Big Thought: Regardless of , or , we are all image-bearers of God and are created by God to image Him all over creation.
1. We are all – regardless of .
a. Biblically, there is only one .
b. Racism is a consequence of…
i. in a world.
Acts 17:26 (ESV) – And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
ii. Evolutionary thinking.
2. We are all image-bearers regardless of .
a. Image bearer at .
Jeremiah 1:5 (ESV) – Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Psalms 139:13-16 (ESV) – For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.
b. Image bearer at .
c. Image bearer in .
3. We are all image-bearers regardless of .
4. We are all image-bearers to image God to the .
a. Through and .
Romans 5:18-21 (ESV) – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
b. Through taking the to the nations.
Acts 2:5 (ESV) – Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Revelation 7:9-10 (ESV) – After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”