1. Speaker: Pastor Tan Choon Seng
The Sky Is The Limit
Speaker: Pastor Tan Choon Seng

5. The Tower of Babel

6. Symbol of Rebellion

7. 1 Now the whole world had one language
Symbol of Rebellion
(Genesis 11:1-4)
1 Now the whole world had one language
and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar 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.

8. Symbol of Rebellion
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.”
(Genesis 11:4)

9. Rebellion Against Cultural Mandate
And God blessed them, and God said
to them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth.
(Genesis 1:28)

10. Rebellion Against Cultural Mandate Replenish the earth
(Genesis 1:28) vs
scattered over the face of the whole earth
(Genesis 9:4)

11. Disobedience to the Great Commission
STAY VS GO

12. Disobedience to the Great Commission
And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. (Acts 8:1)

13. Centri-fugal

14. Centri-petal

15. Rebellion Against God’s Command
Do not eat…you shall die
(Genesis 2:16-17) vs
Eve took the fruit and ate, and she gave it to her husband, Adam,
who was with her, and he ate it.
(Genesis 3:6)

16. 1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
United Rebellion
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
(Genesis 11:1)

17. United Rebellion
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.”
(Genesis 11:4)

18. Root of Rebellion

19. Root of Rebellion
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.”
(Genesis 11:4)

21. PRI DE

22. SIN

23. The Fall of Lucifer 12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! How you are cut down to
the ground, you who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit on the mount of the congregation, on the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High. (Isaiah 14:12-14)

24. The Fall of Man
4 And the serpent said to the woman, you shall not surely die: 5 For God knows that when you
eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened,
and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took the fruit and ate it. (Genesis 3:4-6)

25. Root of Rebellion
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts
(Psalm 10:4)

26. Rebellion Against God’s Appointed Institutions / Instruments
*Marriage (Matt. 19:4-6; Malachi 2:14-16)

27. Rebellion Against God’s Appointed Institutions / Instruments
*Marriage (Matt. 19:4-6; Malachi 2:14-16)
*Parental Authority (Eph. 6:1-3; Col.3:20)

28. Rebellion Against God’s Appointed Institutions / Instruments
*Marriage (Matt. 19:4-6; Malachi 2:14-16)
*Parental Authority (Eph. 6:1-3; Col.3:20)
*Civil Authority (Rom. 13:1-6; 1 Pet )

29. Rebellion Against God’s Appointed Institutions / Instruments
*Marriage (Matt. 19:4-6; Malachi 2:14-16)
*Parental Authority (Eph. 6:1-3; Col.3:20)
*Civil Authority (Rom. 13:1-6; 1 Pet )
*Spiritual Authority (Hebrews 13:17)

30. Rebellion is a Heinous Sin
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.
(1 Samuel 15:23)

31. A creature revolting against a
creator is revolting against the source of his own powers including even his power to revolt.
It is like the scent of a flower
trying to destroy the flower.
– C.S. Lewis –

32. The beginning of men’s rebellion against God was, and is, the lack
of a thankful heart.
– Francis Schaeffer –

33. Confusion of Tongues 5 But the Lord came down to see the city
(Genesis 11:5-9)
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.”

34. Confusion of Tongues 8 So the Lord scattered them from there
(Genesis 11:5-9)
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 – because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over
the face of the whole earth.

35. Confusion of Tongues
(Genesis 11:5-9)

36. God’s Wrath Against the Rebellion
14 If you fear the Lord and serve and obey Him and do not rebel against His commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the Lord your God – good!
15 But if you do not obey the Lord,
and if you rebel against His commands,
His hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors. (1 Samuel 12:14-15)

37. God’s Wrath Against the Rebellion
Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death
will be sent against them.
(Proverbs 17:11)

38. Rebellion Against God’s Parable of the Wicked Tenant
Anointed & Appointed
Jesus the Christ
Parable of the Wicked Tenant
(Luke 20:9-18)

39. For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Romans 6:23)

40. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right
to become children of God,
to those who believe in His name.
(John 1:12)