This biblical teaching is a production of The Walk Ministries with Pastor Jeno Shaw. You can watch the video below, and then read the teaching notes that follow.
Overview
Chat for a second
Yaaay! I got my VB license today! It feels good to get a brand new license. Well partially, lol. I say partially because I found out that there’s a car tax here, which means that even though I bought the car in another state and already paid my taxes that when I came to Virginia, they expect me to pay tax again on that same car just to operate it in Virginia Beach! So, yeah, I’m lifting that up to the Lord!
I have signed up for this online forum, and it’s good because it lets me put my finger on the pulse of the neighborhood so to speak.
After this “jab era” the past two years, it’s like people don’t know how to act. For example, a man waiting in line at a Taco Bell got tired of waiting, so he pulled out his gun. Did it work? Yeah, probably, as people would leave and scatter, but that’s not the answer. What were you thinking? Wait your turn like everyone else.
Another one: a lady went to the pool to get a tan or whatever and there was a young female lifeguard on duty. The lifeguard was doing her job, but then this teenage boy liked her. You know, sometimes boys don’t know how to communicate with girls. He obviously liked her and was trying to get her attention but in all the wrong ways. He stole her lifeguard equipment, so, of course, she had to ask him to give it back. He wouldn’t because then he had her attention, but that was bad because she couldn’to her job. Her focus was on him instead of the pool. So then this lady felt led to step in and help this lifeguard, so she began to tell the boy to give it back. Well, the boy didn’t like that, so he ran and told his dad. His dad came into the pool area and confronted the lady and started yelling at her!
Also, kids are getting out school then and going to the malls. That’s not bad, but they start acting out and becoming unruly, and that just ruins the mall experience for everyone and eventually it hurts the malls business.
This incident reminds me of the time a pastor went to pick up his wife at the mall where she ran a hair salon. When he got there, his wife was finishing up someone’s hair, so to kill some time, he decided to walk around the mall and pray. Well, his wife still wasn’t done, so he decided to walk around the inside of the mall. When he got done, he saw this black guy staring at him from across the way. He thought maybe this was someone his wife knew because he didn’t recognize him. The guy started walking toward the pastor and stuck out his hand and said, “Thank you for praying.” The Pastor was taken aback somewhat, and then the guy disappeared. He was an angel — the angel for that mall! Wow, glory to God!
So this encourages me to go to the mall and start praying. Everyone can do that. You don’t have to evangelize unless the Lord leads you, but you can walk around your mall and pray! Now you have an excuse to go to the mall. Tell your spouse, “I’ll be right back.” “Where are you going?” “I’m going to the mall to pray!” (lol) But, for real, you should do that.
Tower of Babel
We all heard about the Tower of Babel — this tall tower that they built. But here are some things you may not know about this:
Nimrod, the leader at that time, was rebellious. Nimrod was upset that God flooded the earth and killed his ancestors, and he wanted to reach heaven to do what, challenge him? I mean, in that time Nimrod was considered a mighty hunter. Some even say he was a giant. He was a mighty hunter, not only of animals, but some say he even hunted men. So Nimrod got all these people together to build this tower and let’s look at the scripture here:
Genesis 11:1-9
“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. (2) And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. (3) And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. (4) And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (5) And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. (6) And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. (7) Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. (8) So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. (9) Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”
Note: So they all had one voice. That’s power to be in agreement.
Verse 6 alludes to the power we have but we are not using right now. Because they were in agreement, nothing would be withheld from them that they IMAGINED. WOW! Let that sink in.
And in verse 7 God says, “Let US go down.” This matter was so important that God was calling a meeting with Jesus and the Holy Spirit! God could have said, “Let me go down,” but he didn’t.
And now you know where the term, “stop babbling and speak up; I can’t understand you,” comes from.
Why do you think we have so many denominations? It’s called divide and conquer. It’s the oldest trick in the book, and we have fallen for it. But now is the time more than ever for us churches to come together under the BANNER OF JESUS CHRIST!!!!!
Love you all,
Pastor/Coach Jeno
