Sermon #S029 - Stop
Babel-ing - (Part 1)
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Pastor Snell: So let's stand to
our feet as we go to the word
today, as we go to the word.
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Go with me in your bibles to
the book of Genesis chapter 11.
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And again, this is the final
message in our series entitled
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Family-ish. And we're going to
spend a little time talking to
you no matter what station or
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family you are in, if this
series has helped you, let me
hear you say amen today.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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Pastor Snell: Amen. Genesis
chapter 11 and we're going to
begin together verse number one.
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And it's going to feel like a
strange place or a strange story
to talk about family.
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But if you kind of stay with
us, hopefully it'll all come
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together. Genesis chapter 11,
and we'll begin together at
verse number one. When you get
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there, just say, pastor, I'm
here. [throat clearing] The
Bible says, now the whole earth
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had one what? One language
and one what? And one speech.
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And it came to pass as they
journeyed from the East that
they found a plane in the land
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of Shinar and they dwelt there.
Then they said to one another,
come and let us make bricks and
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bake them thoroughly. And they
had brick for stone and they had
asphalt for mortar. And they
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said, come and let us build
ourselves a city and they tower
whose top is in the heavens and
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let us make a name for
ourselves. Let's we be scattered
abroad over the face of the
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whole earth. But the Lord came
down to see the city and the
tower, which the sons of men had
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built. And the Lord said, indeed
the people are one and they all
have one language. And this is
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what they have begin to do. Now,
nothing that they propose to do
will be withheld from them. Come
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and let us go down and confuse
their what? Their language that
they might not understand one
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another's speech. So the Lord
scattered them abroad from there
over the face of the earth and
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they cease building the city.
Therefore its name is called
Babel because there the Lord
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confused the language of all the
earth. And there the Lord
scattered them abroad over the
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face of the earth. Today's
saints for a little while I want
to talk to you under the
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subject, stop babbling,
[laughter] turn to your neighbor
say, stop babbling, turn to your
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neighbor say, stop babbling.
Amen and amen. Let's look to the
Lord together today. Father,
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once again, in this finite space
of time, would you communicate
eternal truth? Father, I'm
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praying that you would do a work
of revival, not just reviving
church attendance or a revival,
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that is the change of exterior
habits. But Lord, I'm praying
that you would revive
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communication and oneness and
unity within the families of the
household of faith. So Lord, my
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prayer today is that every trap
the enemy has placed to sabotage
unity, may it be exposed that
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Christ might be glorified in our
homes. So Lord, would you hide
in the shadows of the cross that
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Jesus alone might be seen, that
Christ alone would be heard? And
at the end of our time together,
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may Jesus alone be praised. We
ask this in the name of Him who
is all together lovely. It is in
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the name of Jesus that we pray.
Let God's people say together.
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Amen And amen. You may be seated
in the house of the Lord again
talking to you under the subject
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stop babbling.
Friends with some regularity.
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I use this dictation feature on
my phone in order to send text
messages so that instead of
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typing them, I verbalize the
messages I want to send. And
even though it's very convenient
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to do that, especially while
driving, there is a very unique
danger in sending text messages
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by voice so that because I have
a certain Southern accent, Siri
misinterprets some of the words
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I say in a way that'll make you
question my character. So that
sometimes when I pronounce words
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like shot or sheets, Siri will
misinterpret the word and
translate something I did not
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say. So that sometimes I'll say
a word like fork and she will
send it as another F word.
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Are you hearing me? And it's
funny because one day I text my
wife and I said, I'm going to
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the store to get some forks. And
she replied, what kind of store
are you going to in order to get
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that? [Congregation: Laughing]
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Pastor Snell: And there are
times where because of bad
translations, people are
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responding to the pastor with
shock and with awe and disgust
and I believe friends that the
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devil uses Siri to try to
compromise my witness. And my
mini... Are y'all hearing me
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today? And friends, what it
speaks to is the danger of poor
translation. You see,
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misunderstandings are caused by
poor translation. Conflicts
arise because of poor
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translation. Relationships are
destroyed because of poor
translation. And marriages end
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when people have poor
translation. And what I'm
learning, friends is that the
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burden of being understood is
rest on the communicator, not
the hearer. In other words, what
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does not matter is my intent.
The only thing that matters is
what I actually say. So that
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whether I am preaching a sermon,
whether I am talking to my wife,
whether I'm talking to my kids,
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it doesn't matter what I intend,
the only thing that matters is
what they're able to understand
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and see this is important
because in our story today we
see what happens when the
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language gets confused. In
Genesis chapter 11, we find
humanity being repopulated after
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the flood and understand that as
they move toward the East, that
they are so traumatized by the
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flood that they concoct a plan
to build a city and a tower that
reaches into the heaven. And the
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purpose of the tower was so that
if God decided to send another
flood, they could climb up into
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their tower and be safe. And the
Bible says, friends that at this
time the whole world had one
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speech and one language. And
note that post diluvion
intelligence an ingenuity was so
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sharp that they made great
progress in this objective. In
fact, the Bible says that God
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began to marvel at their
progress. And he notes that the
people have one language, they
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all have one speech, they all
work all together and nothing
they plan to do can be withheld
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from them. And see, God's
objective is to scatter them and
confuse them by confounding
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their speech. The only way he
could stop the evil from
succeeding was from stopping
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them from speaking the same
language. And this is the point
today, church, that what God did
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to sabotage evil, the enemy does
to sabotage the marriages of the
church. His constant goal is to
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disrupt unity by sabotaging your
ability to understand one
another's communication. In
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fact, in the body there are
husbands that are frustrated
because their wives don't seem
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to understand where they are
coming from. There are wives who
have building resentment because
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their men can't quite digest
what they're trying to get
across. And the issue friends is
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that marriages in our time
function like a modern day tower
of Babel because our houses are
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places of constant
misunderstanding. And see,
friends of mine understand that
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there is much misdiagnosis in
the house. You see some think
that their issues are financial
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issues, but the issue is not
finance. The issue is that we
don't know how to communicate
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about money. Some think the
issue is sex when the larger
issue is that we don't know how
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to communicate our needs. Some
think the issue is just that
we've got trials. The issue is
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not trial. The issue is that
your trials cause you to turn on
one another. And I want to spend
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some time today talking about
the issue of unity and
communication so that we can get
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to a place where we stop
babbling. Are y'all with the
pastor today? So go back with me
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if you don't mind to Genesis
chapter 11. And I want you to
look with me at verse number
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six, Genesis chapter 11 and
verse number six, stay with me.
We are going somewhere today.
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The Bible says, and the Lord
said indeed the people are one
and they all have one language.
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And this they begin to do. Now
nothing they propose will be
withheld from them. Understand
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friends, the first thing that
our text teaches us today is
that there is nothing that a
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united people cannot build. Let
me talk to y'all on this side.
Let me talk to the marriages on
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this side that there is nothing
that a united family cannot
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build. In other words, when a
couple is on the same page, when
they have oneness of mission and
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oneness of purpose and they are
one in spirit, that there is
nothing that they cannot
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accomplish. In fact, let me just
say this, that a power couple is
not just the one that shares a
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large bank account. A power
couple is the one that shares
the same vision and and see in
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our homes family the greatest
deficit. It is not a deficit of
money, it is not a deficit of
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food, it is not a deficit of
church. It is a deficit of
oneness and unity. See, the
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problem in our time is that we
are not functioning like
teammates. We are functioning
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like free agents that live
together. In other words, we
have different visions, we have
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different goals, we have
divergent values. And we are
wondering why things so
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consistently go left. And let me
be clear today, friends, that
your greatest relational asset
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is not your chemistry, it's your
unity. See, let me say this,
friends, I need you to get that
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the devil doesn't fear your
income. The devil is not afraid
of your profession. The devil is
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not intimidated by where you
live. But the devil is going to
work with hellish fury to
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sabotage your oneness and make
sure that man and wife are not
on the same page. Are y'all with
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me today? And see friends of
mine, when you don't know your
greatest asset, you protect the
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wrong thing. And see my
contention today, friends, is
that we are putting the greatest
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amount of security around the
things that have the least
amount of value. Isn't it
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amazing that in order to keep
our money safe, we put it inside
of a bank. In order to keep our
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jewelry safe, We put it inside
of a vault, in order to protect
our internet, we have a
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firewall, in order to protect
our car we have an alarm, in
order to protect our property we
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have a ring light and we have
all these things to protect
earthly values, but we have
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nothing to protect our unity and
our oneness. In other words,
your guarding your car but your
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unity is naked and exposed and
see, understand friends, the
reason that they have unity
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early on is because they
safeguard their unity. And what
I want to say to the families of
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God is that we've got to put
some safeguards around our
unity. Are y'all with me today
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friends? In other words, your
greatest asset is not your
chemistry, it is actually your
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unity. And so my wife and I have
some safeguards that make sure
we stay on the same page. See
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that's why Sister Snell doesn't
put me on blast in front of
company because she wants to
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safeguard our unity. The reason
I don't complain about her to
other folk is I want to
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safeguard our unity. The reason
we don't publish our drama on
Facebook is because we are
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trying to safeguard our unity.
The reason we don't run to our
parents with every issue is
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we're trying to safeguard our
unity. And what I'm saying to
somebody is you've got to lock
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the door, you've got to close
the window, you've got to send
some folk home so that you can
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maintain the unity.
[Congregation: Amen] Pastor
Snell: That God has purposed you
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to have. Are y'all hearing me
today friends? And see, let me
be clear that one of the reasons
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that they have early success in
Babel is because they're all
building according to the same
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vision. And see understand
beloved, that it is the vision
of what is going to be that
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aligns everybody's gifts. It is
this blueprint that puts
everybody in their right role.
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It is this blueprint that gets
everyone on the same page. It is
this blueprint that gives them
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the needed buy-in. And the
reason they're able to build
with success is because friends
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of mine, they are building
according to the same vision or
blueprint. And see this is my
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point today, friends, the reason
we can't build stuff is not
because we don't have tools. The
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reason some can't build is
because they have no blueprint.
In other words, some have no
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plan, there is no vision that
guides everybody in the same
direction. In other words, there
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are some of us that are waking
up every day and just deciding
how we are going to go. We are
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moving from one problem to
problem and one crisis to
crisis. And our marriage is
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reactive instead of proactive
because there is no vision that
is guiding us to a predetermined
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in. Are y'all hearing me today
friends? And see, and that's why
the writer of the book of
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Proverbs says that where there
is no vision, the people perish.
In other words, in the Hebrew it
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doesn't read that they perish or
die. The Bible says where there
is no vision, the people cast
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off restraint. In other words,
where there is no vision,
everybody just does whatever
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they want to do, there is no
unity that draws everybody into
oneness where there is no
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vision. It is like a body that
operates with palsy. There is
activity but it's not
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coordinated for a single
purpose. And see, the reason we
sometimes struggle is because
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there is no financial vision for
what we are building. There is
no spiritual vision about what
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we're going to become. There is
no child vision about who you
are building them to become. And
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we are just going out with tools
and just hammering nails because
there is no vision that guides
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our structure and see friends of
mine. I need you to know that
every marriage, are y'all
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hearing the pastor today? That
every marriage has to have a
vision? It's got to have a
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destination. Because when you
know your destination, it tells
you what direction you ought to
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go in. In other words, if I
leave out of here and I want to
go to Madison, Alabama, I cannot
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head to Memorial Parkway. My
destination tells me where I
turn. It tells me what I should
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avoid. It tells me where I
should stop. It tells me what
path I ought to omit because the
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way way I know how to go is
because I know where I'm going
and see friends of mine, I need
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us to know that because there is
no financial vision for the
home, there are no directions
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for what we are to be doing
today because there is no vision
for retirement at 55. There is
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no vision to get the kids
through school debt free. We
don't know when to sacrifice. We
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don't know when to save. We
don't know what to set aside
because if there is no
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destination, we operate without
directions. And see friends of
mine. There's a reason that
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every marriage needs a vision
because what me vision does is
vision keeps you resilient.
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Vision allows you to be able to
see through faith the things
that have yet to come to pass.
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You see, people without a vision
will make lasting decisions
based upon a present situation.
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And the reason they'll make
every decision based upon the
present is because they can't
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see beyond what is into what
shall become. And that's why
every head of household ought to
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have a prophetic acumen to them.
So that when is hard in your
home, you can look to your wife
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or to your children and let them
know it won't always be this
hard. Am I preaching to anybody
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today? In other words, friends
of mine? There's got to be a
vision about where you are
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going. There's got to be a
vision about how it's going to
get better. There's got to be a
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vision about how it's going to
be improved. Because if there is
no vision, you'll make all of
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your future plans based on a
current assessment. In other
words, let me say it this way,
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see how many of us understand
that even though it's cold in
November, it's not going to be
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cold in July. In other words,
when you operate without a
vision, when you assume that
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things can never change, it's
like throwing away all your
summer clothes because it's cold
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outside today. In other words,
it's like throwing away all your
shorts and your flip flops and
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your tank top because it's cold
today. Why? Because we're
forecasting the weather six
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months from now based upon the
outlook today. But how many of
us know that just like fall
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turns into winter and winter
turns into spring, that the same
way seasons change in nature?
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How many of us know that seasons
can change in your marriage and
it may be a dark season today,
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it may be a hard season today.
Obstacles may be against you in
this season, but can somebody
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rejoice that one day spring is
going to come and bring new life
and refreshment? Are y'all
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hearing me today? The second
reason they have success in
early Babylon is that
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everybody's able to
enthusiastically play their
role. In other words, friends of
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mine, when you went to the
workshop at Babylon, you've got
the wood workers doing their
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jobs, you've got the artisans
grafting with great skill.
You've got those digging ditches
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doing so with great effort.
You've got those planting the
gardens doing their jobs. You've
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got the ladies who are baking
the bricks and you've got the
men who are doing the heavy
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lifting. And when you go to
Babylon, you don't have the wood
workers trying to tell the piper
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what to do. You don't have the
piper trying to tell the
electricians what to do. You
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don't have the electricians
trying to tell the artisans what
to do. The reason they've got
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success is because everybody has
respect for everybody's role
that's building. Are you hearing
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me today friends? And see, one
of the things I need us to
understand is that as we try to
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grow into the roles that create
a great team, I need you to
understand this about teamwork.
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On a bad team, you have
hierarchy on a championship
team, you have roles, okay, let
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me say this again. Let me slow
it down. On a bad team, you've
got hierarchy, you've got tears,
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you've got a boss and you've got
subjects. But on a successful
team, you've got people that
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play different roles, but each
contribution is equally
celebrated. And see friends of
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mine, as we establish roles in
our homes, how many of us know
that the roles ought to be based
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upon gifts and not just gender?
Oh. I knew y'all going to get
quiet. [Congregation: Clapping]
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Pastor Snell: So since y'all
quiet, I'm going to take a long
time to preach this sermon
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today. I'm going to sit here
till all the sweat falls off my
brow. Are y'all here in the
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pastor today? In fact, friends,
do y'all notice something in the
Bible that scripture promotes
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roles not hierarchy? In other
words, I need you to actually
even go back to the physical way
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in which God created Adam and
Eve. So that when God laid Adam
down to the rest, that literally
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the physical act told a great
story for how the relationship
was supposed to operate. So that
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when he opened up Adam's side,
he left a hole there because it
was to create a point to where
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Eve was supposed to function. In
other words, he did not take a
bone from Adam's head because
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Eve was not supposed to dominate
him and rule over him and
dictate his every thought. He
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didn't take a bone from Adam's
foot because he was not supposed
to walk all over Eve. But he
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took a bone from his side
because Eve was to walk by side
by side in perfect equal
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partnership with the man that
God gave her. Are y'all hearing
me today friends of mine and
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see, I need you to know that
this whole idea of hierarchy in
marriage, we don't necessarily
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get that from the Bible. I need
you to know that before sin Adam
and Eve in their relationship,
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they mirrored the roles that the
God had modeled. But I need you
to know that this whole idea of
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control and hierarchy that
didn't come until Adam and Eve
sinned. In other words, friends,
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one of the things that we
confuse is sometimes when you
read Genesis 3:16, there is part
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of what God describes to Adam
and Eve as the curse, but then
there's a portion of it that is
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simply the result of their
behavior. So that when God talks
to the woman because of what she
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does, God says, okay, this is
the curse. He says, you going to
have pain in conception and in
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childbirth. But notice he
doesn't continue with curse. He
simply prophesized the result.
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He says, the result of your
behavior is that Adam is going
to try to use his superior
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physical strength. Your desire
is going to be for him. But the
problem is he's going to try to
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rule over you. Are y'all hearing
what I'm saying? And understand
that when God says that Adam's
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descendants are going to try to
rule Eve, he has not describing
his will. He is just telling her
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this is going be the result of
your decision. In other words,
because Adam Succumb to his wife
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Eve, do you realize in the
beginning that Adam did not take
initial responsibility? Adam was
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like, man, God, that's the woman
you put here. She gave it to me
and I ate. And you got to
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realize that Adam's curse is
that he is going to work with
sweat in the field each and
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every day so that every day Adam
works in the field and sweat
falls from his face and he cuts
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his hands on briers and
thistles. He develops a
resentment and contempt for the
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wife that led him down this
path. And understand that after
a while he begins to look upon
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Eve not as a valuable partner,
but as someone who is a danger
to himself, a reckless and
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emotional creature that must be
controlled and kept in place.
And after a while he stops
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leading Eve and he starts
leashing Eve and understand
friends. He's at a place where
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he does not see her as someone
whose opinion is to be valued
because it was listening to her
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that got me in this predicament
in the first place. And see, the
crazy thing is, do you realize
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that Adam does not keep this
disposition local to his
marriage? What do you think Adam
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teaches his sons about women? In
other words, he teaches Cain and
Abel and Seth and his sons, he
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teaches them, don't let that
woman control you. Don't let her
have too much freedom. We are in
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this mess now because I let your
mama and grandma get too far
away from me. Are you hearing
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what I'm saying? So that by the
time you get down to Genesis
chapter 12, you've got a full
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blown patriarchy where the woman
is seen as a second class
citizen and it is all a result
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of Adam's guilt. Thank you so
much for joining us for the
Breath of Life Television
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Ministries broadcast with Pastor
Debleaire Snell! We hope and
pray that you have been blessed
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by part one of “Stop Babel-ing.”
This is the fourth message in
our series titled “Family-ish.”
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Join us next week for Part Two.
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