Greetings:

Last time I introduced a term that likely doesn’t mean anything to you because it is an internal word to the Cultural Marxist and their Critical Theory. Intersectionality is their coined word to categorize people by ethnic groups according to their reward or punishment of them. Interesting as it may seem or unimportant as we might think it is many power structures from big business to government are using this term to manipulate people in the work force and in their everyday lives. I guess, in this case, we have a situation where what you don’t know or care about can hurt you. I believe the reasoning behind this is that if this term and its usage were commonly known there would be a backlash to the point of dismantling the whole movement. Most people wouldn’t believe that there is such a movement which desires to destroy who they are and make them pay for things they have never had any part of. Under Marxism there are either oppressors or oppressed and nothing else. No distinction is made regarding who or what an individual is it’s all about the group one belongs to. The living examples are; white oppressor, black oppressed: worse yet, Christian oppressor, unbeliever oppressed. Under Cultural Marxism individuality is dissolved into the group you belong to therefore you are guilty or not solely according to your group. The most common term for ethnic group is race so from here on I will use the term race for ethnic. 

What does God have to say about race and even racism. In the Scripture there are only two races, Jews and (non-Jews) Gentiles, there are only two classifications on people, believers and unbelievers, there are only the living and the dead. Although He created different races, which we most readily identify by skin color, He does not see skin color. God has one purpose only regarding all humanity, that is, that they come to the knowledge of the truth and thus be saved. Since all people are in the same situation, that is, we all sin and fall short of the glory of God He made a promise to send a Savior for all humanity and kept that promise in sending His own Son to pay the price for our sin and separation from Him. Drawing from what God sees and has done it stands to reason then that dividing people into races and oppressing people through racism is something people do to other people. This does not come from God. Just as all acts in thought, word and deed which are contrary to God come from people’s own hearts then we own them and God is not responsible for them. Some of God’s responses to our egregious actions are, “God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world though Him might be saved,”  “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God,”  “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” Only those who do not believe these and the rest of the teaching of Christ have a desire to be racist. Jesus once said, ”It is not what goes into a man that defiles him, it is what comes out of him that defiles him.” Out of the heart come all the evils he can conjure up. The very ones who call others racist likely are themselves racist. Don’t misunderstand there are people and groups who have done the most evil things to others and they ought be punished most severely but you cannot put all people into the same group. God has much to say about race and racism but we cannot compare what God says about something with what groups through their fallen condition say and do about race and racism. God will give us the answers that are right and the ones we need to bring a right message to the wrong actions of all who demand a wrong response. 

Have a blessed week.  Pastor Rehborg