IS OPPRESSED A PERMANENT CONDITION FOR YOU, IF . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if your skin is a certain color?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if your ancestors were oppressed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you were oppressed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IS OPPRESSED A PERMANENT CONDITION FOR YOU, IF . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if someone says you are oppressed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you think you are oppressed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you say you are oppressed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IS OPPRESSED A PERMANENT CONDITION FOR YOU, IF . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you hear that someone else is a racist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you hear that someone else is an oppressor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you hear that someone else was an oppressor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IS OPPRESSED A PERMANENT CONDITION FOR YOU, IF . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if someone is better off than you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you say, “It’s not fair . . .”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if life is not fair?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IS OPPRESSOR A PERMANENT CONDITION FOR YOU, IF . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if your skin is a certain color?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if someone says you are an oppressor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if someone says your ancestors were oppressors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IS OPPRESSOR A PERMANENT CONDITION FOR YOU, IF . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if someone says their ancestors were oppressed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if someone says they are oppressed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. . . if you are better off than someone else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – <\/p>\n\n\n\n
OPPRESSED \/ OPPRESSOR – – – CAN YOU SHAKE IT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one can take the blame for holding you back, when you are free on the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And you cannot take the blame for holding someone else back, when you are free on the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only permanent oppression is the oppression in your heart, which every person lives under and cannot shake alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all need Jesus, and “if He sets you free, you are free indeed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our greatest need is not social or economic equality, which doesn’t exist, but to be free from the one thing that makes us all equal—sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sin oppresses everyone, because it makes us all guilty, and we don’t deserve anything good here, or after here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus paid, with His life, for our guilt and the sin that caused it—because He knew we couldn’t pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will you accept His offer, and live free and clear of the oppression in your heart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And you can spend the rest of your life sharing with others your freedom, rather than endlessly fighting the oppression you claimed to hold you back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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