God values both unity and diversity. He commanded humanity to "fill the earth" with diversity. Creation displays incredible diversity, from over 10,000 bird species to hundreds of millions of gods worshiped in Hinduism. However, Christianity teaches unity within the Trinity. Diversity ultimately reveals more of God's value as he unifies different people, things, and cultures. When all nations worship together in heaven, God will receive the greatest glory from redeeming and uniting diversity.

1. Unity & Diversity
In the Nature and Character of God

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3. Does God Value Diversity?
Does God Value Unity?

5. “Fill The Earth”
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule
over the fish in the sea and birds in the sky and over
every living creature that moves on the ground.” -
Genesis 1:28

6. Diversity in Creation

8. Diversity and God's Glory
Birds - over 10,000 species!!!
eagles, finches, sparrows, ducks, geese, penguins,
hawks, swans, wrens, owls, fly-catchers, nuthatches,
woodpeckers, loons, sapsuckers, turkeys, chickens,
weavers, hornbills, parrots, canaries, crows, magpies,
hummingbirds, roadrunners, sandpipers, seagulls,
albatrosses, falcons, toucans, frigatebirds, terns,
cormorants, puffins, coots, pelicans, grebes, rails,
chachalacas, vultures, swallows, pigeons, warblers,
orioles, thrushes, jays, kingfishers, waxwings, larks, etc,
etc, etc!

9. Unity & Diversity
Hinduism - Diversity (330 million gods)
Islam - Unity (There is no God but Allah)
Christianity - Trinity (unity in diversity)

10. Principle: God gets greater
glory by unifying that
which is diverse.

11. Colossians 1:19,20
He was supreme in the beginning and - leading the resurrection
parade - he is supreme in the end. From beginning t end he’s there
towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy,
that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding.
Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe
- people and things, animals and atoms - get properly fixed and fit
together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death his blood
poured out from the cross

12. Diversity reveals more of
God’s Value

13. Diversity Reveals God's Value
Diversity in Worship!

14. Redeeming Culture?
Only God created something out of nothing
Satan only counterfeits God’s Stuff

15. Culture in Heaven?
23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it,
for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the
earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its
gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The
glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.
- Revelation 21:23-26

16. Mugam
Musicians
Azerbaijan

17. Tar - Azerbaijan

21. Erhu ⼆二胡

22. Pipa 琵琶

33. Afghanistan

43. Turkey-Saz

49. Navajo Indian

50. Mongolia

51. Mongolia

52. BARAKA

53. Unifying Diversity
Principle: God gets greater glory by unifying that which
is diverse.
• Couple on verge of divorce
• Palestinian and an Israeli
• …every nation tribe and tongue

54. The Greatest Glory
When we are all worshiping with every
nation then God will not just receive glory
and not just greater glory but rather the
GREATEST glory

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