Your mind is made up of the thoughts you allow yourself to think. What you think about really matters so think about what you think about! Your mindset will multiply through the generational architecture of your lineage.
Noah’s son, Ham, dishonored his father. This mindset multiplied into his life and throughout his lineage contributing to communities like Babylon, Ninevah and Sodom and Gomorrah.
Nobody sat Ham's descendants down and said 'let's build the Tower of Babel, let’s build the Capital City of paganism Nineveh, let’s build Sodom and Gomorrah. A mindset kept multiplying until it became a city. Ultimately this mindset birthed a nation forming an army standing in a valley in front of David. Warring against the hope of all humanity, the lineage of Christ.
You are designed by God to multiply and perpetuate your mindset into future generations.
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. NKJV
What you think about matters. So, think about what you think about. This is the essence of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11 where we find the first mention of Babel in the Bible:
Genesis 11:1-9 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth. ESV
“Let us make a name for ourselves” (vs 4) is all about human independence and self-sufficiency apart from God.
This is about having the same language and using the same words to make a name for ourselves canceling anything contrary to our towering ideas.
Andrew Fox, Austin Fire Department's lead volunteer chaplain, was removed from his role after personal blog posts opposing men competing in women's sports saying that men and women are biologically different.
At the 2026 March for Life, JD Vance spoke of Sean Gough, was arrested in England for silently holding a sign reading "Praying for free speech."
In March 2026, Canada's House of Commons passed a bill, 186 to 137, that removes the legal defense pastors and Christians have relied on for decades. A member of their own Parliament argued that passages like Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Romans 1 are hate speech that shouldn't be protected anymore.
Babel in our world today isn’t a physical tower but rather it is intellectual architecture. Anybody who is not speaking the same language, using the same words, or pronouns, is canceled.
Immediately following the details of Babel, the Bible begins to focus on one family line introducing us to God’s interaction with Abram. Babel's builders said, "let us make a name for ourselves" (Gen 11:4). God says to Abram, "I will make your name great" (Gen 12:2).
The exact thing Babel was grasping for, God was desiring to give. Man’s plan was self-serving, but God’s plan was and always will be to worship God with whatever we’ve been given by serving God and serving others.
Babel tried to make everyone the same, same words, same language. Genesis 11:3 come let us make bricks. God released his blessing to Abraham’s unique design unchiseled by human effort perpetuating this plan in the earth.
Just like brokenness can pass through generations so can blessing.
Many in this room don’t come from line of faithful followers of Jesus. But God can start with you to raise up a brand-new family line. We want to help you discover your God-given Destiny. Join us for a 30 minute conversation about the Next Step in Discovering Destiny Sunday, 8/16 immediately following the service.
GP2RL: Consider any kind of tower you've been building for yourself and invite God to speak to you. Then do whatever He says.
