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Voddie Baucham - The Table of Nations_ Are There Many Races, or One · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: And as we said, when we thought about preaching through
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  Speaker 1: the first 11 chapters of Genesis, there were several places
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  Speaker 1: that sort of gave us pause. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: places was Genesis 10. What do you do when you
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  Speaker 1: get to Genesis 10 and the table of nations? But
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  Speaker 1: we're committed to systematic exposition. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that means is, just like in our reading of Scripture,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure if you are a guest with us and
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been with us and you don't really know
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  Speaker 1: about what we do and what we're committed to in worship.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things we're committed to is the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says to give attention to the public reading of Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: And so we read systematically through Scripture. And we'll read
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament and we'll read in the New
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  Speaker 1: Testament and we'll take a book and we'll read through
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  Speaker 1: the book. And so right now we're reading through Exodus.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people sit there and they've never been
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  Speaker 1: with us and we're in Exodus 26 and they're going, huh.
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  Speaker 1: wondering how they're going to tie this in to everything
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  Speaker 1: else that they're doing. We don't tie it in. We're
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  Speaker 1: just committed to the systematic reading of Scripture. And if
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  Speaker 1: we believe that all Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, rebuking, correcting,
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  Speaker 1: and training in righteousness so that the man of God
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  Speaker 1: may be adequate and equipped for every good work, then
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  Speaker 1: what part of Scripture would be inappropriate to read and worship? Well, none.
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  Speaker 1: Do we really believe that? Well, most times we don't.
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  Speaker 1: That's why most of us have never been in a
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  Speaker 1: church where Exodus 26 has ever been read. Amen? But
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  Speaker 1: we read systematically through Scripture. We read Revelation. The next
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  Speaker 1: week we'll read Revelation 22, and then we'll find another
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  Speaker 1: New Testament book, and we'll read through it from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning to the end. We preach systematically. So right now
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  Speaker 1: we're preaching Genesis 1 through 11. Most times you don't
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  Speaker 1: tackle Genesis chapter 10, the table of nations. Lists of names. Amen. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Make us want to get up and
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  Speaker 1: shout and do the Holy Ghost dance, all right? Reading
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  Speaker 1: lists of names. No. But if we're committed to systematic
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  Speaker 1: exposition and we look at the scriptures as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: the question is, God put Genesis chapter 10 in here
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  Speaker 1: for a reason. Can we, in light of what we've
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  Speaker 1: taught all the way through Genesis chapters 1 through 9,
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  Speaker 1: and in light of what comes up in Genesis chapter 11,
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  Speaker 1: can we understand how Genesis chapter 10 fits into God's
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  Speaker 1: redemptive plan? The answer, I believe, is yes. Let's read
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  Speaker 1: it together, shall we? Or I'll read it. These are
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  Speaker 1: the generations of the sons of Noah. Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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  Speaker 1: Sons were born to them after the flood. The sons
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  Speaker 1: of Japheth, Gomer, Magog, Medi, Javan, Tubal, Meshach, and Teres.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we have a lot of expecting mothers
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  Speaker 1: here in the church with us this morning. And as
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  Speaker 1: we go through here, feel free to just dive in
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  Speaker 1: and grab any one of these names the sons of
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  Speaker 1: Gomer Ashkenaz, Riphoth and Togarmah the sons of Javan Elisha, Tarshish,
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  Speaker 1: Kittim and Dodanim from these the coastal peoples spread in
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  Speaker 1: their lands each with its own language and their clans
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  Speaker 1: in their nations and so Now we see the sons
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  Speaker 1: of Japheth going off to these coastal regions. The sons
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  Speaker 1: of Ham, Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush, Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Ramah,
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  Speaker 1: and Sabtaka. The sons of Ramah, Sheba, and Dadan. Cush
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  Speaker 1: fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be
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  Speaker 1: a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it is said, like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The beginning of his kingdom was Babel. Erech, Akkad, and
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  Speaker 1: Calni in the land of Shinar. From that land, he
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  Speaker 1: went into Assyria and built Nineveh. That sound familiar? Ring
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  Speaker 1: of both ear, Kelah, and resin between Nineveh and Kelah.
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  Speaker 1: That is the great city. Egypt fathered Ludim, Adamim, Lehabim, Naphthahim, Pathrosim, Kaslohim,
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  Speaker 1: from whom the Philistines came, and Kaphtorim. And so now
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  Speaker 1: we've seen the Philistines as well. We recognize them. Canaan
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  Speaker 1: fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusites, and
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  Speaker 1: the Amorites, the Sinites, the Arbidites, and the Samarites, and
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  Speaker 1: the Hamathites. Afterward, the clans of the Canaanites dispersed, and
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  Speaker 1: the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the
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  Speaker 1: direction of Gerar in Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma,
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  Speaker 1: and Zedoyim, as far as Lesha. These are the sons
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  Speaker 1: of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and
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  Speaker 1: their nations. And so now we see The sons of Ham,
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  Speaker 1: much more prolific, these sons of Ham. We have one
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  Speaker 1: who's gone sort of coastal and another one who has
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  Speaker 1: moved in a sort of southerly direction. To Shem also,
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  Speaker 1: the father of all the children of Eber, the elder
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  Speaker 1: brother of Japheth, children are born. The sons of Shem, Elam, Ashur, Arphashad, Lud,
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  Speaker 1: and Aram. the sons of Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
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  Speaker 1: Arpachad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. Eber, to Eber
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  Speaker 1: were born two sons. The name of the one, Peleg,
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  Speaker 1: for in his days the earth was divided, and his
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  Speaker 1: brother's name was Joktan. Joktan fathered Almadad, Shelath, Hazarmaveth, Jera, Hadarim, Uzal, Dikla, Obal, Abimele, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah,
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  Speaker 1: and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. The
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  Speaker 1: territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the
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  Speaker 1: direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.
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  Speaker 1: These are the sons of Shem by their clans and
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  Speaker 1: their language and their lands and their nations. And so
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  Speaker 1: now we have Shem taking off in an easterly direction.
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  Speaker 1: These are the clans of the sons of Noah according
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  Speaker 1: to their genealogies in their nations and from these nations
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  Speaker 1: spread abroad on all the earth after the flood. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's the question. Do we believe that? That's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Do we believe that? When we look at the table
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  Speaker 1: of nations, what the table of nations suggests is this.
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  Speaker 1: All the different people groups on earth are derived from
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Noah. Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Do we
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  Speaker 1: believe that? Now don't answer that too quickly. Okay. Because
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  Speaker 1: you may be surprised by the answer. Because for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, we don't believe that. We don't believe that
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  Speaker 1: we all are of common descent and of common origin.
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  Speaker 1: Most of us, when we think and ask ourselves the
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  Speaker 1: question about the different people groups and from where they're
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  Speaker 1: derived and how they're derived, we ask ourselves that question
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  Speaker 1: from a perspective that is given to us by our culture.
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  Speaker 1: So as we think about this issue of nations and
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  Speaker 1: the origin of nations, we've been conditioned to think this way.
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  Speaker 1: There are multiple races of men. And these multiple races
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  Speaker 1: of men come from multiple origins. We believe this because
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  Speaker 1: that's what we've been taught. And there are several reasons
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  Speaker 1: that we've been taught to believe this. But all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, we get back to Genesis 10 and the
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  Speaker 1: table of nations, and we have to ask ourselves a question.
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  Speaker 1: How do we get multiple races of people if everybody
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  Speaker 1: goes back to Shem, Ham, and Japheth? How was Noah
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  Speaker 1: able to have children who were multiple races? How'd that happen?
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  Speaker 1: And if Noah didn't have children who were multiple races,
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  Speaker 1: where did the multiple races of people come from? Interestingly enough,
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  Speaker 1: there is a premise in the question that is false.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the false premise. The false premise is that
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  Speaker 1: there are multiple races of people. There is only one race.
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  Speaker 1: There has always been one race. There will always be.
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  Speaker 1: One race. All descended from Noah, who was descended from Adam.
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  Speaker 1: There is but one race. Did you hear me? there
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  Speaker 1: is but one race now as I say that I
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  Speaker 1: say it over and over again so that it will
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  Speaker 1: wash over us because if you remember we always talk
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  Speaker 1: about Aristotle's famous question does a fish know he's wet
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  Speaker 1: the answer of course is no fish doesn't know he's
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  Speaker 1: wet not till you get him out of the water
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  Speaker 1: And the fact of the matter is we have been
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  Speaker 1: conditioned by our culture for a number of reasons to
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  Speaker 1: believe that there are multiple races of people. I have
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  Speaker 1: people ask me all the time, is your church interracial?
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  Speaker 1: To which I always respond, oh, absolutely not. We only
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  Speaker 1: accept humans as members. No, no, no, wouldn't dare, wouldn't dare.
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  Speaker 1: have anyone who was not human as a member of
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  Speaker 1: our church. We've got a little dog who hangs around
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  Speaker 1: out there in the parking lot, you know. He's wanting membership.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to get membership. But no, no, no. This
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  Speaker 1: is a humans-only congregation. I've had people ask me about
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  Speaker 1: how I feel about interracial marriage or interracial adoption. To which, again,
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  Speaker 1: I respond, no, I do not believe in interracial marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I am against interracial marriage. My children may
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  Speaker 1: only marry humans. Amen. That's all. Don't you bring a
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  Speaker 1: non-human into my house trying to get my blessing to
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  Speaker 1: go and get married. All right? But there is but
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  Speaker 1: one race and one race only. Listen to this from
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  Speaker 1: Webster's 1828 Dictionary. I'm sorry some of this won't be
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  Speaker 1: up for you. Because some of it is quite visual.
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  Speaker 1: Western defines race as this. The lineage of a family
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  Speaker 1: or continued series of descendants from a parent who is
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  Speaker 1: called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: all mankind are called the race of Adam. By definition,
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  Speaker 1: all mankind are called the race of Adam. Many races
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  Speaker 1: or one. Listen to Paul in Acts 17, 26. And
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  Speaker 1: he made from one man every nation of mankind to
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  Speaker 1: live on all the face of the earth, having determined
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  Speaker 1: allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling places. He's
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  Speaker 1: hearkening back to Genesis chapter 10. God made from one
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  Speaker 1: man every nation of men. There are not multiple races
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  Speaker 1: of men. There is but one race of man. What
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  Speaker 1: we have in Genesis chapter 10 is not the table
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  Speaker 1: of races, but the table of nations. That's what we
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  Speaker 1: have in Genesis 10. Single parentage, single lineages, not races.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, listen to this. A geneticist and a
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  Speaker 1: computer scientist and the geologist all at Yale sort of
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  Speaker 1: got together to do some number crunching and some figuring
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  Speaker 1: based on what we know of genealogy. And here's what
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  Speaker 1: they discovered. You'd have to go back in time only 2,000
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  Speaker 1: to 5,000 years and probably on the low side of
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  Speaker 1: that range, To find somebody who could count every person
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  Speaker 1: alive today as a descendant. These are not Christians, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. These are evolutionary biologists. These are evolutionary scientists
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  Speaker 1: who by their computations have said you only have to
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  Speaker 1: go back between 2,000 and 4,000 years. To find a
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  Speaker 1: person from whom all of us are commonly descended. 2,000
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  Speaker 1: to 5,000 years. Well, the flood happened about 4,000 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, fits right in there. But wait, there's more. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: if you go back a little further, about 5,000 to 7,000
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  Speaker 1: years ago. By the way, I believe the earth is
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  Speaker 1: only about 6,000 years old. I know that makes me
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  Speaker 1: a freak. Amen. But I believe Genesis. I do. I do.
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  Speaker 1: I also believe science, and I believe the scientific evidence
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  Speaker 1: points to the earth being only around 6,000 years old,
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  Speaker 1: not billions and billions of years old. But these evolutionary
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  Speaker 1: scientists say, furthermore, if you go back a little further,
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  Speaker 1: about 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, everybody living today has
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same set of ancestors. I wonder who that
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  Speaker 1: might be. That would be Adam and Eve. One race?
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  Speaker 1: Or multiple races? Which is it? Our culture says there
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  Speaker 1: are multiple races. The Bible says that there is but one.
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  Speaker 1: Which do we say? For most of my life, I've
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  Speaker 1: believed that there were multiple races. For most of my life,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that. Even as a new believer, I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I became a believer that it didn't automatically change every
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  Speaker 1: aspect of my thinking overnight. No, I was still swimming
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  Speaker 1: in the stream of this culture and believed with every
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  Speaker 1: fiber of my being that there were multiple races of
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  Speaker 1: people and that you could determine those multiple races of
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  Speaker 1: people by external characteristics like skin tone, like hair type,
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  Speaker 1: like shape of face and eyes and things of that nature,
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  Speaker 1: but that there were multiple races of people. Why do
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  Speaker 1: we doubt the one race hypothesis? Two reasons mainly. One
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  Speaker 1: reason is evolution. We doubt the one race hypothesis because
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  Speaker 1: we are bathed in this theory of evolution. We believe
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  Speaker 1: this theory of evolution. Everywhere we go, it's assumed that
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  Speaker 1: man evolved. And evolutionary thinking has taught for a long
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  Speaker 1: time that there are multiple races of people. The second
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  Speaker 1: reason that we believe or that we fail to believe
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  Speaker 1: this one race hypothesis is because of racism. It's because
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  Speaker 1: of racism. Because of racial prejudice. And that category of
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  Speaker 1: race and that category of thinking about people as races
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  Speaker 1: of people is actually racist in itself. That category that
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  Speaker 1: goes back to Genesis chapter 10 says, and somehow believes
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  Speaker 1: that there was a mutation that took place, and that
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  Speaker 1: there were certain mutant races that came as a result
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  Speaker 1: of that, that's racism. Or that idea that goes back
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  Speaker 1: even further to Adam and says that there was somehow
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  Speaker 1: a sub-Adamic race. That there is Adam and the people
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  Speaker 1: who descended from Adam, but then there are other people
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  Speaker 1: who did not descend from Adam, but they descended from
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  Speaker 1: some sub-Adamic race. Some race not identified with Adam. That
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  Speaker 1: is racism. As we look at Genesis 10, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to understand that this gets to the core of
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  Speaker 1: who we are as people. This gets to the core
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  Speaker 1: of how we relate to one another. This gets to
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  Speaker 1: the core of how we treat one another. And this
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  Speaker 1: gets to the core of assumptions and prejudices with which
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  Speaker 1: all of us struggle. All of us. Here's what I
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  Speaker 1: want to do in the rest of the time that
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  Speaker 1: we have together. I want to show you how this
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  Speaker 1: struggle has come about. I want to show you the
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  Speaker 1: scars that this struggle has left. And then we will
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  Speaker 1: look back at a better way to think about issues
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  Speaker 1: regarding so-called race. And how it is we must address this.
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't think we understand how we've been affected.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, evolution. Listen to this from Paula Weston.
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  Speaker 1: The increase and spread of evolutionist doctrine has much to
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  Speaker 1: answer for in relation to the way people often treat
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  Speaker 1: each other. Sadly, people rarely recognize that the prejudices which
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  Speaker 1: have slowly become ingrained in their psyche have often been
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  Speaker 1: a result, directly or indirectly, of evolutionary thinking. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know how much we've been messed up. Listen to this
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  Speaker 1: from Stephen Jay Gould in his book, Ontogeny and Phylogeny.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Harvard professor, was, by the way. Biological arguments
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  Speaker 1: for racism may have been common before 1859. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: 1859 is when we got this earth-shattering book here, The
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  Speaker 1: Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 1859. The Origin of
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  Speaker 1: Species by Means of Natural Selection. There is an alternate
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  Speaker 1: title to this book, by the way. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: people don't put the whole title of the book on
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  Speaker 1: the cover of the book. The Origin of Species by
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  Speaker 1: Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races
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  Speaker 1: in the Struggle for Life. Foundational book for modern racism
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  Speaker 1: right here. I recommend you read it. And its companion,
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  Speaker 1: The Descent of Man. I recommend you read that. Because
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  Speaker 1: people who are basing their understanding of the world on
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  Speaker 1: Darwinian evolutionary concepts have no idea, no idea that at
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  Speaker 1: its core, Darwinian thinking is racist. Listen to this. The
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  Speaker 1: widely held view was that blacks evolved from socialists. but
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  Speaker 1: less intelligent gorillas. The Orientals evolved from the orangutan. And
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  Speaker 1: whites evolved from the most intelligent of all primates, the chimpanzees.
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  Speaker 1: That was Darwinian evolutionary thinking. We all came from apes.
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  Speaker 1: Just some of us came from more intelligent apes than others.
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  Speaker 1: Not Genesis chapter 10, the table of nations. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not that. Not all with one common ancestor. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not that. Some came from big, strong gorillas. Others came
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  Speaker 1: from orangutans. And others came from the intelligent chimpanzee. Here's
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  Speaker 1: one I wish you could see. But there's a popular
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  Speaker 1: evolutionary picture. And you've seen it. You know, it starts with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this knuckle-dragging gorilla. And then he begins to
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  Speaker 1: stand more upright. And eventually, at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: it's man walking in his fully evolved form. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know. There are six drawings.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, it's a drawing. There are six
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  Speaker 1: drawings on that evolutionary picture and that evolutionary chart, this
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  Speaker 1: Darwinian evolutionary chart. The first two drawings are very ape-like.
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  Speaker 1: The third drawing is supposed to be this kind of
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  Speaker 1: missing link, kind of maybe Lucier, one of these fossils here.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth drawing is a black man. The fifth drawing
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  Speaker 1: is an Asian man. And the final drawing is an
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  Speaker 1: Anglo-Saxon man. And so the teaching of Darwinian evolution as
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  Speaker 1: depicted in this drawing is that as people became more evolved,
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  Speaker 1: they became less dark. So the darker you are, the
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  Speaker 1: less human you are. How many of us had that
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  Speaker 1: drawing in our science books? That drawing is often still
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  Speaker 1: in people's science books. And it impacts us. That drawing
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  Speaker 1: is incompatible with the teaching of Genesis chapter 10. According
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  Speaker 1: to Genesis chapter 10, We all have common ancestry, and
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  Speaker 1: there is but one race and one race only. According
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  Speaker 1: to Darwinian evolution, I'm darker because I'm less evolved than
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  Speaker 1: my lighter brethren. Do you think that this has not
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  Speaker 1: affected us? Listen to this, one man's journey. David's father,
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  Speaker 1: a geologist, tried to reconcile evolution with Christianity. His father
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  Speaker 1: was Methodist. by concluding that evolution was the means God
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  Speaker 1: used to create life. This background set the groundwork for
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  Speaker 1: David's later acceptance of Darwinism. As he read more and
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  Speaker 1: more on the scientific issue of race, he became torn
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  Speaker 1: between his religion and science. David was doing his research
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  Speaker 1: on Darwinism while he was attending a Church of Christ
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  Speaker 1: school in New Orleans. As a result of his study
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  Speaker 1: of evolution, David openly challenged his teachers. discussing his evolving
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  Speaker 1: ideas about the origin of humans and their implications for racism.
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  Speaker 1: When endeavoring to combine his Darwinist racist beliefs with Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: David used many of the same rationalizations used by theistic
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  Speaker 1: evolutionists to rationalize the plain statements in Genesis. David eventually
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  Speaker 1: sided with Darwinism and rejected creationism. He concluded that with
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  Speaker 1: each passing day, more evidence emerges of the dynamic, genetically born,
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  Speaker 1: physical and physiological differences between the races. So ended his
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  Speaker 1: fleeting commitment to Orthodox Christianity, even though he still peppers
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  Speaker 1: his writings with religious phrases such as, if I can
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  Speaker 1: move our people one inch toward God, my life will
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  Speaker 1: have been worthwhile. His life tells a very different story.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: In short, after his acceptance of Darwinism, David Duke unabashedly
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  Speaker 1: classified both Europeans and Asian races as higher levels of
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  Speaker 1: human evolution than the African race. Who's David Duke? You
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: remember the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan? Ran
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  Speaker 1: for Congress? What were his ideals based on? A rejection
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis 10. in favor of racist Darwinian evolutionist ideas
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  Speaker 1: about who we are as people. Do we look in
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Genesis 10 and see some of us? Or do we
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  Speaker 1: look in Genesis 10 and see all of us? What
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: about this racist idea? Listen to this. A higher race
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  Speaker 1: subjects to itself racism. A lower race. A right which
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  Speaker 1: we see in nature and which can be regarded as
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  Speaker 1: the sole conceivable right. It is the sole conceivable right
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  Speaker 1: of a more evolved race to subject a less evolved race.
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  Speaker 1: Who said that? Adolf Hitler said that. That's who. That's
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  Speaker 1: who said that. And that's what he believed. But that
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  Speaker 1: was then. Right? Right? I mean, come on, that was
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  Speaker 1: Darwin in the 1850s over in Europe. Come on, that
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  Speaker 1: was Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Certainly, that was
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  Speaker 1: other individuals and other cultures and not our own, really.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: How about here in America? Otabenga was an African pygmy.
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  Speaker 1: He was captured and brought to the United States in
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  Speaker 1: the 20th century. Not the 19th century, not the 18th century.
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  Speaker 1: Otabenga was captured and brought to the United States in
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  Speaker 1: the 20th century. He eventually ended up in a zoo. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: in a zoo. Listen to the heading of one paper
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  Speaker 1: when he first premiered in the zoo. Bushman shares cage
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  Speaker 1: with Bronx Park Ape. Oh, oh, did I tell you?
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  Speaker 1: This was New York, not Alabama. And this was in 1906.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the statements. There was always a crowd before
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  Speaker 1: the cage, most of the time roaring with laughter. And
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  Speaker 1: from almost every corner of the garden could be heard
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  Speaker 1: the question, where's the pygmy? The answer was in the
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  Speaker 1: monkey house. That was September of 1906. How about this?
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  Speaker 1: We believe that the white Anglo-Saxon Germanic kindred people to
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  Speaker 1: be God's true, literal children of Israel. Only this race
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  Speaker 1: fulfills every detail of biblical prophecy and world history concerning
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  Speaker 1: Israel and continues in these latter days to be heirs
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  Speaker 1: and possessors of the covenants, prophecies, promises, and blessings Yahweh
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  Speaker 1: God made to Israel. Where do you find that? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the statement of faith at Ku Klux Klan. That's how
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  Speaker 1: they interpret Genesis. How about the Christian identity movement? We
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  Speaker 1: believe that the man Adam is the father of the
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  Speaker 1: white race only. How about Mormonism? We know the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: under which the posterity of Cain and later Ham were
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: cursed with what we call negroid racial characteristics. Is it
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: just the Mormons? How about the Jehovah's Witnesses? In July 1929,
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  Speaker 1: in their magazine, The Watchtower, you find this statement. The
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  Speaker 1: curse that Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of
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  Speaker 1: the black race. Is it just the Darwinists? Is it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: just the cultists? No. It's also been prevalent in the
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  Speaker 1: church among Orthodox Christians. For example, in 1794, a denomination
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  Speaker 1: was born. The African Methodist Episcopal denomination. Where was the
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  Speaker 1: African Methodist Episcopal denomination born? Out of the Methodist church.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Why was the AME church born out of the Methodist
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: church in 1794? Because of racism within Methodism that did
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  Speaker 1: not allow certain races entree into their churches. So they
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: formed the African Methodist Episcopal church. How about Southern Baptists?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not us, right? The Southern Baptist Convention was established
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  Speaker 1: in 1845. Why? Because of a dispute. What was the dispute?
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  Speaker 1: Can a man who owns slaves be commissioned as a missionary?
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  Speaker 1: So at the Triennial Convention in 1845, some Baptists from
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  Speaker 1: the South sent a man up as a candidate to
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  Speaker 1: be a missionary sent out by the convention. They rejected
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  Speaker 1: him on the grounds that he was a slaveholder. Because
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  Speaker 1: they did that, in 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention split
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  Speaker 1: and was thereby born. There was not a public acknowledgement
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  Speaker 1: or repentance from this until the 150th anniversary of the
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  Speaker 1: SBC in 1995. According to one survey, as late as 1968,
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  Speaker 1: only 8%. of Southern Baptist churches allowed non-whites to be members.
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  Speaker 1: Only 11%. Listen to this. How about the fundamentalists? What
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: about them? Listen to this from John Rice. who's the
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  Speaker 1: founder of the magazine, The Sword of the Lord. Socially,
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  Speaker 1: it is better for both Negroes and whites to run
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  Speaker 1: with their own kind and intermarry with their own kind.
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  Speaker 1: The mixing of races, widely differing, is almost never wise. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: if a girl would do wrong to marry a Negro boy,
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  Speaker 1: she would be wrong to keep company with him, mixing
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  Speaker 1: regularly with him in social life. Were those the only
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  Speaker 1: fundamentalists who thought that way? Well, there's one fundamentalist university
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  Speaker 1: who banned interracial dating. They lifted the ban, however, in 2000.
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  Speaker 1: In 2000, they lifted the ban. Why did this fundamentalist college, university,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: lift the ban on what they called interracial dating? By
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the way, how can you have interracial dating if you believe,
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  Speaker 1: according to Genesis 10, that there is but one race?
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  Speaker 1: You can't. So this fundamentalist school lifted the ban on
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: interracial dating in 2000. Why? Because George W. Bush was
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  Speaker 1: running for president and had a debate on their campus.
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  Speaker 1: The press was so upset with Mr. Bush for going
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  Speaker 1: to Bob Jones University that they raised a furor. And
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it was only then, in an effort not to hurt Mr.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Bush's campaign, that Bob Jones University changed their stance on
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: interracial dating. In 2000. Is it just on the non-dark-skinned side? No.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Listen to this. from Elijah Muhammad, one of the founders
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  Speaker 1: of the Nation of Islam, and his book, Message to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the Black Man in America. The origin of all sin,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the origin of murder, the origin of lying, are deceptions
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  Speaker 1: originating with the creators of evil and injustice, the white race.
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  Speaker 1: Even today, they like climbing and jumping. The monkeys are
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  Speaker 1: from them. Before their time, there were no such things
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  Speaker 1: as monkeys, apes, and swine. So the other side comes
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  Speaker 1: back and argues, no, no, no, we're not the ones
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  Speaker 1: who were descended from the apes. In fact, the apes
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  Speaker 1: descended from you. Dueling Darwinian racism. But Genesis chapter 10
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  Speaker 1: says Noah had three sons. They were Shem, they were Ham,
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  Speaker 1: and they were Japheth. These three sons went to different
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  Speaker 1: regions of the world, and eventually all people groups come
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: from those three sons. So what do we learn from
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 10? What does the Bible teach us? Number one,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the Bible teaches us that we are one in Adam. Amen. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. There is one race, and Adam is
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  Speaker 1: the father of that race. Eve is the mother of
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  Speaker 1: that race. Secondly, the Bible teaches us in Genesis chapter
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: 9 and Genesis chapter 10 that we are one in Noah.
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  Speaker 1: After the flood, there was a preservation of the human race.
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  Speaker 1: And it was through Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham,
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  Speaker 1: and Japheth. The Bible also teaches us that we are
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  Speaker 1: one in Christ. Galatians chapter 3. And verse 28, turn
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  Speaker 1: there with me if you will. And it reads, There
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  Speaker 1: is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free.
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  Speaker 1: There is neither male nor female. For you are all
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  Speaker 1: one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then
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  Speaker 1: you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise. We're
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  Speaker 1: one in Adam. We're one in Noah. We're one in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And we will be one in glory. Turn with me,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, to Revelation chapter 7. After this I looked,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and behold, a great multitude that no one could number
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  Speaker 1: from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages,
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  Speaker 1: standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: white robes with palm branches in their hands and crying
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: out with a loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. To
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: whose God? Our God. Which nation's God? Our God. Which
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: people's God? Our God. Which tongue's God? Our God. That's
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: who's God. One in Adam. One in Noah. One in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: One in glory. So what does this mean? Here's what
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I want you to understand. Make this observation and then
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: we'll close with a couple of applications. We all descended
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: from common ancestors. We know this from the scriptures. We
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: also know this scientifically. There's one race, but there are
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: many nations. Ethnic groups. Where do we get that term from?
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: If you're a member of this church and you've been
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: through new members orientation, you know the one Greek phrase
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that everyone's required to know if you're going to be
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a member of Grace Family Baptist Church. That one Greek
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  Speaker 1: phrase is what? Panta ta ethne. Where is that from?
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  Speaker 1: The Great Commission. Go and make disciples of Pantata Ethne.
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  Speaker 1: Every ethnicity. Every people group. There is but one race.
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  Speaker 1: There are many different ethnicities. Thirdly, understand this. There is
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  Speaker 1: less than a 2% genetic difference between any two people
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  Speaker 1: in this room. Or, I'm sorry, 0.2%. There is less
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: than a 0.2% genetic difference between any two people in
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  Speaker 1: this room. You pick any two people in this room
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: at random, and there is less than a 0.2% genetic
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: difference between any two people in this room. Which means, fourthly,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: we all share the same genes. Amen. Amen. There used
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to be laws against intermarriage based on the fact that
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: if people were to marry from differing quote-unquote races, that
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: there would develop some mongrel race, that there would be
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: some kind of freakish development as a result of the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: intermixing between those individuals. There is less than a 0.2%
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: genetic difference between any two people in this room. And newsflash,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: whatever you think you are, you're that and a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot more. Amen? Finally, here's what's also interesting. We're all
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  Speaker 1: the same color. We're all the same color. Well, no,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: we're not. Well, yeah, actually we are. The color in
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: your skin and the color in my skin all comes
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: from the same chemical. It's called melanin. There aren't different
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: colors of melanin. There are just different degrees of melanin
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: in the skin. People are darker or lighter because they
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: have more or less melanin in their skin. That's all.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: It's all the same color. Some people just have more
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: of that color in their skin. And here's what's interesting
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: about the whole deal. If we had started with two individuals,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve, who just completely lacked melanin and were
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: what we call white, we would not have gotten all
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the different colors of people. Or shades, shall I say,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: of people. Or, if we started with two people, Adam
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: and Eve, and they were individuals with as much melanin
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: as me, and they were all what we call black,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: we would not have gotten all the different shades of people. However,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: if Adam and Eve... were what we call middle brown,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: then guess what? From a middle brown couple, you could
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: get every shade represented in this room, and only from
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a middle brown couple. So, newsflash, Javier is the closest
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: thing to what Adam looked like as it relates to
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the melanin in his skin. I was talking to Javier
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: about this earlier. I didn't just spring that on him,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: by the way. I told him I was going to
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: do that. And when I told him I was going
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: to do that, Javier just sort of smiled. And he said,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: you know what's interesting? In my country, in Venezuela, we
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: have people. We have couples, you know. And the couple
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: will both be the sort of same complexion like my complexion.
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  Speaker 1: And they'll have kids. And some of them will be real, real,
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  Speaker 1: real light. And some of them will be real, real,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: real dark. By the way, that's not new. That's what
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: happened to Noah. He had some real light descendants, some
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: middle brown descendants, and some dark brown descendants. They're all
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: over the globe. And by the way, anybody have a
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: purebred dog? Purebreds don't live as long. They got more
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: medical problems. My brethren who are incredibly light, they got issues.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Sun just doesn't, just, you know, they get melanomas and
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: all this sort of stuff. Just not a good thing.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: My brethren who are really, really dark, we have a
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: tendency to have vitamin D deficiencies. Why? Because we're blocking
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: out more of the sun. So now what? If Genesis
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: 10 teaches us that there is but one race, but
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: many ethnicities, what are the implications for you and me
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and the way we live our lives? Number one, we
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: need to celebrate our oneness in Adam and Noah and
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Christ and in glory. Amen? We need to celebrate our oneness. Secondly,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: we need to recognize all racism as sin. Even that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: in ourselves. All of it. Are you worried or perhaps
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: disinclined about your children coming home with someone of another
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: skin color when it comes to marriage? Why? Why? Because
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: a fish doesn't know he's wet. That's why. We all
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: struggle with that. Thirdly, stop using race as a category.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: If you believe Genesis 10, if you believe Genesis 1,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: why would we ever use race as a category? This race,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: that race, the other race. For those of you who
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: know me, I have just a few pet peeves. Not
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: a lot, but we've all got a few pet peeves.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: One of my pet peeves is I despise being called African-American.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I hate being called African-American. I get angry at being
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: called African-American. Did I say I despise being called African-American?
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I believe it's a racist term. Why do I have
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to be hyphenated at all? Amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Why are we hyphenating and dividing ourselves in the first place?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: But I'm an African-American. Okay, that's fine. Let's examine this
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: to see if it's an appropriate term. I'm African-American. Great.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: If someone is from Egypt, do we call them an African-American? No. Well,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: then the term's not appropriate. Egypt is in Africa. Libya
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: is in Africa. So if we're going to call someone
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: an African-American because their skin looks like mine, why wouldn't
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: we call an Egyptian with lighter skin who is actually
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Arabic in its ethnicity an African-American? Why? Because African-American doesn't
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: mean what we like to say it means. It's a
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: racist term. Well, okay, fine. Then we won't use African-American. Well, yeah,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: we will. We'll use African-American because we're still talking about
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: people from Africa. Okay, that's fine. But we already established
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that the Egyptian is from Africa as well. Well, we'll
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: use Asian-American. Is that appropriate? Well, let's examine it. Asian American.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: When we use Asian American, we usually talk about people
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: who are from Korea or Japan or from, you know, China.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: But guess what else is Asia? India and Pakistan. Do
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: we call Indians and Pakistanis Asian Americans? No, we don't. Why?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Because the term is inappropriate. We don't mean what we say.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Someone from Russia who's from the southern part of Russia.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Are they a European American or are they an Asian American?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: By the way, someone from the Middle East, what are they?
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Middle Eastern American? Well, no, they're Arab American. No, not
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: necessarily because people from Iran are not Arabs. They're Persians.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: The terms don't work. That's why I despise the terms.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: What do we call someone from Venezuela? Venezuela. A South
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: American American? That would make someone from Mexico a North
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: American American. Do you see how ridiculous this terminology is?
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: The terminology is born out of our racist preconditioning. Who
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: am I? I'm what C.S. Lewis calls son of Adam. Amen?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I love that term. That Chronicles of Narnia term. Sons
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: of Adam. That's what I am. I'm a son of Adam.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: That's what you are. Sons and daughters of Adam. Here's
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: what I love. We've looked at a lot of documents
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: and read a lot of statements that weren't very attractive.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: But are there any that get it right? Our confession
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: of faith is the London Baptist Confession of 1689. Listen
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to the London Baptist Confession in the chapter on marriage.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: who are able with judgment to give their consent. Yet
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it is the duty of Christians to marry in the Lord.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: And therefore, such as profess the true religion. 1689. They
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: understood what the Bible taught. What did the Bible teach?
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: The Bible taught we're one in Adam, we're one in Noah,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: we're one in Christ. When you're looking for somebody to
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: marry you, Don't be like man who looks on the outside.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: You be like God who judges the heart. Don't want
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: a son or daughter to come home with somebody who's
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: deep dark chocolate brown but doesn't know Jesus from the
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: man in the moon or somebody who hails from somewhere
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: like Hong Kong or Singapore or Brazil or England. who
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: loves God and has a multi-generational vision for seeing to
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it that my children's children are raised in the nurture
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and admonition of the Lord. Which one is it? Christ
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: came to redeem his people in Adam and Noah, and
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: he has but one people. We are but one church.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: We are but one race. There has always been but
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: one race. All of us has been marred by the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: racism in our culture. Every last one of us. Don't
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: think for a minute that you've gotten away from it unscathed.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: You haven't. You've bathed in it for years and years
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and years. And when you look at people, you make
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: snap judgments. You do. You do. You do. Somebody walks
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: in the door and immediately we look at that individual.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: And if that individual has brown skin, we find one
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: of our brown skin families in the church to introduce
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: that individual to. Why? Because we think brown skin people
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: are going to have more in common with brown skin people.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: And we want that brown skin person to know, hey,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: we got brown skin people in our church too. Can't
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: say amen. You ought to say ouch. Because we do
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: it all the time. Why? Why? Because a fish doesn't
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: know he's wet. That's why. That's why. A fish doesn't
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  Speaker 1: know he's wet. And you and I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: that though we are followers of Christ and have been redeemed,
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  Speaker 1: that the area of racism and prejudice is something that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be scrubbed from our souls. From every last
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  Speaker 1: one of us. My prayer is that this church would
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  Speaker 1: always be a church that holds up high the banner
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: of Christ. Period. End of discussion. And if you can
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  Speaker 1: unite around Christ, you can unite with us. I don't
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: care if you paint green or purple. If you can
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: unite around Christ, you can unite with us. But if
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  Speaker 1: you have a problem, with accepting other people as one race,
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  Speaker 1: you are not welcome here. Repent. Fall on your face
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  Speaker 1: before our Jewish middle-brown Savior and beg Him to cleanse
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  Speaker 1: you with His blood that looks just like yours.