Martin Luther King referred to Sunday as being "the most segregated day in America."
Truer words were never spoken.
A few years ago I was preaching and Cheap Tyrell Williams Jersey , Lord, help me, my opening words were, "Look around. What do you see? I see a church full of white people." The Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and others.... they'd all been there, but we had holes in our net and hadn't been able to keep 'em. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God is like a net, catching ALL kinds of fish..." (Matt 13:47) and that includes black ones, brown ones Cheap Trevor Williams Jersey , red, yellow, Protestant and Catholic, young, old, male and female.
As Americans, we often project an imperialistic attitude that the rest of the world detests. Regarding American CHRISTIANS, I've often heard and read of third world pastors telling how they only wish they had the money the Americans raised to take their "missionary journeys" so that they could better care for their own families and congregations... purchase bibles and study tools, attend seminary. Can we even imagine a group of half naked primitives coming into our churches to share the latest "revelation" God had given their tribe? Yet we spend a fortune crossing the pond for these "life changing" (whose life?) short-term missions experiences. Don't get me wrong, I believe in missions Cheap Desmond King Jersey , most especially those geared toward helping the sick and the children, but I've heard too many stories from missionaries who admitted they felt they made NO difference on their missions trip and from Nationals who could have used a nice healthy love offering instead.
I once taught a Sunday school class to a room full of mostly Black African pastors, their small frames lost within their too-large, out-of -date suits and ties. Between them, their congregations ranged in the area of 40,000 people. These humble men were taking notes, asking questions, hanging on my every word. I don't know about them but, for me, THAT was life-changing! God bless those who were wise enough to fly these African pastors to the USA so they could return home and teach those with whom they already had relationship (key word).
Regarding this so-called "white man's religion Cheap Michael Schofield Jersey ," it's true that some mistakenly believe Christianity is the religion of Whites in the same way others consider Islam to be the religion of the Blacks. Folks, Hosea 4:6 declares, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...." Let us strive to KNOW the truth for the Scripture says, "they shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free,"(Jn 8:32). What you're about to read, I believe, will be VERY liberating.
THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR ANCESTORY
Black Christianity did not start in America with the slaves that converted to their master's religion. Genesis 10 shows us where all the races originated. The Black lineage is presented by family, languages, locations and nations. The Bible tells us, in Genesis Cheap Russell Okung Jersey , that everyone began with Adam and Eve. EVERYONE! Genesis 2:7 tells us Adam was made from the earth. Science has proven that we're all made from the same materials as are found in the earth. The Hebrew word for Adam is Adahm, meaning "red" or "from red earth."
Yes, Adam was a person of color!
After the flood, it was Noah and his kids that populated the earth (Acts 17:26; Gen 9:18,19). His sons were named Ham, Shem, and Japheth. These names mean Black, Dusky and Bright, or "fair," respectively. Biblical historians agree that Ham is the ancestral father of the Black races - the Mongoloids Cheap Virgil Green Jersey , Egyptians, Ethiopians, the Canaanites, and the Indians. From Shem descended the Jews, Arabs and Persians. From Japheth came the Greeks, Caucasians, Russians, the Indo-Europeans.
One Black son out of three? Well, we don't know exactly HOW dark the pigment was of the other two but, is that possible? With God Cheap Mike Pouncey Jersey , ALL things are possible. Face it, if YOU were the Supreme Creative Being, wouldn't YOU get creative when making people and animals?
Look around. Look in the mirror... God's been VERY creative. Medical research tells us it IS possible to have children that are very different in color, especially if one or both parents are dark-complexioned, but it's impossible for a fair complexioned person to produce a dark-skinned child. So, for Noah to have fathered a "black" son, he or his wife had to have been dark-skinned, too.
Logically speaking.
Noah's son, Ham, father of African and Black races Cheap Isaac Rochell Jersey , had four boys... Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan, Genesis 10:6. Cush was father of the Ethiopians (Gen 2:13; 10:6) and the people living within Asia and Africa. Cush means "black" and Ethiopia means "man witha sunburned face." Jeremiah13:23 says, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin...?"
Mizraim fathered the Egyptians and his name means "children of the sun." Eventually, they even started worshipping it, but that's another story. Ham is derived from the Egyptian name "Kam," the srongest word in the Egyptian language for "black." The book of Psalms refers to Egypt as "the land of Ham" (Ps 78:51; 105:23, 26. 27; 106:21,22). Phut was father of the nation of Libya Cheap Darius Philon Jersey , (Ezekiel 27:10; 38:5; Jer 46:9 and Nahum 3:9). Libya means "black" also.
Ham's youngest son was Canaan, cursed by Noah in Genesis 9:20-26. Though we've all heard of Ethiopia, Egypt and Libya, strange how there's no Canaan today. Note: Contrary to the teaching of SOME, it was NOT the entire black race that was cursed, only the Canaanites, because of Canaan's sin. They were the original inhabitants of Israel (1 Chr 4:40) but exist no more. My, how they could have been blessed! Yes, there ARE long-term consequences for sin, affecting even our descendants.
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