Jesus predicts that conflict between different groups of people would only get worse as we approach the end of time. This message is part testimony and part statement of the state of race and racism in the world and church and how the speaker was delivered from false doctrine attached to racial pride.

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<p>Jesus predicts that conflict between different groups of people would only get worse as we approach the end of time. This message is part testimony and part statement of the state of race and racism in the world and church and how the speaker was delivered from false doctrine attached to racial pride.</p>

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ASI Southwest

Eric Walsh

Are We Forsaken? Racism and the Remnant

Our message tonight is entitled are we forsaken?

We thank you for this opportunity to study a word To fellowship and worship on this your holy sabbath day Once again, Lord, I ask that you take this rusty sorry nail Lord Hammer it into the wall with your Holy Spirit Then father God on that rusty nail.

I ask that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ So that Eric Walsh is not seen tonight instead father.

Let us hear a word from the throne room of grace As our prayer in Jesus is precious and holy name Amen 1 of the things I like about conferences like ASI is that We can dive into very difficult topics.

I was very blessed by the presentation earlier today before supper and I was thinking, these are heavy topics gonna be happening all the way through.

I'll start by telling you a story and I think you'll see where I'm going and I ask you to stay on board This is where we're going somewhere tonight and It won't be comfortable, but I think in the end you'll see that it's valuable When I was about 12 years old, my mother, let me preface that, my mother was a single mother.

My father left my mother when I was about 2 years of age and married my mother's second cousin.

And So my mother raised 3 boys by herself.

There were many who thought for sure we would grow up to be gangsters or criminals.

But there were 2 things in our favor, at least 2 things.

1 was the fact that my mother, although small, was quite strong.

And the other was that we were members of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

Well, I can only try to imagine what it would have been like for my mother to raise the 3 of us by herself.

And so almost every summer we were sent down south.

I grew up in Connecticut in a town called Bloomfield and we would be shipped down to a town in southern Dade County, Florida called Homestead, Florida.

This at the time was country, especially to us coming from up north.

And I can only imagine it was a great relief for my mother to get rid of us every summer.

But we got to stay with my grandmother and my aunts and it was an amazing experience.

1 summer when I was staying with my Aunt Doreen, I had an incredible life-changing experience.

My cousin Michael wanted us to go to a party at the National Guard Armory.

Up north they didn't have parties at armories but in the south they do.

We told his mother we'd be back at a certain time.

Now, what I realized when you go down south is that people, at least at the time, they don't just walk places.

So my cousin was like, okay, we're going to run home.

And I was like, well, what are we running from?

Is there a reason we're just going to run for no reason?

That's why so many great athletes come out of the South.

And when I couldn't keep up, he would grab my T-shirt And he would pull so that I stayed with him.

And actually sometimes I would let go and let him pull me.

As we were coming down 1 of the main roads, 1 of the main intersections, there was what was the equivalent of a 7-Eleven.

And an African-American family in 1 of those old giant Oldsmobile Impala type cars Basically, they were like floating boats back then some of you guys remember those and and and they it pulled up into this corner store and the father jumped out left the wife and the kids in the car jumped out ran into the store to get something while he was there a pickup truck pulls up a Young white man probably in his late 20s early 30s pulls out a bottle with a wick, lights it, throws it under the car, and boom.

They call those Milotov cocktails, I believe.

There was a huge explosion under the car.

The father comes running out of the store to chase the pickup truck and starts running and realizes that behind him his family may be about to blow up.

So he turns around and runs out, gets everybody out of the car safe.

Now, we're running down the street watching this happen.

Now, My cousin didn't have to hold on to my shirt much longer.

I don't know where the energy came from, but I was moving.

In Connecticut, my friends were Polish, Irish.

In fact, white people weren't even white when I was growing up.

They were Polish, Irish, they were Italian.

I mean, We had 1 Mexican kid that went to school with us and he always beat all of us at soccer and I never understood why until I moved to California.

But when I went down south, it was different at the time.

A few years later, we moved from Connecticut to South Florida, to Miami.

And my mother made sure we were going to 1 of the best high schools.

To this day, the high school I attended was 1 of the top 50 high schools in the United States.

The first day I went to the high school, I walked into the bathroom and someone had climbed up on the sink and drawn with a Sharpie the picture of an ape on the wall.

They put a noose around the ape's neck on the drawing and at the bottom it said, N-words, go back to Africa.

That was my first day of school in the 10th grade having shifted from the north to the south.

And let me tell you something, hatred, like violence, I talked about violence last night being a contagion.

Many people when they experience things like this retaliate by developing the very sentiment that damaged them in the first place.

And as we go through this talk, you'll see how God led me through this.

But I want you to understand it was damaging.

I began to study and read the autobiography of Malcolm X and I started to study different things.

I was angry at the Seventh-day Adventist church because the church didn't seem to have any rebuttal, any defense for what I was experiencing in high school and on the streets.

I tell people all the time, if I had $5 for every time in high school, I was Carly Enward.

I could have paid for Oakwood cash It was a horrible difficult emotionally scarring experience And I was in the church, but I was troubled.

In the Bible, there are stories that kind of help you understand what happens to people when this happens.

1 of them is in the book of Judges, the sixth chapter.

And again, I know this is difficult, but follow me.

You got to stay with me the whole ride here.

Judges 6 and verse 1 says, and the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian 7 years.

And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strongholds.

And so it was when Israel had sown that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them.

And they encamped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth till thou come unto Gaza and left no sustenance for Israel neither sheep nor ox nor ass for they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude, for both they and their camels were without number.

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