June 2, 2025 • 26 mins
In this episode of TheeSoulFuel Podcast, we challenge the racialized gospel. From black church to white church to brown church—how did we get so off track? The truth is, when culture becomes our lens, Jesus gets distorted. Pastor Willie breaks down how racial identity, political constructs, and spiritual hypocrisy have hijacked the church’s mission—and how to return to a Kingdom identity that transcends culture, color, and division.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If your version of Jesus looks just like your skin
color, votes like your politicalparty and worships like your
culture, you're not followingthe Jesus Christ of Scripture.
You're following a culturalclone that you created to feel
comfortable, and that is not thegospel, it's idolatry.
(00:22):
Let's talk.
I just want to walk inobedience.
Welcome to another episode ofthe Soul Fuel podcast, the pit
stop for your soul to be fueledfor your journey in life as you
do it with Christ.
Listen, today's episode isdefinitely going to ruffle some
feathers.
It's kind of in line with theprevious episode with some
(00:46):
feathers.
It's kind of in line with theprevious episode that we talked
about when it comes topreference, but this is so
necessary.
The truth is that the church,the people, or the group of
people, or the group of peoplethat come together on Sundays
and throughout the week here,here and there, have been more
loyal to skin color and politicsthan they have been to Christ.
(01:09):
I mean, they're even morefaithful to tradition than they
are to the Lord Jesus.
Let's get into it, listen.
Race-based religion is not thegospel.
Let's just flat out and say itjust like that.
Race-based religion is not thegospel.
The fact that there is evencalled a black church is a
(01:33):
problem.
The fact that there is, uh,even called a white church is a
problem.
The fact that it's even calleda brown church is a problem.
And each carry all of thesethings carry a man-made culture,
not kingdom culture.
(01:53):
Listen, the problem with blackchurch is that it's black.
The problem with white churchis that it's white.
The problem with brown churchis that it's brown.
Culture has become the filterfor faith, instead of the fruit
of faith, instead the fruits ofthe spirit.
(02:13):
In fact, there are no fruits ofthe spirit really displayed on
a deeper level because it's allsurface.
You got to understand how thiscreates identity confusion and
spiritual division and delusion,because you think that you can
love the lord and hate yourbrother and really I get it.
(02:35):
And somebody will say well,pastor, will, or or will, um, um
, you have to understand.
You know, the white man, theoppressor.
They didn't want us to do it,we were segregated and blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, all ofthat.
But forget that.
That's over.
Why are we still living in thepast?
Why are we still living likethere is active Jim Crow laws
(03:03):
and we are in the 60s when itcomes to church, when it comes
to the word of God, when itcomes to his word.
Why is it limited?
Huh, because church today isdesigned to make people feel
(03:23):
good about where they're fromrather than where they are going
.
And where we're supposed to begoing, ladies and gentlemen,
saints and aints, is to heaven.
How can we get there if we'repracticing a specialized,
(03:44):
segregated heaven on earth?
And when I say that I'm really,I'm talking about church.
How do we?
How do we say that we want togo to heaven but we're
segregated in worship?
But I've seen people cometogether.
I'm not talking about thechurches that are, that are
genuinely mixed, that havedifferent ethnicities.
(04:07):
There should not be amulticultural church.
There should just be amulti-ethnic church, which means
they're multi-ethnic anddiverse in skin tone, not
cultures, because your culturemeans nothing to God, because
culture is man-made.
We are supposed to be a part ofkingdom culture, right?
(04:31):
Galatians 3 and 28,.
Just to take away from that,says you are all one in Christ
Jesus.
Acts 10, verse 34 and 35 wouldsay something very simple that
God shows no partiality.
So why do we?
Why do we?
Why do churches feel the needto hire certain people and have
(04:56):
diversity, equity and inclusionin church, when we should be.
We should have been leading inthe first place.
Well, you don't know people'smotives.
Well, use discernment, but see,the problem is everybody.
Nobody's really, in a lot ofthese churches.
I'm not going to say nobody,because there are people who are
well aware of what I'm sayingand agree with what I'm saying.
(05:18):
So I know that there arechurches that are what I look
for and what the Lord is lookingfor in his church, but there
are a lot of people who arebeing taught false teachings and
(05:40):
wrapped up into a prosperitygospel that speaks to your
ethnic background and yourcultural background through a
created culture that they havepersuaded you to be a kingdom
culture.
But it's not.
(06:00):
It's a man-made culture,politicking from the pulpit on
worldly matters.
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense, you know,and everything that I've been
talking about, all of the topicsthat I've been discussing ever
(06:23):
since I preached this sermonseries titled Scheduled Program,
I have to say this I have tosay that society has programmed
us.
Society has programmed everysingle person, male, female, boy
(06:44):
, girl, saved, unsaved,churchgoers, non-churchgoers
Everybody has some of the sameviews, some of the same
perceptions, some of the samenotions, some of the same
stereotype, uh stigmatismsbecause of culture.
(07:04):
Culture taught us to wrap jesusin our experience instead of
submitting our experiences tojesus.
Instead of looking at theculture of uh, the cultural and
historical backgrounds of text,which is, of the text of
Scripture, which is calledexegeting, the who, what, when,
(07:26):
where getting the actualbackground that we need to know
in order to understand theScripture, society has
programmed the so-called peopleof God to wrap Jesus around
their own culture.
There's a danger of equatingblack pride or American
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patriotism with spiritual truth,because, although I'm proud to
be an American, I do know andrecognize that this world is not
my home.
This is just where I was born,this is just where I'm from and
I'm grateful for where the lordallowed me to be born.
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I could have been born in anyother country, but I was born
right here in america, and Iknow some people might have a
problem with that and that'sfine, that's okay, but I, I I'm
not ashamed of it.
I'll say it ain't, it ain'tpretty, it ain't beautiful, it's
a lot of ugly things about it,but it's my country and it's
your country too, and if youthink like that, you would take
it back and you would, you wouldown it, and maybe you would.
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There would be less poverty ifyou really thought that way.
We know that the devil iseverywhere.
It doesn't matter what countryyou move to, the devil gonna be
there too.
All right.
And again, this world is notour home.
But again, I say that to say,although I am a proud american,
I know that I am more, first,first and foremost, proud to be
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a citizen of the kingdom of god.
That's first, really.
That's why I said american, uhuh.
American patriotism can takethe, the second, the back seat
right, but jesus takes the wheel.
Jesus takes the front seat.
My faith, my salvation, thattakes precedence, always and
(09:19):
forever.
That's why I choose what Jesussays over what the world says,
over what society says, overwhat the law says.
If there's ever a law that goesover, that goes against what my
God says, what Jehovah says,what Yahweh says, then I can't
do that.
I can't do what that Americanlaw says, what that American
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belief is right.
I'm believing the word.
I'm believing the word becausethat is the spiritual truth.
And when you equate yourblackness or your whiteness or
whatever your culture, whateverthose labels are for you, right,
because I don't believe inblack and white.
But whenever you try to equateall of the boastful pride of
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life and american patriotismwith spiritual truth, you end up
causing your own destruction.
You know why it's easier towear black and proud or the
american flag or whatever mantraor whatever.
(10:26):
You know blm, whatever it is.
You know why it's easy to wearthat stuff than it is to boldly
say I follow jesus is becausethose things make you feel good
in the flesh.
It makes you feel good aboutliving here on this hell-bound
earth, this destructive boundearth, and it doesn't get you
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excited about heaven that peopleget real sad people.
People get real sad.
You talk about death, don'twant to talk about it, and when
they do, they joke with it as ifit's.
You know they get anotherchance.
There is no purgatory.
Let me tell you that right nowAin't no purgatory.
You got to get it right now.
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Get it right now while you can.
Right John, chapter 17, verse 21.
Jesus prayed for unity in him,not culture.
He didn't pray for you.
He didn't pray for culture tobe, to be unified.
He, jesus, prayed for unity inhim.
We need unity in Jesus, not inculture.
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When we have a false gospelfloating around and people
receiving a false gospel.
We create transactional religion.
Many worship a God they'vecreated in their image, one who
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aligns with their race, withtheir race get it their race.
One who aligns with theirethnic and their cultural
background, their own party,their own emotions emotions
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People love to listen to, thedistorted gospel that fits into
their paradigm of their ownfleshly desires.
I could say this a thousanddifferent ways, but we have to
make sure that we are willing tocall out the transactional
theology.
It's transactional theology.
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God bless me, bless me, bless me, bless me, but don't change me.
Lord bless me, but I'ma do me,i'ma do me, i'ma just be me.
I'm going to just be me.
I'm going to do me.
Baby, you know, I'm going tojust be me and God going to
bless me, god going to bless me,but you don't change.
You got to change your mindset,you got to change your brain,
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you got to change the way youthink, you got to change the way
that you see people, because ifyou can't love your enemy, how
can you truly say you love god?
How, how can you?
How can you really say that?
With a straight face you can't.
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This is idolatry with a mask on.
It's idolatry with a mask onbecause You're so wrapped up
into Self and your community.
This is why I say and I knowpeople get offended when I say
it, but I don't care, you don'tpay none of my bills.
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You probably not even, as youyou never supported me in
nothing more than likely youain't sent the dime for jack
squatterly.
I just made that up, so I don'tcare how you feel about what
I'm saying.
It's idolatry when you hold upyour skin color to feel good
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about Jesus and you wrap Jesusaround your culture and the way
that you want to do it and theway that you want to move.
It's just a disguise Full ofpride.
Because what pride is?
It's easy for hate to grow.
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As a matter of fact, pride isthe atmosphere and the condition
for hate to grow.
Thank you, holy Spirit.
Pride is the environment withthe condition for hate to grow,
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and not only grow but thrive andbe deeply rooted from all of
your issues, of the culture thatyou have allowed to program
your thinking.
Thinking I love the way Paulsays this in 2 Timothy, chapter
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3, verse 5.
They hold on to a form ofgodliness, but they deny the
power.
They hold on to what looks good, to going to church, to
shouting, to dancing, tospeaking in tongues.
They hold to these things butdeny the power, the
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transformative power, totransform their minds from
thinking in a way that isholding them back from being the
believer that they're supposedto be.
Jesus said you will know themby their fruit.
(16:08):
There's a lot of people today,y'all, there's a lot of people
today that scream out they knowJesus and they really don't.
And I heard a brother say thisand it explained a lot about
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this process of, or thistheology that I heard about, and
I just think it could be nameddifferently.
I'll get into that in anotherepisode.
But he said this statement andit it it agreed with my spirit.
And he said a true believer isnot going to remain unrepentant.
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True believer is not going toremain unrepentant.
That's a fact.
So people who hear this wordand understand what I'm saying
and take it for what it meansand really sit with it and
unpack it, they will repent ifthey were seeing things
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differently, if they were seeingthings that in a way that they
weren't supposed to see them,because we have to understand
that, that when it comes toethnicity or what people call
race and I'm just using the wordrace for the sake of the
conversation, because there'sonly one race we've established
that already and that is thehuman race.
But race or racism is a barrier,it's not a blessing.
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Race was never God's design forseparation.
It's become a satanic constructto divide people Again.
This is another fact that we'vealready established.
The political construct of racesymbolizes satan's barrier to
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entry to heaven.
That's the barrier to entry.
You allowing satan to have hisway in your mind through your
thoughts.
Isolation gave birth tocultures that divide instead of
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uniting.
Uniting that's what it did.
You got to understand that evenwhen you see this, underline
this, this undertone, I mean.
I mean, and in some churchesthey're just outright, just
racist, outright, just hateful,and I want to call it hate.
Let me now transition that wordto hate.
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They're so hateful Even in thechurch.
It creates a counterfeit.
Kingdom Means it's not reallywhat it is.
Kingdom means it's not reallywhat it is.
Every person of any ethnicityshould walk in the room, walk in
the building and feel the loveof God and even, and even
receive welcomes from awelcoming, a warm welcome from
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those that are in there thatclaim that they know God,
regardless of what it is thatthey have done or who they are
related to.
He himself is our peace.
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Who broke down the dividing wall?
This is what Paul says to thechurch at Ephesus, in Ephesians,
chapter 2 the Lord Jesus brokedown the dividing wall.
So let me ask you this whatlens are you seeing people
through?
Because the true lens of thebeliever is compassion.
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It's not color.
It's not color.
Although we're all.
Every single person on thisearth is a person of color,
whether you like it or not.
It's not my melanated people,everybody's melanated dummy,
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everybody's melanated people,everybody's melanated dummy,
everybody's melanated.
Even the perilous caucasianfrom the caucus mountains is
melanated.
Ain't got that much of it, butnonetheless it's still melanin.
And here's the thing that killsthe whole argument.
Here's the.
The thing that kills divisionthat nobody really wants to
think about is that if therewere a room full of caucasian
people in a room full of af, aroom full of americans of
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african descent who are waydarker than they are, and the
whole room got disintegrated inflames and they all burn in a
fire so hot to where they becomeashes, I want somebody right
now to scientifically prove tome that you will be able to tell
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who was the Caucasian man,woman, or who was the American
of African descent, male orfemale?
Tell me, will you be able totell?
No, you won't.
And we can go science, youwon't prove it.
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But that is the proof that weare all made equal.
And because we are made equal,there is no partiality when it
comes to the Lord.
There is no partiality to whomhe saves.
So woe to those who say thatsalvation is only for the Jews,
salvation is only for so-calledquote unquote black people.
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Salvation ain't for blackpeople.
Salvation ain't for whitepeople.
Salvation is for people.
The world that's a better wordFor God.
So loved the world John 3, 16,that he gave his only begotten
son that whosoever shall believeon him shall not perish but
have everlasting life.
That is a promise that is madeto the world, not one group of
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people.
So are you walking with thesame compassion Jesus had when
he walked the earth?
Ask yourself do I see othersthrough hurt, politics, or
through the lens of Jesus?
Because a lot of people areseeing other people through hurt
.
They're seeing other peoplethrough.
This is the reason why you getall of these kind of movies,
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that that that have strongmessages about ethnicity and
culture in history, and none ofit matters.
People watch historical movies,movies about slaves, and they
get angry all over again.
They get angry all over again.
Same people told you don't gowatch sinners was the first ones
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to watch 12 years.
A slave, mad ticked off.
Christ is all and in all.
According to colossians, chapter3, verse 11, you cannot say
that you love god and hate yourbrother, for if you are a person
that does that, you are a liar.
John said it you are a liar.
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There are many that are in lovewith the idea of a
transactional God, but not inlove with the actual Lord.
I want to challenge you to dosomething, because I know
there's some of you that may say, no, I don't think about it,
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but you have wrestled with it,you have had conversations, you
have had stuff that reallybothered you.
I want to challenge you to laydown your cultural lens.
To challenge you to lay downyour cultural lens.
Lay down your cultural lens.
Pick up your cross.
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Picking up your cross is asymbol of dying To walk with
Jesus, free and clear, notallowing the flesh to rise up
and block you from following him, letting people getting get in
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the way of the path ofrighteousness by getting upset
because somebody said somethingthat was out of line.
Somebody said something thatwas out of pocket.
Somebody said something thatwas out of line.
Somebody said something thatwas out of pocket.
Somebody said something thatwas racist.
Because you have to understandthe people who are racist.
That literally means that theyare hateful people and they do
not love themselves.
That's all it means.
So pray for those who don'tknow God.
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Pray for those who don't knowGod.
Pray for those who are having atough time.
Pray for those who strugglewith cultural identity.
But you have to be able, youhave to be willing to keep a
lookout and examine yourself.
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All right, peace.
I just want to walk inobedience.
If your version of Jesus looks just like your skin
color, votes like your politicalparty and worships like your
culture, you're not followingthe Jesus Christ of Scripture.
You're following a culturalclone that you created to feel
comfortable, and that is not thegospel, it's idolatry.
(00:22):
Let's talk.
I just want to walk inobedience.
Welcome to another episode ofthe Soul Fuel podcast, the pit
stop for your soul to be fueledfor your journey in life as you
do it with Christ.
Listen, today's episode isdefinitely going to ruffle some
feathers.
It's kind of in line with theprevious episode with some
(00:46):
feathers.
It's kind of in line with theprevious episode that we talked
about when it comes topreference, but this is so
necessary.
The truth is that the church,the people, or the group of
people, or the group of peoplethat come together on Sundays
and throughout the week here,here and there, have been more
loyal to skin color and politicsthan they have been to Christ.
(01:09):
I mean, they're even morefaithful to tradition than they
are to the Lord Jesus.
Let's get into it, listen.
Race-based religion is not thegospel.
Let's just flat out and say itjust like that.
Race-based religion is not thegospel.
The fact that there is evencalled a black church is a
(01:33):
problem.
The fact that there is, uh,even called a white church is a
problem.
The fact that it's even calleda brown church is a problem.
And each carry all of thesethings carry a man-made culture,
not kingdom culture.
(01:53):
Listen, the problem with blackchurch is that it's black.
The problem with white churchis that it's white.
The problem with brown churchis that it's brown.
Culture has become the filterfor faith, instead of the fruit
of faith, instead the fruits ofthe spirit.
(02:13):
In fact, there are no fruits ofthe spirit really displayed on
a deeper level because it's allsurface.
You got to understand how thiscreates identity confusion and
spiritual division and delusion,because you think that you can
love the lord and hate yourbrother and really I get it.
(02:35):
And somebody will say well,pastor, will, or or will, um, um
, you have to understand.
You know, the white man, theoppressor.
They didn't want us to do it,we were segregated and blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, all ofthat.
But forget that.
That's over.
Why are we still living in thepast?
Why are we still living likethere is active Jim Crow laws
(03:03):
and we are in the 60s when itcomes to church, when it comes
to the word of God, when itcomes to his word.
Why is it limited?
Huh, because church today isdesigned to make people feel
(03:23):
good about where they're fromrather than where they are going
.
And where we're supposed to begoing, ladies and gentlemen,
saints and aints, is to heaven.
How can we get there if we'repracticing a specialized,
(03:44):
segregated heaven on earth?
And when I say that I'm really,I'm talking about church.
How do we?
How do we say that we want togo to heaven but we're
segregated in worship?
But I've seen people cometogether.
I'm not talking about thechurches that are, that are
genuinely mixed, that havedifferent ethnicities.
(04:07):
There should not be amulticultural church.
There should just be amulti-ethnic church, which means
they're multi-ethnic anddiverse in skin tone, not
cultures, because your culturemeans nothing to God, because
culture is man-made.
We are supposed to be a part ofkingdom culture, right?
(04:31):
Galatians 3 and 28,.
Just to take away from that,says you are all one in Christ
Jesus.
Acts 10, verse 34 and 35 wouldsay something very simple that
God shows no partiality.
So why do we?
Why do we?
Why do churches feel the needto hire certain people and have
(04:56):
diversity, equity and inclusionin church, when we should be.
We should have been leading inthe first place.
Well, you don't know people'smotives.
Well, use discernment, but see,the problem is everybody.
Nobody's really, in a lot ofthese churches.
I'm not going to say nobody,because there are people who are
well aware of what I'm sayingand agree with what I'm saying.
(05:18):
So I know that there arechurches that are what I look
for and what the Lord is lookingfor in his church, but there
are a lot of people who arebeing taught false teachings and
(05:40):
wrapped up into a prosperitygospel that speaks to your
ethnic background and yourcultural background through a
created culture that they havepersuaded you to be a kingdom
culture.
But it's not.
(06:00):
It's a man-made culture,politicking from the pulpit on
worldly matters.
It makes no sense.
It makes no sense, you know,and everything that I've been
talking about, all of the topicsthat I've been discussing ever
(06:23):
since I preached this sermonseries titled Scheduled Program,
I have to say this I have tosay that society has programmed
us.
Society has programmed everysingle person, male, female, boy
(06:44):
, girl, saved, unsaved,churchgoers, non-churchgoers
Everybody has some of the sameviews, some of the same
perceptions, some of the samenotions, some of the same
stereotype, uh stigmatismsbecause of culture.
(07:04):
Culture taught us to wrap jesusin our experience instead of
submitting our experiences tojesus.
Instead of looking at theculture of uh, the cultural and
historical backgrounds of text,which is, of the text of
Scripture, which is calledexegeting, the who, what, when,
(07:26):
where getting the actualbackground that we need to know
in order to understand theScripture, society has
programmed the so-called peopleof God to wrap Jesus around
their own culture.
There's a danger of equatingblack pride or American
(07:53):
patriotism with spiritual truth,because, although I'm proud to
be an American, I do know andrecognize that this world is not
my home.
This is just where I was born,this is just where I'm from and
I'm grateful for where the lordallowed me to be born.
(08:14):
I could have been born in anyother country, but I was born
right here in america, and Iknow some people might have a
problem with that and that'sfine, that's okay, but I, I I'm
not ashamed of it.
I'll say it ain't, it ain'tpretty, it ain't beautiful, it's
a lot of ugly things about it,but it's my country and it's
your country too, and if youthink like that, you would take
it back and you would, you wouldown it, and maybe you would.
(08:34):
There would be less poverty ifyou really thought that way.
We know that the devil iseverywhere.
It doesn't matter what countryyou move to, the devil gonna be
there too.
All right.
And again, this world is notour home.
But again, I say that to say,although I am a proud american,
I know that I am more, first,first and foremost, proud to be
(08:57):
a citizen of the kingdom of god.
That's first, really.
That's why I said american, uhuh.
American patriotism can takethe, the second, the back seat
right, but jesus takes the wheel.
Jesus takes the front seat.
My faith, my salvation, thattakes precedence, always and
(09:19):
forever.
That's why I choose what Jesussays over what the world says,
over what society says, overwhat the law says.
If there's ever a law that goesover, that goes against what my
God says, what Jehovah says,what Yahweh says, then I can't
do that.
I can't do what that Americanlaw says, what that American
(09:43):
belief is right.
I'm believing the word.
I'm believing the word becausethat is the spiritual truth.
And when you equate yourblackness or your whiteness or
whatever your culture, whateverthose labels are for you, right,
because I don't believe inblack and white.
But whenever you try to equateall of the boastful pride of
(10:05):
life and american patriotismwith spiritual truth, you end up
causing your own destruction.
You know why it's easier towear black and proud or the
american flag or whatever mantraor whatever.
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You know blm, whatever it is.
You know why it's easy to wearthat stuff than it is to boldly
say I follow jesus is becausethose things make you feel good
in the flesh.
It makes you feel good aboutliving here on this hell-bound
earth, this destructive boundearth, and it doesn't get you
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excited about heaven that peopleget real sad people.
People get real sad.
You talk about death, don'twant to talk about it, and when
they do, they joke with it as ifit's.
You know they get anotherchance.
There is no purgatory.
Let me tell you that right nowAin't no purgatory.
You got to get it right now.
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Get it right now while you can.
Right John, chapter 17, verse 21.
Jesus prayed for unity in him,not culture.
He didn't pray for you.
He didn't pray for culture tobe, to be unified.
He, jesus, prayed for unity inhim.
We need unity in Jesus, not inculture.
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When we have a false gospelfloating around and people
receiving a false gospel.
We create transactional religion.
Many worship a God they'vecreated in their image, one who
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aligns with their race, withtheir race get it their race.
One who aligns with theirethnic and their cultural
background, their own party,their own emotions emotions
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People love to listen to, thedistorted gospel that fits into
their paradigm of their ownfleshly desires.
I could say this a thousanddifferent ways, but we have to
make sure that we are willing tocall out the transactional
theology.
It's transactional theology.
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God bless me, bless me, bless me, bless me, but don't change me.
Lord bless me, but I'ma do me,i'ma do me, i'ma just be me.
I'm going to just be me.
I'm going to do me.
Baby, you know, I'm going tojust be me and God going to
bless me, god going to bless me,but you don't change.
You got to change your mindset,you got to change your brain,
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you got to change the way youthink, you got to change the way
that you see people, because ifyou can't love your enemy, how
can you truly say you love god?
How, how can you?
How can you really say that?
With a straight face you can't.
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This is idolatry with a mask on.
It's idolatry with a mask onbecause You're so wrapped up
into Self and your community.
This is why I say and I knowpeople get offended when I say
it, but I don't care, you don'tpay none of my bills.
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You probably not even, as youyou never supported me in
nothing more than likely youain't sent the dime for jack
squatterly.
I just made that up, so I don'tcare how you feel about what
I'm saying.
It's idolatry when you hold upyour skin color to feel good
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about Jesus and you wrap Jesusaround your culture and the way
that you want to do it and theway that you want to move.
It's just a disguise Full ofpride.
Because what pride is?
It's easy for hate to grow.
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As a matter of fact, pride isthe atmosphere and the condition
for hate to grow.
Thank you, holy Spirit.
Pride is the environment withthe condition for hate to grow,
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and not only grow but thrive andbe deeply rooted from all of
your issues, of the culture thatyou have allowed to program
your thinking.
Thinking I love the way Paulsays this in 2 Timothy, chapter
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3, verse 5.
They hold on to a form ofgodliness, but they deny the
power.
They hold on to what looks good, to going to church, to
shouting, to dancing, tospeaking in tongues.
They hold to these things butdeny the power, the
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transformative power, totransform their minds from
thinking in a way that isholding them back from being the
believer that they're supposedto be.
Jesus said you will know themby their fruit.
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There's a lot of people today,y'all, there's a lot of people
today that scream out they knowJesus and they really don't.
And I heard a brother say thisand it explained a lot about
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this process of, or thistheology that I heard about, and
I just think it could be nameddifferently.
I'll get into that in anotherepisode.
But he said this statement andit it it agreed with my spirit.
And he said a true believer isnot going to remain unrepentant.
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True believer is not going toremain unrepentant.
That's a fact.
So people who hear this wordand understand what I'm saying
and take it for what it meansand really sit with it and
unpack it, they will repent ifthey were seeing things
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differently, if they were seeingthings that in a way that they
weren't supposed to see them,because we have to understand
that, that when it comes toethnicity or what people call
race and I'm just using the wordrace for the sake of the
conversation, because there'sonly one race we've established
that already and that is thehuman race.
But race or racism is a barrier,it's not a blessing.
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Race was never God's design forseparation.
It's become a satanic constructto divide people Again.
This is another fact that we'vealready established.
The political construct of racesymbolizes satan's barrier to
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entry to heaven.
That's the barrier to entry.
You allowing satan to have hisway in your mind through your
thoughts.
Isolation gave birth tocultures that divide instead of
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uniting.
Uniting that's what it did.
You got to understand that evenwhen you see this, underline
this, this undertone, I mean.
I mean, and in some churchesthey're just outright, just
racist, outright, just hateful,and I want to call it hate.
Let me now transition that wordto hate.
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They're so hateful Even in thechurch.
It creates a counterfeit.
Kingdom Means it's not reallywhat it is.
Kingdom means it's not reallywhat it is.
Every person of any ethnicityshould walk in the room, walk in
the building and feel the loveof God and even, and even
receive welcomes from awelcoming, a warm welcome from
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those that are in there thatclaim that they know God,
regardless of what it is thatthey have done or who they are
related to.
He himself is our peace.
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Who broke down the dividing wall?
This is what Paul says to thechurch at Ephesus, in Ephesians,
chapter 2 the Lord Jesus brokedown the dividing wall.
So let me ask you this whatlens are you seeing people
through?
Because the true lens of thebeliever is compassion.
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It's not color.
It's not color.
Although we're all.
Every single person on thisearth is a person of color,
whether you like it or not.
It's not my melanated people,everybody's melanated dummy,
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everybody's melanated people,everybody's melanated dummy,
everybody's melanated.
Even the perilous caucasianfrom the caucus mountains is
melanated.
Ain't got that much of it, butnonetheless it's still melanin.
And here's the thing that killsthe whole argument.
Here's the.
The thing that kills divisionthat nobody really wants to
think about is that if therewere a room full of caucasian
people in a room full of af, aroom full of americans of
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african descent who are waydarker than they are, and the
whole room got disintegrated inflames and they all burn in a
fire so hot to where they becomeashes, I want somebody right
now to scientifically prove tome that you will be able to tell
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who was the Caucasian man,woman, or who was the American
of African descent, male orfemale?
Tell me, will you be able totell?
No, you won't.
And we can go science, youwon't prove it.
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But that is the proof that weare all made equal.
And because we are made equal,there is no partiality when it
comes to the Lord.
There is no partiality to whomhe saves.
So woe to those who say thatsalvation is only for the Jews,
salvation is only for so-calledquote unquote black people.
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Salvation ain't for blackpeople.
Salvation ain't for whitepeople.
Salvation is for people.
The world that's a better wordFor God.
So loved the world John 3, 16,that he gave his only begotten
son that whosoever shall believeon him shall not perish but
have everlasting life.
That is a promise that is madeto the world, not one group of
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people.
So are you walking with thesame compassion Jesus had when
he walked the earth?
Ask yourself do I see othersthrough hurt, politics, or
through the lens of Jesus?
Because a lot of people areseeing other people through hurt
.
They're seeing other peoplethrough.
This is the reason why you getall of these kind of movies,
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that that that have strongmessages about ethnicity and
culture in history, and none ofit matters.
People watch historical movies,movies about slaves, and they
get angry all over again.
They get angry all over again.
Same people told you don't gowatch sinners was the first ones
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to watch 12 years.
A slave, mad ticked off.
Christ is all and in all.
According to colossians, chapter3, verse 11, you cannot say
that you love god and hate yourbrother, for if you are a person
that does that, you are a liar.
John said it you are a liar.
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There are many that are in lovewith the idea of a
transactional God, but not inlove with the actual Lord.
I want to challenge you to dosomething, because I know
there's some of you that may say, no, I don't think about it,
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but you have wrestled with it,you have had conversations, you
have had stuff that reallybothered you.
I want to challenge you to laydown your cultural lens.
To challenge you to lay downyour cultural lens.
Lay down your cultural lens.
Pick up your cross.
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Picking up your cross is asymbol of dying To walk with
Jesus, free and clear, notallowing the flesh to rise up
and block you from following him, letting people getting get in
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the way of the path ofrighteousness by getting upset
because somebody said somethingthat was out of line.
Somebody said something thatwas out of pocket.
Somebody said something thatwas out of line.
Somebody said something thatwas out of pocket.
Somebody said something thatwas racist.
Because you have to understandthe people who are racist.
That literally means that theyare hateful people and they do
not love themselves.
That's all it means.
So pray for those who don'tknow God.
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Pray for those who don't knowGod.
Pray for those who are having atough time.
Pray for those who strugglewith cultural identity.
But you have to be able, youhave to be willing to keep a
lookout and examine yourself.
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Make sure you reflect on this.
Share this episode with someonewho needs to hear it, even if
it's uncomfortable.
Listen, I love y'all so much.
I want y'all to make sure thatyou leave a line down in the
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continue to do what I do righthere.
Listen, I love y'all.
There's absolutely nothing youcan do about it.
Until next time, stay fueledand stay full.
All right, peace.
I just want to walk inobedience.
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