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Genesis 11:4 · BSB
11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
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…pick up on this as we're reading the story. Moses is highlighting the problem for us because before we even get to the story of Abram, if you go toGenesis chapter 11, look what he says in verse 30. Now Sarai was barren. She had no child. So for the reader of Genesis, we should have Siren's blaring. What do we…
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…Where do I fit in? The Bible tells us there are two stories about making a name for yourself. The first story is the story of the Tower of Babel inGenesis chapter 11. It tells us of a people that they were building this tower and they were saying, Let us make a name for ourselves. Just one chapter later in…
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…of next week. Not this week, but the next. So, you're all welcome to come join us as it suits. Brother Luke Benich is our speaker. Turn with me toGenesis chapter 11. This morning we heard from... A couple people, a few people, Brother Kevin brought out the lessons from the life of Cain, and we're going to be…
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…ourselves and reach greater heights by our own efforts. And it's all based on our own merit or worthiness. If you think back not so long ago toGenesis chapter 11, in which these people tried to build a tower that would reach into the heavens. They wanted to prove their greatness and thought of themselves…
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…from the passage. The first one we're going to look at are the delays from God. And this is where I'm going to ask you to turn to your Bible.Genesis chapter 11. We read verse 30. Now Sarah was barren. She had no children. Okay. Chapter 15 of Genesis. Verse 2. But when God came to Abram, he said, Abram,…
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…see the effects of sin. Continue. Noah screws up immediately. And his kids who have have kids, who have kids, who have kids, and that brings us toGenesis chapter 11. Not just self, not just marriage, nature, family, God, but we're about to see conflict with something else. Chapter 11, verse 1 says, Now the…
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…because of all the people on the earth, God would choose this man to speak to. That's significant. Here's why. If you look at the end ofGenesis chapter 11, we're introduced to Abram very briefly there, and we're told that Abram came from a place called Ur of the Chaldeans. Now, Ur, there's some debate…
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…that Noah's family walks in Adam's footsteps and they sin. And what we've seen is more, another downward spiral, which culminates last week inGenesis chapter 11at the Tower of Babel. You remember the whole earth joined together, disobeying God's command to spread out and to multiply and to fill the earth.…
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…like there's a wonderful atmosphere of worship, and I think our hearts, our hearts are ripe to receive God's word. So go with me if you would toGenesis chapter 11. If you're new here today, I want to say welcome. Uh, we tend to peep preach book by book uh through our sermon series, and we happen to be in…
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…out of this evil marriages, it says literally the men, it says the men of renown, but in Hebrew, that's the men of the name. And later on inGenesis chapter 11, the climax of this whole section, what did they say? They said, let us build a name for ourselves against God. And so you see what it's doing?…
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…of course, I am kidding, because after I got to look at this passage, um, I uh I really learned a lot. And in the context of Genesis chapter 9 andGenesis chapter 11and other passages in the Bible that we'll look at this morning, there is a lot that we can um see from Genesis chapter number 10. But there in…
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…long list of all these different nations that are represented. And there's something going on even deeper here. See, there's this strange story inGenesis chapter 11, the Tower of Babel. After the flood, and the world begins to repopulate and build cities. There are people who want to, as the scripture says,…
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…the 120 followers of Jesus has turned to over 3000 people in a melting pot from every nation around. Right? It's exact opposite of what happens inGenesis chapter 11. In Genesis chapter 11, it's the story of the Tower of Babel and what happens to the Tower of Babel. 00:19:42:58 - 00:20:10:25 Unknown People are…
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…author is making this change is that it is a throwback, a look back, to the ancient story of the Tower of Babel. Maybe you remember that story inGenesis chapter 11. And so the Tower of Babel was being described as being in the place of Shinnar. And so Babel was a story of where humanity decided we're not going…
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…up one. For John to come see this picture of the heavenly realm, what does he have to do? He has to come up here. I love this comical moment inGenesis chapter 11at the Tower of Babel. And uh man and woman, they're trying to build their way up to the heavens. They're trying to show just how impressive they…
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…house of his God. Notice, he took God's elements from God's temple and said, no, it's this God that we worship. Now Babylonia is first mentioned inGenesis chapter 11. It's the story of the Tower of Babel for those of you that may have read it. we learn that humanity became obsessed with itself and self -glory…
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…for you. There's these huge blocks of these characters. And so Abraham gets chapters 11 to chapters 25, and so he is a huge portion of the book ofGenesis. Chapters 11and 12 is when God calls Abraham, tells him to leave his father's family, go to a land that I will show you, I will make you into a great nation, I…
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…set up after they get off the ark, and they are told, be fruitful and multiply and replenish. Go throughout the world, multiply yourselves. And inGenesis chapter 11, right, it says that they actually didn't want to be scattered, and so they rebel against God's desire, and they want to make a name for themselves…
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…against or to reign, but without violence in this context, without violence and death. This is important because when we are going to move toGenesis chapter 11, you will see the exact opposite of Genesis 1, 26 to 28 happening. So that's why I have to pass through this. So the words replenish, multiply,…
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…word also which is the word fruitful was derived from the word parah, p -a -r -a -h. This is important because when we are now going to move toGenesis chapter 11, right, Babel, you understand why there was the division that happened in Babel that led on to the emerging of different nations. All right, so…
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