We cannot escape the heart or run from our own selves. Jeremiah says: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer 17:9) To varying degrees, we are ALL guilty of prejudice, though we may deny it openly. We must, therefore, be brutally honest with ourselves and confront it with the Word of God, which alone is the foremost source of all wisdom. Let us, then, look at examples within the Scriptures to see whether there are lessons for us to be learned in confronting this evil disease of racism.

One of the tenets of our faith is to strive for accurate understanding of the Bible by careful reading.

Showing Love by Helping Others

Proof-texting, where we come already armed with answers, can be like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Bible study should be about discovery.

God’s name is not just a label by which we identify Him and differentiate Him from the gods of Egypt; it’s a name that declares who He is and what He does.

Psalm 107 describes men who do business upon the great waters on ships.

I had a thought-provoking conversation a few weeks ago. During that conversation, an old school friend of mine made an interesting comment and question. He said there have been many atrocities against black people in the past, what makes this cycle of events so different that has caused this prolonged worldwide attention? My answer to his question was summed up in one word, “time”.

When starting to prepare this topic, I felt that it was an open and shut case of “Whhhhaaaaattttttt?” The word race does not even appear in the Bible except with reference to the act of running a race. At best it speaks of kinsmen. However, as I started to research it, I realized that there was so much to unpack that it really warrants prayerful consideration.

Irrespective of who we are, we all have the ability within us to indulge ourselves in every possible evil under the sun, given the right situation and circumstance before us. It is only by the grace of God, and for no other reason, we are who we are today.

The concluding doxology (praise to God), though briefer, is like the previous doxologies in Romans 8:31-39 and 11:33-36.

God inspired the authors of the Bible to write down His Word for us, which is clear from passages like Rom 15:4: “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” (All quotes are from the ESV.)

This Day is a day of New Creation, Purification, Salvation, and Life for His People. Out of the circumstances we considered in the previous study, God is about to “create Jerusalem a rejoicing, her people a joy.” (Isa 65:9)