Reversals From Babel

Text: Genesis 11:4-9

Intro: I Love seeing God turns things around (He is Sovereign, making good from our bad)

Make a Name For Ourselves

Babels Desire for Glory

Lets make a name for ourselves

Lets Work our way to heaven

lets be God

Man Glorifying Himself

1. in prominence

2. in salvation

3. In deification

a. crazy individuals

b. Governments

Making a Name For God

1. Two Ways

a. God Makes a name for us

b. We Make a name for God

At Babel, men said, “Let us!” but to Abraham, God said, “I will.” At Babel, men wanted to make a name for themselves; but it was God who made Abraham’s name great.

Warren W. Wiersbe

2. God Makes The Way to Heaven

3. Let God Be God

a. Acts 4:12

Confusion of Tongues

God Confuses Their Language

I love looking into cultures that have the confusion of tongues

look at book in library

using language to spread falsehood

their language was used to bring them all together, not spread across the world

a. Genesis 1:28

Man’s Worst Influence: Himself

1. Some of the worst places to be in morally is a city

God Gives Miracle of Tongues

Acts 2:1-11

Using language to spread truth

we spread Gods word all over the world

Dispersion of Nations

God Dispersing Mankind

1. Why Did God Do This?

Be Fruitful and multiply and FILL The Earth (Gen. 1:28, 9:1)

2. God Disinherits The Nations

God’s Solution To This Is Gradual

1. Gods Chosen People For The Messiah

2. Gods Promise To Re-Inherit The Nations

a. Is. 66:18

God Regathering The Nations Under Christ

Matthew 28:18-20