Bill Sullivan
Sins Of the Fathers
This subject reminds me of an older
black lady a few years ago. She worked for the state finance department, which
was a customer of mine. Much of my work on computerized equipment had to be done
in her office. She would tell me about the positions she held and the things
that she saw involving the top people from the then governor of the state to the
heads of agencies. It was depressing. She would talk about not being able to
wait to get away from those racists. She seemed so racist that one day as I left
out I called her by name and asked the receptionist, if she believed that woman
was a racist. I should have known better, the receptionist was white and I was
putting her on the spot. After the receptionist rambled a few times, avoiding
the question, I said, “I do”. Then the receptionist said, "me too!" All the
whites seemed to love her. They knew, already, what I had to come to understand;
there were things she had experienced that she just could not easily remove out
of her system. She literally worked for Governors and top officials and saw and
heard them say the most depressing things. She saw crooked things they did and
equated the people living now with the ones she knew. That is as it were their
children.
Of course she thought she could say those things around
me, since I was black. She never knew how depressing she was. I remember her
saying I cannot wait to retire and get out from around all these racists. A
couple years later she retired. But apparently she missed them enough to visit
often and they had happy times visiting with her. They did birthday parties and
the like for her. They said, she misses us and we her, in spite of the fact they
all knew the things that were inside of her. I had to smile. I felt the tide had
finally turned, for her, to a great degree. I will say this to all who may
suffer this kind of affliction. God says, "The fathers shall not bear the sins
of their children and neither shall the children bear the sins of their fathers;
everybody shall bear their own sins." Make sure no root of bitterness set you at
odds with God.
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 18
1
¶ The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
2 What
mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The
fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
3 As I live, says the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this
proverb in Israel.
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the
son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
19 Yet say ye, Why? Doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the
son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and
hath done them, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father; neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness
of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be
upon him.
It is time to get it right people. What was done by other people, even our
parents, at another time; does not reflect upon their children today. Stop using
slavery to slam people who never held a slave in their lives, just because they
are white. Or the reverse, God forbid, because they are black you assume all
blacks or nearly all are out to get you because you are white. All races have
held slaves in the past. Blacks held generations of slaves long before Europeans
and Americans. Yet, neither their descendants today nor the descendants of other
races can LOGICALLY be held for what any other person has done.
Now, since the scripture above is saying every body has to die for their OWN
sin, how did Jesus die for the sins of us all? Well God does things in order. I
know the answer to all questions for some is that God can do anything. Yeah, but
there is a problem with that answer, God will not do evil and neither will he
lie. So what God did is what we today would call a legal maneuver. It tricked
Satan, who had legally acquired mankind because Adam and eve was offered a
choice whom to obey and they out of ignorance VIA the Trickery of Satan, chose
Satan. This gave every thing to Satan. Remember that Messiah said that, "To whom
you yield your selves to OBEY, his servants you are, whom you obey." So when
Satan Showed Yeshua (Jesus) all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time
and said, ALL THIS IS GIVEN TO ME. He was not lying. So he offered it to Yeshua
(Jesus) and tried to do to him what he had done to all men. But let us go back
to the beginning.
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