Sermon Title: Affinity & Diaspora - Part 2
Scripture: Gen. 11:1-9 + 12:1-3

Additional Notes:

11:1-9
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

12:1-3
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
    

    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    

    and you will be a blessing.


    3 I will bless those who bless you,
    

    and whoever curses you I will curse;


    and all peoples on earth
    

    will be blessed through you.”