Genesis 9_25-29： Redeemed Distinctions and Race in the Church (Part 3)
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In Part 3 of our series on race, nations, and Christian nationalism, we continue our exploration of the scandal between Ham and Noah. In this sermon, we argue that the curse pronounced on Ham's line extends to all of his descendants.
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Amen. Well, we are back in part three of a five-part series on race, nations, and Christian
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nationalism. And this sermon is titled Redeemed Distinctions, Race, and the Order of Nations.
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And so there's a little bit of a crossover between the main series and this particular sermon.
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Now, if you've been with us, you know that we've covered some very heavy ground over the last two weeks.
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In part one, we looked at Genesis chapter 9, verses 18 through 27, and we examined the scandal between Ham and Noah.
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And we looked at the three most common interpretations of Ham's sin, and we landed at what was called the maternal incest view.
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And we did that because it had the most explanatory power for why Noah specifically and particularly cursed Canaan.
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And that was a very helpful understanding to frame up this series.
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Now, we also saw that through a covenantal lens, through a view of scripture of federalism or covenantalism,
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the curse pronounced on Canaan that was pronounced particularly on Canaan was pronounced also
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generally on Ham. In other words, Noah cursed Ham by cursing Canaan. And this was a bit of a shift
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of dimension to the modern interpretation. Now, this led us to the big question. How did this curse
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that was particularly on Ham or particularly on Canaan and generally on Ham affect the broader
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posterity of Ham's descendants? That was the next big question that we looked at. Was the
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universal hardship or subordination or civilizational struggles experienced by Ham's
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descendants, simply a massive historical coincidence, or did the Bible offer a clear,
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coherent answer to the hard realities, the statistics, the biology, and the culture
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that we observe in world history through the Hamitic peoples, which are mostly comprised of
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the African peoples. So in part two, I argued that this curse of what I would call a curse of
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civilizational station, it does extend to some degree to all of Ham's descendants. And I did so
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for three reasons. First, because it again, it's fully consistent with covenant theology. I think
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that it was a very consistent argument with covenant theology. Second, because it was the
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general position held throughout all of church history. If you were here last week, you heard
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all of the cross-references to all of the theologians, not just in the 1700s that people
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would say, oh, you just looked up the transatlantic slave trade theologians and they justified. No,
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we looked earlier all the way to the early church, all the way to the medieval era, all the way to
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reformers and yes we did look at those theologians that were through the 1617 and 1800s and third
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i came to this position because the curse does not appear to be functionally scripturally
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historically limited to just canaan alone and we looked at all the historical evidence for those
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claims as well now if you remember i showed how all of ham's sons which is canaan cush
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Mizraim and Put. All four of these sons and their descendants really act as these kind of recurring
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antagonists of God's people throughout scripture and how they became the founders of these great
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cities like Babylon or Egypt or Sodom and Gomorrah and they served as these kind of biblical emblems
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of oppression and idolatry and wickedness throughout the Bible. These were the descendants
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of not just Canaan, but the descendants of Ham. And then we looked at Noah's prophecy in verses
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25 through 27, which included this idea, this language of servant of servants and this curse
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on, again, the broader dimension of Ham's line. And it was also a blessing on Shem. We looked at
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the blessing on Shem, which is pointing ultimately to the Messiah coming from his line. And then we
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look to that double blessing on Japheth, that there would be an enlargement of Japheth across
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maybe his political or his land mass in terms of power, but also that he would dwell in the tents
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of Shem. In other words, we learn that Noah prophesied these kind of broad civilizational
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stations on these three macro races of humanity. And when we examined both scripture and world
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history, which we did in our last sermon, we saw that clear confirmation that this subordination
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again was not limited just to Canaan's line, but it was something that we saw in Ham's further
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descendants as well. Lastly, we looked at the social distinctions between these groups, between
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Ham and Shem and Japheth. We looked at IQ data and crime stats and family stability throughout
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history and technological, civilizational outputs and military prowess. We looked at all of these
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things, these different groups, and again, we concluded that it's either a massive coincidence
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that, again, A, Ham's entire line was consistently acting as the antagonist of God's people
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throughout scripture, B, that Ham's line finds itself in civilizational subordination to Shem
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and Japheth, which is part of this curse that Noah gives, and C, that Ham's line bears the
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functional and biological and social markers of civilizational subordination and dependence
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and struggle, which we're going to talk a little bit more about today. And so it was, again, it was
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either a coincidence that all of those things happened to be in line with Noah's prophecy,
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or it's not a coincidence. And truly, this curse does not fall just on Canaan, but fully on Ham's
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lying. Now, I also mentioned that even if you didn't agree, like even if you're like,
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I still don't buy it, Dale. I don't believe there's a curse on Ham. I believe the curse
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was specifically on Canaan. Even if you hold that position, I know that you would certainly agree
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that though, that even if Ham isn't cursed, we know for certain that he is not blessed.
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and for one of the three covenant heads of humanity to receive no blessing at all
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is in and of itself a form of judgment we talked about that last week as well
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now an absence of a blessing on three covenant heads still largely leads us to the same conclusions
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as a functional curse. And so in either circumstance, we have to deal with the reality
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that it's not just Canaan's line, but there's an effect also on Ham's line.
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Now, as I closed last week, I made it clear that even if there is this curse on Ham's line,
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that there is a greater curse on all three lines, and that is the curse of sin.
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All three lines fall short of the glory of God.
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All three lines need to find forgiveness and mercy in the grace of Jesus Christ.
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but all of us stand guilty in need of forgiveness and grace in the gospel.
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So today I want to take the conclusions from these previous two sermons,
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and I want to address some of the common misunderstandings that could come from a sermon
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series like this and I want to look at really the unequal natures of people and discuss some
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of the biblical theology that people often use against this idea of a curse of ham or the idea
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of distinct peoples, distinct races under God's economy. And so we're going to examine the danger
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of our culture's obsession of the denial of distinctions. We're going to look at that for a
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minute and how these God-given distinctions that God has put into the world are actually good.
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And we should actually be the ones that are at the forefront saying that these distinctions
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are good. And then finally, I'm going to close with a few important clarifications of the curse
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of Ham and show how as Christians we can fully embrace God's design for peoples without falling
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on a ditch on either side. So I'm going to start with this section, which is more of a topical
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sermon since we're not going to be going through much scripture. There will be scripture throughout
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this passage or throughout the sermon, but we're not going to be doing an exposition necessarily
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today. So this section that I'm going to start is called the misuse of no distinctions in
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scripture. And I think this will be a very practical and useful section for each of you
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as you talk and defend this doctrine in the world. Now, if you're familiar with the New Testament
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and you've read it before and you've been through the text, you know that Paul and Peter often
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emphasize this concept of that there are no distinctions. It's said over and over again.
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Paul famously writes in Galatians 3.28, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor
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free, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus, end quote.
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Now he repeats that idea. It's not just that he says that once, he repeats it in Colossians 3.11,
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Romans 3 22 and Romans 10 12 he actually says for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek
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Peter says something similar in Acts 11 verse 12 and in Acts 15 verses 8 through 9 so this is not
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like a small thing this is something that you see all throughout the New Testament from multiple
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apostles that there is no distinction so the question becomes how can the apostles claim
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that there's no distinction square up with what i'm talking about that there are distinctions
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that there are differences between peoples and nations that's the question that i have often
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received even uh this week i had received multiple people using that specific passage of scripture
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in the comments on youtube against the sermons that i delivered the last two weeks
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how are you going to say that there is distinctions? We know that in Christ there
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is no distinction. There is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free. What are you talking about,
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The answer to that question is always, as a theologian, in context. Context is king.
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Context is king in biblical interpretation. We have to remember that these verses that Paul
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and Peter are writing are in a world that is completely opposite to ours, completely opposite
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to ours. Their world is a world where visual and national and linguistic and religious and racial
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and sexual distinctions were so sharp that they became hostile. They were so sharp that they
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became hostile. Jews refused to help dying Samaritans on the side of the road because they
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were Samaritans. They were half-breed heretics in their mind. Gentiles were considered unclean.
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You didn't even want to walk on the same dust as these people. Paul could say without hesitation,
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Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons. Ethnic and cultural prejudice was like
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a fact of life. It was so extremely sharp. The distinctions between men, women, and children
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would shock our generation. So Paul and Peter needed to stress that when it comes to salvation,
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when it comes to salvation and entrance into the kingdom of God, there is no distinction.
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That's the point, that when it comes to salvation, there is no distinction. All these distinctions
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that you hold so tightly in Christ, when it comes to the entrance to the church,
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when it comes to salvation, there is no distinction there.
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There's no difference in how a person is redeemed.
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No law-keeping, no circumcision, no special rituals, no race, no bloodline.
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who has made us, talking about Jews and Gentiles
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Every distinction is racist or it's misogyny or it's bigotry.
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and where every difference has been neutralized
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we are dealing with the exact opposite problem.
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that the early church had. We have been told to ignore
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all distinctions to such an extent that we have ignored
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men. Or men could be women. Women could be men.
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Okay, we have removed and ignored all natural order.
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we've rejected all of God's design because distinctions are offensive.
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In one of my favorite episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond,
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Robert, he's an Italian, and he's going on a date with a black woman.
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And his mother, Marie, she's walking in, acting all awkward.
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And when Ray asks, is it because she's black?
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Marie replies, oh, is she black? I didn't notice. I didn't notice. And that's exactly the type of
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absurdity that we live in. It's this kind of fake color blindness that we're forced to embrace.
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In other words, in the past hundred years, we have so grossly overextended this doctrine of unity
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that it's actually compromised the doctrine of anthropology. And at the state level,
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this perversion has informed everything. Our politics, our foreign policy, our immigration
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process, our civil rights laws. We are to be like a colorblind society. That's essentially
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what the civil rights laws have forced us to do. We cannot, we can, it is illegal
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to recognize distinctions in certain businesses or certain parameters of our public life.
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now i've often said that christian nations are dying from what i would call suicidal blindness
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suicidal blindness we've so suppressed the god-given reality of distinctions that we've
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lost the ability to acknowledge even those distinctions that would protect us from harm
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for example many white women like irena zarutska have been so thoroughly trained
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to not distinguish between races that they ignore the glaring disproportionate crime
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rates among black men and you know what that guy looks kind of like a psychopath
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i'm going to sit right in front of him because you know what i don't want to be racist
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i saw another funny video it's a british woman and she's doing a skit at like the
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the border patrol tsa at the airport and she's there she's asking a muslim man
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you know what his name is and he he replies a jihadi jihad my name's jihadi jihad and she
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responds cheerfully oh what a wonderful name what a wonderful name and then she asks oh what do you
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you for work. And he says, I make bomb. I mean, I'm an engineer. And she says, oh, we need more
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engineers in this country. And you have to laugh to keep yourself from crying because it's true.
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We cannot see distinctions because it's like illegal to do so.
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We've been conditioned to not notice any sort of obvious patterns whatsoever to the detriment,
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not only of our own bodies but the detriment of our own countries
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and in our upside down morality it's better to be tolerant
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than it is to be vigilant tolerance is the ultimate virtue
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and this is not christian compassion it's insanity
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and i believe the culture follows the church why do we have these things
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in the world it's because the culture is downstream from the church
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and these are the rotten cultural fruits of a wrongly interpreted Christian doctrine
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of no distinctions. Let's be real. Has the elimination of distinctions made and created
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more national harmony or more national chaos? Like has us not noticing reality made our nations
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better or worse? Has it made people safer or under more harm? I think everybody understands
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the answers to those questions. And that's the point I want to make in this series.
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I want to help Christians understand that God's distinctions are good.
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God's distinctions to be a man, to be a woman, to be of a particular nation or ethnic identity,
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these are not accidents this is god's order for the world to ignore and to erase what god has
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established is only going to produce more chaos it always does now being a becoming a christian
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does not eliminate our distinctions and this again this is what the common interpretation
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is is like you come to christ and we're all one in christ it doesn't matter what nation i'm from
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it doesn't matter that i'm a man or a woman we're all one in christ
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you know the reality is becoming a christian doesn't eliminate your distinctions it redeems
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those distinctions the distinctions stay but they are redeemed it brings love and order to those
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distinctions blacks and whites and arabs and men and women and children americans and mexicans and
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Jews, they're all equal before God. They're all equal before God, but as groups, they are not
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equal. Civilizationally, they are not equal. Biologically, they are not equal. They differ
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in all of these different metrics and measurements. And we know for a fact that
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when Paul said there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither
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male nor female, we know that he's not saying that these racial distinctions are a race. And
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how do we know that? Because if that's what he meant, he would also be saying that there's no
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sexual distinctions. There's no male or female. Does that mean that there's no sexual distinctions?
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Of course, that's not the interpretation because we know later Paul gives specific instructions
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for men and for women that are distinct and different. So what is he saying?
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What is he saying? He's saying that there is no distinctions that keep anyone coming to Christ.
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There are no distinctions that keep anyone coming to Christ.
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All are equally welcome under the economy of the gospel.
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Now, the next obvious question is, do these distinctions affect church membership?
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People go, oh, well, okay, we have distinctions.
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Now, recently, a white pastor claimed that if a black Christian asked to go to his church,
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he would refuse membership and would kindly help him find a congregation that fits his racial demographic.
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One pretends racial and ethnic distinctions don't exist in the real world.
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The other uses those distinctions to justify churches to exclude people based on race.
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So you've got both sides in the world right now.
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Now, we do live in what I would call dual citizenship.
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Citizens of a nation, we are citizens of heaven.
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We know Paul says, your citizenship is in heaven.
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My citizenship is in heaven, but also we know that Jesus says, give to Caesar what is Caesar, and give to God what is God's.
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but earthly distinctions they're real and they're significant in the world
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but they must never become barriers to fellowship in the church they cannot do that in other words
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when it comes to membership in the local church this is where the principle of no distinctions
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does actually find its clearest and most proper application like if you're going to use the no
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distinction doctrine use it here that's actually where it does make sense to function we're not
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going to keep anyone from christ from the lord's table from baptism from membership based off of
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distinctions anyone can become a member of our church whether you're black whether you're white
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Whether you're Arab, whether you're rich, whether you're poor, whether you're man, woman, single, married, divorced, it doesn't matter.
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You're welcome to come to Kingsway and hear of Christ.
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Now, if we were an actual nation, like every nation for the history of the world,
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not some sort of multi-ethnic, multicultural experiment that we are,
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it would be rare to have someone join the church that is foreign.
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It would be rare. In fact, if you go to Japan and you go to a church there, which are very few, you're probably not going to see many other people except Japanese Christians there.
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but even if you have a proper nation like korea or russia or mexico or you know uh
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any other non-western nation a church may experience the occasional foreigner
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that is in the land a stranger in the land and so if a brother or sister from a different nation
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lawfully immigrates into our nation and comes to our local church you have to remember that in
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christ those real distinctions that often make unity difficult in the flesh or in the world
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can be overcome in the spiritual reality of the church
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and that is to say all genuine believers and seekers must be welcomed at the local church
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again this does not erase their biological and national distinctions we're not a colorblind
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people a foreigner might not feel completely at home in our church and that is the natural cost
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of being a foreigner. If I go to Korea and decide to move there and I go to a Korean church,
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I am not going to expect to feel like I'm at an American church in Korea. No, I am going to feel
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like a foreigner. However, I do expect to be welcomed in Christ. I do expect the distinction
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to not be excluding me out of the opportunities and work and ministry of the church
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because in christ there are no distinctions we are one even the great theologian jonathan edwards
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he owned slaves in the 1700s now he sought to be uh what i would call a benevolent and biblical
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slave master i mean that he would actually be a slave master according to scripture
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and he treated his slaves as spiritual equals in the church he was a pastor of the church
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and all of his slaves were baptized in part and members of his own household on sunday they were
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one in christ now this spiritual unity did not erase the earthly circumstances and distinctions
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or it didn't change the relationship outside of the church.
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It simply shows that if the no distinctions clause applies anywhere,
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Now, I want to give some clarifications on the curse of Ham.
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I think a sermon like this and a doctrine like this can be abused very easily,
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and it's why the vast majority of ministers in recent years have strayed from the historical
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interpretation and i want to be careful with that so what does redeemed distinctions look like
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especially as it relates to the curse of ham and it's it's kind of civilizational effects
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Corbin often tells me about the great work of the Nigerian Anglicans
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and the bishops there that are holding the line on many important issues in Nigeria.
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There are many Christian nations that have 80% of the population that are Christian.
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Second, the curse of Ham does not deny that some individual Africans can be uniquely gifted and blessed with civilizational intellect and leadership ability.
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I believe that God's purpose in those cases, when you see that extraordinary black man who's gifted,
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You know, maybe it's Clarence Thomas, maybe it's Votie Baca, maybe it's Thomas Sowell.
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I believe that that is God's signal and purpose to raise that man up as strong leadership for his own people.
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Africa and Africans desperately need really strong, godly, Christian, black men right now.
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It's actually why I think that the late Votie Bauckham moving to Africa was one of the best decisions he ever made.
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And I thought it was such a good thing for him to go.
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And I believe it's also why he fully embraced the idea of Christian nationalism.
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And he was extremely gifted and able to lead the people toward Christ.
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righteousness, civilizational morality, and many other things.
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Third, I think we've been so propagandized about slavery that we forget that scripture does not
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actually forbid slavery. Now, I think it redeems slavery. Now, chattel slavery of the transatlantic
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slave trade that we saw in the 1700s, that is evil. It's wicked, and it was righteous that the
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Christians put an end to that. But biblical slavery, more, you know, some people might have
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called it indentured servitude, was actually often a protective and pro-life measure. If you look at
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it under a historical argument, a master would often take in a person who would likely have
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died from poverty or from war or something else and instead bring him under his household
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providing for his needs in return for indentured servitude. So there are some historical and
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biblical expressions of slavery. Now, the curse of Ham is not some sort of command that Africans
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should be slave. That's not what it's saying. I believe that the interpretation of this passage
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of scripture is that they are a servant of servants civilizationally of Shem and Japheth,
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meaning that they are subjugated politically, civilizationally, nationally to the rule and
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reign of the Shemite or the Japhethite nations. I don't believe this is calling for some sort of
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individual slavery and that we should justify this doctrine to bring back chattel slavery.
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That's not what I'm saying. Having said that, I do believe a prophetic curse
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is not merely spiritual or symbolic so when we look at these curses and these blessings
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they're not just like spiritual things or symbolic things they actually manifest
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in the physical world it manifests in real physical historical consequences across generations
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and we saw that last week with like the intellect or the ambition or the technological capacity or
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the military prowess of the Japhethite nations if you're going to be enlarging people if you're
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going to be a people that grows and takes over landmass, you know what you're going to need?
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Ambition. You're going to need military prowess. You're going to need to be technologically
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advanced. And that is exactly what we saw with the Japhethite people. The Europeans were rolling
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around in ships, beautiful, you know, 40 sail ships that are running around the edge of Africa
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while Africa is still trying to figure out how to use the wheel. There was a actual physical
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manifestation in these people that allowed them to fulfill the prophecy in this passage of
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scripture. Now, the same principle holds true of the curse. Okay, a people under judgment of some
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conditions under this curse of Ham do not remain physically untouched. And I want to talk about
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how those things manifested among the African people. And I've summarized them in four G's,
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four g's geography god's genetics gospel okay geography god's genetics gospel
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geography let's look at number one geography how did this curse in genesis 25 to 27
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manifest physically in geography so god providentially placed ham's descendants where
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predominantly in some of the most geographically punishing environments on earth
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okay roughly one-third of the african continent is infested with what's called the tsetse fly
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and what that does is it kills so many cattle so many draft animals it prevents plow agriculture
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It prevents production. It prevents efficient transport of food.
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It is some of the most harsh weather patterns and conditions anywhere outside of maybe Antarctica.
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most of africa's rivers which are main main crossings for travel for trade are blocked
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by the most insane rapid sections that they make them uncrossable the sahara desert is so big and
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so vast it basically blocked them off from being served and supported and helped and trading with
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other nations. Ultimately, outside of Antarctica, Africa is the least desirable, profitable,
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livable continent in this world. And it fell, as a coincidence or by providence,
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to the Hamitic peoples. And this, of course, shaped the development of those people.
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because africa and their climate there which has less seasonal variation
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as a result of not having seasons you don't have to have food storage or planning
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or major indoor quarters compared to northern tribes of people that had to deal with winter
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and you have to have systems of agricultural planning and food storage and you had to actually
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build stone buildings that would withstand huge storms and so what happens in a nation that is
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generally outside is that you develop physical adaptations and physical maturity and it's why
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the african peoples are extremely athletic there's actually studies that show this now on the other
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side is that on the Japhethite nations up north when you are indoors for a portion of the year
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and you are building all these sophisticated buildings instead of having physical adaptations
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you start to have intellectual adaptations and you start reading and writing and planning
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and doing architecture and poetry and music and as a result over time the IQs of these two
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different groups develop in different ways and so the IQs of the northern peoples are more
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intellectually driven, where the IQs are lower of the African peoples that are more physically
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driven. The next G is gods. The Hamitic peoples have endured millennia of paganism, of idolatry,
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of animism, and all of which have actively hindered their development. So again, we start
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to see the curse actually manifest itself, how is it played out in history? So pagan religions,
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think about this for me with a second, just pay attention. Pagan religions, they don't
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just affect your beliefs. Pagan religions do what? They tell you what to eat. They talk about sexual
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conduct. They talk about moral norms. And so when you have thousands of years of eating burger
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patties made out of flies it's a real thing it happens in berindi and congo and ethiopia
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it affects your biology and when 50 of all of the african continent do cousin marriage
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it affects their biology okay when people sacrifice their children and ritually drank blood
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like they do in Kenya and Tanzania, it affects your biology. And these practices degrade their
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health and increase the genetic defects, which is moving to my third G, which is genetics.
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The Hamitic peoples have significantly lower IQ than their Shemite and their Japhethite
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counterparts. Now, why does that matter? Well, because IQ strongly correlates with a variety
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of very important civilizational realities. So future orientation. If you have a lower IQ,
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it's difficult for you to think a year ahead. If you have an IQ of 120, 130, you can think about
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3, 4, 5, 10, 15 years ahead. It correlates with long-term planning, impulse control, poverty
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levels, criminality, family stability, all of these things, which are essential for what? For
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building great civilizations. So again, it's not a shock. We're not just spiritualists. There's a
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physical reality. It's not a shock that you look at, even today, you go to an African city today
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and there's struggling sprawls of architecture and you go to Rome 2,000 years ago without
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the gospel, and they have four-story pillar stone buildings. There's a difference. There's a
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difference here. In addition to these sub-Saharan populations, there's also genetic defects.
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There's the sickle cell genetic defect. There's the APOL1 variants that have kidney disease.
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And why does this matter? Because the current lifespan expectancy of somebody in Africa
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is 20 years less than that of the people of Europe. So it affects the genetics.
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Lastly, we have gospel. In God's providence, the Hamitic peoples received the gospel
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later than any other major people group on earth. Yeah, there are still some small people groups
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that don't have the gospel, but we're talking about big groups of people. The African peoples
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And the Japhethites took it across the world.
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and came out and spread the gospel across Africa.
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and so the compounding effects of paganism and all of these different things
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really does produce the results of this curse and what this means is that the
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Hamitic peoples have not labored under equal circumstances but unequal circumstances
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curses have real physical effects blessings have real physical effects we're afraid to
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look at that because that talks about inferiority and superiority and it talks about distinctions
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and that to everybody in our generation again is is just taboo but god in his sovereign wisdom
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designed these real conditions in keeping with the prophecy of genesis 9 that would place
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the African peoples historically in a state of greater dependence, in a state of greater struggle,
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in a state of greater need. And even with the Western efforts to solve African poverty,
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we sent since 1960 trillions of dollars in foreign aid to Africa. And the transformation
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has not been great. The effects have been minimal. In other words, I don't believe that this curse
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can be solved with money. I do believe that money helps, but I don't believe this curse can be solved
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with money. So what the real, like what is the real solution? That's what we want to talk. What
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is the real solution for bringing gospel order to the world, including the Hamitic peoples?
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And here's the answer. It's by embracing both the blessings and the curses that God has declared in
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chapter 9 of Genesis. And here's what I mean by that. God has sovereignly assigned different
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stations and trajectories to different peoples for
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have been blessed to be enlarged in both territory and Christian
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regeneration. We see that in this passage. The Hamites
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have been assigned to a civilizational station of subordination and
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that's not the answer to this problem the answer is to return to european christian colonization
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of african nations i believe that's truly the answer let me tell you why
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it's the only thing that has historically worked that has shown fruit
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i'm not talking about overtaking africa i'm not talking about enslaving africans i'm not talking
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about exploiting Africans, but I'm talking about establishing order, godly leadership, and carrying
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the gospel to their lands. In fact, the only times that African nations have seen significant and
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sustained civilizational improvement, and I'm talking about infant mortality rates going down,
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I'm talking murder going down, I'm talking disease going down, tribal wars seizing, the only time
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Africa has ever seen that happen in being sustained is when they have come under
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Japhethite supervision. We saw this in colonial Kenya, Botswana, dramatically in Rhodesia.
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White Christians turned a broken third world territory into a thriving first world Christian
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nation in less than a century. You have a continent that has been struggling for literally
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millennia. And then you bring in a handful of European Christians and they turn that
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in a hundred years into a first world nation like that. You just go, why? How did that
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happen? Why does that work? When supervision is removed, which it has been, the pattern always
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reverses. And we have painlessly saw that in Zimbabwe, previously Rhodesia. And what this
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teaches us is that nations are downstream from, well, let me say it this way. Nations are not
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just downstream from religion. They're downstream from race. And I know that's a crazy thing to say,
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but a nation is simply the result of its people. The state of a nation is the result of its people.
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Let me prove this to you. Japan is one percent Christian. It is not a Christian nation.
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Yet it remains one of the most civilized, orderly, and high-functioning nations on earth.
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Yet it remains chaotic and radically underdeveloped.
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It's not Christianity that takes a nation and turns it into a great nation.
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now this does not mean that the gospel is unimportant to the health of a nation
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it's vital but civility is not a result of christianity because you have pagan nations
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like rome who were incredibly civil powerful nations before the gospel
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without christ though these nations are just going to be outwardly moral
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they're going to be outwardly moral and it's essentially going to be a preface to hell
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great you have a great civilization that is orderly and just and you're going to hell
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and so to not have christ and to have a civilized nation you've gained the whole
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world and lost your soul. It's terrible. So it is only in Christ that nations find true peace.
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They find true order. They find true flourishing. We don't just want civilized nations. We want
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Christian nations that are civilized. And so I'll close with this. God has not called us
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to erase the distinctions that he has placed in the world
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where there are no more tribal wars in Africa
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And so we want to let every people, Ham, Shem, Japheth, walk in the fear of the Lord,
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in the beauty and order of their own place, so that the nations might glorify the King of Kings,
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each bringing their unique glory into a redeemed world when Christ returns.
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father we thank you lord that you have given us order and lord we pray that you would help
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restore order among amongst a chaotic world that removes distinctions lord help us
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to find the scriptures that explain reality lord not that we might be prideful