10 October 11, 2015, Genesis 11;1-9, Scattered!

Genesis 11:1-9
Scattered!
October 11, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

What’s the number one thing?

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The Glory of God!

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1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God.

October Memory Verse:
Colossians 3:14 NIV
And over all these virtues put on love,
which binds them all together in perfect
unity.

Please Pray For
The Pastor Search Committee
Ross Aven Rodney DePriest
Laurel Ditto Susan Lindsay
Chris Maddux JoeYoung
Paul Moak, Jr. (Chairman)

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French Camp Academy

French Camp Academy
Date/ Time/ Opponent/Location/Score
10/16 7:00p Noxapater
10/23 7:30p @ Durant
10/30 7:00p Ethel (Ethel, MS)

Lee Thigpen, the FBJ Community
Director, challenged every adult
Sunday School class to be
engaged in one service project in
Metro Jackson before we celebrate
Global Missions Week
November 6-8, 2015.

Lee has complied Service Project
Opportunities that we as a Sunday
School class can connect with.
We may contact Lee Thigpen at
601-949-1932 or lthigpen@fbcj.org
to discuss areas of service.

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Share your faith with one person each month
and build a relationship with them, so they will
not only become a disciple – but a disciple
maker themselves.
Luke 19:11-27

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How have you seen God at work
during the week?

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Chuck Missler

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Sunday

Genesis 12:1-9
When God Calls
October 18, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

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Genesis 11:31-32 NKJV
31 AndTerah took his son Abram and his
grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his
daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife,
and they went out with them from Ur of the
Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and
they came to Haran and dwelt there.

32 So the days ofTerah were two hundred
and five years, andTerah died in Haran.
Genesis 11:31-32 NKJV

Acts 7:2-4 NKJV
2 And he said, “Brethren and fathers,
listen:The God of glory appeared to our
father Abraham when he was in
Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
3 and said to him, ‘Get out of your country
and from your relatives, and come to a
land that I will show you.’

4Then he came out of the land of the
Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from
there, when his father (Terah means
delay) was dead, He moved him to this
land in which you now dwell.
Acts 7:2-4 NKJV

Galatians 3:8 NKJV
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God
would justify the Gentiles by faith,
preached the Gospel to Abraham
beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations
shall be blessed.”

Genesis 15:5-6 NKJV
5Then He (God) brought him (Abram)
outside and said, “Look now toward
Heaven, and count the stars if you are able
to number them.” And He said to him, “So
shall your descendants be.”

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6 And he believed in the LORD, and He
accounted it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 15:5-6 NKJV

Today’s Passage
Genesis 11:1-9
TheTower of Babel

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Genesis 10:32 NKJV
32This is the family tree of the sons of
Noah as they developed into nations.
From them nations developed all
across the Earth after the flood.

Genesis 11:1-9 NKJV
1Now the whole earth had one
language and one speech.2 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.

3Then 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.

4 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.”

5 But the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower which the sons of
men had built.

6 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.

7 Come, let Us go down and there
confuse their language, that they may
not understand one another’s
speech.”

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad
from there over the face of all the
earth, and they ceased building the
city.

9Therefore 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.
Genesis 11:1-9 NKJV

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Genesis 9:1 NKJV
1So God blessed Noah and his sons,
and said to them: “Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill (replenish) the
earth.”

Genesis 9:7 NKJV
7 And as for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it.”

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Genesis chapters 1-11 are a preface to
the entire OldTestament.

Genesis 11:1 NKJV
1Now the whole earth had one
language and one speech.
See Zephaniah 3:9…

Zephaniah 3:9 NKJV
9 “For then I will restore to the peoples a
pure language,
That they all may call on the name of
the LORD,
To serve Him with one accord.

Genesis 11:2 NKJV
2 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.

The name Shinar occurs eight times in
the Bible, in which it refers to Babylonia
(Babylon).
• After the Flood, the sons of Shem,
Ham, and Japheth, had stayed first in
the highlands around Mount Ararat,
and then migrated east to Shinar.

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Mount Ararat (Turkey)
16,854 ft.

Genesis 11:3 NKJV
3Then they said to one another,
“Come, let us make bricks and bake
them thoroughly.”They had brick for
stone, and they had asphalt (bitumen,
pitch) for mortar.

Where there is asphalt there is oil and
that becomes very significant later in
the history of the world.

Genesis 11:4 NKJV
4 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.”

A tower with a top which is in the
heavens.
This is a spiritual rebellion against
God.

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TheTower of Babel

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It’s Supernatural
Sid Roth’s interview with Jonathan Cahn

The Mystery of theTowers
• The Bible word for tower is "migdal".
• It comes from the Hebrew word
"gadal,” which means greatness.
• So there's a link between towers being
built and greatness, a nation's greatness
or it's pride, it's glory!

The rising of the highest towers in the
world actually mark the rising of
nations and powers.
During the MiddleAges the highest
towers were in Europe, the center of
power was Europe.

But a change took place in about 1870
and the greatest tower rises up in a
new land – the USA.
The next year, America becomes the
strongest economic power on Earth.

The mantel went from Great Britain to
America and the rise of the tower
actually marked it.
From then on, America built the
highest towers on Earth as its power
kept growing and growing.

There is also a link with the Shemitah.
• In 1945 (a Shemitah year), at the end
of the SecondWorldWar and at the
height of American power, there's a
plan to build a new tower that's
going to represent America's
greatness.

It was the plan to build theWorld
Trade Center.
They started building it in 1966 (a
Shemitah year) and construction was
completed in another Shemitah year –
1973.

Then finally, on September 11, 2001,
theWorldTrade Center was destroyed
in the year of the Shemitah.
The building of a tower is about rising;
the Shemitah is about falling –
Shemitah actually means "let it fall".

The tower is about the glory of man,
the Shemitah is about humbling the
pride of man or the pride of a nation.
The Shemitah wipes out accounts that
are built up and it also wipes out
realities that are built up.

The collapse of the tower also caused
the collapse of Wall Street in 2001.
• The prophetic thing with this link is
that if the rise of a tower speaks of
the rise of a nation, the fall of a
tower speak of a warning of the
future of America.

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How many warnings do we get before
judgment comes?

Isaiah 9:10 NKJV
10 “The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild with hewn stones;
The sycamores are cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars.”

There is a tower going up right now at
Ground Zero, which is a harbinger and
it is linked to our defiance.
• The tower that's rising now was
conceived in the year of the
Shemitah - a defiance that was
made on Capitol Hill.

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OneWorldTrade Center

Location of today’s tallest buildings:
United Arab Emirates
Japan
Saudi Arabia
India
Malaysia
Kazakhstan

The Shemitah gives the key about
when nations rise and fall, and that
has to do with present day America.
Shemitah actually can be taken as a
shaking or falling, or collapsing.

In 1917, the year of the Shemitah, you
have a collapse onWall Street but you
also have a shaking of the nations called
the FirstWorldWar.
• The Shemitah is about collapsing & in
that war you have the collapse of
powers, the collapse of four empires.

The German empire, the Hungarian,
the Russian, the Ottoman all collapse
in the year linked to the Shemitah.
It is also linked to the rise of nations -
1917 is the year that began America's
rise power on the world stage.

If you take four Shemitahs later, which
is 28 years ("4" in the Bible is the
number of kingdoms), it takes you to
1945, the year of another global
cataclysm.
• The shaking of the world again -
WorldWar II.

Hitler's attacks began in 1938 - that
was the year of the Shemitah - and
then seven years later the war is over.
• Unleashed on the world in 1945 is
the greatest power of wiping out
ever, the atomic, nuclear warfare
came at the end ofWorldWar II.

This launches America as the super
power of the world but if you go four
Shemitahs later, 28 years, it gets you
to 1973, the year America decided to
legalize the killing of unborn children,
the same sin ancient Israel was judged
for centuries ago.

That same year is the year America
lost its first war -Vietnam collapsed
on the same day, August 15, that
America won the war before in the
previous Shemitah. (August 15, 1945)
WorldWar II: Japan surrenders to end
the war.

A great shaking is coming to America
- a great warning - and it is God's
mercy because without a great
shaking, there can be no revival.
• God's heart is revival and we have
to be ready - anything that can be
shaken will be shaken.

“let us make a name for ourselves”
They didn’t want to be scattered like
God commanded them to do.
They did not just want to get
together, they wanted to sin.

They did multiply but they did not fill
the earth (scatter) as the second half
of God’s commandment had told
them to do.
• They clearly did not want to obey
God's command to fill the earth -
they wanted to remain together.

People cannot thwart God's plan - He
will do what He sets out to do.
God confused their language so they
could not understand each other, and
He scattered them over the face of
the whole earth.

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God's will was still accomplished, but it
would have been much easier on the
people if they had listened to God and
obeyed Him.

Delayed obedience or partial
obedience is disobedience.
• It is not up to us to pick and choose
the part of God's instructions we
want to follow.
• God sees the big picture and works
everything together for good.

He is worthy of our full obedience.
At first glance, it may not seem like a
sin to build a tower, but God always
sees the hearts of men.

1 Chronicles 28:9 tells us, "The Lord searches every
heart and understands every motive behind the
thoughts."
• Look at the motive behind their plan.
• Count the times they refer to themselves in Genesis
11:4: they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a
city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven,
and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we
will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole
earth."

Not one time do they mention God.
• They do not consider His will or His
glory, nor do they even ask for His
help.
• They had their own plan and it
seemed good to them, and they set
out to do it.

What does God say about this
attitude?
Proverbs 3:7
7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
Have respect for the Lord and
avoid evil.

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The Bible tells us that the leader of
Babylon was Noah's great-grandson,
Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-10).

He was a mighty warrior in defiance of
the LORD and his name means
"rebellion, let us revolt, we will rebel.”
Rebellion was a major factor in the
building of this city and tower.

The people wanted to make a name
for themselves - to glorify themselves.
• It had been only three generations
since God revealed His incredible
power by engulfing the earth with
water, and these very people were
spared through the line of Noah.

Yet the people decided they deserved
a name for themselves instead of
giving glory to God.
God again showed mercy by merely
scattering the people instead of
punishing them severely.

Psalm 33:10
10 The Lord blocks the sinful plans of the
nations.
He keeps them from doing what they
want to do.
What talents or gifts has God given you?

Remember that He is the giver of all
good gifts (James 1:17).
We should give Him the credit for
everything we accomplish, not take
credit ourselves.

Genesis 11:5-6 NKJV
5 But the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower which the sons of
men had built.

6 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.
Genesis 11:5-6 NKJV

This section is taken from:
© 2007 BibleLessons4Kids.com
All rights reserved worldwide.

At first glance, it might seem as
though God was threatened by what
the people were planning to do, so He
decided to stop them before they got
too powerful.
• Nothing could be further from the
truth!

God is not threatened by man - ever.
God is infinitely greater than man in every
way.
God's very hands stretched out the heavens
(Isaiah 45:12), and with one breath of God,
human life began (Genesis 1:7).

Isaiah 55:9 NIV
9 “As the heavens are higher than
the earth,
so are My ways higher than your
ways
and My thoughts than your
thoughts.

God was actually saving the people
from themselves by confusing their
language and scattering them.
The phrase, "They have begun to do
this," in Genesis 11:6 means to defile
oneself, to pollute, to desecrate.

It comes from the root word that
means to begin to make oneself sick
or weak.
• Their plan to make a name for
themselves was self-destructive.
• We can never have peace and joy
when we are the center of life.

“Bring back everyone who belongs to
Me. I created them to bring glory to
Me. I formed them and made them.”
Isaiah 43:7
God created each of us for His glory,
not our own.

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That means we were made to know
Him, to worship Him, and to praise
Him.

God created each of the men who
built the tower of Babel, and He knew
they would not find the peace and joy
they were looking for by building a
city dedicated to themselves.

God, in His wisdom, knew they would
only be satisfied when they were
seeking to praise and worship Him.
It was an act of mercy to scatter them.
There is no joy apart from God.

Have you been focused on yourself,
trying to make yourself happy?
While you may find things to make
you happy for a short time, you will
not have lasting inner joy.

But, ironically, if you are willing to
turn away from selfish ambitions and
focus on God, you will truly find joy.
This is a deep abiding joy that will be
with you during even the most
difficult times.

The people of Babylon were
disobedient and had wrong motives.
So what does obedience and right
motives look like?

God commands His children to obey
Him (Leviticus 18:4), and He promises
to pour blessings on those who obey
His commands (Deuteronomy 28:1-
14).
Why is obedience so important to God?

Obedience protects us.
God knows our future and He wants
what is best for us (Jeremiah 29:11).
Also, our obedience draws others to
God (2 Corinthians 9:13).

Perhaps more than any other reason,
God demands obedience because it is
an outward show of our faith - faith
that God is good, faith that God is all-
knowing and all-powerful, and faith
that God can be trusted.

Romans 1:5 tells us that, "Obedience
comes from faith."
Hebrews 11:6 says, "Without faith it
is impossible to please God." (NIV)
Faith means "to trust or believe."

Adam and Eve did not trust that God
wanted what was best for them, so
they did not obey Him.
Instead they trusted the serpent, and
sin and death entered the world
(Romans 5:19).

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Noah trusted that God could and would do
what He said, so Noah obeyed God and his
obedience saved his own life, the lives of
His family, and the entire human race.

If a stranger came up to you and told
you to drop everything and come with
him, you would not do it.
You do not know him, and you do not
trust him - and rightly so!

But if your parents ran up to you with
a worried look and told you to drop
everything and come immediately,
you would do it.
You know your parents love you.

You have faith in their judgement, and
you trust that they want what is best
for you.
You would do what they asked
because you trust them and God
requires the same from us.

“Then they would put their trust in
God. They would not forget what He
had done.They would obey His
commands.”
Psalm 78:7

If you have trouble obeying God, more than likely you
do not fully trust Him.
You cannot trust someone whom you do not know so
spend time in HisWord and in prayer, so that your
trust will be firmly planted in Him.
God commanded them to multiply and to fill the
Earth.

If someone offered to give you one
million dollars, or offered to give you
one penny, but would double your
money everyday for a month, which
would you take?
You should take the penny.

In 31 days time, you would have well
over ten million dollars
($10,737,418.20)!
That is the principle of multiplying.

Why does God tell Noah and his sons to be
fruitful and multiply?
Why does God repeat this command so many
times in Scripture?
God wants His people to produce Godly
offspring but there is another principle at work
as well.

We who are Christians should be
fruitful - multiplying the numbers of
believers (1Timothy 2:3-4)!
What happens if we don't?

God is not content to see all His
believers huddled together enjoying
each other's company while there are
people who sit in darkness without His
truth.

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We see in Acts that God allowed the
scattering of the believers for just such a
reason.

The last words Jesus spoke on earth
before returning to Heaven were recorded
in Acts 1:8, "But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and
you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and
in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends
of the earth."

Jesus commanded His followers to be witnesses
- tellers of the truth - throughout the world.
• Notice what happened in Acts chapter 8: On
that day, a great persecution broke out
against the church at Jerusalem, and all
except the apostles were scattered
throughout Judea and Samaria.Those who
had been scattered preached the word
wherever they went. - Acts 8:1, 4

God allowed a great persecution of
the believers.
• He could have stopped those who
were hunting down and harming
the early Christians, but He allowed
it because it caused the believers to
be scattered.

This was how the early church spread
throughout the world, thus fulfilling
God's plan.
• Consider your own walk.
• If you are a follower of Christ, are
you remaining huddled with other
believers at all times?

Are you purposely seeking
opportunities to reach people who do
not know the truth of God's
forgiveness and salvation?

If you shared the truth of the Bible with
just one friend in one month, then the
next month you and that person each told
one person, and so on, how many months
would it take for millions to hear the
truth?
(Hint: 1 x 2, x 2, x 2,...)

It is the same multiplication principle
as the penny (10,737,418.20 souls).
One out of 4 people you share the
Gospel with may become a disciple –
those are Biblical odds (the parable of
the soils).

The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died
in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be My son.”
•Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be saved.

Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

If you have questions or would like to know more,
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at
601-949-1900 or
http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/

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