Racism

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

The word "race" is not in the Bible.  Nor is the word "racism" in the Bible.
 
I asked God about this and I heard:  "Jews and Gentiles"
 
(And we know from the Bible that the Jews, the children of Israel, were the chosen people of God, but God made a way for the Gentiles to be come to God through faith.)
 
Racism is basically hatred of individuals who are of other races.
 
We who are of God are one with all individuals who have the Spirit of God.  Race is not a factor for us.  Being born again by God by HIS Spirit is that which makes us Christians.  And we follow HIS Spirit producing the fruits of the Spirit by doing that which the Holy Spirit shows us to do.  And one of the fruits produced by the Spirit of God is love which is opposite to hatred.  It is not that we try to love.  We love because we are of God and God has given us HIS Spirit and another heart which causes us to love in situations where once we hated.
 
People who are not of God follow the feelings produced by their own flesh, by the nature of man.
 
Galatians 5
 
16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
 

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,



20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,



21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.



22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,



23 Meekness, temperance:

 

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Several years ago, a professional basketball player legally changed his name to "World Peace."
 
He appeared on the basketball court wearing a jersey with his name, "World Peace", printed on the back of his jersey.
 
A few weeks later, this same player was suspended from NBA for fighting during the basketball game.
 
New years resolutions are often made by worldly people only to be broken.
 
The NFL (National Football League in USA) has started printing on the back of helmets the words:  End racism  And on some helmets we see the words:  Stop hatred
 
But no man nor organization of men can legislate the heart of man.
 
Only God can do that!
 
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Genesis 6
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
 

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.



12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth.

 
Ezekiel 36   God says:
 

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.



27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.

 
John 3   Jesus says:
 
3 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
(We cannot understand things of God unless God shows us HIS truth.)
 

5 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.



6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.



7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

 

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Man cannot change by his own will.  He must be changed by God into a new creature.
 
II Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
 
God gives HIS children new hearts and a new Spirit, the Spirit of God, to live inside each child of God.
 
By the Spirit of God each of us change from within by the will of God.
 
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I Corinthians 2:14   But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
 
So the natural man goes on doing those works of the flesh:
 
The organizations like the NFL can make rules and suspend violators or fire violators or threaten violators, but the NFL rules cannot change man's heart.  God changes the heart of man.
 
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