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>> Join us as we sing together.
[ "This Little Light of Mine"
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plays ] Sing with me.
[ Congregation sings ]
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"All through the night."
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¤ Let it shine, let it
shine ¤ ¤ Let it shi-i-ne ¤
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¤ Let it shine, let it
shine ¤ ¤ Let it shi-i-i-ne ¤¤
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I love to hear you guys singing.
Lift up your voices to the King.
And we're gonna sing about that
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amazing grace that is so sweet
to our souls. Can't do without
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it. Can't do a day without
it. [ "Amazing Grace" plays ]
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Let's sing together.
[ Congregation sings ]
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[ Singing a cappella ]
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[ Piano rejoins song ]
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[ Singing a cappella ]
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[ Piano rejoins song ]
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[ Piano flourish, song ends ]
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>> Amen. [
"Total Praise" plays ]
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[ Congregation sings ]
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>> Sing it out loud now.
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>> ¤ A-A-Amen ¤ ¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤
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¤ A-A-Amen ¤ ¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤
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>> ¤ A-A-Amen ¤ ¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤
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>> ¤ A-A-Amen ¤ ¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤
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>> I invite you, those of
you who would like to bring your
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praises and requests and
petitions to the Father, to come
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to the altar and kneel.
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[ Song continues ]
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¤ Sing it to Jesus ¤
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¤ Oh, Lord ¤
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Sing it now. >> ¤ A-A-Amen ¤
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¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤ ¤ A-A-Amen ¤
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¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤ ¤ A-A-Amen ¤
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¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤ ¤ A-A-Amen ¤
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¤ A-A-A-Amen ¤¤
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[ "Day and Night Praise" plays ]
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>> ¤ The Lord be praised ¤ ¤ The
Lord be praised ¤ ¤ The Lord be
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praised ¤ ¤ The Lord be
pra-a-a-ised ¤ ¤ From the time
that the sun comes up ¤
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¤ Till the going down of the
sa-a-me ¤ ¤ The Lord be praised
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¤ ¤ The Lord be-e-e praised
¤ ¤ The Lord be-e-e praised ¤
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¤ The Lo-o-rd be
pra-a-ised ¤ ¤ The Lo-o-ord be
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pra-a-a-a-ised ¤
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¤ From the time that the sun
comes up ¤ ¤ Till the going down
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of the same ¤ ¤ The Lord be
praised ¤ ¤ The Lord be praised
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¤ ¤ The Lord be praised ¤ ¤ The
Lord be praised ¤ ¤ The Lord be
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pra-a-a-a-ised ¤ ¤ From the time
that the sun comes up ¤ ¤ Till
the going down of the
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same ¤ ¤ The Lord be praised
¤ ¤ The Lord be praised ¤
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¤ The Lord be [Soprano]
pra-a-a-a-ised ¤ [ Song ends ]
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>> Amen! [ Applause ]
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>> Oh, amen and amen. Thank you,
Marguerite, Josh, and singers.
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What a -- What a testimony. "The
Lord be praised from the sun
going up till the same going
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down." I couldn't help but
sit in the front pew and just
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imagine God leaning over as
Marguerite and her singers sang
-- just leaning and saying,
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"Gabriel, come here, come here,
come here, come here, come here.
Listen to this. Listen to this."
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>> Amen. >> "From all
of them, look at that.
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From them." "The Lord be
praised." Oh, God, that's why
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we're here, just to lift up our
hearts in total praise to You.
We've been in worship.
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And we're still in worship. And
now the intersection of Your
ancient Word with our very
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contemporary living -- make it
clear, dear God. Please make it
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clear. Hide me so that
the Lord be praised. Amen.
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[ Dramatic piano music plays ]
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[ Music ends ] [
Breathes deeply ]
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So, what does this Black History
Sabbath have to do with storm?
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I believe a racial storm is
brewing in America, and I fear
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that the church is being
entrapped in its angry vortex.
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Two exhibits. Exhibit A.
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This last June, the Pew
Research Center released a
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new survey titled "On Views of
Race and Inequality, Blacks and
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Whites Are Worlds Apart."
The survey opens with these
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words on the screen...
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Let me run some numbers
by you. Would that be okay?
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Take a look at the screen.
So, they asked -- they surveyed
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both groups and asked the
question, "Are blacks treated
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less fairly than
whites in America?"
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And you'll see the white
and the black response and the
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differentiation
between those responses.
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How about in the workplace?
Whites said yeah -- 22% of
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whites, "Yep, blacks
are treated unfairly."
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Blacks said, "Whoa, whoa."
64% -- a spread of 42 points.
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How about when applying
for a loan or a mortgage?
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Whites said yeah -- 25% of them
said, "Yeah, they're probably."
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Blacks, 66% -- a
spread of 41 points.
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How about in the courts?
Whites, 43%, Blacks, 75% -- 32
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points. How about in stores and
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restaurants? Whites,
21% -- "Yeah, unfair."
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Blacks, 49% -- 28
points. How about when voting in
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elections? Whites,
20%, versus blacks,
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43% -- 23 points. In
other words, white Americans
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consistently underestimate the
impact of unfair treatment on
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their black neighbors.
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"Aw, they're not treated that
bad." And then they said that
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blacks are more likely than
whites to say blacks have a
harder time with whites in
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getting ahead. And here's how
the blacks responded -- racial
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discrimination. "You
know why I can't get ahead?
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Racial discrimination."
70% of blacks said, "That's why
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I can't get ahead."
Whites said, "Well, maybe."
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It's 36% of the whites said,
"Maybe they can't get ahead
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because of that."
Lower quality schools.
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75% of the blacks said,
"That's why we can't get ahead."
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Whites said, "Nah, that's
probably only 53% of the reason
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why." Lack of jobs.
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66% of blacks say,
"That's why I can't ahead."
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Whites say, "Well, 45%."
What did we read a moment ago
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from the Pew
Research Center introduction?
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"For many blacks, racial
equality remains an elusive
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goal." Well, you say, "You know
what? They just need to work
harder. That's their problem.
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They need to get a work ethic."
Are you serious? Do you even
know the meaning of
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uphill climb? Exhibit B.
Friend of mine, Calvin Rock,
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African-American -- strong
preacher, skilled leader,
longtime vice president of the
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General Conference of the
Seventh-Day Adventists. In this
month's issue, February
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2017, the Adventist Review wrote
a piece that speaks for itself.
I'm gonna read a few lines from
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it to you -- one of our
own speaking to us. "It's been
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asked, even with hostility,
'What's the point in chanting
that black lives matter when all
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lives matter?' I answered that,
in spite of its disagreeable
shock to the nation of America's
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social conscience, Black Lives
Matter is, in principle and in
fact, Gospel truth for at least
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three reasons." And I'll
share one of them with you.
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"It is Gospel truth because
it reminds us that, while those
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alive today had no part in
yesterday's degraded trade in
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humans, in its 246 years of
merciless servitude, in its 1787
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decree that Negroes be counted
as three-fifths of a human
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being, or in relegating them for
more than a half a century, via
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'separate but equal,' to life's
most dangerous and undesirable
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places -- that would be the
back of the bus, the side of the
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restaurants, the front of the
trains, the top of the theaters,
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the bottom of the boats..."
I'm putting this on the screen
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for you now...
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Hmm.
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He goes on. "'Black Lives
Matter' is still a needed
proclamation because, in
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spite of today's welcome laws
against injustice spawned by
civil rights activities, there
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is much that speaks of a lesser
regard for black lives..." Now I
raised my eyebrows.
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"Is this -- I didn't know
this." "...the denial of updated
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textbooks in black
neighborhoods, the limits of
option that make black children
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drink and bathe in polluted
water, the wrongful arrests,
unjust sentences, and more
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frequent execution of blacks.
And more -- the grocery stores
in black communities that sell
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inferior produce at higher
prices, legislation to depress
the black vote, absurd district
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gerrymandering --" politicians
always refiguring their
districts so that they can carve
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a group out -- "the hostility
against affirmative action, and
the delegitimatizing of the
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nation's black President by
angry whites who 'want their
country back.'" Their country?
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Are you serious? Their country?
"The 'Black Lives' motto is
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truth with the potential at
least to shame heartless
politicians who resist all
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efforts to provide the poor
better healthcare and education
and generally remind America
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that, after centuries of the
degradation forced upon them,
people at least need straps,
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boots denied, in order to
pull themselves up by their
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bootstraps." One
more line on the screen...
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As he writes, "Awkward
truth... is still truth."
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"Yeah, but I'll tell you what,
they're always complaining about
our failures -- have you noticed
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that? -- our failures as
whites, while ignoring their own
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failures." Calvin Rock,
African-American, turns the coin
over. And in turning the coin
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over, he writes this... "'Black
Lives Matter' is the Gospel
truth in that it speaks
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relevantly to black Americans,
as well. It reminds them that
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change, like charity, begins at
home and that they themselves
set the patterns their children
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will follow. Apart from
religion, education holds their
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highest hope of progress, and
blacks don't have to wait on the
government to assist their youth
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in academic pursuits. It is
hypocritical to decry police
brutality but do little
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or nothing about the
black-on-black violence that
costs between 8,000 and 9,000
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lives each year. And 'Black
Lives Matter' speaks to the sad
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tragedy of our failure to
overcome self-hatred, the
interethnic prejudice regarding
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so-called good hair and bad
hair, light skin and dark skin,
accent and no accent, all
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stigmas surviving from the
racial rules of yesteryear.
This, too, is Gospel truth." He
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goes on, "'Black Lives Matter'
is a reminder to black American
youth that they destroy their
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individual and community's good
by bringing into the world
children born out of wedlock.
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The 2012 report of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control
records that 17% of Asian, 29%
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of white, 53% of Hispanic, and
73% of black babies are born
without stable homes.
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Neither that nor the dietary
intemperance or lewd and violent
mental entertainment established
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in so many black communities is
the fault of white America.
Neither is the national rate of
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black high-school dropouts --
approximately 50%, as compared
to the general rate of 30%."
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I was tempted to leave the
following sentence out, but I
think I'm gonna go ahead and
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read it.
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"The 'Black Lives Matter'
motto is a scathing rebuke to
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professionally successful blacks
who function with an 'I got
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mine, now you get yours'
attitude, who get lost amid the
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privileges of their education,
often aided by some set-aside,
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has brought them, who make
no effort to reach back and help
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those climbing up, and who
forget --" Isaiah 51:1 -- "'the
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rock from which they were hewn
and the hole of the pit from
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which they were dug.'" He
doesn't mince words with any
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of us, does he? "Storm."
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Are we trapped in some sort
of dark racial cyclone beyond
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rescue? I think not.
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Is Jesus able to infuse anything
into our failure as whites and
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blacks?
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I think so. I think He
can lift us out of this hole.
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Consider what's been our
theme text in this little series
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called "Storm." Open your Bible
with me to the red-letter words
of Jesus in John chapter 15.
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John 15:5 -- our theme text.
Turns out it also speaks to us
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now. John 15:5. I'll be in
the New King James Version.
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Whatever version you have is
fine by me. Here we go, Jesus
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speaking -- bright red.
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"I am the vine,
you are the branches.
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He who abides in Me -- she who
abides in me, and I in her --
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and I in him, bears much
fruit; for without Me you can do
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nothing." There they are again,
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[Snaps fingers] the two sides
of God's exquisitely expensive
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salvation coin.
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Side one, we are... in
Christ. Side two, Christ is...
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in us. Jesus said, "Yo, you, you
people -- you in me, and let me
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be in you, and you will bear
fruit. You will bear stunning
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fruit for my glory in this
nation." What's he talking
about? Let me show you.
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The upper-room discourse where
these words come from, I remind
you, these red-letter words of
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Jesus were spoken 12 hours
before his brutal execution on
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Calvary. The upper-room
discourse -- familiar, almost
totally red -- from chapter 13
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to chapter 17 is actually
bookended -- get this -- two
bookends, striking posture of
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Jesus in both bookends. Listen.
John 13, we find Jesus on his
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knees before his disciples. And,
in John 17, we find Jesus on his
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knees before his Father --
what's called an "inclusio."
It's two bookends to keep intact
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what's in between. And isn't it
amazing that His posture in John
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13 is the huge clue to the
answer of His prayer in John 17?
Let me show you what I mean.
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The backstory to Jesus being on
His knees before His disciples
is found in one single line.
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If Luke hadn't written
it, we wouldn't know it.
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Let me put it on the screen for
you -- Luke 22, that upper room,
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verse 24. "Now there
was --" in that upper
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room -- "also a dispute
among --" Jesus' disciples --
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"as to which of them should
be considered the greatest."
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"I mean, which of us
is superior to the others?
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Which of us is the leader
over the others? Which of us is
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number one in this community?"
And so Jesus gets up from the
table, strips naked to His
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waist, grabs a towel, and begins
to wash their feet. Just turn
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the page back -- chapter 13.
Pick it up in verse four. Here's
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the actual record.
"Jesus," verse four...
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Jesus performs -- Get this.
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Jesus performs the
menial task of a slave. Why?
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Because nobody wants to be a
slave. Former slaves don't want
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to be slaves. Slavemasters
don't want to be slaves.
00:32:37.85\00:32:42.32
So nobody is going to bow down
and admit that, "Maybe I have a
weakened self-confidence, I have
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an uncertainty of my self-worth,
and I would accede to an
observation that I am a slave."
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Nobody bows down. Nobody can
break the logjam that night in
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that upper room, because nobody
wants to be a slave -- not
former slaves and not masters.
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Nobody will be a slave. When
Jesus is through washing their
feet, Jesus the slave
00:33:09.35\00:33:17.03
resumes His place at the table,
and He issues -- get this -- He
issues the "11th Commandment."
00:33:17.03\00:33:28.04
It's just happened, the washing
of the feet, and then He speaks.
Drop down -- You're in chapter
00:33:28.04\00:33:31.41
13.
00:33:31.41\00:33:32.31
Drop down to verse 34 --
bright red letters here, Jesus
00:33:32.47\00:33:35.54
speaking. "A new
commandment I give to
00:33:35.54\00:33:39.65
you, that you love
another; as I have loved you...
00:33:39.65\00:33:44.55
What you just saw me do, what
you just saw me do, you, you do
00:33:44.55\00:33:49.32
this. My love for
you, your love for
00:33:49.32\00:33:52.39
each other. ...you
also love one another."
00:33:52.39\00:33:56.60
Verse 35. "By this
-- by the way -- "all
00:33:56.60\00:33:59.43
will know that you are My
disciples, if you have love for
00:33:59.43\00:34:03.47
one another."
00:34:03.47\00:34:04.87
This some sort of isolated,
warm, fuzzy moment before He
gets on with the meat of His
00:34:05.04\00:34:11.71
upper-room discourse? Are you
kidding? Go back to our theme
00:34:11.71\00:34:16.65
text, John 15:5. Look what
happens right after John 15:5.
00:34:16.65\00:34:20.36
We'll read verse
5 of John 15 again.
00:34:20.52\00:34:22.96
"I am the vine,
you are the branches.
00:34:22.96\00:34:25.43
The people who abide in Me, and
I in them, they will bear much
00:34:25.43\00:34:29.23
fruit; for without
Me you can do nothing."
00:34:29.23\00:34:31.97
Verse 12. "This is
My commandment, that
00:34:31.97\00:34:34.87
you love one another
as I have loved you."
00:34:34.87\00:34:38.11
There it is again -- obviously
not just a passing notion.
00:34:38.11\00:34:43.85
Verse 13. "Greater
love has no one than
00:34:43.85\00:34:46.18
this, than to lay
down one's for his friends.
00:34:46.18\00:34:48.85
And you are My friends if
you do whatever I command you.
00:34:48.85\00:34:52.02
No longer do I call you
servants -- I'm not calling you
00:34:52.02\00:34:55.16
slaves, for a slave doesn't know
what his master is doing; but I
00:34:55.16\00:34:58.73
have called you friends, for
all things that I heard from My
00:34:58.73\00:35:02.13
Father I have
made known to you."
00:35:02.13\00:35:04.90
And, oh, by the way -- verse
16 -- "You didn't choose Me.
00:35:04.90\00:35:09.27
I chose you. Never
forget I chose you to
00:35:09.27\00:35:14.98
reflect Me. I chose you.
00:35:14.98\00:35:19.91
And I appointed you that you
should go and bear fruit, and
00:35:19.91\00:35:22.62
that your fruit should remain,
and that whatever you ask of the
00:35:22.62\00:35:25.55
Father in My name
he may give to you."
00:35:25.55\00:35:27.46
One last line, verse 17.
"These things I command you,
00:35:27.46\00:35:29.96
that you love one another."
00:35:29.96\00:35:33.26
[ Raps pulpit ] This is much
on His heart hours before His
00:35:33.43\00:35:41.20
execution. So, here's the
question. How else are we going
to reach -- As a church of black
00:35:41.20\00:35:47.84
and white, how else are we going
to reach America? I need you to
00:35:47.84\00:35:54.15
just think this through with me
for a moment. If the country
cannot turn to the church and,
00:35:54.15\00:36:01.19
in this faith community,
discover on bold display the
self-sacrificing love of Jesus
00:36:01.19\00:36:07.13
lived out between the races, why
should the country give a hoot
for the message that this church
00:36:07.13\00:36:15.74
has been raised up to proclaim?
[ Scoffs ] Let me put it another
00:36:15.74\00:36:19.87
way. If America cannot turn to
Adventists to see a community
where radical self-sacrificing
00:36:19.87\00:36:26.95
love of Jesus is being lived out
among us, why would anybody in
their right mind give two bits
00:36:26.95\00:36:33.22
for what this movement
stands for? You'd be crazy to.
00:36:33.22\00:36:40.93
If we don't practice what we
preach, you might as well quit
00:36:40.93\00:36:45.67
preaching. You might as well
quit preaching. Because we're
00:36:45.67\00:36:49.90
not practicing, so why preach?
Who cares about your theology?
Who cares about your beautiful
00:36:49.90\00:36:56.21
educational system? Who cares
about your healthcare system
that belts the planet?
00:36:56.21\00:37:01.28
Who cares about your doctrinal
beliefs? Because if what you
00:37:01.28\00:37:05.32
believe leaves you as fractured
as this nation, you can have it.
00:37:05.32\00:37:09.16
So, what does this mean for
my faith community, our faith
00:37:17.33\00:37:22.27
community? I'm gonna surprise
you right now by not bringing up
the "separate but equal"
00:37:22.27\00:37:29.24
conferences that exist only in
the United States and are
organized by race rather than
00:37:29.24\00:37:35.08
geography. I'm not gonna bring
it up. Although, now that you
did, let me just -- No, no, no.
00:37:35.08\00:37:39.99
[ Laughter ] I'm not
gonna go there. Nope.
00:37:39.99\00:37:43.53
I've already preached twice on
that extremely sensitive subject
00:37:43.69\00:37:47.60
in the past.
00:37:47.60\00:37:50.13
And, apparently, those two
sermons created such a firestorm
among my African-American
00:37:50.30\00:37:55.00
colleagues and friends in
ministry, as well as my
non-African-American colleagues
00:37:55.00\00:37:59.51
and friends in ministry, that I
said to myself, "I get it. I get
00:37:59.51\00:38:03.45
it. This is the third rail of
the American Adventist church."
And you do know what the third
00:38:03.45\00:38:10.19
rail is, don't you? It's the
rail that has power. You touch
00:38:10.19\00:38:15.09
it, you're dead. So nobody
touches ever the third rail. And
what's the point of
00:38:15.09\00:38:20.83
continually electrocuting
yourself? So I'm not bringing it
00:38:20.83\00:38:25.90
up. [ Laughter ] "I give you
a new commandment, that you love
00:38:25.90\00:38:36.14
one another. Because the way you
love one another, the whole
world will know the truth about
00:38:36.14\00:38:41.55
me." You know what, ladies and
gentlemen? It's time to quote
00:38:41.55\00:38:45.52
Moses. It's time
to, "Let my people go."
00:38:45.52\00:38:48.72
They're not being held captive
by forces outside the church.
It's time for the church to "let
00:38:51.76\00:39:00.34
my people go." There's a
dark and brewing storm that is
00:39:00.34\00:39:10.01
engulfing and will totally
engulf America one day -- a
broiling, racial storm of anger
00:39:10.01\00:39:16.99
and subjugation and retaliation.
Let us not be fooled into
naively concluding that somehow
00:39:16.99\00:39:22.39
this storm that explodes will
just pass by the church. She
will not be exempt.
00:39:22.39\00:39:30.93
We will not be exempt. It will
be the ultimate tragedy of this
faith community if, when
00:39:30.93\00:39:37.71
that dangerous storm strikes,
the country will not be able to
turn to this church in order to
00:39:37.71\00:39:44.85
find refuge in the love and
equality of Almighty God. It'll
be the ultimate tragedy.
00:39:44.85\00:39:54.29
If they can't find racial unity
here, I ask you, where do they
00:39:54.29\00:40:00.26
go? Politics? Are you crazy?
00:40:00.26\00:40:03.40
The good news is that all it
takes will be one man to stand
up and show us the way.
00:40:06.97\00:40:12.21
And the good news is that
one man has already stood up and
00:40:12.21\00:40:21.55
shown us the way. Which is why,
in the shadow of Calvary, Jesus
prays the prayer in the second
00:40:21.55\00:40:28.26
bookend, on His knees before the
Father. Just turn the page to
John 17. We heard these words in
00:40:28.26\00:40:33.33
Afrikaans -- thank you, Lawrence
-- a moment ago, the language of
00:40:33.33\00:40:37.23
South Africa -- which
has its own struggles.
00:40:37.23\00:40:41.47
This is John 17 -- bright red,
Jesus praying to the Father.
00:40:41.64\00:40:45.44
"Father, I do not pray for these
alone --" His disciples -- "but
00:40:45.44\00:40:47.91
I pray for those who will
believe in Me through their
00:40:47.91\00:40:50.05
word --" that's everybody here
'cause we believe in Him because
00:40:50.05\00:40:52.48
of their word -- verse 21 --
"that they --" my followers --
00:40:52.48\00:40:55.38
"may all be one, as You, Father,
are in Me, and I in You; that
00:40:55.38\00:40:59.02
they may also be one in Us, that
the world may believe that You
00:40:59.02\00:41:02.76
sent Me." Verse 22...
00:41:02.76\00:41:04.86
"I in them, and
You in Me." Whoa.
00:41:09.56\00:41:11.67
This thing works
more than we thought.
00:41:11.67\00:41:14.27
I thought it was me in Christ,
Christ in me. But Jesus says,
00:41:14.44\00:41:17.87
"No, no, no. It's you in me, and
me and the Father in you."
Heaven steps in to this
00:41:17.87\00:41:28.45
equation, the Father himself.
00:41:28.45\00:41:31.72
"Oh, Father, I in them..."
00:41:31.89\00:41:33.79
Well, what will it
take to answer that prayer?
00:41:43.37\00:41:45.77
I'll tell you what it'll take.
It'll take one man. It'll take
00:41:45.93\00:41:51.21
one woman. It will take one
young adult. It will take one
teenager. It will take one
00:41:51.21\00:41:57.95
leader. It will take one
administrator. It will take one
school. It will take one
00:41:57.95\00:42:03.99
congregation, one person to
stand up and put it all on the
table and say to the others and
00:42:03.99\00:42:08.92
to the Lord Jesus, "I put it all
there. It's all there. You may
00:42:08.92\00:42:13.53
have it -- my prerogatives, my
privilege, my possessions. You
have it -- myself, my
00:42:13.53\00:42:19.53
reputation. You have it.
You may do whatever you wish
00:42:19.53\00:42:22.40
with me.
00:42:22.40\00:42:23.81
I'm putting it all on
the table, all of it for You.
00:42:23.97\00:42:33.48
Use it." It's
when a man, it's when a
00:42:33.48\00:42:39.15
woman is willing to give it all
up out of unselfish love for the
00:42:39.15\00:42:43.29
other or for the others
that social institutions are
00:42:43.29\00:42:46.73
radically changed.
00:42:46.73\00:42:49.06
Just ask Martin Luther King.
Just ask Mahatma Gandhi. Just
00:42:49.23\00:42:56.17
ask Jesus. Just ask Paul, who
wrote the line that all four of
00:42:56.17\00:43:01.38
them believed in. "When I am
weak, then..." Think we're
getting that up on the screen.
00:43:01.38\00:43:08.68
"...then I am strong. When
I am weak, then I am strong."
00:43:08.68\00:43:19.46
The only way our racial logjam
is gonna be broken is if
somebody puts it all on the
00:43:19.46\00:43:24.73
table, and, until that somebody
does -- Listen carefully now.
Until that somebody does, ain't
00:43:24.73\00:43:30.11
nobody going home. Nobody's
going home. You know why nobody
00:43:30.11\00:43:34.74
will be going home? Because
nobody's coming for you.
Nobody's coming for you.
00:43:34.74\00:43:40.58
It'd be like what my principal
said. Our academy principal,
00:43:40.58\00:43:44.32
when he caught us boys tinkering
with electric bills -- electric
bells, rather, in the
00:43:44.32\00:43:47.96
dormitory, setting them off at
4:00 in the morning... he said,
"Boys, nobody's leaving
00:43:47.96\00:43:52.56
this room until I found out who
did it." Nobody's going home,
00:43:52.56\00:43:58.00
and that's what God's saying.
"Ain't nobody going home --
nobody -- until you get this.
00:43:58.00\00:44:04.71
You know enough. You
have enough. You are enough.
00:44:04.71\00:44:09.11
What are you waiting
for, me to do it? I won't.
00:44:09.11\00:44:12.78
I won't, I won't, I won't.
I made you free. You're not a
00:44:12.78\00:44:17.62
slave. You'll have to freely
give it all up, put it on the
table, and walk away and say,
00:44:17.62\00:44:24.63
'You may have that and do
whatever you wish.' I'm not
coming until you kids figure
00:44:24.63\00:44:33.84
this thing out." And you know
what? I happen to believe Him. I
believe He's not coming.
00:44:33.84\00:44:38.51
There'll just be one storm after
another, and they'll all get
00:44:38.51\00:44:43.04
worse. And He keeps waiting. "I
give you a new commandment, that
you love another as I have
00:44:43.04\00:44:49.88
loved you. By this the
whole world will know you are my
00:44:49.88\00:44:57.03
people, if you are one, even as
the Father and I are one." So,
00:44:57.03\00:45:04.03
how does it work? Let me
introduce you to two new friends
of mine, Richard and Betty
00:45:04.03\00:45:08.90
Moore. I want to invite them to
come forward. Richard Moore is
00:45:08.90\00:45:13.24
the associate treasurer of the
Lake Union Conference. That's
the Great Lakes states.
00:45:13.24\00:45:16.85
It's a great part of the world
to be living in. And Betty is a
00:45:16.85\00:45:22.78
nurse practitioner, practicing
right here in Berrien County.
So, Rich, I read your article.
00:45:22.78\00:45:28.89
I read their story in the
Lake Union Herald. And I really
00:45:28.89\00:45:32.03
appreciate you being here. Man,
this childhood that you grew up
with, San Diego -- I
00:45:32.03\00:45:37.67
mean, come on. Explain it to the
folks, please. >> I want to give
00:45:37.67\00:45:42.87
a shout-out to Debbie Michel,
from the Lake Union, also, who
helped craft that article.
00:45:42.87\00:45:46.74
>> Beautiful. >> But growing up
as a kid in San Diego, I didn't
00:45:46.74\00:45:51.31
have a real Christian
experience. >> Mm-hmm. >> My
single mom, who had five
00:45:51.31\00:45:55.68
kids -- just going through
life aimlessly. >> Mm-hmm.
00:45:55.68\00:46:00.36
>> And, one day, she met my
future-to-be stepdad at a bar,
just having a good time.
00:46:00.36\00:46:08.80
And he comes home, and he
becomes part of our life. >>
00:46:08.80\00:46:11.93
Mm-hmm. >> He's an
African-American man who was an
00:46:11.93\00:46:16.37
alcoholic. >> Mm. >> He -- He
would drink a lot. And when he
would drink, he was a very
00:46:16.37\00:46:23.58
unpleasant person, not somebody
you want to hang around, and
that was very bothersome to our
00:46:23.58\00:46:29.62
family, and I began to pray to
a God that I did not know. I was
00:46:29.62\00:46:34.62
not a churchgoer. "God, this man
is horrible. Get him out of our
life." And I would pray that
00:46:34.62\00:46:42.06
every day. I'd pray that every
week. I prayed it for over three
years, and then God finally did
00:46:42.06\00:46:47.50
answer that prayer. >> And this
is the incredible part of your
00:46:47.50\00:46:51.74
story. >> The answer was, "No,
I'm not going to get him out of
your life, but we're going to
00:46:51.74\00:46:56.88
change him from a roaring lion
into a little pussycat." >> [
00:46:56.88\00:47:01.92
Chuckles ] >> One day, an angel
visited his bedside, he told us,
and said, "Mitch, get your life
00:47:01.92\00:47:08.92
together, and go back to the
Adventist church that you have
come from. Be a prodigal son,
00:47:08.92\00:47:15.33
and go back home." And so he
gathers us together that one
Saturday morning, with
00:47:15.33\00:47:21.57
his five new white children and
white wife, to attend the San
Diego 31st Street -- a black
00:47:21.57\00:47:29.74
Adventist church. And we are
there, and we are welcomed with
00:47:29.74\00:47:35.35
open arms -- he being recognized
as who he was before, and now
with a new family, bringing a
00:47:35.35\00:47:42.32
new group to this church family.
And they welcomed us. They loved
00:47:42.32\00:47:45.46
us. They embraced us. >> They
just loved you, and you loved
00:47:45.46\00:47:48.40
them back. You came to love them
back. I mean, that's your new
home. Your stepdad gets baptized
00:47:48.40\00:47:53.13
-- re-baptized for him -- and
you get baptized in that
journey. >> After having some
00:47:53.13\00:47:57.91
Bible studies and falling in
love with the Bible, I wanted to
make a commitment to Jesus as my
00:47:57.91\00:48:06.55
Lord and Savior, and I, too, was
baptized a little bit later. >>
00:48:06.55\00:48:11.02
Wow. Yeah, so, African-American
church, San Diego -- we got the
00:48:11.02\00:48:15.29
picture. So, these colleges,
these universities, like to send
recruiting teams out.
00:48:15.29\00:48:19.89
Turns out the only college that
sent a recruiting team to your
00:48:19.89\00:48:24.60
church was... >> It was not
Andrews. >> [ Chuckling ] It was
00:48:24.60\00:48:28.04
not Andrews. Okay. [ Laughs
] >> Only Oakwood College --
00:48:28.04\00:48:30.77
Oakwood University now -- came
to recruit at that church. >>
And what did your people tell
00:48:30.77\00:48:35.34
you? >> The congregation says,
"Richard, we love you so much.
00:48:35.34\00:48:38.88
We want to help you to go to
Oakwood to study theology, to
study to become a pastor, to
00:48:38.88\00:48:44.59
become a preacher..." >> Ah.
>> "...and so much so that we're
00:48:44.59\00:48:48.09
gonna help pay the way there.
Hallelujah." >> Isn't that
00:48:48.09\00:48:51.46
amazing? So this little
congregation raises the money.
You go off to Oakwood, and this
00:48:51.46\00:48:54.60
is one of my favorite moments in
your story, as well. So, you're
standing in front of
00:48:54.60\00:48:58.03
the dean. He said, "Next. Next."
And then he looks up at you.
00:48:58.03\00:49:02.34
>> He looks up at me and asks a
rather interesting question.
"Are you sure you're at the
00:49:02.34\00:49:07.78
right place?" [ Laughter ]
"Shouldn't you be maybe 100
00:49:07.78\00:49:11.75
miles east?" >> That'd be
Southern Adventist. >> Southern
00:49:11.75\00:49:15.78
Adventist. And my response was,
"Well, this is Oakwood." And he
00:49:15.78\00:49:19.62
said, "Yes." "Then I'm at the
right place." >> Yeah.
Incredible. So, you -- double
00:49:19.62\00:49:24.56
major, theology and business.
Five years -- you're going to
00:49:24.56\00:49:28.93
school. And you go into
ministry. You want to be a
treasurer, pastor, maybe end up
00:49:28.93\00:49:34.00
as a treasurer someday, and you
end up here at Andrews
University. And so I'm gonna
00:49:34.00\00:49:40.34
come over here to Betty. Betty,
so, you are a girl from -- young
00:49:40.34\00:49:44.81
woman from South
Chicago. >> Yes. >> You went to
00:49:44.81\00:49:47.88
Broadview Academy, a rather...
homogenous sort of academy there
in the farm fields of Illinois.
00:49:47.88\00:49:55.06
>> Yes. >> But you're here,
Betty. Now, just tell the story
00:49:55.06\00:49:58.73
about how you met Richard.
>> So, I met Richard through my
00:49:58.73\00:50:03.60
roommate. >> Mm-hmm. >> The two
of them worked together in the
00:50:03.60\00:50:07.64
communications department here
at Andrews University. At the
time, they still had a
00:50:07.64\00:50:11.67
switchboard. I don't know if
they still have that now, but
00:50:11.67\00:50:15.81
they worked together. And it was
located in the administration
00:50:15.81\00:50:19.85
building, down in the basement.
>> Gotcha. >> And I was studying
00:50:19.85\00:50:23.28
nursing, and so, every day, I
had to make that trek over to
the science complex.
00:50:23.28\00:50:27.66
So I would divert off and go say
hi to my roommate Nikki whenever
00:50:27.66\00:50:32.56
she was on duty. And that
particular day, Richard happened
to come into the office when I
00:50:32.56\00:50:39.00
was visiting Nikki. And I'm
generally friendly to everybody,
so, "Hi. How are you?"
00:50:39.00\00:50:43.34
That was about the extent of
that conversation, and then I
finished my visit with my
00:50:43.34\00:50:48.04
friend, and I left. Well, it
turns out, later, I found out
00:50:48.04\00:50:52.38
that he expressed interest
in me. >> Hmm. >> So, "Who is
00:50:52.38\00:50:55.58
that?" [ Laughs ] So my
roommate, always trying to fix
me up, had [Laughs] decided
00:50:55.58\00:51:02.22
that she would play matchmaker.
>> Mm-hmm. >> So she gave him
00:51:02.22\00:51:06.49
our phone number at the dorm --
we didn't have cellphones back
then -- and she told me later
00:51:06.49\00:51:14.37
that, "He will be calling you,
and you be nice to him." So --
00:51:14.37\00:51:17.51
[ Laughter ] He did call, and
we had a wonderful conversation.
00:51:17.51\00:51:22.14
He asked me out on a date, and I
said, "Well, not quite sure. I
don't know you that well.
00:51:22.14\00:51:27.95
How about we go on a double
date with my roommate and her
00:51:27.95\00:51:31.09
boyfriend?" And so he was fine
with that, and we got together,
had a wonderful time.
00:51:31.09\00:51:36.26
I fell in love with him. He's a
wonderful man, God-fearing man,
00:51:36.26\00:51:41.20
just a wonderful person. And the
rest is history. >> Praise God.
00:51:41.20\00:51:44.90
>> Mm-hmm. >> Praise
God. I wanted to -- One more
00:51:44.90\00:51:48.70
incident, Richard. So, you two
get married, and you're working
00:51:48.70\00:51:52.74
in Wisconsin Conference because
you're gonna help out with
treasury there, and you're going
00:51:52.74\00:51:56.98
around preaching. So, one wintry
Sabbath... >> Yes, one wintry
00:51:56.98\00:52:04.39
Sabbath -- and maybe it wasn't
necessarily just one time. >>
00:52:04.39\00:52:07.69
Mm. >> And I imagine it probably
wouldn't have been restricted
00:52:07.69\00:52:11.56
just to Wisconsin. >> Mm. >>
Across the nation, probably
something similar would've
00:52:11.56\00:52:14.56
happened. >> Mm-hmm.
>> On that cold, wintry
00:52:14.56\00:52:17.30
Sabbath, I would be a nice
gentleman and drop my wife off
at the front door so that she
00:52:17.30\00:52:22.90
could go inside and not be
confronted with the misery of
going through a snow-packed
00:52:22.90\00:52:28.38
parking lot. She goes
there. She's not greeted.
00:52:28.38\00:52:33.52
She's not invited to sit
anywhere. She finds her own way.
00:52:33.52\00:52:38.65
>> Mm-hmm. >> I get out of my
car after finding a spot, and I
00:52:38.65\00:52:43.36
walk in and say, "Hey, I'm
Richard. I'm the guest speaker
00:52:43.36\00:52:47.00
for today." "Oh, hello. How you
doing? Let's guide you to the
right place to be."
00:52:47.00\00:52:50.57
Treats me quite differently than
how they treated my wife. >> Mm.
00:52:50.57\00:52:54.54
>> Later, when I was introduced
as speaker and my wife was
invited to stand, she was
00:52:54.54\00:52:59.84
treated quite differently at the
end of service than what she was
at the very beginning.
00:52:59.84\00:53:05.51
>> Mm. >> And that sort of
breaks our heart a little bit,
00:53:05.51\00:53:09.62
that we have a tendency to treat
people differently because of
00:53:09.62\00:53:13.36
how they look. >> Mm. I think
the rapt question, Richard, is
00:53:13.36\00:53:18.19
-- We're a university
congregation here, got a lot of
people watching from all over.
00:53:18.19\00:53:22.76
What do we do? Do you have
any... Do you an appeal or do
00:53:22.76\00:53:26.60
you have some counsel for us? >>
Yes. I would like to appeal to
00:53:26.60\00:53:32.31
all of us to treat each
other as God's children. >> Mm.
00:53:32.31\00:53:38.01
>> We are all princes and
princesses of the King of the
universe, and we need to treat
00:53:38.01\00:53:43.95
everybody the same way. If
you're uncomfortable with
somebody that maybe looks a lot
00:53:43.95\00:53:49.12
different than you, then make a
sacrifice and go out of your way
and spend time with them, eat
00:53:49.12\00:53:54.56
with them, play with them, hang
out with them to get to know
them better so that, somehow,
00:53:54.56\00:54:00.04
some way, Jesus can soften your
heart. To understand somebody,
00:54:00.04\00:54:04.74
we need to spend time with them,
just like our relationship with
00:54:04.74\00:54:07.98
Jesus. If we're not spending
time with Him, then we're not
knowing Him. >> Yeah.
00:54:07.98\00:54:12.05
>> Let's spend time with
different people. >> Amen.
00:54:12.05\00:54:15.68
Beautifully put. Betty and
Richard, both of you, thank you
for sharing your testimony with
00:54:15.68\00:54:20.19
us. What a beautiful story.
Ladies and gentlemen, give them
a hand as gratitude for that.
00:54:20.19\00:54:24.13
Bless you. [ Applause ]
00:54:24.13\00:54:27.56
What'd you just see? You saw two
people of different races who,
00:54:31.57\00:54:38.37
through love, are brought
together, and it is love that
makes the two races one. That's
00:54:38.37\00:54:46.11
it. That's what God's waiting
for. I'll have a prayer with you
in just a moment, but we've got
00:54:46.11\00:54:49.55
this great -- this great -- This
is from the 1960s and '70s, kind
of an activist song, "They Will
00:54:49.55\00:54:54.62
Know We Are Christians By Our
Love." Let's sing that, sing our
00:54:54.62\00:54:58.93
hearts out, as the ushers
receive our Connect Cards. [
"They'll Know We Are
00:54:58.93\00:55:04.33
Christians" plays ]
00:55:04.33\00:55:05.73
[ Congregation sings ]
00:55:16.54\00:55:18.11
[ Song ends ]
Amen and amen. Amen.
00:56:34.82\00:56:38.79
"And now the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the love of God
and the communion of the
00:56:38.96\00:56:45.33
Holy Spirit be with you all.
Amen." [ Organ plays "They'll
00:56:45.33\00:56:52.61
Know We Are Christians" ]
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