Black President.
Black businesses.
Black movies and talk shows.
Do we even need Black History Month?
Or the word "Black?"
African-American?
Now that we're free, now that we've overcome, now what?
Did we need a common "enemy" to have unity and destiny?
Only if we see slavery in this country as something merely historical and not spiritual.
I'm convinced the cruelness of white slave masters was literally demonic. That this country had a cloud of demonic mindlessness ruling it for a time. Demons ruled America. Sin is slavery. Satan the first sinner.
So sin is really the issue of slavery. Being mastered by anything or anyone other than God is the reality of the slavery of sin. This means the civil war is not over. The ultimate war is over, because Jesus died for all sin and for every sin. He is our emancipator.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only true Emancipation Proclamation.
Unlike Lincoln's emancipation, The Gospel of Christ is enforced by the Spirit of Christ.
Satan, his system, and sin, are destroyed in the life of those who are born again.
In Christ we are "more than overcomers." More than conquerors.
These are the Words of God:
This is our Emancipation Proclamation of Salvation:
Whoever sins is a slave of sin.
The soul that sins shall die.
But God commended His love for us that while we were sinners, Jesus died for our sins.
Our old self was crucified with Christ, our bodies of sin destroyed, we are no longer slaves of sin.
We have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God.
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slave, whom you obey?
If you abide in my words, you are my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Now what? What is the destiny of the African-American Christian?
To realize that slavery was and is sin, and that sin has not come to an end.
Resist sin or be slaves again. Do not use your freedom to indulge your bodies or self centered minds. The chains, shackles, and lynch mobs are gone. But not the devil and demons who were behind them. Slavery was demonic. Read the autobiography of Fredrick Douglas, or just think about the evils done to the Africans who came here. There is a stench of hell behind the history that is monstrous. It's still here. Satan seeks slaves even today.
Though "all things are now lawful," all things are not beneficial. Though you have no earthly slave master, refuse to be mastered in mind, emotion, or will. Remember the African American National Anthem, especially these words:
Lest our feet, stray from the places our God where we met thee.
Lest our hearts, DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF THE WORLD WE FORGETH THEE!
Many of us are drunk with the wine of this world.
We have forgotten who delivered us.
We have forgotten our ancestors.
We submit to sin as our masters.
Right now, resolve to be free from sin. Choose to the Spirit of God as your Master. Refuse any and every other master. Resist every mastery except the leading of God's Spirit. This is the destiny of those who are free.
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