Jason

Sinner saved by grace through faith in Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Boxing coach. Improvement Leader. Amateur programmer. Typo artist. USAF vet. Race abolitionist

[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

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[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

This is my kind of donut shop! Day light donuts on Harvard in Tulsa

[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

@5Solas Definitely a better way to phrase that title but still interesting

[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

@lecrae The path forward is to abolish the myth of race.

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[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

Jesus did it for me too!

[✝️Pray Without Ceasing✝️ @Elohim_Gadol]

I used to smoke, drink, and curse.

I once drove a semi truck all the way to Ohio to buy a bag of cocaine. I tumbled down a mountainside while high on LSD. I chased after women, watched pornography daily, and lived only to satisfy the desires of my flesh.

And do you know what it brought me?

Misery.

I was empty, broken, and ready to die. None of those things ever gave me the peace or happiness I was searching for.

Today, that's no longer my story. The emptiness is gone because it has been filled by Christ Jesus. He changed my life, gave me purpose, and gave me a joy this world could never offer.

[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

@farmingandJesus I would say black supremacy is a response to white supremacy but both are rooted in tribalism and both are sin. The way forward is to uproot the myth of race with the truth of the gospel

[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

@farmingandJesus Hot take: if you believe there is more than one race, you are a racist.

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[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

Interesting find!

I had to take some time to dig into this because i had never even heard of the word miscegenation.

So...what i found was that these verses are all about Israel not marrying people from the nations around them. But when you read the actual text, the reason given every single time is the same: those nations worshiped other gods, and marrying them would pull Israel away from worshiping Yahweh.

The commands are not "don't mix races" or "God created separate races that must stay separate." They are "don't make covenants or marriages with people whose religion will corrupt the covenant community."

The concern is idolatry and covenant faithfulness, not biology or bloodlines.

The Bible doesn’t use the modern idea of race or treat people as different species.

The word "miscegenation" is a 19th-century term. The original authors were dealing with a specific historical situation which was protecting a small covenant people from religious compromise and not establishing a permanent racial order.

MOST IMPORTANTLY!
Jesus Christ - God in the flesh - has his genealogy in Matthew 1 which lists both Rahab (a Canaanite prostitute from Jericho) and Ruth (a Moabite woman) as direct ancestors in his bloodline. These are two Gentile women who were brought into the covenant people. Rahab helped the Israelite spies and expressed faith in Yahweh.

Ruth left her people and said, “Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” Both were incorporated because of their response to the God of Israel, not because of ethnicity/race/bloodline.

Question when you look at the reason given in Deuteronomy 7:4 and Exodus 34:16, it says the problem is turning away to serve other gods. Do you see that as the main point, or do you read it differently?

Have you looked at how the New Testament talks about
the dividing wall being broken down in Christ in Ephesians 2

[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

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Bro. My website isn’t even finished yet but here it is anyway! https://t.co/fde3zHsdqV

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[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

@TheMuppetPastor @Impactingright @kangminlee A better way to discuss the effects of racism. People racialized as “insert mythical race here”

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@SongEternal Join the movement! https://t.co/fde3zHsdqV

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@meangreenMM How do you figure God created races?

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@meangreenMM If you have anything of substance to contribute please share

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@ShamashAran Love this perspective. https://t.co/Urhp2FZACn

[Jason @SavedByChristJ]

@DrFrankTurek I get what people mean when they say full time ministry. You are pursuing a paying career usually in a church. I like to think that all Christian’s are all full time ministers. We are all called to live out our faith in whatever setting we find ourselves in.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

When people complain to God, he does not always put his arm around them and comfort them. Sometimes he gives them a swift kick in the pants.

To Job, he says, “Dress for action like a man” (Job 38:3). After the prophet Jeremiah has been whining about the prosperity of the wicked, the Lord says, “If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses?” (Jer. 12:5).

In other words, Jeremiah, if you are already worn out by this level of opposition, what are you going to do when things really heat up? If you are moaning and groaning about the burden you have to carry now, how will you handle it when the road gets steeper, and the cross gets heavier?

Do you want to run with horses or shuffle with sloths?

The same question confronts us. If we are constantly grumbling over small inconveniences, small sufferings, small acts of obedience, how will we endure when true trials come? How will we follow Jesus down the hard road of costly discipleship?

Yes, there are many times when we need the Lord to put his arm around us, bind up our wounds, and speak tenderly to us. And he does. But there are also times when we need him to shake us awake, get in our face, and rebuke our spiritual laziness and self-pity. And he does that, too.

Do we want easy, spiritually apathetic lives? Or do we want the long, difficult, but deeply blessed life of running with horses on the path Christ has set before us?

So let us hear the exhortation: “Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance [run with horses!] the race that is set before us” (Heb. 12:1).
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