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The Issues of Race & Religion

Creflo Dollar

November 11, 2020

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Taffi Dollar: Jesusintentionally came to elevate
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And so, regardless ofyour gender, your race,
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your class, you can operateand receive the Holy Spirit,
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and be a beneficiaryof his plan,
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Taffi Dollar: There is so muchthat God has made available
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to all of us so that we canbegin to operate in the zoe
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kind of life and thehighest form of life.
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Look over at 1 Peterchapter 2, verse 9.
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We're gonna look at thisand The Message translation.
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I like how this isinterpreted here
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in 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 9.
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"But you are the chosen--
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You are the ones chosenby God," referring to you.
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He says, "You are theones chosen by God,
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chosen for the highcalling of priestly work."
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Think of that.
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You mean to tell me I don'thave to be a male?
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I don't have to become a manin order to be chosen now?
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I can be female andI can be chosen?
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I can be chosenand not be Jewish,
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is that what you're saying?
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Absolutely, he says youare the ones chosen.
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You are the ones chosen by God,chosen for the high calling
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of priestly work, chosento be a holy people,
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God's instruments to do hiswork and speak out for him,
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to tell others of the night andday difference he made for you
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from nothing to something,
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from rejected,he says, to accepted.
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And so, this is the beautyof what we can experience
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as a result of Jesuscoming into our lives.
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Now, let's go alittle further here.
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We want to look at what itsays concerning this privilege
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over in Galatianschapter 4, verse 7.
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Turn there with me and justwant to walk you through areas
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where the Bible mentions thisword so we can understand
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what we have received.
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And he says, "But when thetime arrived that was set by God
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the Father, God sent his Son,born among us of a woman,
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born under the conditions ofthe law so that he might redeem
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those of us who have beenkidnapped by the law.
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Thus we have been set free
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to experience ourrightful heritage.
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You can tell for sure that youare now fully adopted as his own
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children because Godsent the Spirit of his Son
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into our livescrying, 'Papa, Father!'
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Doesn't that privilegeof intimate conversation
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with God make it plain
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that you are not aslave, but a child?"
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So, we have thisprivilege now
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of intimateconversation with God.
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I don't have to go througha male priest in order
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to have intimateconversation with God.
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Now, because of Jesus, I canhave a relationship with God.
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And he says, andhe makes it plain,
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that we are not a slave,but now we are children.
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We are his child.
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And if you are a child, hesays you are also an heir
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with complete accessto the inheritance.
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So, that is good news becausenow we can have access,
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that we can equally accessGod, that we can go to him.
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You know, when my kidscome over to my house,
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they don't ask can theygo on the frigerator?
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You know why?
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Because they knowthey have access.
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They go in the cupboards,
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they go and get whatthey want, why?
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Because they recognize theirrights and their privileges.
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And so he says now that weunderstand and that Jesus
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has made it plain thatyou are not a slave,
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but a child, he says, you'realso an heir with complete,
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complete accessto the inheritance.
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And so, the inheritancenow is not just limited
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to the male offspring, it'snot just limited to the son,
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but now as a result, we,as the body of Christ,
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are all able to be heirsand not just heirs,
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but the Bible sayswe are joint heirs
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with complete accessto the inheritance.
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Turn over to Ephesianschapter 2, verse 16.
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I hope this is becomingclearer and clearer on this area
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of privilege because I want usto know that we are blessed,
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and that we have access,and we have this capacity,
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this competency, freedom,supernatural ability,
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power, right, and strength.
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So, in chapter 2 in TheMessage translation,
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look over there at verse 16.
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He says, "Christbrought us together
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through his death on the cross.
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The Cross got us to embrace,
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and that was theend of the hostility.
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Christ came and preached peace
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to you outsiders andpeace to us insiders."
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So, those who wereoutside of the law,
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those who were not a partof the original covenant,
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who were broughtin to be an outsider,
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the Scripture sayshe preached peace
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to you outsiders andpeace to you insiders.
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Look at what he says next.
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"He, referring to Christ,"treated us as equals."
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Think of that.
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He treated the womanequal to the man.
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He treated the Gentileequal to the Greek.
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He treated the slaveequal to the free.
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Just like when welooked at last week,
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the Apostle Paul, whenhe referred to Onesimus.
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He says, "Don't look at himany longer as a slave,
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but look at him as your brother,
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for he is profitable unto you,"over in Philemon.
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And so, he says hetreated us as equals,
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and the Scripture says he madeus equals, made us equals.
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I love that, the factthat we are in Christ
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by grace through faith.
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Now, when we say equality, we'renot talking about sameness,
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we're talking about the fact
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that now we stand inChrist on equal ground.
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Through him,referring to Christ,
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I'll read that again, hetreated us as equals
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and he made us equals.
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Through him, we both sharethe same spirit and have
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equal access to theFather, equal access
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because we have the sameSpirit, the Holy Spirit,
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that comes on the inside of us.
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Through Jesus Christ,we, share we receive,
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we are partakers ofthe same Holy Spirit.
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You know, there's not adifferent Holy Spirit
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for women from men.
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There's not adifferent Holy Spirit
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for the Jews to the Gentiles.
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There's not a different HolySpirit for those who were slaves
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and those who are free.
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There's not a differentHoly Spirit for the blacks
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and different onefor the whites.
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There's not a differentspecie, you know,
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between what's a blackman versus a white man.
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He says we are one specie.
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He has made us one in hisimage, in Genesis chapter 1,
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and after his likeness.
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God made man after hisimage and after his likeness,
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and entrusted himwith the authority,
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and with the dominion, andthat authority and that dominion
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belongs to those whoare sharing of him
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and receiving of his spirit.
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And so he says andthrough him, we both,
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outsiders, insiders,were treated as equals,
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and so made us equals.
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Made equal becauseof what Jesus did.
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Jesus intentionally cameto elevate the status,
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and to bring us to a point wherethere's a level playing field.
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And so, regardless ofyour gender, your race,
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your class, you can operateand receive the Holy Spirit
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and be a beneficiaryof his plan,
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of his promises, and be ableto receive the inheritance
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that Jesus died for us to have.
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And so, I love this inchapter 2, verse 16,
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and really want youto understand this fact
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that we have equal access tothe Father regardless of race,
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and regardless of gender,and regardless of classism.
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So, in essence, whatthat does, it does away
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with the spirit of racism,the gender distinction,
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the class distinction becausenow that we are in Christ,
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we are a new specie.
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Old things are passed away,all things have become new.
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He says there are nodistinctions in Christ,
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but that we are one.
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Male nor female, bondnor free, Jew nor Greek,
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because we are Abraham'sseed, the Scripture says,
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and we are heirs accordingto the promise of God.
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So, we have to renew our mindsand see ourselves as equals,
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understand thathe made us equal,
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giving us equal access,that we are one body
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with different gifts,different functions,
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different assignments, differentgraces, that it is diverse,
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but yet we are all one.
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Many members, many functions,but yet the Scripture
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says we are all tofunction together because
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we have this ability todemonstrate to the world, and
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the world is to be peripheralto the body of Christ.
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And so, once we understandthis, we recognize it,
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all our privilege, notjust the Jewish privilege,
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Jesus elevated thestatus of us all,
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all who were deniedaccess under the law.
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Jew--Jews and menwere privileged under
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the Old Testament,under the new,
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all in Christ have unreservedaccess and privilege to God.
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The Gentile, men, womenpoor, all have access to God
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to elevate their status,to receive their capacity,
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their competency, the ability,whatever God places
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on the inside of them, thegifts, that they're able to do
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what God destined andcalled for them to do.
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And as a result, we arebeneficiaries of that.
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And so, under the New Testament,
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the status of womenwere elevated to that
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of the privileged Jewish menwith rights and privilege, amen?
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Now, let's go a little furtherhere and let's look at how
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we can approach Godbecause we have this privilege
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in Hebrews chapter 4, verse 16,Hebrews chapter 4, verse 16.
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Now, I dare to just kind ofinterject something right here.
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I found this cartoon, and itkind of illustrates how there's
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a dichotomy and a differencebetween being in Christ versus
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being viewed upon basedon the color of your skin.
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And so, I want us tojust kind of look at this
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for a quick second becauseit's vital for us to understand
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that God has alwaysbeen after equality,
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because of Jesus's coming,making us equal,
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but yet the world andthe body of Christ
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has gotta come to a point wherewe see one another as equal.
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And so, this first tothe left on the top,
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you'll see just the differenceand the history of black
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and white relations in the USA
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where you see thewhite gentleman
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on the back of theblack man here.
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And then he says,"For your good."
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And then we see arepresentation of slavery,
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how slavery startedin this nation,
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and upon slavery, somany things occurred.
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Wealth was created,
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our nation became one ofthe wealthiest in the world.
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And then this next slidehere, this next picture,
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it says how this whitegentleman was on the back
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of the black man, andhe recognizes it here.
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And then on the third one, he'sstanding on the black gentleman
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who is there on the ground,and the black guy is saying,
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"Get off me."
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And then on the fourth oneto the bottom on your left,
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you see the white gentlemanstanding on the head
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of the black guy here.
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It says, "Enough is enough,I'm getting up."
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And then further on in thismiddle one here on the bottom,
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it talks about how, "I'm reallysorry about being racist,"
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I know that's a loadedword, "before I knew better,
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but I know better now."
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And so, we see the elevation andthe separation between the two.
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This is what happens whenthere's not the renewing
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of the mind and when wedon't begin to see each other
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as equals, and howthe field is not level,
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how it becomes unequal.
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Superiority cameinto being, quote unquote
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white privilegecame into being,
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and then we see here atthe end where it says,
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"Give me a hand."
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Well, you--he says,"Of course not.
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That would be reverse racism."
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But I want us to seethe progression here,
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you can take that down,because I want us to recognize
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that once the body of Christreally begins to embrace
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the differences and understandthat, through Christ,
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that we are all equal and thatwe are to stand side by side,
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and there has to bean acknowledgement
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of what is takingplace up to this point
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so that we can realizethat we are one,
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and that your black brotheris equal to your white brother,
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the Gentiles, accordingto the Scripture,
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they are part of thefamily of God,
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part of Abraham's seed,
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those who were once consideredslaves are now free.
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And so, we are to be concernedand we should show care
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concerning the body of Christdeveloping and maturing,
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and not allowing racial--gender,classism things to cause us
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to be separated, andto recognize that God
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has endowed usall with privilege
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and so that privilege
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is so that we can be onebody and one family.
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And so, this privilege alsogives each and every one of us
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continual access to Godwhere we can all go to God.
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And so, in Hebrewschapter 4, verse 16,
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I want us to lookat this privilege
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that we all have oncewe are in Christ.
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And so, the superior mindset,thinking more highly,
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an exaggeratedopinion of yourself,
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has to be brought down low.
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The mindset that saysbecause I am white,
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or if I am majority,or the silent majority,
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or whatever the case may be,
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that I think higher ofmyself than what I should.
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No, the Scripturesays to think soberly.
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And he says, you know, notto fall behind in any gift,
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not to think thatbecause you're,
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you know, may have comefrom poverty or come
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from marginalized situations,that you are any less
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because we all have theprivilege to access God
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and access his plan forour lives so that the body
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can show that we are one.
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We're not divided.
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We're not competing.
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We're not trying to ignore theneeds and the oppressions
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of one another, but we arebearing each one's burdens.
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We are concernedabout one another.
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We recognize eachother's strengths.
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We recognize areaswhere we're weak,
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and as a result, weprovide that support.
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And so, the body can be strongand the body can model love.
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The body can modelforgiveness, and love,
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and oneness, and unity.
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And so, these are thingsthat I think are so pivotal
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in these days and times inwhich we live concerning race,
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and rule keeping, and religion.
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There's a lot of religion,but yet at the same time,
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we have to demonstratea personal relationship
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with Jesus Christ, and not touse religion to become political
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and things like that,but to recognize
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that it's about apersonal relationship.
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And so, here it is in Hebrews,
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and I want us to look at this,
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"Let us therefore come boldlyunto the throne of grace,
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that we may obtain mercy,
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and find grace tohelp in time of need."
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So, we can approach God.
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We continuously can go to God,
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and we can recognizethat he is ready.
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Now, I'm gonna read thisfrom The Message translation.
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He says, "Now that we knowwhat we have--Jesus,
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this great High Priestwith ready access to God."
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Jew, Greek, bond, free,bond, free, male, female.
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"Let's not let it slipthrough our fingers.
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We don't have a priest who isout of touch with our reality.
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He's been throughweakness and testing,
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experienced itall--all but the sin.
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So let's walk right up to him
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and get what he isso ready to give."
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And so, I think we're gonnabring this to a close,
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and I really wanted you tounderstand this morning
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this area of privilege, andhow Jesus went about
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intentionally empowering,delegating, liberating,
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all those so that theycan be in a personal,
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intimate relationship with him,those who believe on his name.
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