Topic: Tower of Babel
Gen 11:1-9 Please read
Don't try to build a skyscraper and end up with a hut. Never build without the proper permits!
The Plan
The text tells us all the people at that time spoke the same language. They formed a tight bond with one another. They found a beautiful piece of land and built a city. Then they decided to build the tallest skyscraper, so tall that it would reach heaven.The is equivalent of us deciding we are going to get a group together and walk into the white house, or buckingham palace, or a military base. It's not going to happen. We may have what it takes but the mission will be averted. An idle mind is a devils workshop, we have to fill our mind with God's word anything else will have us believing & doing things we shouldn't.
It was an offense to God, to build a structure to come into his house without authority. God doesn't come into our house without being invited, he is a gentleman. They were out of order. How many of us are doing things in our lives right now that goes against God and is out of order? How many of us are in an environment that is out of order?
The Alarm
God's secret service informed him of a possible intrusion. He came down from heaven to personally witness the plan of offense.Its that feeling when someone tells you your kids are planning to do something in your home, when they do not have permission. You know they have the ability but you want to actually see it, because you just can't believe they would try it.
We are made in God's likeness and his image (Gen 1:27). He knows what we are capable of and he knows what we can do before we do it. God realized they would reach heaven if he didn't intervene.
We often go down a dark road to destruction and before we utterly destroy ourselves, God will intervene. God will cause us to get caught, only to save us from ourselves.
You may have been out with friends engaging in acts you weren't supposed to and God caused an event to occur to change your behavior. He knew that if you continued down that path you would destroy the promise he had for you.
Maybe you are involved in something today, that you need to turn away from, but your pride, your stubbornness, your drive, & your ambition will not let you turn away. Know that God will intervene. He will intervene in a way you do not want.
The people at that time had two primary motives they didn't want to separate and they wanted to make a name for themselves. Our name is not greater than God's name. God's name alone is excellent (Psa 148:13). In his name there is power.
Have you ever seen the lion king when they mention Mufasa to his enemies they shutter ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8G3UefIkU).
We are God's children and we take him for granted. The enemy knows his power and are fearful of his very name.
The Fix
God decides to cause them to speak different languages therefore causing them to sound like babbling to each other. Hence the title the tower of Babel. They could no longer communicate with each other and had to go in separate ways. God brought about confusion and rendered their plan ineffective. The very thing they feared came to past. We have to take a moment and recognize God's awesome nature.
Revelation
When we exalt ourselves above God and we begin operating outside of his will he will bring about confusion. He will bring about a change in plan. He will bring to past that very thing we feared. He will cause our name to be a curse instead of a blessing (Deut 28:37).
Maybe you are working or living in an environment surrounded by wickedness and you need to pray that God sends confusion.
Imagine if we all worked together doing God's will. We wouldn't need to trespass to heaven, God would give us the keys and invite us in.
There is only one name that is excellent. His name alone is excellent. When God spoke it came to past. He didn't need plans or potions he spoke it and it was. God said let their be light and it was, (Gen 1) everything God speaks comes to past. God has spoke powerful things over our lives. The difference is when God spoke and said let their be light, the light obeyed.
We are too busy doing what we want and when God calls us to be light we do not obey. When God calls us to be the head we think we are the tail (Duet 28). When God calls us to be a lender we continue to borrow. Be like the light and obey. Don't allow your dreams of skyscrapers to land you in a hut living in confusion.
We don't recognize who God is, we don't understand his power. God is patient he will allow us time but we cannot play Russian roulette with our lives or other lives.
Conclusion
Never build without the proper permits!
Together we have the power to do evil or good. If we do evil God will allow us time but he will eventually send confusion or allow us to face destruction.
We have God's spirit living in us, if we are in an environment that is working against God's will, we are God's secret service. We have the power of prayer, we can ask God to bring about confusion to the enemy and render him ineffective.
Don't try to build a skyscraper and end up with a hut. Live for God, obey God, so we can have access to his kingdom where there are many mansions (John 14:2). Get the proper permits and build on rock not sand.
Pray:
God almighty. Your name alone is excellent. Forgive me for building skyscrapers in my life. Forgive me for seeing skyscrapers go up around me and not praying for confusion.. I allow you to come into my heart and teach me how to obey and live for you and your will. I give you the keys that you will have your way in me. In Jesus name. Amen
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Genesis 11:1-9
English Standard Version (ESV)
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in (A)the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, (B)and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower (C)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And (D)the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, (E)let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So (F)the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called (G)Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
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