When the elders elect out, give them over

Something very significant happens in Genesis 11 when God comes down and confounds the languages and scatters the people in the earth.

"You naturally get together when you can understand one another, especially after you develop the same culture," explains Jordan.

"The reason God started off with their language is you have to have something that pulls you together. The geography gives you culture and the boundaries come naturally from all of that.

"In Romans 1, Paul describes the event in Genesis 11: 'Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.'

"That's what Genesis 11 says: [6] And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
[7] Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

"Romans 1: 24 says, 'Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.'

"Romans 1: 26 says, 'For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections.' God surrendered them to uncleanness. He gave them up to vile affections, meaning the things their flesh wanted to lead them to.

"Verse 28 says he gave them over to a reprobate mind and there's a difference in that. The verse says, [28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.

"You don't just surrender them, you assign them to it. He gives them over to the control of something.

"Deuteronomy 32:7 says, [7] Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

"It's the responsibilities of fathers and the elders to communicate to the next generation the wisdom they got from the previous generation. That's how civilizations develop.

"Robert Bork wrote a book called Sloshing toward Gomorrah. He said, 'Every year there's a new generation of savages born that need to be civilized by the institutions in the culture designed to do that.'

"That's a smart guy's way of saying Romans 12: [12] Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

"There's things you learn when you grow up about how to treat people, how to respond to people, how to talk to people, how to think about life and so forth.

"If you wonder what's going on in our country today, just talk to some of these Millennials. If you looked at the schooling they had and what they didn't learn about the founding of our country, about the principles upon which America was built, about how to understand what freedom is all about . . .

"They think about it all differently; the traditions that made America have no longer been taught to the younger generations."