Jesus is what color? But does it matter? Let's find out in this episode of Truth & Knowledge.
Colossians 3:11 says, "In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews, those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people who are foreigners, or Scythians. There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers, and Christ is all that is important"
The Vision of Jesus
by Trey Knowles
Truth & Knowledge Episode 73
Colossians 3:11 says, "In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews, those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised, or people who are foreigners, or Scythians. There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all believers, and Christ is all that is important"
The Vision of Jesus
by Trey Knowles
Truth & Knowledge Episode 73
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00:00To you, I'm just a black man, but that is not my race.
00:07My race is not a color, it is a seed.
00:11And that seed is doing the will of our Father who is in heaven.
00:15I'm not speaking for a color of people, but I'm speaking to the fatherless, those who
00:21don't know God, those who are trapped in their sins.
00:27And before I begin, let me make myself clear.
00:29If you think this is a colonized religion or a European way, I want you to think not.
00:36Think about this.
00:37How can a house stand if it is divided against itself?
00:40Meaning, how can someone claim Jesus Christ if they're not walking or not practicing or
00:47living in the spirit of Jesus Christ?
00:50So they can say Jesus Christ all day long, but are they walking in the spirit of Jesus
00:57Christ?
00:58Are they living in his character?
01:01Jesus says in Luke 11, 28, Jesus replied, blessed brother are those who hear the word
01:07of God and obey it.
01:10So colonized religion, European way, I think not.
01:14But let me tell you this.
01:16Who is my brother?
01:18Who is my sister?
01:19And I already told you that my race is not a color.
01:23My race is a seed and that seed is to do God's will.
01:28That is my chosen race.
01:30Confused, brainwashed, no, I think not.
01:37First Peter 2, 9 tells us, but you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
01:46his own special people that you may proclaim the praise of him who called you out of darkness
01:54into light.
01:56So God calls out of darkness, he called me out of darkness into light, he calls you out
02:00of darkness into light.
02:03We are a chosen generation, a race, no, a seed, a race that is a seed to come from darkness
02:13into light.
02:16The vision of Jesus, it's not all about color, it's not about color, don't look at color
02:24what Jesus looks like, look at his character, look at his righteousness, look at his love.
02:30He loves you, he is for every, every continent, every continent of people, he's for every
02:39continent of people, he created every single thing, he is the alpha and omega, the vision
02:46of Jesus.
02:47I'm Trey Knowles, and welcome to Truth and Knowledge.
02:53Transformation, reborn again, brand new in Christ, recognition, Jesus is Lord, the joy
03:05of the Lord is my salvation, the righteousness of the Lord is my substance.
03:12Truth and Knowledge, Truth and Knowledge.
03:18Transformation, reborn again, brand new in Christ, recognition, Jesus is Lord, the joy
03:25of the Lord is my salvation, the righteousness of the Lord is my substance.
03:31Truth and Knowledge, Truth and Knowledge.
03:43Jesus is the son of God, he's a person of color, but color does not matter.
03:52What matters is that he loves you, and he's not willing for no one to perish but come
03:58to repentance.
04:01Color does not matter.
04:04In fact, we're not supposed to be having a picture of anything that is in the heavens
04:11above and the earth below us.
04:17That's part of the Ten Commandments.
04:21Color does not matter.
04:23Jesus is a person of color.
04:27But Matthew 12, 46 and 50, while Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and
04:33brother stood outside waiting to speak to him.
04:37Someone told him, Jesus, your mother and brother are standing outside waiting to speak to you.
04:43Jesus replied, who is my mother and who is my brother?
04:49And he points to his disciples and said, here is my mother, here is my brother, for whoever
04:57does the will of my father in heaven is my brother, sister, and mother.
05:06Whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my brother or sister.
05:11Color does not matter.
05:14Color does not matter.
05:19So don't get all hanged up on color, brothers and sisters, because color does not matter.
05:26What matters, are you doing the will of God?
05:29Are you doing the will of God?
05:31That's what matters.
05:33John's vision of Christ in Revelations 1, 9, I, John, your brother and companion, in
05:40the sufferings and kingdom and patience and endurance that are in Jesus Christ, was on
05:46the island of Pompos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
05:52On the Lord's day, I was in the spirit and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
05:58which said, write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches.
06:08I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me.
06:13And when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
06:17And among the lampstands was someone like the Son of Man, dressed in a robe, reached
06:27down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
06:32So John was a disciple.
06:34He walked with Jesus Christ.
06:36So he knew what Jesus Christ looks like.
06:39So remember, John walked with Christ.
06:41He knew what Jesus looks like.
06:44So in verse 13, it says, among the lampstands was someone like the Son of Man, dressed in
06:50a robe, reached down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
06:56The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow.
07:01And his eyes were like blazing fire.
07:05His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace.
07:10So his feet was black, like bronze glowing in a furnace.
07:14So he's a person of color.
07:16And his voice was like the sound of rushing water.
07:21In his right hand, he had seven stars.
07:24And coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword.
07:29His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
07:34And when I saw him, when John saw him, he fell to his feet as though he was dead.
07:41Then he placed his right hand on John and said, don't be afraid.
07:49Don't be afraid.
07:51I am the first and the last.
07:53He's the Alpha and Omega.
07:54I am the living one.
07:55I was dead.
07:57And now look, I am alive forever and ever.
08:00And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
08:06He holds the keys.
08:08He is our salvation.
08:11Where, therefore, what you have seen, what is now, and what will take place later.
08:17The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this.
08:24The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches.
08:28And the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
08:33And so to me, I feel like God is telling us that he has all of us, the whole world in his hands.
08:40Every continent, all his people are in his hands.
08:46He is the light for his people.
08:49He is the light for his people.
08:53It doesn't matter what color Jesus is.
08:55He is for everyone.
08:57Every person on all the continents, on the seven continents.
09:02He is for you, for me, for you, for you, for you.
09:05It doesn't matter what color you are.
09:07Get that color stuff out of your mind.
09:09Get this color stuff out of your heart.
09:11What matters, are you doing the will of God?
09:14That's what matters.
09:17Colossians 3, 11 says, in the new life, there's no difference between Greek and Jew.
09:25There's no difference between Greek or Jew.
09:28Those who are circumcised and those who are not circumcised.
09:32People, foreigners, there's no difference between slaves or free people, but Christ is in all, all believers.
09:42Christ is in all that is important.
09:45Christ is as important.
09:47That's all that matters, not his color, not what color Jesus is.
09:50He's for all people, Jews, Greek.
09:53There's no, there's no favoritism.
09:56There's, you know, whoever believes is God's people, is the child of God.
10:02We're all God's people, as long as you believe and you're doing the will of God.
10:07There's no person better than another person.
10:12So this is not a European way, because if it was, are you, are they following the spirit of Jesus Christ?
10:23Are they throwing, are they walking with Jesus Christ?
10:27Are they, are they, are they in the image of Jesus Christ?
10:32So it's not a European thing.
10:35Jesus is a person of color, but color does not matter.
10:40What matters are you doing the will of the father who's in heaven.
10:47So color does not matter.
10:50It doesn't matter what color Jesus is.
10:53But what matters is unity, diversity in the body.
10:56That's what matters.
10:57First Corinthians 12, let's say 12 through 14, just as a body has many parts,
11:08just as a body, the one has many parts, but all its many parts form one body.
11:16So is Jesus Christ.
11:19For we are all baptized by one spirit, so as to form one body, whether Jew or Gentile, slave or free.
11:27And we were all given this one spirit to drink.
11:32Even so, the body is not made up of one part, but of many.
11:39So we got one spirit to drink, and that's the spirit that we should focus on.
11:44That's the spirit that we should live in.
11:47So our race is not the color of our skin.
11:51Our race is a seed.
11:55That seed is to live in the body of Christ, to live in the spirit of Christ.
12:06That is our race.
12:08Doesn't matter what color Jesus is.
12:11But the image of Jesus Christ, that is what matters.
12:16He is a son of God.
12:18He's not willing for no one to perish but come to repentance.
12:22A vision of Jesus Christ.
12:24I'm Trey Knowles, and thank you for watching Truth and Knowledge.
12:29Grace and peace.