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00:31 Hello friends, welcome to our Sabbath School Panel here
00:33 at the 3ABN Worship Center. 00:35 My name is John Lomacang and thank you so much 00:38 for taking the time to join us in this excursion 00:41 through the word of God which promises to be a blessing 00:44 and also to be very exciting. 00:46 So don't turn away, get your Bibles and we're going to 00:49 pray in just a moment to invite the Holy Spirit 00:51 to be our guide, but before we do that, 00:53 let me introduce to you our panelists today... 00:55 To my immediate left is Greg Morikone, good to have 00:58 you here Greg - Good to be here! 00:59 Shelley Quinn, good to see you Shelley - A blessing. 01:01 Pastor Kenny Shelton, always good to have 01:03 you onboard - Yes, good. 01:05 And Greg, your better half Jill. Alright now, that's right. 01:08 Which makes you the blessed half! Yes! 01:10 I'm the blessed one! You both are blessed. 01:13 And our topic for this Quarter is "Oneness in Christ" 01:18 A dynamic study, it's been a blessing to study 01:22 from week-to-week and we are just floating along 01:24 as we enter into "When Conflicts Arise." 01:29 Lesson #7- if you don't have a copy of that lesson, 01:32 go to the following website to download a version of it. 01:35 ABSG.Adventist.org 01:39 Once again: ABSG.Adventist.org 01:43 or go to your local Seventh-day Adventist Church, 01:47 join them for a wonderful Bible Study; 01:49 ask for a copy of the Lesson. 01:51 If they don't have one, I know they'll do whatever 01:53 they can to include you in their study and possibly 01:56 get you your own copy. 01:58 It's a beautiful study isn't it? 01:59 Dealing with issues that are very pertinent today, 02:02 the world is so divided, the Lord's word has much 02:05 to say about "oneness" and the need for that. 02:11 Greg, I'm going to invite you to have our prayer 02:12 for us today before we go into our study together. 02:16 Alright, let's pray. Father in Heaven... 02:18 What a privilege it is to open Your Holy Word. 02:21 You have said that it will not return void. 02:24 Lord, I just pray that today, that we would allow Your 02:28 Word, Your Holy Spirit to change our hearts, 02:30 and Lord, that we be open to Your wooing and Your speaking 02:33 to us each and every day. 02:35 Lord, as we open Your Word, we're just thankful 02:37 for what's in it and as we study this Sabbath School Lesson 02:40 this week, Lord we thank You that You have things for us 02:43 to learn. In Jesus name we pray... Amen 02:46 Amen, Amen! Now I'm going to be 02:50 summarizing Sabbath afternoon and then also go on to Sunday 02:53 which is quite a lesson. 02:55 I don't know how you chose me for this one, Shelley, 02:57 but I'm glad you did because I'm kind of a hodgepodge, 03:01 ethnically, and our discussion on Sunday is: 03:05 "Ethnic Prejudices" and the Sabbath Lesson 03:08 leads into it in a summary way. 03:11 The Memory Text on Sabbath 03:13 afternoon is from Galatians 3:27-28 which goes 03:19 as follows: "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ 03:23 have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is 03:28 neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; 03:33 for you are all one in Christ Jesus." 03:36 Can I get an Amen? Amen! Amen! Amen! 03:38 We are all one when it comes to Christ Jesus. 03:40 Now when I look at the topic of ethnic prejudices... 03:47 as a young man with an ethnically-diverse background, 03:50 let me just kinda start out with that... 03:53 Sometimes I meet people and depending on where I am 03:56 in the nation or in the world, I get questions like 04:00 "What are you?" and I know what they mean, 04:03 but sometimes I tiptoe through the tulips 04:05 depending on where I am... because in reality, ethnically, 04:08 my mother is Filipino and white, my dad is native American 04:13 and African-American. 04:14 So I'm literally - red and yellow, black and white! 04:17 And in America, that's a big issue, but when I travel 04:22 the world - if I'm in Indonesia, they think I'm Indonesian, 04:25 if I'm in the Polynesian Islands, 04:26 they think I'm part of the Polynesian culture. 04:28 And I did the DNA - what's that? Ancestry.com. Yes 04:34 I submitted that a number of years ago and found out that 04:37 my ethnicity is quite more diverse 04:39 than I actually thought. 04:41 From the Polynesian Islands, to the Philippines, Africa, 04:46 a little speck of Europe and it's amazing to see that 04:50 I could look the way I do and still have so much 04:56 red and yellow, black and white inside of me. 04:58 Now depending on where we are in the world, 05:01 I did a little research to lead into this topic and I put 05:03 in the phrase, "ethnic conflict." 05:06 And do you know that there is ethnic conflict in every 05:09 nation on the planet. 05:12 And, it's not necessarily against the fair skin 05:14 and the dark skin - there are ethnic conflicts in Africa, 05:17 Rwandan, Bosnia, Nigeria, Sudan, Sri Lanka. 05:21 India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Ivory Coast, 05:25 Western Asia, Western Europe, West Africa, Sweden, 05:29 Russia, Chechnya, Australia, China... there is ethnic 05:35 conflict in all of these countries. 05:37 And these ethnic conflicts are not always 05:40 based on the color of skin, but sometimes 05:42 preferential issues in society. 05:45 For example, we are all familiar with the Rwandan 05:47 genocide, and we know, historically, there were 05:50 Adventists Hutu and Tutsi that were killing each other 05:55 because of the ethnic diversities or differences 05:57 or conflicts because you don't kill each other 06:00 over a difference but over these tribal conflicts. 06:04 You also have the Serbs and the Croats, remember that? 06:09 Years ago, we would hear about the Catholics 06:13 fighting against the (this was in Europe), 06:18 there were fights between different religions, 06:21 and then you also had, years ago, there was controversy 06:25 between Pakistan and India; one kept pushing the border 06:28 further back - taking it from the other country, 06:30 and then also the centuries long conflict between 06:36 the Muslim and the Jew. 06:39 And my wife and I, last year, we were in Jordan and 06:44 I was amazed to find out that there are no 06:46 Jewish settlements in the entire country of Jordan. 06:51 But then we went to Israel and there is in Jerusalem 06:54 a Muslim Quarter, a Jewish Quarter, a Christian Quarter. 06:59 And so depending on where you are in Jerusalem, 07:01 you could get involved, as our tour guide said, 07:05 you could make the wrong turn in Jerusalem and 07:07 disappear as a tourist. 07:09 Or you can make the right turn and have a lot of fun. 07:13 So ethnic issues have been so talked about throughout 07:17 history, but as the lesson makes it clear, 07:20 when we are in Christ, ethnic diversity 07:24 should not be an issue. 07:25 Unfortunately, however, because each of us is in the journey, 07:29 some of us have to come from our background, 07:31 from our upbringing, from the neighborhoods we were raised. 07:34 I'll give you a little story... I was raised in Brooklyn, 07:37 I was born in Manhattan, New York 07:39 in the Polyclinic Hospital that is still there to this day, 07:42 my wife found it, but I was raised in Brooklyn, 07:46 and growing up, I had to do things as a young boy 07:50 in a black community to survive 07:52 the differences that they saw in me. 07:55 They called my sister, "Chink," because 07:58 she looked more Filipino when she was younger, 08:00 and you're looking at me right now, but they used to 08:03 call me "White boy" in my community. 08:04 So I actually got an Afro to survive my community 08:09 by washing my hair with Tide and not drying it. 08:13 But that was in MY neighborhood, in a Black community. 08:16 So prejudice is, in Black communities and white 08:20 communities, and in every shade in-between. 08:23 And then you have those Scripture references... 08:26 let's go to the Book of Numbers - this is one of the 08:29 early references to this creeping in among the 08:32 people of God. 08:33 In Numbers 12- I'm not going to read the whole thing, 08:37 but many of you are familiar with the story. 08:39 Numbers 12:1... This is when Miriam and Aaron had a 08:44 problem with Moses' wife. 08:47 And here it says in Numbers 12:1... Do you have 08:50 that Shelley? Yes. Read that for us. 08:52 "Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because 08:55 of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; 08:58 for he had married an Ethiopian woman." 09:01 Right, and so that was an issue there... if you look at the 09:04 Ethiopian people, they're not dark, dark, 09:06 dark, dark, skin - they are like a, you know, 09:10 if you would use a word... sugar with milk in it and cream, 09:15 they're not dark, dark, dark skin like different 09:17 parts of Africa, but there was a prejudice attitude 09:20 towards Moses' wife because he had married 09:23 an Ethiopian. 09:25 And this story was one of the first examples in Scripture 09:28 that shows us how God looks at it and what God 09:31 wanted to root out immediately from their mindset 09:34 about any kind of ethnic prejudice. 09:37 Jill, read verse 9 and 10 for us... 09:39 "So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, 09:42 and He departed. 09:43 And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, 09:46 suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. 09:49 Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was 09:52 a leper." Because she started the 09:55 attitude towards Moses' wife and Aaron jumped 10:00 on board and the Lord said... Hey, if the color of the skin 10:04 is an issue, look at the color of your skin now. 10:08 If the issue of the color of the skin is a problem 10:10 you have, look at the color of your skin now... 10:12 And that was the first and last time 10:14 the Lord had to deal with that issue. 10:16 And then also you see Jesus had to deal with 10:18 the issues of the Samaritans. 10:19 In John 4:9, the Samaritans were SO prejudiced against 10:24 Jesus, that whenever He spoke against 10:26 what they didn't like - look at one of the 10:27 ways that they attacked Him... 10:28 John 4:9, and as you look that up, the Samaritans were 10:32 the Northern Israelite Tribe from Ephraim and Manasseh 10:36 that survived the destruction of the kingdom in 722 B.C. 10:40 But do you have that Greg? John 4:9... 10:43 It says... "Then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him, 10:45 "How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, 10:50 which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no 10:54 dealings with the Samaritans." 10:56 Exactly, they had difficulties that were just totally 11:00 divisive and the very same thing I'll read very quickly 11:03 in John 8:48- speaking to Jesus, the Jews answered 11:07 and said to Him... "Do we rightly say that You are a 11:11 Samaritan and have a demon?" 11:13 They so hated the Samaritans. 11:15 They categorized Jesus as a Samaritan and a demon, 11:18 the lowest form that you could even associate with a person. 11:21 They categorized him that way. 11:23 So, what I'm going to do is show you just eight quick 11:26 points in the Bible that shows you how the Bible 11:29 deals with these issues of ethnic prejudices... 11:32 #1... 1 Corinthians 12:13. First it denounces racial 11:37 prejudice. 1 Corinthians 12:13, "For by one Spirit, we are all 11:43 baptized into one body; whether Jews or Greeks, 11:46 whether slaves or free, and have all been made 11:50 to drink into one Spirit." 11:53 The Lord is saying - There is no difference, 11:56 salvation is open to every one of us. 11:58 Going quickly... it denounces hate. 12:00 1 John 2:11... "But he who hates his brother is in 12:04 darkness and walks in darkness and does not know 12:07 where he is going because the darkness has 12:09 blinded his eyes." 12:11 It denounces profiling based on appearance. 12:14 1 Samuel 16:7... "But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look 12:19 at his appearance or at his physical stature, 12:22 because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see 12:24 as man sees, for man looks at the... what? 12:27 outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. Amen! 12:31 Prejudice based on appearance. 12:33 The Bible also highlights our uniform beginning. 12:36 Acts 17:26... "And He has made from one blood every nation 12:42 of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, 12:44 and has determined their preappointed times and the 12:47 boundaries of their dwellings..." 12:49 You know, I used to give blood, so many times when the 12:51 blood drives came around in New York and I discovered 12:54 something very carefully... that if a person 12:57 needs blood - they don't say, "Did that blood come from a 12:59 white person or a black person or a Jewish person? 13:01 They say, "What TYPE of blood is it? 13:03 There's A, B and the positives and negatives and the O. 13:06 Blood has no prejudice in it. That's true. 13:09 Going on further, the Bible denounces mistreatment 13:12 of foreigners. 13:14 Exodus 22:21... "You shall neither mistreat a 13:17 stranger, nor oppose him or oppress him, 13:21 for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." 13:24 And the word there in some translations... 13:25 "You should not mistreat a foreigner." 13:29 Leviticus also verse 19:33-34... "When an alien lives 13:33 with you in your land, do not mistreat him. 13:36 (That's what we should do here in America. Amen!) 13:39 The alien living with you must be treated as one 13:43 of your native-born. 13:44 Love him as yourself for you were aliens in Egypt, 13:49 and I am the Lord your God." 13:50 In other words, I expect more from you than that. 13:52 Another one... The Bible advocates equal treatment. 13:56 Mark 12:31... "Love your neighbor as yourself. 14:00 There is no commandment greater than these." 14:03 In James 2:8-9... "If you really keep the royal law 14:07 found in Scripture, "love your neighbor as yourself, 14:10 you are doing right; but if you show partiality 14:14 or favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law 14:18 as lawbreakers." 14:20 So the Bible denounces prejudice, bias based on 14:23 appearance, mistreatment of foreigners, favoritism 14:27 or partiality and it advocates equal treatment... 14:30 But here's the biggest foundation... 14:33 The reason why all nationalities, regardless of 14:36 skin color, deserve respect is Genesis 1:26... 14:41 "And God said, "Let us make man in our image, 14:45 in our likeness." 14:46 We are all made in the image of God, Amen? Amen! 14:49 My dad's name is Adam, what's your dad's name?" 14:51 Adam. Okay! 14:52 And lastly, Acts 10:28... "Then He said to them, 14:57 (this is an amazing example, when Peter was sent 15:01 to Cornelius, and he had the vision 15:07 of the unclean food, it was NOT about FOOD! 15:10 I'll say - it was not about food! 15:13 It was about racial injustice and racial prejudice. 15:16 The Bible says in Acts 10:28... "Then he said to them, 15:19 "You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep 15:22 company with or to go to one of another nation, 15:26 but God has shown me that I should not call any man 15:31 common or unclean." Amen Pastor! 15:33 It's yours Greg. Oh, thank you very much, Pastor. 15:35 Fantastic! It's great to study the word of God! 15:38 I tell you, it's a blessing! 15:39 You know, Pastor, you were mentioning too, 15:41 for years people have asked you when you were young... 15:43 "What are you?" or maybe even now." 15:45 I get the same thing too, and I'm like... "I'm a man." 15:49 Yeah - of the human race! 15:50 Of the human race - there you go that's better, Pastor. 15:52 Yes, so yeah, I would get that because of my age 15:54 and background and stuff like that, and so even my 15:57 family - back in World War II, some of them because 16:01 they looked Asian, they were actually sent - they were going 16:04 to go into concentration camps, actually here in the 16:06 United States of America which is amazing. 16:09 Yeah, anyway that's some of the family background. 16:11 But it's sad, and to be honest with you, as we look at 16:15 Monday - which is "The Conversion of Gentiles," 16:17 you may say, "Okay, so what's the big deal with that?" 16:20 I mean, that's great that they're getting converted. 16:22 But the thing is, Pastor, that you were mentioning 16:24 in Acts 10- which is the chapter we're going to 16:26 be looking at today - it's talking about this dream 16:29 and about Peter and Cornelius and about the prejudices 16:33 or the prejudice that was going on, and this was 16:35 huge because you didn't have the Jews interacting 16:38 really much at all with the Gentiles - why was that? 16:43 That had to do with prejudice against the Gentiles, one of the 16:45 big things being they were not circumcised. 16:48 That was one of the things... they weren't chosen 16:49 of God - the Jews thought it was them, 16:51 and so that was the big deal. 16:53 So we're looking at Acts 10:1-48 and we only have a few 16:58 minutes, so we're going to kind of brush over some of these. 17:00 But it's a great study! 17:01 I want to read this from the lesson, so if you have your 17:03 Quarterly, take a look at this... 17:05 "The conversion of the Gentiles to the gospel of Jesus Christ 17:09 is an event in the Book of Acts that sets the stage for the 17:14 greatest conflict in the life of the early church; 17:17 one that would threaten its existence and mission," 17:20 which is absolutely hard to believe. 17:23 You think, why would that be such a big issue? 17:24 It says the early Christian Church was closed 17:26 to the Gentile community, like we were talking about, 17:28 because one of the big things was that they were not 17:31 circumcised - that was one of the big things. 17:33 Now this just maybe shows my ignorance on this... 17:36 I was doing a little bit of research on what prejudice is, 17:38 and this is interesting to me; the definition of 17:41 prejudice is... "Preconceived opinion that is not based 17:45 on reason or actual experience." 17:48 I thought it was, but it says prejudice is not. 17:54 It is preconceived opinion that is NOT based on 17:57 reason or actual experience. 17:59 Now you can actually be prejudiced, 18:01 but when you don't act on it, no one really knows about it. 18:04 No one really knows, but if you do, 18:06 then it becomes discriminations. 18:08 So that was just interesting to me. 18:09 Pastor, you mentioned this in your eight points, 18:11 I like this...but today, I hate to say this, but even in 18:14 individual lives - in let's say a church, a family. 18:18 You can have prejudice about religion, about race, culture, 18:23 class, education and the list can go on and on. 18:28 Oh yeah, so many areas. 18:30 But anyway, let's take a look at Acts 10; 18:33 there are some great lessons to be learned and I just 18:35 pray from this study that, in my own heart, 18:38 God help me not to be prejudice to hinder Your work. Amen! 18:41 So, again, we have 1-48, and so you basically have 18:45 Cornelius who is from Caesarea. 18:47 He is a centurion, so he is over 100 men. 18:49 He is a devout Christian and he feared God. 18:52 You may say, "Well how in the world did he learn about God? 18:54 And I was reading Ellen White, and she says that, 18:57 He had interaction with some Jewish people that actually 18:59 influenced him to honor God which is pretty amazing. 19:03 He just didn't know much about Jesus Christ. 19:05 So he was faithful to God, all of his household. 19:08 He gave money to the poor, and he prayed daily. 19:12 So during one of these prayers as he was having 19:15 on a certain day - I don't know, let's just pick Monday 19:16 let's say... he was praying at the ninth hour which 19:19 is about 3 p.m. and an angel says to him... 19:22 "Your prayers have been heard." Can you imagine, wow! 19:26 And then he says, "Send some of your men to Joppa 19:29 and look for Simon Peter." 19:32 So then you have Peter who is in Joppa. 19:35 Now this is kind of interesting on Peter... 19:37 He is in Joppa and he's staying with who? A tanner. 19:41 And a tanner is someone that does what Shelley? 19:43 Deals with dead animals, right? The hide. 19:46 Now for the Jewish people, Pastor, that's considered 19:49 an unclean thing, isn't it? Right. 19:50 So here Peter is staying at the tanner's house. 19:52 That's kind of interesting. 19:54 And so then you've got... going down to verse 9-12, 19:59 you have Peter which is the next day; 20:01 Cornelius has had his vision from the angel; 20:04 the next day Peter is at the sixth hour which is about 20:06 noon - he is on the rooftop which is not unusual 20:09 for the people there at that time and he was hungry. 20:12 So he was waiting for the food to be prepared and he was 20:15 praying and now he had his vision which, Pastor, 20:17 you referred to in your portion of this study and this is with 20:21 Acts 10, I'm going to read actually from the Bible 20:26 verses 11-15, and it says... "And Peter saw heaven open, 20:31 and a certain vessel descending unto him as it had been a 20:35 great sheet, knit at the four corners and let 20:37 down to the earth; Wherein were all manner of four-footed 20:41 beasts of the earth; and wild beasts and creeping things, 20:44 and fowls of the air. 20:45 And there came a voice to him saying, 20:48 "Rise, Peter; kill and eat." 20:51 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten 20:55 anything that is common or unclean." 20:57 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, 21:01 (and this is really powerful) "What God hath cleansed, 21:06 that call thou not common." 21:10 So here you have Peter that is having this dream. 21:13 He thinks it has to do with food; like you mentioned, 21:15 Pastor, it has nothing to do with food. 21:17 It has to do, really, with prejudice against 21:21 a certain group of people. 21:23 Oh wow, time is going by quickly... 21:25 So let's jump down here a little bit further in 21:29 Acts 10... "And the three men from that Cornelius sent 21:34 (they are actually banging at the front gate saying 21:35 "Hey, we've come to look for Simon Peter," 21:38 and I like here what Mrs. White says in "Acts of the Apostles," 21:41 another great read, "Acts of the Apostles," 21:44 Chapter "Seeker for Truth," p.135, and Mrs. White says, 21:49 "This vision gave Peter reproof and instruction. 21:53 It revealed to him that God, by the death of Jesus, 21:57 that the Gentiles should be made fellow heirs with Jesus 22:01 to the blessings of salvation. 22:04 As of yet, none of the disciples had preached the gospel 22:07 to the Gentiles." Isn't that amazing? 22:09 None of the disciples had at that point. 22:12 Let's go down to verse 19 in chapter 10. 22:16 And while Peter was thinking on the vision, because he's a 22:19 little confused, "... was thinking on the vision, 22:22 the Spirit said unto him, (or God told him) 22:24 "Behold, there are three men that seek you. 22:27 Arise therefore, and get you down, and go 22:30 with them, doubting nothing; 22:32 for I have sent them unto you." 22:35 Now I think, isn't that precious of Jesus? 22:37 He said, "I've sent these men to look for you, 22:39 but what they ask of you, don't doubt at all." 22:41 I've got this all taken care of because these men 22:44 are Gentiles and I think this is really beautiful because 22:47 this is all happening and I'm thinking in just minutes... 22:50 They're banging on the gate; they invite them in, 22:51 and what does Peter do to Cornelius' men? 22:54 He says, "Come on and eat with me." 22:56 Woe... you shouldn't do that, right? 22:58 A Jew invite a Gentile to eat with him. 22:59 Then what did he do next? 23:01 He says, "Stay the night with me... 23:02 all you men, stay the night with me." 23:04 That's huge too - so you can already see 23:06 Peter's heart changing which is just precious. Amen! 23:08 It's just happening that quick and I believe he is taking 23:11 the promise of what God told him here in verse 20 it says, 23:15 "Arise therefore, get thee down, go with them, 23:17 doubt nothing; for I have sent them." 23:22 So then you have... I'll just go on quickly here... 23:24 Peter meets with Cornelius; Cornelius bows down to Peter; 23:28 actually worships him; Peter says, "Stand up, 23:30 Cornelius, don't worship me." 23:32 And I think Peter, at that moment, could have said, 23:34 "Oh, here he is bowing to me, that's good because I have a 23:37 very high spiritual status, but he didn't... he said, 23:40 "Stand up, we're equal." 23:41 And I think that's one of the key things too... 23:43 As we deal with whatever prejudices - because I think 23:45 we all have a prejudice - it could be against someone that 23:47 maybe is a little less than us, what it is - that we need to 23:50 realize that God looks at us all the same. 23:54 Verse 28 says... "You know how that it is an unlawful 24:00 thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or to come 24:03 unto one of another nation; but God has showed me that I 24:07 should not call any man common or unclean. 24:10 And then Cornelius tells Peter 24:12 his story which is just precious. 24:14 Then Peter actually has the opportunity to share with 24:18 Cornelius about Jesus Christ and then the Holy Spirit 24:23 comes upon Cornelius and his entire family; they start 24:26 prophesying, speaking in tongues is what the Bible says. 24:30 And Peter says, "What hinders you from being baptized? 24:32 Let's baptize them! 24:34 And so you can see the conversion of Cornelius 24:36 which is just powerful from Peter obeying God, 24:40 breaking down the prejudices and saying, 24:42 "God, this is what You have asked me to do, I will do it." 24:46 The take aways from this... God handpicked Peter 24:49 to help break down the barriers of prejudice 24:51 between the Jews and the Gentiles. 24:53 #2... God calls us to break down 24:55 barriers or prejudice around us. 24:57 It's always easy to point to others instead. 25:00 You know, we need to be a part of the solution. 25:03 We also recognize that we are all equal in God's sight. 25:06 There can be prejudice on both sides, but we have to remember 25:09 that we're all equal and I also think we should look at 25:12 John 3:16 which basically all of us know and it says... 25:16 "For God so loved the world (it doesn't say that He loved 25:19 only the Jews, only the Greeks, only the blacks, 25:21 only the whites) it says - "God so loved the world," 25:24 and we're to follow that. 25:25 And in closing, I just pray... 25:27 Oh God, remove from my heart any prejudice or judgment 25:31 that I will not hinder Your work. Amen! 25:34 Wow! Sorry I got a little bit 25:36 rushed on the 48 verses! 25:37 Well that's okay, I don't know how you even 25:39 tackled 48 verses, but there's so much there that 25:42 goes with studying and participating. 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