The Holy Nation
Today’s Focus: Racism and the Holy Nation Part 1
Scripture: Galatians 3:28; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 49:22
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
I want to start with this simple statement of what racism is:
Racism is a spirit!
Now as simple as that may seem it is the most devastating spirit influencing the people of the Earth and the House of God. It is the one spirit that tries to sever and divide the holy nation. Now I have not found anywhere in scripture where the holy nation is divided. The holy nation is the House of God. The House of God is comprised of a Father and His sons or offspring. However the common thing between all of them that makes this truly one nation, is the fact that the entire nation is spiritual and made up of spirits. Our very being is spirit enclosed in flesh. Now let’s look at this scripture in its proper context:
Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Now this is describing the sons of God. God is saying there is neither ethnicity nor social status, nor gender to a son of God. Now many try to take this scripture and apply to everything including the proper administrators of governmental gifts and this is not true. Our flesh is a symbolic representation of a heavenly reality and how we conduct ourselves in the Earth is the way the creation, including every non-believer can see God and have no excuse that He exists (Romans 1:20). So everyone cannot do everything because every person is to perform a certain task for the Kingdom and by doing that the picture and maturity of the Kingdom is revealed and in the fullness of time, the Kingdom of God will come in its completeness in the earth upon the return of the Lord. Now I need to go that route to talk about racism and how it is trying to divide the holy nation.
What you do not know and understand is what the enemy uses against you to destroy you and stifle your growth. If you do not understand that you are spirit first, flesh last then if you live by the flesh. God had to deal with racism in the early church with one of His very own disciples, Peter. Now this just was not with Peter even though it was a very detailed situation, there were Jews who did not believe that the Gentiles could be heirs of the promise. Is that not racism? Even though throughout the Old Testament, God showed the children of Israel various times where He favored the Gentiles. He even spoke through the prophets about this very issue:
Isaiah 49:6: And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Isaiah 49:22: Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
So even to the children of Israel, God was speaking about how the Gentiles will be fellowheirs to the promise. Now did this make the Jews happy? No and we will see this. But do not get too caught up between the Jews and the Gentiles we have a bigger problem within the Body of Christ. In the next message we will look at this bigger problem and how racism is trying to severe the holy nation. However keep in mind that no demon can stop the movement and Will of God but he can attempt to slow you down from overcoming and coming into the revelation that you are a part of a holy nation which is the most diverse nation in the earth.
At Our Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
