Man-Made Religion (Genesis 11:1-9)
Rev. William L. Barron, November 5, 2017Part of the Morning Worship at North Greenville Church series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
By this time, we see the generations of Noah attaining 70 sons and 70 nations. As the people multiplied, they disobeyed God's command to be fruitful and multiply. They didn't fill the earth. They congregated in Mesopotamia, where they built a ziggurat for the purpose of establishing a man-made religion. They did not want to disperse, but to do things their own way instead of God's way. The Apostle John in Revelation explained this as the establishment of Bablylon the great and its tower of Babel, the source of all false religion and false worship. All of the false religion of the line of Ham, the Canaanites, comes from the tower of Babel. This is what happens when man fails to look to God. Bad unity makes for a bad legacy. To be sure evil also infested the family of Shem as well, but God is faithful to sustain His people, and brings Abram from this line, although they were moon worshipers by that time. We all have skeletons in our closets, but to be sure, we also have Christ and Grace. Thanks be to God.
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Genesis 11:1–9 (Listen)
11:1 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.” 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. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 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.
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