* Racism

 

Comments by Joan Boney:

There is no reference at all in the Bible to the word "racism."

Here is what the Holy Spirit of God said to me when I asked God about this issue.

"Jews & Gentiles"

Apparently in God's sight individuals were either Jews (nation of Israel) or Gentiles.

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I know the way I have looked at this for years is either you belong to God or you do not belong to God and that is all that matters.  

I never cared about knowing anything about my ancestors for all that matters to me was godliness and certainly if my grandfather, or another ancestor was godly, I was interested!

But the natural man, who is not born again, is of the flesh and one of the works of the flesh is to hate.

Galatians 5

19-21  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Hatred is one of the things man does naturally.

But when we are born again, born of the Spirit of God, we have the Spirit of Jesus in us and hatred is replaced by love.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:

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God said to Abraham:

Genesis 17

4 As for ME, behold, MY covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

So the Gentiles would also be included in salvation and the in the New Covenant.

Acts 17

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that HE is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though HE needed any thing, seeing HE giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after HIM, and find HIM, though HE be not far from every one of us:

28 For in HIM we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also HIS offspring.

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Acts 15  Peter says:

7 Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as HE did unto us;

9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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All persons of every nation (individuals) to whom God has revealed HIMSELF and given HIS HOLY Spirit are "born again", created into a new creature.

II Corinthians 5:17   Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Acts 13:48  And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

God opens the eyes of those individuals to believe the word of God and God adds to the church those who believe.

Acts 2:47   And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

In the New Testament church God gives HIS Spirit to all who belong to HIM from every nation of man.

I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

All who have the Holy Spirit of God in them and follow that Holy Spirit of God are children of God whether Jews or Gentiles.

Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

We are one nation of God, children of God, through Jesus Christ, both Jews and Gentiles.

And we love one another because God has put HIS Spirit into us and has changed us from the person we were when we lived in the flesh.

The world hates ... but the people of God love for we are HIS Spirit of love.

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In October 2021, the New York Times made public an email which was written by an NFL coach, Jon Gruden, where he described another man as having "lips as thick as Michelin tires."

To make disparaging statements about the physical appearance of another person shows that we have hatred within us.

Gruden was destroyed by this disclosure and forced out of football, though he apologized and said he was sorry to have hurt that other person.  

(I pray for God to have mercy on him, for like many other people, he is filled with things opposite to God, simply showing he is not at this point in time of God.)

Gruden and others like him think they made a "mistake".  

In 1975, God said to me:  "Joan ... you know these mistakes you've been making all these years?  Those weren't mistakes.  Those were sins."

"Sins ... I exclaimed! ... I thought they were mistakes."

With that God changed me causing me to be born again as a new creature, giving me HIS Holy Spirit then God taught me to follow HIS Spirit instead of yielding to my own flesh!

This is the only thing that works!

Organizations of men, even churches of men, can say you must not hate.  But only God through HIS Spirit can cause you to love from your heart instead of hating.

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Many others who hate will see what happened to people like Jon Gruden and they will know they must not show hatred for they could bring penalty of man upon themselves.  So they try to hide hatred. 

But this does not stop them from hating within.  

Only when God reveals HIMSELF to us and changes us into a new creature do we love instead of hating.

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We who are of God never approve sin.  (Sin is defined by the Bible.)

 (I usually feel sorry for that person for I know I was sinning before God revealed HIMSELF to my and changed me by HIS Spirit.)

I Corinthians 6

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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So when someone crosses my path who is committing a sin, according to the Bible, I often share the scripture concerning that sin with that person.  

I've seen God open the eyes of some individuals and cause those individuals to believe the scripture and be born again by God when I share the scripture.  I've seen some turn from the scripture and continue in their own ways.

God opens our eyes to believe the Word of God and when we believe we are saved and recreated in the Word of God, Jesus Christ.

Only through God are any of us saved from our flesh to which we were born into this world.  And it is not by our own will that we are saved. 

We are changed by God by HIS will.  

And it is an instant change for God causes us to be born again by HIS Spirit and God gives us HIS Spirit which produces love, joy peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance which are the fruits of the Holy Spirit of God produced through us as we follow HIS Holy Spirit.

God gives us a new heart and a new spirit so from within us we are changed by God.

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Genesis 6:5   And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

So God gave man a new heart and a new spirit.

Ezekiel 35:26  God says: A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

So if any of you have not been changed by God this way, I advise you to turn to God and ask HIM to give you HIS Spirit and to save you.  For only God can do this!

Romans 9

15 For HE saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Only God can cause us to be born again of HIS Spirit.

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The goodness of God comes from within our heart through that new heart and new Spirit which God gives us.  

And then we follow that which the Holy Spirit brings to our mind as HE shows us the will of God and we do the will of God on this present earth by HIS Spirit.

No man can do this of himself or by making up rules.  Only God can cause this.  

I Corinthians 2:14   But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Therefore Jesus says:

John 3:3  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

It is God who opens our eyes and causes us to see things of God!

Until that time, man lives by his own flesh doing things of his flesh according to that which is right in his own eyes ...  hating and envying and despising other people and getting even with other people.

I know of violent people who have been given a new heart and a new spirit by God and the violence they lived by has been taken out of them and they no longer live by violence.

Violence was one of the characteristics of man when God looked upon man and saw the evil in man.

Genesis 6:11  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Don't we see shocking acts of violence committed by men today.  We draw nearer to the return of Jesus and the end of this present world and the violence in man increases along with other evils.  

Devils will be fierce in the end times because the devil knows his time grows shorter.  (Rev. 12:12)

And Paul explained:  

II Timothy 3:13-17  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

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God has mercy on us and changes us and only God can do this in us and for us.

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