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ONE PEOPLE, MANY NATIONS
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1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of
stone, and tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:1-9
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4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches
to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be
scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
Genesis 11:1-9
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6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be
impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they
will not understand each other.”
Genesis 11:1-9
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8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped
building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the
face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:1-9
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The origin of all humanity and our personal ancestry are
preserved in the Bible
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1) The Purpose of God(Genesis 10:32)
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These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within
their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
Genesis 10:32
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The story of humanity is sadly less chronological and more
circular than we know
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The biblical narrative wrestles between God’s way of how
things ought to be and humanity’s way of how things
ought to be
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Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:1
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From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.
Genesis 10:5
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These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
Genesis 10:20
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These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
Genesis 10:31
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Emigration and immigration are God's idea
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One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided.
Genesis 10:25
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2) The Pride of Shinar(vs. 1-7)
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Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved
eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of
stone, and tar for mortar.
Genesis 11:1-7
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4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches
to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be
scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
Genesis 11:1-7
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6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be
impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
Genesis 11:1-7
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8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
Genesis 10:8-12
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10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar. 11 From that land he went to
Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah 12 and Resen, which is between
Nineveh and Calah — which is the great city.
Genesis 10:8-12
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Four reasons for their disobedience:
i. They wanted to build a cityii. They wanted to build the tallest toweriii. They wanted to make a nameiv. They wanted to avoid God’s dispersion
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A) The Pride of Settling(vs. 1-2)
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Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved
eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:1-2
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Let’s move from being a multi-ethnic church in
representation, to being a multi-ethnic church in
integration
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B) The Pride of Self-Sufficiency(vs. 3-4a)
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3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us
build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens.
Genesis 11:3-4a
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4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and
precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:4-6
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6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to
shame.”
1 Peter 2:4-6
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Mono-ethnic churches are not bad churches
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God wants and what we want is to be a stone church, not a
brick church
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C) The Pride of Superiority(vs. 4b-7)
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So that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered
over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower
the people were building.
Genesis 11:4b-7
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6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be
impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they
will not understand each other.”
Genesis 11:4b-7
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2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use,
it will be measured to you.”
Matthew 7:2
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The people of Shinar were playing God, but in the battle
between men and women versus God, God always wins
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What we build is no threat to God, but is only
a threat to ourselves
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Pride goes before destruction,
a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
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3) The Promise to Abram (Genesis 12:1-4)
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The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation,and I will bless you; I will make your
name great, and you will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:1-4
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3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” 4 So Abram went,
as the LORD had told him and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old
when he set out from Harran.
Genesis 12:1-4
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31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they
set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they
settled there.
Genesis 11:31
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Only the Great I Am can make people great
Greatness follows godliness
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God’s promise does not only have a national purpose, but
an international purpose
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“And all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:3
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God has brought the nations of the world to us!
God is also calling us to go to the nations!
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