Making A Name

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Self-improvement, Increase, Jesus, Achieve, Spiritual, Health & Fitness, Best, Goals, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Excel, Christianity, Education, Grow

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Send us a textLet's go back - way, way back - to the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. It is so fascinatingly placed! Before it is the Garden of Eden (God comes down to establish a covenant), then Sin, then The Flood. Right after it is God coming down to make a covenant with Abraham that would effect us all. That's a 500 year jump between Noah and Abraham, and all we get in between is Genesis 11. Most of that is genealogies. But there is this 9 verse event laid out. Somewhere between those t...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.
0:14.8	Today's podcast is sponsored by a wonderful company, Creation to Revelation. This group of Christians believe it is extremely important that we teach the Word of God to our kids.
0:27.1	They have original graphic illustrations from the beginning of the Bible to the end,
0:32.2	featuring the beautiful and consistent presence of Jesus throughout.
0:36.5	You can explore all of that at creation to revelation.com.
0:41.3	I'm so thankful you're here, so let's get started.
0:47.3	Hey, welcome back. I hope things are going really well for you. I'm excited today to turn your attention back to an Old Testament story that we both probably
0:56.8	know quite well. It's just so interestingly placed and intriguing, and in the end, for me at least,
1:03.3	it has some powerful implications that relate to your life on an individual level as it relates
1:09.2	to God, and even some things that relate to the church
1:12.1	with which you choose to affiliate and worship and work. By the way, I know this is a little bit
1:17.4	out of the box, and I really hope you enjoy it. A couple of times a year, we turn our attention back
1:22.1	to some interesting Old Testament story to try to figure out what is that thing really about? Why did the author place it
1:29.8	there? And of course, how can I use it in my modern walk with the same God that they served even back
1:35.9	then? The example that comes to mind to show that we've done this before is the episode from last
1:40.8	year where Jacob was wrestling with God. And I got a lot of good feedback on that,
1:45.7	and I've wanted to do this a bit more often. So the story of interest today is found in Genesis
1:50.7	11. It is only nine verses in length, and I will read that for you in just a bit. I'm talking about
1:58.2	the Tower of Babel. You're familiar with that, right? Where they all spoke the same
2:03.2	language and they decided to build this tower and God came down and confused their language and they
2:07.9	all headed in different directions. There are a couple of usual common takes that we have on that
2:13.6	story that I'd like to challenge just a little bit today. And then, as I said, I have a few
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