A Man With A Good Reputation, But Bad Intentions

Genesis 10–12

Have you ever found yourself inspired by an individual? It might be in church, work, school, community, etc, but most of us have encountered an individual that we look up to. This individual has a good reputation among the people, when people look at him they stare in awe. Yet out of no where, because he has such a great reputation, he takes individuals and does something evil. It might be in a church that an individual separates and makes his own church which is an unbiblical church. For instance, the church may believe that having sex before marriage is right, drugs are perfectly fine, divorce is fine, and so many things that are against the bible are fine.

Nimrod finds himself as an individual with good reputation, inasmuch that people thought he was a hunter before God. Yet he had bad intentions. Because he had a good reputation, he was able to unite people with different languages into one language to communicate with each other to construct a Tower of Babel: a tower of rebellion. God did not like this, and He brought judgement.

Today I want you to live not because a person of good reputation is leading you (we see what happens with Nimrod) but we shall live as if Jesus was leading us. The word of God should be the substance that we follow because it is infallible and incorruptible and God is pleased with that. Don’t trust man, trust God.