Unity In Motive
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Unity In Motive
Unity In Motive
After the flood God tells Noah!
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
One Language and one way to pronounce their words!
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And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 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.
They said to one another:
Let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly
“They had brick for stone, and bitumen (flex seal) for mortar”
Creativity comes from the creator!
Every Idea / Program / Dream / Desire to create comes from God.
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.”
Come let us build ourselves a city - There was nothing wrong with that!
A tower with its top in the heavens - Ok there is nothing wrong with that!
“Let us make a name for ourselves” - “Lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” (Remember that was God’s plan)
They settled there and began to build their city and tower to make a name for themselves.
They settled there and began to build their city and tower to make a name for themselves. From their motive and from their actions it becomes clear that these “Shinarites” had immense pride—what one could call hubris. They had been commanded to spread out and fill the earth (9:7), but they came together and strengthened their identity. This was open rebellion against the command of God; more than that, it was independence from God. In the Bible, humility is often equated with trust and obedience, and pride with independence and disobedience. Here they came together to strengthen themselves with their building and to become famous. They were driven by the fear of being scattered and the pride of becoming famous. They tried to avoid the very thing God wanted; and the way they chose to avoid it would make them famous, but not as they thought.
From their motive and from their actions it becomes clear that they had immense pride.
They had been commanded to spread out and fill the earth (9:7), but they came together and strengthened their identity.
This was open rebellion against the command of God; more than that, it was independence from God.
Here they came together to strengthen themselves with their building and to become famous. They were driven by the fear of being scattered and the pride of becoming famous. They tried to avoid the very thing God wanted.
Doesn’t this remind us of another couple!
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
“And you will be like God” - Enemy of my identity and image!
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. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Behold they are one people / They have all on language / This is only the beginning of what they will do
Nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible fore them!
Confuse their language: cause difficulty for understanding
cause difficulty for understanding
God is the author of confusion
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.
As in all the churches of the saints,
God is not a God of disorder!
Could it be that things in your life just don’t feel like its coming together:
Marriage
Singleness
Your making money / Career / United in different area but is my motive right!
God knows how to confuse my plan!
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They settled there and began to build their city and tower to make a name for themselves. From their motive and from their actions it becomes clear that these “Shinarites” had immense pride—what one could call hubris. They had been commanded to spread out and fill the earth (9:7), but they came together and strengthened their identity. This was open rebellion against the command of God; more than that, it was independence from God. In the Bible, humility is often equated with trust and obedience, and pride with independence and disobedience. Here they came together to strengthen themselves with their building and to become famous. They were driven by the fear of being scattered and the pride of becoming famous. They tried to avoid the very thing God wanted; and the way they chose to avoid it would make them famous, but not as they thought.