Children's Sermon: The Tower of Babel.

Good-morning!

Who can tell me what we talked about last week?

How many animals did Noah take on the ark?

Well, this morning, we are going to learn about the Tower of Babel. So, God was faithful and saved Noah, his wife and His sons and their wives. God saved eight people from the flood. Well after the flood, God commanded them to be fruitful and multiply. God made a covenant with them, a promise. He promised never to flood the earth again. And he set the rainbow in the sky to seal the promise. And He said that whenever we see the rainbow, it is a promise that God will never flood the whole earth again. So when you see a rainbow, that is God’s promise to never flood the whole earth again. And we can trust God’s promises.

Well, They had lots of kids, and mankind again grew. Well, God commanded them to fill the earth. They were to spread out and fill the earth with life. But once again, mankind began to become more and more sinful. And that is where we pick up.

Genesis 11:1–9  Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in 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, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower 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.”

You see, mankind only had one language. And these great rulers came together to build a massive tower. They did this in pride. You see, man had begun worshipping false gods and doing all kinds of evil again. And they, in their pride wanted to build this massive monument. And this was a monument to their sin and pride. So they started building. But God knew what they were doing.

5 And 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.

God saw the evil in the heart of man, and He knew that they would only get more and more evil and prideful. So God does something.

7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

God went down and confused their language. What that means is God made them speak all kinds of languages. They no longer all spoke the same language. And this halted the work. You cannot build something if you cannot talk to each other. So they divided out into groups of people by language and they left.

8 So 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 Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Argumentation:

You see, we have a lot of languages on earth. Some people speak Chinese, or Spanish, or German, or French, or English like us, or more. All of those different languages come from God doing this at the Tower of Babel. Sure, the languages have changed, but that is where they come from.

And their sin was pride and rejecting God. You see, it is not sinful to build things. God commands us to build things. He even says we should be good at building things. No, their sin was that they were proud and thought they could become great, even reaching God by building this. They wanted to be like God. That is the same thing that the dragon told Eve in the garden of Eden. They thought they could become gods. But there is only one God. And we are to worship and serve Him alone.

So when we come together to do anything, we should not be proud or puffed up. We should obey God and work hard with humility. We should worship God, not ourselves. God is great, we are not. Let’s pray.

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