Tower!

Mo. 9/3/12 Genesis 11:1 – 4                   What did the brick builders do?

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.”

What did the brick builders do? They wished to reach God on their own terms.

Tu. 9/4/12 Genesis 11:5 – 7                  What did the Godhead do?

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.”

What did the Godhead do? They took man’s nature to name things and confused their vocabulary. This disunited the people.

We. 9/5/12 Genesis 11:8 – 9                  What did the Lord then do?

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.

What did the Lord then do? He scattered the people far and wide. They stopped building the way to heaven.

Th. 9/6/12 Proverbs 16:25                  What do people still do?

      There is a way that seems right to a man,

      But its end is the way of death.

What do people still do? They try to get to God but it ends in separation.

Fr. 9/7/12 John 14:6 – 7                  What (Who) is the only way?

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

What (Who) is the only way? Jesus Christ, God’s Son is the Way!

References are from the Holy Bible, New King James Version