Matthew 22:36-40
[36] “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” [37] And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. [38] This is the great and first commandment. [39] And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [40] On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
We recently got a comment on a Sunday Morning Message from about three years ago, which usually never happens, so I go to read the comment and it’s just another person spewing hatred among the races. These kind of comments usually don’t find their way to the Sunday Morning Messages, usually they’re all on our Bible Studies. Contained to certain videos. This one, however, found its way to a Message sharing the importance, necessity, and call by the LORD Jesus Himself to evangelize. To go into the world and share the good news that LORD Jesus has come, died, and rose again on the third day to save the entire world.
The comment pushed the narrative that the white race are going into the fields in eternity to be the slaves of black people. Imagine typing out two random verses, take both out of context in order to condemn an entire, race to damnation because of hatred. To me, this kind of hatred is one of the most impossible to correct because of how deep the hatred goes. It consumes every ounce of your being so that everything about you has been corrupted. Your eyes, ears, mouth, hands, and feet all no longer strive for Truth, but instead strive to validate your own hatred. Your own wicked desires.
I personally know people who believe this way. One thing I’ve noticed is that the hatred of the other race comes from a hatred of themselves. They hate themselves, their ashamed of their past, and they don’t understand the love or grace of God. See, they have to make those whom they want to blame for their own poor decisions unredeemable and hated by God, so that they can Justify their own hatred. Then they have to make themselves the only ones redeemable by God because of bloodline and because of humbling yourself before Him. It becomes a no choice, no free will type of scenario so that they can feel some kind of superiority over others as they hope to quiet the conviction they feel about their past mistakes.
When we allow self-hatred to consume us, that’s when we allow the enemy to completely control us. We need to learn to forgive ourselves and love ourselves, so we can love others. So, that we can learn to be Christ to the world.
Peace. Love. Go Forth and Learn Self-Love.