A.R. & Jamaal Bernard | "Reacting To Racism? Know Your Lane" | Christian Cultural Center
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- "Reacting To Racism? Know Your Lane" is a conversational message between Pastors A.R. & Jamaal Bernard, from Christian Cultural Center. They discuss the nation's reaction to the systemic marginalization, disenfranchisement, and racism towards people of color.
Too often we are busy dealing with the symptoms instead of the cause. When it comes to having the conversation about race, you have to have an openness to the uncomfortable aspects of that conversation. You cannot have understanding until you have a conversation. "The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. ~ Proverbs 4:7"
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Pastor A.R. Bernard, you have been my mentor since I still lived in Singapore. He changed my life through his teaching. To me, he is like King Solomon in this modern age in terms of his wisdom. His wisdom is like no one else, but everything he said always comes from love, and I can feel it. I was troubled with this pandemonium. As a person who just moved to the US nine years ago, I don't know many things regarding this topic. But I have best friends who are black, and they got hurt. I feel angry and guilty for not understanding a lot of things. I was praying this morning, and after that, I found this video. Everywhere I go, Pastor A.R. Bernard speaks to my life. And for that, I thank God and him for always work together to answer people's needs, especially to me.
This was a very powerful teaching. Learning and having understanding
Great word and incredible teaching.
Thank for you both! This is good Lord! This was Powerful!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😃🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️
Very good word & teaching. I questioned why my Pastor waited to address this situation, this allowed me to see through a different lense. Everyone has their lane. 🤔🙏🏾🙏🏾
What an enlightened man of God! Thank you Lord for Dr. A. R Bernard and Pastor Jamal Bernard.
PASTOR A R, it's been years since I listened to you expound, Although so many years has passed yet I'm still blown away!
Thank you so Much!!!
Keep praying for protection, grace, compassion, knowledge, wisdom, perception, insight, foresight, help and support.
We all will need them now, and in the coming years and decades.
God bless.
One word, powerful. Thanks for this insightful, timely word
We must intercede for our nation . Prayers for people in power to make changes in Society. To tear down old laws by Speaking out against Racism . Through Platforms, Activism, Protests .Let Truth prevail. Evil traffics in Deceit,.Injustice, Chaos.
Wisdom and Understanding.
Thank you so much! This is a mind and heart changing conversation that is much needed.
Excellent service for a time as this. May the Holy Spirit guide you in all truth to unfold to the sheep and lambs God bless you.
So blessed by this!
This conversation is soo real. I love this conversation
Thank God for this conversation on racism! We have lived with injustice, chaos, trafficking and many more. I pray that we teach our children better! The pain is so deep! See me , as you would love for me to see you! God made us all! Sin have cause some to think they have a right to cause pain in the life of people of color. We need to ask our self, would you want this for your children, injustice done to you? We have to stop this racism! You love your sons and daughters and we love ours! Why should we be treated differently? Why we keep hiding the truth? May God get to the true root of our heart. Let us love, even when we may not be love! Fight inside the will of God!
I get you, but in all honesty. There has been enough conversation about racism. It hasn't got society anywhere. There has been too much focus on Dr Martin Luthar King and his vision of a colourblind society that is nothing but a fantasy that evangelicals have been clinging on to for decades. The first step in the fight against racism is for white people to admit that they see colour. White guilt expresses itself in a few ways. Some people see racism, feel bad about it and do nothing. Other white people see racism and actively try to make a difference. And then there are those who can't cope with guilt and go in to denial mode, refusing to acknowledge that systematic racism exists and love to shout about how there lives are tough and how they have no privilege.
Great conversation. Deceit, injustice and chaos --trafficking. Daniel chapter 9. Intercessors!! Ephesians chapter 6. I Corinthians chapter 12. Spiritual gifts. Wise as serpent, but harmless as a dove! Prayer, Advocacy, Protest, Development. Truly stay in your lane ROMANS 12
This teaching was awesome. I learned so much. God bless you both.
Thank you for this very important conversation!!!
Nah pastor talking that talk on this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
The thing that bothered/bothers me is other police officers having seen what happened not calling it murder, and turning their attention to what Floyd had in his system. It shows we are still very far from seeing ANY incident the same way.
AR Bernard said the murder of George Floyd wasn’t necessarily racist. He said “ it could have been a white man.” I disagree. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
I listened to that part twice, I think what he was saying is no matter the race of the victim, he would feel the same way about the incident based on the cops behavior in the situation
@@nichellej1118 i agree with you.
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I agreed with everything except for the notion put forth in the beginning that it's a small percentage of cops who are bad. If that was the case, the bad ones would have been rooted it by the good ones. It's actually vice-versa and history has proven it. Yet, everything else was greatly broken down and presented incredibly. 👏🏾✊🏾🙏🏽
Do research
@@dinavelez3226 🤨 Huh? On what? Not needed. Facts are facts. Research is what made me say what was said.
I believe a standard was raised because the enemy came in like a flood. Great things are going to happen after all of this. Victory beling to God and his ways. Whatever thing are pure and righteous is the way we should be living and it shall prevail in Jesus name. The cry for piece and security is at hand and then the Lord will come.
I pray the Scriptures. What God thinks I want to be thinking. Rev. 5:9-10 informs us so much!
Also the Lord's prayer..."on earth as it is in heaven". I'm blessed to see SO many people of all Races, ages and background coming together to plead for Justice (and against oppression)and walking for wise reforms. I'm all FOR Social justice! Please understand that does not bring me salvation, it is my walking out of my faith.
I can join and applaud anyone seeking good things. I don't see how that undermines my faith or witness.(some churches are so against Social Justice, I just have to wonder why??)
I pray more churches can open up to these types of conversations. By the way, you are doing a wonderful job!
Rev. Bernard is one of the few black conservative pastors who is on educated and informed enough, critically engaging this issue, that makes sense. As James Cones told us, white theology is already enthralled to the ideology of white supremacy, even though they talk about the Bible.
DECEPTION AT IT'S BEST
Mega church pastors and their smaller counterparts should begin to preach and teach equality and equity from a biblical perspective, so their members will do the right thing as a result of worship and prayer they are engaging for personal and national revival and betterment of our republic and communities. They should make it clear the first resolution below should be engaged by elected and appointed political leaders. In addition, they should also lead by example by practicing the second problem resolution in the Churches they lead and teach and encourage Christian and non-Christian businesses / business-owners to do the same.
1. Better police training is necessary (eliminate deadly techniques and include non-deadly techniques for gaining control of combative people as well as ethics of respect and care for those they approach and arrest, at the same level for all races of people) as well as departments, prosecutors, and courts holding police criminally accountable who cause and are complicit in unjustified deaths. Americans black and other races should and will protest in some shape or form, yet violence, property damage, and other unhealthy behavior should not be coupled with the protests.
Protesters will make their point and changes will come about in shorter order through the sheer number of people descending upon the domains of elected officials around the nation (capitols, city halls, etc.) as they are led by movement leaders intelligently identifying the racial and/or discrimination problems that back allegations with data & testimonials that prove the allegations, and that allow elected and appointed officials, prosecutors, and courts to deliver righteous justice against unjustified deaths and other treatment. No one can reasonably expect that justice to happen overnight and must realize there is no excuse for whites, blacks, or other races involved in the protests / movements to loot, destroy, or attack anyone or any property. Americans of all races who want to do what is righteous and just will work together with non-violent agendas / actions to get the point across and will experience progress for blacks, other minorities, and all Americans (like civil rights progress made during the course of our national history as we moved to combat and disable to a great degree physical slavery, jim crow laws, and other inequities).
2. Economic equality / equity is also needed and would over time do far more than short-term sympathy, empathy, and donations being made by Tech Giants and large businesses in various industries that have for decades failed to provide equitable job, promotions, and high-level opportunities to a representative portion of black Americans. In the few instances when some did, they tended to do so to a far greater degree for black women (which I'm not mad at because they are also worthy of greater opportunities) but this seems to be another attempt (like many government welfare programs and rules implemented going back decades) to emasculate black men and tear apart families by making it look like black men could not provide and are undisciplined, irresponsible, and unworthy of low, mid, or high-level employment, business, and financial opportunity.
The sad, subjective, and untrue refrain from many hiring managers often being "we're sorry Mr. Brown but we selected someone who had better education and past experience than you." If you're actions keep most people of a particular race in the slums of life lacking equitable economic opportunity, do not be surprised that volatility comes out of them at some point and causes un-pleasant behavior that could rip apart the fabric of the nation. While arguments could be made that violent outbursts during protests shouldn't happen, we know historically it has in many instances and as a united people (whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, indians, and others) we should seek to correct underlying societal problems including racist, discriminatory, and abusive behavior by powers-that-be and authority figures, so they do not foment violent sentiment and courses of action by people groups and/or the masses that drive wedges between U.S. citizens and lead to national decay and destruction.
The blood of Christ is sufficient for salvation - it saved me and probably many of you! However, we still are called to partner with the Holy Spirit in doing the right things otherwise abhorrent behaviors like slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and racism occur and overtake societal systems.. We are not living in the design it represents when we do not love our neighbor as ourselves by doing all we can to ensure policing and our economic, employment, and banking systems are not discriminatory to minorities. If his premise was true then Martin Luther King Jr. and many abolitionists of the past (white and black) should never have been used by the LORD to bring change because His blood would have done it all without our taking action. Faith without works is dead! In other words, faith that is only words is dead!
After praying according to 2Chronicles 7:14, we are called to action thereafter to act righteously and do justice, to stand up for the oppressed and the weak. Prayer is never an indication to not act, in fact it is an invitation to take necessary actions to carry out the LORD's will not only for leading people to Him and into eternal life but also in making sure we and our systems of authority are regulated and act in ways that move toward the righteousness, peace, and joy He wants for us even while we are on Earth.
We bow our knees to the LORD Jesus Christ and commit to living by the fruit of the Spirit as we deal with other people in equality and to take necessary actions to ensure our systems of government and authority including the people who lead and work within them do not fall short of the following:
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and correct oppression. Defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And administer justice for the afflicted and needy.
Psalms 82:3-4
Be fair to the poor and to orphans. Defend the helpless and everyone in need. Rescue the weak and homeless from the powerful hands of heartless people.
Proverbs 24:11-12
Save those who are being led to their death; rescue those who are about to be killed. If you say, “We don’t know anything about this,” God, who ·knows what’s in your mind [evaluates motives; weighs hearts], will notice [doesn’t he know?]. He is watching you, and he will know. He will reward each person for what he has done.
1John 4:20
If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
1John 2:11
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Matthew 23:27-36
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
You can't force people (white, black, or other) to speak out or take action, but you can say what the LORD has shown as necessary to move the consciences of the people and those who lead them, in the same way He moved through MLK, Jr. and through those who started the American Revolution and the Civil War to end the practice of physical ownership of slaves. In each of these movements, a loud cry of righteousness and justice was heard from pulpits that lead to action and overcame the voices from other pulpits commanded by people who desired to remain unjust and keep people oppressed.
This is deep
God's Holy Word tells us to REPENT turn away from your wicked ways. I pray Every Police officer, City official, Family member, Pastor involved in any form of hatred or brutality towards Anyone. REPENT and TURN AWAY from that wicked thing called hatred. IT IS NOT OF GOD 🙏🏼🙏🏼 YOU WILL ANSWER FOR EVERY "THOUGHT " AND "THING" YOU DO and HAVE DONE IN THIS LIFE 🔥🔥AND THE LIFE BEYOND🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
💕LORD BLESS the family of George Ford and all those who has lost their lives in this TERRIBLE ACT OF HATRED AND RACISM 💕🙏🏼🙏🏼 Keep them close to you Lord Jesus don't let their hearts be troubled give them peace to know that you are in control and you're HOLY Will, will be Done in the MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST Our LORD and SAVIOR AMEN 💕🙏🏼💕 AMEN 💕🙏🏼 AMEN 💕🙏🏼
What is the scripture take on this? This is all opinions.. God is a God of love... what can you help the black community? Violence is not the answer.. God is the answer.. the Bible is absent in this conversation...I Will NEVER UNDERSTAND VIOLENCE...
When Jesus came to earth, He came to people who were oppressed by the Romans yet He taught them to pray forgiveness. He taught them.to love their enemies. He taught them to take the log from their eye so that they can take the speck out of someone else's. Help me understand!
Christian: 🎼What a great name of jesus!
Jeremiah 22:3
A young kid
I am a kid
Pastor Bernard, as a well informed and excellent speaker of the Word of God, you should understand that, it's not "indians" but Native Americans. Don't call Native Americans as Indians and when you do repeatedly, you are propagating erroneous categorization.
Meanwhile, the same people deny the fact that Blacks are the ORIGINAL Native Americans to continue to take credit for their contributions and benefit politically and financially. 🙄🤦🏽♀️
Great book. Unsettling Truths
Call it what it is???i guess thing's has to happen to you before you call it like it is , speak truth to lies
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I’m disappointed on Pastor Bernard😢😔. Is he emplying that the color of the skin was not a factor🤔really🤮🤮🤮
Inocencia Nieves you didn’t watch passed the statement in its context.
Pray for God's kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. Was this gruesome murder really racially motivated? Floyd and Chuvin knew each other. Was there "bad blood" between them? Jesus taught us to love our enemies and to pray for those who do evil to us. Forgive us as we forgive those who have sinned against us.
I think that dynamic will come out at the trial. Among many other things not widely addressed by the Media.
Praying for justice to be done.
I too believe Pastor Bernard should have spoke up sooner. At least denounce the killing of George Floyd. That was human cruelty right in front of our
eyes. Very disappointed.
Can’t wait on this one Pastor!!Had to too respond immediately once you saw the entire video! That man calling on his mama was horrifying! I do appreciate the message though and I like the historical background Pastor AR and Jamal gave!!!