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- Inspiration Read Ephesians 2:11-22
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- Prejudice and the Gospel
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- He...has broken down the middle wall of division between us. Eph.
- 2:14
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- Can the Gospel really dissolve deep- seated prejudices that have
- been hardened by centuries of hatred and strife? The experience of
- Yishael Allon of West Valley City, Utah, gives the answer. Yishael is
- Jewish. About 17 years ago, he met his cousin's wife Sandy, who was
- dying of leukemia. Peace filled her heart and love radiated from her
- life that gave her a"special glow." "She was the first real Christian I
- had ever met, "writes Yishael. "She was different. I would question
- her, and all she'd talk about was Jesus." In 1980, Yishael heard the
- Gospel on the radio and received a Bible. As he read Isaiah 53, the
- Holy Spirit convinced him that the prophet was speaking about Jesus
- - the same Jesus that Sandy knew. Yishael recalls, "I believed on the
- Lord Jesus and became a 'complete Jew'".Now here's the answer to the
- question of prejudice. Yishael says, " A year and a half later, the
- Lord gave me His love for my enemies - the PLO who murdered 37 of my
- friends."
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- I'm sure there are Christian Arabs who have found that same power to
- accept Jews who have mistreated them. The Gospel has broken down
- barriers between blacks and whites who know Christ, as well as between
- peoples of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. The apostle Paul said
- that through Jesus' death for our sins, " the middle wall of division"
- between Jews and Gentiles was broken down - and that goes for racial
- barriers of all kinds.
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- If prejudice still lingers in our hearts, we have not yet felt the
- full power of the Gospel. -D.J.D.
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- God's love that drew salvation's plan Embraces every class of man;
- It breaks the toughest racial wall Because it offers Christ to all.
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- ONLY A NEW LOVE CAN DESTROY AN OLD PREJUDICE....
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