan's ugliest tools. And one of his most absurd. That speaks volumes about just how depraved and foolish and utterly wicked humanity is, including many who profess faith in Jesus Christ. Do you not know how preposterous hating someone because they're of a different ethnicity is? Do you not know that those who say they love God whom they have never seen yet hate a brother whom they have seen are liars and not children of God?
1 John 2:9 The one who says he is in the light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 4: 19 We love, because He first loved us. 20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
The ubiquitous and egregious existence and popularity of racial supremacy by itself should call out to the redeemed in Christ of the dire need for the gospel in all the world, including within the walls of the visible church. The only cure for racism as for any sin is the new birth and the process of the on-going sanctification of the disciple of Christ.
The residuals of racism remain within the redeemed after conversion (as do all our sins) and must be faced head-on through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, the written word of God, and the fellowship of the saints. We are all wretched to a greater or lesser degree but with the knowledge that we are delivered and we are being delivered from the source of our wretchedness, "the body of this death" (Rom. 7:24-8:4).
Racism is a man-centered lie from the pit of hell. Racism is, after all, merely a symptom of the deadness and corruption of man's soul. Blatant racism is hatred; hatred is murder; no murderer will inherit the kingdom of God except it should be that he or she is granted repentance by the grace of God (2 Tim. 2:24-26).
We are to take the gospel, of course, to all the nations, making disciples of them, teaching them all that Jesus taught, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. If your racism stands in the way of the gospel, stay home.