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Genesis 11:1-9, “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’”

“But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, ‘Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.”

In way of introduction this morning I want to begin by explaining why Nimrod’s plan of unifying humanity (this city of Babel) drew such ire from God. As we mentioned in our first few studies in the book of Genesis God created man with a basic relational need that couldn’t be satisfied in God alone. People long for community with other people!

Clearly, by His design, lasting human community demanded God’s involvement. As long as man was at peace with God he would be at peace with one another. However, as a direct result of this splintering between God and man on account of man’s rebellion, there would subsequently be a fracturing within human community. This reality becomes all to apparent as man’s sin nature prohibited even the first two brothers to live in harmony. Envy, jealousy, and anger motivated Cain’s traitorous act of murdering his brother Abel.

In many ways Babel was founded to directly challenge this truth. Nimrod was able to sell the world on the lie that unity and harmony could be possible in spite of man’s fallen nature. Nimrod peddled the notion that apart from God man could still live as one.

The problem is that God knew not only would this social experiment eventually end in disaster for reasons we’ll soon discuss, but in the end Babel would rob humanity of the only mechanism by which community would be possible… God’s amazing grace!

The truth is that beginning with Babel man-made religion has not only failed to unify fallen man, but this counterfeit proposition has directly contributed to some of the deepest fissures within mankind. Honestly, religion has done more to create and solidify divisions within the human family than any other institution ever devised by fallen man. John Stewart famously quipped, “Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”

As we noted last Sunday this city of Babel was established fundamentally in an act of rebellion to the commands of God. Following the Flood we’re told in Genesis 9:1, “So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.’”

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