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God warns ancient Israel about their sinful and evil ways in rebellion against Him because He does not want to punish them (Ezekiel 33:7-9). He shows this in a heart rending response through the prophet to their complaint. ‘“Say to them: “as I live,” says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel,’” (Ezekiel 33:10-11, NKJV). The same holds true today for backslidden and rebel professed Christian Black Americans because the holy God does not change in nature or character (Malachi 3:6). It is repent or die in His judgment and approaching wrath!
Thirty years later, the 1993 From Slavery To Victory: One Man’s Journey (FSTVOMJ) Radio Special continues to bear the heartfelt appeal of God for the guilty among black Americans professing to be His people to repent from every way He calls sin in His Word as it is written!1 The Bible is still the final authority for the faith and practice of it by Christians when we read and apply it objectively. Thus, for quick examples, worshipping anyone or thing besides God, having sex outside of marriage between a biological man and woman, feminism, stealing, lying and murdering transgresses, sins against and perverts God’s spiritual, moral and ethical Word written (Romans 1:18-32, 13:8-10).2
Now, I know that Satan has craftily incited some rebels to throw God’s Word into confusion during these latter days by questioning if it is still relevant thousands of years after being written and brazenly corrupting it through subjectively reading into and changing its words supposedly for a better understanding.3 But even if every Bible on earth were corrupted and cast aside, not to be outsmarted by any of His creatures God put a conscience in man that acts as a moral compass either affirming or condemning our actions in this life and which are also recorded on high for the day of judgment all must face to give an account as the apostle Paul instructs (Romans 2:12-16; 2 Corinthians 5:9-11).
From His commanding position and authority as the “Prophet” to Israel (Deuteronomy 18:15-19, NKJV), the Lord Jesus Christ out of His overflowing love for the nation and righteous indignation at their religious leaders for their hypocrisy, spiritual blindness and hard hearts publicly and severely upbraided them (Matthew 23:1-36). Among the things He declared to them that day was He would “send” them “prophets” with other gifted men they would “kill,” mistreat and “persecute” to “fill up” their cup of guilt before God (Matthew 23:32-35, NKJV). From the first century until now, He has done the same within professing Christianity with similar results (Revelation 1:9-3:22, 17:1-6, 18:24).
Indeed, as with Israel of old the Lord has even punished His followers for their sins to the end the guilty might repent (1 Corinthians 11:23-32). No one is saved from sin to “live any longer in it,” (Romans 6:1-14, NKJV). So, the Lord calls the guilty to repent from not only personal, but corporate sin too, such as the practice of Christianity as religion manifested in various powerless manmade forms or that becomes cold and mechanical apart from Him like it did the first of seven churches He sent a message by the apostle John as a prophet. The church at Ephesus had “left” their “first love” and this was enough to destroy them as it is guilty churches today (Revelation 2:1-7, NKJV)!
Therefore, it is high time for professed Christian black Americans that are guilty to sober up about the worsening state of our community the Lord led me to warn about thirty years ago in spite of the sincere and dedicated labor of some to reverse our self-destructive course. It is the holy God that must be approached in the ancient, biblical way prescribed for any hope of a temporary reversal (His foretold end is even nearer today than thirty years ago!).4 In all humility and brokenness, the guilty must seek God in prayer fully confessing and repenting from every kind of transgression, sin, rebellion, iniquity and wicked backsliding. Confession too, must acknowledge God has been right to judge and will be apart from His professed people doing as He wills (Nehemiah 9:33; Hosea 14:1-3).
Though the hour is late, spiritual revival from God among those that turn back to Him will save many lost souls as in obedience, His people again proclaim the Gospel and witness the biblical faith to family, neighbors and even haters; joyfully fulfilling the original assignment He gave us as His slaves during and after being shackled by men.5 Newly restored fathers would turn back to their children and their children to them. Females restored would no longer use sex as a means to get a male’s interest, bear children without husbands or murder them because of inconvenience as they renounce feminism.6 Self-destruction by any means would again be taboo. Otherwise, it continues as God’s judgment who brings His wrath after there is “no remedy,” (2 Chronicles 36:15-16, NKJV).7
1 The start date and time for the Webcast of the radio special will be announced soon in select media and on social media. Interested contributors can make designated gifts for the Webcast at https://fromslaverytovictory.org/Donate and receive one of the last number of collectible Commemorative Cassettes.
2 Read the March 5, 2023 post, Thirty Years Later, Still One Last Hope, under the categories Black History and Call To Repent.
3 Even so, I stand by my Holy Spirit directed exhortation to seek Him with the Bible open to learn in what ways one that is guilty has gone away from God’s spiritual, moral and ethical instruction. See the January 9, 2022 post, Easier To Read Bibles, under the categories Bible Prophecy and Instruction.
4 Read the two-part commentary beginning May 2004 in The From Slavery To Victory Monthly Journal Archive, Come Let Us Return To The Lord.
5 Our Christian slave forefathers left us and the world more than 4,000 spirituals and work songs testifying to their faith in the Bible’s God and His Son, Jesus Christ, while non-violent souls during the 1955-68 peak of the Civil Rights Movement did the same through their courageous examples. Should we, their descendants as Christians, be doing any less?
6 In hope of such a day as the Lord has led, I have written The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics along with the companion Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study and Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study to help equip restored men and women to function as He designed. These resources are available in the Strong Man Store, among internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores.
7 God is not unjust to “destroy the righteous with the wicked,” (Genesis 18:22-25; Psalm 145:17-21; Romans 5:6-11, NKJV). So then, those unsaved or professed Christian individuals now, in sin that repent and turn to God through faith in Christ will live eternally with Him. This is as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. prophesied in his final sermon be- fore his death. After declaring he had been to the mountain top and seen the Promised Land, he said: “I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” Those black Americans who are faithful Christians will be among all of the redeemed of God just as I am also led by Him to as- sure concluding FSTVOMJ.
Even now, thirty years later as the Lord had me assert in the 1993 From Slavery To Victory: One Man’s Journey (FSTVOMJ) Radio Special,1 there is still one last hope for a curtailment of black America’s self-destruction as judgment from Him. That hope is biblically defined repentance leading to the spiritual revival and salvation of many which the radio program seeks to spur in line with the mission and objectives of The From Slavery To Victory Education Project it generated in 1994.2 Over the past thirty years there has been no nationwide repentance to God’s satisfaction among black Americans professing to be Christians to date. Time for repentance and hope is running out!
Curtailing God’s judgment upon black America must begin among those who profess to be Christians because such ones knew (and know) better than to disobey Him in the first place as backsliders and rebels (James 4:17)! This is exactly why God on the occasion of the dedication of the Temple Solomon built gave him a warning. He would bring judgment upon Israel for their sins that could only be turned back by humility, seeking prayer, repentance, His forgiveness and restoration (2 Chronicles 7:12-14).3 Otherwise, though pleased to dwell at the Temple, in wrath for persistent disobedience God would remove it and the people from the land (2 Chronicles 7:15-22).
This latter thing God did to Israel twice; once in 586 BC as the Babylonians destroyed the Temple and carried the people away captive and again in 70 AD when the Romans burned the rebuilt Temple down and scattered most of those they did not kill to the nations. In the parlance of black culture, “God don’t play!” So, why are so many acting like God is playing with regard to judging sin among those professed to be His people? It can only be the devil’s inspired delusion of entitlement to sin out of being victims at work among many unsaved and professed Christian black Americans along with the lie God is no longer serious about or judging it (John 8:44; 1 Corinthians 15:33-34)!
Clearly also, many professed Christian black Americans among those choosing to be secular atheists, agnostics and apostates have decided no longer to believe the truth God is the One that brought our forefathers from West Africa to the New World in chains. Though as victims most do not want to hear it, in accord with His purposes the way our forefathers came and their enslavement was punishment from Him for sin (Lamentations 3:37-39).4 As well, it was so the willing might be humbled and in honest confession and repentance “turn back to the LORD” through the Gospel of His Son, Jesus Christ, as many did (Lamentations 3:40-42; Acts 17:22-31; Romans 1:16-17, 10:11-13, NKJV).
Too, it was God who brought our people out of bondage and into the opportunities to be unimpeachable “witnesses” of His grace, mercy and power to save, preserve as well as deliver souls from any adversity (Deuteronomy 6:20-25; Psalm 124; Isaiah 43:8-13, 61:1, NKJV). We owe God an incalculable debt of gratitude, loyalty and devotion! But the many to include every guilty professed Christian in their churches have repaid Him instead with narcissism fed rebellion; playing the harlot with other gods in idolatry, the cruel sacrifice of unwanted children and trusting more in sinful mortals, their governments, institutions and alliances than God to advance in the world (Jeremiah 2:26-37).
Yet, as He declared to Solomon, God who is longsuffering and merciful is ready to ease up on His ongoing judgment impacting all with only the humility, seeking prayer of sincere confession and repentance of the guilty majority among those who profess to be Christians rebelling against His will, way and Word as it is written! This is to be a full confession of and repentance from every spiritual, moral and ethical departure made from His Word.5 If you don’t know what all of that might be, ask the Holy Spirit to show you with your Bible open. To repent is to change one’s mind about his sins viewing them as a holy God does--not self, neighbor or a so-called “progressive” culture that includes numerous religionist and corrupt pastors with the churches they lead, false prophets and teachers.
Unless there is a turning back to God in full confession and repentance, there can be no forgiveness or hope of revival from Him that temporarily eases back on His judgment just as He had me declare in the FSTVOMJ Radio Special thirty years ago. Indeed, His judgment is to intensify going forward as God moves to consummate His plans to end this current evil age and bring forth the Kingdom of His Son!6 Therefore, time is running out in these latter days to get right with God and stop following the crowd in continuing rebellion and sin against Him. Every guilty professed Christian must decide for themselves whether to turn back to God or not. Those who refuse will personally endure His intensifying judgment and coming wrath (Romans 1:18-2:16; Hebrews 3:7-19; Jude 5)!
1 The starting date and time for the Webcast of this historic docu-drama will be announced in select media and on social media. Prospective contributors can make designated gifts for the Webcast at https://fromslaverytovictory.org/Donate and receive one of the last number of Commemorative Cassettes.
2 Learn more about the project on its Web Site.
3 See especially the second part of the two-part post that begins August 2, 2020, Flavorless Salt Is Worthless, under the category, Call To Repent, to understand why as the Lord has led me, I do not overuse 2 Chronicles 7:14.
4 I still remain amazed at how so many do not finish reading through our brief presentation, The Journey, on The From Slavery To Victory Education Project Web Site. The primary reason no doubt, is that most view it through the deadly worldview of victimization. I challenge all serious black American seekers of truth to read and soberly consider each of the five stops on The Journey unapologetically presenting a sound, biblical worldview of the black American historical experience as has been done in this and the preceding February 26, 2023 post, Thirty Years Later…, under the categories, Biblical Worldview and Black History.
5 Read the August 31, 2014 post, Soul Deep Repentance, under the category, Call To Repent.
6 Believing this truth from God’s Word, the aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Christ I write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, prays accordingly (Matthew 6:9-13). Get a copy of my book at your favorite internet bookseller or brick and mortar bookstore, the Strong Man Store and the FSTVEP Resource Store on The From Slavery To Victory Education Project Web Site.
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