JESUS: RACISM REJECTED (1 OF 3)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: John 4:1-42, John 4
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Jesus: Racism Rejected (1 of 3)
Series: Race and Responsibility
Bob Ingle
John 4:1-42
Open your bibles to John 4. When I was a little boy, I was taught a song that I sang loud and proud many, many times. ''Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and Yellow, Black and White they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.'' I remember singing that with such zeal and gusto. God loves all people equally no matter their place of birth or the pigmentation of their skin.
The problem we see mostly today, of course, is not with God loving and accepting every one of every country and color. The issue is with people loving and accepting other people of every country and color the way God loves and accepts them, right? Yet, the Bible makes it abundantly clear that if I say I love God and claim to follow Christ, but I don't love my brother, I'm a liar. God disagrees with my Christian claim. He says, 'You may say you love Me, but you don't.'
1 John 4:20: ''If someone says, ''I love God,'' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?''
One of the evidences my love for God is authentic and real is that I have an inward desire to love my spiritual brothers and outward evidences to prove it. That includes my brothers of other colors. When God saves us through the Gospel, He gives us a new heart. That new heart comes fully equipped with a new love. That new heart and that new love now enables me to do what I was never able to do before: I can love WHO God loves and HOW God loves.
Human love is small, frail, rigid, and selective. God's love is massive, strong, inclusive, and unending. So when we sing Jesus loves ALL the little children of the world, red and yellow, black, and white, we're not just singing about how God loves other people, we're also singing about how we love other people because of how God loves us.
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Series: Race and Responsibility
Bob Ingle
John 4:1-42
Open your bibles to John 4. When I was a little boy, I was taught a song that I sang loud and proud many, many times. ''Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and Yellow, Black and White they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.'' I remember singing that with such zeal and gusto. God loves all people equally no matter their place of birth or the pigmentation of their skin.
The problem we see mostly today, of course, is not with God loving and accepting every one of every country and color. The issue is with people loving and accepting other people of every country and color the way God loves and accepts them, right? Yet, the Bible makes it abundantly clear that if I say I love God and claim to follow Christ, but I don't love my brother, I'm a liar. God disagrees with my Christian claim. He says, 'You may say you love Me, but you don't.'
1 John 4:20: ''If someone says, ''I love God,'' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?''
One of the evidences my love for God is authentic and real is that I have an inward desire to love my spiritual brothers and outward evidences to prove it. That includes my brothers of other colors. When God saves us through the Gospel, He gives us a new heart. That new heart comes fully equipped with a new love. That new heart and that new love now enables me to do what I was never able to do before: I can love WHO God loves and HOW God loves.
Human love is small, frail, rigid, and selective. God's love is massive, strong, inclusive, and unending. So when we sing Jesus loves ALL the little children of the world, red and yellow, black, and white, we're not just singing about how God loves other people, we're also singing about how we love other people because of how God loves us.
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