The Gospel & Ethnic Unity Sermon | September 25, 2022

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Sermon Points & Scripture References:

Takeaway = The Gospel & Ethnic Unity

• Scripture Reference: Galatians 2: 11-16

• Scripture Reference: Galatians 1: 6-7

• Scripture Reference: Acts 15: 1

• Scripture Reference: Romans 4: 4-5

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 1. Ethnic Hatred

• Scripture Reference: Esther 9:24

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 2. Ethnic Pride

• Scripture Reference: 1 Samuel 17: 8

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 3. Ethnic Favoritism (or Partiality)

• Scripture Reference: James 2: 9

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 4. Ethnic Oppression

• Quote “As the generation-long battle against urban prostitution and corner saloons

disproportionately targeted immigrant communities (in the early 1900s), the

generation-long drug war that began in the 1970s disproportionately targeted

black communities. The peak of that discriminatory drug war came in 1986, with

the passage of federal legislation that punished possession of one gram of crack

as much as possession of one hundred grams of cocaine powder. (Most cocaine

powder defendants were white; blacks were a minority of crack users but the

overwhelming majority of crack defendants)” William Stuntz- The Collapse of

American Criminal Justice

• Scripture Reference: Exodus 3: 9

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 5. Ethnic Idolatry

• Scripture Reference: Numbers 12 :1–16

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 6. Ethnic Neglect

• Scripture Reference: Proverbs 3: 27

• Scripture Reference: Acts 10: 28

• Scripture Reference: Acts 10: 34–35

• Implications of the doctrine of justification for the area of ethnic unity.

The Doctrine of Justification Equips Us to Address Ethnic Sin in the Church

• Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 6:9–11

The Doctrine of Justification Exhorts Us to Acknowledge Our Own Ethnic Sins

Quote “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever

dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus

Christ than we ever dared hope.” Tim Keller

The Doctrine of Justification Empowers Us to Forgive the Ethnic

Sins of Other Christians

The Doctrine of Justification Emboldens Us to Call Out the Ethnic Sins of Our

Own Group

The Doctrine of Justification Encourages Us to Find Our Ultimate

Identity in Christ

• Scripture Reference: Philippians 3:8

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