Embracing Truth: Dismantling Racial Inequality Through Faith

A lot of white people were taught a lie and that lie was that black people are inferior, are less than white people. They were lied to many by their mothers and fathers who taught them, and that's because their mothers and fathers taught them. They were lied to by the government that said black people are inferior and unfortunately many of them were lied to by the church because the church even misused the Bible to tell the lie that black people were inferior. [00:01:08]

So this lie has been passed on from generation to generation and when you believe a lie, then you act on that lie. So many whites would treat black people bad because they were believing and acting on a lie. That's why God tells us we need to know the truth because when people know the truth then they get free from the lie. [00:01:48]

If they want to be free, they can be free from the lie, which then changes the way that they treat you because they have the right information. So that's why it's important that we give whites the right information so that they are believing and acting like God wants them to believe and act, and not like the wrong information they're getting from everybody else. [00:02:12]

Systemic racism refers to something that's organized. It's so a person can be a racist just as an individual, but when it's systemic, it's structured, it's organized in a way that it's built in to how something operates. So it becomes a natural way of opening, for example, slavery. Slavery was an organized way to keep people oppressed and to keep people down. [00:02:44]

Slavery was an organized way to keep people oppressed and to keep people down and then not give them their freedom that they should have as human beings and as American citizens. It was an organized way of doing it. Sometimes people have organized ways to keep them out of school or to keep them out of certain activities or to keep them out of even certain churches. [00:03:12]

So systemic racism is where you organize the evil of discriminating against people based on their ethnicity or their skin color. You're just not doing it as an individual, you're doing it as an organized way to let them know they are not welcome. [00:03:52]

The main way that God seeks to change our perspectives is based on His word. His word, the Bible, is the way God wants us to look at life. He wants us to live life and look at life from the way God sees life. See, because many of our perspectives are wrong because we are hearing from the wrong people or looking at the wrong things. [00:04:16]

What does God say about this? What does God think about this? How does God feel about this? And when we answer that question and begin to act it out and live it out, then we're doing two things. Like when you watch TV, you don't just want the sound, you want to be able to see the picture. You don't just want to see the picture, you want the sound. [00:04:56]

So it's sight and sound or when people can hear what God says and then see you living it out by how you act, your respect, your honor, your dignity, your integrity, your character, your hard work, and when you show them a picture of Jesus based on His word, you're giving people sight and sound. [00:05:14]

And when you give them sight and sound, it helps them to see things differently and when they give you sight and sound, it helps you to look at them differently. And both that sight and sound needs to come from God. [00:05:36]

By embodying respect, honor, dignity, integrity, and character, we reflect Jesus' teachings and provide a living example of God's love and truth to the world. [00:05:23]

Ultimately, our goal is to embody the teachings of Jesus, showing respect, honor, dignity, integrity, and character in all we do. By doing so, we provide a living example of God's love and truth, helping others to see and hear the gospel in action. [00:05:45]