Watch Your Language!

 Watch Your Language! 

 Does your language reflect your control,

or God’s?

How long will your words last?

Jesus’ Words are lasting forever!

 

 

 In the life time of Peleg, the earth was divided. Genesis 10:25

Peleg was born 197 years after the flood

and died 406 years after the flood.

Noah lived 350 years after the flood

making it possible for him to be alive

at the time of the tower of Babel.

One language,

one people,

but wrong purpose!

God’s command to man had been to fill the earth.

This command came to Adam, Noah, and the Church (Acts 1:8).

At the tower of Babel,

God confused the language of the people

 to stop them from becoming a unified people

with their own way to heaven.

Many people have come up with ways to heaven

and because they sound good,

many groups of people

have unified around those beliefs.

But Jesus makes it clear when He declares:

 "I am the way and the truth and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 14:6 NIV

It is interesting to note

that when Jesus said to His disciples,

“Go into all the world”

He tells them to first wait in Jerusalem

until the power of the Holy Spirit

comes on them with power.

When the Holy Spirit came on them in Acts 2,

they began to speak in other languages.

Many times we, too, get caught up

in projects that will get us recognized.

But God has a better purpose for you and I.

His purpose is that we become part of His Church

and build lives on the foundation of Jesus Christ!

When Jesus commissioned His disciples,

the Holy Spirit gave them the ability

to speak in other languages.

People had been confused

since the Tower of Babel,

until they heard the 120 in the upper room

speaking the wonderful works of God

in their own language. Acts 2:11

As you and I become part of the Church,

we are not becoming part of a building,

but human structure to give glory to God.

Unity is a key word.

You and I are asked to accept

many thing in life to be united.

Unity is good;

 but it must have the right purpose.

What we speak must line up with what God speaks.

May God’s Word fill the earth as we speak.

Scripture Reading

Genesis 11:1-9 NLT

At one time the whole world spoke a single language

and used the same words.

2 As the people migrated eastward,

they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.

3 They began to talk about construction projects.

"Come," they said,

"let's make great piles of burnt brick

and collect natural asphalt to use as mortar.

4 Let's build a great city with a tower that reaches to the skies

— a monument to our greatness!

This will bring us together

and keep us from scattering all over the world."

5 But the LORD came down to see the city

and the tower the people were building.

6 "Look!" he said.

"If they can accomplish this

when they have just begun to take advantage

of their common language and political unity,

 just think of what they will do later.

Nothing will be impossible for them!

7 Come, let's go down and give them different languages.

Then they won't be able to understand each other."

8 In that way,

the LORD scattered them all over the earth;

and that ended the building of the city.

9 That is why the city was called Babel,

because it was there that the LORD

confused the people by giving them many languages,

thus scattering them across the earth.