Sermon

The Tower of Babel: Lessons in Pride and Obedience

Genesis 11:1

January 24, 2009 | Joel R. Beeke

Joel R. Beeke discusses Genesis 11:1, focusing on the Tower of Babel story. He explains the significance of human pride and disobedience in attempting to build the tower and highlights God’s response of confusing their language and scattering them. Beeke underscores the importance of humility, obedience to God, and the dangers of self-reliance and collective pride.

Joel R. Beeke serves as president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 books, editor of another 100 volumes, and has just finished writing the final volume, with Paul Smalley, of Reformed Systematic Theology (4 vols.; Crossway).