Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction:

Now

-Wakanda(Identity coming from our race)

-Sports team or College

-Family Identity

Black Hebrews

: Hebrew Israelites believe that modern American minorities – both black and brown – are the true descendants of Biblical Israel.

: Hebrew Israelites believe that modern day Israelites and Europeanized Jews are impostors and not the real descendants of true Israel.

: Hebrew Israelites believe the “time of the Gentiles” means “the time of the white Europeans.”

They believe this time is almost over; America and its allies will soon be judged.

4: Hebrew Israelites believe the “time of the Gentiles” means “the time of the white Europeans.”

They believe this time is almost over; America and its allies will soon be judged.

: Hebrew Israelites believe salvation is achieved by keeping the Law.

Strict Sabbath-keeping, dietary restrictions and a certain physical appearance are important (e.g., beards are good, hats are bad).

: Hebrew Israelites believe that Jesus was a black man.

: Many (not all) Hebrew Israelites believe that white people can’t be saved.

Instead, they are destined to be servants for African Israelites after the Black Messiah returns.

: Hebrew Israelites believe both heaven and hell are merely “states of mind.”

Neither are viewed as metaphysical realities as they are in orthodox Christianity.

: Hebrew Israelites believe you must refer to God as “Yah” and Jesus as “Yahshuah Ben Yah.”

: Hebrew Israelites believe that by spreading their message they are helping to gather the scattered Israelites who do not yet know the truth of their ancestry and heritage.

White Nationalist belief

is a type of nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a race[1] and seeks to develop and maintain a white national identity.[2][3][4]

Its proponents identify with and are attached to the concept of a white nation.[5]

White nationalists say they seek to ensure the survival of the white race, and the cultures of historically white states.

They hold that white people should maintain their majority in majority-white countries, maintain their political and economic dominance, and that their cultures should be foremost.[4]

Many white nationalists believe that miscegenation, multiculturalism, immigration of nonwhites and low birth rates among whites are threatening the white race,[6] and some believe these things are being promoted as part of an attempted white genocide.[6]

Then

In the 1st century it was not much different.

People then found their significants in their heritage.

What blood they had running through their veins.

Their traditions passed down from generations.

The Jews were especially Nationalistic based on their exclusive relationship with the God of the OT.

They thought just by being Jewish they had a free pass.

This lead the Jews to believe that they were superior to all other ethnic groups of the world.

Thesis Statement: At the cross racial, social and economic barriers that divide are destroyed thereby opening up paths of reconciliation between the ethnic groups of the world.

I. Formerly Alienated

I. Formerly Alienated

I. Formerly Alienated

(v.11) “Therefore” Paul is changing the subject matter but the new material is based on the information he gave in (v.1-10).

(v.11) “Therefore remember that formerly you” Paul continues to take them down memory lane.

This is the third usage of “formerly” This tells us that Paul wants them to reflect back on a past truth to help explain a present reality.

Sometimes God takes you back, so that he can take you forward.

Paul wanted them to never forget who they are in Christ Jesus; he is essentially lifting up their esteem.

(v.11) “the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called the Uncircumcision by the so-called Circumcision” Meaning that they were not of any Jewish Blood.

They were not part of the 12 tribes.

This phrase tells us something key.

By this time Jews were spread all throughout Asia Minor.

We call these Jews hellenistic Jews.

They were Jews ethnically, but they were the Jews that did not return to Jerusalem during the time of Nehemiah and Ezra when the wall was rebuilt.

Many of the Jews stayed in the lands that they were carried off too.

So Gentiles and Jews would have lived together in the sense that they functioned in an integrated society.

Notice Paul’s phraseology.

“You were called Uncircumcision by the so-called Circumcision” in other wards those Hellenistic Jews separated themselves from the Gentiles by calling them this name of derision.

The Jews referred to Gentiles not by their names, but as the “Uncircumcised” I don’t need to whip out any slang words to describe words used against any ethnic group by another group to help us understand this was the Jewish way of exercising their perceived superiority over the gentiles.

(v.11) “by the so-called Circumcision which is performed by human hands” NASB “by those who call themselves “the circumcision” NIV Paul is mocking the Jews who have Exalted themselves above Gentiles all based on the “Human Symbol of Circumcision” the Jews missed the point of “Circumcision”.

It was a covenant symbol of their acceptance into a way of life.

Paul helps us with this in :

by those who call themselves “the circumcision”

-Summary: True Circumcision is of the heart first.

It is based on a person willingness to obey the commandments of God.

Not on some external sign of belief.

Our Believers Baptism in some ways parallels this; baptism is only effectual when a person has truly made a spiritual commitment to God.

(v.11) Paul is basically telling the Gentiles those Jews that mocked you were essentially in the same boat as you were “dead in their trespasses and sins” they were no better than you.

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(v.12) “remember” this is the second usage of this.

Paul keeps this running theme of “remember” Remember where you came from; now Paul list 5 strikes against these Gentile New Believers in their former walk:

Separate from Christ---without expectation/hope of a Messiah(Savior).

excluded from the commonwealth of Israel---Alienated from citizenship in Israel.

They were caught at the border and sent back to Gentile lands as illegal immigrants.

That word “Commonwealth” has to do with citizenship.

Strangers to the covenants of promise---There are at least three Covenant promises given to the Jews:

a. Abrahamic Promise(Covenant)---Promised his descendants would number as the sands of the sea.

(People)

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b.

Land Promise(Covenant)---He promised the lands of Canaan to the Jews.(Land)

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Land Promise(Covenant)---He promised the lands of Canaan to the Jews.(Land)

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c.

King Promise(Davidic Covenant)---He promised a King who would have an eternal kingdom rule and that would sit on the throne of David as “The Messiah”

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-Summary: Nathan gives David a prophecy about his son Solomon who has about to be King, but then towards the end of the prophecy he starts to talk about another successor.

Notice in (v.16) he says your “house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever”.

Meaning that at some point there would be a final and eternal king.

-He promised three things: Land, People, and a Eternal Ruler from the tribe of Judah.

These Gentiles had no such promise

4. Having no hope----They were dead in the sins without the promise of a rescuer.

5. Without God in the world----you will remember that prior to coming to Christ these gentiles worshipped gods plural.

But we determined early in this series that false gods were demon’s masquerading as supernatural beings.

They were following Demon’s no God.

-Summary: These Gentile where totally alienated from any hope because the revelation needed to get saved was not given to them, but to the Jews.

Housed within the Jewish nations were the keys to the kingdom of God.

Luke puts it best in :

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acts 17:

-(v.27)

Like a blind man groping for the front door or for their walking cane; was the Gentile looking for God.

Transition Statement: The Gentiles were in a rough situation.