Genesis – Part 35 | From Babel to Blessing
📖 Genesis 11:27–32
In this sermon, we move from the pride of Babel to the promise of blessing as God begins His redemptive work through Abram. This passage reminds us that God’s saving purposes do not start with impressive people or perfect obedience—but with sovereign grace.
Big Idea:
God’s redemptive plan begins not with human faithfulness, but with God’s gracious initiative.
Sermon Overview:
God begins with ordinary, broken people
Abram is introduced without spiritual credentials. Sarai is barren. Abram’s family worshiped other gods. Yet God chooses and calls—not because of worth, but because of grace.
Partial obedience can feel like progress
Terah moves toward Canaan but settles in Haran. Direction alone is not perseverance, and movement is not the same as obedience. Comfort can quietly replace trust.
God’s call is already at work before we see it
“The LORD had said to Abram.” God speaks before Abram moves. Obedience flows from calling, not the other way around.
Seeing Christ in the text
Abram is not the Savior—he needs grace himself. This passage prepares us to look beyond Abram to Christ: the greater Caller, the promised Seed, and the perfectly obedient Son.
Central Hope:
Our confidence is not in our faithfulness, but in God’s gracious initiative.
This message invites honest self-examination:
Where might we be settled instead of trusting?
What obedience have we been postponing?
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