Pericope: Gen 1: 26- 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Sermon Text: Gen 1: 27a So God created mankind in his own image...
Sermon Title: Men Matter, Black Men Matter Too
Point 1: God made man and gave him Power. Vs 1: 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over … every living creature that moves on the ground.” Quite often we see
Point 2: God made man and put him in a Place. Vs 2: 11, 15.
11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 15 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Genesis 10:7 - 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 2:11 - 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Point 3: God made man and gave him a Purpose. Vs 2: 19-20 19 … He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; … So the man gave names to all…
2:18 and 20 - 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. .
Point 4: God made man and gave him a Position. Gen 2:22 …God made a woman…he brought her to the man.
From slavery to now Satan with the help of society has tried to move man out of position and black men in particular.
· Slavery
o Not allowed to have a family
o Bred to have chattel
o Denied the place of protector provider progenitor
o Manifest destiny
· Post Slavery
o Vagrancy laws passed
o Jim Crow codified 1896 Supreme Court until 1956 Brown versus Topeka KS
o 101 out of 120 Southern Congressman manifesto
o GI Bill – Red Lining FHA
§ no home ownership no equity
o War on drugs
§ Incarceration ($17B cost for housing - $19B prisons)
· 25 years $350K - $2.3M
· Move than apartheid in South Africa
· 1 out of 14 Black men – 1 out of 106
· DA prosecutors 2nd offense drug
· Offense 1% whites 16% blacks
· Philando Castille stopped 49 times in 13 years
1. Take a seat in heavenly places Ephesians 2:6 - and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
2. Strive not only to be the exception but change the laws policies and rules that authorized this system
3. Embrace your power, place, purpose and position
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