Jesus is the Answer to Removing Racism and Hatred from Your Life

Paul is your example.

Paul was a Pharisee (Acts 26:5).

Paul described himself as being so zealous that he persecuted the church (Philippians 3:6). He was convinced that the way of Jesus Christ was wrong, so he had Christians put in prison and put some of them to death (Acts 26:9–11; 7:57–8:1).

Part of Paul’s thinking was that he believed the Jewish race of people to be superior to all other people. The Jews thought the Law of Moses taught this, and they would not tolerate a religion that extended God’s love to everyone (Acts 22:21–22; John 3:16).

So, what changed for Paul?

Paul met the Lord on the road to Damascus and realized he had been the wrong one (Acts 9:1–9). After being blind for three days, Paul was healed and baptized — washing away his sins — by Ananias (Acts 9:17–18). Paul was chosen by the Lord to “bear” His name before Gentiles (Acts 9:15).

The man who would have turned his nose up at the thought of going to the Gentile world would be sent to them by Jesus.

Paul learned something about the Lord and about people. He realized that both Jew and Gentile had sinned and fallen short of God’s glory (Romans 3:9–10).

He understood that Jesus died for both the Jew and Gentile (Romans 5:6–8). Jesus coming to this earth and dying on the cross was the ultimate demonstration of God’s love for everyone.

How could Paul continue to hate others and be prejudiced against certain groups of people when His Lord had demonstrated His love for them?

So Paul changed — because his life was all about Christ (Philippians 1:21).

The man who formerly hated and killed Christians could write to Christians after his conversion:

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