Every year Southern Baptists from all
over the country gathered together to
conduct all of their business in just
two days but here they also pass
resolutions that show their priorities
and what they're thinking about that
year this year an african-american
pastor put forth a resolution to condemn
the ALT right movement but it failed to
secure a vote on the floor and that's
what the alt-right has done is divided
this convention a group of mostly young
pastors gathered together and decided
they were not going to stand for that
let's give the pastors they believe this
they forced a vote
we must stand with an african-american
brothers and sisters in their churches
it passed overwhelmingly how can the
church be a force for good in the midst
of this escalating tension and not
merely another mobilizing agent on both
wings to foster more fear and loathing
you know how are we working toward faith
and love in the church instead of just
continuing what we see on talk radio and
cable news that's a good question I
think it's two things so the first thing
is I truly believe that the elephant
this is the elephant in the room I think
this is important I don't believe that
white evangelicals leaders civic leaders
and also politicians have ever truly
divested themselves from the Southern
Strategy meaning I think they still
believe they need the races support
funding votes to win right and so as
long as they feel they need that to win
it's gonna be hard to come together
because they're still receiving the
benefits of the people they kind of say
we don't want to be around but we're
still receiving their benefit and so if
if you truly want to see change you have
to unequivocally reject that Southern
Strategy you can no longer caucus with
racist and like act like it's okay
because if you don't cut that off and as
long as you continue to accept those
benefits and you're complicit okay
everyone welcome back to the Gates of
Halda as you can see you're going to
have to buckle up for today's session we
are going in we're going to be talking
about separating wheat from tares
preparing for judgment we're going to
address what I call the demon in the
room you heard the young minister refer
to it as the elephant in the room no
it's the sin of white supremacy in its
demonic plain and simple it began as a
lie and we know who the father
of lies is so we're going to be talking
about how this evil has impacted the
lives of believers and how it is
hindering the work of the Holy Spirit
why is this important it's important
because this is grieving the Holy Spirit
and it's clear that time is very short
this is a sin of the heart it's a heart
issue and it's buried so deep in the
hearts of men and women who say they are
followers of Christ they don't even see
this as an issue so they have not
repented of this so if the Holy Spirit
convicts you today don't turn away
repent before I get started though I
want to make two quick announcements and
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right so I want to begin with some
little-known facts about so-called
African Americans let's take a look at
this next slide alright this information
is coming from the Pew Research Center
and it's called five facts about the
religious lives of African Americans by
David Masky and this was in February of
2018
it says religion particularly
Christianity has played an outsized role
in african-american history while most
Africans brought to the new world to be
slaves were not Christians when they
arrived many of them in their
descendants embraced Christianity
finding comfort in the biblical message
of spirit spiritual equality and
deliverance so the report is saying that
roughly 8 in 10 or almost 80% of
so-called African Americans
self-identify as Christian compared to 7
in 10 whites and 77% of Latinos
let's take a look at the next line so
based on this information and again you
can read this article on your own this
is basically saying that by many
measures African Americans are more
religious than whites and Latinos for
instance three-quarters of black
Americans say religion is very important
in their lives compared with smaller
shares of whites which is 49% and
Hispanics 59% African Americans are also
more likely to attend surface attend
services at least once a week and to
pray regularly black Americans 83% are
more likely to say they believe in God
with absolute certainty than whites
which is at sixty-one percent and
Latinos which is at fifty nine percent
so when you take all of this into
consideration things are not adding up
there is a disconnect here if America is
supposed to be a Christian nation and it
is clearly showing the results are
clearly showing that so-called African
Americans tend to be more religious they
more than likely to be going to church
and to pray why is it that we still have
segregated Sundays why do we still have
two groups who are supposed to be
believers still separated and segregated
so my question is are we really serving
the same God okay I'm gonna keep going
into this because there is a problem and
I'm going to show you what the problem
is and what the problem has been from
the very beginning this is the problem
right here this is the problem this is
an article from The Rolling Stone a
magazine called the history of white
supremacy in America and I'm gonna read
some excerpts from this article alright
let's read some of this it says this is
the new face of white supremacy in the
United States and it's talking about the
incident in Charlottesville it says it
goes beyond the systemic racism
minorities in America have long faced
and continue to face white supremacists
dream of a world in which minorities are
either subservient or non-existent below
as a brief history of some of how
today's white supremacist movement came
to be as as the nation's founding and
mainstream white supremacy article 1 of
the Constitution says slaves are
three-fifths of a person an article 4
requires States to return runaway slaves
the United States was founded on white
supremacy this is the demon in the
church that no one is addressing even
those who say
they are believers of Christ it says the
civil war ended legal white supremacy
but it continued to be enforced by
southern leaders and white militant
groups most famously the KKK black
people were kept under control by extra
legal violence included including
lynchings and says with the
re-imposition of white supremacy in the
south the original Klan faded away in
the early 20th century however it was
reborn as a Protestant listen to that
word reborn as a Protestant nativist
movement the new KKK was anti black but
also targeted Catholics and Jews now
what's interesting about these other two
groups is they can hide because of their
skin color we cannot we stick out like a
sore thumb so we're easy targets it says
also targeted Catholics and Jews part of
a long anti-immigrant tradition in
America the second Klan was a fad that
attracted millions of supporters and
then rapidly faded away in the 1930s so
see this is the part right here that I
want to focus on because often when you
talk about slavery and segregation
people try to make it seem like it was
so long ago well this happened a long
time ago we're talking about in the
1930s some of these people may still be
alive their children and their
children's children are alive today and
they have passed on these traditions
some of them all right it says the 3rd
3rd Klan rose during the civil rights
movement of the 1950s and 60s so this is
my error this is when this came about
it says White's angry at attempts to end
segregation again put on white hoods and
joined local officials often they were
the local officials and attacking civil
rights workers blacks and whites were
targeted for beatings bombings and
assassination now we're not going to
lump everybody in the same bucket
because there were some Europeans
standing with people of color to fight
against this but I just want you to see
what the root of all of this has been
all right let's keep going
ok so this is what happened after the
civil rights movement it says white
supremacy goes underground
it says the legal defeat of segregation
did not however end white dreams of
supremacy instead angry white supremists
no longer part of the mainstream
splintered into numerous underground
racists organizations Miriam many of
these groups borrowed ideas from the
Nazis
creating a new kind of white opposition
these movements also spread out from the
south reaching every part of the United
States an inspirational guru for this
new white opposition was Wesley Swift
former Methodists Swift founded a church
in the 1940s that preached a gospel of
white superiority and this folks this is
this is the crux of this right here is
that many of these people consider
themselves to be Christians and many of
them were preachers
he called his twisted version of
Christianity the Church of Jesus Christ
Christian and preached that only white
Europeans were blessed by God he was
particularly hostile to the Jews barring
from Nazi anti-semitism one fan of Swiss
was William Potter Gayle a World War two
veteran who was outraged at the federal
government's interventions on behalf of
the civil rights movement Gayle formed
his own United States Christian Posse
Association you see this all right let's
keep going
I want to be sure to bring this point
out about why they hated Catholics
because I believe this is where we're
not making the connection the Puritans
who came here were English Protestants
who wanted to purify the Church of
England from what they considered heresy
from the Roman Catholic Church so to try
to simplify it the Protestants in the
north and the Catholics in the South
were fighting over doctrine and this war
lasted thirty years it was called the
thirty year war they were called
protesters it was a backlash against the
corruption on things they considered to
be corrupted in the Catholic Church in
particular the sale of indulgences and
basically indulgences were a way to buy
your way into heaven so in 1630 about
20,000 of these Puritans immigrated to
America from England to gain religious
freedom later between 1840 and 1924 over
30 million European immigrants came here
as well and many of them were Catholic
so this is where the contention came
from the purist Puritans were believing
that okay we fought a wall to get away
from you people and now you hear and
this is why they hated the Catholics
but why did they hate the Jews so they
dislike the Jews because of the belief
that the Jews had killed Christ now
initially Martin Luther was a supporter
of the Jewish people saying that they
had been badly treated by the Roman
Catholic Church and he felt that if they
were presented with what he considered a
more authentic version of Christianity
they would convert or they didn't so
then he started calling them whoring
people and saying that their laws must
be accounted as filth now 500 years
later and this is an article called the
Reformation at 500 grappling with Martin
Luther's anti-semitic legacy legacy I
encourage you to go and read that
article but it's 500 years later and the
Catholics and the Protestants have you
reunited so do you see what's happening
so the Protestants are now aligning
themselves with the two groups they say
they hate it Catholics and Jews
remember that evangelicals are
Protestants and this is why you heard
Kenneth Copeland say in the video I did
on deception in the church that the
protest is over and the Pope has been
working to unite all religions back
under the Roman Catholic Church remember
they're synchronizing it making all the
same pretty much you're all worshipping
the same God this is the idea so this is
where the religion of Christianity came
from the Roman Catholic Church
and a large percentage a percentage of
these same folks are what is now called
Christian Zionists today they no longer
try to convert the Jewish people you may
have heard John Hagee say that they
don't need to be converted they now
believe the Jews can be saved without
becoming Christians alright oh and not
believing that the Messiah has already
come so they support the Jewish state of
Israel supposedly to hasten the end
times they believe their job is to
simply support the Jewish state and help
them take back off Palestine and rebuild
this Third Temple now if you've been
tracking with me all along and watching
all the videos you now know that all of
these folks are one in the same
they're children of Japheth hopefully
you're getting that okay let's keep
going this is another article that I
would encourage you to read it's called
a note on the relationship between the
Protestant churches and the revived Ku
Klux Klan written by Robert motes Miller
and this was from August of 1956 all
right it says to most historians of the
1920s the Protestant fundamentalist
crusade and revived Ku Klux Klan are
twin hallmarks of reaction it says I'm
going to drop down that the Klan stood
at fundamental variance with the
American Dream few objectives students
would deny by 1925 perhaps as many as 4
or 5 million million white Protestant
native-born Patriots were engaged in or
tacitly supporting acts of intimidation
terror and torture against their Negro
Catholic Jewish and foreign-born
neighbors where did all those people go
we're talking about the 1920's where do
they go that they just magically
disappear No
no they did not these ideals were
continuing continuously passed on to the
next generation
it says they justified these acts on the
ground that America was in dire peril
and could be saved only if it remained
oddly enough predominantly white
Protestant and native-born professing to
be a Christian organization and composed
of Protestants the Klan became an
extremely powerful force in American
life especially in the southwest let's
keep going all right this goes on to say
that the connection between the Klan and
the process Protestant churches has not
proved much of a mystery to many
scholars all right I want to drop down
it says a number of students
investigating the Klan noted a close tie
between it and Protestantism these
writers generally agree that the Klan
worked hand and glove with the more
fundamentalist denominations that it
received the open or tacit support of
countless clergymen and that many of its
officers were Protestant ministers
okay now this could explain why when we
see in justices against people of color
you seldom see evangelicals come out and
condemn it or say anything publicly
about it they just ignore it as if it
didn't happen all right it says the
evidence implicating the Protestant
churches in the rise of the invisible
Empire has been presented by so many
authorities that it need not be reviewed
here and I wanted to point out their
statement at the bottom of that page it
says these statements are based upon a
somewhat extensive examination of the
literature on the Klan including not
only some thirty books but also the
files of the American Civil Liberties
Union in the New York Public Library and
a hundred religious and secular
periodicals this is an indictment here
against those who profess to believe in
Christ it really is all right let's keep
going I think that most professing
believers would agree that the cross is
you know symbolic of Christianity those
who say they believe in Christ so that
has always been a question for me why
was the cross use to terrorize people
you're talking about the cross that's
supposed to represent salvation for
people but it's also used to terrorize
people so this is another article from
the Florida State University Libraries
and this was written in 2008 the Gospel
according to the Klan by Kelly Baker it
says the cross magnified Christ
important
as the archetype for Klansman's'
behavior the wooden object was memorial
of price debt for human sin as well as
his merit filled actions so I'm going to
drop down here it says for the Iowan the
cross suggested that good the Klan would
triumph over any evil immigrant alcohol
threats to the public school attacks on
Protestantism Catholicism Bolshevism and
Judaism to name a few the artifact that
reassured the Klansmen that the universe
was structured and the way he hoped its
glow symbolized a world in which the
Klan was the singular force of good and
the order would triumph so the fire
signified that Christ was the light of
the world the light vanquished the
darkness and superstitions the what was
a beacon of truth for Klansmen only
let's keep going so this shows the
burning cross here and the caption
ceremonial cross burnings at the close
of Klan rallies symbolized Christianity
purity and light so again my question
are we serving the same God that's
a new project in Alabama
reflects on one of the most difficult
periods in American history thousands of
african-american men women and children
were killed by lynching in the decades
after the Civil War this new Memorial in
Montgomery was spearheaded by Bryan
Stevenson founder and executive director
of the equal justice initiative 60
minutes special contributor Oprah
Winfrey visited the memorial with him
for Sunday's 60 minutes here's a preview
so you start with them at eye level and
then on this quarter they begin to rise
and then you get to this corridor and
this is when you begin to confront the
scale of all of these lynchings whoa
this is something yes yes we wanted
people to have a sense of just the scale
with this violence with this terrorism
so this is over 4,000 yeah that had been
documented but of course there are more
thousands more thousands more thousands
more and we ever even know how many we
will never know every name has its own
story yes that's right
this was a minister Reverend TA Allen
who began talking to sharecroppers about
their rights and because he was doing
that the plantation honors the the
landowners got together and they they
lynched him and the proof they used that
he was somebody worthy of lynching is
that when they found his body
he had a piece of paper that talked
about sharecropper rights and the other
piece of paper he had in his suit jacket
was a note that said every man a king a
lot of these folks were lynched because
they showed too much dignity they showed
too much humanity he just wanted to be
respected as a human being and it got
him hanged respected as a human being
you can watch Oprah Winfrey's full
report Sunday night on 60 minutes right
here on CBS she says it's very painful
and sobering and you just looking at
that gives me goosebumps to know what
that represents that it was a time of
celebration for some people let's go and
watch a lynching they're sitting there
eating and watching and cheering yeah
and not only were they dealing with the
lynchings and it was primarily people of
color I mean I know they say they hated
Jews and Catholics but primarily for the
most part it was people of color being
attacked and brutalized in this way so
you also have to look at not just the
lynchings but the bombs bombing churches
you know killing innocent children and
people who are in a church so just no
regard whatsoever for it for people
being in church but any
let's keep going there is a site called
without sanctuary.com where you can
find a lot of images about the lynchings
and it's brutal
so I fair warning you know before you go
to visit it just make sure you can
handle things like that but it's very
descriptive and on the site they show
some of the postcards that some of the
folks who were attending these lynchings
they would send to friends and family
members in other states and cities would
have you if they couldn't be there and I
mean just imagine that you have women
and children there and it's like a
spectacle this is entertainment
I wouldn't want us I wouldn't want to
see a dog being burned alive like that
but to have your children there like
this is spectator sport I that boggles
the mind for me but on the reverse of
the car they would write notes you know
to the people they were sending it to so
this one on the back of the card it says
I bought this in Hopkinsville for 15
cents each they are not on sale openly
it says I forgot to send it until just
now I ran across that I read an
accountant of account of the nightriders
Affairs where it says these men were
hung without any apparent cause or
reason whatever whatever a law was
passed forbidding these to be sent
through the mail or to be sold anymore
so as you drop down what happened in
1908 there was amendment that came out
to the US postal laws and regulations
forbidding the mailing of these cards so
people would send them secretly but you
know these postcards still exists if you
go back
if some of these older people have held
on to these things so it's easy for
their family members to go back through
those old pictures and find these cards
they're still there but okay let's keep
going
so one thing you may not know is that
this stance to maintain and uphold this
idea of white supremacy was so strong
such a stronghold in the minds of these
people that it actually hindered or
tried to put a hinder the move of the
Holy Spirit where he was trying to put
an end to this and bring the believers
together but it eventually want out
because of this idea so this is a from
you know this is from an article called
a glimpse of the kingdom of heaven
the Azusa Street revival I had heard of
this but I didn't know the history the
back story and I encourage you to do
some digging on that it's really quite
interesting but it says by not by 1900
southern churches were completely
separated by race Christianity had
divided along the color line but in Los
Angeles white bishops and black workers
men and women Asians and Mexicans white
professors and black Laundry women
gathered at a former AME an African
Methodist physical church building on
Azusa Street in downtown Los Angeles
this interracial congregation worshipped
under the leadership of a black pastor
William J Seymour so let's find out more
about Azusa Street all right so this is
William Seymour
and it says Pentecostalism William
Seymour what scoffers feud as a weird
babel of tongues became a world
phenomenon after his Los Angeles revival
so many of you believe you know in the
baptism of the Holy Spirit with the
evidence of speaking in tongues this is
what was happening here under his
leadership it says of all the
outstanding black American religious
leaders in the 20th century one of the
least recognized is William Seymour the
unsung pastor of the Azusa Street
mission in Los Angeles and catalysts of
the worldwide Pentecostal movement this
is where the Pentecostal churches you
know that idea a lot of it came out of
this was born out of this idea it says
only in the last few decades have
scholars become aware of his importance
beginning perhaps with a Yale University
historian Sidney Alstrong who said
seymour personified a black piety
which exerted its greatest direct
influence on american religious history
placing Seymour's impact ahead of
figures like WEB Dubois and Martin
Luther King Jr. alright let's find out
some more about what happened here okay
we'll keep reading it says for over
three years what historians call the
Azusa Street revival conducted three
services a day seven days a week
word of the revival was spread abroad
through the Apostolic Faith a paper that
Seymour sent for free to some 50,000
subscribers it's just think about it
back in those days to have 50,000
subscribers it says so many missionaries
read the word from Azusa that within two
years the movement had spread to over
fifty nations it says apart from its
interracial congregation azusa's most
striking characteristic was the practice
of speaking in tongues which was seen as
a sign that an individual was baptized
by the Holy Spirit
previously few Pentecostals had spoken
in tongues and the languages they use
were foreign but known Seymour and his
followers spoke in an unknown tongues
understood only by God a practice
wrought widely adopted by Christians who
believed it was a sign that God was
breaking down barriers to spread the
gospel around the world and the barrier
that the Holy Spirit was trying to tear
down here was this white supremacist
idea you had blacks white Mexican Asians
men and women worshiping together so I'm
gonna go on it says when Charles Fox
Parham a white Pentecostal pioneer and
teacher of Seymour's and says he had
allowed Seymour to attend his Bible
School he visited Azusa Street in
October of 1906 he denounced the revival
as a darky camp meeting what good can
come from a self-appointed Negro prophet
scoffed the mainstream newspapers well
apparently a lot came out of it to have
a list of 50,000 subscribers so let's
see what ended this what happened to
bring it into this okay it says Azusa
Street dissolved amidst the racial
politics of unrequited love in May of
1908 Simo seymour married Jenny Evans
Moore so Clara Lum the
secretary was upset Seymour couldn't
continue publishing so meanwhile splits
within Azusa Street developed along
theological and racial lines and that's
why today you still have the black and
white churches even in a church if you
can call it a so-called black church
with 20,000 members 20,000 now you may
find you may and I'm just gonna be
generous 20 whites 20 now more often
you'll have people of color crossing
over and going to the white churches but
for the whites to come into the black
churches
you will find very few there and I'm not
talking about all because there are some
churches now where the majority of the
members are white and the pastor is a
man of color a black man so we're not
speaking about every Church I'm talking
about the majority of the churches
so yeah this after this happened there
was a church split and she took the
newspaper took the mailing list and and
he wasn't able to send out his letters
anymore and Seymour he believed that
blacks and whites worshipping together
was a sure sign of God's blessing and
the spirits healing presence than
speaking in tongues and I absolutely
agree how is it possible that we can say
we're serving the same Savior but you
can't worship together
you can't worship Him together mm-hmm
the fact that the church had nationally
split along racial lines meant that the
charismatic ideal of cooperation with
the Spirit had been foiled
by the forces of racism once the whites
defected the Azusa Street mission became
almost entirely black still its message
echoes through history it made a
distinctive contribution to the
historical evolution of religion in
America by involving blacks women in the
poor and all levels of ministry and it
was the birthplace of two major
Pentecostal denominations
wow this is an exciting day to be alive
right here in Los Angeles just two short
ways from the city hall and over there
is a hotel an old one but this is an
experience because this is the urban
renewal site but it's something else a
great movement took place right here on
this spot
Dr. Vincent Cynon one of the foremost
authorities who wrote this book
charismatic Bridges has something to
share with us today who and what
happened right here at this spot from
1906 Ralph until 1909 the Azusa Street
revival took place right on this open
lot it's open now but one of the
greatest revivals in church history
because the worldwide Pentecostal
movement had its beginning here as a
worldwide force and services went on day
and night for three years in this place
and from this place spirit baptised
people went all over the world spreading
the story of the baptism of the Holy
Spirit now I think we should introduce
immediately our friends because it's a
rare honor to have these people here
with us they were there when it happened
and we think of this as the movement
that was started without a man
Jesus is the one who brought this
movement into existence would you
introduce these friends yes first this
is Miss Maddie Cummings who was here at
the beginning of the Azusa Street
meeting as a young girl and this is the
Reverend Lawrence Kent Lee who was
pastor of a church of god in christ in
Pasadena in Pasadena California he was
here at this great revival and they are
the two only known survivors that I know
of who were here at that time
now we're both of you acquainted at that
time were you children here in the
revival yes you know each other would
you call each other then Lawrence and
Maddie
yes you plead together son quatre son
Catherine and this was this was a
Methodist Church what was originally
African Methodist Church and they built
a new church on 8 Toontown Avenue and
rented this to Azusa Mission and
eventually Azusa bought it and now you were
wasn't it true that both of you received
tremendous healings here at this spot
yes I received healing I was deaf and I
God healed me and now I can hear how
many years ago that's been around 70
years ago somebody said healings don't
laugh oh they do and sometimes I think I
hear too much but thank God for here you
mean you really were were death death
yes I couldn't go to school you could
not go to school
oh no and what about you well I had what
we called TB in those days and
tuberculosis and it was a terrible
experience and I heard that there's a
place up town called Azusa mission where
they prayed for people and they got well
and I asked my mother to bring me and
she eventually brought me and through
the laying on of hands and the prayer
God delivered me from that TB and I have
no I'm delivered because of not only
because of the way I feel but I have
been examined by lung specialists in the
World War one and they said nothing the
matter with you boy get out of here
would you tell me how old you are
I'm seven to nine years old really
November the 23rd 1974 hey this is quite
an exciting day to be alive isn't it
doctor sign what would you say this
place looked like when the Holy Spirit
began to fall well I think these two
could tell a lot more than I could
because they were here well you
researched it on you well it was just a
two block Street Azusa Street is very
short Street near the City Hall it was
in the downtown area and eldest William
J Seymour had come from Texas to hold a
revival here in the Nazarene Church
but he preached the new experience the
baptism of the Holy Spirit
accompanied by speaking with other
tongues and a revival broke out in the
Asbury home on Bonnie Brae Street people
receive this experience and crowds fill
the streets and then they came to find a
church building and they found this old
abandoned Methodist Church building that
had been used as a warehouse a storage
place and I think a stable at one time -
and they found it it was empty
it had no stained-glass windows no pews
they just had rough hewn benches but
here a worldwide revival began and
people came from all over the world to
this spot to find out what they had
could you tell us what the main
experience was that attracted the people
Maddy well I think first it was because
they came and began to speak in tongues
and people heard them speak in their own
language
the Japanese Chinese and all the
different nationalities they heard them
speak and the gospel was preached to
them you mean they had not learned these
oh no they had not learned because the
Spirit of God filled them and they
really knew what the people were talking
about and they too were saved
now you saw this and heard this with
your own ears I certainly did dr. Simon
was this interracial all different
nationalities the great thing I believe
from studying the history of it was that
people from all races and nations and
tribes came here Los Angeles was a
melting pot city the pastor was a black
man yes and mostly blacks to start with
but soon Mexicans and Russians and
Chinese and Japanese is like today just
like today from all over the world came
and there was no distinction on race
well no no nobody oh one thing that was
so nice
nobody ever said well you're black or
you're white but we were just children
of God rejoicing and praising God for
all of his love and all of his mercy and
his kindness for his healing and that
was what brought the people what did
they teach here as a doctrine well they
taught that you must first be converted
and then you must be sanctified and God
would feel
you on a sanctified life with his
precious Holy Spirit and you would speak
with tongues he can tell yes and then
other gifts would come like prophets
prophesy healing and other all the gifts
in the Bible but has temptation of
tongues Oh every every gift that's
listed in the scripture was practiced
right in azusa mission did it attract a
lot of people Oh My yes so this is
Charles Parham this is the one credited
with the Pentecostal movement but I just
want you to know a little about him he
was a fundamentalist preacher and
evangelists usually credited as the
father of modern day Pentecostalism
before starting his sect of
fundamentalism Parham spent time
observing the communes of sects created
by Frank Sanford and John Alexander
Dewey but listen how he was described
newspapers described Parham as a
financial opportunist he was involved
with a scam swindling money from people
with a product
he claimed could turn ordinary rocks
into gold and it appears that this money
was used to fund the commune commune in
Topeka Kansas it says he worked closely
with William Joseph Seymour when the
Azusa Street revival started making news
in Los Angeles
Parham traveled west to join Seymour but
was not well accepted
Parham had recently been accused of
sodomizing young boys and he did go to
jail but he's the one credited with
starting the Protestant Pentecostal
movement that's keep going I do believe
that we have entered the final phase of
this journey and it is now time for the
separating of wheat from the tares in
preparation for the judgment that's
coming
so if you go back and read the book of
Deuteronomy nine and eight you will see
how Israel sinned and they provoked the
Most High to this point where he was
ready to destroy them but for the
interceding of Moses they would have
been destroyed now later they did go
through chastisement for their sin they
didn't get away with it so if you
compare that to Revelation the ninth
chapter where it's talking about the
fifth seal being open and the judgment
that is coming on those who are not
sealed you don't want to miss that
opportunity because you refuse to repent
of the cinah sin your heart if you're
listening to this and you know the Holy
Spirit is talking to you don't ignore it
you need to bring fruits of repentance
let's look at the scripture 1st John
4:20 if someone says I love God and
hates his brother he is a liar how can
you say you love God but you do not love
those who look differently their color
is different from yours
you still believe this lie that white
skin makes someone superior are you the
lawyer he's talking about search your
heart the Bible says to let a man
examine himself you better do it before
he does you've been warned
let's keep going
I think a lot of people think we've
solved the racial reconciliation issues
as long as the white church is in the
black church just don't hate each other
mm or even if the white churches and the
black churches occasionally come
together and do things with one of them
yeah that is not the way that we as
Christians are built up in the body the
way that we have our conscience is
shaped is not just by receiving
information through the Word of God
being preached it's by living life
together as one body together and
showcasing the kingdom of God as
assigned to the principalities and
powers in the heavenly places the
easiest thing in the New Testament would
have been to say let's plant Jewish
Christian churches and Gentile Christian
churches and let's just just go in that
direction and keep them from getting
together and killing each other that's
not what the Apostles did because it's a
sign to the principalities and powers
and so what we have to have our churches
that start and you can't program this
out you can't but I think it has to
start with congregations that say first
of all why are we all white or mostly
white why are we all black or mostly
black why are we all Hispanic and it
does this really represent the kingdom
of God and to first see that this is a
problem and then to start saying if our
community looks one way and our church
doesn't why is that the case which means
sometimes I think asking people in your
community what well why what's going on
with our church I had a friend who's
talking to a pastor in Alabama who was
serving a white church in a
predominantly african-american community
and the pastor said I just don't know
why we can't get black people to come to
our church and he's seated at a desk
behind him is a Confederate flag and a
basta of Stonewall Jackson said well
maybe that's a creek you know maybe yeah
we'll think about that I think I think
those are the sorts of just starting to
say do we have this problem and how are
we in a situation where being together
we start shaping one another's
consciences
and we start serving what I mean the big
burden I have is a white man is that
often white Christians assume without
even thinking about it
that normal Christianity is white mm and
that we then minister to black people
Asian people and Hispanic people and
they're the ones receiving ministry no
no if this is going to change the way
it's going to change is by white people
being ministered to by those who are
called in leadership school recognizing
that most of the body of Christ in
heaven and on earth isn't why isn't
American it's never spoken English oh
sorry that's right and so when we start
to have that that sort of awakening in
our own hearts I think that's where
we're going to start to see some change
so we have to speak out about the
steamin in the church called white
supremacy and there aren't many pastors
with the boldness to call this out
Paul checked Peter immediately and I can
respect pastors who will say it like it
is and not try to pretty this up put a
little red bow on it to avoid hurting
people's feelings it's the truth
that will invoke us to repent of sin and
this nation is still grappling with this
great sin because those who should be
shining the light on it are benefiting
from it so they don't want to rock the
boat they're afraid of how it's going to
affect their tithes and offerings so
will people's blood be on your hands at
the judgement and some preachers are
they even saying well the Bible doesn't
address this issue really what Bible are
you reading we're going to continue this
discussion because we want to see how
often it isn't addressed in Scripture
we're also going to talk about how the
judgment will begin with the house of God
