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As we begin I want to describe an employee to you.
This employee is the cream of the crop.
Everything you want in an employee, this is it.
The employee is always on time, if not extremely early.
This employee goes the extra mile to do not only his job, but also to assist others in their job.
He works hard and will even stay overtime to get the job finished.
He is a team player.
There however is a few major character problems with our star employee.
There is resistance towards the rules the manager sets out as well as making it known that he is the star.
The business will not run without him and he makes people know this.
Our text today will be .
This morning I want to discuss and look at how Scripture defines this relationship between employee and employer.
Between, God and His creation.
To do this, I want to look at , the account of the Tower of Babel.
We will look at 4 truths about Mankind and then look at the progression of God’s evaluation on Man.
Four Truths about Mankind
Genesis 11:1-4
1. Mankind is united in speech.
It makes a statement saying that all of mankind is united in speech.
Can you imagine a day where you could go anywhere on this earth and communicate with whoever you wish?
You do not have to go oversees to realize the truth behind this passage of Scripture we will study this morning.
Verse one clearly articulates that it is not just a part of the earth that is united.
This isn’t just a small group of individuals who are united, but it is the whole.
Define whole: you do not need me to define the word whole to you.
We know it means all and every, but whole could mean a lot of things.
Give me a whole pie is far different than a whole piece of pie.
Whole is used countless times throughout the scripture.
It always specifies what it is referring to.
For example.
Genesis 7:
Genesis 9:19
Genesis
The entirety of the earth was dispersed in Chapter 9 through the three sons of Noah.
They were scattered across the whole earth.
Mankind is clearly struggling, but even through being banned from the garden, Cain killing Abel, Noah’s flood.
To this point, though separated, the people were still able to communicate and understand each other.
The whole earth spoke the same language.
There speech was the same.
There words were the same.
They were perfectly united.
We can go in various places throughout the United States and very quickly we see how crazy this truth sounds.
The words they used, the dialect they used, the accent they had.
It is hard enough for me to understand two people who speak English with various accents sometimes.
I met a guy name Joelis while in Lithuania who provided me transportation to a store and to the airport.
Lithuanians learn English early on in school.
He shared with me how he felt comfortable speaking English and then he interned in the U.K. and was completly caught off guard.
It was a variation and different English than he was accustomed to.
Mankind early on did not have any of these struggles that we so often struggle with.
Having the same speech is not necessarily bad.
The impact that sin has on that makes all the difference.
When you think of businesses that strive to execute the same plan and use the same terminology, it is set in stone for a reason.
Think about Chick-fil-A.
When you go to Chick-fil-A and you think about the great employees and their willingness to go above and beyond for you, you greet them with the words Thank you and they reply with “My Pleasure”.
If we go to Chick-fil-A and the response is anything different, we are thrown off and shocked.
We have become so accustomed to hearing “My Pleasure”.
Because of sin, mankind has gone from being worshippers of God, created in His image to sinful humans to the core.
It would be that star employee we talked about at the beginning who goes rogue and decides that instead of my pleasure he devises a plan to one up the company and make himself the victor.
This leads us to our second truth about Mankind and that is that we are sinful in all our ways.
2. Mankind is sinful in all their ways.
Genesis 11:2-
Okay, Great, nothing to crazy here.
People are spreading across the earth just as we are told.
They are preparing to build.
It is this crossroads that they must decide which direction they are going to go.
Adam and Eve chose the fruit over God’s Words
Cain choose envy and murder over family.
Mankind choose wickedness over loving God (declaring the need for the Ark).
The people choose to make bricks not for homes, but to
Let us build a city.
Let us build a tower reaching the heavens.
Let us make a name for ourselves.
Why?
So we are not dispersed over the face of the earth.
Mankind’s response is one of sin.
Mankind is sinful across all the earth
3. Mankind is resistant to God’s commands.
God dispersed them…and they migrated and settled (verse 2).
We are beginning to see a reoccuring pattern of disobedience toward’s God’s commands.
Corruption and sin is occuring.
God is sorrowful that he made the earth.
Noah finds favor with God and is once again told to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Clearly they are bearing children, but we see them settling and attempting their own agenda rather than filling the earth.
This star employee we shared about at the beginning, when he begins to reveal his true colors, taking shortcuts, etc. we realize how he falls short.
This is exactly what is taking place with this united people building this tower to the heavens.
Their sinfulness makes them convinced of their need to do it on their own.
Following the 1942 Major League Baseball season, the Brooklyn Dodgers hired Branch Rickey as the President and General Manager.
It was Rickey who then signed Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers for a minor league contract.
Upon conversations it was Ricky and Robinson dialoging about the future resistance and hardships that Robinson would have to undergo in order to break Major League baseballs unwritten color barrier.
Through these the two became united.
A unity was necessary for this to work.
It was the rest of creation that showed a uniting against Robinson and wanting a color barrier to remain in baseball.
Upon arrival to the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson received the criticism that he was expecting.
The world was wrong to place Robinson and other individuals opposite of skin color from playing the game.
They were also resistant towards what Robinson and Rickey wanted to accomplish.
It was through a select few individuals, like Rickey and Pee Wee Reese that Robinson kept fighting.
This is mankind, we are united, sinful, and resistant towards God.
It was through the disobedience of Adam and Eve that caused mankind to be in a united stated, both sinful and resistant toward God.
This leads us to the 4th truth about mankind and that is that we are prideful for fame.
4. Mankind is prideful for fame.
The end result is that mankind seeks to make a name for themselves.
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