NYC Pastor Demands Reparations, Then Praises God For Paying Our Debt On The Cross

This is an odd one. Pastor Jordan Rice of Harlem's Renaissance Church gives a solid gospel presentation, that Christ has paid for all our sins and we only spoil it if we add anything to that good news. However, that gospel presentation jarringly comes AFTER a demand for racialized, demographic-wide, intergenerational reparations, based on the Mosaic Law's commands that the specific person who commits an offense should pay restitution to the specific victim of that offense (The rest of the sermon does not address any potential objections from Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18, Matthew 18:21-25, Romans 12:19, 1 Corinthians 6:7, or elsewhere). It's like the parable of the unmerciful servant in reverse: "I demand satisfaction for the offenses against my tribe. Now, thanks be to the Almighty, holy God for not demanding satisfaction for our offenses against him." —TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHTS— When my grandmother would give us a card on Christmas or something, her handwriting was like my six-year-old. She was denied the ability to go to school because she had to be in the field picking cotton. And sometimes, in the end of a year, my grandmother and people like my grandmother would work for an entire year and then they would owe at the end of it. In America, we have established systems of oppression which made people like my grandmother suffer the consequences, and generational wealth was built on her back. And what are we to do with this? Should we just say "I'm sorry" and let's move on ? Let's move towards unity? We cannot do that. God requires repayment for every offense. God requires repayment for every single offense. [applause] ... What I hope I don't want anybody to feel right now is condemnation, regardless of what your ancestors have done or what were done to them. The purpose of this is to extract and to highlight this biblical principle that we see all throughout the Bible, because it's gonna make our faith in Jesus make that much more sense, that God requires repayment for every offense. ... God requires from Jordan repayment for every single offense. God requires repayment from you for every single offense. And this is why I think so many people don't understand Christianity. This is why I think so many people don't understand the cross, because we somehow think that God could have just said, "It's all good. I forgive you"...A God who is holy and just will not pretend that these things didn't happen. ... The cross brings together both the seriousness of sin and the love and the power of God. Now, the real beauty of the gospel message is not just in [this sermon's] points one and two, that we have sins that we need to acknowledge or that our sins require a payment, which Jesus paid. The real beauty of the gospel is the third part of reparations, which, one day, I hope Viola Fletcher [a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre] gets to experience. It's closure. Closure. Closure means there is no more outstanding, there's nothing left to be done. This is the good news of the gospel, not that you have to continually feel bad about what you have done, as if what Jesus has done on the cross is not enough. One of my scriptures that I go back to often is when Jesus is on the cross and he says these three words: it is finished. The debt: paid. Therefore, you and I do not have to try to add anything to it. You don't have to try to add a good Tuesday to it, because trying to add something to it takes away the beauty and the value of it. If you get something that's perfect and you try to add something to it, you just make that perfect thing less good. ... One of the things that you'll see at really nice, expensive restaurants is you will never see salt and pepper on the table. You'll never see ketchup, barbecue sauce, A1, nothing. Because when that chef sends it out, it is finished, and you can't add anything to it without taking away from it. He brought out perfection, and if you want to throw some pepper on it, you're going to ruin it in the process. When God gave us Jesus, Jesus on the cross, hanging, he gave us perfection. And you know what? I hope for anyone who has placed their faith in Christ, I actually hope that you rest. I hope that you chill out. I hope that you don't walk around always feelubg like there's a debt that you still have to pay, because Jesus has paid it all when he said it is finished. It is finished. [applause] Source video:    • Exodus: The Case for Reparations (Sunday, ...   WPC on Twitter:   / wokepreachertv   WPC on Facebook:   / wokepreacherclips   WPC on Gab: https://www.gab.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/wokepreacherc... WPC on Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/3TvC...