1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,200 Good morning. Everyone is great to see 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,000 everyone who's here. It is a good day. 3 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:08,000 Good day of worship. It's good to study God's word 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 and so I'm excited to lead our study this morning. 5 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:13,900 And if you would like to study with me, we're going to open up 6 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:17,600 to Genesis chapter 3. And we're going to kind of mole 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,400 through some of the beginning of Genesis and consider some 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,700 themes. And the reason I'm doing this is 9 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:25,400 because in our afternoon, Sunday worship for a while. 10 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,600 Now, we've been reading through the Old Testament and I've 11 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,200 countless times just been wanting to say way. 12 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:32,400 Wait, hold up, hold up. Let's let's talk about that for 13 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,300 a minute because we've just ran and read over so much because 14 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:39,000 we've covered so much ground. And I want to go back now and 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 pick up some of pick up some details where we studied in 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,200 Genesis and my title. I've given today is something 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:52,900 lost and where to find it and choose to introduce a study. 18 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,500 I'm going to focus on the Tower of Babel, but for the Tower of 19 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:59,400 Babel to make sense, we have to go back to the Garden. 20 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:02,800 We have to go. Back to when Adam and Eve were 21 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,300 in the garden and what happened there. 22 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:07,200 So we're going to cover some ground this morning. 23 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,800 I'm going to do my best to keep things moving because when 24 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,400 you're doing a theme to study and you're tracking a lot of 25 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,600 ground, it can go a little fast. So I apologize if that is the 26 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,200 case. Let's get moving in. 27 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,100 Genesis 3:1. So here's the scene is set. 28 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:26,600 God has created the world as we read in chapters 1 and 2. 29 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:30,100 And he created man and woman from man, it says, now in 30 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:33,300 chapter 3 verse 1. Now the serpent was more cunning 31 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,900 than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made, and 32 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,000 he said to the woman has God, indeed said You shall not eat of 33 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,600 the of every tree of the garden. So we have the first Temptation 34 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,400 man has ever seen and the world going on here. 35 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:51,200 The serpent is is And to manipulate this woman and the 36 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,000 woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the 37 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,200 Trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,500 the midst of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat 39 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:03,500 of it, nor shall you? Touch it, lest you die. 40 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:06,200 Okay, so quickly getting into some themes. 41 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,600 Satan has his way and he starts off by number one. 42 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,300 Trying to get Eve to reconsider and have confusion about 43 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:17,200 something. That was a very simple command. 44 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:20,600 Has he really told you that you Eat of every tree of the garden 45 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:24,100 and and Eve's response. The woman's responses good. 46 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:27,000 She says we may eat of the fruit of the Trees of the garden. 47 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,300 So there's plenty of trees for us to eat from God hasn't said 48 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:33,600 from every tree, but the fruit of the tree, which is what it 49 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,100 says in the midst of the garden. God is says, you shall not eat 50 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:40,300 of it. So, Eve, clarifies know, we can 51 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:42,400 eat of all these trees, but there's one, we can't. 52 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:46,500 It's that tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and so Satan's 53 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,200 goal. We're already starting to see 54 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,000 here is To have her, take her eyes off of all the blessings 55 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,400 and all of God's Providence that God has designed to give her and 56 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,700 to get her to focus on that. One thing that God said, don't 57 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:00,200 do that. Okay, so it's move on. 58 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:03,600 Then the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die 59 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:07,300 for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be 60 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:10,900 opened and you will be like God knowing Good and Evil. 61 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,500 So Satan tries to undermine the consequences of sin. 62 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:17,900 This is a second tactic. He says, you're not really gonna 63 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:22,200 die and maybe he meant that literally physically, she didn't 64 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,400 die, but spiritually. And for that Eternal being 65 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,900 perspective, the curse of sin is going to enter because of this 66 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:33,900 and man will die, but not in the moment. 67 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:35,400 He says you're not really gonna die. 68 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:38,400 He's trying to undermine the consequences of sin and for our 69 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,900 own lives. Satan wants us to do that. 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 He wants us to See things were perspective. 71 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,300 Like it's not really that bad for God knows that in the day 72 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:52,500 you eat of it, your eyes will be open and my classroom, that is 73 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:57,200 one of the things that it's not fear, but if a student starts to 74 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,500 try to undermine your systems and your Authority by saying, 75 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,400 the teacher don't worry about the teacher knows that when this 76 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,100 happens. This is really what's going to 77 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:09,400 happen and it's not what he wants from you. 78 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:12,500 So the saying this twisting and turning things in. 79 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:17,000 He's undermining God's Authority by saying things like old gods 80 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,500 knows this is going to happen. And next he overemphasizes the 81 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:25,700 gratification of sin he says your eyes are going to be open, 82 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,400 you're going to be like God, that's true. 83 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:31,300 They're going to have an awareness of what's right and 84 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:33,900 wrong. He's not lying to them but it's 85 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:36,700 not the whole truth. They're going to be like God in 86 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:39,000 the sense that they're going to know good and evil and God wants 87 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,100 them to be at peace right now. He created a garden where there 88 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:47,300 was no evil And they're going to be introduced to it because of 89 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:51,600 their own Rebellion. So Satan has several tactics. 90 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,200 He's already using on them here and I think he does the same 91 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,900 thing to us. So when the woman saw that the 92 00:04:56,907 --> 00:05:00,800 tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes and a 93 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:06,000 tree desirable to make one wise. She took of the fruit and ate. 94 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:09,900 So we already see the, the there were the result of Satan's 95 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:12,300 Temptation. She takes it and eat and eats 96 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:14,700 it. And my mind when I was studying 97 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:17,500 this, Is it just it's caught my attention? 98 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,100 What about the other trees? Eve was made by Satan to look at 99 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:24,800 the world. She was in like, this is all. 100 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,400 She could see. There's one tree. 101 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:28,100 There was only one tree you need. 102 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:29,300 And there's only one tree you want. 103 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:30,700 And God doesn't want you to have it. 104 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:32,900 He's owned her perspective on something. 105 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:36,900 That she was supposed to have. And so she saw the world, like 106 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:40,600 this is this one tree. When, in reality, this was a 107 00:05:40,608 --> 00:05:43,200 lush Garden. God had given them everything 108 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,500 they needed. He'd give them all Providence. 109 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,900 Providing for all the fruits that they would need to survive 110 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:56,500 by and live by, and be cared with and for But Satan made her 111 00:05:56,500 --> 00:06:01,000 see this seen through this lens. There is one tree in the midst 112 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,500 of a garden that he made her see. 113 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:07,100 And for you, and I today, the first lesson I take from this is 114 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:11,200 we must choose joy and contentment in the field of 115 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,000 trees. God has blessed us with There 116 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,200 are things that Satan will try to get into your mind and make 117 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,700 you see things through a terrible perspective. 118 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,700 In reality, we are all cared for in many ways. 119 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,300 If not maybe in your own, maybe physical life, maybe you don't 120 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:29,200 see all the blessings there. Look here. 121 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,600 Look at everything here, dwell on this because God has given us 122 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,200 a field of trees, a fueled of everything we need. 123 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:44,300 We have to learn to find joy and contentment in the field of 124 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:46,700 trees around us and not get locked in on that one. 125 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,800 The Satan is trying to get us focused on. 126 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 So here's the five things, Satan undermines a simple 127 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,900 understanding of what's right. He undermines the consequences 128 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:57,400 of sin. He distracts her and he 129 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,800 undermines the authority of God by speaking on God's behalf. 130 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:05,700 He utilizes half-truths and you overemphasize the gratification 131 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,300 that sin will bring okay quickly moving on In this verse where 132 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:17,600 the woman made this mistake, we have the three things, John will 133 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,600 say the lust of the flesh, the pride of life and the lust of 134 00:07:20,608 --> 00:07:22,900 the eyes. She saw the tree was good for 135 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:24,500 food. Her flesh, wanted it. 136 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:27,700 She saw there was pleasant to the eyes, the lust of the eyes, 137 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 and it was desirable to make one wise the pride of life. 138 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,900 This is from the beginning, John first, John, the letter, the 139 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:40,700 letter first, John writes from a place of experience, but from a 140 00:07:40,700 --> 00:07:44,300 place of seeing and living only in a world full of the fall and 141 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:48,300 for of, it's full of its consequences, says this. 142 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:52,900 And in his letter, John, the Elder says Do not love the world 143 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:57,100 or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the 144 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:01,100 love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world, 145 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:04,300 all that the flesh wants and all those desires of the flesh. 146 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,800 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life 147 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,800 is not of the father. But is of the world. 148 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:15,300 For all that the world has brought offer. 149 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:18,800 He says in verse 16, and verse 17, he says, and the world is 150 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:24,400 passing away and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God 151 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:30,800 abides forever as we consider Eaves and ultimately Adams fall 152 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,400 into sin, And as we consider our own battle with sin, remember 153 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,400 that there is nothing. There is nothing Sinha stock for 154 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,900 us. It's passing away all of it in 155 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:48,200 its entirety, but Satan got her, got her, and gets us to look at 156 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,100 it in a different way. Like it's everything we could 157 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:52,500 think about, right in front of us. 158 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:57,000 She goes on, it goes on to say she also gave to her husband 159 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:02,100 with her and he ate sent has a powerful corrupting influence on 160 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:05,500 the people around us. You have influenced careful 161 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:09,800 where you use it verse 7, then the eyes of both of them were 162 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,500 open. So this is really what I want to 163 00:09:11,508 --> 00:09:13,800 start to emphasize. This is going to make the Tower 164 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,500 of Babel kind of make more sense verse 7. 165 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:20,200 Then the eyes of both of them were opened like today. 166 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,800 Like the devil said what happened? 167 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,900 And they knew that they They were naked. 168 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:28,400 And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves 169 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,500 covering the First theme. We see, this is the first sin, 170 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:38,400 this is Man's first attempt, a man's first Petty, attempt to 171 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:43,800 cover his sin, and his shame that the fall brought him verse 172 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,400 8 and they heard the sound of the Lord. 173 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,900 God Walking In The Garden in the cool of the day. 174 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:50,600 This is almost a mockery to us in Bakersfield. 175 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,500 And a lot of the valley, the cool of the day that the garden 176 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:57,600 was anticipated yet. Yet, they heard the sound of the 177 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,900 Lord God walking through and Adam and his wife hid themselves 178 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:06,300 from the presence of the Lord among the Trees of the garden. 179 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,800 This didn't happen before. Man In The Garden, dwelled in a 180 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,500 place of security and openness and freeness and 181 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:19,200 invulnerability. But now they want to hide And 182 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,100 this might not seem like a big deal, but this was not supposed 183 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:28,200 to happen. This is going to be a sign of an 184 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,000 inward longing, and an inward pain that we are going to fill 185 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,400 throughout human history. He desired to hide from God, 186 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:38,300 Among the Trees of the garden. So he said, I heard your voice 187 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:42,600 in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid 188 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,700 myself. I think this is the saddest line 189 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:49,200 in the whole Bible. Everything from this point 190 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,900 forward is going to be from a place of hope, it will. 191 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,900 And the New Testament says, we consider the Old Testament that 192 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:00,000 throw the that through patience and comfort of the scriptures. 193 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,500 We might have hope we're going to get there this morning but 194 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:04,600 this is sad because it's the reversal. 195 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:08,900 It's when everything was good. It's one man ultimately had 196 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:13,500 peace with God and he felt good. He was at peace and joyful and 197 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:18,200 secure and welcome and he had value and Its presence. 198 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:24,000 And then in this line everything, crumbles everything 199 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,300 falls apart and you feel that today I feel this weight today 200 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:34,900 to hide and have shame. And God said, who told you that 201 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:37,500 you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree? 202 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:39,400 Which I commanded you that you should not eat. 203 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:41,600 You can see the transition. It's almost like when you talk 204 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,000 to a child who taught you that word who taught you to say that 205 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,500 when they pick something up, they shouldn't have but these 206 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:51,600 aren't children. These are adults capable of 207 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,900 reasoning. And capable ultimately sin verse 208 00:11:54,900 --> 00:11:58,400 12 in the man, said, the woman who you gave to be with me, she 209 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,800 gave me got cut off down there. She gave me of the tree to eat. 210 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:11,300 Man's response, he hides and he seeks to cover and he starts to 211 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:14,200 blame. Shame leads to blame. 212 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:19,100 We can already see the the terrible influence of sins on 213 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:22,600 our hearts and on our disposition. 214 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:26,000 This is a terrible thing that already starts to happen. 215 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:31,200 The blame game, And so our Story begins in Genesis chapter 3, we 216 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:33,900 lost something. We lost security. 217 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,100 We lost peaceful vulnerability, we traded the True Value. 218 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:44,500 That God had, we traded that? Adam and Eve traded that. 219 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 So now the question is for the rest of the Bible, how will man 220 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,300 fill it? And that's where we're going to 221 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:54,100 move on to the flood and them in between chapters before between 222 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:57,200 the Tower of Babel. The flood happens, that man's 223 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:00,900 sin on the earth gets so bad that God has to clean it up and 224 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:03,600 start fresh. So man causes a flood on the 225 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:11,000 Earth and All the world except for except for this small, 226 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,300 family dies, and they're given a fresh start, there's a rainbow 227 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:17,800 given for God's assurance that he will, never flood the Earth 228 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,000 again and from this small, I believe it's eight people. 229 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:26,100 The small family, God restarts the world and he gives them an 230 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:30,000 important command. God tells them in verse 8:15, 231 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,100 the God, spoke to Noah saying, go out of the Ark. 232 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:37,000 That's important line, go out, don't stay there and let that be 233 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,800 your Hut forever live in the boat. 234 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:42,500 Go out from the ark you and your wife and your sons and your sons 235 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:44,300 wives with you, bring out with you. 236 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:47,800 Every living thing of All Flesh, that is with you birds and 237 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,900 cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground that 238 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:53,800 they may have bound on the earth and be Fruitful. 239 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:59,100 And multiply on the earth. Verse 9 of chapter 9 goes on to 240 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:01,700 say an extension of this. So God blessed, Noah and his 241 00:14:01,700 --> 00:14:05,300 sons and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill 242 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:08,300 the earth and the fear of you. And the dread of you shall be 243 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:11,100 upon every beast of the Earth, on every bird of the year, on 244 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:14,100 all that, move on the earth. And on all the fish of the sea, 245 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,900 they are given into your hand. There's an important connection 246 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,200 between going being fruitful and multiplying and filling the 247 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:27,000 Earth. And I'm in that process, God 248 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,800 will give God will provide in the process of going and 249 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,900 multiplying and fulfillment. But man's that depends on man's 250 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:38,700 reception to the call to go. This is a theme throughout the 251 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:42,200 Bible. So they're told to go to go to 252 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,100 multiply and fill the Earth, and as we're going to say, seeing 253 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:48,500 the Tower of Babel, this is what they do. 254 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:53,400 The opposite of And ultimately God wants to do this. 255 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:58,500 God wants them to do this, in his name, in God's name, for 256 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:02,100 God's glory and by God's will. So let's see what happens. 257 00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:06,000 Genesis 11:1. Now the whole earth had one 258 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,100 language and one speech it is hard to imagine this but this is 259 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:14,800 an etymology lesson for the Christian God started everything 260 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,400 with one language. I can't, I can't found the world 261 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,300 where everyone spoke the same language and it came to pass as 262 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:24,100 they journeyed, from the East that they found a plain in the 263 00:15:24,108 --> 00:15:27,900 land of shinar. And they dwelt there, then they 264 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:31,600 then they said to one another come let us make bricks and bake 265 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,500 them thoroughly. They had bricks for stone and 266 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:39,100 they had asphalt for Mortar and they said, come let us build 267 00:15:39,100 --> 00:15:43,300 ourselves a city and a tower. Whose top is in the heavens. 268 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:45,700 Let us make a name for ourselves. 269 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:49,000 Lest we be scattered? A turd abroad over the face of 270 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,700 the Earth. So first off, bring none. 271 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,300 What's the big deal? They want to build a city. 272 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:56,400 They can meet our, we're surrounded by these, right? 273 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:02,400 What's the big deal? And so they want to stay put 274 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:03,500 they don't want to be scattered, you know. 275 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:05,300 They probably want to be together as a family. 276 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:06,400 They probably want to be together. 277 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,600 So their power grows, what's the big deal? 278 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:14,800 Number one, they wanted to build themselves. 279 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,100 A city number two, they wanted a tower whose top is in the 280 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:21,800 heavens number three. They want to make a name for 281 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,400 ourselves and number four, they wanted to go against the command 282 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:34,600 of God to go and fill and be fruitful and multiply The 283 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,700 building ourselves a city is a sign of permanent and security. 284 00:16:38,900 --> 00:16:42,800 They wanted to find a sense of permanence and security and 285 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,400 themselves for themselves. They wanted to build a tower to 286 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,900 the heavens. They wanted to build something 287 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:51,900 that was permanent and was meaningful. 288 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:54,700 And they wanted to find a meaning in their own power, and 289 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:59,000 they wanted to make a name for themselves for their glory, for 290 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,800 their praise, and they want to directly against God's command 291 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,500 to fill the Earth. God always pushes his followers. 292 00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:12,099 To multiply grow and look outward from self. 293 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:18,099 But man, sinful man always looks inward to bill for his security 294 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:23,500 and Glory as we consider what makes us sin and what is kind of 295 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:26,300 at the root of our sins. I think we get a lot of Clues, 296 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:29,300 both from the garden. And now from the Tower of Babel 297 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:34,100 of what, where sin comes from and what leads to our own Center 298 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:35,800 our own hearts and this is part of it. 299 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,800 God tells us that we need to have, God tells us things. 300 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:46,100 Like having a person over to show hospitality and First Peter 301 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:48,900 chapter 5, but we tend to do the opposite. 302 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:51,000 We tend to maybe sit home and watch Netflix. 303 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,100 We were told by God to go out of your way to take an interest in 304 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:58,000 the well-being of others. Despite a difficult dangerous 305 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,100 road in Luke chapter 10, but we tend to turn a blind eye to the 306 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:05,400 need for the easier. More comfortable Road. 307 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,400 God tells us to grow in knowledge and understanding of 308 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,500 his will, but we tend to maybe scroll through social media or 309 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:17,300 other tools of dissipation, it can be Hobbies, it can be 310 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:20,000 entertainment. It can be anything that just 311 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,600 tries to fill a void in our minds that should be filled by 312 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,500 something good. God tells us to cross barriers 313 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:29,000 of torn or difficult relationships with love. 314 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,900 We tend to maintain comfortable separation where we don't suffer 315 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:38,700 embarrassment or hurt. Go and multiply is a call to go 316 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:42,800 out from self, but we tend to do the opposite to do everything. 317 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:45,000 We're told to do everything without complaining in 318 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,100 Philippians to search for and promote positive messages, even 319 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:50,900 through challenging circumstances. 320 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,200 But we tend to live with cynicism to be cynical to dwell 321 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,600 in on and repeat the obvious negatives. 322 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:01,200 God tells us to reach for wholesome things to talk about. 323 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,300 Even if it's not that exciting or entertaining to reach for 324 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:08,200 those things to go out and find those things. 325 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:11,800 But we tend to gossip and circulate stories that get the 326 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:17,100 biggest reaction, we tend to not want to go out from ourselves 327 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:20,500 and find something greater God has to offer to multiply and 328 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:24,500 fill the Earth. God tells us to draw near to him 329 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,700 and maybe that means carving out quiet, time of prayer and 330 00:19:27,708 --> 00:19:30,600 meditation with our Lord. But we tend to fill our time 331 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,800 with what we think needs to be done. 332 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:38,300 To maintain the standards that we have arbitrarily set for our 333 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:43,600 menial things in our lives. Do we carve out time? 334 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,700 I know we have busy schedules, but do we carve out time to draw 335 00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:49,900 near to him? We're told to evaluate our 336 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:53,200 whole, our hearts and even Consulting with outside sources 337 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:58,500 of counsel, and godly wisdom to look out for ourselves. 338 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,200 But we resort to the way we've always thought This is a theme 339 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,000 started long ago and God says go. 340 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:09,700 God says go beyond wherever you are now to. 341 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:12,700 He who thinks he stands, take heed, lest he fall. 342 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,300 Go God says Wherever you think you are now you need to go from 343 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:20,300 where you're standing. That was the call to the Old 344 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:25,400 Testament Patriarchs. Now. 345 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,100 I want to clarify, there is nothing wrong. 346 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:31,500 And this is the interesting part. 347 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,000 There is nothing wrong with their route desires. 348 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:39,300 They wanted a city. And when we think City think a 349 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:45,000 place to belong think security, they wanted at our, they wanted 350 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,200 to do something that mattered that would hold, permanence and 351 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,400 significance. And they wanted to build. 352 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,100 They wanted a name, they want to Greatness. 353 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:55,700 That's what a name is. They wanted to build greatness 354 00:20:55,700 --> 00:20:58,800 for themselves. There is nothing wrong with 355 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,600 their core desires here. The problem we're going to see 356 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:07,500 with them is that sin is often the result of seeking to find 357 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:12,200 something or someone that you lost in God. 358 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:17,200 Sin is the result of seeing a need in your life that like we 359 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,300 saw in the Garden of Eden, we lost some pretty core needs. 360 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:24,000 We lost and have a pretty big gap in our life, for some pretty 361 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:29,100 important things when we seek to find the filler for that void 362 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:31,800 and places. Other than God, that's where I 363 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:38,300 think they're issue started. And on top of that, we try to 364 00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:43,300 build a tower, our self to God. We try to replace that Gap with 365 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:46,200 something and that's more specific in the fact that the 366 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,500 the phrase Babel or when it's pronounced Bob Bell, as I 367 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:54,100 understand, means a tower to heaven or a gate to God. 368 00:21:54,800 --> 00:22:00,000 They tried and we often try to build a tower to God and replace 369 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,500 a path to God to fulfill things that God is supposed to fulfill. 370 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:07,300 All the way back to the Eden loss were man. 371 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:11,900 Tried to cover and fill his Brokenness. 372 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,800 And in the eating Garden, God was our home. 373 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,000 God was the place of home for us. 374 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,200 In fellowship. With him, is where we got our 375 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,900 sense of belonging. For the tower. 376 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:26,500 We got our significance from doing his will tending. 377 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:30,600 The garden follow serving him and being Sons and Daughters of 378 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,800 our King. That was our significance. 379 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,700 That was our permanence in the garden. 380 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,500 And for greatness, we had all the greatness we needed it was 381 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:43,200 supposed to be in God. It was in connection with the 382 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,500 most high creator of the world. Despite our Humanity. 383 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,500 And so first off, it makes sense that we want to belong to a 384 00:22:52,508 --> 00:22:56,100 city, we all need a place of belonging that's why. 385 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,500 Now as we talk through some of this, some of this isn't 386 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:01,100 necessarily wrong but it shows a core need and of course 387 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:05,000 searching we have we want acceptance from the right 388 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,700 people, whether it's a school, maybe it's co-workers. 389 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:09,700 Maybe people aren't even in the church. 390 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,600 We want praise from the right people. 391 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,300 We want praise and acceptance from the right people because we 392 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:20,100 want to belong, we want security. 393 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,800 And that is kind of evidence in the insurance insurance and 394 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,600 insurance industry. A trillion dollar industry and 395 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,100 that was looking at the end of the insurance industry, you can 396 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:33,100 literally buy insurance for almost anything. 397 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,700 If you go on a trip, now, this is pretty evident during covid. 398 00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:38,100 A lot of people had travel insurance because covid, 399 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:40,500 cancelled those you can buy travel insurance, there's a 400 00:23:40,508 --> 00:23:43,200 hurricane on your cruise. You can be insured for that to 401 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,700 insulate yourself from. Any risk you might have you can 402 00:23:45,708 --> 00:23:48,100 buy wedding insurance if all things collapse. 403 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:52,900 And maybe there is a groomzilla, or bridezilla, you can have 404 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:55,300 wedding insurance from those, the payments for all those 405 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:57,800 things you have, you can have insurance for your fantasy 406 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,600 football link. You can have insurance for a 407 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,200 body part if you lose a hand and maybe your hand is valuable to 408 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,900 you at work, you can ensure that you can have a lien insurance 409 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:12,100 for $118 year. You can have insurance so that 410 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:14,500 if you are a family member gets abducted by an alien, And you 411 00:24:14,508 --> 00:24:17,400 get five hundred thousand dollars so it's not all that bad 412 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,900 if you get abducted by an alien, if you can prove that you got 413 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:23,100 eaten by an alien, that's three million dollars. 414 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,300 There's Halloween, haunted house, insurance. 415 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:29,600 If there's an accident for the haunted house, you're going to 416 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,700 or are setting up, there's Halloween, haunted house, 417 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:36,700 insurance, you can buy plant Insurance, you could buy home, 418 00:24:36,700 --> 00:24:40,600 theater, Insurance identity, and theft, Insurance, spoiled, Food 419 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,700 Insurance, from a refrigerator going out. 420 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:45,200 You can buy insurance for your patio furniture. 421 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,600 There's one for you, even if, you know, even if we laugh at 422 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,800 one of those, like that's ridiculous. 423 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:54,000 There's one on that list for us or somewhere else. 424 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,200 For us, the reason is people want security, we want security, 425 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,300 we don't want to feel that sense of loss that might come to us. 426 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,400 We lost that sense of security and we've been climbing and 427 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:14,000 clambering to get it back since then we want our lives to matter 428 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:18,700 that's why they built that Tower and maybe for us that's why we 429 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:20,700 have career stress for young people. 430 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:23,700 It is a huge thing to try to pick your career because we want 431 00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:26,200 to do something that matters for older people. 432 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,700 Maybe have a crisis, feel like you haven't done something that 433 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:32,100 matters. Maybe that's why I've never had 434 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:34,100 one and I so I can't speak on behalf of this. 435 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,200 Maybe that's where midlife crisis, come in where people 436 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,700 realize they are missing significance and they're about 437 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:41,200 halfway through. And what do I do with the rest 438 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,300 of this life? We want to have meaningful 439 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:47,800 accomplishments or work the whole thing with our generation. 440 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,500 I think it's a good thing employers are saying they all 441 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:52,500 want to make a difference. They all want to do have an 442 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:54,300 impact and they're kind of annoyed with that because it's 443 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:57,000 like just do your job. But that's comes from a good 444 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,300 core. Desire to have a valuable life. 445 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:04,500 We want our lives to matter. We want to be connected to 446 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,200 Greatness, that's why whatever. So whatever. 447 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,600 If someone starts to saying, you know, I met this weekend, that's 448 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,900 why there's 10 people around them telling them, you know, who 449 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:14,300 I met 10 years ago, five years ago. 450 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,100 That's a good feeling to be connected to Greatness. 451 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:19,500 I met so-and-so. They signed my ball on my shirt 452 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,500 or my arm. That's why we take pictures with 453 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:25,800 someone who's famous because we want to be associated with 454 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:33,100 greatness. There's nothing wrong with the 455 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:35,900 feeling of belonging security and greatness. 456 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:39,700 It is all about where we ultimately look for it. 457 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,200 And ultimately we're not going to be fulfilled unless we find 458 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,800 it in the right place. I think we had this longing 459 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:52,900 inside of us, I felt it a young age in the security of my 460 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:55,200 parents in the security of my home. 461 00:26:56,100 --> 00:27:00,800 There's a reason that you have a powerful feeling about where you 462 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,000 were. I guess I shouldn't speak for 463 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,100 everyone. At least I have a powerful 464 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:09,300 feeling of love and longing for my home, it's a place of 465 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:13,700 security, it's a place of original belonging and ultimate 466 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:16,200 from your little, it's a sense of ultimate success. 467 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:19,400 Security and that's why we fear it so greatly when you're a 468 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,800 child of losing it. That thought of, you know, that 469 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,000 every little kid has run through their head of what if my parents 470 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,600 were to die? There's a reason that's a 471 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,600 terrible Gap or that's a terrible feeling to think about 472 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:36,400 the loss of security. We have a long and maybe later 473 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,400 on to meet a future spouse in a relationship that will share. 474 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,600 And that is a real deep longing. And sometimes, maybe in worship, 475 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:48,800 if you're sitting in your singing praises, there's just 476 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,400 something that you're longing for Beyond this even when you're 477 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,700 fulfilling the desires in a good way. 478 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,900 It's just not quite enough. We're not quite there yet. 479 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:01,700 And I feel this especially when I stand on the edge of the ocean 480 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:05,600 and you're looking out at that vast openness, there's almost a 481 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,300 yearning and a longing for something. 482 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:13,700 Greater Now, God provides for our needs, and that's good and 483 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:19,800 to have them in their proper place. but remember that, Even 484 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,800 it went in their proper place. We're still going to have that 485 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,200 longing inside of us. One man said if I have a 486 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,100 yearning that cannot be satisfied by any Earthly thing, 487 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:30,600 there's only one logical conclusion. 488 00:28:30,900 --> 00:28:33,600 I was made for a world that is not this one. 489 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,200 That's the only logical conclusion. 490 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:39,200 Another man said, the books are the music in which we thought 491 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,700 the beauty was located. So in life, we're going to see 492 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:44,400 things that are beautiful and we're going to see little 493 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:50,100 glimpses of beauty or Pure goodness and enjoyment. 494 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:53,300 He said wherever that was located will betray us. 495 00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:56,200 If we trust in them, it was not in them. 496 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,700 It only came through them and what came through them was 497 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:03,300 longing, these things, the beauty, the menier, the memory 498 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:08,100 of our own past, they've childhood are good images of 499 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:11,300 what we really desire. But if they are mistaken for the 500 00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:16,300 thing itself, they turn into dumb or voiceless idols. 501 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,100 Breaking the hearts of their worshipers for they are not the 502 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:22,100 thing itself. They are only the scent of a 503 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,400 flower. We have not found the echo of a 504 00:29:24,408 --> 00:29:26,600 tune. We have not heard news from a 505 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,800 country, we have never yet. Visited another person said 506 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,700 fathers and mothers, husbands wives children, our friends, all 507 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:37,900 these good things they are but Shadows but the enjoyment of God 508 00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:41,200 is the substance. These are both scattered beans 509 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,200 but God is the sun, these are but streams, but God is the 510 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:49,300 fountain, these are but drops, but God is the ocean. 511 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:54,900 The level one of this concept is, we need to be careful not to 512 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:58,900 fill the needs. We have outside of God's 513 00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:02,400 prescribed order. And level two is God's 514 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,200 Provisions, have some way of satisfying. 515 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,200 Our needs as humans and have a wonderful wonderful place in our 516 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,000 life, but we must remember who the ultimate source of our lungs 517 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:18,900 is Genesis 11 verse 5, Moving on, but the Lord came down. 518 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:22,000 So he sees the city, he sees the tower, which the sons of men 519 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,200 have built and it says that he came down. 520 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,700 That's derogatory, that's derogatory language. 521 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,700 Basically, like, got to go down and see what all these little 522 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:30,000 gerbils are about down. Here. 523 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:33,400 He comes down to this Tower, those supposed to reach all the 524 00:30:33,408 --> 00:30:36,500 way up to the heavens. And the Lord said, indeed, the 525 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:40,500 people are one and they have one language, and this is what they 526 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,500 begin to do now. Nothing they propose to do will 527 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:45,200 be withheld from them. I believe this. 528 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,200 Is maybe from a practical standpoint. 529 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,700 They can do a lot of stuff with this one might and power and 530 00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:54,500 think about it for a minute. If people back then lived 531 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:57,700 hundreds of years. We think sometimes science talks 532 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,200 about them, like the cavemen or undeveloped. 533 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:02,400 If you lived for a couple hundred years, maybe they were 534 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,200 smarter than us, their technology might not be all 535 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,900 there but if you live for hundreds of years, you can 536 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,000 develop systems and teach it to the next generation for a lot 537 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,800 longer. Whatever the case is, I believe 538 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,000 also nothing. They propose to do any sinful 539 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,700 way will be with hope with will be withheld from them. 540 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,300 And this is the second important point. 541 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:29,800 I want to make that sends route is by my will in my strength and 542 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,300 for my glory, when Jesus tries to revolutionize, and fix the 543 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:36,800 minds of his people in New Testament, he teaches in Matthew 544 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,400 Chapter 5, The Sermon on the Mount. 545 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:40,600 That christlikeness begins in the heart. 546 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,800 It all starts there and James chapter 4 verse 2. 547 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,000 It says you lust and do not. Have you murdering covet and 548 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,900 cannot obtain you fight. And you wore, why? 549 00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:55,200 you do not have because you do not ask, you do not ask and you 550 00:31:55,200 --> 00:32:00,000 do not receive because you ask amiss that you may spend it on 551 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,900 your pleasures, send seeks for my will for my name and by my 552 00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:11,200 strength Satan's Anthem in Isaiah chapter 13, when his 553 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,900 condemnation is sent down. It's written. 554 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,700 You have said in your heart, speaking of Satan, I will Ascend 555 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:20,700 to my into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the 556 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:23,400 stars of God. I will also sit on the Mount of 557 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,100 the congregation on the farthest sides of the north. 558 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:28,000 I will Ascend above the heights of the clouds. 559 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:34,100 I will be like, the most high sins will is by my will in my 560 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:37,900 strength for my glory. And so this is a good time for a 561 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:39,400 pride check. How is your heart? 562 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,600 How is my heart? When Jesus was talking, he said, 563 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,700 he saw two men in the temple. Once said, God. 564 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:51,800 I think you that I'm not like these others and he went his 565 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,200 way, right? He, you know, he was supposed to 566 00:32:53,208 --> 00:32:56,300 be a righteous man, and another man came through and he beat his 567 00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:59,000 breast and said, God be merciful to me a sinner. 568 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,600 Jesus said, that's the man that went away, Justified. 569 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:04,800 That's the man. He wants to see. 570 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:11,400 How is your heart? Where do you operate your life? 571 00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:18,000 One of the quickest ways to tell if you're a prideful is if 572 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,900 another person's Pride bothers you one man said, because pride 573 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:24,500 is by nature, always in competition, with others. 574 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,300 Jealousy is an obvious characteristic of Pride. 575 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,800 How is my heart? What Am I Living For? 576 00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:37,100 Is it God's will God's strength and God's glory? 577 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,000 Verse 7 come, they said let our God said come, let us go down 578 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,300 and there for confuse their language that they may not be 579 00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:52,000 under that. They may not understand one 580 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,100 another's speech. So this is where all of the 581 00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,700 world's languages get started. So the Lord scattered them 582 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:02,100 abroad from there, over the face of all the Earth and they ceased 583 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:06,500 building the city. Therefore it is called Babel. 584 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,300 So, this is a play on words. Bob, L is gate to God, but the 585 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:13,800 word Babel, if you move the accents means confusion. 586 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,400 This, therefore, its name is called Babel because they're the 587 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,800 Lord confused. The language of all the Earth, 588 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,600 and from there, the Lord scattered them abroad over all 589 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:27,900 the face of the Earth. The third and kind of final 590 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:30,199 lesson here is sin, leaves. Rotting towers of 591 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,000 disappointment. It's interesting. 592 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,400 I would think God would have just absolutely flattened that 593 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,699 Tower but didn't he let it stand? 594 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:44,400 Now, is that judgment? Or is it Mercy? 595 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,400 I think it's both God's judgment would come down to intervene 596 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,100 when it says they're gonna do whatever they set their mind to. 597 00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:57,900 I have to stop this that's judgment because he pronounces 598 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:01,000 wrong on what they're doing and stops it but it's also Mercy. 599 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:05,400 It's Mercy because God came down and rerouted them. 600 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,700 So they can restart Andre set their minds away from this task, 601 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:16,200 and maybe this Tower could stand as a reminder, A constant 602 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,100 reminder. Of their failures and their 603 00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:23,700 attempts to live further will for their name and for their 604 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:29,500 Glory. What's so awesome is after this 605 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:30,900 story. God, disbands them. 606 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:33,500 They are spread over all the Earth and now we have different 607 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:36,200 languages. We have people absolutely spread 608 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,800 across the Earth. God begins to make his own 609 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,000 Tower. He current he stops the building 610 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,600 of a tower of man and starts to begin his own Tower through a 611 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,000 man named Abram. And God tells Abraham, I'll give 612 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,100 you a home, it'll be better and more permanent than any home, a 613 00:35:53,107 --> 00:35:56,800 man can build, I'll give you significance, Abram greater than 614 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,300 any Tower. You'll have a role in blessing. 615 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:02,800 The world for generations to come, I'll make your name great 616 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,000 Abram. I'll tie the greatness of your 617 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,800 name to my name. That is how God Should fill 618 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,300 these voids in our life is a pattern. 619 00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:15,000 And as we read further on toward the end of the Bible, Revelation 620 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,300 in chapter 7 verse 9, we read this after I looked and behold a 621 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:22,200 great multitude that no one could number from every nation 622 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,200 from all tribes and peoples and languages standing Before the 623 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,400 Throne. And before the lamb, it was a 624 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,200 terrible sight when man was confused and separated and all 625 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,200 their languages were jumbled. But in Revelation, we see a 626 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,300 picture of all these. People from tribes and languages 627 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:44,100 crying out with a loud voice together in unity salvation 628 00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:47,800 Belongs To Our God, who sits on the throne and to the lamb. 629 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:52,500 It is a Heavenly reversal of the Babel story that confused and 630 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:57,100 separated so many people. And we even get a glimpse of 631 00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:58,800 this. In the book of Acts on the day 632 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,100 of Pentecost, they were filled with the Holy Spirit. 633 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:06,000 We should see a direct reversal here of the Tower of Babel, when 634 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,900 man was trying to build his Tower at got crushed by the 635 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:12,200 dispersion of languages. When God comes down to earth to 636 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,300 build his kingdom and his tower on the day of Pentecost when 637 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:19,300 it's set up. All people here and their own 638 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:23,600 language. It's a reversal of the Tower of 639 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,000 Babel when God builds his Tower in his kingdom. 640 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:32,400 And so, my question for you, this Tower is being built 641 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,100 regardless. What tower are you building? 642 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:39,000 Are you doing his will, or your own will? 643 00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:44,800 Do you see what you have as belonging to God or to yourself? 644 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,600 Are you building your kingdom or living out his mission? 645 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,700 Are you involved in the church? There's no way we can be a part 646 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:56,900 of God's Mission especially when we see that church began and 647 00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,900 started on the day of Pentecost, you can't serve God's plan 648 00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:02,300 without being a part of building his Tower. 649 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:09,200 His mission on the on Earth, is to build a kingdom for eternity. 650 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,100 Not an Earthly Kingdom, but a spiritual Kingdom. 651 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,500 Are you directing all praise back to God? 652 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:18,600 Are you concerned with keeping it on you? 653 00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:22,400 when I started to have a maybe I want to wake up the beginning of 654 00:38:22,408 --> 00:38:26,200 my day, I go out to work, sometimes I feel that exhaustion 655 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:30,600 and I feel that you know that where the feeling is that just 656 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,100 kind of like drags you down and what I remember when I tell 657 00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:37,200 myself I have to live today for God's glory. 658 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,000 Okay. The pressure is off of me. 659 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,800 Now, I'm living for God's glory. I have a purpose. 660 00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:48,200 I relinquished pressure, and I direct my efforts toward God for 661 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,700 giving him the glory, and whenever I do that, if I'm a 662 00:38:50,707 --> 00:38:54,200 worker, then I have worked so that God will be glorified so 663 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:59,900 that I will serve my master my employer or my my students like 664 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:06,900 I'm serving Christ. Maybe God crushed, one of your 665 00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:09,800 Towers, or stop the building of your Tower. 666 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,500 And you have a tower of disappointment, don't look at 667 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:18,000 that, like a bad thing that is God's Mercy, Mercy comes through 668 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,400 judgment. Sometimes, this that we will be 669 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,300 rerouted from our own ways to serve him. 670 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,300 God wants to show us that sin, ultimately disappoints and all 671 00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:32,000 the ways that tries to fill us and all the ways we try to be 672 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,600 filled by it. He wants us to know. 673 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:40,800 That all fulfillment, all satisfaction and all things good 674 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,900 or found in him today. If you haven't started that 675 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:45,800 walk, if you are searching for that. 676 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,200 You're in the right place. Not because we are special, but 677 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,000 because we have a special word and a special Direction in a 678 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,600 special purpose to serve. God, the ways prescribed we're 679 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,700 told that we hear God's word that produces belief and faith 680 00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:04,900 in him, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, 681 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,200 we can confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, repent of our 682 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:13,500 past life and change from building for my will, for my 683 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:18,700 name, for my glory. And we can be refocused and 684 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:21,700 redirected on a path that will follow God would be baptized for 685 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:24,700 the remission of our sins like they were when the early church 686 00:40:24,700 --> 00:40:27,900 was set up and we can be added to the church, you started this 687 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:30,400 walk and you need help. You need guidance to get back on 688 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,200 the right track. This is a family. 689 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,700 This is a place where God has given us to find a sense of 690 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:37,900 belonging even though it's not complete and perfect. 691 00:40:37,900 --> 00:40:41,600 Here yet, God wants us to find that here and so we can provide 692 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:44,300 strength for you as a congregation prayer, whenever 693 00:40:44,300 --> 00:40:46,100 you need, always stand him. Always See. 694 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,000 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 695 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:55,800 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 696 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,900 would like any additional information, or you would like 697 00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:02,000 to receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 698 00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:06,500 Please email us at info at her Church of Christ 699 00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:10,500 Bakersfield.com. 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