Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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… You know that story? Genesis 11, verse 5. Humans in their pride are building this great tower to the heavens, they say. We're going to build our way up to God. and Genesis 11 5 says the Lord came down to see the city and the tower and the children of which the children of man had built like oh I'm sorry is that a tower down there I can't quite see I think they're trying to build a tower oh it's so adorable it's a similar image here represented in the cloud of fire like oh I'm sorry is is that an army down there are those chariots is that your best chariots pharaoh he looks down on them somehow I don't know how this worked I've never seen a pillar of fire look down on an army but it throws them into a panic and they realize in the moment it's all too late they're in big trouble God doesn't just look down on them but then verse 27 says he shakes them off. …
… They seem, they seem what a little, what's going on here? but the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built now this part is in the new living translation look he said the people are united and they all speak the same language after this or because of this they all speak the same language nothing that they set out to do will be impossible for them notice the criteria God said if they're able to speak the same language and continue to speak the same language, but with this attitude of let's go make a name for ourselves, there is nothing that mankind will not be able to do. Guys, that's a scary thought. And if you say, well, I don't know how true that is, might I remind you we're in the 21st century right now, and we are inventing machines that can outsmart us? by the way, side note, did you know that while today we were living today, our day today, it was nighttime in the Middle East, and did you know that Mossad, not the IDF, but the Mossad, officially deployed, never before seen or used drones, at all the Republican, the Iranian Republican Guard, locations where they're either terrorizing people, torturing people, or killing people. …
… let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. And the Lord said, if as one people speak the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other. So the Lord scattered them all over the earth and they stopped building the city. 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. So what happens is, again, in the Old Testament we're seeing the judgment of God come upon these people in their prideful arrogance and disobedience to God's mandate to make His glory known and mandate to multiply throughout the earth. …
… Otherwise, we will be scattered all over the face of the whole earth. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 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. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth and they stopped building the city. 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. If you are taking notes today, I've titled this talk, The Right Reaching. You see that they're reaching in this story to build something massive, to build something ambitious. And there is a wrong way and there is a right way to strive and to reach for what God has for us. And let me just tell you, there is also a wrong reach. Anyone that's over 40 and has ever pulled a little something says amen. Yeah, yep. A little stretch, a little extension. You know, the stretching and the reaching is, it's a real thing when you get to a certain age. I don't know about you, but I get out of my bed like kind of a different way than I used to. It like, it requires just an extension. It requires just like a movement. …