The Eternal Fatherhood of God
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You know, racism is so ignorant because people don’t know what they are. Hating someone
because of a skin tone is hating yourself. A person is probably 30 percent of whatever they hate,
and they don’t have sense enough to know it.
What is complexion or skin tone? Skin tone doesn’t make a man or a woman any more than hair
color or eye color. There are good white folks and sorry white folks. There are good black folks
and sorry black folks. But the sorry black folks and the sorry white folks can get saved and
become good, right? What I’m saying is we’re all so mixed up, you don’t know what you are.
The good thing about it when you get born again is that your genealogy is easy to trace. I am
born of God. Who is your Daddy? God. What color is He? Fire. He’s fire-colored—I guess that
would be every color. Have you ever looked at fire? It is every color, right? He’s fire colored.
If you’ve been born again, all the racism should be out the window, because you, through your
faith in Jesus, are Abraham’s seed. Abraham is our father in the faith. All of us—no matter what
language, what color, or what background—are the same, and we are joint heirs with Jesus.
In 4:1, he said that “…the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though
he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so
we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.”
You know, until we grow up and develop spiritually, there are all kinds of things you and I won’t
get to operate in or enjoy. Athletes, specifically people who are at the top of their game in
basketball, baseball, or football, could not play like they play now when they were three years
old. They couldn’t do that when they were five or even ten. But they grew, developed, and
reached their full potential physically, and now they can do exploits that they could not have
even approached doing.
The same thing is true with us spiritually. When we grow up, we’ll be privy to things we didn’t
have a clue about. God will share things with us. There are some things you just cannot explain
to three-year-olds. They just wouldn’t understand if you told them. They have to grow up.
He went on to say in verse 6, “And because ye are sons,” we are sons, “God hath sent forth the
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” In Romans, the Bible says we have
received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry “Abba.” (8:15) Abba is like one of the first
words that a little child would say. We’d probably think today, “Dada.” So, depending on the
language, it’s the first reference to “Dada” that a little one would make. And the Spirit of God is
that Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of adoption. He’s the Spirit who makes you feel like you
belong, and you will see that where the Holy Spirit is really in manifestation, you don’t feel
excluded. He makes you feel like you belong, if you’ll yield to Him.
Now if you want to be rebellious, you’re going to stay by yourself, and you’re going to be lonely
because the scripture says that. The Psalmist said that the Lord makes the solitary to dwell in
families, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. (Psalm 68:6) Rebellious people are going to be
lonely people, and it’s not going to change until they change. Rebellious people are people who
won’t listen, who can’t be told anything. Nothing is ever good enough for them. They can never
find the right church. In every church, there are too many hypocrites, and it’s too unspiritual.
