read it over and over, and it's so inexhaustible every day I find such great truths.
Every week of my life, my thinking is revolutionized as I study the Bible and God shows me what the truth is.
And Father, I just pray that you would please bless everyone that's here,
that the Word of God would speak to their heart.
Father, I know that you said that your sheep hear your voice,
and so Father, I just pray that your sheep this morning would hear the voice of God
and listen to what the Bible has to say.
And in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Now, you have to bear with me a little bit, my throat is doing terrible, I'm fighting a sickness.
And on top of it all, I'm going to Chicago tomorrow,
where I think that the temperature is just horrible right now.
Did you catch what it was, Brother Dave?
It's got to be like in the 30s or 20s or something like that.
So please pray for me that my throat does not get even more destroyed tomorrow when I go to Chicago.
But it's dangerous to let tradition be the authority
of what you believe and what your doctrine is as opposed to the Bible.
Now, you may have a good tradition.
You may say, well, I was born and raised an independent fundamental Baptist as I was.
And you may say, we have great traditions.
But I'm going to tell you something, as soon as your traditions
come into conflict with what the Bible says,
it's time for you, just like the Roman Catholic, needs to submit to the Bible
and not his tradition, each and every one of us.
And in order for him to be saved even, he's going to have to realize that salvation's by grace through faith
in opposition to what his church is teaching him.
But we need to be careful also that we don't let what we've been taught
and our traditions supersede the Bible as the authority on what we believe.
None of us is above reading the Bible and being corrected.
I mean, I'm constantly reading the Bible and I'm constantly being corrected,
constantly, because I'm not perfect and neither are you.
I've not arrived and neither have you.
I don't have the sum of all Bible knowledge and I never will and neither do you.
That's only Jesus Christ has that kind of knowledge.
I believe that we'll be in heaven for hundreds and thousands and millions of years
and God will open the Bible and say,
let me preach to you something that you've never seen out of my word before
because the Bible's an infinite book.
And the subject that I'm going to talk about this morning is extremely controversial,
but what else is new?
This is faith-forward Baptist church.
And so it's controversial for a couple of reasons,
but I'm going to show you what the Bible says about this
and I make no apologies for the truth because what I believe is based on the Bible.
Now, let me read for you a few verses first.
The Bible says in Mark 7, 13, you don't have to turn there,
making the word of God of none effect through your tradition,
which you have delivered and many such like things do ye.
And then he says in Matthew 15, 4, for God commanded saying honor thy father and mother
and he that curseth father or mother let him die to death.
But you say whosoever shall say to his father or his mother is a gift
by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me
and honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free.
Thus have you made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Did you hear that?
He said you made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
And then the Bible says in the next verse, ye hypocrites will the desires prophesy of you
saying this people draw nigh to me with their lips
and for some reason I didn't write out the rest of the verse,
but he said and draw nigh to me with their mouth they said,
but their heart is far from me.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Okay, we got to be careful about that.
We don't want to fall into the category of the Pharisees
and I'm going to speak to you on the subject of race.
That's what I'm going to talk about this morning.
The subject of race, you know,
something that's been in the news a lot in the last few weeks.
These, you know, Reverend Al Sharpton, right?
And Reverend Jesse Jackson, you know,
and they get up and how old these press conferences about the race problem.
For example, and this is going to be the springboard for my sermon.
I got in the news, boy people are already mad.
I haven't even started the sermon. No, I'm just kidding.
But anyway, I got in the news, this story about Sean Bell.
Has anybody heard that name?
I don't know if you, thank God you don't follow the news.
I get it when I get on the internet, you know, it pops up the news stories.
Well, this is what happened.
There's a car in New York City and it's a bunch of guys coming out of a strip club.
I mean, a filthy ungodly place.
And this guy was on his wedding day.
Sean Bell, he's going to get married that day.
So what's he doing in a strip club? First question in my mind.
He's in a strip club doing all kinds of filthy things with his buddies
and they get in this car and they go to drive away and a lot of yelling was exchanged.
Nobody really knows exactly what happened at this point.
People are yelling, people are grabbing for weapons
and the police, five police officers, opened fire on a vehicle
and shot and killed Sean Bell, this man, and wounded some of his friends
and they fired 50 shots in there.
Well, immediately before anybody knows what really happened, you know,
these black civil rights leaders come in, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson,
and they're crying saying, oh, this is outrage.
Forget the fact that the police officers who did the shooting were also black.
Okay, that doesn't matter.
Okay, it's because they was black.
Okay, that's why they got shot.
Okay, and so the police officers who did the shooting were black, Hispanic, and white.
And so more than one of them was black and they did the shooting into this vehicle
and supposedly this is a racism. It's racism.
And so these men, I don't even know what they do.
I don't know, I used to live in Chicago.
Have you ever seen, Brother Dave, you used to live in Chicago.
Have you ever seen Jesse Jackson's mansion on the lake shore?
Okay, well, I've driven by it.
You know, it's got the J.J. and the fries.
Okay, and it's big. I mean, he's rich.
Okay, it's millions and millions of dollars.
I don't know where he gets all his money.
This is what it is, though.
Every time anything like this happens, you know, the police are doing their job.
They're trying to protect themselves.
People have guns, they shoot somebody, and they're coming out of a strip club.
They're into all kinds of sin and wickedness.
Hey, if you go to a strip club, bad things might happen to you, friend.
I don't care who you are.
And so, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson come out and they say,
oh, this poor guy's talking about, they're saying how great of a guy he was.
This is a wonderful person.
They're praying at his hospital bed.
They're praying over him.
God bless this poor young boy.
And these people say, it could have been my son.
It could have been anybody.
The police are just killing black people.
That's what they're saying in the news.
You may not have heard it, thank God.
But I want to say something about this.
Number one is the people who are creating racism
are the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of this world, period.
They're the ones who are making such a big deal out of nothing.
And you know what?
When these people get up and supposedly fight racism
by calling people names and, pour this, and pour this guy,
and we hate the police, and they're holding up signs.
I saw this morning on the news.
I don't watch the news.
I don't have a television, thank God.
But I'm talking about in the newspaper and on the internet,
there's a picture that they're holding up signs,
you know, kill the pigs, shoot back, you know,
anti-police kind of garbage.
And they're up there holding this up and yelling,
and chanting, and screaming, and rioting.
Because so-called, there's this race problem
where people are racist against black people.
Well, the real problem is the people that are doing this,
these liars, these charlatans, like they claim to be a preacher
and call themselves a reverend like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson,
who get up and basically make their money off of riling people up,
making people angry, and they get up
and hold a press conference for financial gain.
And they basically capitalize and abuse black people.
They want to keep black people in a position
where they feel like they're being abused,
because that's where they make their money,
by making them feel like victims.
But let me read to you what the Bible says,
because I'm going to tell you something, I'm not a racist at all.
And I think that a lot of independent fundamental Baptists are racist,
and that's what I'm dealing with this morning out of the Bible.
Now, I want to start out with that story,
because I want to explain to you, first of all,
that the black civil rights movement is not of God, it's wrong.
These people getting up and crying and making all these stories
about how this poor guy, and he's being abused,
and everybody hates us, and poor us.
And I'm going to tell you what the Bible says, this is what the Bible says.
Look at Acts chapter 10,
and we're going to see what does the Bible say about the race problem.
What does the Bible say about race?
And don't let preconceived ideas determine what you believe.
Let's see what the Bible says.
Look at Acts chapter 10, verse number 28.
And I don't want to give my opinion this morning,
I want to give what the Bible says.
Look at Acts chapter 10, verse 28.
The Bible reads, and he said unto them,
you know how that it is an unlawful thing
for a man that is a Jew to keep company,
or come unto one of another nation.
But God hath showed me
that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Do you see that?
Now look if you would down at verse number 34.
The Bible says, then Peter opened his mouth and said,
of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.
But in every nation,
he that feareth him and worketh righteousness
is accepted with him.
So God is not a respecter of persons.
God doesn't care what nationality someone is from.
God says that everywhere in every nation,
he that doeth righteousness is accepted with him.
Now is every black man that comes out of a strip club
accepted with him?
No.
And if he walks out of a strip club,
if he's got a gun and the police gun him down
for whatever reason,
I'm going to just side with authority
because the power is to be ordained of God.
And I don't know what happened.
To be honest with you,
I don't know who was right and who was wrong,
but I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon
of somebody who's trying to defend wicked sinners
and ungodly gang bangers in New York City.
I'm going to side with the police
who are trying to protect people.
Now look at the next verse that I want to show you,
Acts chapter 17.
But you see that everyone who works righteousness
is accepted with God.
God says, nation?
It means nothing to me.
And he says, don't call somebody unclean or common.
He says, don't be a racist
where you look at somebody of another race and say,
well, that's unclean.
Get away from me.
Don't shake my hand.
That's wrong.
God says it's wrong.
Look at Acts chapter 17.
The Bible says in Acts 17, verse 25.
Acts 17, 25.
Neither is worshiped with men's hands,
speaking of God,
as though he needed anything,
seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things,
and hath made of one blood
all nations of men,
for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and hath determined the times before appointed
and the bounds of their habitation.
See, God does not give preferential treatment
to a certain race of people.
Did you know that the word race
is not mentioned in the Bible one time?
Now the word race, like let us run with patience
the race that is said before us,
but as far as being a group of people,
the word race is never used.
What's the word that God keeps using?
You probably noticed it,
because we've looked at it in about three different passages.
The word that God keeps using is this word, nation.
Did you see that?
Now, in the book of Genesis,
we start out with basically two groups of people.
We start out.
There's pretty much the descendants of Seth,
who are righteous,
and pretty much the descendants of Cain,
who are ungodly and wicked.
Then they end up amalgamating,
and basically everybody becomes wicked,
and only one man is righteous left on the earth.
That's Noah.
Then after Noah's ark happens,
and you know that whole story,
when they get off the ark,
Noah has three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And then the earth is populated from those three sons,
and what happens?
God had told them to subdue the earth,
be fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth,
and he wanted them to spread out and be divided,
not to be in one central location.
But what did they do?
They decided that they were all going to stick together.
They said, we don't want to be scattered abroad
in Genesis chapter 10.
And they said, we don't want to be scattered abroad.
We want to stay right here.
I'm sorry, Genesis 11.
And so they built a tower
that it may reach into heaven.
They said the Tower of Babel,
and God looked down and he said,
you know, I'm going to disperse them like I wanted to.
Now, before the Tower of Babel story,
and I'm hurrying because there's so much material in the sermon,
at the end of Genesis chapter 10,
God said that he wanted to delineate people
into nations, into families.
That's what he says in the last two verses of Genesis 10.
In chapter 11, they said, no, we're all going to be together.
And he said, I'm going to divide them.
Now, did God divide people by race?
No.
God divided people into nations.
A nation is a political organizational unit.
God did not divide people into races.
He divided them into nations and into families.
Now, God believes in separate nations,
not the one world government, not United Nations,
separate nations, separate families, and separate churches.
That's why we're an independent Baptist church.
Separate churches, separate nations, separate families.
That's why we don't believe in communal living.
We believe in separate families.
Now, when God divided them up,
he said, wait a minute, Pastor Anderson,
there's three races, and this is what the racism teaches.
There are three races they teach
that has to do with Noah's three sons.
They say the three races are Ham, Sem, and Japheth.
You know, Ham being the black race,
Sem being the Semitic people from the Middle East and so forth,
and Japheth being the European, the white blood.
But I'm going to tell you something.
That is so wrong and so not true.
First of all, there's no basis in the Bible.
Nowhere in the Bible does the word race even occur.
Number two, if you want to take the nation of Israel,
God's chosen people in the Old Testament.
God's chosen people were divided into 12 tribes, if you remember.
And if you know the Bible a little bit,
you'll know that the largest tribe was the tribe of Ephraim.
There were 12 sons of Jacob.
Joseph, because he excelled above his brethren,
was given the double portion.
And so he was given double tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Two tribes came out of the loins of Joseph.
And so those are called the half tribe of Manasseh
and the half tribe of Ephraim.
The half tribe of Ephraim was bigger
than any other of the 11 tribes of the children of Israel.
Now, think about this for a moment.
Who did Joseph marry?
Joseph married an Egyptian.
He married the daughter of Potipharah, the priest of Aaron.
That's what the Bible teaches in Genesis.
So that means that Joseph's children, Ephraim and Manasseh,
were half from the Ham side, right?
The race of Ham, the black side from the Egyptian side.
And they were half from the Semitic side of his father Israel.
So the very nation of Israel, two of the tribes minimum,
and you could prove from the Bible
that some of the other men also had wives
that were not of the descent of the line of Shem.
Even Ephraim and Manasseh were half Hamitic and half Semitic.
I mean, that's the truth.
And on and on you can see from the Bible
that this does not hold water, this truth.
Now, where did racism come from?
Where did the idea of one race being better
than another come from?
Well, I'll tell you where it came from in modern day,
came from Charles Darwin.
Let me read for you the title of a book
that Charles Darwin wrote.
Maybe you've heard of it.
It's called The Origin of the Species.
But let me tell you the full title.
It's been conveniently shortened to The Origin of the Species.
Let me tell you what it was really called.
I just saw today a duplication
of the original first print cover
and this is what it said on the cover.
The origin of species by means of natural selection
or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.
Did you hear that?
So why did they shorten it to The Origin of the Species?
Maybe they should just shorten it
to The Preservation of Favored Races.
Maybe then it wouldn't be as popular of a book anymore.
Maybe then they wouldn't feed it down the throat
of every kid in public school
if it was called The Preservation of Favored Races.
But that's what the book's called.
It's called The Origin of the Species
by Means of Natural Selection
or this is the other title
or, and this says all of it on the front,
books used to have long titles,
or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.
And if you read the book, which I don't recommend doing,
of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species,
he says that black people
are the lowest evolved human beings on the face of this earth.
So where does racism come from?
It comes from evolution.
It comes from an anti-God philosophy
that says that people started out in Africa.
Ask any evolutionist where life began.
They'll tell you Africa.
Is that true?
Any evolutionist will tell you that life began in Africa
is where the human race started.
Now, does anyone realize the hypocrisy
of these liberals who are anti-God?
You think Al Sharpton believes
in literal creation from the Bible?
You think he believes the King James Bible?
You think Jesse Jackson believes
that God created the heaven and the earth in six days
and that he created everything that was therein
and that he breathed into man's nostrils,
that he formed out of the dust of the earth
and gave him life
and made all nations of the earth of one blood?
No, my friend.
They believe in evolution
because they're godless, God-hating liberals.
And I'm going to tell you something.
They're hypocrites
because the biggest proponent of racism in the world
is evolution.
I was taught in school.
It originated in Africa.
I remember I worked at a pizza place
and I had a buddy there.
He wasn't really a buddy because he was unsaved,
but I worked with him there.
And I worked with him a lot and he's a nice guy
and I would try to get him saved.
I'd give him the gospel constantly.
And I said to him, he's a black man.
And he was very much into science.
He was a very brilliant scientist.
He was in college.
He's a manager, actually, at the pizza place.
And he's a very smart man, very intelligent.
And I said to him, I said,
You know what?
I said, You're giving me this atheism
and this evolution stuff.
I said, Did you know that evolution teaches
that I'm more evolved than you are
and that evolution teaches that I'm better than you
because you're closer to the monkey?
And he's like, Yeah, I know.
And I said, That's stupid.
I said, What are you talking about?
I mean, do you actually think
that I'm a better race than you?
Do you actually think that you're more like
on the animal kingdom to me?
I said, It's ridiculous.
It's stupid.
It's wrong.
And that's where racism originated in the 1800s
to say it was probably just a justification
for treating black people wrongly.
You know, for putting them into slavery,
for treating them subhuman.
Because they say, Well, they're not human.
And that's what people used to teach
when evolution first came out.
They said, Well, black people are not human.
They're closer to the animal kingdom.
It's a lie.
It's a lie out of hell.
And I'm going to tell you something.
It has no business
in an independent fundamental practice search.
People being racist against black people.
But I will say this.
I'll blame the racism on the very people
that are supposedly decrying it.
The people who get up and cry about it.
Oh, we need rights and everything.
Look, this is what I believe
and this is what the Bible believes.
There's no difference is what God says.
And so should black people
get preferential treatment above white people?
No.
But should white people get preferential treatment
above black people?
No.
Like somebody asked me before,
What do you think about segregation?
You know, and I said, I'm against it.
And I said, What about integration?
I'm against integration.
You know, where they purposely are mixing the race.
I'm against that.
I'm for freedom.
I'm not for affirmative action.
And I'm not for racism.
Because God said, I made all nations of the earth
of one blood.
And he said, the person who does righteousness
is accepted with me.
And he who does unrighteousness,
I don't care what color his skin is,
is going to be condemned.
And so it has nothing to do with the fact
whether somebody is white or black.
It has to do with the fact
whether they're righteous or not.
But let me move on in the message to something else.
Look, if you would, at Colossians chapter three.
I'm going to show you a few scriptures on this.
Colossians chapter three.
And I'm just teaching this subject
doctrinally a little bit.
What the Bible has to say about people of different races.
Look at Colossians chapter three.
And look, if you would, at verse number nine.
The Bible reads in Colossians three nine.
Lie not one to another.
See, you have put off the old man with his deeds.
And it put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created him.
Now, I've taught this recently in many sermons,
but how when you got saved,
God created a brand new creature
called the new man.
Brand new creature.
Totally new creature.
He didn't change the old man.
The old man is still there.
He created the new man.
And then when you die one day
or when the rapture occurs,
the old man will be gone forever.
He'll be dead forever.
And the new man will receive a brand new body.
And then so on.
We've taught all that.
But he says that the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created him,
where there is neither Greek nor Jew.
Circumcision nor uncircumcision.
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free.
But Christ is all in all.
See, the new man has no race.
That's what he's saying here.
He's saying the new man is neither Jew nor Gentile.
Neither bond nor free.
Neither, he's not Scythian, barbarian,
Jew, Greek, it doesn't matter.
He said the new man is created in Christ Jesus.
And that's all.
I was thinking about this verse.
Isaiah 56, seven.
And you don't have to turn there.
But the Bible says,
even then will I bring to my holy mountain
and make them joyful in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
shall be accepted upon mine altar.
For mine house shall be called
a house of prayer for all people.
Did you hear that?
He said, people from other nations
can come and bring an offering to my altar
because my house shall be called
a house of prayer for all people.
This house, Faithful Word Baptist Church,
is a house of prayer for all people.
You say, I was talking to Brother Hutchison
last Sunday morning, and he said to me,
he said he was out soul winning
on the west side of Phoenix.
And he was out soul winning
and he invited somebody to church
and it was a black man.
And the black man said,
oh, are you talking about the white church
down there on this and that?
And he's like, well, no.
I mean, it's like a red brick building.
And he literally didn't even realize
that that's what he meant.
I mean, he wasn't trying to be a smart aleck.
He thought they meant like a white building.
He's like, well, no.
He's like, it's red.
It's got bricks.
And the guy just kind of looked at the body.
But yeah, white church.
Hey, this isn't a white church.
This is a house of prayer to all nations.
And I'm going to tell you something.
It's wrong to have a church
that's just geared toward one race.
It's wrong.
I don't care if you,
well, only Chinese people can come here.
It's wrong.
So this is a black church.
Black people come here, Baptists.
And then the white church is down the street.
That is wrong.
And you say, what's the answer to the race problem?
I'll tell you what the answer to the race problem is.
It's not Al Sharpton.
It's not Jesse Jackson.
It's not Martin Luther King Jr.
The answer to the race problem
is to get somebody born again
and saved and baptized
and then say, sit down next to me in my church
and be with me in the house of prayer for all nations.
And we can be brothers in Jesus Christ
because we're both saved and born again
and God's our Father.
That's the answer.
The way that you're going to have peace
between the races in this world
is only through salvation through Jesus Christ.
And so all this talk about all the civil rights movement
is not the answer.
The answer is the Jesus Christ movement.
And if you have the civil rights movement
advancing the liberal agenda of evolution,
godlessness, not believing the Bible,
you're going backwards, my friend.
And that's why these men are dragging us backwards.
We wouldn't even know that there was a race problem
if they weren't constantly reminding us of it.
The anti-God left-wing liberals that preach this stuff
and they're the ones promoting the evolution
of where racism comes from.
They're the ones that are not promoting
the gospel of Jesus Christ
which is the real answer to the problem.
Salvation through Jesus Christ.
Let me read you another verse.
John chapter 10, the Bible says,
I am the good shepherd and I know my sheep
and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father
and I lay down my life for the sheep.
This is John 10, 16.
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold.
He's referring to the nation of Israel
because he's preaching right now while he's on this earth.
He was preaching to the nation of Israel.
He said, other sheep have I.
He says, which are not of this fold,
them also I must bring.
And they shall hear my voice
and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
You see that?
He says there's going to be one fold and one shepherd.
This fold right here is one fold for all nations.
Everyone is welcome here.
Every race is welcome in this church
even though that's not even a biblical concept.
Every nation is welcome in this church.
This is the house of prayer for all nations.
And of course I have some other things I have to skip
just because I'm running out of time.
But of course, and you ask me,
what do you think about interracial marriage?
Show me in the Bible where interracial marriage is wrong
because it's not.
There's nowhere in the Bible
that says that interracial marriage is wrong.
But the Bible does say,
be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
That's what the Bible says.
And the Bible teaches in the Old Testament
that if a person wanted to join the nation of Israel
from any race,
all they had to do was that the males had to become circumcised
and they could join the nation
and they would be treated exactly as if they were born in the country.
Now, there were certain nations where God put certain restrictions
where he said that they have to wait a few generations
before they can be fully accepted into the nation of Israel.
But it wasn't any kind of a genetic color thing.
It was just they had to adhere
to the principles of the nation that they were going to.
They had to be circumcised.
They had to keep the Passover.
They had to keep the laws of God.
That's what the Bible teaches.
And so the difference of who you should marry
should be based on whether they're a believer in Jesus Christ,
not on what color their skin is and what their race is.
And it's so hypocritical because the people who teach this,
and if you don't agree with me, that's fine,
but I'm just preaching what the Bible teaches
because if you can show me in the Bible
where interracial marriage is wrong,
then I'd believe it in a heartbeat.
I'll believe anything you show me out of the Bible.
But I'm going to tell you something.
The people who put forth this idea
that interracial marriage is wrong,
they're very selective because they will allow marriage
between an Asian and a white person,
just not black and white or whatever.
They draw the lines where they want to draw it.
You know what I mean?
And so it's hypocrisy is what it is
because the Bible says he's made all nations
of the earth of one blood and no man's common or unclean.
And there's so much I can go into that subject.
I want to get into something else a little bit
and I'm running out of time.
And so I'd love to show you all kinds of scriptures
in the Old Testament about that subject,
but I'm running out of time.
But turn if you would to Genesis chapter 12
and this is where I'm really going to lose people.
You're like, good night.
You've already lost everybody.
Genesis chapter 12 and look at verse number one.
And Genesis chapter 12 verse number one,
the Bible reads in Genesis 12 one.
Now the Lord had said unto Abram,
get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred
and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee.
And I will make of thee a great nation
and I will bless thee and make thy name great
and thou shalt be a blessing.
And I will curse them.
I'm sorry and I will bless them that bless thee
and curse him that curses thee
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Okay, you see that?
Now what does it say here?
Who's he talking to?
Abraham.
He says, I'm going to make of thee a great nation.
He says, I'm going to bless thee.
He says, I'm going to make thy name great
and thou shalt be a blessing
and I will bless them that bless thee
and curse him that curses thee.
And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
And I'm going to go against something
that has been taught to me my entire life
by people who don't know the Bible.
And they taught me that an unbelieving Jew in 2006,
if I curse them, God will curse me.
And if I bless them, God will bless me.
I'm talking about unsaved Israel.
I'm talking about the nation of Israel,
the part of it that has rejected God.
Supposedly this blessing falls on them.
Well, let's see what the Bible says.
Let's put aside tradition.
Let's see what the Bible says.
Look at Hosea chapter number one, verse nine.
Hosea chapter number one, verse nine.
And this is right at the end of the Old Testament,
right after the book of Daniel,
the first of the Minor Prophets.
Hosea chapter number one, verse number nine.
The Bible reads here in Hosea 1.9.
Then said God, everybody there yet Hosea 1.9?
Then said God, call his name, lo am I,
for you are not my people and I will not be your God.
Yet, and here's the key verse, verse 10.
Yet the number of the children of Israel
shall be as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured nor numbered.
And it shall come to pass that in the place
where it was said unto them,
you are not my people.
There it shall be said unto them,
you are the sons of the living God.
Okay, now flip over if you would to Romans nine,
where we began reading this morning.
I hope you'll bear with me.
This kind of doctrinal preaching is important
because we're living in a day when people are ignorant
of what the Bible teaches.
And they're basing what they believe on tradition
in many cases, and they're not seeing what the Bible says.
Look at Romans nine, verse 22, where we read this morning.
What if God, willing to show his wrath
and to make his power known,
endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction, and that he might make known
the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy,
which he had afore prepared unto glory,
even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only,
but also of the Gentiles.
Now look at the next words.
As he sayeth also in Ozi,
now Ozi is the New Testament pronunciation of Hosea, okay?
So we're talking about the passage that we just read in Hosea.
As he sayeth also in Ozi,
I will call them my people, which were not my people,
and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass that in the place
where it was said unto them, you are not my people,
there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Now look at verse 24.
You have to see the Bible here.
In verse 24 it says, even us whom he hath called,
not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles,
as he sayeth also in Ozi.
So when God said in Hosea, he's saying,
it's not the Jews that are my people.
He's saying, I'm going to call them that were not my people,
referring to the Gentiles.
He says, I'm going to call them my people.
And he says that exactly right here.
And it says, I'm going to say to them
that were not my people, you're my people,
to the Jews and the Gentiles.
Because in verse 27 it says, is I us also,
this is Romans 9, 27, quiet concerning Israel,
though the number of the children of Israel
be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.
Now that's the key verse right there.
A remnant shall be saved of the children of Israel.
Look at verse number 30.
What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness even the righteousness
which is of faith.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,
had not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore?
Because they sought it not by faith.
And then look at verse number 1 of chapter 10.
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel
is that they might be saved.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God,
but not according to knowledge.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness
and going about to establish their own righteousness
have not submitted themselves under the righteousness of God.
Look if you would at verse 20 of Romans 10.
But his eyes is very bold and sayeth,
I was found of them that sought me not.
I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
But to Israel he saith, all day long
I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying
people.
I say then, have God cast away his people?
Romans 11, 1.
God forbid, for I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham
of the tribe of Benjamin.
God has not cast away his people, which he foreknew.
Watch he not what the scripture saith of Elias, that's Elijah,
how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Lord, they have killed thy prophets
and digged down thine altars, and I am left alone,
and they seek my life.
But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee
to the image of Baal.
Even so then, at this present time also,
there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
And he said, what does all that mean?
That was a little bit of heavy reading.
Explain that to me.
I'll explain it to you right now.
God says that in the Old Testament,
he chose a man named Abraham.
He chose his seed after him, which is Jesus Christ.
And he brought a blessing on Abraham, saying,
I'll bless him that blesseth thee,
and curse him that curseth thee.
And that nation of Israel was God's chosen people
in the Old Testament, God's elect.
And they were supposed to be a light to the Gentiles.
But what happened?
They rejected the truth.
They rejected God.
And the Bible says that they sought it not after
by faith and grace.
It says that they thought it was by the works of the law.
And so they basically rejected Jesus Christ.
They were trying to establish their own righteousness
instead of submitting themselves to the righteousness of God,
being saved by faith in Jesus Christ.
But he said there's always a remnant of Israel
that believes on Jesus Christ
that's the true seed of Abraham.
You say, what are you talking about?
Well, back in Elijah's day, we just read about it.
Elijah said, God, I am the only prophet
who still is preaching right.
I'm the only preacher who believes on Jehovah God,
the Lord Jesus Christ as God.
He says, I'm the only one left.
And God said, no, Elijah, you're not the only one.
He says, I've reserved unto me 7,000 men
who've not bowed the knee to Baal.
And he says, by them, Israel is going to be saved.
And what happened, of course, Ahab led those 7,000 men
into battle against the Syrians and won the battle.
That's what happened.
But see, God has a principle throughout the Bible.
There's always a remnant.
Never in the history of the nation of Israel, listen to me,
never in the history of the nation of Israel
was the majority saved and right with God.
Never.
It was always a remnant.
It was always the minority because broad is the way
which leads to destruction
and many there be that go in there.
And narrow is the way that leadeth unto life
and few there be to find it.
And so there's always a remnant.
Israel's constantly going against God.
But there was always a righteous remnant
whether the crowd was for Jehovah
or whether the crowd was for Baal,
they were always kind of like I was thinking about
Brother Colby's book that he's writing about the Baptist,
the history of the Baptist.
Look, whether the Catholics were in power
or the Protestants are in power,
there was always the believing remnant,
which is what he's illustrating in his book.
There was always a righteous remnant of born-again
Bible-believing Baptists who never bowed down to Baal.
They never bowed down to the mother whore Catholic Church.
They never bowed down to its harlot children
of Protestant religion.
They were always believing the Bible.
There's always been people who will write
and believe the Bible.
And God says even now this day,
he says even though the nation of Israel
rejected Jesus Christ
and God has said the Gentiles are going to be my people,
those that believe out of the Jews and the Gentiles,
he said there's still a believing remnant
of literal Israelite Jews who believe on Jesus Christ
and Paul said I'm one of them.
He said God has a remnant in verse number five
that says according to the election of grace.
He says the election, election means chosen,
the election, the chosen people are the people
who are saved by grace through faith,
Jews and Gentiles.
So you say who is God's chosen people in 2006?
The Jews, right, the nation of Israel, wrong.
The God's chosen people in 2006
are born-again believers in Jesus Christ,
whether they're Jew, Gentile, white, black.
We're the chosen people.
A saved, born-again black man is more God's chosen people
than an unsaved Israelite is not God's chosen people.
The blessing, bless them to bless you
and curse them to curse with you,
I'd apply that and God would apply that,
I'm going to show you that in a minute,
to the black man who believes on Jesus Christ.
If you curse him, you'll be cursed.
If you curse the person of another race
that's a born-again believer in Jesus Christ,
you'll be cursed.
If you bless him, you'll be blessed.
If you bless me, you'll be blessed.
If you curse me, you'll be.
If I curse you, you're a believer on Jesus Christ,
you're saved, born-again, you're God's people.
If I curse you, God will curse me
and if I bless you, God will bless me.
You say wait, wait, wait, you know, but we bless the Jew.
Some unsaved Jew Pharisee who hates God,
who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets,
as the Bible says of the Jews,
and are contrary to all men,
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles
that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins all the way,
for the wrath has come upon them, the Jews,
to the uttermost.
Study your Bible, it's in 1 Thessalonians 2.
And so God says the wrath has come upon them
to the uttermost because they killed Jesus,
they killed their prophets, they persecuted us,
and he says they're contrary to all men,
the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
You see, the Jews today are not God's chosen people
and you say that's not, I was taught my whole life
in Baptist church they're God's chosen people.
I don't care whether you were taught that or not,
the Jews are not God's chosen people, period.
The election of grace is God's chosen people.
Born again, saved Christians from Jew, Gentile,
are all God's chosen people.
He said I'll call them my people that were not my people
and he says I'll be their God and they'll be my people.
Now look if you would at another passage.
Well let's continue in Romans 11 quickly.
Look at verse number six
and I know this is kind of a heavy doctrinal sermon
on a Sunday morning, but you know what?
We need to learn the Bible.
We need to not be ignorant.
The Bible says my people are destroyed
for lack of knowledge and no,
this is not your feel good vitamin
that you get on Sunday morning
so that you can just make it through the rest of the week.
No, this isn't so you can make it
through the rest of the week,
this is so you can make it for the rest of your life
when you know the Bible and when you know what God says
and when you're filled with the Holy Spirit of God
through what the Bible teaches,
you can make it for the rest of your life,
not just make it through the end of the day.
It's oh, I feel so good, I came out of church.
But look if you would at verse number six.
And if by grace,
this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible, I love this.
And if by grace, then it is no more of works
than my salvation.
He's talking about, actually what he's talking about
being God's chosen people is by grace.
He says, and if by grace, then it is no more works,
otherwise grace is no more grace.
But if it be of works, then it is no more grace,
otherwise work is of no more, isn't that funny?
He's like, can I make it any clearer
that the opposite of grace is works?
You see how he's doing that?
He's trying to make it real simple.
He says, and if by grace, then it is no more of works.
No more of works.
There's no works involved in salvation whatsoever.
He says, otherwise grace is no more grace.
But if it be of works, then it is no more grace,
otherwise work is no more work.
Don't you understand that it's either faith,
it's either grace or it's works.
The Jews believe it's works,
Christians believe it's grace,
Christians go to heaven, they're God's people,
the Jews who are unsaved go to hell,
but there's a righteous, believing remnant of Jews,
even in 2006, who believe on Jesus Christ,
they're God's chosen people.
Unbelieving Israel is not God's chosen people.
Despite what Baptist preachers may say,
this is not true, you can't find it in the Bible,
I'd love for you to show me in the Bible.
Look at verse number seven, what then?
Israel has not obtained that which he seeketh for,
but the election hath obtained it.
So who's the elect?
Is it Israel?
No, he just said Israel had not obtained it,
and the election has,
because the election is God's chosen people,
born again believers of all races.
And then the Bible says, and the rest were blinded.
And then it just goes on to say how they're blinded
and God prophesied that they would be blinded.
But look at verse number 11.
I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall?
God forbid, this is Romans 11, 11.
But rather through their fall,
salvation has come unto the Gentiles,
for to provoke them to jealousy.
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world,
and the diminishing of them, the riches of the Gentiles,
how much more their fullness?
He's saying, man, I want to get the Jews saved.
He says, let's get as many Jews saved as we have,
let's get everybody saved.
How much more shall be their fullness?
He says, let's get them back into being God's chosen people
by winning them to Christ one by one.
For I speak to you Gentiles,
and as much as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,
I magnify mine office.
If by any means I may provoke to emulation
them which are of my flesh, and might save some of them.
He's saying, I really want to get some of my relatives,
the Jews saved, because Paul was a Jew.
And he says, for if the casting away of them
be the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?
For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy,
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches be broken off,
he's talking about the unbelieving Jews,
the unbelieving Israel.
He says, if some of the branches be broken off,
and thou being a wild olive tree,
he's saying, you're a Gentile,
being a wild olive tree were graft in among them,
and with them partakest of the root
and fatness of the olive tree,
boast not against the branches.
But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then the branches were broken off,
that I might be graft in.
Well, because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou standest by faith, be not high-minded but fear,
for if God spared not the natural branches,
take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God.
On them which fail severity,
but toward thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness,
otherwise thou also shall be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graft in, for God is able to graft them in.
Again, what's he saying?
He's saying, unbelieving Israel was broken off of God's olive tree,
and Gentile nations that accepted the gospel were graft in.
But he says, just as easily as a Gentile nation,
like say the United States, who's graft into all three,
you know, Christian nation, and we're being blessed by God,
he says, as soon as we turn from Jesus Christ,
he said, we'll be broken off just like they were.
And that's what's going to happen to the United States.
And he said, Israel could be graft in again,
if they would accept Jesus Christ,
so we should try to evangelize them.
That's what he's saying.
But you see how your presence in the olive tree
has nothing to do with who you were born.
It has to do with whether you're believing in Jesus Christ.
And so he says a little bit further down,
look at verse number 25.
For I would not, brethren,
that you should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest you should be wise in your own conceits,
that blindness in part is happened to Israel
until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in,
and so all Israel shall be saved,
as it is written, there shall come out of Zion,
the deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob,
for this is my covenant unto them
when I shall take away their sins,
as concerning the gospel,
they are enemies for your sakes,
but as touching the election,
they are beloved for the Father's sake,
for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
For as ye in time past have not believed God,
yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief,
even so have these also now not believed,
that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy,
for God hath included them all in unbelief,
that he might have mercy upon all.
He says my goal is to get everybody saved,
Jews or Gentiles, he says the Jews have rejected it,
he says it's gone to the Gentiles,
but he says, he basically says that the Gentiles
could be used by God to reach the Jews,
is what he's saying,
and he's saying he wants everybody to be saved.
Now a lot of people will misuse this verse
which says all Israel shall be saved.
See this verse in, let's see, I just had it.
Look at verse number 26,
and so all Israel shall be saved.
They say that in the future there's going to be time
when every single person in Israel gets saved.
That is not true.
They say all of a sudden
just everybody in Israel is going to get saved.
Does that sound like the Bible?
Does that sound like a personal choice
where people get saved?
No, but look if you would back,
flip back a few verses to Romans 9
and you'll see the answer to this.
Let me find my scripture here.
Look at Romans chapter 9.
It says in verse number 6,
look at, I'm sorry, Romans 9, 6,
give me a second to find my verse.
Not as though the word of God has taken none effect,
for they are not all Israel
which are called Israel, or which are of Israel.
Do you see that?
For they are not all Israel which are of Israel,
neither because they are the seed of Abraham
are they all children,
but an Isaac shall thy seed be called.
He goes on to show the picture
that Isaac was the son of Abraham
according to the promise.
Ishmael was not of the promise.
He represents Jews who believe in work salvation.
They're not Israel.
God says they're not blessed.
They're not my people.
Look if you would now,
I'm going to show you even more clearly
and I'm going to close with this.
I'm going to show you a few last scriptures.
Look if you would at Romans 4.16.
Flip back in your Bible to Romans 4.16.
Look at Romans 4.16.
The Bible says,
therefore, it is of faith
that it might be by grace to the end
and the promise might be sure to all the seed.
Not to that only which is of the law,
but to that also which is of faith of the faith of Abraham
who is the father of us all.
So every believer in Jesus Christ,
Abraham is their father.
That's what the Bible says.
It says he is the father of us all.
Now flip over to John chapter 8.
I'm sorry, look at Galatians 3.
Galatians 3, go forward in your Bible
towards the end of the Bible.
Look at Galatians chapter 3
and see this doctrinally from the Bible.
Galatians chapter 3 verse number 6.
Galatians 3.6.
And this is a very important doctrine.
I'm going to explain all of it in a minute,
look at Galatians 3.6.
Even as Abraham believed God
and it was accounted to him for righteousness,
know ye therefore that they which are of faith
the same are the children of Abraham.
So who are the children of Abraham?
The people who have faith in Jesus Christ
are the children of Abraham.
Read it again.
Even as Abraham believed God
and it was accounted to him for righteousness,
know ye therefore that they which are of faith
the same are the children of Abraham.
And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify
the heathen through faith
preached before the gospel unto Abraham
saying in thee shall all nations be blessed.
So who is the blessing for?
The blessing I'll bless thee and cursing I'll curse thee.
Is it for the Jews or is it for all nations?
It's for all nations, you see that?
He says that in all nations be blessed.
So then they which be of faith
are blessed with faithful Abraham.
You see how simple this doctrine is?
They're blessed with faithful Abraham.
For as many as are of the works of the law
are under the curse, so who is cursed?
The ones who believe that the works of the law
say them the Pharisees
which are the modern day Jewish religion, Judaism,
the rabbis, they're the Pharisees.
Tradition, works, the law.
And he says, cursed is everyone that continues
not in all the things which are written
in the book of the law to do them.
Look at verse 11.
But that no man is justified by the law
on the side of God it is evident
for the just shall live by faith.
And the law is not of faith
but the man that doeth them shall live in them.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law
being made a curse for us
for it is written cursed is everyone
that hangeth on a tree
that the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles.
You see how simple this is?
Did you know that this is not
Baptist doctrine in 2006?
Now it used to be Baptist doctrine
but in 2006 this is not Baptist doctrine.
Baptist doctrine in 2006 modernism teaches
that the blessings for Abraham
were for Abraham and for the Jews
and that we have to bless unbelieving Israel
and that those promises cannot be applied to us today.
Oh, that's talking to the Jews.
That's not for you.
Hey, it's for me, friend.
I'm saved, born again Christian.
Every promise in the book is mine.
Every chapter, every verse, every line.
That's a great song.
I used to sing when I was a kid.
I forget the tune.
But the Bible says here
that the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles.
Look at verse 14.
I mean, let the Bible be the authority
through Jesus Christ
that we might receive the promise
of the Spirit through faith.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men.
There will be but a man's covenant,
yet if it be confirmed,
no man, this, and all,
throw at it thereto.
Now to Abraham and his seed
were the promises made.
You say, oh, that's the Jews, right?
He sayeth not and to seeds as of many,
but as of one and to thy seed,
which is Christ.
That's where the blessing is.
You see that?
And this I say that the covenant
that was confirmed before of God in Christ,
the law which was 430 years after
cannot disannul
that it should make the promise of none effect.
For if the inheritance be of the law,
it is no more of promise,
but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
And on and on he's going on and on
just talking about how it's not by the law,
it's by faith.
So look if you would to
verse number 23.
For before faith came,
we were kept under the law.
Shut up unto the faith
which should afterwards be revealed.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us unto Christ
that we might be justified by faith.
But after that faith is come,
this is Galatians 3.25,
we are no longer under the schoolmaster,
for ye are all the children of God
by faith in Jesus Christ.
For as many as you have put on,
I'm sorry, for as many of you
as have been baptized into Christ
have put on Christ,
there is neither Jew nor Greek.
Are you reading this?
There's no neither Jew nor Greek.
There is neither bond nor free.
There is neither male nor female,
for you're all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you be Christ,
if you be Christ,
then are you Abraham's seed
and heirs according to the promise.
The Jew that is not Christ
is not heir to the promise.
That's what the Bible says.
And one last place, John chapter 8.
Turn to John chapter 8,
and I'll close with this.
John chapter 8
is the final passage that we'll turn to.
John chapter 8, the fourth gospel.
John chapter number 8.
And look if you would at verse number 33.
John chapter 8.
The Bible says in John chapter number 8,
verse number 33,
They answered him,
We be Abraham's seed,
and were never in bondage to any man.
Hallows sayest thou,
You shall be made free.
Jesus answered them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin.
And the servant abideth not in the house forever,
but the son abideth forever.
If the son therefore shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed.
I know that you're Abraham's seed.
Remember, they just told him that.
I know Abraham is your progenitor.
He says, I know that you are Abraham's seed,
but you seek to kill me
because my word hath no place in you.
I speak that which I have seen with my father,
and you do that which you have seen with your father.
They answered and said unto them,
Abraham is our father.
Jesus sayeth unto them,
If you were Abraham's children,
you would do the works of Abraham.
But now you seek to kill me,
a man that hath told you the truth,
which I have heard of God,
this did not Abraham.
You do the deeds of your father.
Then said they to him,
We be now born of fornication.
We have one father, even God.
Jesus said unto them,
If God were your father,
you would love me.
So first he said,
If you were Abraham's children,
which you're not.
Now he's saying,
If God were your father,
you would love me,
for I proceeded forth and came from God,
neither came I of myself,
but he sent me.
Why do you not understand my speech,
even because you cannot hear my word?
You are of your father, the devil,
and the lusts of your father you will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning
and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of his own,
for he is a liar and the father of it.
And I had to leave out literally half my sermon,
because there's so much on this subject.
I mean, I just want to read to you
whole passages of the Bible about this subject,
because it's so clear in the Bible.
God said, Jesus Christ said on this earth to the Pharisees.
He said, You've made the word of God
of none effect through your tradition.
Paul said you didn't seek it after faith.
You didn't think it was by believing on Jesus Christ.
You thought it was by tradition, by the word.
He said, Think not to say within yourselves
we have Abraham to our father,
for I say unto you that God is able of these stones
to raise up children unto Abraham.
And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the tree.
Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down and cast into the fire.
He says, I don't care if you're a Jew.
I don't care if Abraham's your father.
He said, Your real father is the devil,
because you don't believe the truth of the gospel,
because your preaching works salvation.
He says, I don't care what color your skin is.
I don't care if Abraham is your progenitor.
Abraham is not your father,
because your father is the devil.
He said, God is not your father.
Abraham's not your father.
He said, I mean, tell me something.
Does it sound like Jesus is blessing them
or cursing them right now?
It sounds like he's cursing them.
He says, How can you escape the damnation of hell?
You generation of vipers, you serpents,
you hypocrites, woe unto you.
You make them twofold more the child of hell as yourselves
when you go and make these proselytes to Judaism.
He says, You are under the curse,
because you think justification is by works.
He says, You're under the curse of the law.
That says, cursed is everyone that continued not
in all the words that are written in this book.
You are cursed.
You're of the devil.
Now, let me ask you something.
Did God curse Jesus for cursing them?
No.
Did God curse Paul for cursing them?
No.
Did God curse Peter when he said,
You with wicked hands crucified the Lord of glory?
Did he curse them?
No, because he doesn't curse those who curse
the Jews who are unbelieving Israel who have been broken off
the olive branch.
He curses those who curse God's people and God's people.
I don't know how else to make it any more clear to you
this morning.
I mean, I feel like if anything I've
belabored the point that God's people are the people whose
faith is in Jesus Christ.
I mean, could it be any more good?
Who is Abraham's son?
You're looking at him.
Go look in the mirror if you're born again
and you're Abraham's son.
Father Abraham had many sons.
Many sons had father Abraham.
I am one of them and so are you.
So let's just praise the Lord,
write our hymn song.
Hey, look, the children of Abraham are born-again believers.
Now, could a Jew be a child of Abraham?
Absolutely.
If he's born again, if he's part of that remnant,
that righteous remnant, he is saved like Paul was,
like Peter was, like John was.
But by and large, the nation of Israel has been broken off.
Now, I don't know if that's popular.
In fact, I know it's not popular.
But I don't care if it's popular because it's not
what the Bible teaches.
And I'm going to tell you something.
And this is where you say, what does that have to do
with the first part of the sermon?
Let me put it all together for you.
You curse some kind of a black man
who's a born-again believer just because you don't
like the color of his skin.
You will have the curse of God on you.
You want to talk about who's God's chosen people?
The Jews?
No.
God's chosen people are the races that you don't like,
the people that are born-again and saved in those races.
That's God's chosen people.
And if you curse them, God will curse you.
And if you bless those, and if you are welcome to anybody
who walks through that door, regardless of their color,
regardless of their race, regardless of their nation,
if you are a blessing to them because they're
a fellow believer in Jesus Christ,
because you love the brotherhood,
you don't love La Raza.
You don't love, you know, that's what it's called.
You know, the Hispanic magazine in Phoenix?
La Raza.
That means the race in Spanish.
So, they're racist against us as white people.
And there are people that are racist against Mexican people,
of course, that are white people.
It's something that all unbelievers are racist
because they're evolutionists and because they don't
understand what the Bible teaches to love everybody.
And so, La Raza, that's my brotherhood.
No, my brotherhood is those that are born-again.
My brotherhood is those that are blessed with faithful Abraham.
My brotherhood is those who have a common father of Abraham
and a common father of Jesus Christ.
That's the brotherhood that I love.
And God says, love the brotherhood.
I love my brother and my sister in Christ Jesus
who are born-again, black, white, Hispanic.
You say, good night, all these Hispanic people.
Hey, look, I love Hispanic people.
You know what?
I'm thinking about my two best friends right now.
I'm thinking about my three best friends.
You know, one of them's white, one of them's Hispanic,
and one of them's black.
Those are my three best friends in the world
I can think of right now.
One of them's white, one of them's Hispanic,
and one of them's black.
You say, wow, you're just perfect multiculturalism.
No, it just happened that way.
But the point is, hey, do I feel separated
from my black brother?
No, because we're both saved.
We're both born-again.
We're both children of Abraham.
He's like a close relative.
But you know, the white man who rejects Jesus Christ,
I'll hang around with the black man who's with Jesus Christ.
And you know, if this church is filled up with black people,
I'd be shouting from the rooftops, praising the Lord.
If it's filled up with Hispanic people from Phoenix here,
I'd be shouting glory to God.
And if you would prefer for a white person
to walk through that door than for an Asian person
or a Hispanic person or a black person
to walk through that door, you are not right with God.
And you don't understand the Bible.
And you have been brainwashed by people
who don't love other races because they do not have,
they're not walking in the new man
because the new man doesn't know the difference between race.
The new man says, well, we're all God's children.
We've all been created if we're saved.
You know, we're the new man.
And so the new man is a new creation
and he's not bound by these racial lines.
And so the answer to the race problem, number one,
is Jesus Christ's salvation through Jesus Christ.
Not rallies, not holding up signs, not protesting.
No, it's the gospel is the answer.
And number two, don't let anybody tell you
that the blessings of the Old Testament are not for you
because I think you've seen this morning that they are.
So when you're reading through the Old Testament,
when you're reading through the book of Genesis,
and God says, surely blessing I will bless thee
and multiplying I will multiply thee,
just jump up and say, glory to God.
God is gonna bless me.
God is gonna multiply me.
And you say, amen, right?
My wife's got number four on the way, glory to God.
And obviously there's a spiritual multiplication
where you're winning souls and bringing forth fruit.
And so God's gonna multiply me.
And then you get to the part where he says,
surely blessing, I'll bless them that bless you
and I'll curse them that curse you.
Say, glory to God.
I can walk down the street with the belief
and the feeling and the confidence
to know that God is with me.
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
God's chosen people, saved, born-again Christians.
He says, you can walk down the street
and know God is on my side.
If God be for us, who can be against us?
We're more than conquerors through him that loved us.
And when we walk down the street,
somebody who curses us,
the lady who called me this morning
and screamed at me 15 minutes before the service on the phone
because she didn't like the flyer that we put on her door.
Hey, that lady that screamed at me,
I don't think she's being blessed by God today.
I'll be honest with you.
I mean, I don't wish anything bad on her at all.
I hope she gets saved
and then I hope that she joins this church, you know?
Yeah.
I do, honestly, you know I do.
But, does she have the blessings of God this morning?
She's under the curse.
You say, wait a minute, I know that lady
and her last name is Goldstein
and she's, look, she's not being blessed by God this morning
because she's not born again
and because she is not blessing God's people.
She's cursing God's people, literally, okay?
Cursing God's people over a telephone
and she is not blessed with faithful Abraham.
She's under the curse.
And so get your doctrine right
and you say, well, man, that flies in the face
of everything I've ever heard,
everything I've ever believed.
Well, go home and read the Bible
and you'll see that it's true.
And get the tape and you can listen to it again.
And it'll be the same that time, too, as it was right now.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, I thank you so much for using the word of God.
Dear God, it's kind of a sermon that was just put together.
There's so much information.
It was so hard to put it together
but I know there's a great truth that I wanted to deliver
and Father, I know it's just an earthen vessel
that you use to deliver it.
But Father, the word of God, it's powerful.
And Father, help us to dress like we know
that we're part of the royal family of God, because we are.
Help us to dress like we're children of God.
Help us to speak like we're children of God.
Help us to carry ourselves in such a way
that would be worthy of Jesus Christ
being his representative, his ambassador.
And God, please just help us to just understand
that the promises of God are to us.
Every promise in the book is mine.
Every chapter, every verse, every line.
Glory to God.
Thank you so much for a book full of exceeding
precious promises, as the Bible says.
Please just help us to...