God's Plan Is Bigger Racial Reconciliation Part 2

God’s Plan is Bigger

Genesis 9:1-16 Ephesians 2:11-22

I thank you for the opportunity to be with you this morning as we continue our theme of Racial Reconciliation. Today we consider, a view from the other side.

This past week we had the privilege of observing the inauguration of President Biden as he laid out the beginning of his plans for the next four years as all Presidents have done before.

Yet we serve a God who does not speak in terms of here’s the plan for the next four years, He speaks in terms of centuries.

Who but God can tell someone, your people will be slaves for 430 years, but then I am going to liberate them and bring them out of Egypt. That tells me that God’s plans are far bigger than I could ever imagine. It tells me I can only get a glimpse of what God is doing in any point of time in history.

Why is it that when God creates things, God simply goes out His way to put variety everywhere all over the planet. It does not matter whether it is fish, birds, monkeys, flowers or trees, we always find a variety springing out off the imagination of God in creation.

Why wouldn’t God create a variety and diversity among human the race.

What is it according to the Bible that separates human beings from all other life forms? We as human beings have all been created in the image of God.

That one single fact lifts us all above the animal world and at the same time places us all on the same level of standing in the eyes of God.

In the eyes of God, all of humanity began as one race. Every member of that race is entitled to a certain amount of respect and dignity simply because he or she is in the image of God.

When God created Adam and Eve, what color was their hair. What were the color of their eyes. What was the color of their skin? How tall were they? Which shape type of human face did they have? The answer to these questions has been found in a book that’s over 2000 years old and its known as the bible. It tells us that we do not have the faintest idea to the answers to these questions.

When God created humanity, these things were not in the least bit important to God? What mattered to God, was, would they love God by choosing to obey him or would they choose to believe lies about God’s character and do their own thing.

After Adam and Eve deliberately rejected God’s one command, things went from bad to worse. The more people multiplied upon the earth, the more they rejected the things of God and God Himself. Evil and violence was the norm of the day.

I find it interesting that nothing is mentioned in the history of humankind before the flood about racial divisions among the people.

The only race that exists in God’s eyes is the human race. When God regrets that He had created humanity. It’s the human race that had broken the heart of God.

Humankind’s self destruction led to God’s judgment on the world with the flood. God’s love for humanity was demonstrated through God’s preservation of Noah and his family through the ark. God’s bigger plan included a second chance for humanity after the flood.

At this point, everyone is in relationship to the one true God. God tells them again to be fruitful, increase in number and fill the earth. God also tells them that God consider every human life valuable because it is created in the image of God.

God also makes a promise to never destroy all of life again by a flood. He gives us the rainbow as a sign of his promise. For the next 350 years everybody speaks the same language, but not everybody is willing to obey God.

God told them to scatter over the face of the world and fill it up with people. Instead the people got together and decided to build a great city that would reach high into the sky. They wanted to make a name for themselves. They were not going to be scattered all over the earth as God had told them to do.

Even though they knew God had a plan for them, they rejected that plan and were not willing to help God with it. They decided they were not going anywhere. There is something in us that just does not want to do what God tells us to do.

The scriptures tells us that God decides enough is enough with this rebellion. In the midst of their great building project, God confuses their language. One group of people can no longer understand another group. There is confusion everywhere.