Understanding Who You Are Part #3 Your Identity In God

Understanding Who You Are

You Identity in God

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

Part 3

PRAYER: -

My desire today is to try to bring this all together, I need to bring about 1960 years’ worth of history in about a 45 minute to an hour lesson. So, pray with me and for me as I bring this out in Jesus’ name.

The Hebrew word Amam = people. The Hebrew word Mishpacha = family. God has a people - The concept of being “God’s chosen people” points to a distinct relationship in which God selects and sets apart individuals or a nation for a special purpose. This calling carries a responsibility to honor Him, follow His commandments, and represent Him to the world.

God’s choosing of a specific people begins with Abraham. In Genesis 12:1-2 God says, “Go forth from your country... I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you.” This sets in motion the Abrahamic Covenant, which includes promises of land, descendants, and blessing. The call of Abraham positions him and his descendants as a unique covenant community, chosen to bring blessing to all the families of the earth Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed”.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8 says, “For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt”. The people of Israel, descended from Shem through Eber through Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, took on this chosen identity and became the Amam – People of God/Chosen.

Deuteronomy 28 explains the blessing the Amam will receive if they obey God, it also explains the curses they will receive if they disobey God. Well, we know what happened, but let’s see what history and people have changed and tried to keep from the Amam / people of God for so long.

Understand the Amam / the People of God are the Hebrew Israelites the descendants of Shem through Eber, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Mishpacha or the family are those that accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior and are grafted in. This is how the Gentiles are grafted in the olive branch. The important thing I want you to understand is God has a people, an Amam and I will bring out the importance of His people and a promise to His people shortly.

Last week I ended part #2 with hopefully a tantalizing tidbit when I stated that the Zondervan Compact Bible Dictionary states under Exodus 11:7: “HAM – THE YOUNGEST SON OF NOAH, BORN PROBABLY ABOUT 96 YEARS BEFORE THE FLOOD; AND ONE OF EIGHT PERSONS TO LIVE THROUGH THE FLOOD. HE BECAME THE PROGENITOR OF THE DARK RACES; NOT THE NEGROES, BUT THE EGYPTIANS, ETHIOPIANS, LIBYANS AND CANAANITES”.

HOWEVER, IF HE IS NOT THE FATHER OF THE NEGROS (THAT MAKES NEGROES SOME OTHER KIND OF BLACK PEOPLE) that means that the descendants of one of the other brothers (Shem) must have also been a black or dark-skinned person with descendants that are black or dark skinned also. By deduction, since Japheth is known to have been the father of the light skinned, white race, or European people, that leaves us with Shem as the father of the negroes. Now remember I established the fact that people were identified by tribal names and not color Ethiopians, Egyptians, Greek and yes Negroes.

Surprise, surprise, the so-called Jews are Japhetite’s and misuse the term anti-Semitic, because they are not Semitic in the slightest. In fact, if a so-called Negro of Semitic origin was to be insulted by an Ashkenazi Jew. The real anti-Semites are the Japhetite’s whenever they insult a so-called negro.

Let’s give a little history. In 931 B.C. King Solomon died 1 Kings 11:43 says, “And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, his father; Rehoboam his son, reigned in his stead”. Rehoboam was young, vain, unaccomplished, overbearing and prone to follow bad advice he was determined to continue to exploit and tax the people heavily for his own grandiose pleasures. Rehoboam would not listen to the counsel of the old and wise leader and elders that served under his father Solomon but instead listen to the inexperienced people that all they wanted to do was please (Trump) Rehoboam and not concerned about the people.