Racism Is Not an Opinion. It Is Division. Racism Is a Weapon of the Enemy

I am not here to be polite with demons. I am here to confront lies. Racism and sexism are not “political views,” personalitys, natural, or generational habits. They are sin. Any system, attitude, joke, policy, or sermon that treats one race or one gender as less than another is in open rebellion against the God who made us in His image. We cannot disciple what we refuse to name. So let’s name it: racism is sin. Sexism is sin. Period.

1. The Enemy’s Tactic: Division

The devil has always known he can’t defeat God, so he tries to fracture what God has joined. From Eden to today, Satan has one primary weapon: division. Divide the family. Divide the church. Divide the nations. Divide by skin tone, accent, zip code, paycheck, or gender. If he can get us to fear one another, despise one another, and rank one another, he can keep us from standing as one body.

Yeshua told us plainly what the enemy is up to: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” (John 10:10, ESV). Racism and sexism steal dignity, kill hope, and destroy unity. They are not harmless biases; they are instruments of the thief.

And the Word tells us where the real battle is: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12, ESV). That means our fight is not ultimately against the white man, the Black man, the rich woman, the poor woman, this tribe, or that ethnicity. Our fight is against the invisible powers that whisper, “You are superior. They are inferior. You deserve; they do not.” When you see racism or sexism, you are seeing the fingerprints of hell.

2. A Brief History of Racism and Sexism as Weapons

Throughout history, racism and sexism have been sharpened into weapons. Human beings, made in the image of God, have been kidnapped, chained, bought, and sold, their worth reduced to a price tag. That is not just an economic system; that is a spiritual war against the God who said, “Let us make man in our image” and who breathed His own breath into our lungs.

Slavery on plantations, ships packed with bodies, whips cutting into backs — these were not just “labor practices.” They were altars where a false god of greed demanded the blood of bodies. Colonialism marched under the banners of “civilizing” and “progress,” but behind it often stood a spirit of domination that declared, “Our skin, our language, our customs are above yours. Your land, your children, your labor belong to us.” That is not just politics. That is principalities and powers.

Segregation did not just separate water fountains and schoolhouses; it announced from every sign and policy, “You are unclean. You are unwanted. You are unsafe.” Laws were written as if one image-bearer of God could be legally certified as less than another. And the subjugation of women, denying education, silencing voices, excusing abuse, locking gifts in the shadows, has long been justified with twisted scriptures and cultural traditions. But listen carefully: when you silence the daughters and Mothers, you maim the body of Christ. When you despise the poor, the immigrant, the dark-skinned or light-skinned, you insult the One who formed them in the womb.

These are not just “systems” that need reform. They are strongholds that need to be torn down in the name of Yeshua. Racism and sexism deform the face of the church until the watching world can no longer recognize Christ in us. And that is exactly what the enemy wants.

3. Love Your Enemies… What Yeshua Actually Said

Now, some hear this and say, “But aren’t we supposed to just love everyone and move on?” Yes, we are called to love, but not to lie. Jesus said, “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44, ESV). He spoke those words to people under the boot of an empire, people who knew injustice firsthand.

To love your enemy means you refuse to become what hurt you. It means you confront sin without letting hatred rot your own heart. It means praying, even through tears and gritted teeth, “Lord, change them. Open their eyes. Heal what is broken in them so they stop breaking others.” It means you stand up and say, “This is wrong,” while also saying, “And I will not let this wrong make me bitter, small, or vengeful. I belong to Yeshua!”

When Yeshua hung on the cross, nailed there by a system full of injustice and prejudice, He did not deny the evil. He named it: “They do not know what they are doing.” And yet He prayed, “Father, forgive them” (Luke 23:34). That is what love in the face of hatred looks like: clear-eyed about sin, yet fiercely committed to mercy.

4. “Those That Condemn You”… What Condemn Really Means

In Isaiah 54:17, God makes a promise to His people: “No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD” (ESV).

Some translations say, “every tongue that rises against you in judgment you shall condemn.” That Hebrew word often rendered “condemn” is rasha (רָשַׁע). It does not mean to hate the person or desire their destruction. It means to declare something wicked, to expose it as wrong, to call it what it truly is.

So when a “tongue” rises against you, a racist comment, a sexist joke, a policy that shuts you out because of your gender or your skin, you are not called to smile and be quiet. You are given, by God, the authority to condemn that tongue: to say, “This is not of God. This is not truth. This is not who I am and not who you are called to be.”

You do not have to curse the person to condemn the sin. You do not have to dehumanize the one who dehumanized you. In Christ, you can stand up with holy boldness and say, “Racism is evil. Sexism is evil. What you spoke over me was a lie. I reject it. I expose it. I send it back to hell where it came from.” That is not hate; that is spiritual warfare done in the light.

Isaiah says, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” Some of those weapons are words, systems, and attitudes that try to slice at your identity day after day. They may wound, but in Christ they will not win. Your heritage as a servant of the Lord is this: you get to answer back with truth.

5. Christ’s Appearance History and Scripture

One of the subtle tools of racism has been to remake Yeshua in a “preferred image”. For centuries, many have seen paintings of a pale, light-haired, and sometimes even blue-eyed Christ or green eyed and absorbed, without words, the message: holiness looks like this. But history and Scripture testify differently. Or something more recognizable is that angels are always recognized this way.

Yeshua was born among ancient Hebrews in the Middle East, in a land surrounded by dark-skinned peoples. The ancient Hebrews and their Arabic neighbors did not look like the fair-skinned figures of later European art. If you walked the dusty streets of first-century Judea, you would have seen sun-browned faces, dark eyes, dark hair, and features shaped by that region’s long history. Yeshua did not step into history as a European; He came as a middle eastern man that fit in there. Notice the story of Esau they made it clear that he was different, Notice the story of Noah It was made clear that he looked different as well, Or how about the story of Enoch. See where I’m going with this? Please don’t misunderstand that I am condemning any light colored race as every race is beautiful and special and made by the mighty hand of God.

Scripture gives us symbolic, yet telling, images. Daniel saw a vision of the Ancient of Days: “As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool” (Daniel 7:9, ESV). In Revelation, John describes the risen Son of Man: “The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace” (Revelation 1:14–15, ESV). The language of wool-like hair and bronze-like feet has resonated deeply with believers, who have long been told their features were “less than.” While these are visionary descriptions, they dismantle the lie that only one kind of body can reflect the glory of God.

Numbers 6:5, speaking of the Nazirite vow, says, “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long” (ESV). By the time of Yeshua, Jewish men were known to keep their hair “shorn like a sheep” and their beards trimmed, but kept. Yeshua likely wore the ordinary hair and beard of a Jewish man of His day, Remember, he kept the law, nothing bizarre, nothing exotic, nothing that would make Him stand out visually in a crowd.

And this is exactly what we see in the Gospels. When the authorities came to arrest Yeshua, He was not glowing in the dark. He did not tower over everyone with a different skin tone. They needed Judas. “While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Yeshua to kiss him, but Yeshua said to him, ‘Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?’” (Luke 22:47–48, ESV). Judas had to identify Him with a kiss precisely because, in appearance, Yeshua blended in with His people. Off topic, but this will be a bizarre topic I will discuss on my next post….. He drew near to Yeshua to kiss him, but Yeshua said to him, ‘Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss? Compared to modern days…??? Please subscribe so you don’t miss a thing And to help this message reach more people. Thank you in advance!

Why does this matter? Because when we paint Yeshua only in the image of one race, we rob other races of seeing themselves in His story. We subtly preach that some bodies are closer to God than others. But if Christ’s skin was dark like many in His region, then many children never doubt that their features belong in the presence of God. And even beyond ethnicity, the deeper truth is this: the eternal Son took on our humanity, not ones humanity.

6. One Blood, One Body

The Bible does not leave room for a racial hierarchy. Acts 17:26 declares, “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth” (ESV). One man. One starting point. That means every nation, every ethnicity, every people group shares a common origin under God. Racism tries to build a pyramid of worth; God tells us we all stand on the same ground, formed from the same dust, breathed into by the same Spirit.

And in Christ, the walls get even thinner. Paul writes, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ” (Galatians 3:28, ESV). That does not erase our cultures, stories, or bodies. It means none of them can be used as a ladder to climb above our brothers or sisters becoming more special than the other.

There is no verse that reads, “There is neither Black nor white, African nor European, Asian nor Latin American, for you are all one in capitalism or one in nationalism.” No. Our unity is not built on the flag, the economy, or the majority culture. Our unity is built in the crucified and risen Christ, who purchased with His blood “people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9, ESV).

Racism and sexism spit on that blood. They say, “Your tribe, your language, your pigment, your gender, your class put you ahead or behind.” The Gospel answers, “At the foot of the cross, the ground is level.” In the body of Christ, no one stands above; we all kneel together.

7. A Closing Call: Refuse Division, Love Boldly, Expose Lies

So what do we do with all of this? We refuse to partner with the enemy’s division. We stop excusing racist comments as “just how they grew up.” We stop laughing off sexist jokes that cut down our sisters and brothers. We repent where we have believed the lie of superiority or swallowed the lie of inferiority. And we choose, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to love boldly across every line hell has drawn.

You are called to a fierce, gentle courage: to sit at tables with people who do not look like you, to listen to stories that make you uncomfortable, to speak up when a meeting, a classroom, or a pulpit turns into a stage for prejudice. You are called to expose hatred with truth, not with more hatred. To condemn the lies without condemning the image-bearer. To remember that the same Yeshua who carried your sin also carried the sin of the one who wounded you.

In Acts 10, God showed Peter a vision of a sheet filled with “unclean” animals and said, “Do not call anything unclean that I have made clean.” Then God sent Peter to a Gentile’s home, someone Jews saw as racially and culturally unclean. Peter realized the vision wasn’t just about food, but about people, races and nationalities. God was saying that no race or group is inferior, and no one whom God calls clean should ever be treated or called as unworthy or unclean. Christ condemned prejudice and declared both all foods and all people clean.

The first page of the Bible still stands as a verdict over every racist ideology and every sexist structure. Genesis 1:27 declares, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (ESV). That means every person you see every shade of brown, white, and beige, every woman, every man, every child, carries a glory NOBODY has the right to despise.

So today, in Yeshuas name, lay down the lies. If you have been wounded by racism or sexism, hear this: the weapon formed against you will not ultimately prosper. Your worth was decided at the cross, not in the mouths of your enemies. If you have wielded those weapons, even in ignorance, lets repent. There is mercy. There is cleansing. There is a new way to see.

Let us become the kind of church hell is afraid of: a people who refuse division, who lock arms across race and gender and class and ethnicity, who speak truth with fire and love with tenderness, who see the image of God in every face and bow only to the One whose blood makes us one. Amen