Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Good evening. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Thanks for coming.
If you could grab your hymnals
and turn to song number 23.
There is power in the blood. Number 23.
There is power in the blood.
Song number 23.
There is power in the blood.
Song number 23.
There is power in the blood.
There is power in the blood. Song number 2-3.
Would you be free from your burden of sin?
There's power in the blood. Power in the blood. Would you are evil a victory win?
There's wonderful power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the lamb.
There is power, power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the lamb.
Would you be free from your passion and pride? There's power in the blood. Power in the blood.
Will come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide. There's wonderful power in the blood.
There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the lamb.
There is power, power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the lamb.
Would you be wider, much wider than snow? There's power in the blood. Power in the blood.
Sin stains are lost in its life giving flow. There's wonderful power in the blood.
There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the lamb.
There is power, power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the lamb.
Would you do service for Jesus your King? There's power in the blood. Power in the blood.
Would you lift daily his praises to sing? There's wonderful power in the blood.
There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the lamb.
There is power, power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the lamb.
Amen. Let's pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this great week we're having.
Thanks for all the blessings you give to us. Thanks for the soul winning this evening.
Please fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit so we can preach us a good sermon tonight.
And thank you for all these things. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright, let's turn to our next song. Song number 164. 164. Praise him, praise him.
Song number 164. 164.
Praise him, praise him, Jesus our blessed redeemer.
Sing, O earth, his wonderful love proclaim. Hail him, hail him, highest archangels in glory.
Strength and honor, gift to his holy name. Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard his children in his arms.
He carries them all day long. Praise him, praise him, Jesus our blessed redeemer.
Praise him, praise him, Jesus our blessed redeemer.
For our sins he suffered and bled and died. He our rock, our hope of eternal salvation.
Hail him, hail him, Jesus the crucified. Sound his praises, Jesus who bore our sorrows.
Love unbounded, wonderful deep and strong. Praise him, praise him, tell us of excellent greatness.
Praise him, praise him, ever in joyful song. Praise him, praise him, Jesus our blessed redeemer.
Heavenly portals, loud with hosannas ring. Jesus, savior reigneth forever and ever.
Crown him, crown him, prophet and priest and king. Christ is coming over the world victorious.
Power and glory unto the Lord belong. Praise him, praise him, tell of his excellent greatness.
Praise him, praise him, ever in joyful song.
Please just quote that to either myself, Brother Dylan or one of our ushers and we can get that for you.
And we might give away a lot of ice cream tonight, so praise the Lord on that.
And then also on the inside we have our service and soul winning times as well as our stats for the month of April and the last few months.
I'm going to get a count from any soul winning to report from Monday. Anything to report from Monday?
Okay, what about Tuesday? Anything from Tuesday? Okay, two for Tuesday. Oh yeah, okay.
So four total for Tuesday. And then today I think our Vangroup had one. Was there anything outside of that by chance?
Alright, is that another one? Outside of the Vangroup? That was the one I counted.
Alright, so one for today. Keep up. It was a hard fought one, alright?
Because Karen was out and she called the cops and some people were getting trespass warnings and all kinds of crazy stuff.
But hey, you know what? That's how it goes sometimes.
On the right we have our list of expecting ladies and we also have our prayer list.
If you have any prayer requests throughout the week that you'd like the church to be in prayer with you on,
you can submit those to our email or you can fill out a communications card and we'll try to put that into our prayer list.
We'll go over our list real quick and then we'll say a corporate prayer.
We have Ms. Rebecca Negara with some health issues.
I know that she had some immediate dental surgery or something that she had to go into so let's be in prayer for her that.
Also the Hinckley family. Brother Ian with knee pain and Ms. Camelia with health.
Ms. Elizabeth Urbanek still has that cast. I think it was like two weeks, right? About two weeks?
May 10th. Okay, May 10th.
And then also we have the Connelly family there if you'd be in prayer for salvation for their family.
The Morgan family, their cousin's health and surgery and then brother Goodwin with another dental appointment.
And so we'll just say a quick word of prayer for those that were mentioned.
Thank you Heavenly Father for our church. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to be gathered together.
I pray that you would just be with those that are not here this evening.
And I pray that for everyone that was mentioned here with health concerns that you please bless them with health.
Give them favor, give them wisdom, give them strength and grace.
And I pray for those that have other concerns that you just give them wisdom, that you just bless them.
And I pray that you would just continue to bless our church with more soul winners that would be zealous
to go out and preach the gospel and that you would help us to find people that need to hear.
And in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
We have our ladies' tea. There should have been an email that went out to all the ladies that signed up for our ladies' tea.
I think we have over 80 ladies signed up for this thing and their friends so it's going to be a great event.
If you did not respond to the email, please respond to the email.
I think my wife followed up with almost everyone and I think everyone did.
But just double check that you responded to our email just so we can make sure we have you down and we can get you situated.
I'm really excited about this and I think it's going to be a great time.
On the back we have a couple other events.
I need to double check. Are we doing our sports day this Saturday or no?
Let's just say no sports day this Saturday just so it makes it easier for the ladies to go out there and do their tea.
We'll pick it up the next Saturday, the 15th.
Pastor Jones is preaching that Sunday, both the Sunday morning and evening services.
It would be a great time to come out and hear him preach.
Really great guy. I went up there and visited him just recently and their church is going really well.
Basically this is my opinion. If Pastor Jimenez likes you, you've got to be a great guy.
He was ordained by Pastor Jimenez and Pastor Jones is a really nice guy.
I'd really encourage you to come out here and hear him preach.
He preached at the Red Dot Conference last year and did a really good job.
You can always check his preaching out at Shield of Faith Baptist Church.
Also we have our men's conference.
There should have been an email that went out today for you guys to just respond and just let us know, confirming your spot.
I'm going to send a follow up email shortly after that which will have the details as far as reminders of things you should bring and other information as far as going.
If you can, please just make sure to confirm your spot via email on the men's conference.
We also have a couple soul winning marathons.
On October 6-10 we're going to have our Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship again this year.
I'm really looking forward to this.
Last time it was a huge success and it was a lot of fun.
Everybody really enjoyed themselves.
You guys did a great job of helping out and participating.
I really look forward to this year.
We're going to do lots of other fun stuff.
Lots of the same and a couple different things.
As soon as I get those specific details I'll let you know.
We should have a guest preacher pretty much Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
We're going to plan on having guest preachers every night on Wednesdays, Thursday, and Friday.
Then we're going to have special events on that Saturday.
If you want to participate a little bit extra you can.
We'll have activities throughout the day too.
On Thursdays and Friday.
Obviously if you have to work you have to work but there will be other activities and soul winning and things like that.
Especially since we'll have out of town guests.
I just encourage you to participate as much as you can.
One other announcement.
We're going to get a little bit nicer version of these but we already have some.
We're going to get a little bit thicker card.
They're just called an information card.
We have communication cards that we just keep stocked here for visitors at our church.
These information cards are for soul winning specifically.
Basically what the card is is just basic information as far as date, name, address, city, zip, phone number, email.
Then it has a couple other boxes here that says I would like transportation to church.
I'm interested in being baptized and I have a prayer request.
These are just after soul winning.
If you want to get information from anybody that you talked about soul winning you can fill this out.
Basically the back side is for you.
What we have is we're going to have an optional follow up program.
This is just completely up to you guys as much as you want.
If you give us these cards no matter what we'll put them in our database and we'll send them out.
Invitations to our special events and things like that.
Additionally we're having an optional fellowship program or follow up program.
Where if you want to take your soul winning convert out to lunch, dinner, coffee or whatever.
You bring me the card and your receipt and we'll reimburse you.
Basically you get a free lunch, dinner or whatever.
If you get someone saved you can just tell them hey we have a fellowship program at our church.
Our church would love to take you out and get a coffee or grab lunch sometime or whatever.
Just see if they're interested.
If it's somebody that would make sense or someone that's interested you can write on the back of the card they were interested.
You can even put the information of when.
You may not even do that right away.
You may just get their information, text them and call them a day later and set up an appointment.
But then you just keep this card as a reminder of what their name was.
If they had prayer requests or anything like that.
Then you can fill it out and say hey we're going to meet on X next day.
Take them out to lunch or whatever.
I got the idea from essentially the only real success I've had through follow up.
There was several years ago when I lived in the Amarillo area.
I won someone the Christ and they told me they were coming to church.
I'll tell you what I thought they were coming to church.
Since then I've realized a lot of people say that and aren't going to come to church.
It's a shocker he didn't come to church.
But I did have his information so I called him and I set up a lunch day.
I took him to lunch. I bought him lunch. I hung out with him.
I got him a Bible.
After having that second encounter with him he ended up coming to church.
Then he got plugged in. He went to church for several weeks.
He eventually didn't stick but I got him in the door and he started coming.
I think for a lot of people it's just difficult to want to show up to a random church where they feel like they don't know anybody.
Or they don't have a personal connection or anything like that.
This is just completely optional. It's up to you.
If you never fill out one of these cards I will never harass you about it.
But if you would like to, fill them out.
Turn them in to me or Dylan.
Or you can just throw them in the offering plate or whatever.
You can at least have their info to do follow up through email or through mailers that we send out as a church.
If you want to, you can follow up with your converts and take them to lunch, dinner, whatever.
Give me the receipt and I'll reimburse you.
Sounds like a pretty good deck.
If you have any questions just let me know but it should be a pretty easy program.
We have cards already printed but we're going to print out some even nicer ones where it's a little bit thicker.
These are a little bit thicker than normal paper but I want to try and get a really thick card stock so it's even nicer.
But you can just tell them, hey fill out this front. Would you like to do a fellowship program with us?
And that's about it. All you have to do.
So it should be pretty simple as far as that goes.
So with that let's go to our next song.
133. 133.
133. Safe wherever I go.
133. Peace the world cannot know.
133. Sins all forgiven in heaven my home.
133. I'm safe wherever I go.
Let's do it again.
133. Safe wherever I go.
133. Peace the world cannot know.
133. Sins all forgiven in heaven my home.
133. I'm safe wherever I go.
Amen.
As offering plates are being passed around please turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 11.
Genesis chapter 11.
Genesis chapter 11. The Bible reads,
And the whole earth was of one language and of 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.
And they said one to another, Go to let us make brick and burn them thoroughly.
And they made brick for stone and slime had they for mortar.
And they said, Go to let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven.
Let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men build it.
And the Lord said, Behold the people is one and they have all one language and this they begin to do.
And now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.
Go to let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.
And from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
These are the generations of Shem.
Shem was an hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years and begat sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years and begat Salah.
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters.
And Salah lived thirty years and begat Eber.
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters.
And Eber lived four and thirty years and begat Peleg.
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years and begat Reu.
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years and begat sons and daughters.
And Reu lived two hundred and thirty years, or lived two and thirty years and begat Serug.
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters.
And Serug lived thirty years and begat Nahor.
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years and begat sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years and begat Tirah.
And Nahor lived after he begat Tirah a hundred and nineteen years and begat sons and daughters.
And Tirah lived seventy years and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Now these are the generations of Tirah.
Tirah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Tirah in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives.
The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife Milka, the daughter of Haran,
the father of Milka, and the father of Iskah.
But Sarai was barren, she had no child.
And Tirah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son,
and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife,
and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan
and they came unto Haran and dwelt there.
And the days of Tirah were two hundred and five years, and Tirah died in Haran.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Lord, Heavenly Father, we thank you for Genesis chapter 11, Lord,
and for the genealogy and also, Lord, for the story encapsulated in this chapter.
I pray that you would fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit now
so that he can articulate for us what this chapter is all about, Lord,
and so we can learn more about it and come away with some lessons we can apply to our lives.
And, Lord, I just thank you for our church and for the soul winning that has been done
and will be done in the future, and in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Amen. So we're doing a Bible study of the book of Genesis, and we're in chapter number 11,
and it's kind of a real foundational chapter as far as understanding a lot of things that we see in the world,
and just understanding a lot of things that we see in the Bible, but it says in verse number 1,
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Now, what you have to understand about the Bible is it is in chronological order, okay?
However, what the Bible often does is it'll give you a very large expanse of time,
or a large, basically, timeline in one chapter, and then in the following chapter it'll go back
and it'll start filling in some of the details that were in elaborate on the timeline that was given.
So in chapter number 10, we were given this huge list of names and generations
and all these different people that lived, and it's going through several hundreds of years.
It's going through a very long period of time in chapter number 10.
So when we get to chapter number 11, what it's doing is it's going backwards in time
as far as at the beginning of chapter number 10, and it's filling in some of the gaps.
It's giving us more information as far as what happened, because it tells us in chapter number 10
that it's something unique. It talks about how the language was divided.
But in chapter number 11, it's now going to give us the details of what that looks like.
Look at chapter number 10, verse number 5 for a second.
It says,
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands,
everyone after his tongue, after their families, and their nations.
So of course, you know, a God-hating atheist or something would say,
Oh, look, the Bible says they had different languages in chapter 10,
and now it says everybody has the same language in chapter 11.
What happened?
That's just because they're not even trying to understand the Bible.
They don't even care to put these pieces together.
But essentially what the Bible is doing is it's going back,
and it's elaborating on why the languages were divided.
What happened?
So in chapter number 1, it's going all the way back to essentially a time where we've recently exited the ark.
We've recently started to establish families.
And it's basically just saying there was a point in time where everyone's of the same language,
which would make sense since it was Noah and his three sons, right?
I mean, they're not going to have a lot of languages there.
It's the one language, and from their sons they had other generations.
And you have a couple different generations that get to this point.
So it's probably about 100 years, okay?
It's about 100 years from the time that Noah has exited the ark
to about the time that we're situated here in Genesis chapter number 11.
It says in verse number 2,
So when it's talking about they, who's the they?
It's the whole earth.
It's just saying everyone.
Everyone is basically still kind of gathered generally in the same area,
and they all kind of travel together.
They're going to a plane.
One reason this could be is just to have more area to grow and develop
as they start having and multiplying and having more people
and as the waters had receded and everything like that.
They probably don't want to live in the mountains.
They're going and they're finding a plane, right, where they can build
and they can do those type of things.
It says in verse number 3,
So we have the story here where the whole earth,
meaning all the people alive at that time,
they travel to the land of Shinar
and they begin to build a city and to build a tower.
And what is their purpose of why they're doing this?
Well, they want to have a name, right?
They want to have a name and they don't want to be scattered
abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And this makes a little bit of sense.
If they don't have a city, if they don't have a place to dwell in,
if they don't have something that's kind of secure,
then people are going to kind of start, you know,
wandering and going in different areas
and then they're going to end up being scattered.
They're going to build a city to try and keep everybody together,
keep everyone housed together.
And, you know, there's no new thing under the sun.
If you want to keep a lot of people together, you build a city, right?
And, in fact, when we look at the United States today,
the majority of people live in a city, right?
I mean, the majority of people live in some kind of a large metropolis-type area.
The majority of our population is housed up in some type of area
where everybody else is because it's nicer, right?
There's more conveniences. It feels safer.
And especially, you know, you think about in the olden times,
there was a lot more beasts of the field.
There was a lot more things like natural disasters and stuff
that could come and wipe you out.
So it would be nice to live around other people
and to enjoy the accommodations of being in the city.
Why is it that people move into the city?
Because they have everything, right?
They have the grocery stores and they have all the modern conveniences
and they have, you know, T1 for your internet needs, right?
You can finally have fiber or something.
You can have a faster internet connection and everything like that.
You can be hooked into the New World Order even better, you know,
in the back of the head. No, I'm just kidding.
But essentially, you just go for the accommodations for the conveniences.
And look, it's going to be the same here,
where they're going to want to be together.
They have a lot of the same reasons why they would be there,
but they want to make a name. They don't want to be scattered.
It says in verse 5 also that the Lord came down to see what they were doing.
And he makes this note in verse number 6.
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one.
Now, what does it mean that they're one?
Does that mean that they're one person?
Some people just read the word one and just insert one person every single time the Bible says it.
One just means unity, okay?
That's all one really means. It just means they're unified.
They're in agreement.
So it's just this oneness.
And it says, and they have all one language.
So in what way are they unified?
Well, they all have the same language.
They all dwell in the same place.
They all have the same grandpappy, Noah, right?
It's one big family reunion, essentially.
So they have a lot of unity gathered here.
And it says, In this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.
Verse 7, Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech.
You know, it's interesting how the Bible gives us lots of little subtle hints to the Trinity.
Like here in verse 7, Go to, let us go down.
Right?
And it says, and there confound their language.
Now, here's the thing.
Who can confound language other than God?
No one.
Just like who can forgive sin other than God?
No one.
So that's why when Jesus Christ forgave sin in the New Testament, that was a picture of what?
His deity.
There's certain things that only God can do.
When he said, Let us make man in our image, the only person that fits that criterion is God.
Because the Bible makes it clear that we're made in His image.
And so when it's saying us, there's somehow a plurality to God.
And you say, is there more than one God?
No, the Bible's crystal clear.
There's one God.
Yet, we understand through the lens of the New Testament that there's the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost, which is known as the Trinity, right?
The Bible, if it makes it clear, there's three that bear record in heaven.
The Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.
And when it says these three are one, what does that mean?
They're unity.
They're unified.
They all have the same record.
They all give you the same gospel.
They're the same as far as they're the truth.
They're the same as the fact that they're all God, okay?
We obviously understand there's a difference between the Father and the Son.
But we have this tidbit here where the Lord is saying, hey, let us go down and there confound
their language that they may not understand one another's speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left
off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language
of all the earth.
And from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
And so we actually have the history of why languages exist in the world today.
And in fact, if someone said they were babbling, you know, it's just basically what?
A speech that you can't understand, right?
That's what we even still use that vernacular.
And it's coming from this root here of Babel, and it's meaning confusion.
It's where God confounded them.
And I already preached to this section a little bit in the previous chapter of all
the end times prophecies that you could pull out of this chapter, and there's so many.
But I really want to focus on the primary application here, which is what?
The division of languages, okay?
So this is telling us the details of how the languages got divided.
Chapter number five was, I'm sorry, verse five of chapter 10 was where we see that actual
division coming into play, and it's telling us all these different divisions that existed.
Now why is it that God would want to divide the tongues, okay?
And I'm going to talk about languages here a little bit later in the sermon, but let's
think for a moment about why God would do something like this.
Well he gave us a couple indications here.
He told us in verse number six that nothing will be restrained from them which they have
imagined to do.
When everyone is completely unified, and notice in this situation, it's basically a one government
too, isn't it?
I mean there's just one language, they're all together in one city, the people is one.
And so from a governmental perspective, whatever they decree as law is going to be equally
applied to every single person.
So we could see that corruption would be pretty easy, you only have to tamper with one, right?
You can see a lot of evil taking place when the fact that there's just one.
Here's another aspect of the fact that they really are making all their decisions based
on their own pride in their heart, okay?
And you say, why do you say pride?
Well notice, what was the purpose of them building the city and the tower?
To make us a name, wasn't it?
To make us a name.
They want to have a name.
And what does a name represent?
Well keep your finger here because we're coming back, go to 2 Samuel chapter 18.
I want to show you some other place in the Bible where we see something similar.
But a name represents a lot of different things.
It can represent authority, a name can represent power, it can represent significance, okay?
And names have significance and they want to have a name.
They want to have significance.
They want to have something to be remembered by where people think of them.
Well this is very similar throughout the entire Bible where mankind wants to have this great name.
They want to have this legacy.
They want to have some kind of an influence or significance tied to who they are.
2 Samuel chapter 18 is about Absalom and look at verse 18.
It says, Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar which is
in the king's dell, for he said, I have no son to keep, notice this, my name in remembrance
and he called the pillar after his own name and it is called into this day Absalom's place.
So Absalom in the Bible, he didn't have any child, he didn't have any son, so he ended
up erecting some great pillar and he named it after what?
Himself.
Why?
Because he wanted to have what?
A name.
He wanted to have that name, you know, Michael Jordan, you know, or whatever.
He wants to have that name, he wants to have that influence where people think of him,
that legacy, or whatever it is that Martin Luther King Jr., you know, that great name.
And here's the thing, sometimes those names get tarnished, don't they, with facts and
reality.
Just wait for the tapes to be released on that name.
But go over to Acts chapter number 4, Acts chapter number 4, what do they want?
They want to have a name, but here's the thing, does God really want to have this name of
mankind?
Is it man's earth?
Is it man's city?
Is it man's tower?
I mean, is this really what God wants, is for us to worry about our own legacy and worry
about our name?
Or are we His creation and are we supposed to serve and worship Him?
Is it supposed to be about Him?
So it makes sense that God would not be pleased with the fact that they're so interested in
what?
Glorifying themselves and lifting themselves up and trying to get themselves a what?
A name.
Okay?
And here's the thing, when you try to get yourself a name, God will humble you.
God will abase you.
You know, you shouldn't worry about getting a good name, you should worry about pleasing
the Lord.
And you know, if you're pleasing unto the Lord, He may magnify your name, He may give
you a good reputation, He may give you a good legacy, but the way up is down, and the way
down is up, because everything that goes up, let's come down.
That's just science for you, alright?
But the reality is, they tried to build themselves up and what did they do?
They ended up destroying themselves.
Look at Acts chapter number 4, here's another thing that comes with a name, is authority.
Acts chapter 4 verse 7, and when they had set them in the midst, they asked, by what
power or by what name have you done this?
So notice, the Bible ties the word name to what?
Power.
Because a name can have power associated with it.
A lot of times people ask you and say, by what power or what authority are you doing
this?
They're looking for you to name drop someone that gives you the ability to be here.
You know, Biden sent me, you know, as if anybody wants to be sent by Biden.
But you know, they're basically asking who gave you the authority, who is the name that
you're representing here, and that name has power associated with it.
When we pray to God the Father, we pray in the name of what?
In the name of Jesus.
Why?
Because we're praying by His power, by His authority.
We have no power and authority to talk to God on our own.
We need a mediator.
We need that propitiation that go between the Lord Jesus Christ and we pray in His name.
Okay?
So why do they want to have this name?
Because they want to have power.
They want to have authority.
Okay?
And you've got to think about it.
I talked a little bit about the end times, but the Antichrist, he's going to cause everybody
to get a mark, and it's his name, isn't it?
And what do you get?
You get the power to do what?
Buy or sell.
Because here's the reality.
The name is associated with power.
And so you have to understand when they're wanting to get this name, what are they trying
to do?
We want power.
We want authority.
We want to be remembered.
We want to be significant.
And it's all related to pride.
Go, if you would, to Hebrews chapter number one for a second.
Hebrews chapter number one.
The only name that really matters to anyone should be the name of Jesus Christ.
And the reality is that nothing's going to be restrained from him in the sense that they
have all authority, all power.
All power is given in the Antichrist to do whatever he wants at some point in the future.
And we see these one-world governments set up, Nebuchadnezzar, or we see the Medo-Persian
Empire, or we see the Grecian Empire, we see the Roman Empire.
We truly see a man at the top that can pretty much do whatever he wants.
Whatever he thinks up, whatever he dreams up, whatever he imagines, he has that ability
to do.
Yet, when they're separate nations, whenever everybody's divided, you can't necessarily
do whatever you want.
Kim Jong-il, or whatever, or I don't know which one it is now, he can't do whatever
he wants.
He's restrained by all the other countries around him.
He has influence on his nation.
But aren't you glad that the whole world isn't just under his power only?
That'd be pretty rough.
I mean, you read about what's going on in North Korea, it's insane what's going
on.
I mean, you have to worship as your God.
I mean, the children are walking in lines singing praises to him during the school day.
That's all they do.
They sing how great and wonderful he is.
And he's like, in some versions, he's like come from outer space or something as a god
or something.
It's just, it's bizarre.
And these people are starving.
Most of the women are put in the military and they even stop menstruating for years
because of how difficult the military conditions are on them.
They're not even taking any kind of drugs.
It's just they're not being fed and they're having to do hard labor to the point where
their body won't even menstruate because of the hard labor that they're going through.
I'm so glad that God has separate nations and I'm not in that nation.
And in fact, you don't even realize how blessed you are.
Virtually the entire world right now is on full lockdown.
I mean, if you were an indie right now, you'd be at home.
And if you walked outside your house, you'd be beat.
We got a trespass warning by the cops or whatever, you know, for soul winning.
I mean, if you go to Canada right now, you go to Europe, you go to these places.
It's not like Texas.
Okay.
It's not like the United States where you're from.
I mean, and I believe in the UK, they haven't been able to leave their home since the beginning
of the coronavirus.
I think they've been in lockdown.
I mean, maybe for work visas, veria papers.
I know it's the UK, but I mean, it's like Russia all over again.
I mean, you live in some of these areas.
I think that brother Stuckey in the Philippines, he said that children have not been able to
leave the home period.
Wouldn't that be fun?
Wouldn't you want that government to be in, and look, I'm not sitting up here saying like
Biden's great or anything.
Okay.
But at the end of the day, you don't realize how blessed you are.
You don't realize how much of a Goshen you're in, even though there's obviously we've lost
a lot of liberties.
We've lost a lot of freedoms and, and our country's headed down a bad path.
You know, even in other States, I mean, even just going to some of these, you know, liberal
States, it's way worse.
There's been some States that have been on more lockdown, more Karen's exist there, more
fixed stop or whatever you want to call them.
I mean, it's just insane the world that we live in today and all the restrictions that
are going on.
And when you have that centralization of power, it's going to be more restrictive and whatever
they imagine to do, a lot of times they can do it.
And this is a good reason why the church of God, the church of Jesus Christ, which I'm
not going to let all those cults redefine those terms, okay.
That we should not centralize power either.
Okay.
We live in independent, fundamental Baptist churches where they can all be divided and
we don't have this centralizing authority, this centralizing chain of command where everybody
can serve God on their own and we can, we can reduce the amount of corruption.
Obviously you're never gonna get rid of corruption, okay.
But at the end of the day, you can reduce it by having separate churches, right.
And even steadfast Baptist church, we don't want to just hog all of the good Christians
and hog all the spirituality and just see how big we can get and build us a name and
see how big a tower we can get.
And you know what, there's nothing wrong with a church running thousands.
There's nothing wrong with a church growing and getting huge.
But at the end of the day, we should take some of our best people and send them somewhere
else and bless other people with them and multiply and try to grow that way.
We shouldn't just try to see how many people we can just hoard here and just be like, don't
live in California, come here.
That was the easy one, all right.
Don't go to, you know, York, don't go anywhere.
Just come here, it's Goshen.
Come here, you know, it's the promised land.
And I get it.
Look, you feed them brisket and they're like, I'm willing to stay.
You know, I'm gonna serve the Lord here, you know.
And I get it.
Look, Texas is great.
I love Texas.
Hey, I'm here.
But at the end of the day, you know, we don't want to just sit here and just hoard all of
the good people and not be willing to send someone out.
We're not gonna set up a Bible college and try to get everybody here and keep all the
good people here.
No, we should be a sending church and we want to decentralize power so as to keep it as
least corrupt as possible.
As least corrupt as possible.
Because when you have a really bad leader, things can go sour very quickly and so it's
important not to, you know, have it all just stored up in one place.
Now when we talk about names, we talked about significance.
We talked about power.
Even just recognition.
Look what it says in Hebrews chapter 1 verse 4, being made so much better than the angels
as he hath by an inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
So notice Jesus Christ, this is who it's talking about, has a more excellent name than they.
Being what?
The angels.
Meaning he's better.
Meaning that names are not equivalent.
Not all names are on the same playing field.
Some names are better than other names.
Some names are more excellent than other names.
And meaning what?
Jesus Christ is better than the angels.
Jesus Christ is better than us.
Jesus Christ is the best.
And so that's why he has a name that's above every other name.
Go over to Ephesians chapter 3.
Go to Ephesians chapter 3.
In Philippians the Bible says, wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him
a name which is above every name.
There is a name above every single name and that is Jesus Christ.
That's who we worship.
That's who we praise.
That's who we sing songs about is Jesus.
And the Bible also tells us though that everything is named after God.
And look at Ephesians chapter 3 and verse number 14.
The Bible says this, for this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth, notice this, is named.
So the whole earth and the whole family in heaven is named after the Father.
Now maybe you have a better explanation but this is what I believe this is saying.
We're all called what?
The children of God.
And notice we all get to take his name on.
We're all the creations.
You're the angel of God.
You're the children of God.
You know we're all named after him.
We're all his creation and all the preeminence and all of the power and recognition is going
back to God because that's whom we worship.
We worship God.
We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and you know it's their name that's important.
It's not about us building a name for ourselves.
It's not about us setting up our own name and setting up our own tower.
Hey, the name Steadfast, I love that name but nuts to it in comparison to God and Jesus
Christ.
It's not about Steadfast, not about us.
It's about him and you know we need to give him the glory and the honor.
Go to Proverbs 18, go to Proverbs chapter 18 for a moment.
Not only do we have the significance and the recognition, the authority and all this that's
tied to that name but there's another thing tied to this and then building this city and
building this tower.
Why build a tower?
Obviously there's a lot of reasons you could build a tower.
One would be to see it.
But a reason why a lot of people build a tower especially in the olden times you have to
understand is for safety.
A tower pictures safety where you would get away from enemies and in fact you have a lot
of stories in Judges where people would go up into a tower to seek refuge or to seek
safety from an enemy.
You have the story where Abimelech comes and he lights the tower on fire and kills everybody
in it.
But then the second time he tries it a woman throws a piece of millstone off of the tower
and cracks his skull open and he dies by the hand of a woman.
So the tower is a picture of safety, it's a picture of refuge.
Obviously in today's world we don't really have a lot of towers that you would go seek
refuge in.
In fact if a tornado is coming you seek shelter underneath the ground.
However in the olden times in military conquests and in warfare a tower is a picture of refuge
or a place of safety.
And so God uses that analogy unto himself.
Look what it says in Proverbs 18 verse 10.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower.
The righteous runneth into it and is safe.
So why would you have the tower of Babel for safety?
But that's not the thing you're supposed to trust in.
You're supposed to trust in the name of the Lord.
That's the real tower, that's the real safety and so we see men trusting in what?
Trusting in their works, trusting in their tower, trusting in what they build and what
they do and you know what, we're not supposed to trust in that.
We're supposed to trust in the Lord.
We're supposed to trust in the name of the Lord and that's the tower.
What's that name?
That name is Jesus.
And you know what, that's how you're saved, is by believing on the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Go, if you went to Psalms, go backwards a little bit, go to Psalms, not only is the
tower for safety, the tower is also for glory.
The tower is also for glory, why, in height, okay, and everything that is in reference
to glory is in relation to height, okay?
We think about stars and the sun, because they're up in the sky, they're pictures of
glory, okay?
The glory of the sun, the glory, and glory can also be a reference to brightness or how
something shines, but it's also in height.
And notice the devil in the Bible, he says that he wants to be like the most high, why?
Because height is a declaration of glory, and in fact, what do cities love to brag in?
That they have the tallest tower, they have the tallest building today, okay?
They have one of the, what is the tallest tower today?
I think it's in Dubai, I can't remember what the name of it is, but that thing is massive.
It's still not as big as the giants according to the book of Enoch, but you know, they were
born of women.
But you know, that tower is giant, and of course, it's something to be marveled, right?
You look at it, and people would be, oh wow, look at the tower, but the thing is, is we're
supposed to look at the Lord for that type of glory, and we're supposed to look to Him
as the one that we praise.
Psalms 8, verse 1, the Bible says, oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all
the earth, who has set thy glory, notice this, above the heavens.
Now they wanted to have a tower that reached up to what?
To the heaven.
Why?
Because when you have a tower up into the heaven, that's a picture of glory.
But the Bible says the name of the Lord, it's above the heavens.
It's more glorious than the heaven.
Why glory in the tower that you can build up to the heaven?
When God is above the heavens, He put His own glory far above the heavens, that's the
only glory that we should be glorying in is the Lord.
Yet we see mankind today, what do they like to do?
They like the glory in themselves.
You go down to Arlington, close to where I live, and what do you see?
AT&T Stadium.
It's massive.
That thing is giant.
What is that?
It's a picture of glory of what, man?
Being the brave football player who's so smart.
He's going to tell you all the political decisions you should make this year, okay?
We have all kinds of businesses and banks, right?
You go downtown, what are you going to see?
The biggest tower, Wells Fargo.
What's the tallest tower in Dallas, does anybody know?
Bank of America.
See, I knew it was some bank.
Everything in what?
Themselves.
Putting their name at the top, right?
Because they want to have the preeminence, they want to have the honor, they want to
have the glory.
And look, there's no new thing under the sun.
It's the same thing.
They want to have a big tall tower that's up in the sky that has their name on it.
They want to have a big name, whereas we shouldn't care about that, we should only care about
the Lord.
And look, I'm not saying it's wrong to build a building, I'm not saying it's wrong to build
buildings or anything like that, but what's the purpose?
What's the purpose of having these giant skyscrapers for glory?
That's the purpose.
You say, well, you know, the earth's overcrowded.
It's not overcrowded.
And in fact, it's much more difficult to build these giant buildings that cost way more money.
There's all kinds of concerns you have to have.
I mean, in fact, some of them have to have lights on them, so a plane won't run into
them, okay?
Now, if you believe planes take down big skyscrapers, that's a different sermon for a different
time, alright?
But at the end of the day, you know, what you have to understand is that man wants to
build these huge buildings for glory, for honor, and that's what they were doing at
the Tower of Babel, but you know what?
They weren't glorifying the God who created them.
Did they say, hey, let's build a city for God.
Let's build something for the Lord.
No, it was about us, so we're not scattered, and so that we get ourselves a name, and the
Lord's looking down, and he's saying, you know, whatever these guys decide they want
to do, which is in their own heart, it's not going to be restrained from them, but we already
know the Bible teaches that what man thinks is good is never good.
They do that which is right in their own eyes, and it's not right, and so they need to be
scattered, and God is going to use the nations for lots of different reasons, and let's keep
reading.
I just want to give you a few things to chew on, a few things to think about when it comes
to the Tower of Babel.
One aspect is God wants to put an end to their glorying of themselves and the praise and
honor of themselves and putting their safety in themselves, and this is a pretty unique
miracle when you think about it.
God is literally taking everybody that speaks one language and just immediately giving them
a completely different language.
I don't even know how that works.
I mean, I don't know if every previous thought is now in that new language that they had
or like, you know, how that even could have gone through, but that's got to be pretty
confusing to start talking to someone, and all of a sudden they're just, they're babbling.
You're like, at first you're just thinking this guy's like got hit in the head, you know,
a brick falling him, and then the next guy and the next guy, and then you're just kind
of like, what's going on?
And it's a pretty unique and clever way for the Lord to divide people because a major
division amongst people today is language.
It's hard to have fellowship with someone that you can't communicate with.
Communication is a vital part of fellowship.
It's a vital part of a relationship, and you know, that's why I've always said, and I still
believe it, that if you marry someone and they speak another language, you should try
to learn it.
Why not?
That way you can have even more intimacy, even a better relationship, and here's the
best way.
Just stop talking to them in their native tongue.
Eventually they'll figure it out if they really want to draw closer to you.
So you know, that's just a tidbit, but look at verse number 10.
The Bible says this, these are the generations of Shem.
Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood, and Shem lived
after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years and begat sons and daughters, and Arphaxad
lived five and thirty years and begat Salah, and Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four
hundred and three years and begat sons and daughters, and Salah lived thirty years and
begat Eber, and Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years and begat
sons and daughters, and Eber lived four and thirty years and begat Peleg, and Eber lived
after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters, and Peleg
lived thirty years and begat Reu, and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine
years and begat sons and daughters, and Reu lived two and thirty years and begat Serug,
and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years and begat sons and daughters,
Serug lived thirty years and begat Nahor, and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred
years and begat sons and daughters, and Nahor lived nine and twenty years and begat Teerah,
and Nahor lived after he begat Teerah one hundred and nineteen years and begat sons
and daughters, and Teerah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Now these are the generations of Teerah.
So we kind of got a generation list, and then it's going to give the generations of Teerah,
but one thing to just note is that the age that these men are living is constantly dwindling,
and we see that the Lord is causing a dwindling effect.
He had said in the previous chapter that man would only live a hundred and twenty years,
or a hundred and a square years, and so we see these ages dwindling, and really kind
of after Jacob and some of these others, there's not very many people that ever lived to be
over a hundred and twenty.
We have a few exceptions.
We have people like Moses, and we have some other people in the Bible that you could say
lived to be a long life, maybe like Job.
Job, the Bible makes it clear, he had ten children that were kind of in their adult
stages, then they died.
Then he had four generations beyond that.
So he lived to be pretty old, most likely over a hundred and twenty years.
So based on his age, I would assume he's probably in this timeline of when the ages
are dwindling.
It could have been before Abraham, it could have been after Abraham, but it's most certainly
before David.
It's definitely before someone like that, because David, the Bible says, was old, and
he was like seventy approximate years or something like that.
So as we see these ages dwindling, eventually it's going to get to a point where no one
lives to be over a hundred and twenty.
In fact, in modern history, there's only one recorded person to have theoretically lived
over a hundred and twenty years old.
The person supposedly lived like a hundred and twenty-two years, things like a hundred
and sixty-five days or something like that, she was from France.
So that would either be one of two things, either an exception or maybe it's just not
accurate.
I mean, I don't know.
You know, that was a long time ago, it's possible they got her birthday mixed up or something,
but it's supposedly verified, even if it is.
It's not a coincidence that there's only one person that's ever lived in modern recorded
history above a hundred and twenty years, hey, that's exactly what God said.
But we do see that the patriarchs and we do see this lineage of God's people slowly dwindling.
When it gets to Jacob and Israel, and we talk about Joseph going down into Egypt later in
the Bible, it's interesting to note that Jacob will talk about how he's over a hundred and
twenty years old whenever he's down in Egypt, but he says he's not attained under the years
of his fathers.
And it's like, what does that mean?
Well, it's because these guys were super old.
Because from a normal person's perspective, you're like, you're like a hundred plus years
old?
It's like, wow, how old are you?
He's like, yeah, but my grandfather was four hundred years old and they were five hundred
years old.
So in his mind, a hundred is not even that big of a number, okay?
But to most people at that time, that would have been a giant number.
That's how you can kind of understand some of those verses.
Also we have Eber begetting Peleg, and I want to read the rest of this and then I'm going
to kind of talk about that.
But it says in verse number twenty-seven, now these are the generations of Terah.
Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot, and Haran died before his father
Terah in the land of his nativity, and Ur of the Chaldees, and Abram and Nahor took
them wives.
The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter
of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
But Sarai was barren.
She had no child.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his
daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees
to go into the land of Canaan.
And they came unto Haran and dwelt there, and in the days of Terah were two hundred
and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
So one thing to note, and then I want to kind of talk back about the languages, but you
know, it's interesting, later in the Bible it's going to talk about Abram going onto
the king of Egypt, or Pharaoh, and he goes to Bimelech, he goes on a couple instances,
and he's afraid that he's going to be killed, so he offers his wife, well he doesn't offer.
He just pretends like they're not married.
He's like basically, just tell them that we're just brother and sister.
And she kind of goes along with that charade.
Well then later, Sarai basically explains that, well, he is my brother, it's a different
mother.
So we see that they're like half siblings, and some people would say that was a lie.
I believe it's true.
I believe that was probably true.
But one reason why that might have been kind of an evidence here is the fact that when
you look at some of the other marriages here, when you look at Nahor, it says that Nahor
took Milcah, and it says the daughter of Haran.
Now that wasn't his sister, but we can see they're marrying very close into inter-familiar
relations here.
And so they're marrying people that are their first cousins, possibly half sisters and other
people at that time, and so I believe it was probably accurate that Sarah was Abram's wife.
That's just my personal opinion.
But one thing that I want to talk about is when we kind of see this delineation, we notice
that in chapter 10, verse 5, it said that the Gentiles divide in their lands and everyone
after his tongue, right?
Look at chapter 10, verse 20 for a moment.
It says this, these are the sons of Ham after their families, after their tongues, in their
countries and their nations.
So again, we see that word tongues, verse 31, it says these are the sons of Shem after
their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
And when we think about all these nations, we think about all these lists, later in the
Bible it's going to refer to a large group of people as what?
The Canaanites.
A large group of people as the Jebusites, okay?
Or it's going to use other names in here as you go through and look at the Hivites or
the Archites or the Amorites or the Philistines or, you know, all these different nations
are going to be categorized by these people's names that are listed here.
Well, it had given us another name here as far as the children of Israel.
And when it had described that Peleg, it said in verse 25, and unto Eber were born two sons,
the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided.
So at the time that Peleg's alive is about the time that the earth was divided.
Now I got this idea from Brother Suhail, but, you know, one thing that's interesting is
that the children of Israel are also called Hebrews, okay, and you might ask, well, why
are they called Hebrews?
Well I agree with Brother Suhail's theory.
It's probably from Eber, okay?
Now we have to understand about names in the Bible as they change over time.
In fact, Eber is referenced as Heber later in another chronology in other parts of your
Bible when you're looking at the different chronologies.
It'll say Heber begat Peleg, okay, and it'll have that chronology.
Now Heber and Hebrew is a little bit different in English because obviously you're changing
that R and that E, okay?
They sound a little similar, but what I did is I, you know, if you look it up in Hebrew,
I was interested just to look, in Hebrew both Eber and Hebrew have the first three letters,
the exact same three first characters, and then basically Hebrews just has like an extra
little mark at the end of that, and so that would give a strong suggestion.
I'm not saying that that's perfect, I'm saying that would give a strong suggestion that it's
the same root word.
Now it would make sense why that would be the case because why are people called the
children of Israel?
You know, when they go down to Egypt, why are they called the children of Israel?
Because they're all literally the children and grandchildren of Jacob who was named Israel,
so they have that in common, okay?
So at the time that the whole earth is divided, people are going to be divided by their family
by the language that they're speaking, and they're probably all what?
The children of Eber.
So then people are going to refer to them as what?
The Hebrews, just like they would say, well they're the Canaanites, well they're the Jebusites,
well they're the Hivites, and so we actually see the formation of nations based on people's
names and based on when the timeline of the language is being divided, and that's why
it's giving us a lot of these delineations and it's giving us a lot of this information.
And we see the Bible even telling us, you know, it's divided.
Now you say, how many tongues were there?
I don't know.
I don't even know that it's possible to know that.
But I did look, I did do some research as far as languages, and what's kind of interesting
is looking at families of languages, okay, and you can actually look up different families
of languages that exist today.
According to online, according to Wikipedia, there's about 7,111 known languages in the
world.
Now that's a lot, okay?
They broke them up into families, and based on the families that they had categorized,
they said we took all the languages where there's at least 1% of the known languages
clumped together in a family, and we've kind of categorized that, and they came up with
13.
So there's only like 13 categorizations of families according to online.
I'll give you the list of some of these that are mentioned here.
Now this is mentioned in the number of languages, not the number of speakers.
So it's not going to say necessarily the most popular languages as far as number of speakers,
but the families that contain the most languages.
The number one is the Niger-Congo.
So according to this family of languages, they have almost 1,500 languages.
They have 1542 languages, which is about 21% of all known languages.
Then there's Austronesian, Trans-New Guinea, Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European, Australian, Afro-Asiatic,
Nilo-Saharan, Otto-Mangaean, Austro-Asiatic, Tai-Kadai, Dravidian, and Tupian.
So based on those 13, you have, you know, essentially all the known languages broken
up into different families.
Now what's interesting again, when you look up this information on Wikipedia, they're
not coming from a Christian worldview, mind you.
They don't care what the Bible says.
In fact, they reject the Bible.
When you look up Indo-European, and that's the language family that we're in.
We're in the Indo-European family.
That's what English speakers speak.
In fact, I have this cool chart.
You can look it after the sermon if you want, but it's like a tree, and it shows you kind
of the history of languages and how they kind of transformed and how they kind of shifted
and how they came, we came from a European family in Germanic, West Germanic, Anglican,
and then English.
That's kind of how the English language came.
Now this isn't perfect.
This is just a drawing.
Obviously the English language borrows from French.
It borrows from other languages and things like that, but you can see on the tree essentially
kind of how a lot of languages formed and what their roots are.
But if you look up Indo-European languages on Wikipedia, this is what it says.
It says that all of the languages in these, in this family came from a single prehistoric
language.
This is what Wikipedia is saying, okay?
They said during the 19th century, the linguistic concept of Indo-European languages was frequently
used interchangeably with the racial concepts of Aryan and the biblical concept of Japhethite.
So in fact, they say that every Indo-European language is associated with being Aryan or
of Japheth.
Okay, that's just what it's saying on Wikipedia, but it's saying no matter what, they basically
can categorize all these languages as kind of coming from one root.
Now if you speak multiple Indo-European languages, you'll notice a lot, and when I mean a lot,
a lot of similarities.
In fact, you know, I don't speak anything fluently other than English, but I'm, I speak
Spanish just enough to give the gospel, and I think a lot of words are kind of Spanglish,
but you can see some similarities, okay, from some words, like no, right?
And there's other, there's other, you know, similarities.
English to Spanish though, it's not like super obvious.
Sometimes there's some words that are kind of similar, but some of it seems like Spanglish,
okay?
Adjectivo, an adjective, I don't know if that's legitimate, if it's always been that way,
or if it's just kind of a borrowed word from English or Spanish or vice versa.
But you have all kinds, in fact, I think there's like 2,000 words or something like
that where you just add an O and it's Spanish, no I'm just kidding.
It's a little more complicated than that, but it's essentially, there's like 2,000 words
that are very, very similar between Spanish and English.
But I've also been doing a little bit of study in Greek and also in French, and you'll notice
between French and Spanish, or even Greek, there's way more similarities.
A lot of words are very similar, the sentence structures, and sometimes even the vocabulary
or the grammar associated with those languages are very similar.
You know, when you talk about Spanish to Portuguese, you know, one is just basically trying to
pronounce words when you're drunk.
That's called Portuguese, okay?
But it's like the same.
I mean, you know, in fact, I remember, I've never studied Portuguese that much, but I
ran into a Portuguese speaker and I was able to give him like 80% of the gospel just by
just kind of talking to him because the words are so similar, you know, and it's just basically
he's talking in a weird baby accent and I'm talking normally, you know, in a Spanish accent.
But you know, Italian, I mean, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, I mean, these things are very
similar in their nature, and you can see all these languages actually kind of come together
and they have these similar roots.
Now some languages don't though, okay?
You now go to Mandarin, way different, okay?
It's so different that you could never say they came from the same place, which now presents
a problem for evolution because how in the world do we have all these different languages
where they clearly have different families, okay?
Now I looked at some of the languages.
The number one language as far as speakers is the Indo-European languages, which would
encompass English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, even Hindi, and some other languages
that are similar to Hindi.
The second was the Sino-Tibetan languages, which would encompass Mandarin, okay?
So Indo-European languages has 3.2 billion speakers, 46% of the world speaks an Indo-European
language as their primary language.
That's a lot.
The second was the Sino-Tibetan language.
That's 1.3 billion.
It's basically China, okay?
And then Niger-Congo languages, this is Africa.
It's about 500 million.
Then you have Afro-Asiatic languages.
This is mostly comprised of Arabic, okay?
300 million of it's Arabic and it's about 500 million in the world.
Then they have Austronesian, which was about 325 million and it kind of goes down.
There's only about, you know, 13, let's see, one, two, three, four.
There's 14 languages here that are mentioned as having 20 million known or active speakers
as their primary language and above.
So when you get to a lot of these other family languages, it's very small subsets, very few
number of speakers today, and so, you know, at the end of the day, what is the point of
that?
Well, how can you explain language without the Bible?
You know, and it's not like you could sit there and get a monkey to repeat something
and get a parrot, party with a cracker.
He doesn't know what he's saying though.
And look, parrots aren't teaching other parrots new language skills.
They might be able to repeat one another and mimic the same kind of sound.
But there's a vast difference between mimicking sounds and coming up with intelligible conversation.
And I don't understand how evolutionists or these people come up with this because the
first person, even if they came up with some language, if they don't teach it to anybody
else, it dies with them.
And there's a language dying in this world every 14 days.
And I'm not saying like an incomplete language where it's just like ooga booga.
I'm saying like it's a full legitimate language that's dying.
So riddle me this.
How could the ooga booga cavemen go around and have created a language and then how did
it change into completely different languages that have different origins?
There's no explanation.
The only explanation is the Word of God.
And in fact, pretty much there's an explosion of language and information about the exact
time of the Tower of Babel historically.
I wonder why.
I wonder why there's just this explosion of all, I mean they don't have like ooga booga
and then just full sentences.
It's just like full sentences.
It just goes straight in an intelligible language, hieroglyphics, or you know obviously
some languages are hieroglyphics, they're not like our language specifically.
But you know there's no explanation for this and they don't want to give you an explanation
for it because if they did they would say well it has to be the Bible then.
It had to have all came about simultaneously in a miraculous way.
And look, language is miraculous.
Now what's also interesting about language and what I want to kind of just mention before
we end is that language changes over time.
This is also another interesting phenomenon that we see today.
English did not exist at the time of Christ.
I know that when you read the King James Bible and it sounds exactly, I mean it just sounds
like it's exactly what Jesus said, it's not the exact words.
He obviously spoke Aramaic or he spoke in another language at that time.
Now we believe that the English words though are exactly what he said if he were speaking
English.
It's the exact preserved word of God in English.
And you know I believe that the King James Bible is God's word without error.
I take no apology to that.
And you know if I didn't have an every word Bible I wouldn't even know what to do with
myself because Jesus said man does not live by bread alone but by every word of God.
So if I don't have an every word Bible what would I even do?
Now it's no shock that the King James Bible is the most popular book in human history
because it's God's word.
Here's the cool thing about God's word it doesn't matter what language it's in it's
still God's word and it's still powerful.
And you see in Acts chapter number two the Holy Ghost is able to use all of the early
apostles to preach the word of God in every language and they say the wonderful works
of God.
They don't say oh something's lost in the translation.
The Holy Ghost can translate his word in any language.
He created language by the way.
Why would he be able to?
How could he create language and be like I don't know how to communicate it?
That doesn't even make sense.
He's the one that created it.
Now obviously languages change over time but go to Acts chapter number two I want to show
you a few verses here and you understand the word tongue and language is a synonym.
Now the word tongue can be in reference to your physical organ the thing in your mouth
that tastes but often it's also in reference to the word language it just means language
if someone says this I speak in the Hebrew tongue it's talking about the Hebrew language
okay and in Acts chapter number two it gives us both says in Hebrews Acts chapter two verse
four and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues
as the Spirit gave them utterance that doesn't mean they had other physical organs in their
body saying they were speaking other languages and verse six says now when this was known
as the bra the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard
them speak in his own language.
So notice we have an interchangeable tongue language and it goes back to verse eight now
we hear every man in our own tongue wherein we were born so it's native languages specifically
so tongue and language is a synonym found in your Bible.
Go to first Corinthians chapter 13 first Corinthians chapter number 13 we have to understand is
that words do change over time and languages evolve over time and even English you know
there's old English there's middle English there's modern or contemporary kind of a synonym
for that English and we speak modern English okay we speak contemporary English the King
James Bible is written in modern English okay now some people would attack it because it
says speaketh or believeth and be like this is old English those people are ignorant they
don't even know what old English is.
Old English is so different than what we speak today you would have no idea what I'm even
saying if I was speaking old English now middle English you would be able to pick out a word
here and there but it would still seem like I'm speaking a foreign language to you it's
that different it's that dramatically non-similar and so we need a Bible in modern English but
guess what we have one.
Now some people have proposed the question well what if the English language changed
from modern to you know text lingo or whatever I don't know it just transforms so much that
people couldn't even understand what we're speaking today well then we need a Bible in
that language but we don't need another Bible in this language we already have it it's the
King James Bible and this explosion of modern Bibles today is a fraud okay we don't need
another Bible it's already been translated for us and it's not giving you more understanding
all it's doing is putting doubt on the Word of God taking verses out adding confusion
and God's not the author of confusion okay so you know at some point in the future the
English language transforms so much that it's not even something that we're speaking right
now then we need it in that language okay just like we need it in every language if
we could but what you have to understand is that not every language is going to last forever
like I said languages are dying every single year and you know the King James Bible was
written from the Greek in the New Testament but most people don't even speak Greek today
now there are some people that speak Greek today but you know even Hebrew was a dead
language at some point you know and praise the Lord we have the King James Bible and
for the Old Testament we don't have to learn Hebrew which was a dead language for a long
period of time meaning you know the pronunciation they have is probably not legit because look
if you can look at Greek and then tell me how it's pronounced having never heard Greek
I'll give you a high five I guarantee you won't be able to and that's how hard it would
be to come up with you know these pronunciations they have tricks and things that they try
to figure out you can't figure out look you look at Portuguese you would never say it
that weird you would say it the Spanish way the way it looks okay and even English you
could go to Britain and instead of being garage it'd be garish as vertesment you know it just
depends on where you're at the dialects is constantly shifting it's constantly changing
and the same as with the Bible even people's names in the Bible change okay Eber to Heber
you have different names changing throughout the Bible and I'm not saying like Abraham
from Abram God changed his name specifically I'm talking about just over time names kind
of just evolve and slightly shift and change a little bit but the Bible tells us this look
at first Corinthians chapter 13 verse 8 charity never fail if whether it be prophecies they
shall fail whether it be tongues they shall cease whether it be knowledge it shall vanish
away now some people try to use this verse as a proof text that of cessationism it's
a belief that no longer do people have the Apostles gift to automatically speak another
language without having learned it but I don't believe this is what that's saying at all
okay now I believe that those gifts have stopped with the Apostles okay but I'm not gonna say
that this is a proof text what's the essence of this chapter it's about charity but it's just
saying charity is never gonna fail but some things will prophecies are gonna fail some sermons are
going away in fact YouTube's doing its best it'll leave my sermons all the time and some preaching
it's gonna it's gonna be gone some preaching ends up just failing okay tongues sometimes cease some
languages cease to exist there's plenty of languages that have ceased to exist they're
dead languages I mean there's languages that people are not using anymore there's no native
speaker anymore okay that's what it's saying and it's also saying where there's knowledge
has vanished away you know like the Alexandrian library it was supposedly contained some of the
greatest knowledge ever known but it burnt up and it's gone in fact the majority of knowledge
is gone the majority of everything that's ever existed is gone we don't know their names the
majority of people that ever existed we don't know their names we don't know their addresses
we don't know what happened on their fifth birthday we don't know have another 10th birthday we don't
know what happened how they skinned their knee we don't know what they did you don't even know the
majority of your life most of the information that exists in this world is already gone it's
gonna become but you know what charity is never going to fail the goodness and the kind works
that you've done as a Christian in the name of Jesus Christ will be remembered and Christ will
reward you and the Bible also talks about how faith you know now by the faith hope charity these
three but the great is that these of charity look faith is eventually gonna be come sight
won't be faith anymore we'll see Jesus you know we'll be in heaven you know eventually our hope
will be realized when we put on the incorruptible body when we are like the Son of God now we don't
have to hope in that it's been realized but here's the thing that charity those good works
those souls that you saved they're never going to end they're never going to cease that's why
it's saying it's one of the greatest things that you can do that's the essence that is mentioned
there go if you would to Revelation chapter number seven why do I mention that well you think they
want to have a name to have that legacy but here's the thing tongues are gonna go away knowledge is
gonna go away names are gonna go away but you know what your charities not the things you do for God
is not going to go away and you should go ahead and glorify his name instead of worrying about
your own you're gonna get a new name anyways who cares about your name on this earth now what about
the name of Jesus though and this is the last point I'm gonna make okay because we talked about
language and I think it's a good precursor to this but some people will literally attack the
name of Jesus Christ and there's this stupid movement out there called the sacred namers or
the yeshua crowd where they want to say like well his real name is yeshua it's not Jesus
and this is a bad movement it's not of God and I'm fully against it but we do have to fully
understand what's being argued here we do have to understand is this the name of Jesus can be
communicated in every language okay there's nothing wrong with saying Jesus name in Spanish
Jesus there's nothing wrong with saying his name in Greek Jesus there's nothing wrong with saying
it in English Jesus okay there's nothing wrong with saying it in Hebrew and if it's Yeshua go
for it okay there's nothing wrong with saying that and if you're a native Hebrew speaker you
probably would say Yeshua or something like that but to say that his name is not Jesus is just being
ignorant okay it's being foolish and attacking the name of Jesus is demonic okay his name is
Jesus whether you like it or not and in heaven we're gonna say Jesus you know why because I speak
English and you speak English all right and in Revelation chapter 7 look at verse 9 after this
I'll be held in the law a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds
and people and tongues stood before the throne and before the lamb clothes white robes and palms
and hey I'm gonna stand in heaven you know what name I'm gonna say Jesus now some of you might
say Jesus but you know I'm saying Jesus and someone might say Jesus and someone could say
Yeshua you know what to say his name's not Jesus is wicked it's evil and it's just not understanding
language at all go to chapter 9 look at verse 11 did you know that your name can be pronounced in
different languages and it's still your name what if the Bible had an example like that oh yeah it
does revelation chapter 9 look at verse 11 and they had a king over them which is the angel of
the bottomless pit whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon but in the Greek tongue hath
his name Apollyon this would be the same as first thing he no he's Abaddon not Apollyon
it's both and notice that's really different isn't it I mean that doesn't even sound the same
Abaddon Apollyon I mean that's a very you know dissimilar sounding name but it's the same person
and it's the same name it's just saying in Greek this is how you say it in Hebrew this is how you
say it so let me tell you what in English let me tell you how you say your Savior's name Jesus
it's that simple but you know these sacred neighbors do they'll claim that the Greek
Bible is just not legit everything was written in Hebrew or is that Bible and then basically
there's if the Greek New Testament is not legit then I guess we better go to the Old Testament
but the Old Testament doesn't have his name so then I guess I have to go to the tradition of the
elders and now I just become a Jew and look the sacred namers they want you to become a Jew and
they want you to reject the New Testament and reject the Word of God and reject Jesus Christ
I've literally had someone give me a Bible go ahead to Philippians 2 we'll finish there I had
someone give me an English Bible and every name of God in the in the Bible is changed into a Hebrew
name and it says in the very opening book I opened it up called the tree of life it's really the the
tree of death but it says in the opening part of it says our main goal is to restore the true name
of the Messiah so what does that mean they want to replace the name of Jesus talk about a satanic
agenda and look you can't find Jesus you can't find God you can't find the Holy Ghost anywhere
in it and I'm like what sense does that make what if I walked up to you say hey here's an English
Bible and every time you open it up it's Dios and Jesus it's like you know you're reading it's like
and Mary named him Zeus you know it's like that would be weird why would you just put it in a
random foreign language why wouldn't just have it in English that would be the same equivalent
it's because they're trying to attack the name of Jesus and they're trying to put doubt on the name
of Jesus now the thing you can understand Jesus could be Joshua in the Old Testament Joshua could
be you know Jesus and we understand that names can have these similarities like and I use this
in Spanish the name James and English can be in Spanish your kobo or Santee Santiago okay which
is I don't understand it but they're the same okay and obviously Joshua and Jesus are an
equivalent name so some people say it's not even a shoe of the city of Hashua because they're trying
to say it's like yeah yeah or yeah yeah Shua or whatever and they just come up and they're like
there's the Yah Yeshua crowd and there's a shoe a crowd and look don't fall for any of these traps
it's Jesus and look you have more authority to stand on Jesus because it's Jesus in the Greek
and that's where your Bible came from the Hebrew crowd doesn't even have a text that they can point
to with the name of Yeshua and we don't want to attack the name of Jesus look at Philippians
chapter 2 verse 9 wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above
every name that the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in
earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father I'm gonna be saying that when I'm in heaven not Yeshua or whatever
Hebrew equivalent they want to come up with now look I'm not attacking and saying that that's not
a legitimate name of Jesus but I am saying this don't attack the name of Jesus and look they
wanted to build themselves their own name the only name we need to claim is Jesus well the
prayer thank you father so much for your word thank you for our church I pray that our goal
would be to honor glorify your name and that I just thank you for giving us you know the English
language that we could have the King James Bible and that we could read it on a regular basis and
I pray that we would take the gifts and the blessings that you've given us to give honor
to you and that we would not try to build steadfast Baptist Church for our name but rather we would
try to increase your name and try to name increase the name of Jesus Christ and that all of our works
will be done to build your kingdom and for your honor and for your glory and we thank you for all
you've done for us in Jesus name we pray amen amen let's turn to song number 184 184 I love
thee my Jesus 1 8 4 184 what words can I find to tell Jesus I love him because he
first loved me because of my ransom he paid with such suffering upon the cursed tree in the morning
at the new time and with calm evening shadows I love thee my Jesus I love thee my king in
rejoicing and sorrows today and tomorrow I love thee my Savior and Lord oh come let us magnify
Jesus together for praise be cometh thee and blessing about me I owe to my Savior who all
things bought for me in the morning at the new time and would come evening shadows I love thee
my Jesus I love thee my king and rejoicing and sorrows today and tomorrow I love thee my Savior
and Lord never my praises be slow or be silent nor air my love grow dumb this sinner is saved
and my sins are forgiven the Savior's work is done in the morning yet the new time and with
calm evening shadows I love thee my Jesus I love thee my king in rejoicing and sorrow today and
tomorrow I love thee my Savior and Lord oh how can I love thee enough dear Redeemer however repay
my friend I'll spread the glad sound of my praise and my heart love on every joyful wind in the
morning at the noontime and with calm evening shadows I love thee my Jesus I love thee my king
in rejoicing and in sorrow today and tomorrow I love thee my Savior and Lord amen y'all have a
good night