Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please." He said, "I have two daughters who have not known any man. He, he lost the sense of discerning what is right and wrong.īecause something really bizarre happened here - when the men of Sodom and Gomorrah wanted to rape the visitors, the guests in his house, this was what Lot suggested. Well, I want to suggest to you, number one, he had a loss of morality. He thought he would gain a lot in this place, but really he lost out a lot. Perhaps it was really immaterial at the end of the day, because what we are confronted with, in Genesis 19, is that he was a loser. Now, the Bible doesn't quite tell us whether Lot eventually became very rich or not. Now, he disregarded the evil in this place, he disregarded the wickedness of the people there, because this was his primary principal consideration - he wanted that good life. And based on this reasoning, based on what Lot could see with his eyes about the material world, he went ahead to proceed to settle in this region. It promised abundance, and maybe comfort, and ease. It promised lots of vegetation, lots of growth. In other words, this was a place that promised, I think, a good life. Now, he started, or we started looking at his life when, in Genesis, chapter 13, we are told that he looked forward to staying in this region, because, it was a “well watered” place. Number one, I'd like us to consider Lot's tragedy. And I'm going to look at this in three simple points. Jesus said, "Remember Lot's wife." Well, we're going to do that, but more than that, we're going to also remember Lot's life. So the sermon title today is a twist on what Jesus said in Luke 17. So we are going to take a perspective of looking at Lot's life for the rest of this sermon. Now, it is also in this chapter, that we are re-acquainted with Abraham's nephew, Lot. So we are immediately confronted with something very violent, very uncomfortable, very sinful, that we may have an appreciation that God's judgment on this city is righteous, and rightly deserved. This is a brutal attempted gang rape not just a gang rape, but a homosexual gang rape. So this is a - if I may say - restricted age group content. They gather because they want to consume their lust upon these visitors. Where the whole city, every man from young to old, would come and surround the house, where Jesus and the two angels would stay in. And we are immediately confronted with a brutal, sinful, wicked, violent scene. The heavenly visitors - I believe it's Jesus, together with two angels - would come and visit this city of Sodom and Gomorrah. So today, we pop over to chapter 19, to see that destruction, that God indeed will rain fire from heaven and, if I may say, blow up this city into smithereens.īut before that, we are going to catch a slice of life in Sodom. You remember last week, that God revealed to Abraham that He will destroy the city of Sodom and Gomorrah because of their great wickedness. It will be short, it'll be concise, it will be sharp. Now, it was a long read, but I want to assure you that the sermon today will not be long. Well, this morning, I want to bring us back to the book of Genesis, and we are looking at Genesis, chapter 19. We are looking for sermon transcribers/transcript reviewers.Įmail to serve or to report transcription errors.
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