Repentance You Can Count On
by Pastor Mark Downey
March 30, 2014
Scripture Reading: Matthew 4:12-17
When Jesus launched His ministry, in what would become a three year exhortation to our race exclusively, the first thing He declared was repentance. Of all the things He could have said as the opening salvo (because it was spiritual warfare), He choose something the people really didn't want to hear, even though it had a lot to do with deliverance. They envisioned a Deliverer who would come to destroy the Romans. Their Great White Hope would have said, “Come follow me, and we shall slice the Legions to ribbons.” I hope you got the gist of the title i.e. the similarity between repentance and change. When America's first black dictator made the campaign promise for “change you can count on,” the voters didn't think he meant a Marxist change agent who was seriously going to instigate the redistribution of wealth by changing the very concept of American law to a plethora of executive orders and a pathway to antichrist totalitarianism. Obama cares? Since 2009 there has been a trance formation of America violating Deut. 17:15. It's a negro world (an Obamanation) brought to you courtesy of the White man's sins. The success of multicultural hegemony has literally put the mutts in charge; they have become the head, and we have become the tail. This major invasive surgery on the body politic has been an exquisite operation. Almost insurmountable in correcting the capsized ship of state; a ship that only leaks from the top. If you think black churches preach repentance, you're dreaming the same dream as M.L. King, which has become the White man's nightmare. If you think catholics are going to repent of their Pope shaking hands with Obama this week (3-27-14), then we'll have to reinvent the meaning of repentance.
But, there is a glimmer of hope. And I mean more than just a cliché of the darkest hour just before the dawn. “The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus” Phil. 4:7. Our predicament in life depends on our perspective. Is the glass half full or half empty? If you don't understand how something can rise from the lowest ebb of despair to the highest pinnacle of optimism permeating reality, then you need to change.