reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

THE LORD HAS SAID THESE WORDS. HOS:4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. MOSES, THE SERVANT OF GOD, MARRIED AN ETHIOPIAN WOMAN. ETHIOPIA IS A BLACK NATION, THEREFORE, THE WOMAN THAT MOSES MARRIED WAS A BLACK WOMAN. AARON, MOSES’ BROTHER, AND MIRIAM, MOSES’ SISTER, SPOKE AGAINST MOSES FOR MARRYING THE ETHIOPIAN WOMAN. FOR THIS CAUSE GOD PLACED LEPROSY, A MOST DREADED DISEASE, UPON MIRIAM. NM:12:1 AND MIRIAM AND AAROM SPAKE AGAINST MOSES BECAUSE OF THE ETHIOPIAN WOMAN WHOM HE HAD MARRIED; FOR HE HAD MARRIED AND ETHIOPIAN WOMAN. 2. AND THEY SAID, HATH THE LORD INDEED SPOKEN ONLY BY MOSES? HATH HE NOT SPOKEN ALSO BY US? 3. ( NOW THE MAN MOSES WAS VERY MEEK, ABOVE ALL THE MEN WHICH WERE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.) 4. AND THE LORD SPAKE SUDDENLY UNTO MOSES, AND UNTO AARON, AND UNTO MIRIAM, COME OUT YE THREE UNTO THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, AND THEY THREE CAME OUT. 5. AND THE LORD CAME DOWN IN THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD, AND STOOD IN THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE, AND CALLED AARON AND MIRIAM; AND THEY BOTH CAME FORTH. 6. AND HE SAID, HEAR NOW MY WORDS: IF THERE BE A PROPHET AMONG YOU, I THE LORD WILL MAKE MYSELF KNOWN UNTO HIM IN A VISION, AND WILL SPEAK UNTO HIM IN A DREAM. 7. MY SERVANT MOSES IS NOT SO, WHO IS FAITHFUL IN ALL MINE HOUSE. 8. WITH HIM WILL I SPEAK MOUTH TO MOUTH, EVEN APPARENTLY, AND NOT IN DARK SPEECHES; AND THE SIMILITUDE OF THE SHALL HE BEHOLD: WHEREFORE THEN WERE YE NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK AGAINST MY SERVANT MOSES? 9. AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST THEM; AND HE DEPARTED. 10. MIRIAM BECAME LEPROUS, WHITE AS SNOW; AND AARON LOOKED UPON MIRIAM, AND BEHOLD, SHE WAS LEPROUS. 11. AND AARON SAID UNTO MOSES, ALAS MY LORD, I BESEECH THEE, LAY NOT THE SIN UPON US, WHEREIN WE HAVE DONE FOOLISHLY, AND WHEREIN WE HAVE SINNED. 12. LET HER NOT BE AS ONE DEAD, OF WHOM THE FLESH IS HALF CONSUMED WHEN HE COMETH OUT OF HIS MOTHER’S WOMB. 13. AND MOSES CRIED UNTO THE LORD, SAYING, HEAL HER NOW, O GOD, I BESEECH THEE. 14. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, IF HER FATHER HAD BUT SPIT IN HER FACE, SHOULD SHE NOT BE ASHAMED SEVEN DAYS? LET HER BE SHUT OUT FROM THE CAMP SEVEN DAYS, AND AFTER THAT LET HER BE RECEIVED IN AGAIN. I BELIEVE THAT THE THINGS THAT WERE WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR ADMONISHMENT. GOD PUT LEPROSY ON MIRIAM FOR SPEAKING AGAINST THE INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE OF MOSES, AND THE ETHIOPIAN WOMAN. STOP AND THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK AGAINST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES. 1COR:10:9 NEITHER LET US TEMPT CHRIST, AS SOME OF THEM ALSO TEMPTED, AND WERE DESTROYED OF SERPENTS. 10. NEITHER MURMUR YE, AS SOME OF THEM ALSO MURMURED, AND WERE DESTROYED OF HE DESTROYER. 11. NOW ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED UNTO THEM FOR ENSAMPLES; AND THEY ARE WRITTEN FOR OUR ADMONITION, UPON WHOM THE ENDS OF THE WORLD ARE COME. GOD IS LOVE, BECAUSE GOD LIVES WITHIN US WE ARE FILLED WITH LOVE. WHEN WE AS CHRISTIANS LOVE PEOPLE WE ARE NOT TO THINK EVIL OF THEM, NEITHER ARE WE TO SPEAK EVIL OF THEM. 1 COR:13:4 CHARITY SUFFERETHH LONG, AND IS KIND; CHARITY ENVIETH NOT; CHARITY VAUNTETH NOT ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP, 5. DOTH NOT BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY, SEEKETH NOT HER OWN, IS NOT EASILY PROVOKED, THINKETH NO EVIL. TI:3:1 PUT THEM IN MIND TO BE SUBJECT TO PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, TO OBEY MAGISTRATES, TO BE READY TO EVERY GOOD WORK, 2. TO SPEAK EVIL OF NO MAN, TO BE NO BRAWLERS, BUT GENTLE, SHEWING ALL MEEKNESS UNTO ALL MEN. AT THE TIME THAT MOSES MARRIED THE ETHIOPIAN WOMAN THERE WAS NO LAW AGAINST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES. LATER GOD GAVE MOSES A COMMANDMENT AGAINST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES. DT:7:1 WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND WHITHER THOU GOEST TO POSSESS IT, AND HATH CAST OUT MANY NATIONS BEFORE THEE, THE HITTITES, AND THE GIRGASHITES, AND THE AMORITES, AND THE CANAANITES, AND THE PERIZZITES, AND THE HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, SEVEN NATIONS GREATER AND MIGHTIER THAN THOU. 2. AND WHEN THE LORD THEY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEM BEFORE THEE; THOU SHALT SMITE THEM, AND UTTERLY DESTROY THEM; THOU SHALT MAKE NO COVENANT WITH THEM, NOR SHEW MERCY UNTO THEM; 3. NEITHER SHALT THOU MAKE MARIAGES WITH THEM; THY DAUGHTER THOU SHALT NOT GIVE UNTO HIS SON, NOR HIS DAUGHTER SHALT THOU TAKE UNTO THY SON. MARRIAGE IS A SACRAMENT, A SACRAMENT IS A RITUAL INSTITUTED OF GOD, AS A OUTWARD, AND VISIBLE SIGN OF AN INWARD AND SPIRITUAL GRACE. MARRIAGE IS THE MEANS BY WHICH GOD HAS CHOSEN TO REPLENISH THE EARTH. WHEN A MAN OF GOD COMES WITH THE INTENT TO PERFORM A WEDDING. WHEN THE MAN AND WOMAN TAKE THEIR VOWS, THEY PROMISE GOD THAT DWELLS WITHIN THE MAN OF GOD THAT THEY WILL LOVE, AND HONOR, AND CHERISH ONE AND OTHER TILL DEATH DO THEY PART. IT IS GOD THAT JOINTS THE MAN AND WOMAN TOGETHER IN HOLY WEDLOCK. MT:19:6: WHEREFORE THEY ARE NO MORE TWAIN, BUT ONE FLESH. WHAT THEREFORE GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER, LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER. HEB:13:4. MARRIAGE IS HONOURABLE IN ALL, AND THE BED UNDEFILED; BUT WHOREMONGERS AND ADULTERERS GOD WILL JUDGE. IF A JUSTICE OF PEACE, OR A SHIP’S CAPTAIN PERFORMS THE WEDDING THEN I BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE STATE THAT JOINTS THEM TOGETHER. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING; HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. WHEN A PERSON PARTAKES OF A SACRAMENT IT IS A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE. SHOULD A JEWISH PERSON, AT THIS PRESENT TIME, MARRY OUTSIDE OF THE JEWISH RACE? NO, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE GOD’S WILL. BUT THE QUESTION MUST ARISE, WHO IS THE TRUE JEW? WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, THAT HAS BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST ARE THE TRUE JEW. THE TRUE JEW MAY BE WHITE, BLACK, RED, OR YELLOW SKIN., IF THE ELECT ARE ALIVE SPIRITUALLY IN CHRIST THEY ARE JEWISH. SAINTS ARE TO MARRY ONLY THOSE THAT ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. CHRISTIANS ARE TO ONLY MARRY CHRISTIANS ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. ROM:2:28 FOR HE IS NOT A JEW, WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY; NETIHER IS THAT CIRCUMCISION, WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE FLESH. 29. BUT HE IS A JEW, WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT OF MEN, BUT OF GOD. WHEN WE, THE PREDESTINATED ARE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, WE PUT ON CHRIST. AND WHEN WE RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST WE ARE ABRAHAM’S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. 28. THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, THERE IS NEITHER BOND NOR FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE; FOR YE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. 29. AND IF YE BE CHRIST’S THEN ARE YE ABRAHAN’S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE. BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM, WHEN A PERSON IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, HE IS ALIVE PHYSICALLY BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS DEAD. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THAT IS THROUGH THE WATER. JN:3:5 JESUS ANSWERED, VERY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. NOT ONLY ARE THE ELECT OF GOD DEAD WHEN THEY ARE BORN INTO THE WORLD, BUT THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY UNCLEAN. WHEN WE ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE, AND BAPTIZED OUT OF THE WORLD, AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST; WE ARE ALIVE BOTH PHYSICALLY, AND SPIRITUALLY AND IN A SANCTIFIED CONDITION. BUT THE CHILDREN OF SATAN; THE ATHEIST, THE AGNOSTIC, THE DOUBTER, THE SKEPTIC, THE UNBELIEVER, ARE NEVER CALLED TO REPENTANCE, NEITHER DO THEY RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY UNCLEAN. 2COR:6:14 BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS : FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HATH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WHAT COMMUNION HATH LIGHT WITH DARKNESS ? 15. AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? OR WHAT PART HATH HE THAT BELIEVETH WITH AN INFIDEL? 16. AND WHAT AGREEMENT HATH THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? FOR YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD; AS GOD HATH SAID, I WILL DWELL IN THEM, AND WALK IN THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. 17. WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD, AND TOUCH NOT THE UINCLEAN THING; AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU, 18. AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY. ALL MANKIND WERE MADE UNCLEAN BY THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM. SIN COMES IN TWO COLORS SCARLET, AND CRIMSON. SCARLET IS A RED WITH A ORANGE TINT, CRIMSON IS A RED WITH A PURPLE TINT. WHEN GOD LOOKS AT PEOPLE IN SIN THEY ARE EITHER SCARLET OR CRIMSON. IS;1:18 COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD; THOUGH YOUR SINS BE SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE RED LIKE CRIMSON, THAT SHALL BE AS WOOL. WHEN THE ELECT OF GOD ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE, AND BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THE WATER OF OUR BAPTISM WASHES OUR SINS AWAY AND WE COME INTO THE PROMISE THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. ACTS:2:38 THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. IF, WE, THE SAINTS OF GOD, MARRY THOSE PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF CHRIST, WE SHALL NOT SANCTIFY THEM. THEY WILL DEFILE US, IF THAT WHICH IS HOLY TOUCHES THAT WHICH IS UNCLEAN, THE CLEAN SHALL BE MADE UNCLEAN. HG:2:11 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; ASK NOW THE PRIESTS CONCERNING THE LAW, SAYING 12. IF ONE BEAR HOLY FLESH IN THE SKIRT OF HIS GARMENT, AND WITH HIS SKIRT DO TOUCH BREAD, OR POTTAGE, OR WINE, OR OIL, OR ANY MEAT, SHALL IT BE HOLY? AND THE PRIESTS ANSWERED AND SAID, NO. 13. THEN SAID HAGGAI, IF ONE THAT IS UNCLEAN BY A DEAD BODY TOUCH ANY OF THESE SHALL IT BE UNCLEAN? AND THE PRIESTS ANSWERED AND SAID, IT SHALL BE UNCLEAN. 14. THEN ANSWERED HAGGAI, AND SAID, SO IS THIS PEOPLE, AND SO IS THIS NATION BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD ; AND SO IS EVERY WORK OF THEIR HANDS; AND THAT WHICH THEY OFFER THERE IS UNCLEAN. JESUS SAID THESE WORDS TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL. MT:21:43 THEREFORE SAY I UNTO YOU, THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHALL BE TAKEN FROM YOU, AND GIVEN TO A NATION BRINGING FORTH THE FRUITS THEREOF. WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD? THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS RIGHTEOUSNESS PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST IS A JEW ON HIS MOTHER’S SIDE WHEN WE ARE BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST, WE BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST WHICH MAKES US JEWISH. BECAUSE OF OUR SPIRITUAL UNION WITH HIM; AND MAKES US CITIZENS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ROM:14:17 FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK; BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE NOT TO CIRCUMCISE OURSELVES FOR WE HAVE A CIRCUMCISION NOT MADE WITH HANDS. THE CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY, COUNTS FOR OUR CIRCUMCISION. COL:2:11 IN WHOM ALSO YE ARE CIRCUMCISED WITH THE CIRCUMCISION MADE WITHOUT HANDS, IN PUTTING OFF THE BODY OF THE SINS OF THE FLESH BY THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT WE ARE FORBIDDEN, AS TRUE JEWS, TO MARRY. WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO MARRY THOSE THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1 COR:7:39 THE WIFE IS BOUND BY THE LAW AS LONG AS HER HUSBAND LIVETH; BUT IF HER HUSBANFD BE DEAD, SHE IS AT LIBERTY TO BE MARRIED TO WHOM SHE WILL; ONLY IN THE LORD. WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO MARRY A WOMAN THAT HAS A LIVING HUSBAND. ROM:7:1 KNOW YE NOT, BRETHREN, ( FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW THE LAW,) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH; 2. FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND. 3. SO THEN IF, WHILE HER HUSBAND LIVETH, SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN, SHE SHALL BE CALLED AN ADULTERESS; BUT IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW; SO THAT SHE IS NO ADULTERESS, THOUGH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN. IF A MAN PUTS AWAY HIS WIFE FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN FORNICATION, HE IS FORBIDDEN, BY THE LAWS OF GOD, TO MARRY AS LONG AS HIS WIFE LIVES. MT:19:9 AND I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, EXCEPT IT BE FOR FORNICATION, AND SHALL MARRY ANOTHER, COMMITTETH ADULTERY; AND WHOSO MARRIETH HER WHICH IS PUT AWAY DOTH COMMIT ADULTERY. IF A WOMAN HAS BEEN PUT AWAY, DIVORCED, AND SHE GOES AND BECOMES ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE. IF HER HUSBAND DIES THE FIRST HUSBAND, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES, IS FORBIDDEN TO TAKE HER AGAIN TO HIMSELF. THESE SCRIPTURES ARE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND WE AS SAINTS OF GOD ARE NOT UNDER THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT LOOK THESE SCRIPTURES OVER. DT:24:1 WHEN A MAN HATH TAKEN A WIFE, AND MARRIED HER, AND IT COME TO PASS THAT SHE FIND NO FAVOUR IN HIS EYES, BECAUSE HE HATH FOUND SOME UNCLEANNESS IN HER; THEN LET HIM WRITE HER A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT, AND GIVE IT IN HER HAND, AND SEND HER OUT OF HIS HOUSE. 2. AND WHEN SHE IS DEPARTED OUT OF HIS HOUSE, SHE MAY GO AND BE ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE. 3. AND IF THE LATTER HUSBAND HATE HER, AND WRITE HER A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT, AND GIVETH IT IN HER HAND, AND SENDETH HER OUT OF HIS HOUSE; OR IF THE LATTER HUSBAND DIE, WHICH TOOK HER TO BE HIS WIFE; HER FORMER HUSBAND WHICH SENT HER AWAY, MAY NOT TAKE HER AGAIN TO BE HIS WIFE, AFTER THAT SHE IS DEFILED; FOR THAT IS ABOMINATION BEFORE THE LORD; AND THOU SHALT NOT CAUSE THE LAND TO SIN, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE FOR AN INHERITANCE.