The Scourge Of Racism
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Freedom from the ties of sin and at the root, the continuing mental and emotional legacies of slavery and racism is supposed to be the desired in process reality of every black American that becomes an authentically born again Christian and most assuredly all who serve us as leaders in our churches. This is so because freedom by and through Christ is the perfect will of God in His redemption plan for all sinners (Luke 4:18; 2 Corinthians 3:17)! Thus, to resist God’s will to be free from all satanic ties that bind the soul out of whatever motives is willful sin. Practicing sin always dulls the spiritual senses and deceitfully hardens the heart (Matthew 13:10-17; Hebrews 3:7-13).
Professing Christians bound by sin and Satan leads to the substitute and inferior practice of manmade religion, its traditions and rituals in their churches (2 Timothy 3:1-9). Youth are scarce in them and prisons full of our men with their names on the rolls because it is not enough to say “come to church” or therein, “the doors of the church are open” if manmade religion is all that is offered since it is powerless to save or give real spiritual help to anybody. Christ alone saves and in relationship with Him men are delivered through the transforming power of God’s Word and Spirit! And as we mature in Christ as aspiring strong men of God, we come to a biblical understanding of and right attitude about the troubles of this world which include continuing struggles with racism (John 16:33).
Rather than taking refuge in churches and attempting to escape through the practice of manmade religion, in God’s perfect will we emerge from them into the world as His eternal sons, disciples and servants to first overcome it in Christ (1 John 5:4-5)! For we know with certainty the troubles, difficulties, hardships, adversities, persecutions and afflictions of this world as God’s workmen are working together for our good; conforming us to the image of Christ in nature, character and demeanor (Romans 5:1-5, 8:28-29).5 Second, overcoming (instead of being overcome by) the world in Christ, we serve His cause and fellow man in the Gospel; preaching and giving witness to the divine call to salvation, liberty and victory to set others free (Luke 11:23)!
Tragically though, here is where most professing Christian black Americans and pastors bound by sin and Satan take their leave because of cynical unbelief, practiced disobedience to God’s Word and with anger, other root ties like entitling victimization which rise up to exert a tightening tug of pressure on their minds and hearts. Having been here, done this over thirty years, now, many are even angry at me for telling the truth and want me to shut up and go away--would to God I could! But His love will not let me go seeing as it is He that persists in calling after the many to repent before it is too late in spite of our false and hypocritical claim to innocence in victimization while steadfastly pointing an accusing finger at whites for their sins (Romans 1:18-2:4).
Supposedly being so spiritual, do we not grasp that to claim innocence before God as a victim all the way back to Africa is to call Him a liar? Or what part of “There is none righteous…none who seeks after God…none who does good,” and “all have sinned” in the divine assessment of all humanity do we not get or think applies to us (Romans 3:10-12, 23)? But someone will say, “Whatever our African forefather’s sins, they did not deserve what we got!” Biblical Christianity says such a one is right! Neither our forefathers nor we have gotten what we deserved for our sins which is immediate and eternal death (Ezekiel 18:4)! Professing Christians and pastors that choose victimization assure they will remain slaves to sin and bound by Satan with worsening consequences (Luke 11:24-26).
Truly, the sins of the many satanically bound pastors have not gone unnoticed by the Most High. Only because of His longsuffering forbearance and deference to the faithful reaching back to slavery has He not until now carried out a more severe judgment on you for especially the arrogance of changing the order of His house to put women over men as His appointed leaders done in rank rebellion and out of a satanically twisted sense of fairness hatched from victimization (1 Timothy 2:11-15, 4:1-2). Already--as the Lord has led me to declare to all of the churches, the latter day judgment of His house is underway (Ezekiel 12:21-28). As I am a witness, predominantly black American churches; those old time houses of refuge are dying right along with those from other ethnicities.
Therefore, because the relative few pastors and churches among black Americans on the front lines proclaiming the tie breaking message of the Gospel and doing related service in the community (I praise God for you!) cannot do it all and the remaining messengers are bound up and sheltered in place unless they repent, the foretold spiral of our community to disastrous ruin is unavoidable. For apart from God’s help in the Gospel, Word and Holy Spirit, there are no other viable answers or appointed messengers! To the glory of the sovereign God, the ruin occurs in the gracious aftermath of the clearly unheard of divine miracle that had those who first oppressed our forefathers in slavery also provide them with the key to freedom in the Gospel as the Lord led me to write in a 2003 Journal.6
Yes, my God has marvelously done and does His part so that no one as a victim blames Him on Judgment Day (Romans 2:5-11; Revelation 20:11-15). So, because the many were not willing to let go of their anger and victimization as only two of many root ties by which Satan binds them and instead, let God receive glory through them as Christ’s victors in our historical experience as a witness to the world, the opportunity will shortly be lost forever (Hosea 4:1-10)! In the day of ruin, it will be painfully seen that churches as a house of refuge without sanction from God are utterly worthless like rotten and wormy manna.
Too, in the day of ruin it will be seen that churches are not the real place of refuge any way for they shall be destroyed; it is and always has been God Himself (Psalm 32:6-7, 90:1, 91:1-2; Hebrews 6:16-20)! Likewise, the Promised Land for us never was this present world. It is the eternal Kingdom of God come in and coming with Christ of which the faithful and free in Him eat now of its sweet produce while we wait patiently by faith for His appearing (Joshua 5:10-12; John 18:36; 2 Corinthians 1:20-22; Galatians 5:22-23; Philippians 3:20-21; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-12; Revelation 11:15)!7
5 Again, in a sermon over fifty years old entitled, Shattered Dreams preserved in written form by the book, Strength To Love, Dr. King affirms the advantage we Christians have through faith in our God to cope victoriously with the disappointments and manifold struggles of this life, p. 87-97.
6 Read this Journal at https://fromslaverytovictory.org/Journal-Sept-2003.
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With great empathy for the men who serve as pastors in the churches of Jesus Christ among black Americans as I have also done, I must still declare the truth that far too many are the reason the churches they serve are stuck in the house of refuge mentality, spiritually immature and impotent as well as in rank rebellion against God! While over the years I have heard pastors say the people are to blame by being unwilling to grow--which is true in some cases, it is the pastors that are fully guilty before God because they are unwilling to repent from what they know is sin and spiritual immaturity in personal conduct and church priorities as they cling to manmade religious practices and traditions.
Since among many churches the culturally admired preaching skill of pastors cover a multitude of sins, character flaws and spiritual immaturity contrary to the teaching of the Bible (Titus 1:5-9), the spiritual state of members or impact on their surrounding community with the Gospel in obedience to Christ does not matter. Moreover, it is largely immaterial that a pastor may act out to the point of criminality because he is bound by the root ties of the continuing mental and emotional legacies of slavery and racism. Though we know not even the godliest pastors have arrived, we are not supposed to settle for being bound by Satan as normal (Philippians 3:12-16; 2 Timothy 2:22-26).
Pastors bound by Satan with any tie binding work of the flesh in sin (to include pride) or at the root, the continuing mental and emotional legacies of slavery and racism hurt themselves and their watching congregants because like it or not the Bible declares their leadership is primarily by example (1 Peter 5:2-3). A pastor can and will not preach Christ as the Deliverer superior in strength that breaks the ties Satan has used to bind up members of the church if he is complacently bound too (Luke 11:14-22). Satan stronger than sinful men has been able to keep such pastors and members bound even after their supposed new birth because they are unwilling to be set free by Christ.
As a result of being bound, the pastor’s preaching in the house of refuge majors on comforting himself and the people in their spiritual immaturity with God’s grace and mercy, railing against the system depending on his level of social activism and powerless moralizing. In the latter instance, while he might quote or take his text from Ephesians 4:26 wherein the apostle Paul declares from Psalm 4:4, ‘“Be angry and do not sin,’” and adds, “do not let the sun go down on your wrath” (NKJV), because he is shackled by the root tie of anger as a continuing mental and emotional legacy of slavery and racism, rather than obedience, he will urge all to join him in doing their best in their own inadequate strength to comply (Romans 7:14-23). Meanwhile, he remains an angry black man.
I know something about being an angry black man because I was until the Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel and power of the Holy Spirit set me free (Romans 7:24-8:4) as I wrote in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics!3 And how did the Lord come to liberate me? In all confession and repentance before the Lord I owned my sin failures with anger and realization of being helplessly bound by it as a tie on my soul in the light of His Word (Genesis 4:1-8; Proverbs 29:22; James 1:19-20). I then asked Him for help! I have since learned that as sinners, it is why we are angry (Jonah 3-4) and what we do with it after it has risen up that will determine whether it is sin or not. Uncontrolled venting of anger or burying and letting the sun go down on it leads to sin every time.
Righteous indignation at evil, injustice and real or perceived personal injury naturally gives rise to anger which in and of itself is not sin since a holy God in whose image we are made gets angry too and judges (Genesis 1:26-27; Numbers 25:1-5)! Where petition for readdress of legitimate wrongs suffered can be made (to include peaceful protest), we pursue this (Acts 16:16-24, 35-40). In the meantime--regardless of whether or not we get relief, those of us aspiring to be strong men of God in the image of Christ willfully choose to call on the Holy Spirit for supernatural help to forgive the wrong done to us and trust God for vindication as it is written, ‘“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord,’” (Luke 23:33-34; Romans 12:19-21, NKJV).
Now, what I have just written is how the Lord Jesus delivers us one by one from every tie--root or otherwise--binding the soul. Indeed, whether the ties are of the sinful works of the flesh or mental and emotional, we must own them before the Lord and then soberly confront them with the truth of His Word and power of the Holy Spirit! We confront with the truth of God’s Word as the Lord Jesus modeled for us because it exposes and destroys Satan’s lies in sin lifted up against God setting us free (Matthew 4:1-11; John 8:31-32). Through Christ, we confront in the strength of the Holy Spirit as our help because we are truly weak against Satan, sin and self controlled by sin (Philippians 4:13). Alas though, one must want to be delivered by Christ to engage in the process of liberation!4
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