I am going to talk to some of my elderly black folks, and anybody who faces persecution, based on the color of their skin or ethnicity.
I once said that people are not your enemy and I will stay with that statement because we are not created to respond with evil with evil.
We are built to love our enemies. People cannot be your enemy because you are designed in love. You are their enemy because they are designed in hatred. If you consider anybody an enemy that means there is hatred in you somewhere.
Matthew 5:43-44 Jesus tells us. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. People cannot be your enemy.
Ephesians 6:12 says. Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
So when people do evil things, they are possessed and brainwashed, and most of them dont know what they do. They are controlled by the evil one or they are just evil. We call that the children of the devil.
We must forgive always because our heavenly Father forgives us. The light in you should always shine. Why? Because this is how the learning process begins for those who walk in darkness. Jesus came into the world shining that light and those who believe in that light will not perish. He paid the price for our sins. So our sins are forgiven and we are changed by following that light.
Love You’re Enemies, Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
We as black men will no longer live in fear. We will no longer be brainwashed. We will no longer be influenced by the works of the devil. I am here to uplift and edify. Anybody that is not for you is against you. Anybody driving you into darkness and not into light is not for you. Don’t be a naïve black man, because they allow you to make money.
Matthew 4:8-11 says Again, the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall and worship me.” “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.
It's time for you to stand up black men against the devil's schemes.
You are the first man, meaning that you are the black man that God has created.
God created Man in his image and likeness. So let me make myself clear, he didn’t make a nigga in his images in likeness. He created man in his image and likeness. God did not call you a nigga, so stop using that word towards each other.
Black Man God didn’t create us to be nothing, We are something to God. We were not created to be enslaved, in chains, to be whipped, to be killed, God gave us dominion on earth Genesis 1:28.
Anyone who puts up stumbling blocks to have you fall is sinful.
If they did that to you they will do it to the Lord. Anyone who treats you unkindly with no love does not come from God, black man, because God is love. So black men we are not murderers, we are not drug addicts, we do not steal, we are not made to do evil things or influence one another with evil. We will no longer be against one another we will uplift and edify each other. We are a child of God, we are husbands, and we are fathers
and it is time for us to start acting like one.
You have a choice to make. Don’t let the devil steal our identity.
1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
So God loves us. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. I don’t want you to think that you are not in the word of God because of the color our skin, based on the false images that you see. In Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. So what they have done is not right in the eyes of God.
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
To the Church in Smyrna
8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again. 9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.
11 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.
To the Church in Pergamum
12 “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. 13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.
14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. 15 Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
17 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
To the Church in Thyatira
18 “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:
These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. 19 I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.
20 Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. 21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. 22 So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. 23 I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
24 Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you, 25 except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give that one the morning star. 29 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Truth & Knowledge series is a transformation podcast show, produced by Life Coaching Speaker Trey Knowles. This series is based on Transformation, Recognition, Salvation, and Substance, living life through the Spirit is what this show is about.
