The Assault on Humanity part 5

Rebellion and Restoration

Opening remarks:

The History of man is a story of man’s pride and rebellion, God, His love and plan for redemption

Text: Genesis 11:1–9 “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

Why is this a problem ? What is the sin in building a city and a tower?

Man was unifying with each other but without God or God’s influence.

Man’s heart was full of pride as they said (lets make a name for ourselves) Proverbs 16:18–19 “Pride goeth before destruction, And an haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.”

The building of the Tower was a three fold sin , 1, because it was a means for the people to worship the gods ( practice idolatry)and 2, a means of self preservation incase there were ever to be another flood which leads into the 3rd sin of unbelief in regard to the covenant God made with Noah that He would not destroy the world by a flood again.