I would draw your attention today to Genesis 11. Genesis 11, we'll be reading verses 1-9. Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower with which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, behold, they are one people and they have all one language and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language so that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Our gracious Lord and heavenly Father, This morning as we have gathered together the called out ones, the church, the body of Christ, may we praise your name, may we lift up high the sun, and Lord, may we be strengthened with the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit that we might look to your word here this morning, Lord. The word which you have given us as a revelation of yourself to us, Lord, that we might know more of You what You have done. Lord, what You have done on behalf of a sinful, fallen race of mankind that You might bring many sons to glory. Lord, use Your Word here this morning. May the Spirit open it up before us that we might be nourished in the inner man by it. that it might enliven us, that it may wake us from our slumber, Lord, that we might truly desire to walk after you in your way and seek to glorify your name. Be with us here this morning, Lord, as we turn to your word. To the name of our Savior, we plead these things and we We seek to honor you. Amen. Well, have you ever noticed that almost every building that you enter is decorated with a plaque, which has inscribed upon it the name of the individuals who had something to do with its construction, who took part in its construction and or its design? We see the architect who designed it, Normally we see the board, the members of the board who approved it, and we find sometimes a list of administrators, and all these listed in their positions of power and of importance. You walk into the halls of many cities, and what do you see but the pictures of those who are running things, those who are in charge, those who are in a position of power? always amazes me, and it probably shouldn't amaze me, knowing what we know about human nature, but it is a shocking thing sometimes to think about how large and prominent these portraits and these plaques often are, all bearing the positions which they occupy, showing how important they are, every office in those buildings with some sort of badge of authority or nameplate saying what position they hold and how important they are. It's almost an unending display of the pride of mankind, screaming at the top of each one's lungs, look how important I am. Look how important I am. And we aren't talking about those who we would honor that have long since died and gone before us. There is a place to honor those individuals as far as they followed God's Word. So there is a place for that, but that's not what we're talking about here. These are people that are living. Those that are currently in some sort of power. or holding what we would actually know to be the truth, a sliver of perceived power, so that they make a name for themselves. And everybody can see just how important they are. Not to mention what lengths people will go to in an effort so that someone knows their name. If you are on social media at all, it takes about two seconds to see that this is the case. What lengths people will go to to make a name for themselves. Oh, what a mess is born of the pride of man. We will see this from our text this morning. And we will also see that God who sits in the heavens, the righteous and holy ruler of all things, He opposes the proud, as James tells us, and gives grace to the humble. And as we are told in Proverbs 16, 18, pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Psalm 146, 8 says, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down. The Lord loves the righteous. And in Psalm 147, 6, the Lord lifts up the humble and casts the wicked to the ground. So then let us begin here this morning to look at our text. Genesis 11, 1 says, Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. Literally what this is saying is the whole earth had one lip and one word, one lip and one word. From the time of creation, Scripture gives us no indication that there was ever more than one language. And even if it were so before the flood, now after we have the flood, and it's down again to one man and his three sons, we have here the words of sacred Scripture that tell us that there was but one language on the earth. and all who lived spoke the same words. They had the same vocabulary. They had the same speech. They could all understand one another. They could all help one another. They could all communicate without any difficulty or hindrance to what they were seeking to accomplish. If you've ever tried to communicate with someone who speaks another language, you understand how difficult that concept is. There's only so much you can do with pictures and motions. without the words to communicate. And you see how beneficial this is, that they would have one language. There would be no such hindrance of having different languages and seeking to accomplish whatever task was set before them, not just the common tasks. But the greater things, those things that require cooperation, those things that require planning, those things which have intricate execution required, that takes communication. If you guys have ever been a part of a group activity that is anything beyond just a basic function, you understand how important cooperation is, and cooperation is only possible when there is communication. If you don't have communication, it's very, very difficult to cooperate. But there was no impediment to them in their speech. Now remember as we go forward here, we touched on this last time, that what we have in chapter 11 is a detailed account of how what we saw in the previous chapter occurred. This is the how and why of the nations being spread about on the earth and the languages that are detailed in that chapter. This is the explanation for that. We find then in verse 2, And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. At this time, there began to be a considerable amount of people. Some estimate 100 to 140 years has occurred here. And there have been a considerable number of people who have been born to the sons of Noah, all multiplying in number to the point that they were a great people. And they began to move away from the original place of Noah's dwelling. And it says here, as the people migrated from the east. Now, I wish we had time to look at this here this morning. As they began to migrate from the east. But we'll leave that to another time or a Bible study or sometime when we have one of our fellowship times. And maybe we'll talk about this. But as they moved away, they found a plain, an area that was easy to dwell in, room for them. It was fruitful for them as a people to congregate in this area here, in this plain that they found in the land of Shinar. You can almost hear them saying, here's a good spot to make our stay. We have food, water, plenty of space for all of us. If you remember what caused Lot to choose the land that he did when he separated from Abraham, then you will understand kind of what they saw here. In Genesis 13, 10 through 12, we have this record of Abraham and Lot as their livestock grew and their possessions grew, they were crowded in the area that they were. And so they decided to separate. And in Genesis 13, 10, we read, And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of God, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zor. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. He chose a fertile place, a valley, a plain, and he settled there in Sodom." I don't think mankind is ever going to learn. Always making the same mistakes. So they come to this plane, the children of Noah, come to this plane in the land of Shinar, and they choose this to be their dwelling place. They settle here. This will be the place where they will make their abode, and they will construct a civilization right here. We see a bit more of what they purposed to do in verse three. And they said to one another, come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar. Please remember here the command of God to Noah. and to his sons in Genesis chapter nine, verse seven. And you, he said to Noah and his sons, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it. And this echoing what he had already told Noah. in that same chapter, just a few verses earlier in verse one. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Fill the earth. So here they arrive in this plane, and they stir one another up to settle down here. Come, they say, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. They planned together to make this a permanent place. They are not content to just put up their tents here and dwell for a while. So they set about to make bricks. and see what great lengths they went to to make these structures in this city last. They had no stones with which to build here. They weren't in a place where there were large stones to erect structures. So they took it upon themselves, they all planned together to make stone for themselves. They take dirt, mix it with water, and they form bricks, and they construct an oven to bake these bricks, to burn them to such a degree that they become like rocks, so that the buildings they make would last. Tents were not good enough. They must have a permanent place to dwell. And let's not forget that the children of Israel would have been very familiar with this. as when they were slaves in Egypt before the Lord rescued them from their physical bondage. Remember that this is who God is giving this word to, through Moses, as they are wandering in the wilderness from where? From Egypt, where they were slaves. What did they do when they were slaves? They made bricks for the structures that were being built for the Egyptians. the children of Israel would have rightly understood the implications of what God was telling them here through Moses. Tents signify a temporary dwelling. Bricks and stone, a permanent abode. Tents serve the purposes of God here for this world. Let us look forward then with that in mind to that fact and learn from what God purposed man to dwell in tents signified and what it teaches us. They teach God's people that this place in which we dwell is not our permanent home. This is not our home. This is a temporary abode for us here. Our home awaits us. And it is an eternal dwelling place. not made with hands. This is what Abraham realized by faith. Hebrews 11 tells us this. Hebrews 11, eight through 10, by faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. Now let that sink in for just a minute. In the grand scheme of what we're looking at here this morning, this was a place he was being given. to live. Not to be made by his own hands. That's what the people here are doing. And we read further on in Hebrews 11. And he went out, not knowing where he was going, by faith he went to live in a land of promise as in a foreign land. Living in tents. with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God." Not man, but God. I think we must understand here what great lengths these people that we're reading about in our text have gone to here in this plane. Where they stirred one another up to make bricks, to bake them and construct permanent dwelling places. This was hard work. This was not an easy task. As the Israelites understood, it was back-breaking. This was slave work. yet they contrive together to do this. Why? Why put in this effort? Well, let's go on and see. Verse 4, then they said, this is the second come let us that we find in this passage. Then they said to one another, I'm sorry, then they said, come let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and let us make a name for ourselves lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth. Now here we start to see the driving force behind their resolve, do we not? Pride. Pride. That ugly monster of self-importance, of self-reliance and self-worship. Pride. Come, let us build ourselves a city. This is not just a dwelling place. This is a city, a fortified place. A place where we can all gather and stay. Oh, there's a danger in such a place, my friends. Cities were constructed by evil men. Godless men, rebels, and tyrants make cities. Cain was the first to build a city. And it seems here that now we have another who will seek to build a city. Nimrod, setting himself against God and touting another way besides the way of God. We looked at this a little last week, that this mighty hunter flaunting his disdain for God, thumbing his nose in the face of God, where he here builds and leads others to build. And this is the beginning here at this place that will be known as Babel. But this is not his only design. As we see from chapter 10, if you recall what Nimrod's design came to be, not just a city, but a kingdom. A rival kingdom. A kingdom not of God, but a kingdom to rival God. A kingdom of man, of man's pride, of man's ability, of man's power, of man's wisdom and man's ingenuity. Oh, cities and the kingdom of men are dangerous things. They usually have a leader, like a Nimrod, set in opposition to God. They are anti-Christ and they, by power or by coercion, lead a people to forget God and rebel against God and His authority. And here I believe that we can surmise that Nimrod is behind this, that he has positioned himself to lead in this endeavor as you often see in other cases. And he is persuaded with the lure of pride, others to consent and to be proponents of his own goal. This is what happens. often by those who are led by our enemy, to entice people without them even always having knowledge of it, to assist them in achieving their prideful and sinful ambitions. We see this all throughout history, and look at the masses today if you want to see this occurring, who are helping our sinful leaders accomplish that which they desire. with their own sinful intents and purposes, all the while thinking that they are helping themselves. I just want my right to health care. A woman's right to choose. That's not helping them. That's helping another build a godless, God-rebelling society, is what that is doing. That's what we see here. Nimrod doing this and bringing others along with him so that they even take part in it and think it's also their idea. So this is what is occurring here in Genesis 11, 4. Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the whole earth. They've set themselves against God, against His purpose, against His command, which was to fill the earth. No, they say. We'll make a name for ourselves and we will stay right here. We will reach immortality in and of ourselves. We will be our own. We will serve our own selves and the gods of our own making. We will build for ourselves a high place of worship and through our own efforts we will obtain our own salvation. Here is the danger of unity you see outside of Christ. It will lead away from that which is righteous and good and will lead to that which is unholy and to rebellion against God. And ultimately it will lead to eternal death. Psalm 1 shows the danger of this in congregating with those who rebel against God. Psalm 1 verse 1 says, blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers." We must live in this world as a temporary place. We are not of the world any longer as Christians. We have been redeemed out of this world. And we must not conform to the world and the sinful desires of the world and those around us who are in rebellion to God. If we walk in with them, if we walk with them, we are in danger of standing with them. And if we are standing with them, we are being led to a seat where we will sit with them and scoff. And what does that mean? That means that those scoffers are holding God in derision. They are mocking God. They are thumbing their noses at God Almighty. They're building great cities. and great towers to make a name for themselves with no thought for God or for God's glory." Martin Lloyd-Jones has a great sermon. He has a multitude of great sermons. But he has a great sermon regarding this city Babel being built and points to the city life and how it easily leads to a dependence upon man and an independence from God. Think about this for a moment. The farmer in the country tills the earth. He plants his seed, but he doesn't make it grow, does he? Have you ever, in all of your gardening, Brad, made a seed grow? No. He must trust in the creative power of God and how God has designed his world to work. to bring forth fruit from the seed that's been placed in the ground according to its kind. He trusts God to water his crop, to withhold, though, the storm's power to keep it from destroying his crop. Ever dependent upon God, he prays for sunshine and for rain alike. Both are needed. Both in due time are needed. He prays for the season to be bountiful. He knows that all of this, every bit of it is outside of his control. And yet there is one who is in control. The person in the city goes to the store and picks up a prepackaged meal or the ingredients and takes no thought to how they got there or where they came from. just that man has carved out an existence, and he has need of nothing but that which man supplies. Now, I know that these things have become somewhat muddled in our current society, that everybody goes to the store and hardly anybody grows their own food, much less all of their own food. But look also at the state of things today. Are things better today than when that was the case? As city life encroaches further and further into the country, are things better than they were? Look at where the bastions of godless, rebelling, liberal man and man-worshippers tend to congregate. Look at a map, because we have all these fancy maps available to us today. Look at a map of those who support the things that are most ungodly in our world. And you will find that the larger cities are the places where it's most prominent. Why? Why is that? Because by and large, they are places of great monuments and to the names of men. where the great man is lifted high instead of God. We find here in our text that they built this city and tower so that they might not be dispersed, the other reason for building this. besides making a name for themselves and reaching the heavens, so that they might not be dispersed, which is in direct disobedience, as we've seen, to God, who said to fill the earth. Well, we've got to hurry on this morning. There's a lot to see here. So let's go ahead and look at Genesis 11, 5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of man had built. So the Lord comes down to see what man has built. Let's first remark that the Lord has tarried. The Lord has been patient here to bring about His purpose. He might have come when they just started to build the city and they just laid the first block or brick of the tower. Yet it appears He waits until it's finished, or almost finished. God often does this, doesn't He? And it's sometimes difficult for us to see why the wicked would prosper. Yet in withholding His judgment, He allows the wicked to reach a higher place. so that their fall might be that much greater as he sends them face first back to the dust. A greater fall, by far a greater fall than if he would have prevented them from building it in the first place. Think about Nebuchadnezzar here. We read earlier in our congregational reading about this. What a great fall. and how great was his testimony after the fall. Second, see how it says God comes down. Not as if God couldn't see what was occurring here. Not that he couldn't see what was taking place, but we're speaking in a language that we can understand. God here takes note of what is happening as he begins to enact his judgment for the rebellion against him. And we are given a picture of God who sits high above in the heavens, who must stoop way down to even see this thing which in the eyes of man is so great a feat. God is so much greater, you see, so much higher than us. It's almost as if he has to stoop way, way down to see what mere ants are doing as they're crawling around on the floor. This is to show us But this was not unseen or unknown by God, but to contrast His infinite greatness and power and knowledge to that of man in his mere attempts to pretend at these things. See, man says he creates. Man pretends to create. Man takes what's already created and fashions it and calls it creation. Man builds great architecture. God builds the earth and every star he puts in place and the moon and the sun. The firmament of the heavens. The whole earth is in his hand. We pretend. Isaiah, in Isaiah 40, verse 15 through 17, says, Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust of the scales. Behold, he takes up the coastlands like a fine dust. Like he could just put it in his hand and blow it away. Lebanon. that place where the great trees grew. Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. All the nations are as nothing before Him, and they are counted by Him as less than nothing and emptiness." God came down to see. This is what this portion of the text is relating to us. As we move on in verse six, and the Lord said, behold, they are one people and they have all one language. And this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they purpose to do will now be impossible for them. That is not that they will actually be capable of doing everything or anything. but that there is no bounds for their sinful hearts and the outworking of those sinful hearts. They have rejected God and they've rejected God's command. They've rejected God's rule and God's authority, God's sovereignty. There is nothing now that they will not attempt to do in defiance of God Almighty. They would and have now attempted to even unseat God from his throne. It's the same thing that Satan did when he fell. The same thing that he sought to do when he deceived Eve in the garden. Unseat God from His throne. And their desire was to make something for themselves, something of their own way, their own religion, their own salvation, as if that were actually something that was possible. We see now that in light of this rebellion and the mocking that they did of God's commands, now we see the Sovereign One act. Verse 7, Come, let us go down. and there confuse their language so that they may not understand one another's speech. See, now hear another come let us. another come let us, but this time it is not man who says this, but it is the triune God, master of heaven and earth, omnipotent ruler and sovereign, stating to himself, God the Father, saying to and with God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, come let us now do what is our will. which shall accomplish what we have purposed. Let us confuse their language. They have entered into conspiracy together. We shall break the bonds of this that they have done. Let us confuse them. Let us break their communication and their ability to plan together and scheme and contribute one to another. And God does this. He doesn't attempt to do this. He doesn't suggest that this be done. God does this. He does it by way of communication. God who gave man one lip and one word to praise and glorify him now confuses this language because they did not honor him as God. And they became futile in their imaginations. Their foolish hearts, you see, were darkened, Paul tells us in the New Testament. And they claimed to be wise, did they not? So now, He, that is, God Almighty, has confused them and made them fools. Psalm 2, 1-4, Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, Let us burst their bonds and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens..." We say this all the time. He who sits in the heavens what? He laughs. And the Lord holds them in derision. What they would like to do. He has the ability to do. They may think they're laughing at God, but judgment's coming. They may attempt to hold Him in derision, but they have no such ability, you see. But God does. He brings the plans of man to waste, to nothing. And what happens? Verse 8 of our text tells us, So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. They gave it up and left. And the Lord God Himself dispersed them. They would not do it of their own accord, you see. They set themselves against His order. And God, as the psalmist says, laughs. He holds them in derision and He does to them what they would not do by His command. See now then how in this, come let us, which God speaks, this is the last word on the matter. And this is the case that we will find yet again in the end of all things. God will have the last word. He will accomplish all that He has set forth to accomplish. None are going to stay His hand. He's going to accomplish it despite man's rebelling, besides man's plotting. They plot according to the psalmist what? In vain. Well, now we find this conclusion of this great scheme of man to build a city and a tower to the heavens and to defy the command of God to fill the earth. In our last verse that we read here this morning in verse 9, therefore its name was called Babel. Because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth." Did they make a name for themselves? Oh, they made a great name for themselves. Babel. Confusion. This is the name that man has borne from this ever since. Confusion. Unless we forget who was victorious and by what hand these things were done, see here in our text in verse 9, that the Lord, that God has given to Moses to repeat this for our benefit. The Lord confused the language of all the earth. and the Lord dispersed them over the face of the earth. God has done this. Oh, the nations plotted in vain. Don't you see? The rulers took counsel together and said, come let us. They set themselves against the Lord and His anointed, against His promised one, against His foundation, against His salvation, against His holy city. The city seen by the apostle John. In Revelation 21 verse 2, And I saw, John says, the holy city. New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. The church, brothers and sisters, the church coming down out of heaven adorned as a bride for Christ, her husband. Here is the dwelling place of God. Here it is. He will gather together all His people whom He has redeemed. He scatters them here in Genesis. He is bringing them back together. The redeemed of the Lord being brought together, being united. Listen, remember from our study in Ephesians. Ephesians 2, 19 through 22, so then you are no longer strangers and aliens. but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In Him, in Christ, in Him, you also, if you are the redeemed of the Lord, in Him, you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. In one of the letters in Revelation to the church at Philadelphia, in Revelation 3 verses 11 through 13, to the church in Philadelphia, I am coming soon, Christ says. Hold fast what you have so that no man, no one may seize your crown. The one who conquers, listen, the one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it. And I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven and my own new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. What does it say? A city which comes down from heaven, not built up to the heavens. It comes down from heaven. As God is my witness, and the word of God as the standard. I tell you, you can and you will never build your way up to heaven. You'll never do it. You can never construct a way to reach eternal life. To reach heaven by building one good deed upon another, one good work after another, will never allow you to reach it. The only way you can get there is by the one who came down from heaven in the first place and has redeemed you by His blood, by His work, by His atonement. He, Christ, is the way to heaven. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 3, 9-11, for we are God's fellow workers You are God's field, God's building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, Paul says. I laid a foundation, and someone else built upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Is it any wonder then that Paul would say in 1 Corinthians, for I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That's the foundation you see. This is what Jacob saw. This is what Jacob saw when he fell asleep. And in his sleeping he saw a vision of this ladder. The ladder did not originate from here on earth. It came out of heaven and it tabernacled among us. It dwelt among us. It's a picture of Christ Jesus, who created all things, who was with God and was God. He came to dwell with us. This is the way to heaven and there is no other. Listen to the way Jacob ended this section in Genesis 28, 17. And he was afraid and said, how awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God. And this is the gate of heaven. Not that place. but what he saw in that place, Christ. And it's not by making a name for ourselves that we reach immortality, but it is in naming his name. Acts 4.12, and there is salvation in no one else. for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." There's no other name. Philippians 2, 8-11, and being found in human form, this is talking about Christ and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even to the cross. Therefore God, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name. So that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth. And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. What was it Christ told the church? In Philadelphia again, in Revelation 3, 11 through 13, I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have so that no one may seize your crown. The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out. And I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven and my own. New name. Not your name. Not your dad and mom's name. Not your pastor's name. Not your favorite theologian's name. Not the greatest ruler of all ages name on this earth. The name of Christ. The old prophet Elijah stood against 450 prophets of Baal. And here is what he said in 1 Kings 18.24. And you, he said to the prophets of Baal, and you call upon the name of your God. And I, I will call upon the name of the Lord. Look sometime. Search the scriptures and see with what amount of times and how How precious are the exhortations to call upon the name of the Lord. Boast not in man's accomplishments. Have no faith in what man has planned or what he has accomplished or what he has built. But let us place our faith in the name of our Lord. Be careful that there are no babbles in your heart. Tear them down by the power of the Holy Spirit wherever they're found. As soon as they're found, tear them down. Destroy them. Seek them out and destroy them. You know, it's the same remedy for the believer when he finds sin in his life, as it is for the lost person who needs a Savior. Repent, believe, and trust in the Lord. If you're a stranger to Him here this morning, give up your attempts to build. Give them up. You'll never reach heaven that way. Repent of sin. and come pleading the name of Jesus Christ in His blood, that it would cover you and His name would be upon you. Romans 10, 11 through 13 for the Scripture says, everyone who believes in Him will not be put to shame. God put a whole lot of people to shame there in Babylon. There in Babel. For there is no distinction Paul says, between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing His riches on all who call on Him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Cast yourself upon Him that you may boast of Him. Not your name, but the name of the Lord. And let me end with this. Psalm 44, 1-8, O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old. You with your own hand drove out the nations. but them you planted. You afflicted the peoples, but them you set free, for not by their sword did they win the land, nor did their own arms save them, but your right hand and your arm and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. You are my king, O God. Ordain salvation for Jacob. Through you we push down our foes. Through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us. In God, in God, we have boasted continually. And we will give thanks to your name forever. Let's pray. Lord God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the recording of what took place here, that we might learn some things from your word about your power, your rule, and your way. Lord, help us not to attempt to build our way. Lord, that we might not rely upon our deeds our mind, our work, but that we might throw ourselves, cast ourselves before Christ and plead His work. That we might call upon the name of the Lord. That we might repent of all that we have done. Lord, the best of our works are but sin if they be not done by the power of the Spirit. Lord, help us to repent of our sin, to turn to you and to call upon your name to see your salvation. That you have accomplished through Christ on behalf of the people that you have chosen before the foundation of the world. Lord, we thank you for it. Be with us, Lord. Help us to hide these things in our hearts, Lord, that it might more fully wean us from the world. That we might have our eyes set upon You. That we might hold fast to Your Word. It's the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.