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Voddie Baucham - Our concept of race is not biblical , its artificial · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Actually, in Ephesians 1 through 10, we get the picture
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  Speaker 1: of our need in Christ for salvation from our sin.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the world, the flesh, and the devil, we're
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  Speaker 1: dead in our trespasses and sins. And we have to
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  Speaker 1: be made alive together with Christ. Amen? And that's just
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  Speaker 1: good news. We must be born again. We must have
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  Speaker 1: our sins dealt with. Our sins must be nailed to
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  Speaker 1: the cross. And we must be reconciled to God. Amen, hallelujah,
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  Speaker 1: praise the Lord. But it doesn't stop there. We are
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  Speaker 1: also reconciled to one another. And that's what we see
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  Speaker 1: beginning in verse 11. That this reconciliation to God... opens up,
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  Speaker 1: lays the foundation, and is the source of our reconciliation
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  Speaker 1: to one another. Not sociology, psychology, or political science, but
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  Speaker 1: the same gospel. Beginning in verse 11. Look at it there. Therefore, remember. Now, therefore.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore harkens back to verses 1 through 10. Therefore remember
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  Speaker 1: that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh called
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  Speaker 1: the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is
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  Speaker 1: made in the flesh by hands. Now remember, you Gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he's dividing the world, and this is important.
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  Speaker 1: When we talk about the sufficiency of Scripture for our reconciliation, right,
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  Speaker 1: the sufficiency of Scripture is, as it relates to justice
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  Speaker 1: in this regard between us as people. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: we see its sufficiency in that it makes clear who
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  Speaker 1: we are and how we are divided. We see two
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  Speaker 1: groups here, Gentiles in the flesh and the circumcision. Remember
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  Speaker 1: that you were at that time three things, separated from Christ, Secondly,
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  Speaker 1: alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. Thirdly, strangers to the
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  Speaker 1: covenants and promises. Because of that, we had no hope
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  Speaker 1: and were without God in the world. It does two
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  Speaker 1: things here that are incredibly important. One is it identifies
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  Speaker 1: the distinctions that matter. And secondly, it identifies the division
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  Speaker 1: that exists. Now, these distinctions that matter are important because
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes we talk about distinctions and we talk about being
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  Speaker 1: distinct from one another in terms of our race. Race
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  Speaker 1: is actually a social construct. The concept of race is
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  Speaker 1: not a biblical concept. It's not a biblical idea. It
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  Speaker 1: is a constructed idea. You won't find the idea of
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  Speaker 1: races in the Bible unless you find it in the
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  Speaker 1: proper historical context where we see, number one, that we
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  Speaker 1: are all the race of Adam. Amen? One race, one blood.
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  Speaker 1: We are all the race of Adam. There is less
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  Speaker 1: than a 0.2% genetic difference between any of us in
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  Speaker 1: this regard. In fact, we're not even different colors. Amen. Technically,
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  Speaker 1: from a genetic perspective, from a biochemistry perspective, we're all
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  Speaker 1: actually the same color. Our color comes from our melanin.
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  Speaker 1: We've all got melanin just to differing degrees. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not that some of us are, you know, this color,
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  Speaker 1: some of us are that color. No, we're just different
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  Speaker 1: shades of the same color. Some of us just have
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  Speaker 1: more melanin than others. And I want you to listen
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  Speaker 1: to me on this. Listen to me. Just because you
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  Speaker 1: don't have as much melanin as I do, don't you
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  Speaker 1: dare think God doesn't love you as much as he
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  Speaker 1: loves me because he gave me more. You learn to
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  Speaker 1: be satisfied with the little you have. But there is
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  Speaker 1: another separation. There is actually a separation that we do
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  Speaker 1: have here in scripture. It's a real separation. The separations
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  Speaker 1: that we have, the racial categories that we have are artificial.
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  Speaker 1: They are not biblical in nature. Nor are they genetic
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  Speaker 1: in nature. They are artificial based on people's hair and
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  Speaker 1: their features and their skin color and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: That is artificial. It's not real. We've been convinced that
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  Speaker 1: it is, but it's not real. But the Bible does
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  Speaker 1: talk about a real distinction, and that is between Gentiles
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  Speaker 1: and Jews. Now, racial distinctions are things that we have
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  Speaker 1: made up to divide ourselves as individuals, and it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's logically inconsistent. It's inconsistent. I read these forms and people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what is your race? Human. Actually, no. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: you're African American. How is that a race? Because one
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  Speaker 1: of them is a nationality. Amen? That's crazy talk. How
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  Speaker 1: is that my race? And how is it that I
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  Speaker 1: get to be an African American, but if somebody comes
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  Speaker 1: over here from Egypt or Algeria or Morocco, they don't
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  Speaker 1: get to be African American? Because the first part of
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  Speaker 1: my race is based on my continent. Well, no, not actually,
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  Speaker 1: only the black part of your continent. Oh, wow, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So why use the name of the continent, right? And
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  Speaker 1: then the second part is based on your nationality. How
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  Speaker 1: do you get race from nationality? We made this up.
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  Speaker 1: It's not real. But this distinction is real. And we
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  Speaker 1: didn't make it up, God did.