Hey, this is John at Bible Project, and this is our final conversation in our series on

the Family of God, how God created all of humanity and all of our diversity to be one

family.

But the impulse of humanity isn't to be unified through our diversity.

It's rather to mistrust each other, rule over each other, and create violence and oppression.

We see this in the story of Babylon.

We also see this in the story of Israel as slaves in Egypt.

In Babylon, in the story of the Exodus, in Deuteronomy 32, there's this developing theme that

the many nations that don't want to live under the allegiance of the Creator God think

they're giving their allegiance to the ultimate divine being.

But in reality, they're giving their allegiance to idols, which are wood or stone, and nothing.

Or even worse, they are actually being deceived by dark spiritual powers that manifest themselves

through social structures.

Dark spiritual powers that enslave us.

According to the Bible, this is the reality of the world we live in.

So who will stand up to these spiritual powers?

Who will display a power that is greater than violence and injustice?

In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul believes that that job is for us.

And they'll see our power through our diverse unity.

God's multi-diverse wisdom is demonstrated through a multi-diverse community of people,

to whom.

To whom is that wisdom made known through a multi-diverse community of people to the

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