Human race, and God

Though vastly superior to the human race, God nevertheless loves, sustains and governs it, sending his Son as a human being to redeem humanity.

God is incomparably superior to the human race

Isaiah 40:15–22 See also Job 25:1–6, Job 38:1–7; Psalm 8:3–4; Isaiah 31:1–3; Acts 17:24–25; 1 Corinthians 1:20–25

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust. Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering. All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness. To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him? To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains? One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple. Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth? He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

The human race is dependent upon God

Job 34:14–15 See also Job 12:10; Psalm 36:5–6; Acts 17:24–28

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

The human race is valued and loved by God

The human race is the object of God's care and compassion

Psalm 103:13 See also Psalm 10:17–18; Lamentations 3:31–33; Matthew 6:25–33 parallel Luke 12:22–31

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

God wants to bless the human race

Genesis 12:1–3; Romans 10:12

God wants to save the human race

John 3:16–17 See also 1 Timothy 2:1–4; 2 Peter 3:8–9

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

God highly values the human race and human life

Genesis 9:6 See also Exodus 20:13; Matthew 16:26 parallels Mark 8:36–37, Luke 9:25; 1 Peter 1:18–19

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

God is sovereign and watches over the human race

Psalm 33:10–15 See also Psalm 9:7–8; Proverbs 5:21; Daniel 5:18–21

The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance! The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth. He shapes the hearts of each; He considers all their works.

God will judge and punish the wickedness of the human race

Isaiah 2:12–17 See also Matthew 13:40–43; Acts 17:29–31; Romans 2:5–11

For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled— against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan, against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills, against every high tower, against every fortified wall, against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel. So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

God is to be feared and worshipped by the entire human race

Psalm 33:8; Romans 1:20–25 See also 1 Chronicles 16:28–31; Psalm 96:7–10

Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him.

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.