Grace Bible Church Glorifying God by Making Disciples
Grace Bible Church Glorifying God by Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
One Blood, One Race Overcoming Prejudice - Selected Scriptures • While there are great improvements since the 1960's, racial tensions are worse in some ways than then • We are required to declare our “race” for many, many things in which ethnic heritage has no relevance
One Blood, One Race Overcoming Prejudice - Selected Scriptures • Currently, there are unbiblical ideas being promoted in evangelical churches in regard to race • Our goal is to Glorify God by Making Disciples of Jesus Christ - including conforming culture to Christ
Creation – Day 1 God Created: *The heavens *The earth *Light *He separated light & darkness Day One Genesis 1: 1 -5
Day 2 God makes an expanse in the midst of the waters. He separates the waters above & below the expanse He called the expanse Heaven Genesis 1: 6 -8
Day 3 a - Genesis 1: 9 -13 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”
Day 3 b - Genesis 1: 11 -13 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind”
Day 4 Genesis 1: 14 -19 God makes the sun for the day and the moon for the night. He also makes the stars in the sky
Day 5 – Genesis 1: 20 -23 God creates all the living creatures of the sea God creates all the birds of the air
Day 6 – Genesis 1: 24 -31 • God creates all the land animals & man
Day 7 God rests from all His work. He blesses the seventh day and makes it holy. Genesis 2: 1– 3
Creation Genesis 1 • Ignoring or neglecting God as creator removes man’s accountability to God & allows for evolutionary ideas
Sin – Genesis 3 Eve was deceived by the serpent. Adam also ate & mankind fell into sin
Cain murdered Abel
Adam to Noah The Fall (Age at death) ADAM (930) SETH (912) ENOSH (905) KENAN (910) MAHALALEL (895) JARED (962) ENOCH (365–God took him) METHUSELAH (969) LAMECH (777) NOAH The Flood
The Genesis Flood - Genesis 6 -9 • Man became so evil God destroyed the world by a flood Water source: The Fountains of the deep & Floodgates of the sky Rain falls forty days.
A World-Wide Flood • Noah & his family found grace in eyes of God, so they built the Ark for themselves and animals to survive
After Departure from the Ark Genesis 8: 21 -22 • Noah offered burnt offerings (vs 20) • God promised no future flood
The Tower of Babel Genesis 11: 1 -9 • Man disobeyed God by settling together to build a city & tower & name
The Tower of Babel Genesis 11: 1 -9 • God confused their language causing them to spread out over the earth as commanded
The Descendents of Shem Genesis 10: 21 -31 Lud Eber m a r A Ashur El a m Ha Dik Ophir la vi lah A Abi rpa ma el chs ha Shal aph d Sheba Havilah h Obal za a H h a m r t ve
Descendants of Ham = Ham Africans are Hamites, but not cursed Canaanites Pu Cu sh aim zr Mi Ca na an t Raamah Sh e Cu ba sh De da n
Tarshish Descendants of Japheth =Japheth Meshech Gom er Rip hat h Magog al b Tu Tiras Javan Kitti m Ashke naz h a Togarm Mad ai
Genesis 9: 18 -19 The Bible recognizes that there are different peoples, tribes and nations – all of one blood
PREJUDICE • Small gene pools allow for the expression of recessive traits the great morphological diversity now seen
Human Height Differences
Skin color is complex, but all people are simply different shades of brown due to amount of melanin Skin Tones-Nat Geo 01769
Human Hair Colors
Human Hair Types
Human Eye Colors
Human Eye Shapes
Human Hands & Feet Shapes
Human Ear & Nose Shapes
PREJUDICE • Sin, selfishness and pride result in the common idea that those similar to yourself must be better • Common familial history can create strong bonds of loyalty as well as hatred of enemies
PREJUDICE • Darwin’s thesis advanced the idea of competing races which fueled prejudice and bigotry between groups • Webster: Race - distinct group that share certain inherited physical characteristics
PREJUDICE • Biology / evolution: Race = “subdivision of a species” / genetic group competing for dominance
Evolutionists believed races evolved from ancestral types so that some races are “primitive”
Ota Benga
PREJUDICE • Evolutionary racism has been used to justify exploitation, oppression and genocide
Man’s Solutions Multiculturalism • Fails because: 1) Not all cultures are equal. 2) Hyphenated-American creates more conflict
Man’s Solutions War • Fails because: Ø Annihilates the enemy or ØForces assimilation - which if not total, creates breeding ground of revenge
Man’s Solutions Segregation • Fails because: Ø Reduces conflict by physical separation, but breeds animosity and resentment
Man’s Solutions Desegregation • Good if law changes allow it voluntarily • Causes resentment when forced
Man’s Solutions Affirmative Action • Fails because: Ø Only changes who is discriminated against creating new injustices
God’s Solution 1) All humans are descended from the same two parents - we are all one blood, one race - the human race • The Bible exposes the lie of evolutionary history, and good science demonstrates it to be a hoax
God’s Solution 2) God made man in His image giving man inherent worth 3) The bondage of sin has been broken by Jesus Christians are to be slaves of righteousness, not sin 4) Our identity is bound up in Christ, not self or ancestors
God’s Solution 5) Christians are to be humble servants of one another Philippians 2: 3 -4 It will take time for a new Christian to mature, but all Christians are being conformed to the image of Christ
God’s Solution 6) The barriers between nations, tribes, class & gender are broken in Christ - Eph. 2: 19; Gal. 3: 29; Col. 3: 11 • Ephesians 2: 11 -22 - Jesus broke the wall separating Jew & Gentile so Gentiles can receive God’s grace
• It is wrong for Christians to group themselves by ethnic heritage, skin shade or any other genetic factor • God is glorified in a multiethnic, multicultural church for only He can bring about such harmony
• The local church will reflect its community if its focus is the gospel & conformity to Christ, not culture • We are one blood. • There is only one race - the human race. • In the church, we are one in Jesus Christ.
Grace Bible Church Glorifying God by Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
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