The Prayer of Unbelief — David Wilkerson

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The Prayer of Unbelief and the Need for True Repentance

The Prayer of Unbelief. The Prayer of Unbelief. Now God, I'm asking you to give me the most special grace you've ever given me in my lifetime. I believe I'm preaching what you told me to preach tonight.

And Lord, sometimes the most graceful messages we ever hear are those that reprove us the deepest. Because it's always done in your love and mercy and grace. Lord, you have deeply dealt with me on the subject I'm to bring to this congregation tonight.

You have dug so deep into my soul that everything depends. Everything we do for you, everything, all our worship, all our praise, all our adoration, everything, comes, Lord, out of this obedience we're going to talk about tonight.

My God, we've heard such powerful messages today from this pulpit. Just so powerful, Lord. And we thank you that we've been so blessed. But Lord, all that we hear, all that we know depends on what we're about to see and hear from your word tonight.

Lord, that everything we've heard will be made real and be added life. Lord, sanctify me. Let me not speak this out of any kind of human zeal. Nothing, O Lord, as we heard this afternoon, of striking the rack in anything but with compassion or speaking only to the people from the heart of God.

I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. The prayer of unbelief. Please pray for me tonight. I need a touch. Very especially tonight. The prayer of unbelief. Now, you've heard of the prayer of faith. I'm going to talk to you tonight about the prayer of unbelief.

Now, God knows we don't pray enough. I don't care how much you've been praying. God knows we haven't been praying as we should. God knows deeply that we don't weep as we ought to weep. Because it's very scriptural that we're to weep before him.

And God knows that when we pray, we often pray in a way that is full of unbelief and often unacceptable to God. In fact, it's possible that our prayer becomes sin in the eyes of God, according to the Scripture.

I ask you a question. Has God ever said to you, stop praying, get up off your knees? Have you ever heard him say, wipe your eyes, stop your weeping, why are you crying to me? Has the Holy Spirit ever commanded you to get up off the ground, off your face?

Did he ever ask you, why are you laying on your face before me? Get up. Now, there was a time that God told Moses to do just that, to quit crying out to him. Exodus, the 14th chapter, please. Exodus, the 14th chapter.

We'll stay for a while in the Old Testament, then we'll go to the New. Exodus, the 14th chapter. Do you have an open heart tonight? I didn't hear it. Exodus, 14th chapter, 15th verse. The Lord said unto Moses, wherefore cryest thou unto me?

Why are you crying, Moses? Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward. Now, look at me, if you will, please. You know the setting of this. Pharaoh is pressing in from the west. God has led them into this position where there are mountains on both sides.

In front of them is the sea. And at this time, the people in total panic. And all Moses can hear, and it's ringing in his ears, murderer, you're a murderer. You know, the Bible just says it in two or three sentences, two or three verses.

But, my goodness, there's so much more to it than that. It's just capsulized. I'm sure the elders came to him and said, Moses, looking right at his face, man to man, saying, Moses, are you telling us there weren't enough graves in Egypt that you had to come out here to find more space to bury us?

To be called a murderer? To walk among them and say, here's the man who called himself a deliverer and he has brought us out here to kill us? Murderer! What would you do if you had that ringing in your ear?

God had brought you to this place and you knew this is a divine calling of God, divine ordinance of God that you were here at this time and at this place. God had brought you into this crisis. God had brought you into this predicament.

And all he can hear now is that you're a murderer. You have deceived us. What would you do? What would I do if this whole congregation stood before me, and we were in the pastors and we were in a crisis and we heard these words, you're a murderer, you've deceived us.

You would do what he did. He probably isolated himself on one of the mountains. They were in between two mountains. And he gets along with God. And he literally screams at God because the Hebrew word here, why, Moses said, wherefore cries that word in Hebrew.

Why are you shrieking at me? Why are you yelling at me? Now, I want you to know something closely. Listen closely. When God called Moses, he gave him a whole plan because he told him, you're going to go and do everything that I've shown you and put in your hands.

He didn't have to get up every morning and say, what kind of crisis are you going to bring next? What is the next calamity? God showed that to him. He said, you show them the miracles and you tell them what I already told you.

Have you know what it is to reach a crisis in your life and have a situation that's come upon you that is so dark and so despairing and so overwhelming that you got alone somewhere and you cried your guts out?

You really let God have it. I've been there and done that. You've heard me tell when Bonnie was in the hospital in Texas being bombarded with cobalt for three days. No one allowed in the room. Doctors only in leaden suits.

And I tell you, I got out in a lonely place. I was in a crisis. I was at a Red Sea. And I went out in a lonely road as far as I could go. And for three hours I screamed at God. I wasn't mad at God. It wasn't a matter of unbelief.

I was screaming out of pain for her. Because I knew what she was facing, that loneliness where nobody's allowed in the room and saying, God, what's it all about? Mom and then Debbie, then me. Where does it end?

Have you ever cried your heart out? Have you ever prayed just screaming at God? Now, folks, she's a loving God. The Bible said that Jesus prayed with loud, strong cries. He hears the cry. He's patient.

Mine was not a prayer of unbelief. But this man on the mountaintop had just been told prior to this that God was going to open the Red Sea. He was given commandment to stretch out his hand. God said, I'm going to open the sea.

They're going to go on dry land. He knew it, and he preached a powerful message of faith just prior to this. He said, God's going to go before you, preached a powerful message of faith, and then gets alone and gives vent to his unbelief.

He's crying out to God. And you look at this. You say, what a wonderful sight to see a man on the mountaintop crying his heart out to God. Oh, God, what am I going to do? What are we going to do? We're in a hard place.

God says, Moses, why are you shrieking at me? Why are you crying at me? I told you what to do. You have my word. Go. Stretch out your hand. Why didn't God take kindly to this shrieking and this crying out?

Why did he say, Moses, that's enough? It's not said, but God had every right, I believe, to say to this man, you have no right to agonize before me at this point. There's a time to agonize. But I gave you a clear word.

I called you. I spoke it. It is clear. I've never failed you. Everything I've told you come to pass up to this point. And I've told you, Moses, lovingly, I love you. I have told you what to do. This is not a time to agonize.

It's a time to act. I gave you my word. I told you what to do. I gave you well-understood promises to stop your crying. I believe when God called Moses, he foretold him, because here's the Scripture.

And the Lord said unto Moses, when thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thine hand. This is referring not only to the snake and the leprosy of his hand.

This has to do with the opening of the Red Sea, the plagues, because everything God had shown this man, because he said, I want you to tell him everything that I put in your hand. Now, here's a godly man.

He's a meek, godly man, but he had a root of unbelief in his heart. You see, God had told him, you go, and your brethren shall hearken to your voice. He said, I'm giving you a voice. And you go, and they're going to listen to you.

Moses said, they're not going to believe me. They'll not hearken to my voice. They're going to say to me, the Lord hath not appeared to thee. Here's God saying, Moses, I gave you a voice. You go, they're going to listen to you.

You're going to bring a great deliverance. And he turns around and says, no, they won't. They're not going to listen to me. They're going to say, God didn't send you. God commanded him, he said, go, deliver.

I give you a voice. They will listen. I'll be with you. And here's what he says, Lord, I'm not eloquent. Neither have I become eloquent since you called me. I don't know if it's been a week or two, but he was waiting for eloquence.

He saw all this time, you called me, I was at the burning bush. I'm not eloquent, and I'm still waiting to become eloquent. And since you called me, I didn't get it. I am slow speech and of a slow tongue.

Send somebody else by the hand of him, whoever you will send. Now, think of how foolish this is. Here's a man who can take a rod, throw it on the ground, and it becomes a snake. And he grabs it by the tail, and it becomes a rod.

He puts his hand in his vest, pulls it out, and it's leprosy. Puts it in again, it comes out pink, as healthy as it can be. To me, that's the height of eloquence. If he came to this church, I've pictured this, coming out here with the rod and standing here.

And he throws the rod down, and it starts wiggling. I'm going to tell you, Pastor Neil would be screaming, running out the door. If Moses sticks his hand in, says, I was sent by God, and he pulls it out, and it's white as snow.

And he puts it in, he comes out, he says, Brother Wilkes, I forgot to take hands with you. I'm going to tell you, I'm going to have the fear of God in me. It better come out pink. I'm not trying to be seizing, I'm trying to tell you that he had demonstration and power of the Holy Ghost.

Paul said, I didn't come with eloquence, but I've got something else. I have got the Spirit of God upon me. I speak through the Spirit. Brother, this man, I don't care if he's stuttered. I don't care if he's tongue-tied.

I'll listen to this man, because he's got the power of God. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses. In the original Hebrew, God was enraged against Moses. A man he loved, he's enraged against him.

Not that he wasn't loving him, but God's saying, in essence, no more of this false humility. No more of this, I'm not capable. I'm not good enough. I'm not smart enough. I'm not educated. I'm mentally slow.

I don't have the right stuff. You see, God would never let him get away from his calling. God would say, no excuses. He's saying, in essence, I knew all about you, Moses, before I called you. I knew about your lack of eloquence.

I knew your proneness to self-deprecate yourself, compare yourself with others, and not think you measure up. I knew all about it when I called you. That incredible moment you had with me, all alone, and I spoke to you, and I appointed you.

I want you to know, Moses, that was a calling before you were born from the foundation of the world, when you were still not even a thought in any man's mind. It was a thought in mind, and I called you.

You think for one moment that a call that I gave you in eternity, I'm going to let you abort? I knew all about your weaknesses, but you better face it, Moses, you're it. You're it. I'm not going to choose somebody else.

I'm not going to let you out of the choir, because I gave you a voice, and I gave you a voice. You're obligated before a holy God to use it. I've called you. You're not going to sit there and say, well, maybe somebody can sing better.

God said, I knew how much you could sing when I called you. I knew exactly what your voice would do. You know, the things in the church, people just walk away from their jobs in the church, and the work of God, say, God brings somebody more capable than me.

God called you because he wanted you. I won't get many amens out of this. See, all God wanted to hear from Moses was, Lord, I believe what you told me. Get my eyes off my weaknesses and myself, and let me turn to you.

Moses at the Red Sea: When Prayer Must Give Way to Obedience

You see, at the Red Sea, Moses preached this powerful faith message. Fear not. Stand still. See the salvation of the Lord, which he will show you today. Now, that implies very clearly that he knew God was going to do exactly what God was going to do.

The Lord is going to fight for you. You shall hold your peace. Now, you see, Moses is going to become one of the great men of God in prayer. He's going to be a man so intimate with God that he can spend 40 days and 40 nights on a mountaintop along with him and come with his face aglow.

A man above all men who knew how to pray and have total intimacy with God. He was going to come to that place. But God had a lot of things to teach him first. When to pray, how to pray, when to get up, when to act.

How to use the power of his prayer. To pray at this time was unbelief. Because God had told him to stretch out his rod and open the waters. I don't believe he had unbelief in God. It wasn't that he had fear that God wouldn't open the waters.

He was afraid that there was going to be some failure on his part. The unbelief is that God could really use him. That somewhere, Lord, I may fail in my faith and maybe there's something that will hinder this.

Your plan will be aborted because there's some weakness in me. And he's really crying out of a fear. He's shrieking in a fear in his own heart. If God has called you and we're all called, When the time comes when God needs somebody to stand up and live out what they preach and teach, He'll not let you off the hook.

He'll not let you go back to some wilderness. He'll not let you go back and say, well, all I want to do is be alone and pray. I'll pray. I'll be an intercessor. You can pray and be an intercessor, but you're also going to be what God told you to be and do what God told you to do in the process.

I'm not mad. I'm talking like this because I just feel so strongly. You want me to smile while I do it? I'll smile. God will not let you walk away from what he's called you to do. He'll never let you walk away.

Now, prayer becomes sin when disobedience is involved. Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward. Lift up your rod. Stretch out your hand and go into the sea and it will divide. Quit your whining.

Stop complaining. Stop crying all night over your fear of failure. Get your eyes off yourself. I told you to take spiritual authority. And I am going to do what I promised you to do. I told you that I'm going to split your problem in pieces.

And I'm going to let you go forth in peace. I'm going to set your feet to dancing. God said, do what I told you to do. Take your spiritual authority and move on. I've not forsaken you. You have no right to scream at me now.

You have no right to agonize. Rejoice that I've called you. Rejoice I've given you direction. Do it. Joseph spends an entire day agonizing in prayer and weeping. To no avail. Please go to Joshua 7, if you will, please.

To the right. Lord, give me grace to preach this with love. And verse 2. We'll start reading and we'll read until I stop. This is Joshua 7. Joshua sent men from Jericho to Aiah. Now, remember, they had just defeated Jericho, a great victory.

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Aiah, which is beside Beth Avon, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Aiah. You know the story.

They came back and said, It's a small town. All we need is two or three thousand men to go up and we'll smite Aiah. Don't let everybody get involved. There's just a few. They went up, people, about three thousand men, and they fled before the men of Aiah.

Men of Aiah smote them, about thirty-six men. They chased them from before the gate even to Barim and smote them in the going down. Wherefore, the hearts of the people melted and became as water. Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark.

Now, the ark represents the presence of God. This is all done in the presence of the Lord, of holiness. The ark of the Lord, even to the eventide. He and the elders put dust upon their heads. Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hand of Amorites to destroy us?

Would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side of Jordan. Now, folks, look at me for just a minute. If you had come on this scene and you didn't know the whole story, you'd have thought this is some revival meeting.

Come on, everybody's weeping. Everybody's crying and throwing dust in the air. Here are the women, their faces in their hands, and the men are laying on the ground, and all the pastors, all the pastors are crying out and weeping and tearing their clothes.

And if you walked into this, you'd say, My, what conviction, what repentance. What a prayer meeting. And God would have nothing to do with it. Verse 8, O Lord, what shall I say when Israel turn at their backs before their enemies?

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us around it, and cut off our name from the earth. What wilt thou do unto thy great name? That sounds so spiritual.

Here's a man saying, Lord, this is all about your name. What are they going to do? Your name will be disgraced. It sounds like a defense of God's name, and it sounds very spiritual. But read the next verse.

The Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up. Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? He stopped the meeting. Israel has sinned. They've transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. They've taken the accursed thing and have also stolen.

They've stumbled also, and they have put it even among their stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies because they were accursed.

Neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. And that implies stay all night, stay all week, stay for a month on your face, cry all you want, pray all you want, throw as much dust as you want, but until the sin is dealt with, you're going to fall before your enemies.

And I'm not going to hear your prayer. They did this before the ark, the scripture says. Look at chapter 7, verse 1. Until the visual committed to trespass the accursed thing, for Achan the son of Carmi of the tribe of Judah took of the accursed thing, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.

The Lord was angry against the children of Israel. This meeting was really a blame God meeting. God, why didn't you give us the victory? Where are your covenant promises that you've made to us? Where was the power that we needed that we were promised?

Where are the messages of God's grace and power? How God was their deliverer. God, where are those promises? Why did you let us fall on our faces? Why are we down? Where are your promises? What happened?

Where are your covenant promises to us? You made us wonderful promises and they failed us. Where were you when we needed you? This spiritual warfare overwhelmed Joshua. This pastor, this godly pastor is absolutely flabbergasted.

He couldn't understand coming from such a victory from Jericho, now to be defeated by such an insignificant enemy. And the Lord said unto Joshua, get thee up. Wherefore or why are you lying on your face?

Israel's sin, they've transgressed against my covenant. Let me talk to you plainly about what I believe the prayer of unbelief is. It's to pray, worship and praise God, taking into account only the grace of God and not his severity.

The Bible does not say behold therefore the goodness of God. The Bible says behold therefore the goodness and severity of God. God said you are helpless against all your enemies until you remove the accursed thing.

Sin as a Barrier to Prayer

Isaiah please, take your Bible, Isaiah 59, 59th chapter of Isaiah verses 1 and 2. Behold the Lord's hand is not short that it cannot save, neither is it heavy that it cannot bear. God hasn't changed. He's still a God of love.

He's a God of mercy. He's a God of covenant. But your iniquities are separated between you and your God. Your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear you. Your hands are defiled with blood.

He said there's sin and I can't hear you. Folks, there have been many, many people who have given up on prayer. They don't pray anymore. They have truly prayed sometimes for hours and for days about something and they've even stayed up all night and God doesn't seem to hear.

Keep going to Psalm right now. Just turn to Psalm 66 please. Verses 17 and 18. Psalm 66 starting verse 17. I cried unto him with my mouth and was extolled with my tongue. And he was extolled with my tongue.

If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me. But verily God hath heard me. He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Now folks, in the original Hebrew and the best rendition for me is Helen Sparrow's Old Testament Hebrew.

And here's what it is in the original Hebrew. I called upon him with my mouth with a song of exultation under my tongue. If I had regarded iniquity in my heart the Lord would have not heard me. But behold God did hear me.

And he listened unto the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God who has not removed or ignored my prayer. He said if I had had iniquity in my heart the Lord would not have heard me. But you see he said I saw the iniquity in my heart.

And he said I dealt with it to read the context. I dealt with the sin. I went to the Lord. I got my cleansing and God's hearing me now. But if I had held to my sin he would have not heard me. He would have listened to my cry.

I've got a question. Does a Christian who's unfaithful to his mate really expect God to hear him answer his prayers or her prayers? If you're living in adultery do you believe that you can go in the secret closet and you pray for your unsafe children?

You pray about your job. You pray about your finances. Do you believe God's hearing you? Listen to what Malachi has said. Don't turn there. Malachi 2nd chapter verse 13 -14. God says very clearly this is what you do.

You cover the altar of the Lord with your tears, with weeping, with crying out. Insomuch that he regards not your offering anymore. He receiveth it not with good will at his hand. Yet you say why? Because the Lord is witness to the treachery you've been guilty of against your wife.

You have wearied the Lord with your words. You say how have we wearied him? Because you see evil is good now. You take your evil so lightly you sin against your mate and you believe God still delights in you.

You see the longer you play with your sin the easier it is to eventually find something good coming out of it. And turning that which is evil into light. In other words my wife is not a prayer warrior but my girlfriend is a prayer warrior and when with her I really touch God.

I heard a preacher say that. He said my wife all she has is material things. She talks about curtains and drapes. But I have a friend and when I talk to my friend and this was his lover. She's a prayer warrior.

And I feel much closer to the Lord when I'm with her. The very words. Now listen closely. If you're involved in some kind of adultery or fornication. Malachi warned you. The longer you hold your sin the easier it's going to be to accept it.

You may be able to get away with it for a long time. It happens in the ministry. It's happening right now as I speak all over the country. You can still hold your good name for a season. You can still teach and preach and witness.

And you can put on a good show. But 1 Peter 3 .7 talks about husbands who mistreat their wives. He said be careful lest your prayers be hindered. And the Greek means cut off. In other words. Are you going to come to church.

And the whole week you mistreat your husband or your wife. Call each other names. And you build up something in your heart and there's a resentment. And there's something there that is not Christ like.

And what you're saying to each other and the way you're behaving with one another. Has nothing to do with the spirit of Christ. It has a spirit of the enemy himself. Satan has crept in. And then you come to God's side.

You're going to go pray and believe God's going to answer you. Of course the scripture said be sure your sin will find you out. Now he's not just talking about exposure. Where your sin really finds you out.

Is when you realize that there is a brass heaven. It finds you out when you understand that God really isn't working with you. He still loves you. He's not damning you. It doesn't mean that you're going to go to hell because he loves you.

Somewhere along the line he's going to challenge you. He's going to get a hold of you if you have an open heart. Or you have one ounce of desire to walk in his covenant. And he's that merciful. But God means what he says.

God means what he says. And when I talk about this prayer of unbelief. It's those who don't take God in his words. They don't believe God means what he says. They take his promises and run with them. But they won't take his warnings.

Grace, Severity, and the Moral Demands of the New Covenant

You say that's Old Testament. That's Old Covenant. We're under the New Covenant. We're under grace and mercy. I'm going to tell you something. God was just as merciful. He hasn't changed. He was just as merciful in the Old Testament as he is in the New.

We're not under the law as a way of salvation. But we're under the law as a moral guide. And it's all mercy. Let me show you how seriously the Lord takes it under the New Covenant. Go to Matthew 6 please.

Matthew the 6th chapter. 6th chapter of Matthew. Folks, before we read this. Would everybody look this way in the annex and wherever you may be. I'm going to tell you. I told you. I feel like a cop standing at the bus saying stop.

Now you have heard these verses over and over again. And I'm telling you as a heartbroken loving pastor. Because I have to stand before God and answer. He's dealt with me about this and he's going to deal with you about it tonight.

I'm going to tell you if you don't deal with it tonight, you're not even saved. You don't believe God's Word. You're praying in unbelief. And it could cost your soul. I want you to read if you have King James.

I want you to read out loud with me. This is 6th chapter verses 14 and 15. Verse 14. Read out loud if you have a King James. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Now that's either God's Word or it's not. And if you don't believe that, every prayer you pray is a prayer of unbelief.

Who is it you're not talking to? Who is it that you have been broken away from? The Lord says go to the altar, yes. Bring your gift, yes. Bring your gift of praise and sacrifice and thanksgiving. But while you're there at the altar and while you're worshiping and praising God, remember that someone has something against you.

Gift at the altar. Then come back. Then come back. Don't come to my altar until you make it right. I had a man in my office two weeks ago. Wonderful godly pastor. And he said I'm here because there are two ministers, friends of mine, that had a big squabble and one sued the other and one of them won the case, multi-million dollar case.

And he said I know these two men. I've been working with them. And they respect you, Brother Dave. And I'm asking you to go with me to them. I want to set up a meeting. I'll bring them here to New York.

And I want you to be the man who would help reconcile them. Because they told me both that if you were there, they want to make things right. They've been fighting for years. Bitterness. He said but there's a problem.

The couple who lost the case, she's so bitter. She said never, under any condition, will I ever forgive them. Ever. She's doomed. She's lost. Still preaches. Still teaches. Still prays. Look you right in the eye.

He said as cold as ice. Never. I'm telling you. You better hear it. Because it comes from the throne room of God. I don't care how long you pray. I don't care how much of the Bible you read. I don't care how, what revelation you have.

If you're sitting here tonight. There's somebody you don't talk to. You are not reconciled to. Somebody that's hurt you and grieved you and mistreated you and you know you did right. Bible said if you know to go to them.

There are others of you that are sitting here right now. You have heard this over and over again. And the Lord said you just weary me. You weary me with your tears. You go ahead and cover my altar with your tears.

But you weary me. I don't want to hear it anymore. You go make it right. Listen. I want to tell you something. I'm going to talk right out of the gut. I've been feeling it for a week. We call this a Holy Ghost Church with 103 nationalities at the last count.

Racial Prejudice, Reconciliation, and the Unity of the Church

But I want you to know God showed me there's racial prejudice in this church. No, no amens. No clapping. You come to this church and you're a white man like I am. And there's something down inside of you.

And you've been listening to black jokes. And you laugh and you tell them. That's out of the pit of hell and that is prejudice. It's going to cost you your soul. If you come from a part of the country where it's very, it's the thing to do to refer to blackies or to polox.

And you have these ethnic jokes and you tell it and it gets into your system. That's a prejudice. And you're here right now. You see. And I'm a white man. And somewhere along the line some black brother's done me harm.

Or there's some black political figure that I've disliked. And I allow that to get into my heart and I stand here. I can't apologize to the whole black community when God deals with me. But there's a black man standing next to me and I can turn to him and say look.

I've allowed some prejudice in my heart and I want to hug you and tell God I'm sorry. You may be a black person here and you may have gotten it from your childhood. You may have gotten it from something that was taught to you.

You may have allowed something to creep into your heart against somebody else. You may be in this church and you've seen a Korean. You've seen a white person. You've seen somebody else drive a nicer car, wear nicer clothes.

And you say I have been so put down and I'm a black person. And you may say I have no prejudice in you but there's a seed in there. Now you can't apologize to the whole white race but you can put your arms around a brother next to you because you do it when you sin against the whole body.

And you can say I've got something in my heart that's there and I want it out and I want to just hug you and say I'm sorry. You may be an Indian, American Indian. I've been robbed of my country. Folks, I didn't rob you.