In the midst of human defiance, and the human race’s climactic sin of uniting against God, God quietly begins working on His master plan, one that will control history right through to the end of time. Babel’s failure is answered by Abraham’s call, as the narrative makes clear by beginning to recount the generations of Shem as soon as it has finished telling about the collapse of the Babylon project (11:10). Our text today, then, tells us how God responded to human sin. We’ll see that He responded to the global problem of sin by literally acting locally, in and through a single family line. It is through Abram that the seed of the woman will be continued. So what we’ll see today, with God’s help, is that God called and blessed Abram for the sake of blessing the whole world.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...