Oh, my, what a crazy quilt of human classifications that our identity politics aficionados have cobbled together.

They’ve sliced and diced humanity down according to “race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, economic class, disability status, education, religion, language, profession, political party, veteran status, recovery status, and geographic location … even creating hyper-specific groups … African American, homosexual, disadvantaged women, etc.,” according to Wikipedia.

It boggles the mind.

So, how does God see all this?

“Identity politics” God’s way.

Having recently completed Holy Week, you will remember that Christians worldwide commemorated the single most momentous event in human history.

Jesus Christ, God incarnate, died for our sins, was buried, and was raised from the dead on the third day — exactly as prophesied in the Old Testament scriptures. It constituted a form of spiritual “Big Bang” with cataclysmic results.

God initiated a new “race” of human beings with the intention of altering the trajectory of mankind forever. And it was all based on the power of Christ’s resurrection. Without it, there would been no hope for anyone.

The Apostle Paul put it this way in 1 Corinthians 15:16-22:

“For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still (1) in your sins … But the fact is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man death came, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also (2) in Christ all will be made alive.”

Far from those bewildering human classifications talked about earlier, ever since Christ’s incarnation, God divides all humanity down into just two categories: (1) “in your sins,” or (2) “in Christ.”

This was God’s plan since the dawn of creation — bringing forth a blood-bought people for God’s own possession. As written in Ephesians 1:8-10:

“In all wisdom and insight, He (God) made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He set forth in Him (Christ),regarding His plan of the fullness of the times, to bring all things together in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.”

And He planned all of this before the foundation of the Earth.

But a big problem loomed. How would God bridge the yawning spiritual chasm that man’s sins had caused between His own blinding Holiness and our sinful selves?

It would require direct Divine intervention, as explained in Ephesians 2:13-16: 

“But now in Christ Jesus you who previously were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace; and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross …”

Notice, the genius of God’s salvation plan — to “recreate” all who come to Him by faith together into “one new person” in the Spirit.

God spiritually removes us from the gene pool of our original birth parent, Adam No. 1 (who has doomed us) and places us into our supernatural birth parent, the “Last Adam” (Christ who imparts eternal life to us).

That’s why Jesus said so emphatically in John 3:3, “… unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

So where does that leave those who faithfully believe?

According to Galatians 3:27-29: “For all of you who were baptized into Christ (through faith) have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

And in Ephesians 2:19-12:

“So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone … in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.”

One in Christ … Fellow citizens … God’s household … Dwelling place of God. Now that’s God’s form of identity politics!

How About You?

So, what do you have to do to perish “in your sins?” Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Or alternatively, have you come to Christ in faith, and received His gift of eternal life?

Then know this, from 2 Corinthians 5:15-17: “… from now on we recognize no one by the flesh … if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”