When you take a look at Juneteenth and how it parallels with Leviticus chapter 25 you’ll see how 1. God cares deeply about justice and compassion for the oppressed and marginalized
2. Human dignity and freedom as Divine Rights the Biblical command to free slaves and restore land emphasizes the inherent dignity and worth of every person
3. The Kingdom of God as a realm of Justice- In Christian theology the kingdom of God is described as a place where justice, peace, and righteousness prevail. The observance and celebration of Juneteenth can be viewed as a foreshadowing or anticipation of God’s future reign of justice where all forms of bondage and oppression are ultimately abolished.
4. Call to Repentance and Reconciliation- The history of slavery and racial injustice calls for Repentance and Reconciliation. Reflecting on Juneteenth through a Biblical lens invites believers to confront past sins, seek forgiveness and commit to healing divisions.
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2. Human dignity and freedom as Divine Rights the Biblical command to free slaves and restore land emphasizes the inherent dignity and worth of every person
3. The Kingdom of God as a realm of Justice- In Christian theology the kingdom of God is described as a place where justice, peace, and righteousness prevail. The observance and celebration of Juneteenth can be viewed as a foreshadowing or anticipation of God’s future reign of justice where all forms of bondage and oppression are ultimately abolished.
4. Call to Repentance and Reconciliation- The history of slavery and racial injustice calls for Repentance and Reconciliation. Reflecting on Juneteenth through a Biblical lens invites believers to confront past sins, seek forgiveness and commit to healing divisions.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome to the Sunday Word with Minister Anthony Smith. And
I know it's been a few weeks. So with that
being said, I want to say, first of all, thank
you for all of the well wishes and prayers as
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I recovered from having an ICD defibrillator implant surgery upon
last week.
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The first thankful to.
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My wife for being there, getting me there and back
home and not actually taking time off but being able
to work from home for a few days. And then
I have my grandson here so I was able to
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start driving according to the instructions. I followed the instructions,
I didn't get behind the wheel of a car until
this past Wednesday, me and my grandson we enjoyed having
lunch at a place called Jimmy's Egg. So basically, I
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want to say thank you to all of those of
you who sent up prayers for me as I went
into that surgery last week and continued prayers. I really
appreciate them. I can't say thank you enough. There are
some people still wishing me well, so I want to
say thank you, thank you, thank you. As you know,
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this week and this weekend, especially from yesterday was June nineteenth,
which was June teenth, and as I was up this
morning before the break of day, there were some things
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as I was watching TV, cause, uh, you know, with
me in recovery, you know, I still have to sleep
with this sling on on my left arm, and you know,
I can only do so much with my left arm.
I can't reach above my head, can't do this, can't
do this. I have to be obedient and do it
the instruction say. So sometimes that thing just gets aggravating sleeping.
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With that at night. So well, I I get up.
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And as I'm watching TV, I'm listening at things and
June teenth and how it is connected with Leviticus the
twenty fifth chapter, and I want to point out some things.
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I don't know how.
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Long this is going to be, but we're gonna look
at the connection between June teenth and the Vidicus chapter
twenty five.
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Because there's gonna still.
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Be festivities going on, not just on June nineteenth, but
throughout the rest of this week. It started Thursday Friday,
and there's gonna be some celebrations going on Saturday. I
know here locally and which you talk where I'm at.
So what is June teenth, Well, it is celebrated on
June nineteenth in the United States to commemorate the emancipation
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of enslaved African Americans, specifically marking the announcement of the
abolition of slavery in Texas in eighteen sixty five. It
symbolizes freedom, liberation, and justice well. The Viticus twenty five
maintains the biblical concepts of the sabbath year and the
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year of Jubilee, which are about liberation, rest and resetting
economic and social structures. Sabbatical year every seventh year debts
are forgiven and land lies fallow. You can find that
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in Leviticus chapter twenty five, verses one through seven, And
we're gonna go ahead and look at the verses here,
because those verses read Dusty and the Lord spake unto
Moses and Mount Sinai, saying, speaking to the children of Israel,
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and saying to them, when ye come into the land
which I give you, then shall the land keep a
sabbath unto the Lord. Six years, thou shalt sow thy feel.
In six years, thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather
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in the fruit thereof. But in the seventh year shall
be a sabbath of rest into the land a sabbath
for the Lord. Thou shalt neither soul thou feel, nor
prune thy vineyard, that which groweth of its own accord
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of thy harvest. Thou shalt not reap, neither gather the
grapes of thy vine undressed. For it is a year
of rest into the land. And the sabbath of the
land shall be meet for you, for thee, and for
thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant,
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and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee verse seven,
and for thy cattle, and for the east that are
in thy land. Shall all the increase thereof be meat
the Jubilee year. Every fiftieth year, slaves are set free,
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land is returned to original owners, and debts are forgiven.
The Vedicus Chapter twenty five, verses eight to fifty five. Now,
trust me, we're not gonna read all of them scriptures.
But if you have your Bible, you can go ahead
and read the scriptures. But I will hit at some
descriptures as it is projected in my notes here. So
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first we're gonna look at freedom and liberation. Both June
teenth and the Vedicus twenty five emphasize liberation. June teenth
marks the end of a period of enslavement for African Americans,
echoing the Biblical all for the freeing of slaves during
the jubilee year. Now, when we look at that eighth verse,
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he says, and thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years
unto the seven times seven years, and the space of
the seventh sabbaths of years should be unto.
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The forty and nine years.
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Then shalt thou callst the trumpet of the jubilee to
sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in
the day of atonement.
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Shall ye make the trumpet.
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Sound throughout all your land, And ye shall hollow the
fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, until
all the inhabitants there are. It shall be a jubilee
unto you, And ye shall return every man unto his possession,
And ye shall return every man unto his family a jubilee.
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Shall that fiftieth year be unto you. You shall not sow,
neither reap that which growth of itself in it, nor
gather the grapes in it of divine undressed.
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For it is the jubilee. It shall be wholly unto you,
you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
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So once again, both June tenth and Levenicus twenty five
emphasized liberation. June tenth marks the end of a period
of enslavement for African Americans. Epic Una biblical call for
the freeing of slaves during the Jubilee Year restoration and justice.
The Jubilee Year aimed to restore social equity by returning
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land and freeing slaves, preventing long term inequality. June tenth
similarly symbolizes a step toward justice and restoring dignity and
rights to formally enslaved people. Thirdly, God's vision of fairness
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Leviticus twenty five reflects God's concern for social justice and compassion,
advocating for periodic resets to prevent perpetual poverty and bondage.
June teenth, in a modern context, can be seen as
a social acknowledgement of past injustice and a movement towards
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rectifying them.
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Important distinctions.
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The biblical Jubilee Year was a divine commandment tied to
the Israelite nation, with specific observances every fifty years. Juneteenth
is a historical milestone in American history, reflecting the end
of slavery in the US, inspired by broader Biblical principles
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of justice and liberty. In summary, biblically, Juneteenth alligance with
the Viticus twenty five themes.
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Of liberation, justice, and restoration. It can be.
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Viewed as a reflection of the Biblical idea that every
society should seek freedom and fairness for all its members,
echoing the divine mandates for periodic release and renewal found
in the Jubilee. Now what I am going to do here,
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I am going to pause and take a break.
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And when I come back, I'm going to take a.
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Look at the theological implication.
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Between Juneteenth and Leviticus twenty five.
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So stick around to Sunday word mister Anthony Smith on
a Friday evening.
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We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to the Sunday were with Minister Anthony Smith
on Friday.
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Like I said, it has been a while, but a
lot is going on. I wanna say this. One weekend
we had my wife. We had to take a trip
to Oklahoma City.
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To generalize my cousin, Paula London definitely could say that
she was a true child of God. She she loved
her singing ministry, she loved her playing ministry. And if
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you let my cousin Maryland word, Yes, I'm calling my
cousin out Maryland word, if you let her tell.
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It, because.
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I happen to think all three of them were equal
when it came to that piano. As a matter of fact,
I'm gonna say it like this, and I may get
into some trouble. But growing up as a child, and
my parents would take me to mascow Yoklahoma, and let
me stay with my cousin, my uncle and auntie, the
late uncle David, and my aunt Lean Kathleen Hall, and
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of course now my cousin Gary Hall, who's pastor and
was now known as the Loving Mount Calvary Missionary.
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Baptist Church in mascog Yoklahoma. At that time it was
pastor by Pastor Reed.
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And I used to look forward to going to Muscogean
and going by my aunt Liz's house because there was
a piano, and Paula could play that piano, and I
I would love to hear her play. I would love
to hear her sing. She could do both well, so
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much to the tune that my my cousin Maryland, she'll
be the first to tell you. And her sister Arthur Eller,
who I want to say thank you to, we received
just thank you card in the mail, and we appreciate
you for the financial gift as well too. You didn't
have to do that, but we say thank you. But
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I'm a living witness you can get people to endorse anything. Now, Maryland,
there's four sisters, but three of them play piano. It's Maryland, Arthur, Nella,
and Paula. To me, all three of them play equally well.
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But Maryland found a way to get her sister to
endorse this comment right here that Paula plays better than
all of them. But I tend to think that they
all play equally well. So if you ever heard my
cousin Paula's underplay. And I was a big Paula fan
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because we was going through a period.
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At our church and we were looking for.
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Piano player one time, and I was really trying to
push the envelope, like, Daddy, why don't you get Paula
to come to town.
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She could be a piano player.
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I really want her to want her to come and
be in the piano player at our church.
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That bad, now, I know hearing me say that.
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I would say where that goes to shave? I come,
Bryland says, she's brother than a than all of them.
Now that's not what I'm saying. That's what Brland says.
But that's neither here, noother. But we well we'll miss
her physically, but her spirit still lives on because she
has two sisters who I say plays equally as well
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as she does.
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So yeah, I had to get that out the way,
but bring you up to speed to let you know
that you know, Me and my wife went to that
funeral service.
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Then Sunday, June the first, we was in tuls Oklahoma,
and we worshiped at uh New Heights Christian Church.
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UH. We was a guest of Lydia and Joey Crutcher.
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Some of you out there in the tuss Oklahoma area
know who doctor Joey Crutcher is, got the Crutcher Foundation.
And we was able to be a blessing to their congregation.
And I told sister Lydia that next time I come,
I said, make sure you tell the pastor next time
I come back, I'm bringing the Word with me, cause
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that's what I'm That's what I'm called to do.
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I'm I'm called to preach the word.
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But then we left that service and went to Legacy Church.
And I may have mentioned this on the podcast since then,
but now here I am again. We was in the
presence of one the late I got it used to
seeing it now, the late Norman Hutchins, who was in
Tulsa Saturday night for a concert and a book signing
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free concert. Turned around Sunday and he was at Legacy Church.
And I am at some point gonna get my cousin
who was also ministering as well and ministering the music,
David Keyes. I'm calling his name out. I'm gonna get
him on my show. I don't normally have guests on him,
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but I'm going to work that and have him as
a guest because he was in his presence both Saturday,
went to dinner with them after the concert, sat up
under his profound and prophetic word Sunday. But when you
talk about humility and being humble and not caring where
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you're at, you know I can speak on this even
just being a musician. I know some musicians here locally
unless it's certain settings and let's just say, certain amount
of money they're not going as much as play one note,
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but to see doctor Norman Hutchins in a building that
more or less resembles a gutted out house made into
a church. And at best, if you took the house
that me and my wife stay in, you know, and
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convert the garage and combined all the other three bedrooms,
you would probably have the size of the church house.
And this is what doctor Norman Hutchins was preaching in.
Now that's not a knock on the church ch but
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it shines a light on the humility and humble spirit
of one late doctor Norman Hutchins. Like I say, I
hope to get my cousin David Keyes on there so
he can explain to you the humility and humbleness because
he got to witness it up close and personal. And
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in case you don't know who doctor Norman Hutchins is,
he's the same one that blessed us with the song.
God's got a blessing with your name on it. Anyway,
I dine rambled on for about eight minutes after the
came back in from the break. But we're gonna get
back into the theological implication. I ain't forgot where I'm
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at between June teenth and Leviticus twenty five because it
offers a profound understanding of faith, justice, and human dignity.
So here are some key points that we're gonna look at.
First of all, God's justice and compassionate in Leviticus twenty
five underscores that God cares deeply about the justice and
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compassion for the oppressed and marginalized. The Jubilee Year was
a divine provision to prevent systemic poverty and slavery from
becoming eternal or unchangeable. The implication is recognizing Juneteenth as
a modern reflection of this divine concern can deepen faith
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by affirmingate God's justice cause believers to pursue social righteousness today.
It challenges faith communities to actively participate injustice, liberation, and reconciliation,
embodying God's love for all people. Secondly, human dignity and
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freedom as divine rights. The Biblity command to free slaves
and restore land emphasizes the inheritance and dignity and worth
of every person. The implication theologically disaffirms that freedom is
a divine gift and that human rights are rooted in
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God's creation of humanity in his image, Genesis one and
twenty seven.
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And what I'm going to do. I am going.
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To go to that scripture and give it to you
Genesis one in twenty seven because it reads.
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Dustly, and I'm gonna start it the twenty six words.
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And God said, let us make man in our image
after our likeness, and let them have a dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the foul of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth up on the earth.
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So God created man in his image, his own image,
in the image of God. Created he him male and
female created he them. And I can delve into that,
but that would be for another topic. But if you
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noticed in.
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That twenty sixth verse, we're gonna get.
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Back to our notes here, but says and God said,
let us make man in our image after our likeness,
and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea.
Now I'm putting emphasis on this for a reason. The
fish of the sea and over the file of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
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over every creeping thing that creepeth up on the earth.
Doesn't sound like you said anything about him, let her
have dominion over a particular race of people. Do I
need to read this once again? Well, I read it twice.
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And as we say in some of our church says,
he said, this was for the Holy Ghost. And God said,
let us make man in our image after our likeness,
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the file of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all earth, and over every creeping thing that
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creeping up on the earth. So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God.
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Created he him male.
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And female female created He them. Those two verses right
there would preach by itself. But we're dealing with juneteenth
and the Vilicus chapter twenty five, and how they tie in.
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So Juneteenth thus becomes a celebration not just of historical fact,
but of the divine longing for human freedom and dignity.
In other words, God created man to rule over the
animals and the fish of the sea. He did not
make man to rule over man, especially in the racial sense,
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where one race is better than the other, because we're
all created.
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Let me say this again, according.
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To scripture, and I know there's probably some theologians that
are trying to find a way to say differently. But
I have this one verse to hang what I'm gonna
say on. So God created me in his own image,
in the image of God, created he him male and female,
created he them. And he didn't just stop there, it says,
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and God blessed them. And God said unto them, be
fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it,
and once again, and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the file of the air, and
over every living thing that moved up on the earth.
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Once again.
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It didn't say nothing about a dominant race dominating one race. Thirdly,
the Kingdom of God as a realm of justice. In
Christian theology, the Kingdom of God is often just there's
a place where justice, peace, and righteousness prevail Matthew six
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and thirty three.
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So let us dive.
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Into what the word there in Matthew six and thirty
three has to say Matthew six, verse thirty three, And
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it reads dustly, but seek ye first the Kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added un to you. And then we have Revelation chapter
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twenty one verses one through four, and it reads like this,
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
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For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away,
and there was no more sea.
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And I John saw the Holy City New Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a.
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Great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the Tabernacle of
God is with men, and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people. And God himself shall
be with them and be their God. And God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall
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be no more death, neither sorrow nor crime, neither shall
there be any more pain, for the former things are
passed away.
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That right there is a timeless shout.
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The implication of this is the observance and celebration of
June tenth can be viewed as a foreshadowing or anticipation
of God's future reign of justice, where all forms of
bondage and oppression are ultimately abolished. It encourages believers to
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work toward that divine vision. Here and now, what I'm
going to do right here, I am going to pause
and take another break, and when I come back.
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I will conclude.
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The theological implication of June teenth in Leviticus chapter twenty five.
Right here on the Sunday Word with Minister Anthony Smith.
It's a Friday edition of the Sunday World.
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I hope you're han't a blessed day m hm. Welcome
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back to.
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The Sunday Word Friday Edition with the Minister. And we
have just surpassed the thirty minute mark. And those of
you who listen to my Sunday Word podcast, no, I
normally don't do thirty minutes and whatever the end time
of this will be, that would be a rarity because.
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I just don't do parts one to part two.
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I just try to get done because I know I
have to make way for the next wedness.
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But y'all pray with me.
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I may decide to alter some things and do a
Part one part two. I just have never been a
serious person. And there's so much meat on this bone
that I'm given to you. I just don't want them to
lay it. I want to just give you one big old.
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Go in the corral Buffei.
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That way, if if you didn't get enough in the
first segment, you got a second segment and we have
a concluding segment.
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So, uh, hope you have enjoyed what you have listened
to thus far.
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Uh we we've looked at the Kingdom of God as
a realm of justice, also the human dignity and freedom
as divine rights, and God's justice and compassion. So now
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we're gonna conclude, and we're gonna just jump right on.
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Back into this.
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As with all that being said, there is a call
that is very immportant, and it is a call.
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To repentance and and w We're gonna have.
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Some scripture for that as well too when we get
to that point. But a call to repentance and reconciliation
the history of slavery and racial injustice, cultural repentance and
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reconciliation within faith communities. Now I'm going to say something.
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Uh A.
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As the saying goes, I'm about to step on a
few toes here.
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You notice we have.
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All these different denominations and I and I'm not gonna
hit up on it too deeply. That'll be for another
time too. I I'm I'm Baptist, born Baptist, bred Baptists.
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And when I die, I'm gonna be a Baptists.
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But just because I Baptists shouldn't make me feel like
I'm better than my Pentecostal brother, or my Kojic brother,
or my Catholic brother, or my Protestant brother, or my
Israeli brother, or my Jewish brother, if we serving the
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same God. Because we read the scripture in Revelation twenty one,
we read how God created.
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Us all in his image.
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So who are we to think that because I'm this denomination,
that I'm better than that denomination? But yet we serve
the same God. I know right now, if you can't
say amen, you can say out right about that. But
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that being said, the history of slavery and racial injustice
again calls for repentance and reconciliation within faith communities. The
implication is that reflecting on Juneteenth through a biblical lens
invites believers to confront, not run from, but to confront.
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In other words, have those conversations that are very uncomfortable,
confront past sins, seek forgiveness, and commit to healing divisions,
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aligning with biblical themes of reconciliation. Second Corinthians Versus Sewod Corinthians,
Chapter five, Verses eighteen and nineteen, and for your reading pleasure.
It reads, let me pull that up here Tewo Corinthius,
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chapter five, verses.
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Eighteen and nineteen, because.
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It reads like this, and all things are of God,
who have reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and
have given to us the ministry of reconciliation. See, a
lot of people have a lot of different ministries, but
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you very seldom to hear someone brag on the ministry
of reconciliation. We have mentality, especially here in America. And
I don't know, I'm about to do something that maybe
I shouldn't do.
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But those you know about the Christian.
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Science movement, that they have this thing you know that
basically says, you know, it's a mind thing to me,
or whatever it is, how you want to interpret it.
But they have this thing like if you go out
in the middle of the street and you get hit
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by a car, it didn't really happen. And I think
that that is the general consensus here in America because
we see such racial division, and the more we try
to make change and try to come to a common
understanding at best. One of my favorite basketball players of
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all time, he says like this, He says, we sweeping.
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Under the rug.
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In other words, the mentality is it didn't happen, to
get over it, deal with it, and try to make
the best of it.
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Well and all.
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According to this, the history of slavery and racial injustice
cause for repentance.
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That mean you gonna say I'm sorry, You gonna say
Lord forgive me.
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You gonna have to go to that one that you
know I if your brother had, if you have a
aught against your brother, you.
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Need to go with to him and get it right.
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An and your brother ain't always the one that's the
same color as you. As a matter of fact, if
I can reference Kendrick Lamar and it's on, they're not
like us. You gonna have to go to some people
that's not like you and say I'm sorry and let
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the healing begin. But at the same time, we as
a people, we we we're not sc squeaky clean either,
We too gonna have to say I'm sorry and let
the healing begin. The history of slavery and racial addresses
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caused the repentance and reconciliation within faith communities. I I've
said this for the longest before things got way out
of whack within the church, but I've often said it,
until the churches come together, we shouldn't expect the world
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to come together, because, believe it or not, the world
who's on the outside looking in, is looking at the
church and seeing how we're acting. And we shouldn't expect
the world to be be a.
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Place of unity. If the church is, it's not a
place of unity.
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I know that's not popular. That's not popular teaching, but
it's truthful teaching. This didn say nothing about reconciliation outside
of the faith communities. This says within faith communities, which
means we have wronged each other. Reflecting on Juneteenth, though
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through a biblical lends and vice believers to confront pass ins,
seek forgiveness, and commit to healing in divisions aligning with
biblical themes of reconciliation. And we read to you Second
Corinthians five, eighteen nineteen. But we're gonna give it to
you again. It says in all things are of God,
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who have reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and
have given us the ministry of reconciliation. Where that God
was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not in
putting their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us
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the word of reconciliation, so that word should be a
very important word in our vocabulary, reconciliation Let me move on.
Because it also emphasizes that true faith involves acting for
justice in restoring broken relationships, hope renewal. The Villicus twenty
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five speaks of hope of future, of renewal and restored community,
and this theme resonates strongly with junleteenth, which symbolizes hope
for a more just and ectable society.
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The implication is simple.
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The logically dishope anchors believers in God's promise of redemption
and renewal, inspiring action rooted.
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In faith and love.
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In summary, theologically, juneteenth echoes biblical themes of divine justice,
human dignity.
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Liberation, and renewal.
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It challenges faith communities to embody these principles, recognizing that
pursuit of justice is a sacred calling rooted.
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In God's character.
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It also encourages believers to see the ongoing struggles for
justice as part of God's divine plan for.
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A restored creation.
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I don't know where you're at, what you're doing, where
you're at, where you may be listening to this, but
share this message.
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If you don't get nothing else out of.
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This message, It's past time for healing. It's past time
for reconciliation. Somebody has to make the first step. Somebody
has to be the bigger person. I'm not gonna say
you even have to be the bigger person. Somebody has
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to be the godly person. Don't step out on man's ideology,
but step out on God's word of reconciliation.
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Let the healing begin.
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The first that it begins within self, and then spread
it abroad. I hope that today's podcast has been a
blessing to you. If it has pleased, by all means,
bless us with this very same message, share it. I
pray that this has been a blessing to you. Until
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the next time, be a be blessed, and be a blessing.
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Welcome to the Sunday Word with Minister Anthony Smith. And
I know it's been a few weeks. So with that
being said, I want to say, first of all, thank
you for all of the well wishes and prayers as
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I recovered from having an ICD defibrillator implant surgery upon
last week.
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The first thankful to.
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My wife for being there, getting me there and back
home and not actually taking time off but being able
to work from home for a few days. And then
I have my grandson here so I was able to
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start driving according to the instructions. I followed the instructions,
I didn't get behind the wheel of a car until
this past Wednesday, me and my grandson we enjoyed having
lunch at a place called Jimmy's Egg. So basically, I
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want to say thank you to all of those of
you who sent up prayers for me as I went
into that surgery last week and continued prayers. I really
appreciate them. I can't say thank you enough. There are
some people still wishing me well, so I want to
say thank you, thank you, thank you. As you know,
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this week and this weekend, especially from yesterday was June nineteenth,
which was June teenth, and as I was up this
morning before the break of day, there were some things
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as I was watching TV, cause, uh, you know, with
me in recovery, you know, I still have to sleep
with this sling on on my left arm, and you know,
I can only do so much with my left arm.
I can't reach above my head, can't do this, can't
do this. I have to be obedient and do it
the instruction say. So sometimes that thing just gets aggravating sleeping.
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With that at night. So well, I I get up.
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And as I'm watching TV, I'm listening at things and
June teenth and how it is connected with Leviticus the
twenty fifth chapter, and I want to point out some things.
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I don't know how.
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Long this is going to be, but we're gonna look
at the connection between June teenth and the Vidicus chapter
twenty five.
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Because there's gonna still.
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Be festivities going on, not just on June nineteenth, but
throughout the rest of this week. It started Thursday Friday,
and there's gonna be some celebrations going on Saturday. I
know here locally and which you talk where I'm at.
So what is June teenth, Well, it is celebrated on
June nineteenth in the United States to commemorate the emancipation
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of enslaved African Americans, specifically marking the announcement of the
abolition of slavery in Texas in eighteen sixty five. It
symbolizes freedom, liberation, and justice well. The Viticus twenty five
maintains the biblical concepts of the sabbath year and the
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year of Jubilee, which are about liberation, rest and resetting
economic and social structures. Sabbatical year every seventh year debts
are forgiven and land lies fallow. You can find that
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in Leviticus chapter twenty five, verses one through seven, And
we're gonna go ahead and look at the verses here,
because those verses read Dusty and the Lord spake unto
Moses and Mount Sinai, saying, speaking to the children of Israel,
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and saying to them, when ye come into the land
which I give you, then shall the land keep a
sabbath unto the Lord. Six years, thou shalt sow thy feel.
In six years, thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather
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in the fruit thereof. But in the seventh year shall
be a sabbath of rest into the land a sabbath
for the Lord. Thou shalt neither soul thou feel, nor
prune thy vineyard, that which groweth of its own accord
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of thy harvest. Thou shalt not reap, neither gather the
grapes of thy vine undressed. For it is a year
of rest into the land. And the sabbath of the
land shall be meet for you, for thee, and for
thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant,
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and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee verse seven,
and for thy cattle, and for the east that are
in thy land. Shall all the increase thereof be meat
the Jubilee year. Every fiftieth year, slaves are set free,
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land is returned to original owners, and debts are forgiven.
The Vedicus Chapter twenty five, verses eight to fifty five. Now,
trust me, we're not gonna read all of them scriptures.
But if you have your Bible, you can go ahead
and read the scriptures. But I will hit at some
descriptures as it is projected in my notes here. So
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first we're gonna look at freedom and liberation. Both June
teenth and the Vedicus twenty five emphasize liberation. June teenth
marks the end of a period of enslavement for African Americans,
echoing the Biblical all for the freeing of slaves during
the jubilee year. Now, when we look at that eighth verse,
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he says, and thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years
unto the seven times seven years, and the space of
the seventh sabbaths of years should be unto.
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The forty and nine years.
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Then shalt thou callst the trumpet of the jubilee to
sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in
the day of atonement.
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Shall ye make the trumpet.
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Sound throughout all your land, And ye shall hollow the
fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, until
all the inhabitants there are. It shall be a jubilee
unto you, And ye shall return every man unto his possession,
And ye shall return every man unto his family a jubilee.
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Shall that fiftieth year be unto you. You shall not sow,
neither reap that which growth of itself in it, nor
gather the grapes in it of divine undressed.
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For it is the jubilee. It shall be wholly unto you,
you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
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So once again, both June tenth and Levenicus twenty five
emphasized liberation. June tenth marks the end of a period
of enslavement for African Americans. Epic Una biblical call for
the freeing of slaves during the Jubilee Year restoration and justice.
The Jubilee Year aimed to restore social equity by returning
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land and freeing slaves, preventing long term inequality. June tenth
similarly symbolizes a step toward justice and restoring dignity and
rights to formally enslaved people. Thirdly, God's vision of fairness
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Leviticus twenty five reflects God's concern for social justice and compassion,
advocating for periodic resets to prevent perpetual poverty and bondage.
June teenth, in a modern context, can be seen as
a social acknowledgement of past injustice and a movement towards
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rectifying them.
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Important distinctions.
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The biblical Jubilee Year was a divine commandment tied to
the Israelite nation, with specific observances every fifty years. Juneteenth
is a historical milestone in American history, reflecting the end
of slavery in the US, inspired by broader Biblical principles
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of justice and liberty. In summary, biblically, Juneteenth alligance with
the Viticus twenty five themes.
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Of liberation, justice, and restoration. It can be.
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Viewed as a reflection of the Biblical idea that every
society should seek freedom and fairness for all its members,
echoing the divine mandates for periodic release and renewal found
in the Jubilee. Now what I am going to do here,
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I am going to pause and take a break.
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And when I come back, I'm going to take a.
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Look at the theological implication.
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Between Juneteenth and Leviticus twenty five.
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So stick around to Sunday word mister Anthony Smith on
a Friday evening.
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We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to the Sunday were with Minister Anthony Smith
on Friday.
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Like I said, it has been a while, but a
lot is going on. I wanna say this. One weekend
we had my wife. We had to take a trip
to Oklahoma City.
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To generalize my cousin, Paula London definitely could say that
she was a true child of God. She she loved
her singing ministry, she loved her playing ministry. And if
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you let my cousin Maryland word, Yes, I'm calling my
cousin out Maryland word, if you let her tell.
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It, because.
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I happen to think all three of them were equal
when it came to that piano. As a matter of fact,
I'm gonna say it like this, and I may get
into some trouble. But growing up as a child, and
my parents would take me to mascow Yoklahoma, and let
me stay with my cousin, my uncle and auntie, the
late uncle David, and my aunt Lean Kathleen Hall, and
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of course now my cousin Gary Hall, who's pastor and
was now known as the Loving Mount Calvary Missionary.
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Baptist Church in mascog Yoklahoma. At that time it was
pastor by Pastor Reed.
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And I used to look forward to going to Muscogean
and going by my aunt Liz's house because there was
a piano, and Paula could play that piano, and I
I would love to hear her play. I would love
to hear her sing. She could do both well, so
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much to the tune that my my cousin Maryland, she'll
be the first to tell you. And her sister Arthur Eller,
who I want to say thank you to, we received
just thank you card in the mail, and we appreciate
you for the financial gift as well too. You didn't
have to do that, but we say thank you. But
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I'm a living witness you can get people to endorse anything. Now, Maryland,
there's four sisters, but three of them play piano. It's Maryland, Arthur, Nella,
and Paula. To me, all three of them play equally well.
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But Maryland found a way to get her sister to
endorse this comment right here that Paula plays better than
all of them. But I tend to think that they
all play equally well. So if you ever heard my
cousin Paula's underplay. And I was a big Paula fan
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because we was going through a period.
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At our church and we were looking for.
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Piano player one time, and I was really trying to
push the envelope, like, Daddy, why don't you get Paula
to come to town.
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She could be a piano player.
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I really want her to want her to come and
be in the piano player at our church.
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That bad, now, I know hearing me say that.
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I would say where that goes to shave? I come,
Bryland says, she's brother than a than all of them.
Now that's not what I'm saying. That's what Brland says.
But that's neither here, noother. But we well we'll miss
her physically, but her spirit still lives on because she
has two sisters who I say plays equally as well
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as she does.
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So yeah, I had to get that out the way,
but bring you up to speed to let you know
that you know, Me and my wife went to that
funeral service.
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Then Sunday, June the first, we was in tuls Oklahoma,
and we worshiped at uh New Heights Christian Church.
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UH. We was a guest of Lydia and Joey Crutcher.
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Some of you out there in the tuss Oklahoma area
know who doctor Joey Crutcher is, got the Crutcher Foundation.
And we was able to be a blessing to their congregation.
And I told sister Lydia that next time I come,
I said, make sure you tell the pastor next time
I come back, I'm bringing the Word with me, cause
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that's what I'm That's what I'm called to do.
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I'm I'm called to preach the word.
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But then we left that service and went to Legacy Church.
And I may have mentioned this on the podcast since then,
but now here I am again. We was in the
presence of one the late I got it used to
seeing it now, the late Norman Hutchins, who was in
Tulsa Saturday night for a concert and a book signing
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free concert. Turned around Sunday and he was at Legacy Church.
And I am at some point gonna get my cousin
who was also ministering as well and ministering the music,
David Keyes. I'm calling his name out. I'm gonna get
him on my show. I don't normally have guests on him,
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but I'm going to work that and have him as
a guest because he was in his presence both Saturday,
went to dinner with them after the concert, sat up
under his profound and prophetic word Sunday. But when you
talk about humility and being humble and not caring where
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you're at, you know I can speak on this even
just being a musician. I know some musicians here locally
unless it's certain settings and let's just say, certain amount
of money they're not going as much as play one note,
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but to see doctor Norman Hutchins in a building that
more or less resembles a gutted out house made into
a church. And at best, if you took the house
that me and my wife stay in, you know, and
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convert the garage and combined all the other three bedrooms,
you would probably have the size of the church house.
And this is what doctor Norman Hutchins was preaching in.
Now that's not a knock on the church ch but
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it shines a light on the humility and humble spirit
of one late doctor Norman Hutchins. Like I say, I
hope to get my cousin David Keyes on there so
he can explain to you the humility and humbleness because
he got to witness it up close and personal. And
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in case you don't know who doctor Norman Hutchins is,
he's the same one that blessed us with the song.
God's got a blessing with your name on it. Anyway,
I dine rambled on for about eight minutes after the
came back in from the break. But we're gonna get
back into the theological implication. I ain't forgot where I'm
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at between June teenth and Leviticus twenty five because it
offers a profound understanding of faith, justice, and human dignity.
So here are some key points that we're gonna look at.
First of all, God's justice and compassionate in Leviticus twenty
five underscores that God cares deeply about the justice and
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compassion for the oppressed and marginalized. The Jubilee Year was
a divine provision to prevent systemic poverty and slavery from
becoming eternal or unchangeable. The implication is recognizing Juneteenth as
a modern reflection of this divine concern can deepen faith
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by affirmingate God's justice cause believers to pursue social righteousness today.
It challenges faith communities to actively participate injustice, liberation, and reconciliation,
embodying God's love for all people. Secondly, human dignity and
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freedom as divine rights. The Biblity command to free slaves
and restore land emphasizes the inheritance and dignity and worth
of every person. The implication theologically disaffirms that freedom is
a divine gift and that human rights are rooted in
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God's creation of humanity in his image, Genesis one and
twenty seven.
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And what I'm going to do. I am going.
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To go to that scripture and give it to you
Genesis one in twenty seven because it reads.
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Dustly, and I'm gonna start it the twenty six words.
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And God said, let us make man in our image
after our likeness, and let them have a dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the foul of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth up on the earth.
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So God created man in his image, his own image,
in the image of God. Created he him male and
female created he them. And I can delve into that,
but that would be for another topic. But if you
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noticed in.
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That twenty sixth verse, we're gonna get.
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Back to our notes here, but says and God said,
let us make man in our image after our likeness,
and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea.
Now I'm putting emphasis on this for a reason. The
fish of the sea and over the file of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
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over every creeping thing that creepeth up on the earth.
Doesn't sound like you said anything about him, let her
have dominion over a particular race of people. Do I
need to read this once again? Well, I read it twice.
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And as we say in some of our church says,
he said, this was for the Holy Ghost. And God said,
let us make man in our image after our likeness,
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the file of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all earth, and over every creeping thing that
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creeping up on the earth. So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God.
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Created he him male.
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And female female created He them. Those two verses right
there would preach by itself. But we're dealing with juneteenth
and the Vilicus chapter twenty five, and how they tie in.
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So Juneteenth thus becomes a celebration not just of historical fact,
but of the divine longing for human freedom and dignity.
In other words, God created man to rule over the
animals and the fish of the sea. He did not
make man to rule over man, especially in the racial sense,
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where one race is better than the other, because we're
all created.
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Let me say this again, according.
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To scripture, and I know there's probably some theologians that
are trying to find a way to say differently. But
I have this one verse to hang what I'm gonna
say on. So God created me in his own image,
in the image of God, created he him male and female,
created he them. And he didn't just stop there, it says,
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and God blessed them. And God said unto them, be
fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it,
and once again, and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the file of the air, and
over every living thing that moved up on the earth.
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Once again.
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It didn't say nothing about a dominant race dominating one race. Thirdly,
the Kingdom of God as a realm of justice. In
Christian theology, the Kingdom of God is often just there's
a place where justice, peace, and righteousness prevail Matthew six
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and thirty three.
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So let us dive.
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Into what the word there in Matthew six and thirty
three has to say Matthew six, verse thirty three, And
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it reads dustly, but seek ye first the Kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added un to you. And then we have Revelation chapter
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twenty one verses one through four, and it reads like this,
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
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For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away,
and there was no more sea.
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And I John saw the Holy City New Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a.
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Great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the Tabernacle of
God is with men, and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people. And God himself shall
be with them and be their God. And God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall
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be no more death, neither sorrow nor crime, neither shall
there be any more pain, for the former things are
passed away.
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That right there is a timeless shout.
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The implication of this is the observance and celebration of
June tenth can be viewed as a foreshadowing or anticipation
of God's future reign of justice, where all forms of
bondage and oppression are ultimately abolished. It encourages believers to
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work toward that divine vision. Here and now, what I'm
going to do right here, I am going to pause
and take another break, and when I come back.
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I will conclude.
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The theological implication of June teenth in Leviticus chapter twenty five.
Right here on the Sunday Word with Minister Anthony Smith.
It's a Friday edition of the Sunday World.
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I hope you're han't a blessed day m hm. Welcome
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back to.
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The Sunday Word Friday Edition with the Minister. And we
have just surpassed the thirty minute mark. And those of
you who listen to my Sunday Word podcast, no, I
normally don't do thirty minutes and whatever the end time
of this will be, that would be a rarity because.
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I just don't do parts one to part two.
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I just try to get done because I know I
have to make way for the next wedness.
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But y'all pray with me.
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I may decide to alter some things and do a
Part one part two. I just have never been a
serious person. And there's so much meat on this bone
that I'm given to you. I just don't want them to
lay it. I want to just give you one big old.
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Go in the corral Buffei.
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That way, if if you didn't get enough in the
first segment, you got a second segment and we have
a concluding segment.
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So, uh, hope you have enjoyed what you have listened
to thus far.
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Uh we we've looked at the Kingdom of God as
a realm of justice, also the human dignity and freedom
as divine rights, and God's justice and compassion. So now
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we're gonna conclude, and we're gonna just jump right on.
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Back into this.
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As with all that being said, there is a call
that is very immportant, and it is a call.
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To repentance and and w We're gonna have.
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Some scripture for that as well too when we get
to that point. But a call to repentance and reconciliation
the history of slavery and racial injustice, cultural repentance and
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reconciliation within faith communities. Now I'm going to say something.
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Uh A.
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As the saying goes, I'm about to step on a
few toes here.
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You notice we have.
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All these different denominations and I and I'm not gonna
hit up on it too deeply. That'll be for another
time too. I I'm I'm Baptist, born Baptist, bred Baptists.
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And when I die, I'm gonna be a Baptists.
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But just because I Baptists shouldn't make me feel like
I'm better than my Pentecostal brother, or my Kojic brother,
or my Catholic brother, or my Protestant brother, or my
Israeli brother, or my Jewish brother, if we serving the
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same God. Because we read the scripture in Revelation twenty one,
we read how God created.
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Us all in his image.
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So who are we to think that because I'm this denomination,
that I'm better than that denomination? But yet we serve
the same God. I know right now, if you can't
say amen, you can say out right about that. But
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that being said, the history of slavery and racial injustice
again calls for repentance and reconciliation within faith communities. The
implication is that reflecting on Juneteenth through a biblical lens
invites believers to confront, not run from, but to confront.
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In other words, have those conversations that are very uncomfortable,
confront past sins, seek forgiveness, and commit to healing divisions,
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aligning with biblical themes of reconciliation. Second Corinthians Versus Sewod Corinthians,
Chapter five, Verses eighteen and nineteen, and for your reading pleasure.
It reads, let me pull that up here Tewo Corinthius,
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chapter five, verses.
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Eighteen and nineteen, because.
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It reads like this, and all things are of God,
who have reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and
have given to us the ministry of reconciliation. See, a
lot of people have a lot of different ministries, but
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you very seldom to hear someone brag on the ministry
of reconciliation. We have mentality, especially here in America. And
I don't know, I'm about to do something that maybe
I shouldn't do.
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But those you know about the Christian.
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Science movement, that they have this thing you know that
basically says, you know, it's a mind thing to me,
or whatever it is, how you want to interpret it.
But they have this thing like if you go out
in the middle of the street and you get hit
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by a car, it didn't really happen. And I think
that that is the general consensus here in America because
we see such racial division, and the more we try
to make change and try to come to a common
understanding at best. One of my favorite basketball players of
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all time, he says like this, He says, we sweeping.
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Under the rug.
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In other words, the mentality is it didn't happen, to
get over it, deal with it, and try to make
the best of it.
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Well and all.
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According to this, the history of slavery and racial injustice
cause for repentance.
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That mean you gonna say I'm sorry, You gonna say
Lord forgive me.
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You gonna have to go to that one that you
know I if your brother had, if you have a
aught against your brother, you.
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Need to go with to him and get it right.
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An and your brother ain't always the one that's the
same color as you. As a matter of fact, if
I can reference Kendrick Lamar and it's on, they're not
like us. You gonna have to go to some people
that's not like you and say I'm sorry and let
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the healing begin. But at the same time, we as
a people, we we we're not sc squeaky clean either,
We too gonna have to say I'm sorry and let
the healing begin. The history of slavery and racial addresses
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caused the repentance and reconciliation within faith communities. I I've
said this for the longest before things got way out
of whack within the church, but I've often said it,
until the churches come together, we shouldn't expect the world
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to come together, because, believe it or not, the world
who's on the outside looking in, is looking at the
church and seeing how we're acting. And we shouldn't expect
the world to be be a.
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Place of unity. If the church is, it's not a
place of unity.
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I know that's not popular. That's not popular teaching, but
it's truthful teaching. This didn say nothing about reconciliation outside
of the faith communities. This says within faith communities, which
means we have wronged each other. Reflecting on Juneteenth, though
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through a biblical lends and vice believers to confront pass ins,
seek forgiveness, and commit to healing in divisions aligning with
biblical themes of reconciliation. And we read to you Second
Corinthians five, eighteen nineteen. But we're gonna give it to
you again. It says in all things are of God,
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who have reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and
have given us the ministry of reconciliation. Where that God
was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not in
putting their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us
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the word of reconciliation, so that word should be a
very important word in our vocabulary, reconciliation Let me move on.
Because it also emphasizes that true faith involves acting for
justice in restoring broken relationships, hope renewal. The Villicus twenty
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five speaks of hope of future, of renewal and restored community,
and this theme resonates strongly with junleteenth, which symbolizes hope
for a more just and ectable society.
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The implication is simple.
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The logically dishope anchors believers in God's promise of redemption
and renewal, inspiring action rooted.
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In faith and love.
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In summary, theologically, juneteenth echoes biblical themes of divine justice,
human dignity.
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Liberation, and renewal.
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It challenges faith communities to embody these principles, recognizing that
pursuit of justice is a sacred calling rooted.
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In God's character.
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It also encourages believers to see the ongoing struggles for
justice as part of God's divine plan for.
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A restored creation.
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I don't know where you're at, what you're doing, where
you're at, where you may be listening to this, but
share this message.
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If you don't get nothing else out of.
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This message, It's past time for healing. It's past time
for reconciliation. Somebody has to make the first step. Somebody
has to be the bigger person. I'm not gonna say
you even have to be the bigger person. Somebody has
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to be the godly person. Don't step out on man's ideology,
but step out on God's word of reconciliation.
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Let the healing begin.
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The first that it begins within self, and then spread
it abroad. I hope that today's podcast has been a
blessing to you. If it has pleased, by all means,
bless us with this very same message, share it. I
pray that this has been a blessing to you. Until
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the next time, be a be blessed, and be a blessing.
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