Tying It All Together

As we begin to wrap up this study on race, let’s remember a truth. All people should first seek their identity in God’s Word—not in anthropology, archaeology, or sociology. Only the Bible tells us who we all are by creation as the “sons of Adam.” The Bible assures us that we all come from the same spiritual family tree and therefore we all have the same racial roots.

Further, the Bible assures us that through the corruption of the fall, we all equally have the same sinful, rotten roots. As David said in Psalm 51:5, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.”

Most importantly, only in the revelation of the Bible can we know who we are through Christ. By virtue of our natural birth we are “in Adam.” By virtue of our new birth we are “in Christ.” When we are “in Him” we are a new creation (2

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Corinthians 5:17), a new man or woman (Ephesians 2:15; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:9–10), and “a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9–10).

So, this biblical understanding frees blacks and people of color from the myth of inferiority. Likewise, whites and lighter-skinned people are freed from the myth of superiority! Only in Christ can we discover our true identity and then affirm the racial differences and distinctions of others. We are only complete or full in Him (Colossians 2:10).

Therefore, no race of people can find their true identity outside of Jesus Christ. Only as we are in Christ Jesus are we made complete. God is calling out a people unto Himself “from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9). As we are in Him through salvation and grow up in Him through sanctification, we are made complete spiritually, mentally, emotionally, sexually, and racially!

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