Oppression, Idolatry, and President Trump

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, and recovery of sight to the blind,  to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." 
The Lord Jesus, quoting the Prophet Isaiah.

When President Donald Trump called the countries of my native continent "shithole countries," he changed my life as an African-American Christian.  (I praise God, who causes all things to work together for good for His beloved and called children.)  I have a renewed sense of purpose, a new revelation of why my ancestors came here, and why I am here now, thanks to President Trump's words.  I'm writing to share this purpose with my brothers and sisters in Christ, who also share in this purpose, because the Spirit of the Lord is upon us, just as the Spirit was upon the Lord Jesus.  We share in the Lord's anointing in proclaiming His good news.  And this is the good news:

The Lord Jesus, by His Spirit,

Sets us free from every oppression; 

Oppression is idolatry--

Which is the foundation of all slavery.

President Trump's insult to my native continent is an expression of oppression based in an idolatrous view of himself.  In making this statement, he assumes an authority that only the Creator wields.  As American Christians, whether African-American, European-American, British-American, or any other variation of American, we have a spiritual and moral obligation to resist oppression. 

Oppressors are in sin for oppressing, and the oppressed are in sin if they yield to the oppressor.  The oppressed are not in sin for being in situations of oppression.  The oppressed are in sin if they submit to an oppressor in a way that they should only submit to God.  

For example:  King Nebuchadnezzar built a statue of himself and commanded the nation of Babylon, including exiled Israelites, to bow to his statue or die.  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar the oppressor, and were willing to suffer and die, whether God delivered them or not.  They reasoned that whether God delivered them or not, The God of Israel was still the only true God.  Therefore, whether they lived or died, God was God, not Nebuchadnezzar the oppressor, the idolater.  

Like King Nebuchadnezzar, every oppressor is an idolater.  They want a homage that belongs to God the Creator, and to Him alone.  They seek to define the oppressed person; but God alone defines every human.  They claim a right of human definition that the Creator alone has over creation. 

President Trump assumed a divine right of definition by calling African Countries "shithole countries."  It is written, "From one man He made all nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands."  Acts 17:26.  Therefore, what God has made, marked out, and appointed, no man has the right to redefine or dishonor.  President Trump is not the creator or determiner or definer of any country on earth.  We as believers know this, we who inhabit this so called "Judeo-Christian nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles."  We who hypocritically say we are "one nation, under God."  We who say we offer the liberty of Christ Himself to every nation on earth.  

We are liars if we refuse to speak out against President Trump's dishonorable statement about African people, whom God created, and for whom Jesus died and rose.  We promote the oppression that comes from idolatry and results in slavery.  We misrepresent the Spirit and the Savior who came to set the oppressed free.