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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermon series from doctor Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth,
(00:26):
then bending.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To the pressures of the world.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This series is our thanks for your gift to help
keep the proven truth of God's Word reaching you and
others around the world through this program. So be sure
to request your copy of The Church Awake when you
give Just call one eight hundred three five oh Walk
one eight hundred three five oh nine two five five.
(00:49):
Now let's get started with today's teaching from Dr Young.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You could be anti racist, but you'll never reach the
goal until you're seal categorize like that, a leader of
Black Lives Matter said a matter of public record, anyone
who waives an American flag. By definition, whomever you are,
you're racist. Everything is tragically defined by racism.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
This is the woke. History is defined by the color
of your face. How different that is.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
From doctor Martin Luther King's understanding of the racial challenges
we had in America then, and we progressed a great deal,
as doctor Carson has said, but we still have some
ways to go. But how far that we have come?
You see, he would tell us, as we know, the
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color of your face doesn't determine your character and who
you are, and really you'll discover doesn't say much about
you and me. Did you know that all all of
our physical assets, ears, nose, mouth, body make up zero
point zero one two of who we are? Is that
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any big deal about you or about me? That color
is all important of your skin?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Go to Korea?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Fly over Korea and I am told that you see,
no Korea is totally dark at night. Go at night
it almost totally are almost no light at all in
North Korea. Go to South Korea and just lights everywhere.
It's South Korea. It's progressive, they're fluent, there's freedom, and
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arguably the most Christian nation on the earth.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Go to North Korea. What do you find? The very opposite?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You find the dictatorial leadership of a godless family. You
find right is determined by might you define a military enemy?
When people are starving education is practically none existence, and
they live almost as slaves.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
In North Korea.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You say, well, the difference is the color of their skin,
the melanin Well, you go to Korean. You see in
North Korean, my goodness, the color of their skin and
their eyes look so much like a South Korean. Have
you noticed, but one country is in darkness in every
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way the other country is in light in every way.
The difference is not the color of their skin. The
difference is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Woke history would have every thing defined by the color
of your face. Human history is the.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Find by grace the name Martin Luther King Jr. Who
was Martin Luther. Martin Luther was a revolutionaire who said,
we're not saved by good works, and I'm better.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Than you, and I do more than you, and God's
going to rank us up there.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He said, from the passage of Ephesians three and many
other places. Your salvation, my salvation, is based on grace
by faith in Jesus Christ. And that is the gospel
that Doctor King preached through out his life. He said
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in a sermon shortly before he died that he hoped
that people would know one thing about him he genuinely
loved everybody. What a different thing. No salvation.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You're born white.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Doctor King said so when it smu what the Bible
says about all of these factors.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Saved by grace. And then the last point. God's history
is defined by the absence of race.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Have you ever heard anything like that in your life?
Let me tell you something. Follow me carefully. You want
to read more about this, read ken Ham's book. He's
developed it beautifully, beautifully in a biblical framework. There's only
one race, ladies and gentlemen. In the beginning, God created
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man and woman. By the way, there's only two genders.
This is a side note. God created man and woman
in his image. We are all heirs and part of
the family of God.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And a little more melanin.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Your face, they're a little less melan in somebody else's face.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We're all part of one human race.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And that's the only race that we have. Race is
a construct of humanity. It is sinful by nature. You
won't find anything in the Bible that has to do
separating people by the color of their skin.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You can't find it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Ethnicity, background, heritage, family, It's not there.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And when I.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Said here with doctor Missus Carson, I said, said doctor Carson,
what if we all had the same amount of melanin
in our skin? He said, life would be boring, wouldn't it.
We're one race, folks. Color makes no difference to God,
and more and more it should make zero difference to
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anybody who follows the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Let me show you something he's think.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, that's just that man's opinion. Let me get a
higher opinion. We find here in God's Word Galatians, chapter
number three, in their many passages along this line. So
in Christ Jesus, you are all children of God through faith.
For all of you who are baptized into Christ have
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clothed themselves with Christ.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
There's neither jew.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Nor agentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male
and female.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
For you are all one in Christ.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And if you belong to Christ, then your Abraham's seed
and there are heirs according to the promise of the
Old and the New Testament. In the church, I've talked
to people who are in the whole woke agenda, and
they talk about, well, this is that division, this is
that division, this is that division. We have this and
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there's no forgiveness because you happen to be white. And
I said, in the body of Christ, there is no
respector of persons. If we're all in Christ, the color
of your skin doesn't mean zip understand that it is
biblical truth. Therefore, we don't play all of these games.
And everybody would have us played, say we're one in Christ.
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And I don't even believe race is a reality. It's
a matter of the melanin in your face. Now what
do we do it? This morment in history? We've had
four hundred years the first slaves king, the last is
doctor Carson said, And I believe the last ten years
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at least. It's hard to put a timeline here. America
has come a long long way. We're not there. I
think the white supremacist and KKK ignorant, godless, evil individuals
are just about out of business.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That's the genius of America.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Because I think.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Ninety percent of our nation, I don't know exactly you
could debate that understands that God is no respector of persons.
And more and more, there has been progress and progress
in all of these areas, and His beautiful deserve and
I attribute that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
To a lot of factors.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Doctor King said, when he was touring America, he would
go to cities and he'd see churches with steeples up.
And he said, in light of the suffering the Jim
Crow laws pushed back on voting, the suffering his people
was still going through there in the sixties, he said,
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And I wonder what kind of pastor that is, and
what kind of worshipers of God you find there when
they allow people made in the image of God still
to be put down?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Crushed out questioned, Oh yeah, there's.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
An American dream in our Declaration of Independence, in our constancu,
in our bylaws. But that American dream was not written
for the African American who was here as a slave.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh no, Doctor King. He did not want to destroy America.
You know what he said.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
He said, All I want we as Americans to do
is to live up to the high calling and the
principles of our basic documents, even though our forefathers who
had written them did not live up to them themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
To get it very very important.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So doctor King was a revolutionary, godly individual. He spoke
truth into power. No respective persons, not perfect, but my goodness,
what a brilliant, gifted person he was.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
When he died.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I preached his sermon to western North Carolina through radio
there in a church that I pastored that was basically
not very receptive to African America's way up there in
the mountains of North Carolina. When I went to be
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Columbia, South Carolina,
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where I was before I came here, I didn't preach
a trial hermon. Traditionally, a prospective canis preach a sermon.
Everybody's got one or two good sermons. And they said, oh,
we won't have to be our pastor. But I don't
do that to preach. And I courted John three sixteen
and walked out just like I did here. I said,
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if they don't get that, they will not get me.
That's all I did. I did that in Columbia. But
the first deacons meeting I went to in the church
where the secession convention was held, Oh yeah, this is
where the South is in the Union. Right in that building,
right where I preached, had the slave bikers around it.
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And when I went there, they had boarded the front
doors of the church because they would not let someone
who didn't have the right color of skin into the
church premises, yes, right downtown Columbia. We had two African
American colleges there and some were trying to get in
before I got there. They didn't let them in, and
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the rumor.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Was after they'd been without a pastor a couple of years,
said who are they looking for to preach there?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
They said, they're looking for a twenty eight year old
retire Confederate general. But my first diggon meeting, never having preached,
just having been voted. They sat down at a table
like this by twenty five men. One of the deacons
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was the governor of the state of South Caline at
that moment. So we got in there and they said,
here's our new pastor, ed Young and.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So I was seated there. I said, gentlemen, let me.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Communicate to you as clearly as I can who I am.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And I told them.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
As pastor of this church, if you retain me as pastor,
I'd just been voted in the Sunday before, this church
would be no respect of persons and will take anybody,
any background, any color of skin, into the Family of
God through Jesus Christ, and they'll be no limitation of that.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We're gonna do away those doors.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They had the front doors boarded up where you had
to go in the side doors.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That was what it was.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And I said, I want to know where you spiritual
leaders are on this. We're gonna pray. Put your head
down on the table. Everybody pray your position. I prayed,
and I said, now I want to know where you stand, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
If I'm gonna be your pastor, if.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You believe what I believe, that God is no respector
of persons, and we're gonna welcome and rejoice with anybody
who comes and worships in this house of God.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
If you follow me with that, or you want.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
To keep your bigotry and your prejudice that this church
has been known for. And I'll let them vote. I
would say sixty five percent voted with me. Full did
not vote, and the others voted to keep the church closed.
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Among those who did not vote were the governor of
the state. Two years later, after he'd been under some
gospel preaching, he made the nominating speech in the Democratic
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convention for John F.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Kennedy. So God opened up some eyes, I hope.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And when I left, they appoint a committee to find
a successor and own that committee was an African American man.
I was speaking in Richmond, Virginia at a revival, had
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a wonderful musician a singer with me, and we were
staying in a hotel there in downtown Richmond, and every
night I would go through there and we'd go through
the lobby, and I discovered that Missus King was there
at the same time. And this musician you hear and
you Martin Luther friendly as friends through the years, and
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so I met her and we had a chance to
visit there in the lobby for several nights.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Let me tell you something. She was as fine and.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
As brilliant, I would say, or more so even than
her husband.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
She was a delightful lady.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So I have sort of a ongoing relationship with admiration
for what that Christian man did. Because what Martin Luther
King advocated in bringing harmony and reconciliation to all people
is the total opposite of what the woke people is
seeking to do for all people. It's one is godly
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and one is ungodly biblical, and one is not biblical.
Let me assure you that, because without grace, we're totally
out of business. So with that being said, I'm going
to do something with great reticence, but I think it
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needs to be restated. One of the greatest orations Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address. Two or three others would be Martin Luther King's.
I had a dream speech there in the Washington Mall,
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maybe a million people presents, millions of people heard it
around the world, and Martin Luther King dreamed of something
certain kind of America.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I think we were getting there with.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Not fast enough, three hundred and fifty years of bigotry
by leadership. Because the bar is too much for We
can't deny that. We can't run from that. But we
were getting there, and we're getting there because a lot
of churches Christians. That's how slavery got eliminated. In England,
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it was Wilberforce, and here it was Uncle Tom's cabin,
and here it was Henry Ward Beecher and others who
stood against the evil and deadliness of racism.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, it was through the church when people awakened to
see that in the Bible we are won in Jesus
Christ period see law. When that began to preach that
and see that, that's where racism was eliminated and still
being healed.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Did you know in I held in my hand a bible,
an old bible.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
They have several of them that were given to the
slaves by the plantation owners. Yeah, bible. The plantation owner
had a Bible. And guess they left out one book, Exodus.
They didn't put Exodus in. But thank God, there's only
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one kind of slave we want to be, and that's
a slave to the Lord Jesus Christ, where everybody is
welcomed with great reticence. I want to be bold enough
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to read and remind us of what doctor King did
on that historic day. He said, I have a dream
that one day every valley will be exalted, every hell,
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and the mountains shall be made a low, The rough
places will be made plain, the crooked places we've made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and
all flesh shall see it together. He said, this is
our hope. This is the faith that I go back
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to the South with. With this faith we'll be able
to hew out of the mountain of despair.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A stone of hope. With this faith, we'll be able.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
To transform the jangling discords of our nation into a
beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, said doctor King.
We'll be able to work together, to pray together, to
struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up
for freedom together, knowing that we'll be free.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
One day.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
This will be the day, with all God's children, we'll
be able to sing with you, meaning, my country tis
of the sweet land of liberty, of the icing land
where my fathers died, land of the pilgrige pride. From
every mountain side, Let freedom ring, And he continued, and
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he said, and if America is to be a great nation,
this must become true. And so let freedom ring from
the prodigious hilltops of New Answer. Let freedom ring from
the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from
the heightening alleghanies of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Let freedom ring. Let freedom ring.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
From the snow capped rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring
from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that,
Let freedom ring from stone Mountain Georgia. Let freedom ring
from the lookout mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from
every hill and bow hill of Mississippi, and from every mountaintops.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Let freedom ring. And he said, and when this happens,
when we allow freedom to ring.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
When it rings from every village and every hamlet, from
every state.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
In every city, we'll be able to speed.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Up that day when all of God's children, black men
and white men, and Jews and Gentiles, and Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and we'll sing
the words of that old spiritual.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Free and last, free and last, Thank God, Almighty, We're
free and last, Ladies and jim.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
When God is no respector of persons, he does not
play favorites. He says that all has sinned and falls
short the glory of God.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Before we can become a Christian, before we receive the
good news of the.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Gospel of salvation and new life and forgiveness, there has
to be bad news.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We have to realize that we're lost without God, and
our sin and our garbage will tear us down and
beat us up now and forever. And that's why the
Gospel is amazing good news. We see who we are
and we see what we're not. And then God comes
and says John three point sixteen, for that whosoever believes
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in Jesus and receives him not only as savior but
his lord commander in chief of your life, of my life.
Then we have eternal life now and for ever.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
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God's Word
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermon series from doctor Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth,
(00:26):
then bending.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To the pressures of the world.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This series is our thanks for your gift to help
keep the proven truth of God's Word reaching you and
others around the world through this program. So be sure
to request your copy of The Church Awake when you
give Just call one eight hundred three five oh Walk
one eight hundred three five oh nine two five five.
(00:49):
Now let's get started with today's teaching from Dr Young.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You could be anti racist, but you'll never reach the
goal until you're seal categorize like that, a leader of
Black Lives Matter said a matter of public record, anyone
who waives an American flag. By definition, whomever you are,
you're racist. Everything is tragically defined by racism.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
This is the woke. History is defined by the color
of your face. How different that is.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
From doctor Martin Luther King's understanding of the racial challenges
we had in America then, and we progressed a great deal,
as doctor Carson has said, but we still have some
ways to go. But how far that we have come?
You see, he would tell us, as we know, the
(01:50):
color of your face doesn't determine your character and who
you are, and really you'll discover doesn't say much about
you and me. Did you know that all all of
our physical assets, ears, nose, mouth, body make up zero
point zero one two of who we are? Is that
(02:12):
any big deal about you or about me? That color
is all important of your skin?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Go to Korea?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Fly over Korea and I am told that you see,
no Korea is totally dark at night. Go at night
it almost totally are almost no light at all in
North Korea. Go to South Korea and just lights everywhere.
It's South Korea. It's progressive, they're fluent, there's freedom, and
(02:47):
arguably the most Christian nation on the earth.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Go to North Korea. What do you find? The very opposite?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You find the dictatorial leadership of a godless family. You
find right is determined by might you define a military enemy?
When people are starving education is practically none existence, and
they live almost as slaves.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
In North Korea.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You say, well, the difference is the color of their skin,
the melanin Well, you go to Korean. You see in
North Korean, my goodness, the color of their skin and
their eyes look so much like a South Korean. Have
you noticed, but one country is in darkness in every
(03:34):
way the other country is in light in every way.
The difference is not the color of their skin. The
difference is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Woke history would have every thing defined by the color
of your face. Human history is the.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Find by grace the name Martin Luther King Jr. Who
was Martin Luther. Martin Luther was a revolutionaire who said,
we're not saved by good works, and I'm better.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Than you, and I do more than you, and God's
going to rank us up there.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He said, from the passage of Ephesians three and many
other places. Your salvation, my salvation, is based on grace
by faith in Jesus Christ. And that is the gospel
that Doctor King preached through out his life. He said
(04:36):
in a sermon shortly before he died that he hoped
that people would know one thing about him he genuinely
loved everybody. What a different thing. No salvation.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You're born white.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Doctor King said so when it smu what the Bible
says about all of these factors.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Saved by grace. And then the last point. God's history
is defined by the absence of race.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Have you ever heard anything like that in your life?
Let me tell you something. Follow me carefully. You want
to read more about this, read ken Ham's book. He's
developed it beautifully, beautifully in a biblical framework. There's only
one race, ladies and gentlemen. In the beginning, God created
(05:35):
man and woman. By the way, there's only two genders.
This is a side note. God created man and woman
in his image. We are all heirs and part of
the family of God.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And a little more melanin.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Your face, they're a little less melan in somebody else's face.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We're all part of one human race.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And that's the only race that we have. Race is
a construct of humanity. It is sinful by nature. You
won't find anything in the Bible that has to do
separating people by the color of their skin.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You can't find it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Ethnicity, background, heritage, family, It's not there.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And when I.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Said here with doctor Missus Carson, I said, said doctor Carson,
what if we all had the same amount of melanin
in our skin? He said, life would be boring, wouldn't it.
We're one race, folks. Color makes no difference to God,
and more and more it should make zero difference to
(06:54):
anybody who follows the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Let me show you something he's think.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, that's just that man's opinion. Let me get a
higher opinion. We find here in God's Word Galatians, chapter
number three, in their many passages along this line. So
in Christ Jesus, you are all children of God through faith.
For all of you who are baptized into Christ have
(07:22):
clothed themselves with Christ.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
There's neither jew.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Nor agentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male
and female.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
For you are all one in Christ.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And if you belong to Christ, then your Abraham's seed
and there are heirs according to the promise of the
Old and the New Testament. In the church, I've talked
to people who are in the whole woke agenda, and
they talk about, well, this is that division, this is
that division, this is that division. We have this and
(08:01):
there's no forgiveness because you happen to be white. And
I said, in the body of Christ, there is no
respector of persons. If we're all in Christ, the color
of your skin doesn't mean zip understand that it is
biblical truth. Therefore, we don't play all of these games.
And everybody would have us played, say we're one in Christ.
(08:24):
And I don't even believe race is a reality. It's
a matter of the melanin in your face. Now what
do we do it? This morment in history? We've had
four hundred years the first slaves king, the last is
doctor Carson said, And I believe the last ten years
(08:48):
at least. It's hard to put a timeline here. America
has come a long long way. We're not there. I
think the white supremacist and KKK ignorant, godless, evil individuals
are just about out of business.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Thank God for that.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That's the genius of America.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Because I think.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Ninety percent of our nation, I don't know exactly you
could debate that understands that God is no respector of persons.
And more and more, there has been progress and progress
in all of these areas, and His beautiful deserve and
I attribute that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
To a lot of factors.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Doctor King said, when he was touring America, he would
go to cities and he'd see churches with steeples up.
And he said, in light of the suffering the Jim
Crow laws pushed back on voting, the suffering his people
was still going through there in the sixties, he said,
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And I wonder what kind of pastor that is, and
what kind of worshipers of God you find there when
they allow people made in the image of God still
to be put down?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Crushed out questioned, Oh yeah, there's.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
An American dream in our Declaration of Independence, in our constancu,
in our bylaws. But that American dream was not written
for the African American who was here as a slave.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh no, Doctor King. He did not want to destroy America.
You know what he said.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
He said, All I want we as Americans to do
is to live up to the high calling and the
principles of our basic documents, even though our forefathers who
had written them did not live up to them themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
To get it very very important.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So doctor King was a revolutionary, godly individual. He spoke
truth into power. No respective persons, not perfect, but my goodness,
what a brilliant, gifted person he was.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
When he died.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I preached his sermon to western North Carolina through radio
there in a church that I pastored that was basically
not very receptive to African America's way up there in
the mountains of North Carolina. When I went to be
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Columbia, South Carolina,
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where I was before I came here, I didn't preach
a trial hermon. Traditionally, a prospective canis preach a sermon.
Everybody's got one or two good sermons. And they said, oh,
we won't have to be our pastor. But I don't
do that to preach. And I courted John three sixteen
and walked out just like I did here. I said,
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if they don't get that, they will not get me.
That's all I did. I did that in Columbia. But
the first deacons meeting I went to in the church
where the secession convention was held, Oh yeah, this is
where the South is in the Union. Right in that building,
right where I preached, had the slave bikers around it.
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And when I went there, they had boarded the front
doors of the church because they would not let someone
who didn't have the right color of skin into the
church premises, yes, right downtown Columbia. We had two African
American colleges there and some were trying to get in
before I got there. They didn't let them in, and
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the rumor.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Was after they'd been without a pastor a couple of years,
said who are they looking for to preach there?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
They said, they're looking for a twenty eight year old
retire Confederate general. But my first diggon meeting, never having preached,
just having been voted. They sat down at a table
like this by twenty five men. One of the deacons
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was the governor of the state of South Caline at
that moment. So we got in there and they said,
here's our new pastor, ed Young and.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So I was seated there. I said, gentlemen, let me.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Communicate to you as clearly as I can who I am.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And I told them.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
As pastor of this church, if you retain me as pastor,
I'd just been voted in the Sunday before, this church
would be no respect of persons and will take anybody,
any background, any color of skin, into the Family of
God through Jesus Christ, and they'll be no limitation of that.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
We're gonna do away those doors.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They had the front doors boarded up where you had
to go in the side doors.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That was what it was.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And I said, I want to know where you spiritual
leaders are on this. We're gonna pray. Put your head
down on the table. Everybody pray your position. I prayed,
and I said, now I want to know where you stand, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
If I'm gonna be your pastor, if.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You believe what I believe, that God is no respector
of persons, and we're gonna welcome and rejoice with anybody
who comes and worships in this house of God.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
If you follow me with that, or you want.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
To keep your bigotry and your prejudice that this church
has been known for. And I'll let them vote. I
would say sixty five percent voted with me. Full did
not vote, and the others voted to keep the church closed.
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Among those who did not vote were the governor of
the state. Two years later, after he'd been under some
gospel preaching, he made the nominating speech in the Democratic
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convention for John F.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Kennedy. So God opened up some eyes, I hope.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And when I left, they appoint a committee to find
a successor and own that committee was an African American man.
I was speaking in Richmond, Virginia at a revival, had
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a wonderful musician a singer with me, and we were
staying in a hotel there in downtown Richmond, and every
night I would go through there and we'd go through
the lobby, and I discovered that Missus King was there
at the same time. And this musician you hear and
you Martin Luther friendly as friends through the years, and
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so I met her and we had a chance to
visit there in the lobby for several nights.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Let me tell you something. She was as fine and.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
As brilliant, I would say, or more so even than
her husband.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
She was a delightful lady.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
So I have sort of a ongoing relationship with admiration
for what that Christian man did. Because what Martin Luther
King advocated in bringing harmony and reconciliation to all people
is the total opposite of what the woke people is
seeking to do for all people. It's one is godly
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and one is ungodly biblical, and one is not biblical.
Let me assure you that, because without grace, we're totally
out of business. So with that being said, I'm going
to do something with great reticence, but I think it
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needs to be restated. One of the greatest orations Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address. Two or three others would be Martin Luther King's.
I had a dream speech there in the Washington Mall,
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maybe a million people presents, millions of people heard it
around the world, and Martin Luther King dreamed of something
certain kind of America.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I think we were getting there with.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Not fast enough, three hundred and fifty years of bigotry
by leadership. Because the bar is too much for We
can't deny that. We can't run from that. But we
were getting there, and we're getting there because a lot
of churches Christians. That's how slavery got eliminated. In England,
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it was Wilberforce, and here it was Uncle Tom's cabin,
and here it was Henry Ward Beecher and others who
stood against the evil and deadliness of racism.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, it was through the church when people awakened to
see that in the Bible we are won in Jesus
Christ period see law. When that began to preach that
and see that, that's where racism was eliminated and still
being healed.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Did you know in I held in my hand a bible,
an old bible.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
They have several of them that were given to the
slaves by the plantation owners. Yeah, bible. The plantation owner
had a Bible. And guess they left out one book, Exodus.
They didn't put Exodus in. But thank God, there's only
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one kind of slave we want to be, and that's
a slave to the Lord Jesus Christ, where everybody is
welcomed with great reticence. I want to be bold enough
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to read and remind us of what doctor King did
on that historic day. He said, I have a dream
that one day every valley will be exalted, every hell,
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and the mountains shall be made a low, The rough
places will be made plain, the crooked places we've made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and
all flesh shall see it together. He said, this is
our hope. This is the faith that I go back
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to the South with. With this faith we'll be able
to hew out of the mountain of despair.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A stone of hope. With this faith, we'll be able.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
To transform the jangling discords of our nation into a
beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, said doctor King.
We'll be able to work together, to pray together, to
struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up
for freedom together, knowing that we'll be free.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
One day.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
This will be the day, with all God's children, we'll
be able to sing with you, meaning, my country tis
of the sweet land of liberty, of the icing land
where my fathers died, land of the pilgrige pride. From
every mountain side, Let freedom ring, And he continued, and
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he said, and if America is to be a great nation,
this must become true. And so let freedom ring from
the prodigious hilltops of New Answer. Let freedom ring from
the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from
the heightening alleghanies of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Let freedom ring. Let freedom ring.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
From the snow capped rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring
from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that,
Let freedom ring from stone Mountain Georgia. Let freedom ring
from the lookout mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from
every hill and bow hill of Mississippi, and from every mountaintops.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Let freedom ring. And he said, and when this happens,
when we allow freedom to ring.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
When it rings from every village and every hamlet, from
every state.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
In every city, we'll be able to speed.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Up that day when all of God's children, black men
and white men, and Jews and Gentiles, and Protestants and
Catholics will be able to join hands and we'll sing
the words of that old spiritual.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Free and last, free and last, Thank God, Almighty, We're
free and last, Ladies and jim.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
When God is no respector of persons, he does not
play favorites. He says that all has sinned and falls
short the glory of God.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Before we can become a Christian, before we receive the
good news of the.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Gospel of salvation and new life and forgiveness, there has
to be bad news.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We have to realize that we're lost without God, and
our sin and our garbage will tear us down and
beat us up now and forever. And that's why the
Gospel is amazing good news. We see who we are
and we see what we're not. And then God comes
and says John three point sixteen, for that whosoever believes
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in Jesus and receives him not only as savior but
his lord commander in chief of your life, of my life.
Then we have eternal life now and for ever.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
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