The Worth of a Soul*

The world today does not value, or even consider the value of the human soul, or the human being created in the image of God. The world also doesn't value the redemption of the soul, accomplished by Christ, in those who have believed and received Him. When the religious experts tempted and challenged Jesus to show them a sign from heaven, He told them that they were unable to discern the most obvious spiritual signs. He said, "O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?...A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas (Jonah)." (Mt. 16:1-4). By referring to the sign of Jonas, Jesus was referring to His resurrection, in the same manner that Jonah was delivered from the bonds of death in the belly of the great fish. Not only is the resurrection of Christ a miraculous deliverance that rescues all who believe in Him from death, but it is a sign pointing man to the worth of a human soul to God. The Shroud of Turin, evidence of the resurrection, is an enduring statement to man of what it cost Jesus to redeem the soul of each one of us. However, as Isaiah asked, "Who will believe our report...?", the Shroud is often viewed with skepticism and rejection. Jesus asked His disciples, "Whom do men say that I am?". Men could not discern Him, and believed that Jesus was a prophet, and even John the Baptist returned to life (v. 13-14). Then He asked His disciples whom they say that He is. Peter answered, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." (v. 15-16). Jesus told Peter that this is a revelation that he did not receive from men, but from the Father in heaven. This is how Jesus is discerned, and this revelation is the rock that forms the foundation of the Christian faith, and upon which the church is built. Built in this revelation, not even the devil and all hell can prevail against the church (v. 17-18). Not only does this revelation from the Father build the church of believers, but to these believers, Jesus gives the authority of the keys of the kingdom of heaven. He told His disciples to tell no one what He had told them, because these things are revealed by the Father. Later, as Jesus revealed that He would suffer and die in Jerusalem, Peter tried to rebuke Him for saying such a thing. Jesus told Peter that he was not treasuring the revelation of heaven that Jesus was speaking, but rather the understanding of men. This Jesus found to be offensive, and He identified it as the work and spirit of Satan (v. 21-23). Man cannot discern the worth of his own soul by his understanding. It is received by revelation. Jesus said that it is more important to lose one's self and life and gain one's soul by taking each taking up our cross, and following after Him: "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (v. 24-26). The soul is infinitely valuable - more than attaining the whole world, though men throughout history have spent their lives trying to attain the things of the world. When the Son of Man returns, He will reward those who walked, and whose lives were led, in this revelation (v. 27). An additional thought from Jesus is recorded in the Gospel of Mark regarding this: "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." (Mk. 8:36-38). Can our present generation be described as anything other than adulterous and sinful? Has the Church, instead of being the rock of revelation truth, been ashamed of the Words of Jesus? The Church has compromised and taught that sin is acceptable and tolerable, therefore not teaching the worth of a soul. The Lord said that the lawless and those who do iniquity would be gathered by the angels, and thrown into the fire, and have great suffering. Those who were righteous, however, would shine in the kingdom of the Father. He concluded by saying, "Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." (Mt. 13:41-43). Not all have ears to hear, as we will see. In parables, Jesus compared the kingdom of God as something so valuable and worthy to attain that a man would sell everything he has in order to acquire it. Have we sold out all to attain the most worthy and precious thing in the world - the kingdom of God? Earlier, Jesus was asked by His disciples why He spoke in parables. He told them that it fulfilled what Isaiah wrote (see Isa. 6). It was for His disciples only to "know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them (other hearers) it is not given...Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand...For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." (Mt. 13:9-15). "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables...That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." (Mt. 13:34-35). The mystery from before the foundation of the world is the Lamb slain (see Rev. 13:8). It is the mystery hidden in the Hebrew language used in Gen. 1:1: "In the beginning, God...". The expression "In the beginning" is bareshiet in Hebrew. The individual pictographic Hebrew letters in this word also form a meaning: "The Son of God crushed, His hand on the cross". This is an indictment of their time, and our time: people do not want to hear, and the foolish crowd does not understand the worth of a soul, their soul, to God. Many in Church do not want to hear of miracles, but the redemption of a human soul from death and hell is the greatest miracle of all. Jesus said that He spoke in parables as Isaiah prophesied (Isa. 6:8-10). Isaiah asked the LORD, "How long?" would this continue? The LORD answered, "Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate...and there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return...". (v. 11-13). Israel had been left desolate, and had ceased to be a nation, but in our time, the nation and the languge was restored, and the people began to return. God's people were instructed, "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the word of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us." (Ps. 78:1-3). God commands His people to hear His words. Paul, in the Book of Romans, says of Jesus: "...declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead..." (Rom. 1:1-4). Paul continued to write that this is the Gospel that he came to Rome to preach, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith..." (v. 15-17). For those who will understand the worth of a soul, we preach the Gospel without compromise, and without shame or partiality. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who restrain the truth in unrighteousness (v. 18). It is not a matter of ignorance, but deliberate choice made by men to restrain the truth of God regarding the worth and provision that He has made for the human soul. God, although He is invisible, has made Himself evident, and can be seen, in the visible things that He has made. There is no excuse for those who know of God because of this, but do not glorify or thank Him. Their hearts have become darkened as a result (Rom. 1:18-21). We see this darkening of hearts in the world today. While many in and out of the Church suffer divisions and debates over doctrines, accepting false doctrines to please their own flesh, and to deceive others, it is the obedience of the hearts of those who keep the truth concerning the worth of a soul that causes the God of peace to bruise Satan under our feet (Rom. 16:17-20). Do you know the worth of a soul? *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 2/20/2022 message to the church. To contact us, submit a prayer request, give a praise report, or to support this ministry: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and endtimeschool.com.

Follow After HIS Heart*

This weekend we will see the Super Bowl, and then Valentine's Day coming right afterward. Many love football and wait all year for the Super Bowl to be played. Many love the idea of Valentine's Day, and its romantic theme. The first mention of "love" in the Bible comes in Gen. 27:3-4. Isaac tells his son, Esau, to go hunt some venison, "And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die." As we can see, love can be for anything. Scripture says, for example, that the love of money is the root of all evil. Rather than what the world loves, however, we will read about how God views and lives love, and the wonderful work He did for us through that love: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." (1 Jn. 4:7-11). John also wrote that because God lives in us, His love is perfected in us. He dwells in us, and we in Him because He has given us His Spirit. It is because of this presence and perfecting of His love and Spirit in us, we can face His judgment, not in fear, but in boldness. In that love of God, and His dwelling in us, we are assured that "As He is, so are we in this world." (v. 13-17). We can confess Jesus Christ as the Son of God only because our God, who is love, dwells in us (v. 15-16). Because of this same love that dwells in us, we must love our brother. If we claim to love God, but we hate our brother, we are a liar (v. 20-21). In the world today, there is ethnic and racial hatred, even among those who claim to know Christ. This is not the love of God in us. This is how we know that the love of God is in us: "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous...whosoever keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him." (1 Jn. 5:2-3, 2:5). What does the Word of God command us? Jesus, when asked by one of those questioning Him, 'What is the first commandment?', answered, "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." (Mk. 12:28-31). The two greatest commandments are built upon love. We don't see a lot of love for God or for our neighbor today. Again here we see the necessary connection between the Holy Spirit in us, and the operation of love: "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly...But God commanded his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Rom. 5:5-6). God loved the unlovable enough to die in our place. This was the beginning of salvation. Do we love the unlovable in the same manner? There are those who in near death experiences have seen and experienced hell, but they were brought back by God and given a second chance. We were already walking in the death of trespasses and sin, according to the ways of the world, which is ruled by the prince of the power of the air (Satan). We lived by the lusts of our flesh and of the mind, being children of wrath and disobedience. However "...God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened (meaning made alive) us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus..." (Eph. 2:1-6). It is already done! And it was done for us through the salvation work of His love. We were dead and condemned in our sins, submitted to Satan's rule, but now we are made alive, and seated in heaven in Christ. There is a spiritual Super Bowl between the power of darkness, and the Kingdom of Heaven, but God has already won that battle for our souls, and He did it with love - not just love, but great love. Valentine's Day is represented by red hearts, but the Prophet Jeremiah said that the heart is deceitful above all things. However, there is a heart that represents the love of God in us. God called David, "a man after My own heart". This is the kind of heart that stands before God forever. What kind of heart did David have that God recognized as His own heart? David had a heart that loved God above all else. When he sinned, David turned to God praying that God would cleanse him, restore him, and renew a right spirit within him. He prayed that God would not take His Holy Spirit away from David (see Psalm 51). David said that the sacrifices that God is looking for in him, and in us, are "a broken spirit, and a broken and a contrite heart". A heart that loves God, and has God's love in it, is a heart of repentance (see also 2 Chron. 7:14). Repentance and prayer, not violence as we see today even among believers, will cause God to hear us and heal our land. David also said that his lips, tongue and mouth show forth God's praise and righteousness (v. 14-15). Are these the things coming from our mouths? What is our conversation and behavior like? Is the love of God in them? James wrote that God begat us with His Word of truth, so that we would be a kind of firstfruits among His creation. Because of this: "...let every man be swift to hear, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and... naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves...But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein...being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." (James Ch. 1). As the world waits for and follows after the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day, which are carnal, we follow after God's own heart of love. *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 2/13/2022 message to the church. To contact us, submit a prayer request, give a praise report, or to support this ministry: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and endtimeschool.com.

Light Be!*

The first thing that God created in Genesis was light, and He created it by command of His Word: "And God said, Let there be (meaning "to become, become like, come into being") light: and there was light.And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Geb. 1:3-5). On the sixth day of creation, God created man. He created man in His own image: "So God created man in His own image...male and female created he them. So God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over...every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (see Gen. 1:26-28). We can note that when God instructed the man created in His image to "replenish" the earth, it must mean that the earth had been filled previously. Jesus also discussed His identity as Light:"...I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (Jn. 8:12). Jesus was saying that if we have Him, we hve light. There are those who call themselves Christians, but their acts are acts of darkness. Many involved in the Capitol riot of Jan. 6th carried Christian flags, and called on the name of Jesus. At the same time, policemen were assaulted with those flags, and death threats were shouted against the politicians inside the Capitol building, including the Vice-President. As we saw in Genesis 1, a division was set between Night (darkness) and Day (light). Jesus remarked upon that division: "I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." (Jn. 9:4-5). The night is coming when no man can work. Jesus also said, "And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." Once we believe on Jesus, the Light, we should not be remaining in darkness. This is a turning of the Church out of their doctrines and traditions to what the Word of God says instead. We should no longer abide in darkness. Where are you abiding? After His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus spoke to His disciples about being salt and light. As He told them "Ye are the salt of the earth...", Jesus also warned that if the salt has lost its savor, and no longer contributes as a preservative, it then becomes good for nothing, and thrown away. It is the same with us being light. Jesus said: "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Mt. 5:13-16). As the light of the world, we are expected to be light, not just for ourselves, but to the whole house, to all the earth. Jesus inc;udes in His teaching our mistreatment and unjust anger and judgment towards one another. Those who do so are in danger of judgment themselves and possibly hellfire (v. 22). As we will see, love towards others is connected to being light: "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." (Eph. 5:1-2). Paul also wrote to avoid partaking in the works of darkness, or with the people who practice them: fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolish talking, idolatry. These things are subject to the wrath of God (v. 4-5). "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light." (v. 6-8). We are called to be as one who worships the Lamb, who is the Light of heaven, not needing any natural source of light, where there is no darkness nor night (Rev. 21:22, 22:1-5). The Apostle Peter also wrote to call us to lay aside the habits of those in darkness, malice, hypocrisy and evil speaking. We are a spiritual house in which we offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God, and as babes who have been nourished and raised on the Word of God. (1 Pet. 2:1-5). Rather than being like those who are disobedient, and disregarding of the sacrifice and authority of Christ, "...ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy (v. 9-10). These things are not a suggestion, but a command of God. From the beginning, God has wanted His people to live, not by laws written on stone, but with His Word and His ways written in our hearts. John wrote that we are to try or test the spirits whether they are of God. Many false prophets are in the world (1 Jn. 4:1). The true Spirit of God confesses the Lordship of Jesus Christ, sent by God and having come in the flesh. Because we are of God, John wrote, we have overcome the world, and the spirit of antichrist already in the world, which denies Christ: "...because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world." (v. 2-6). As we saw above the connection of our being light and loving others, John also wrote of the importance of love: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love...Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another...God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.(v. 7-17, excerpt). Again, John wrote as Paul did above, that if we hate our brother, yet say that we love God, we are liars: "And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. (v. 21). We are called to be salt and light. It is the command of God. What are we doing with the glory that we have been given? (Jn. 17). Let us stop walking and talking in darkness. Night is coming where no man can work - let us be light. *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 2/6/2022 message to the church. To contact us, submit a prayer request, give a praise report, or to support this ministry: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and endtimeschool.com.

Why Race Is A Lie!*

Unity is essential to being the Church, as Scripture defines and describes the Church. Paul wrote: "I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." (Eph. 4:1-3). Paul goes on to reveal that every aspect of our belief is based upon a concept of unity: one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, "...One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ." (v. 6-7). Jesus descended into the earth and ascended "far above all heavens", leading the captives of death out with Him, in order to "fill all things". In the same way, Christ gave gifts to the Church, some apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, who are all still called and functioning in the Church today, in order to teach, edify and equip the saints in the unity required to achieve the fullness of Christ. These gifts to the Church will remain until the goal is achieved:"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." (v. 8-13). This fullness is necessary to prevent us from being tossed, carried and deceived by "every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." (v. 14). We, however, speak the truth of unity: "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love." (v. 14-16). Divisions created by men, including divisions based upon false doctrines and deceptions, work against the goal of Christ for His Body, the Church. These false divisions play a role in end time events as prophesied by Jesus to His disciples: "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Mt. 24:7-8). We are seeing these events taking place now, and with great intensity. However, let us look at the complete meaning of the word "nation" used here in this verse. The Greek word is ethnos, which means "a multitude (whether of men or of beasts) associated or living together; a company, troop, swarm; a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus; the human family; a tribe, nation, people group; in the OT, foreign nations not worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles; Paul uses the term for Gentile Christians". Jesus added: "And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations (ethnos - the human family); and then shall the end come." (v. 14). The human family on the earth today, of which Jesus spoke, has one origin: "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth...And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread." (Gen. 9:1, 18-19). God gave Noah and his sons permission to eat any food on earth, but they could not eat the blood, which contained the life of the flesh. Restrictions on food did not come until the Law of Moses. Though varying cultures may eat things that seem unacceptable to us, thus causing senseless divisions, they are acceptable under God's instructions to Noah. All of the human family that inhabits earth today came from the three sons of Noah, as they left the ark, and spread out across the earth. To them and to all flesh, God's everlasting covenant promise to never again flood the earth was accompanied by a sign: the rainbow in the sky (v. 8-17). No matter how else this sign ordained by God is used by men, the true meaning of the rainbow is as a reminder to God of His covenant promise to all flesh, without categories, labels, or divisions. Although the human family lived in unity for a while, division came soon after. All men spoke one language at the time. In this unity of language, men planned to build a city out of brick and mortar, and a tower to reach up to heaven: "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." (Gen. 11:1-4). The LORD came down to see what the people were building. He saw that having one language, nothing would be restrained from what they set their minds to do. So He confused their language, and they could no longer communicate with each other (v. 5-7). They sought to empower themselves because they had feared being scattered, but because of their actions, what they feared came to pass, and the LORD scattered them upon all the earth (v. 9). They were confused and divided from each other only by language, not by race nor ethnicity. In the New Testment, as the apostle Paul brought the Gospel to the people of Athens, he brought the knowledge of God to them using one of their own monuments "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD" (Acts 17:22-27). Paul said to them, "...I declare unto you...God that made the world and all things therein...dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us." Using the Greek word for nations again, which is ethnos, meaning the human family, Paul made clear that we have all been made from one blood by the God of all who dwells, not in a physical building, but within each of us, his living temples. In the Song of Solomon, there are two who are loved by one another. We believe that the love relationship depicted here is prophetic regarding Christ and His Church. The man, called by the woman, "My Beloved", and the woman describe each other lovingly as beautiful. One lover says, "I am black, but comely...Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me..." Songs 1:6). She is also called "thou fairest among women". She says of the one she loves: "My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven...His eyes are as the eyes of doves...His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble..." (Song 5:1-16). These two people in the Song of Songs will be known eternally, not for any divisions as defined by race, but for their devotion to each other, and for their beauty in each other's eyes. The human family has divided itself, and abused and rejected each other based upon the lie of race. We see evidence of the unity of the human family in many findings associated with the Native Americans in this country. Many Native American petroglyphs have been found that contain writing in the ancient Hebrew language. The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is a stone in New Mexico upon which The Ten Commandments, engraved in ancient Hebrew, was found. The West African Slave Coast, from which many people were shipped and sold across the ocean, was called on ancient maps, "The Kingdom of Judah". From this we may conclude that many former American slaves may have descended from the Twelve Tribes of Israel. It is written that upon the arrival of Columbus in the New World, Indigenous People greeted him reciting the Shema, the prayer of Israel. The human family was never divided by God by racial identity. The amount of melanin in the skin does not divide us one from another, but is an indication of where many generations dwelt geographically on the earth, and in relationship to the sun. Race is a lie to separate and destroy people. Let's be set free by the truth, and be healed. *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 1/30/2022 message to the church. To contact us, submit a prayer request, give a praise report, or to support this ministry: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and endtimeschool.com.