In honor of Black History Month, known also as African-American History Month in America. Everyday we will have a study on History and God's love.
Richard Allen
Minister, educator and writer Richard Allen was born into slavery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 1760. He converted to Methodism at age 17, and bought his freedom in 1783. In 1816, he founded the first national black church in the United States,the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He became an activist and abolitionist whose writings inspired Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. He died in 1831. Minister, educator and writer Richard Allen was born into slavery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 14,1760. Known as "Negro Richard," he and his family were sold to a Delaware farmer, Stokeley Sturgis, in 1767. After attaining his freedom, Richard took the last name "Allen" and returned to Philadelphia. There, he worked at odd jobs, as a shoemaker and as manager of a chimney-sweeping company. Allen soon joined St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church, where blacks and whites worshiped together. There, he became an assistant minister and conducted prayer meetings for blacks. In 1799, Allen became the first African American to be ordained in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Allen died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 26, 1831. In 2008, Richard Newman published a biography of Richard Allen, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church and the Black Founding Fathers, in which he suggested that Allen should be referred to as the "black founding father."
The message to the beloved Children of God - Lack of knowledge !
My people will be destroyed, because they have no knowledge, Jesus is warning us. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, for they have rejected my word. Read Hosea 4:6-7, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. The knowledge of God is truth, Israel didn't listen to the truth when it was preached to them and they were destroyed. Will you listen to the truth ? Or will you be destroyed ? In the beginning of time was the word of God, for His children. Read John 1:1-4, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.When we reject God's knowledge, God has no alternative but to reject us. When we reject the knowledge of God, we are in fact rejecting God Himself. We cannot reject what God tells us and think it will be well with us.God is speaking of the knowledge that can only be attained through an intimate, personal relationship and connection to Himself. God is trying to get our attention. The only way that we can learn the truth is to pick up the cross and lay down our life. Do you hear Him calling your name? Will you answer the door and let Him come in? Read Revelation 3:20, Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Heavenly Father, we come before you at the throne of grace, seeking your face. We humbly come before the mercy seat, praying not my will Lord, but thine be done. Thank you Lord for your word. Amen !
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