Culture and the world in general speak quite a bit about “Equality”. Color equality, racial equality, income equality, gender equality, and the list goes on. Today, I am going to show you that God is the only true equalizer in that not only did He create ALL human beings as equal-being made in His image, but that true salvation and destination (heaven) is equally available to all human beings from all cultures, income levels and color.

Today’s Truth text is Luke 3:4-6 in the English Standard Version take a look at what the passage says and then I will make my point(s) about equality. This is what Luke wrote:

"4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, 6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

BROKEN DOWN: Luke 3:4-6 is a great passage showing God’s ultimate equality. Let’s now break this down:

1) CONTEXT: This passage opens in verse 4 with the words: "4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

The words “PREPARE THE WAY” is a citation from Isaiah 40:3-5 and declares the coming of God’s deliverance. Luke cites the text more fully than Matthew or Mark and carries the passage through to its mention of “SALVATION” being seen by “ALL FLESH” (v.6)-highlighting the fact that Gospel message of salvation is equally available TO ALL PEOPLE.

Before we move on, let’s pause to understand what this means for you, me and all who would trust in Jesus Christ. Christianity is the only religion that offers EQUAL availability of salvation to ALL human beings. In Hinduism they have the CAST system which makes their distorted version of salvation or nirvana, enlightenment or “oneness” available ONLY to the privileged few.

In Islam, which literally means “SUBMISSION”, there is NO free gift or guarantee of salvation outside of dying a martyr. That most often entails dying through suicide (often taking the lives of others) in the name of spreading the Islamic faith.

In China, there is Buddhism which is a communist, atheistic religion. Buddhist based governments forbid the worship of any god outside of the the emperor or president of the country who is to be worshipped as the only “god”.

In Mormonism, only a few select men (not women) can become a god of a planet in outer space. In contrary, only Christianity equally offers true salvation to all people, in all countries, from all cultures, despite the color of their skin or their gender. This is the Good News of the Gospels of Jesus Christ and the Bible in whole.

Now that we have established the fact that true equality is found only through Jesus Christ our Lord, let’s pick up with verse five which leads to God’s Word hammering the point of EQUALITY with five consecutive statements.

1) “v.5 Every valley shall be filled…”

2) “…and every mountain and hill shall be made low…”

3) “…and the crooked shall become straight…”

4) “…and the rough places shall become level ways…”

5) “v.6 “…and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”

The first four points make paint word pictures of two opposites illustrating the fact that God will take both valleys and mountains to create an even-equal entity. God will level mountains, creating no high’s or lows-only all things equal. God will make the crooked things of this world straight and rough terrain level. These are all illustrations designed to teach us of God’s equality regarding His offer of salvation to all human beings despite their background.

If there is any question about what I just stated, let’s take a look at the fifth point which is found in verse six which says:

“…AND ALL FLESH SHALL SEE THE SALVATION OF GOD”.

Notice that God doesn’t say “SOME flesh” shall see the salvation of God”. God makes clear beyond question that “ALL FLESH” shall see the salvation of God. That said, seeing is not always believing, and not all people will take advantage of God’s equal offering of salvation. This is because there are people who won’t believe and trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Because of that, God’s offering of salvation equally extended to them cannot be given to them because simply because they reject that equal gift.

IN CONCLUSION, we can’t blame God for inequality because inequality is man-made. God see’s not color, race, gender or another things in offering His free gift of salvation,. That is on us to accept or reject.

As we established up front, culture and the world at large speak quite a bit about “Equality”. The world in all its sin, distorts differences between people as opposed to uniting the world under the Ultimate All Good, All Just and All Loving Savior Jesus Christ. Instead, many in world leadership beat the drum of “color equality”, “racial equality”, “income equality”, “gender equality”, and the list goes on.

In the end, Jesus Christ is the only true equalizer. God in Christ created ALL human beings “equal” in value to Him. And with that, God has made salvation and eternal life equally available to all people from all cultures, countries, continents, and color.

And this is PERFECT-TRUE EQUALITY.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27).

Politics are fickle. What do I mean by that? Simply that in many if not most cases, political success in a morally depraved world is based on "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY". Better yet, "REMEMBER WHAT I DID FOR YOU", meaning how much money a person gave one's campaign which helped elect them. The problem is that politics are fickle and nobody remains in power forever. Because that is the case, politicians tend to amass as much money as they can before they are deposed from office. This is were compromise and corruption infests the godless leader's sole. When a person, especially a politician fails to listen to their pastor and no longer reads their Bible-implementing it in their life, they become unteachable. When such a leader can no longer take moral advise from God's leading, they end up usurped and broke once again. Perhaps, this is why politicians and corrupt business leaders become corrupt and amass as much money as they can while they are in office.

Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 in the English Standard Version say this:
"13 Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. 14 For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. 15 I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king's place. 16 There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind."

IN other words, the poor young man who comes "from prison" and who forgets how fickle people can be may himself be reduced again back to poverty by a second usurper. Perhaps this explains why so many politicians are mediocre to poorly or skilled people. They tend to be average people (who came from nothing) because many of them cannot make it in the real world of work. It's hard to be a principle-based person (politician) so does the right thing in effort to do the best thing for God and others. Doing so takes mental acuity, discipline, moral conviction, and a great bit of wisdom which comes from the Lord . "For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding" (Proverbs 2:6).

On top of God's wisdom and all things mentioned above, it takes skill, experience and a bright mind to fix problems and create and implement solutions. To solve problems that impede people from getting everything from affordable healthcare to drivable roads, to world peace takes takes discipline, creativity, intelligence, ethic and effort. For those who lack such things, stealing from the average person is the only other option for them to become wealthy.

Perhaps, the reason we have had so many foolish, average and corrupt politicians is because we keep voting into office representatives who are just that-politician. A politician can get into office with biblical, Christ centered convictions, but it's very difficult to remain in political office. By it's very inception, the role of any political office we designed to be TEMPORARY, not PERMINENT. In order to REMAIN in office, one must compromise and divert from God's Word in an effort to make a livng doing and getting favors from others in an effort to remain in power and amass corrupt wealth. This explains the state of American and European politics. 

Perhaps politicians who make a career out of politics-in most (if not all) cases are morally compromised people who have abandoned God's convictions in their life for riches and power in return. This also explains why so many politicians come to office with very little if any money and leave extremely wealthy. They don't create any wealth or earn much if any of that money out of their own hard work, but instead get political favors and dirty money favors such as homes and other material wealth given to them out of favors delievered while in office; form exorbiten speaking fees, and in the case of President Joe Biden's son Hunter Binden, $1million dollars for his paintings. The guy isn't even an artist. 

So, in the end, this explainso one thing which is that POLITICS ARE FICKLE. And because polics are fickle, it makes clear as to why politicians steal and pillage as much as they can while in office. Thankfully for us, we have Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 which makes clear that it is...
"13 Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. 14 For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. 15 I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king's place. 16 There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind."

God provides us quite a bit of wisdom in the Bible regarding stress, worry and anxiety. Today, through Matthew chapter 6, I am going to break down five specific points God's Word gives us as to WHY we ought not allow anxiety to overtake us. In the end, it's up to each one of us to trust in God and accept the true reason(s) for our anxiety. Let's get started.