<TITLE>04. Par 19-27</TITLE>L-19 And then, in this life, man begin to achieve things. But when he did, he begin to leave God out of the picture. He begin to have selfish motives. And--and when he did that, he begin to think of something for himself. And we find that it isn't long until he had corrupted the very planet that God had put him on. He had got it in such a condition till even His Creator, grieved Him at His heart, that He'd ever made a man. And you can imagine how God felt when He seen the very creature that He made in His image, and give him dominion, and how that He made him to do something for Him, and yet he turned all of his strengths and his power over to selfish desires and achievements.

L-20 And then we find, it isn't too long after this great lesson that God taught the man during that time, by destroying the entire world with water, as the Bible tells us that He flooded the earth, and destroyed everything but a remnant that He left, which was Noah and his family. And just immediately after he come out from that great lesson...
It just seems like that man can't learn, only through the hard way. We find that even in our children; we have to punish them, many times, severely, to make them understand. It just seems like that a man is just in himself a total failure to begin with. When he lost his relationship with God, he become a unit of his own; he didn't depend on God no more. And when God had taught him the lesson of what it was to try to do something within himself, that his works would all come to naught, immediately we find them again going right down to achieve again. And the Bible said that they built them a tower, and they were going to climb up into the heavens to get up into heaven without coming the way God had planned for them to come.

L-22 And man can achieve better when they're united together. Now you take one man by himself, his power is limited to one man. Two men makes him twice his strength. Four men makes him four times his strength. And God wants us to be one. God made man that we should be one, and our motives should be one, and our objectives should be one, and our--our achievements should be one. He's just designed that way.
And we find out that immediately after the antediluvian destruction, that man began to try to take over again, himself.

L-24 And all the time these things are going on, the Spirit of the living God is striving with flesh, trying to get man away from his own achievement, trying to get man away from his own selfish motives and objectives, to a plan which God has laid down. And as long as man works in his own plan, he will be a failure. And a man can only achieve right when he comes back with the right objective and the right motive, and that is according to God's plan for him. Any other foundation is on sinking sands.

L-25 And we find out then, that they tried to unite, and they begin come one person. But in this uniting they did that time, it was under a political power. Man became one; their objective was one; their achievements was one; but it was the wrong kind of one; because it was against the plan of God. But he continued to go on, and finally...
When you find unity amongst people like that, they do great things. Just look over the world today, when people unify themselves together, yet under the wrong plan, they'll do great things.

L-27 Now, they built a tower which I doubt that modern science could build today with all their machineries and things, because they were united together. They had one mind, one soul, one purpose, one motive, one objective, that's build a tower so high that, if God ever took a notion to destroy them again, they'd run right up into the heavens with Him. And there would be no way that they could keep Him from doing it--or He could keep them from doing it as they thought. And we find out, then, that they organized themselves together, and we find them again completely out of the will of God.


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