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          As the Lord leads me to make plain in the book, The Scourge Of Racism, racism leaves no one involved untouched; not the object or the perpetrator!¹  In the book chapter similarly titled as today’s post, He leads me to firmly assert the very real resulting wounds of racism in the American Church require healing through God’s methodologies already prescribed in His written Word!  Of course, one must first be biblically conservative to honor and preserve God’s instruction in His Word intact and willing to objectively interpret, apply and submit to it in obedience.  Because all or some part of the foregoing is missing in the main, the Church is now, under God’s judgment!²

          Through its human vessels beginning with guilty professed Christian white colonists from before the nation’s founding, their local assemblies and subsequent institutions, the Church in this land that came to be America has tolerated, practiced and enabled racism within its ranks.³  Some of the guilty professed Christian objects of racism in bitterness have returned the favor.  Obviously, none of these persons were practicing biblical conservatism in preserving or obeying Christ’s commandment to “love one another” over the past four centuries nor are the guilty doing so now (John 13:34-35, NKJV).⁴  This ungodly reality is contrary to the example of many biblical personages.

          The Lord Jesus Christ is the foremost example of a biblical conservative.  He announced to Israel He had not come “to destroy the Law or the Prophets…but to fulfill” them (Matthew 5:17-20; Luke 16:14-18, 24:25-27, 44-45, NKJV).  Every godly person in the Bible after Christ also treats the Word of God with reverence and acts on it as it is written (Joshua 8:30-35; Daniel 9:1-2; Luke 2:25, 23:50-51).⁵  Even Satan and his demon cohort take God’s Word at face value while corrupting it to whoever will pay heed (Matthew 4:1-7, 8:28-29; 2 Peter 3:14-16).  No, Christ’s commandment that His disciples love each other has willfully not been honored, preserved or obeyed!

          There is absolutely no excuse for disobeying Christ’s commandment for the real “born again” Christian because the impetus and spiritual substance of God’s love through the Holy Spirit fills our hearts providing what we need to obey (John 3:1-8; Romans 5:5; 1 Corinthians 13:1-8a, NKJV).  Beyond yielding to the sinful flesh along with worldly family and cultural conditioning, this raises the prospect of fear and the outcome of cowardice which the Lord does not accept as a reason for disobedience (Romans 13:8-14; Galatians 5:19-25; Revelation 21:8).  After these reasons only one other is plausible and that is the disobedient are not Christians at all, but impostors and apostates.⁶

          In my book, I do not pretend healing racism’s wounds in the American Church will be easy.  The biblical process will be spiritually, psychologically and emotionally challenging for authentic Christians that have been practicing even subtle racism a long time.  For the personal sin of racism and that of one’s fathers must be confessed and repented from before God to receive His forgiveness (Daniel 9:8-11; 1 John 1:8-2:2).⁷  Also, the forgiveness of those known brothers and sisters one has been bigoted toward and discriminated against is to be sought.  Guilty black and Christians of every other hue must confess and repent from bitterness and be willing to forgive those past and present who have brought harm through racism (Mark11:25-26; Ephesians 4:31-32; Colossians 3:12-13).

1 The Scourge Of Racism, Copyright 2023, ODCM Publishing Division, Portland, OR.  Learn more about the book to be released October 5^th and the specific chapter referred
   to, The Sting Of Racism, at this link.  The book will be widely available in Ministry Web Site Stores, among internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores.

2 Read the June 10, 2018 post, God’s Judgment Upon His House, under the categories Bible Prophecy and God’s Creatures.

3 See the respective September 10 and 17, 2023 posts, Our American Heritage and Racism A Two-Fold Scourge, both under the category, Biblical Worldview.

4 Read the September 24, 2023 post, Racism In Christ’s Church A No-No, under the category, Instruction.

5 This  is  the  heart  of  every  aspiring  strong  man  and  great  woman  of God I write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics.  It remains available in the
   Strong Man Store among internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores.

6 See  the  two-part post beginning August 21, 2016, Christianity The Religion Of Men, under the category, Instruction.  Practicing and attempting to pass off a counterfeit form
   of  manmade  of  Christianity, religious folk as impostors that grow worse and apostates who knowingly infiltrate local assemblies are foretold (2 Timothy 3:1-9, 13; Jude 3-4,
   16-19).  These are easily persuaded by Satan, sin and self to hate as racists because the love of God is not in them!

7 Racism  is most assuredly among the sins of the fathers and one’s own the Lord is expecting those professed Christians who will return to Him to confess and repent from in
   His appeal through this Ministry’s Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Return To The Lord.

          I have heard from some white Christians over the years that they are tired of hearing about racism.  I have also heard of others lately that do not care any longer to deal with it as a social justice issue.  And while I can understand how the foregoing might be so from a sinful human perspective, has anyone considered that the Lord Jesus Christ could possibly be at the end of His forbearance to bring more severe judgment upon the guilty who tolerate and practice racism in His Church?  After all, besides being sin from arrogant pride and spawning many deeds of transgression and iniquity, racism in the Church defies and disobeys a very direct and specific commandment of Christ as Lord!¹

          To be clear, the arrogance of racial bigotry and discrimination are nowhere supported in the Bible because they are sin; going as they do against the character of God and Law He gave to Israel as His chosen people charged to act like Him (Deuteronomy 10:12-22)!  And though the Lord forbade Israel to intermarry with the surrounding pagan Gentile nations, as He leads me to explain in my book, The Scourge Of Racism, it was not about racism, but spiritual fidelity since all these nations engaged in idolatry among other ungodly practices (Exodus 34:10-17).²  In the New Testament, what had morphed into bigotry and discrimination in Jewish practice was rebuked (Acts 6:1-7, 10:1-11:18)!

          Also, irrefutable as biblical evidence Christ and Heaven view racism as sin is His ‘“new commandment’” that the disciples making up His Church ‘“love one another’” as He ‘“loved’” us, (John 13:34, NKJV).³  What?  Do you think the Lord is not serious about His commandment stated with the same force of authority as the Ten Commandments which also came from Him (Exodus 24:9-18)?  The bigotry and discrimination of racism willfully transgress, sin against and pervert the Lord’s new commandment to His disciples that tolerate and practice it; His disciples who by His stated will are supposed to be identified as such by our ‘“love for one another,’” (John 13:35, NKJV).⁴

          This means every professed Christian white, black and every other hue that practice racism is sinning against the Lord!⁵  Now, the racism of guilty professed white Christians is typically what is addressed when the subject comes up.  This is one of the many not so small consequences for the guilty whites from the nation’s inception and over the centuries that have led out in tolerating and practicing the sin of racism.  However, we black and Christians of other hues that are guilty get no pass from judgment as the usual objects of racism’s scourge without repentance since the Lord shows no partiality and judges each man as his deeds deserve (Romans 2:4; 2 Corinthians 5:9-11).⁶

          Centuries of tolerating and practicing racism by disobedient real Christians and those as religious impostors have misrepresented Him as well as brought disgrace and shame on Christ and His Church.  Only Satan could benefit from the failure of professed Christians to obey the Lord’s command to love each other and has; untold numbers of especially minority men want nothing to do with Christianity because its primary identifying mark, love, has been largely missing.  So, is the Lord okay with this as even many evangelicals appear to believe judging by their slowness to address racism internally and how far down the moral issues list it is?  After encountering the Lord in a recent time of fasting and prayer, I can assure of His grief; the end of His forbearance and longsuffering!⁷

1 Read  the  September  17,  2023  post,  Racism  A  Two-Fold  Scourge, under the category, Biblical Worldview.  The historic culpability of the guilty majority white members
   making  up  the  American Church in upholding the tolerance and practice of racism within and without its assemblies is inescapable to all but the most spiritually hardened
   of hearts in denial.

2 The Scourge Of Racism, Copyright 2023, ODCM Publishing Division, Portland, OR, p. 45.  Learn more about the soon to be released book at this link.

3 Every aspiring strong Man and great woman of God in Christ’s image takes to heart His commandment understanding the role assignment He has given us as a servant of
   humanity. I write about this eternal role in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics.  Get your Hard or Soft Cover or E-Book Edition in the Strong Man Store now,
   among internet booksellers and brick and mortar bookstores.

4 See the two-part post that begins March 8, 2015, Known By Our Love, under the category, Instruction.  As this 2015 post affirms, the love the Lord speaks of is God’s.  This
   reality  makes His cause for “all” to be able to identify those who are truly His disciples by our love for one another the more frustrating when they also tolerate and practice
   racism!   Of  course, the post also stresses a significant reason racism can exist to the extent it does in His Church.  It is because of the many false Christians as impostors
   practicing a manmade, counterfeit version of the real deal that is also tolerated.

5 Read the December 11, 2016 post, Professing Christian Racism Is Sin Too, under the category, Call To Repent.

6 The  racism  practiced by blacks and other hues is just as wicked as that of whites in the sight of the Lord!  For this cause, no one can justify being a racist by saying some-
   one else is one too.

7 I  was  fasting  and  seeking  the  Lord on another matter this past September 13^th.  In the brokenness of my soul in His presence, He blended His grief over the state of His
   Church  in  America  with  my  personal  concern.  I  cannot  stress  enough  how  urgent  it  is  for  every  professed Christian to watch our Strong Man Of God Online Rally,
   Return To The Lord.  It is not about garnering views for the sake of boasting.  It is about giving the willing the chance to hear the Lord’s heart for His professed people at this
   critical time in the history of our nation and world!