Content
(In your own words, summarize passages into
sentences. Goal of 12 – 15 sentences)
Genesis
11:1-9
1. Genesis 11: 1 – 1 To this point in man’s history,
everyone spoke with a common language.
2. Genesis 11: 2 – 4 People settled on a plain in
Shinar building a city of brick instead of stone with a tower that ‘reaches the
heavens, to give them self-importance, and they believed that if they didn’t do
so they would be scattered over the face of the earth.’
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3. Genesis 11: 5 – 6 God sees what the people were
up to and 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.”
4. Genesis 11:7 – 7 God then decided to confuse
their language so that they would not understand each other.
5. Genesis 11: 8 – 8 Then God scattered the people
over all the earth causing them to stop building.
6. Genesis 11: 9 The Lord confused the peoples
languages of the world, the city was called Babel.
Divisions
(Summarize
main groupings of thoughts. Goal of 2, 3 or 4 divisions. ID passages covered)
1. Genesis 11:1 - 4 People
were speaking in one language and saw themselves as self-important choosing to
work together, feeling like they could accomplish anything without God.
Application:
How do you feel about what you can accomplish on your own without God?
2. Genesis 11:5 – 9 God’s
blessing is withdrawn when people start thinking of themselves and not God.
Application:
Have you seen God remove / withhold blessings when we don’t look to Him?
Subject
Sentence
(Summarizing
the Divisions into one sentence – ten words or less):
People rob themselves of blessing when they focus
on themselves.
Aim
(A
main teaching point for the overall study of the passages):
To cause the audience to see that God’s
blessing may be withdrawn when we focus on what we can do and stop focusing on
Him.
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