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1
Abraham Father of Faith - 7
  • God Overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah

2
Lot Welcomes Two Angels
  • Genesis 191-5 MKJV And there came two angels to
    Sodom at evening. And Lot sat in the gate of
    Sodom. And Lot rose up to meet them when he saw
    them. And he bowed himself with his face toward
    the ground, (2) and said, Behold now, my lords,
    please turn into your servant's house and stay
    all night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise
    up early and go your way. And they said, No, but
    we will stay in the street. (3) But he urgently
    pressed on them, and they turned in to him and
    entered into his house. And he made them a feast,
    and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. (4)
    But before they lay down, the men of the city,
    the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old
    and young, all the people from every quarter.
    (5) And they called to Lot, and said to him,
    Where are the men which came in to you this
    night? Bring them out to us, that we may know
    them.

3
Different Perceptions
  • The angels arrive in human form
  • Lot sees them as divine dignitaries, treats them
    with respect and invites them home
  • The people of Sodom see them as human strangers,
    and as sex objects simply to be gang-raped
  • Righteous people show love and respect and serve
    and care for others
  • Wicked people are users and see other people as
    objects, and think in terms of satisfying their
    own lusts and ambitions.

4
Wicked Sodom
  • Genesis 196-11 And Lot went out to the door to
    them, and shut the door after him. (7) And he
    said, I pray you, brothers, do not act evilly.
    (8) Behold now, I have two daughters which have
    not known man. I pray you, let me bring them out
    to you, and you do to them as you see fit. But do
    nothing to these men, for this is why they came
    under the shadow of my roof. (9) And they said,
    Stand back! And they said, This one came in to
    stay, and must he judge always? Now we will deal
    worse with you than with them. And they pressed
    hard upon the man, Lot, and came near to breaking
    the door. (10) But the men put out their hands
    and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut
    the door. (11) And they smote the men that were
    at the door of the house with blindness, both
    small and great, so that they wearied themselves
    to find the door.

5
The Immoral End Of A Society
  • Societies can reach a point of no return where
    they are
  • Violent mob mentality
  • Predatory devouring other people
  • Immoral group sex, gang rape
  • Unnatural homosexual lust for strangers
  • Persistent in sin wearied trying to find the
    door
  • Entirely corrupted - young and old from every
    quarter of the city

6
Ineffective Lot
  • Appeals to conscience do not act evilly
  • Attempts to negotiates a compromise I have two
    daughters
  • Ends up in grave danger
  • Lot fails to realize the irrationality of evil
  • Fails to enact proper boundaries
  • Is easily intimidated and manipulated
  • Lot is weak, compromised and ineffectual
  • Cowardice is the sin that leads to all other sins
    once sufficient pressure is applied

7
The Angels Rescue Lot
  • Genesis 1912-16 MKJV And the men said to Lot,
    Have you anyone here besides yourself? Bring your
    sons-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters,
    and whatever you have in the city, bring them out
    of this place. (13) For we will destroy this
    place because great is the cry of them before the
    face of Jehovah. And Jehovah has sent us to
    destroy it. (14) And Lot went out and spoke
    with his sons-in-law, who married his daughters,
    and said, Get up and get out of this place, for
    Jehovah will destroy this city. But he seemed as
    one that mocked to his sons-in-law. (15) And
    when the dawn rose up, then the angels hurried
    Lot, saying, Rise up! Take your wife and your two
    daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in
    the iniquity of the city. (16) And he lingered,
    the angel laid hold upon his hand, and upon the
    hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two
    daughters (Jehovah being merciful to him), and
    they brought him forth and set him outside the
    city.

8
God Warns But We Must Believe
  • The angels reveal the fate of the city
  • Lot being weak dithers about
  • His sons-in-law think he is crazy
  • The angels have to drag them out of the house
  • God warns but we must believe
  • God protects us but we must cooperate with His
    protection

9
Some Warning Signs Today
  • Moral degeneracy
  • No moral absolutes
  • Gang violence
  • Powerful controlling social systems
  • Selfishness normalized - the love of many will
    grow cold
  • Predatory conscience-less commercialism
  • Widespread disparagement of Christianity
  • Weak Christian leaders in some denominations

10
Zoar
  • Genesis 1917-22 And it happened when they
    brought him outside, He said, Escape for your
    life! Do not look behind you, nor stay in all the
    plain. Escape to the mountain lest you be
    consumed. (18) And Lot said to them, Oh no,
    Lord, (19) please now, Your servant has found
    grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your
    mercy, which You have shown to me in saving my
    life. And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest
    some evil take me and I die. (20) Behold now,
    this city is near to flee to, and it is a little
    one. Oh let me escape there (is it not a little
    one?) and my soul shall live. (21) And He said
    to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this
    thing also, that I will not overthrow this city
    for which you have spoken. (22) Hurry and
    escape there! For I cannot do anything till you
    have come there. Therefore the name of the city
    was called Zoar.

11
More Cowardice
  • Lot finally leaves
  • Lot does not go to Abraham or to the mountain -
    but to a small nearby city
  • Lot simply cannot live without city life
  • Lot cannot take the strenuous risky but better
    path of fleeing to the mountain
  • Was Lot avoiding encountering Abraham?

12
God Destroys The Cities
  • Genesis 1923-26 The sun had risen upon the
    earth, and Lot entered into Zoar. (24) Then
    Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
    brimstone and fire, from Jehovah out of the
    heavens. (25) And He overthrew those cities,
    and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
    cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
    (26) But his wife looked back from behind him,
    and she became a pillar of salt.

13
Lots Wife
  • Lots sons-in-law were killed in Sodom
  • His wife gets turned into a pillar of salt
  • Looked back delayed fleeing, still attracted to
    the physical comforts of Sodom

14
Abraham Views The Scene
  • Genesis 1927-29 MKJV And Abraham got up early
    in the morning to the place where he stood before
    Jehovah. (28) And he looked toward Sodom and
    Gomorrah, and toward all the lands of the plain,
    and saw, and, lo, the smoke of the country went
    up as the smoke of a furnace. (29) And when God
    destroyed the cities of the plain, it happened
    that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of
    the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the
    cities in which Lot lived.

15
Fire Brimstone
  • Fire and brimstone rain down from Heaven, in the
    judgment of God
  • This is a type or miniature example of the end
    times
  • Jude 17 MKJV as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the
    cities around them, in like manner to these,
    committing fornication, and going away after
    other flesh, laid down an example before-times,
    undergoing vengeance of everlasting fire.

16
Lots Daughters
  • Genesis 1931-36 MKJV And the first-born said to
    the younger, Our father is old, and there is no
    man in the earth to come in to us in the way of
    all the earth. (32) Come, let us make our
    father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so
    that we may preserve seed of our father. (33)
    And they made their father drink wine that night.
    And the first-born went in, and lay with her
    father. And he did not notice when she lay down
    nor when she arose. (34) And it happened on the
    next day, the first-born said to the younger,
    Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us
    make him drink wine this night also, and you go
    in and lie down with him so that we may preserve
    seed of our father. (35) And they made their
    father drink wine that night also, and the
    younger arose and lay with him. And he did not
    notice when she lay down nor when she arose.
    (36) So both the daughters of Lot were with
    child by their father.

17
Wrong Values
  • Lot may have got his daughters out of Sodom but
    he did not get Sodom out of his daughters!
  • Expediency, sexual immorality and manipulation
    were still part of their outlook.
  • Values stay stuck in our minds and hearts
  • We need to be very careful about the environment
    we expose ourselves and our families to!

18
Dereliction
  • Sin gives birth to trouble - that long outlives
    any short-term benefit gained from the sin
  • Lot went to Sodom a wealthy young man but many
    years later ended up living in a cave and
    committing incest.
  • Lot did not create good boundaries in his life
    which eventually led to his ruin
  • Having good values is one thing, living them out
    courageously and consistently is another.

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Come Out From Among Them!
  • 2 Corinthians 614-18 MKJV (14) Do not be
    unequally yoked together with unbelievers for
    what fellowship does righteousness have with
    lawlessness? And what partnership does light have
    with darkness? (15) And what agreement does
    Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a
    believer have with an unbeliever? (16) And what
    agreement does a temple of God have with idols?
    For you are the temple of the living God, as God
    has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among
    them and I will be their God, and they shall be
    My people." (17) Therefore come out from among
    them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not
    touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you
    (18) and I will be a Father to you, and you
    shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord
    Almighty.
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