The cry for independence may be good for a country against the motherland is not good for a society against God.

Dr Tony Evans says declaring independence from God is a culture's biggest mistake.

The more independence you insist on, the more confusion you will have.

This is the alternative broadcast, featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Forget your keys and you'll be inconvenienced.

Forget your bills and you'll pay a penalty. But when a person or a whole

nation forgets God, the results are deadly. And that's what Dr Evans laid out in this classic sermon called

when a nation forgets God. Let's listen in. I want to talk to you today

about what's happening in our land and what's happening in our life because we have made

a declaration of independence from Almighty God.

Much of what you're seeing today has been incorrectly diagnosed.

There's political diagnosis, economic diagnosis, social diagnosis.

Everybody has an opinion about what's wrong.

I just want to give you God's opinion. Our scripture today is Genesis chapter 11.

It's the story of the Tower of Babel.

We begin by reading now the whole earth, use the same language and the same

words. Everybody was talking the same noise. Everybody was saying the same thing

the same thing. They were using the same speech. They had a common

confession of agreement.

So the whole earth was on the same page.

With this unity, they decided that they would journey east, verse two says,

they found in the plane in the land of Shannar

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