Who Orders Your Steps?
You or God?

September 22, 2013





Genesis 11:2-4    And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.    And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.    And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us   a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 12:1-2    Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:    And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:


Hebrews 11:10    For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Romans 4:12    And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.



Abraham is the father of the faithful.

Rom 4:18    Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19   And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he  was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: 20    He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21    And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22    And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

God empowers people who trust Him with their LIVES.

This is part of how we get victory in everyday lives.

New Jerusalem is the city Abraham looked for.

THE CHURCH according to Heb 12:22.

God built it, not man.

One chapter In Genesis before the other shows MAN choosing where he should  dwell, and making his own city and his own name great, as opposed to God leading Abraham.

Walking after the Spirit is FOLLOWING GOD'S LEADING!

Rom 8:5    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6    For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Rom 8:13    For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14    For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

The tower is associated with the name.

Proverbs 18:10    The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Man chose the place to live, would build the city and tower himself, and make his own name great.

God would lead Abraham to the land God chose for the man to live.

What a difference between Genesis 11 and 12!

Many believers actually are more like the Babylonians than Abraham.

Shinar is IN THE DESERT AND ON SAND.

The foolish man builds his house on the sand and winds, rain and floods break that house down.

The wise man builds on the rock.

Abraham WALKED by faith.

Psalm 37:23    The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalm 37:24    Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Notice that a man that is good has his steps ordered by God and not his own mind.


Jeremiah 2:11-13 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Israel forsook God, THE RIVER, just as Adam and Eve forsook God for self-advancement in the self-production of good as inspired by the fruit of the
knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 3:6    And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

James 1:5    If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6    But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Rev 17:3    So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Contrast dry Babylon in the wilderness with the following:

Revelation 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:10    And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

Revelation 22:1-3 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:


What a difference.




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