[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Way Community Church Podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our mission is to show people the way to life with Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Darahal and I am the pastor of the Way Community Church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today we're going to have a topical discussion about the Bible and the Gospel and Christianity as a movement and look distinctly at how God has used brown and black skin people throughout history to contribute to his ultimate plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I pray you're encouraged by the word today.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can follow along in the transcript of this podcast and you can find these notes in the Bible app.
[SPEAKER_00]: Grab your Bible, and let's study guys work together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 68 is where we're gonna be gonna start with one verse.
[SPEAKER_00]: As we bring a conclusion to Black History Month, I wanna look at Psalm 68, verse number 31.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm reading it in the English standard version.
[SPEAKER_00]: The word of the Lord says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna talk to them this thought in mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no history without black history.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may be seated in the presence of the living God.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no history without black history.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's appropriate regardless of where one stands politically to open today's message with a word of homage to and a word of comfort for the family of Reverend Jesse Jackson.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we want to remind them even in their grief to keep hope alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if there's something prophetic to him passing during the month where we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Black History Month.
[SPEAKER_00]: For him to pass in February, I wonder if there's something prophetic about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This year marks a hundred years since what started as Black History Week or Negro History Week was established by Carter G. Woodson in 1926.
[SPEAKER_00]: Carter G. Woodson established this week to reflect upon the collective.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our advancement and our investment of Negroes in American history, and he thought it wise to situate that week between the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Doctorus, acknowledging how those two historical figures were key in the telling of the history of our people in this nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to encourage you before the month ends to re-acquaint yourself with the many inventions and the many innovations that Brown and Black Mines have added to our lives without which we cannot live.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if there may be a name you know, but a face you don't, you have the benefit of Google and many search engines and AI apparatus is to go and put a face with the name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you know, face is matter, don't they?
[SPEAKER_00]: How a person looks, matters, because imagery is powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a niece, her name is Bella, and she is as per kosher as she is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And those she's young, and in my mind, I still see her as baby girl, many conversations we have reminds me that I'm probably talking to a 40-year-old woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: stuff into the body of my six year old niece.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she'll often bring things to me for me to give her my opinion or perhaps even my approval.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she plays this game called Roblox where she would design or develop an avatar that is her expression of self in the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so she does something different with this avatar moves every week and she'll run them to me with her tablet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uncle Dee, Uncle Dee, what'd you think about?
[SPEAKER_00]: What'd you think about her?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll look at the girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I always say to Bella to her frustration, I mean, she cute, but she not as beautiful as you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, her hair all right, but I wish her hair would like your hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or if I look at the girl before, whatever reason on this avatar, she's got an avatar of a lighter, cute.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will ask her why is her skin not brown like yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes she's frustrated because I didn't answer her question.
[SPEAKER_00]: But my hope is, as one of the positive male role models in her life, that I've answered the question, she has an axed yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: When she's old enough to look in the mirror and critique who's looking back at her, will she love what she sees?
[SPEAKER_00]: because imagery is powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: My friend, Dr. Addison Kennedy, has emphasized in his doctoral work that is important for the black church to preach a gospel that gets back to the historically accurate image of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now to be sure, the color of Jesus' skin does not make his blood more efficacious.
[SPEAKER_00]: His blood is not more potent to save us based on the color of his dermis epidermis.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not the conversation we're having.
[SPEAKER_00]: The conversation we're having is, is that imagery is so powerful that the greatest human being to ever live has been intentionally white-washed so that when we look at the picture, we would deduce some kind of idea about who is and who is not somebody.
[SPEAKER_00]: So today as your pastor, I want to exemplify before you how to construct a theological flank framework.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to display how to start in Genesis and follow a three-at-three revelation so that we get a cohesive point of view of what scripture says about any topic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm going to use it for this topic, but I want to display the framework so you can apply it to any other topic.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're ready to go?
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we are, number one, let's look at the origin of brown people in Scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: The origin of brown people in Scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now here's the blessing about being the human being.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have a question, you're intrinsic value.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you're worth?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you are in fact, whatever Jackson told us to repeat after him on Sesame Street, I am some.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I am somebody, if you have a struggle with that, the first page of the Bible should answer the question for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because no human being can get past the first page of the Bible without discovering that we were shaped in the image of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis 1, verse 26 through 27, then God said, let us make man in our what church after our what church.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go to verse number 27, verse 27 says, So God created man or humans in his own.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the image of God, He created him, in the female he created them.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is originally written in Hebrew, but there's a Latin phrase that highlights the beauty of those three words image of God in my go day.
[SPEAKER_00]: The immagodate is that spark of the divine creator in each one of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that thing about us, that makes us more intelligent than every other created thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that something we have that nothing else has and every human being has it, regardless of who you're skin.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were made in the image of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there may be some who are listening to me in Lirae, I mean, that sounds all good and everything, but I don't hold to the creation narrative.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't believe we were created by some divine being.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hold more to a scientific approach to how this whole thing got started and to that I say too shank.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the only thing I'm gonna challenge you on if you hold more to science than you do to scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is this, when was the last time?
[SPEAKER_00]: You saw chaos randomly combust into perpetual order.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you believe particles were just floating around
[SPEAKER_00]: and collided to make this big bang.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from random chaos, these particles just coalesced in the middle of nowhere and created perpetual order.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to try something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to go home this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to eat all week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Leave all your dishes all over the kitchen, all over the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't clean them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just let them stack up for weeks and weeks and weeks and just wait for something to bang in the kitchen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then go back in there and everything
[SPEAKER_00]: If you believe that, I want you to try this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Season's a change in for winter to spring, so look, don't even get the law more out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't put down on pre-emerger, don't spray anything to kill the weeds, don't line up the grass, don't trim the hedges, just let it grow as a wood and just wait this summer for some big bang all of a sudden landscape your property.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know intuitively that chaos does not randomly combust into perpetual order.
[SPEAKER_00]: of Earth slightly tilted on his axis, revolving and rotating at the same time, so that you get four seasons every season, in their season, unless you live in Atlanta in his six seasons, cause we... Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fight winter and fight spring, and then real winter, and then real spring back to fight winter, now spring.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't happen anywhere else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where does one thing over time just gradually involve and to a completely different species of something else?
[SPEAKER_00]: A orange is not going to evolve into an apple.
[SPEAKER_00]: So creation is where we start, but it's not where we stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to move from Genesis 1 to Genesis 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want us to look at this passage called the table of nations.
[SPEAKER_00]: Repeat that after me, table of nations.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is where it starts to get ugly and how your race or skin color can subjugate you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis chapter 10 tells the story of Noah and it talks about the generations of Noah.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I know I'm nerdin' out, but I'm a pausing nerd out about some of those who are quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we'll come back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis is delineated by
[SPEAKER_00]: generations.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the generation of.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you will know the story is turned in when a chapter starts with this is the generation of Noah or Jacob or Abraham, when it moves through a different person to tell you the connection to that person's story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all got it?
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Genesis 10 says this is the generations of Noah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it talks about how after the flood, Noah and his wife and their three sons and their three wives, this embarked from the art and they repopulate the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you struggle with creation, you might also struggle with the great flow.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might struggle to believe that a loving God will wash the earth in anger and wrath because of a wickedness on the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in that we see a precursor to God's right to judge what he created.
[SPEAKER_00]: But his love to still preserve it all the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he preserves these four couples, Noah and his wife, their three sons and their wives, they get off of the arc, and what we learn is his three sons and Genesis 10, verse number one, these are the generations of the sons.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Noah, look at their names, shim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ham and J. Beth, do you see that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Shillm is the progenitor or the fourth parent of Semitic people.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever heard like anti-Semitic slang or slur, it derives from the name of Shillm.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we've talking about Arabs, Jews, Middle Eastern people.
[SPEAKER_00]: That shows kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you got Ham, whose name has an implication of the darkness of his skin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ham is the father we learn in Genesis chapter 10 of four African nations.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see that Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyons, three African nations, and then Canaanites.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you have Jaifei, Jaifei is the progenitor or the fourth parent for white people.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're a Pian people.
[SPEAKER_00]: After the flood, these four couples, these three, particularly, repopulate the earth and spread out to subdue the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: The way God told us to do back in Genesis chapter one, which they refuse to try to do at the Tower of Babel.
[SPEAKER_00]: So at the Tower of Babel, they said, no, we're gonna stay together.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna build a castle up to the sky.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna go see God.
[SPEAKER_00]: God said, woo, woo, woo, woo.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you, I'm gonna get y'all different languages.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you got different languages, you got different parents, group up together about how you speak, and your language will be a part of your culture, you will move the different parts of the earth, because you're gonna still do the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then we have the three progenitors of the main different people groups.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got a light, you got brown, and you got African.
[SPEAKER_00]: You all picking up what I'm putting down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Noah got upset at hand because after the flood, Noah got so drunk
[SPEAKER_00]: And he was ashamed and embarrassed because it's on hand instead of covering him, shamed him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when Noah woke up, and he got sober, he decided he was going to punish him for shaming him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he cursed him's oldest son, kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, cursed be kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from that, slavers go to the Bible and say,
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at Genesis chapter 10, verse number six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis chapter 10, verse number six says, the sons of Ham, a who-cush, Egypt, put, and came in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ham had three other sons who would not curse.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the three other sons he had who would not curse were the fathers of the African nations.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kannon was the son who was cursed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis chapter 9 verse number 18 says, cursed be Kannon.
[SPEAKER_00]: A servant of servants, he shall be to his brothers verse 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: Blessed be the Lord of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll show him, may Kannon be his servant.
[SPEAKER_00]: May God enlarge J-Fath and may He dwell in the tits of shill and may Cainan be His servant.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, how can I go and read that and come from it with the fact that for the rest of time, all Hamidic people should be under my thumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only way you can get that out of this verse is if you can't whip it to this verse with something in your heart already.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you already got a sinful sociology, it's going to be easy to have an erroneous etymology and then walk away with a tainted theology.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you run that bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you got a sinful sociology, that means socially.
[SPEAKER_00]: You already think some are better than others.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to come to this and be blinded by what you read and get an erroneous etymology.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means you're going to misinterpret the words, because you're not looking at it for what it says, you make it and say what you wanted to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you're gonna come away with a tainted theology and go tell everybody else, God told you, y'all supposed to be under us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Rav, what are you saying?
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Scripture is clear that a darkened heart, not a darkened hue is sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Being brown by the sun is not the same thing as being blackened by sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: But those who are already biggest in their hearts, we look at the blackness of skin and the soul and some kind of curse that you've been blackened by God.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's melanin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was interesting about melanin ears.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every other race can come out of the melanated bloodline, but melanin can't come out of a bloodline that they need.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's science.
[SPEAKER_00]: Scripture is clear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seeing comes from a dark heart, not a dark cue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to talk to everybody who thought your dark skin was some kind of a... Dermary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we do this to each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't we?
[SPEAKER_00]: My skin versus dark skin?
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw it in school days, then we?
[SPEAKER_00]: Look what the Bible says about where sin really comes from.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremiah 17, nine, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who can understand it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 4, 23, keep your heart with all vigilance.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible says, for from it flow the springs of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew chapter 15, verse 19 through 20, Jesus says, for out of the heart in Matthew 15, come evil thoughts.
[SPEAKER_00]: murder adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander, these are what defile a person.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fouls of person is a dark heart, not a dark in hue, so it's no wonder somebody with a dark heart become a read the curse of Cainan and assume it it applies to all of hands children.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really, this curse of Cainan was supposed to be carried out by the book of Joshua.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is why when the Hebrews went into the promised land, all the ice that were there was supposed to be removed because it was supposed to fulfill the curse of Noah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So two generations after the curse was utter, the curse should have been fulfilled.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the idea that those who are curse are even still on the earth is one that misses the fact that the kind of nights were removed from the land, way back in the book of Joshua.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you saying, Red?
[SPEAKER_00]: Black people are not cursed by God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all won't get it?
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, number two, we don't just see the origin of brown people in the scripture, let's look at number two, the influence of brown people on the storyline.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at our influence on the storyline.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the Bible is many things.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible is also not some of the things we try to force it to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, the Bible is not an answerable.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will manipulate scripture if you come up with random questions and then get mad when the Bible will answer it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not how we should use scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: One thing the Bible is, above all, is a story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let a church say story.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's in my opinion, the story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Without error, God breathed.
[SPEAKER_00]: This story of what Reverend, the Bible is the one story of the creation
[SPEAKER_00]: fall, redemption and restoration of the cosmos by God through Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I had to describe the Bible in one sentence, which is difficult to do, it is the story of the creation, fall, redemption and restoration of the cosmos.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means
[SPEAKER_00]: So who was the Bible about, Rev, Jesus?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible is not about me and the Bible is not about you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all the 66 books in the Protestant Bible find smaller context within that greater story.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason I will say the Bible is a story about time because the Bible not just about the Bible days.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about these days too.
[SPEAKER_00]: House Aura because in the first century wrote these writings talking about the end times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, until we get to the end, we still somewhere between the beginning and the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which means the stories in the Bible aren't the only stories that matters to God's big story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your story matters to brother, just because your name not David and your story when mentioned in the Bible don't mean it, don't matter what God is doing, sister.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just because your name not Ruth and your story not told in scripture, don't mean your story don't matter in eternity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody who's grateful for the fact that you serve a God who says,
[SPEAKER_00]: And it looks love, and it's value in my story too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a part of a story line, which is critical to appreciate, here's why, because liars love to control the narrative.
[SPEAKER_00]: Controlling the narrative is a part of deception.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if I can control the narrative, what you see in Don't See, what you read in Don't Read, I can keep you from discovering for yourself without me getting in your way, the truth about all they got is good.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's a lot of brown people who won't read this book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Refused to reading on the grounds that it was used to enslave our people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then our people was modern-made business, hanging out in Africa, some white folk showed up on the coast of Africa, and used this Bible to enslave them in their minds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so because of that, it's a round of black people who refuse to pick it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with rather just watch videos of people on social media talking about what's in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of reading it for yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's a tool of the master to keep us in slaying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible I preach from is not the same Bible that the master's use and slave are for parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a matter of fact, in 2018, the Museum of the Bible put on display the good book or the slave Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what's interesting is, when you look at this Bible, it has 66 books.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hear me 1189 chapters in that Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: The slave Bible only had about 200 or 300 chapters in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: which means they went to this Bible and saw Exodus, go tell Pharaoh, let my people go say, ooh, ooh, we taken that out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They saw Isaiah, the spirit of the Lord is a permit because he has an anonymity to set free those who are captain, ooh, take that out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went through and removed 900 chapters from the Protestant Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then created what they call the good book, and they use ignorance and fear and torture to make our ancestors believe that God said through this book, y'all supposed to be under us without knowing that book, who hadn't really read a real book.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you're saying, we have here's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Liars who like to control the narrative, will get files and redact the part they don't want you to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so you tell me liars have been covering up the true front of the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's how they controlled the narrative.
[SPEAKER_00]: They redact.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: because they don't want what's covered to be released because if I read it in my own intelligence, I might discover a truth they try to hide from me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Bible they used to enslave our people was a heavily redacted one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all picking up on them, put it down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the one that is God-breathed.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a big story about God's creation, the fall, the redemption, and recreation of the cosmos by God through Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And many brown-skinned people contribute to the story line.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you take the brown people out of the story line, the story follows a part.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exodus chapter 2 verse number 19, and they say it, and Egyptian, do you see that?
[SPEAKER_00]: He delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and also drew water enough for us and water of the flock.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is after Moses had killed the real Egyptian and he ran to the wilderness, where he's on the run from the law, he goes and helps get water for this flock in the middle of the desert.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a stranger.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know who Moses is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so when, when Jeterans who gave y'all this water, they said, I don't know, some African do.
[SPEAKER_00]: They turn about Moses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Moses is Hebrew, but they can't tell about looking at him that he not African.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go to Acts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Acts chapter 21, verse 38, are not thou that Egyptian, which before these days made it an up war and led us out into the wilderness 4,000 men that were murderers, they are talking to Paul.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Paul, who wrote over half of the New Testament to St. Paul, who singer-handedly took the gospel to Greece.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're looking at Paul that 13th Apostle of 12, depending upon what you want to do with Matthias.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they look at Paul and St. Brian, but I think you're not African, dude.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was calls from trouble.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they can't look at him in tail.
[SPEAKER_00]: He not from Africa.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you take Moses out and Paul out the story starts to break down, don't in church.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they are not the only ones perhaps you've heard of the group of the Keterites in scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: That name or term could dar means dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you got a baby you trying to figure out what they name them, could darl's a strong name.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's something like a judge of some don't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: You just got to make sure they dark skin, not like skiing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine, my mom and daddy like skiing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not roasting the light skin, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Codar means dark, catarites means dark skin people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's my favorite.
[SPEAKER_00]: Acts chapter 13, verse number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a man in the first century church.
[SPEAKER_00]: His name was Simeon, but he was so dark-skinned.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't call him Simeon.
[SPEAKER_00]: They called him Simeon the Niger.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that means whenever Simeon would come to worship, they wouldn't say what's up Simeon, they would say what's up, my Niger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: If Simeon started preaching, they would say preach, Niger.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that knives are preaching.
[SPEAKER_00]: If Simeon did something great, it was like a unit of knives for real, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: This I, you know, slave owners can't read good, because that's a long out with one G.
[SPEAKER_00]: How you read a long hour with one G and get a short hour with two Gs.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's Acts chapter 13, verse number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then in Jesus' genealogy and Matthew chapter one, there are four women mentioned.
[SPEAKER_00]: Father mentioned before are Tamar, Rahab, Bathsheba, and Ruth.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are a himidic women of African descent, which means if it wasn't for four black women, Jesus would have never been born.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see the origin of Brown's campaign, people in Scripture, we see the influence of Brown people on the storyline, number three, and I'm going to let y'all go and join the last week, a Black History Month, number three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at the destiny of Brown people who are saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if I haven't said it, let me just say it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christianity is not the white man's religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also not the black man's religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christianity was not created by whites and four whites.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was not created by blacks and four blacks who were not created by Asians and four Asians.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christianity is the group of people who follow Christ and therefore regardless of what demographic differences we have, we are unify to one baptism, one lower, one spirit, that's Christianity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's a destiny for brown people who are saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which means what Slayman was brought to our ancestors was not Christian at E.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a religion, a religion is always supported by ignorance, fear, and lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Christianity is people of all races and nations, coming in no God through his son Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why again, Psalm 68 says our starting verse, Princess and envoy shall come from Egypt, Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands with offerings of submission to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: long before the dark cloud of shadow slavery, poisoned the American skies, brown people will call it on Jesus all over the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: So some people ask the question real.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is our ancestors worshiped in Africa before the white people got there and got to?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I'm sure they will worship in some false idols that are not real gods, but a lot of them was already worshiping Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you're saying, well, this is what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: The white man didn't bring Christianity to Africa.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll believe me.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use some names.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the first one.
[SPEAKER_00]: His name is Turtulian.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've never heard a name Turtulian.
[SPEAKER_00]: Turtulian is a theologian who lived between 155 and 240.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, after Christ, AD.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that means he lived a thousand years, 12 hundred years before America was ever instituted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Tartulian is the one who coined the term Trinity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let the church say Trinity.
[SPEAKER_00]: We believe in the Trinity here at the White Community Church.
[SPEAKER_00]: Triune God, three in one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know the word Trinity is not in the Bible?
[SPEAKER_00]: nowhere in the Bible, do you see the Word Trinity?
[SPEAKER_00]: nowhere do you see a Hebrew or Greek origin to translate to the Word Trinity?
[SPEAKER_00]: What you see is the triune God reveals God's self through Father Son and Spirit, and it was a black man 12 hundred years before America who was reading the Bible and said, oh, I see a thread through scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: One God who subsists as three persons,
[SPEAKER_00]: What shall we call you, we shall say treat, three in one.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that doctrine of the Christian church was a black man's work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not just our tuning, here's another black theology, his name is Athanasius.
[SPEAKER_00]: Athanasius was called the black dwarf.
[SPEAKER_00]: For two reasons, he was black and he was shown.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he fought at the Council of NICA against our minions to keep the Christ of the Gospel pure.
[SPEAKER_00]: that our salvation is not by our works or anything else we could add, that a pure crystallology, Christ, very crucified, very risen, ascended and returning again, that purity that we call out now in the gospel was protected by Athanasius.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then you got a guston, and you got others who helped shape the church from Russian to an end.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's my last person, one of my favorite people.
[SPEAKER_00]: who pointed to the destiny of Brown people who were saved, the Ethiopian Union in Acts chapter 8.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've never read it, I'm going to read it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Acts 8, 27, 3, 39, I'm almost done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the story.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a man who works in Ethiopian.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a young English, I mean, he's unable to bear children.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he is sold out completely to the service of Queen Candace of Ethiopian.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Acts 8 tells us that he's an African man.
[SPEAKER_00]: He works for the queen in Ethiopia, and he's over the whole treasury for the country.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's the CFO of Ethiopia in the first century.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that this black man is a rich man because he run out of money for his country and the Bible tells us he had a chariot.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he gets in a chariot from Ethiopia all the way to Jerusalem.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know he has some 20s on that thing with full 12s in the trunk.
[SPEAKER_00]: With a peanut butter interior, with a wood grain, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hat too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, he come out of an Ethiopian to Jerusalem, don't do this, don't do it, don't do it, don't don't do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He probably had two things, go open things right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He rolling it into like, what's up?
[SPEAKER_00]: He comes to the temple of worship.
[SPEAKER_00]: He worships in the temple in Jerusalem, and he gets back in his chariot to go home and eat the opium.
[SPEAKER_00]: As he's riding home, he's reading the scroll that is the book of Isaiah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know he had money because he could afford his own copy of a scroll.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we take for granted.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can access the Bible any day in any way.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the first century, if you don't have your own bread, you can get your own scroll.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he didn't have all 66, he just had one.
[SPEAKER_00]: He shows us something.
[SPEAKER_00]: You shouldn't just go to the temple to worship.
[SPEAKER_00]: You should also read your scroll on your way home.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this black man can read.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's reading and he can understand the words but he don't understand the spiritual meaning of the words.
[SPEAKER_00]: So God calls a decant name, Philip.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure that decant was a lot like Kelvin Blacks here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a lot like Kelvin Blacks here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had to be like you, bro.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is our stand, Coleman, the psychoship of war, winner for the year.
[SPEAKER_00]: This man been showing people the way to life with Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of Thudel.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you'll imagine somebody like Blacks, you're rolling up on your cherry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you on the stand with your reading?
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know the Holy Spirit was involved because then none of them go clutch for what they was carrying.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, man, I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm reading Isaiah and I don't know is the author talking about himself or somebody else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Philip hops in the chariot and says, man, I can explain it to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from Isaiah, he preached us to him about Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: I told you the whole Bible is about Jesus, which means you can take me to any book of the Bible and we're gonna find Jesus either on the pages or between the lines.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he talked so about Jesus from the book of Isaiah and this rich African man with a good job who smart enough to read says, well, can I get baptized?
[SPEAKER_00]: Philip says, yes, a water right here, a nonstop in you from getting baptized right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: They get down out of the chair, he baptizes the Ethiopian Union, the Holy Spirit snatches Philip away and acts eight says that Unic leaves rejoicing.
[SPEAKER_00]: He got on the car, told his chauffeur, hey man, turn that music down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a song in my heart now that I ain't never had before.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'ma sing praises all the way home.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'ma go back over it real quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rich, African man with a good job and a chariot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Goes to Jerusalem.
[SPEAKER_00]: He leaves Africa to go worship in Jerusalem.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's in Jerusalem, something peaks his interest to make him read the scroll on the way home.
[SPEAKER_00]: He came to Jerusalem, a rich black African man with a good job who can read good and who was kind of religious because he went to worship, but on the way he got saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Question, why would a rich educated black man with a good job who can read good with a don't lie need to get saved?
[SPEAKER_00]: because being rich don't mean you say, Ben, black don't mean you say, having a good job, don't mean you say, just because you can read good, don't mean you say, having a don't ride, don't mean you say.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't call out the name of Jesus, I don't care who you are, where you are from, you are not reconnected back to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bridge, Darrell home.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I got all this, but all this can give me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he accepts Jesus and goes back to Ethiopia, rejoices.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you got back to Ethiopia, rejoicing, you know they asked him, well, what you're so happy for?
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause you're rich, no, cause you're African, no, cause you got a good job, no, cause you can read good, no, cause you got to don't ride with a chauffeur, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you rejoicing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause I got Jesus in my heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me show you in Isaiah about this servant who suffered for us and because he suffered, we can have peace in our heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did a white man take Jesus the Africa?
[SPEAKER_00]: No!
[SPEAKER_00]: A African man took Jesus the African.
[SPEAKER_00]: And many believe he is the father of the Ethiopian Coactic Church, one of the oldest churches, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: In the world, outside of Jerusalem.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Jesus was an Africa, 2, 100 years before slave on his God there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Jesus they brought.
[SPEAKER_00]: what in the real Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what's the destiny of Brownscan people who are saved?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me read this verse so you've been listening together and we're done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Revelation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Revelation chapter 7, let's read together the count of three, one, two, three.
[SPEAKER_00]: After this, I looked and behold, a great multitude that no one could number from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages standing before the cold and white roads.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hold up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Notice the robes are white, but the skin is still brown.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you mean, well, when I get saved, he washes me white and snow, but that don't mean I got to start acting white.
[SPEAKER_00]: The robe is white, skin is still melanated.
[SPEAKER_00]: The white robe is a sign of ethical purity.
[SPEAKER_00]: The skin is a gift from God.
[SPEAKER_00]: People of all he who's all languages are going to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be a whole bunch of brown people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's keep reading.
[SPEAKER_00]: Crowled and white robes with palm branches in their hands and crying out with a loud voice.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want some brown people from my church to be there too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give it a little to hand type of praise if you would.