The Great State Of Confusion

My second choice for a title for this sermon was, "You Babbling Idiot!"

I have taught on the Babel Tower in my Sunday school class several times but I had never preached a message on it. I had studied pretty exhaustively on the subject and felt more than prepared to preach a sermon. For some reason I felt very unsure of myself though when I actually stood behind the pulpit to preach. Of course I always feel unworthy and inadequate to deliver God's Word but for some reason I was very nervous about this one. I suppose it was because it was more of an educational sermon as opposed to a Salvation message.

I wanted to deliver the point that the whole downfall of man was caused by pride. I'm not sure I relayed the point very well but I gave it my best shot. I don't ever like to preach more than 30-35 minutes. Every now and then I will go 40 but I try my best to keep it around 30 because I have done a lot of study into the attention span of the human mind and also have received a lot of personal advice from folks that say anything over 30 minutes is just waste of time. In fact, folks typically start tuning out after about 20-minutes. In this day and time everything is instant, so we preachers have to follow the Holy Spirit and keep our hand on the pulse of the congregation. I know speaking personally, I start to tire out after listening to someone preach for about 30-minutes. It has to be a particularly good message to hold my attention longer than that.

Anyways, enough of my "babbling." If you feel so inclined to spend about 34 minutes of your time, you can listen to the sermon below:



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Genesis 9:1
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 10:8-10
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 11:1-9
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2 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.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 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.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 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.