Avoiding Hate (No Racism)

 Avoiding Hate (No Racism)

Positive Christianity Series Episode #406

"The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jewish individual ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? (For Jewish individuals have no dealings with Samaritans)."- John 4: 9

Scripture tells us multiple times that hate is not needed. We do not need to hate anyone. We can hate the snake and that is wisdom. We can direct our hate towards the accuser who is the source of envy, lies, sabotage, and inegalitarianism. We learn that we can not hate human beings because the snake wants enmity between individuals. If the snake wanted enmity between Cain and Abel and also between Miriam and Moses, we can see that the snake foments conflict. The snake does not care about humanity. We can choose to learn about how the snake tries to cause enmity and conflict between family members, citizens of a nation, and between nations. We can choose for grace and empathy acknowledging the intentions of the snake.

The snake says we should hate Egyptians because of wicked Pharaoh who envied Moses. We remind ourselves that wise Pharaoh gave authority to Joseph. We remind ourselves that David helped, improved, and probably even instructed the Egyptian who was left behind by the Amalekites to worship GOD Almighty. We choose grace (although we avoid false prophets and idolators from all nations). We can not hate individuals based on their ethnicity. That is what the snake wants. The snake says, "Hate something. Just hate something." The snake wants racism to be propagated. We choose to be distinct. We choose to judge based on the character of a person and not on their race. 

"Jesus answered her, 'If you knew the gift of GOD, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.' The woman said to him, 'Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?'"- John 4: 10-11

"The woman said to him, 'Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."- John 4: 15

King Jesus Christ described this when he spoke to the woman at the well. We learn that she was a Samaritan. Samaritans were individuals from the northern Ten Tribes of Israel. They had strayed from the faith even after Isaiah and numerous prophets had preached. The Samaritans wanted to be like the idolatrous nations. The Samaritans did not repent of sin and kept practicing idol worship that did not help them. In 722 B.C., the Northern Ten Tribes were scattered to Assyria. They chose to worship idols that do not help and sojourned in Assyria worshiping idols. We learn that eventually they returned to Israel and were allowed to start again. The false shepherds who were Pharisees hated Samaritans because of their race and not because of idolatry. Pharisees also hated their Jewish bretheren. Christianity instructs the hating of idolatry and having genuine empathy. They hated Samaritans because the snake told them to hate Samaritans. The snake wants division. The sin of Solomon had divided Israel into two nations and the snake wanted to keep Israel divided. King Jesus Christ united Israel similar to David because he instructed to both Samaritans and Jewish individuals. King Jesus Christ was not a racist. King Jesus Christ unified Israel. King Jesus Christ spoke against idol worship but described the value of genuine empathy consistent with the true faith seen in the story of David. King Jesus Christ did not see the woman at the well and tell her, "Depart from me you Samaritan!" That was how the Pharisees thought. King Jesus Christ spoke to her and told her that she went to the well to get water yet what is actually needed in life is everlasting water that is the worship of GOD Almighty. The Samaritan woman spoke truth and was not hypocritical. She acknowledged that she was not the most pious woman and that she had been remarried. King Jesus Christ acknowledges that she spoke the truth and did not hide the fact that she had been remarried. The Samaritan woman acknowledged the Mashiach who did not judge her life. The importance is repentance of sin and practicing integrity. (There are Jezebels also who do not recognize the truth and intentionally choose to hate others. We avoid Jezebels. Not all women are like the woman from the well who spoke truth. There are Jezebels who hide the fact that they have relationships and want to sabotage men. Avoid Jezebels.) King Jesus Christ was not sexist, classist, nor racist. King Jesus Christ is no socialist. The Samaritan woman went to Israel to tell people that she had found Mashiach. She shared the Gospel because she cared about others.

She was no hypocrite and no Jezebel (who falsely shares the Gospel). She was not perfect yet she was not evil, sexist, racist, classist, and deceptive. She probably repented. King Jesus Christ saw that she was a human being who needed GOD Almighty. King Jesus Christ saw her as a human being and not as a Samaritan. The false shepherds saw Samaritans and either reviled them, envied them, or hated them out of a display of self-righteousness. King Jesus Christ spoke to Samaritans. King Jesus Christ spoke to Romans. King Jesus Christ spoke to Greek individuals who went from their country to learn about Mashiach. Rome accepted Christianity. Orthodox Greeks also love King Jesus Christ and have persevered despite envy from socialists. Greece became a Christian nation (Isaiah 65: 1). King Jesus Christ is no racist. We learn that the false shepherds hated fraternity and empathy. King Jesus Christ reproved their lack of filial love and unified Israel (Ezekiel 34). We can learn to have genuine empathy for our bretheren. We do not hate based on ethnicity. Mashiach reproved racism from the false shepherds who practiced idolatry and even worse sin (Matthew 7: 15-20). We do avoid socialist snakes who envy filial love. We avoid socialists, communists, and occultists. We reprove hate and envy that is socialism. We do avoid socialists and do not need to speak with them. This is because we know their intention is to deceive. We persevere avoiding snakes who envy us because of our filial love, genuine empathy, ethnicity, amount of melanin produced, height, gender, social class, language spoken, country born, the city we were born, our level of education, our virtues, our faith, and our fidelity to GOD Almighty. The envy has nothing to do with you as a person and instead it is because they envy GOD Almighty. Avoid such people 2 Timothy 3: 1-5.