Rebuilding the Tower of
BABEL
You may be familiar with the story of the Tower of Babel spoken of in Genesis 11:1- 9. The Tower of Babel was a united effort by a community of people to touch heaven through something they built. We know that men like Enoch and Elijah was taken up into heaven because they walked with God but here was a people united behind their leader Nimrod, who were determined to do it without God.
Today we are experiencing a revived Tower of Babel where a growing number of people are determined to touch heaven using their own man made systems and structures. This 21st Century Babel could be referred to as‘ the Church that man built’. A man made structure with a supernatural agenda.
We are not here suggesting that God’ s people do not have building work to do. We work with God in the building of His Kingdom or better yet, the Holy Spirit works through us in the building of God’ s Kingdom. Instead, what we hope to do, is to highlight the fact that we could possibly be building our own, man made thing in the name of God not realising that all such work is fruitless effort. Jehovah God, Yahweh, does not live in temples made by human hands.
The price for our salvation was too high to be humanly met. There was no way possible we could fulfil its requirements, so God came down in flesh and paid it for us. Similarly, Jesus must build His Church, man and his money are woefully inadequate to realise this task. Jesus said,“ My kingdom is not of this world …” Entry into His heavenly Kingdom cannot be bought or earned by us, neither can this Kingdom be built with bricks and mortar.
“ We see money as more important than it really is. Money is powerless to generate spiritual activity, and lack of money is powerless to cramp it. We have forgotten to listen to God’ s plans and have totally underestimated His power.” Money Isn’ t God- So why is the Church Worshiping It?- by John White- pg. 52
How Man Builds Vs How God Builds The power of man is natural like money but the power of God is supernatural like His Holy Spirit. Today Christians come together to sign petitions or to have a march when they need political decisions made in their favour. This is the Church adapting human methods by putting faith in the strength of numbers, the very thing God detests. You will notice throughout Scriptures that God will often use a very small number of people to bring about great victories or changes. Understanding our total inadequacy and God’ s all sufficiency is vital to any Spiritual mobility.
On the day of Pentecost over 3000 were genuinely saved though not a penny was spent on advertising, hall rental or on expenses for securing the services of a celebrity preacher. It is recorded that during such times God was adding to the Church daily. Today, contrary to this example, we see folks adding to‘ their church’ using all manner of salesmanship,
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