Raphael Warnock's Gospel: Jesus "Got Off The Cross And Got In Our Hearts"

Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, at a campaign event before he was elected to the U.S. Senate, does not include the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as he gives his summary of the good news of the gospel.


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People of faith and moral courage should lead the charge and embrace the challenge of saying to a failed system, "Let my people go." That is what God told Moses to tell Pharaoh. "Let my people go that they may worship me," liberate them from human bondage so that they may blossom and live lives of human flourishing. Lives that give glory to God rather than to human systems.


Moses had a speech impediment, yet God picked him. Moses had a record, yet God picked him in spite of his record. Or maybe God picked him because he had a record. The record shows that God has a record of using people with a record.


Moses had a record. He slew an Egyptian. He killed a man, but God had more in store for him. Joseph had a record. Long before a Central Park case and a ruthless prosecutor, there was Potiphar's wife. Joseph was thrown in prison, but he held on to his dreams. You know the rest of the story.


The three Hebrew boys had a record, and they were sentenced to death for an act of civil disobedience. Daniel was charged, convicted, and thrown in the lion's den. He had a record. John was in prison on an island called Patmos, the Riker's Island of that day. There he saw a new heaven and a new earth.


Jesus had a record. Not surprising, given his background. Coming from where he came from. Born in a barrio called Bethlehem, smuggled as an undocumented immigrant into Egypt, raised in a ghetto called Nazareth. Yet he came preaching that "the spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach good news to the poor, to open the eyes of the blind, to set at liberty the incarcerated. To preach the year of the Lord's freedom."


They brought him up on trumped-up charges, convicted him without the benefit of due process, marched him up Golgotha's hill, executed him on a Roman cross, buried him in a borrowed tomb. But he was so powerful that he turned the scandal of the cross into an enduring symbol of victory over evil and injustice. And his movement was so contagious that he got off the cross and got in our hearts.


He is my redeemer and liberator and in his name and in the name of all that is good and justice and righteous and true, we must all stand together across faith traditions, across racial lines. Stand together, fight together, walk together, organize together, vote together, pray together, stay together and say together, "let my people go."


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