God's Plan For The Nations

Today we will end our series on the Fall by looking at Genesis 11 and we will see that God doesn't just have a plan for our enemies and battlefields. He actually has a plan for the nations. What I mean is this. There is a reason we have 10,000 different ethnic people groups spread out across the globe, who have a different culture and unique language. There is a reason we have 195 different sovereign countries. There is a reason why we have borders and different cultural idiosyncrasies and different languages and dialects. It didn't just happen... It happened according to the plan of God. It is all a part of God's plan for the nations. Let's look at our passage today, starting in Genesis 11:1-9. 

Just as with the story of Noah, this story could lead us to believe that God is reactionary. But let me assure you, God knew this would happen before he created the world, and he chose to let it play out this way. This is on purpose. And this is where I want you to sit in the tension of God's sovereignty. Yes he allows mankind to sin. We are sinful and we will never stop trying to become like God. We will always take the fruit. We will always try to build towers to heaven. And, yes, there will be consequences to that sin. But God takes our sinful decisions, often directly against Him, and switches it up and uses them for his own purposes. Yes, our sin separates us from God's holiness, but our sin will always be used by God to complete his purposes for humanity and ultimately his glory! Think about it. Your sin is so awful it cost Jesus his life, yet God is taking your sinful choices and is weaving them into a tapestry of design to redeem humanity. He's been doing it from the beginning and he will one day complete his work for the nations through a chosen nation, a chosen people, and the finished mission of Christ. The agents of the mission have changed from time to time, but the mission has never changed. And it stands the same today. If you get nothing else today, get this... God made the nations to bless the nations through missions.