LIVING GOOD IN A CARNAL WAY

WHAT KILLED LOTS WIFE?

LUKE 17:28-32 2PETR 2:7-8

Luke 17:28-32 (KJV) 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife.

2 Peter 2:7-8 (KJV) 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

MY GOAL AS PASTOR IS TO GET YOU TO HEAVEN

THAT IS MY FIRST PRIORITY

AS PASTOR I WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE DESTINY OF YOUR SOUL

MY JOB OF GETTING YOU RIGHT IS GETTING HARDER BECAUSE OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

· GETTING YOU RIGHT MEANS TRYING TO KEEP YOU SPIRITUAL

· THIS WORLD CREATES A VACUM EFFECT EVEN IN THE PEOPLE OF GOD.

ITS POSSIBLE TO LIVE SIN FREE AND STILL BE CAPTIVE BY CARNALITY.

CARNALITY—FLESHLY THINKING

· PEOPLE NOT SMOKING, DRINKING, CURSING BUT CANT RISE ABOVE CARNAL THINKING

Romans 7:14 (KJV) 14 “ …but I am carnal….”

1 Corinthians 3:1 (KJV) 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:3-4 (KJV) 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

1 Peter 1:13 (KJV) 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

I’M NOT HERE TODAY TO PREACH AGAINST SIN, BUT TO PREACH AGAINST CARNALITY.

CARNALITY IS NOT A SIN!!!

CARNALITY IS NOT A THING: ITS JUST FLESHLY THINKING.

Luke 17:28 (KJV) 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

· IS EATING & DRINKING ETC A SIN? NO

NO MATTER HOW SPIRITUAL YOU ARE, YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE ENOUGH FLESH LEFT TO STAND BETWEEN YOU AND THE WILL OF GOD.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN WORSHIPING GOD AND YOUR FLESH SAY “THEY THINK YOUR CRAZY?”

YOUR FLESH WILL ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE EASIEST MOST COMFORTABLE WAY OR CARNAL WAY

· JACOB TOLD REUBEN “YOUR UNSTABLE AS WATER”

MANY ARE TRYING TO LIVE FOR GOD IN A CARNAL WAY.

TRY SERVING GOD IN A EASY WAY

· FLESH TELLS YOU HOW MUCH TO PRAY

· FLESH TELLS YOU HOW MUCH TO GIVE

· FLESH TELLS YOU HOW MUCH TO WORSHIP

NOT BACKSLIDE (PER SAY)

NOT ON FIRE….NOT REAL COLD

NOT IN……NOT OUT

· NO DESIRE TO SACRIFICE

CARNAL THINKING SAYS “IF ITS NOT EASY OR CONVIENANT I’M NOT DOING IT”

OUR TEXT: LOT WAS LOOKING FOR THE EASIEST WAY AND IT LED HIM TO SODOM

NOTICE: EZEKIEL SPEAKING UNDER PROPHETIC ANNOINTING SAID NOTHING OF SODOMS IMMORALITY!

Ezekiel 16:49 (KJV) 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

· PRIDE—FLESH LIFTED UP

· FULLNESS OF BREAD—FLESH PAMPERED

· ABUNDANCE OF IDLENESS—FLESH COMFORTABLE

GOD SHOWED EZEKIEL SOMETHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN HOMOSEXUALITY

· SODOM IS A TYPE AND SHADOW OF CARNALITY

ANTYTIME FLESH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN RIGHTEOUSNESS, SIN ISNT FAR AWAY

TEXT: PUZZLED ME WHEN IT SAID “LOT WAS A RIGHTEOUS MAN”

· LOT STOPPED BEING A FIRING LINE SAINT

MANY FEEL SO COMFORTABLE IN THERE CARNALITY THEY FEEL NO NEED TO “MOVE UP”

· GIVE WHEN ITS CONVIENANT

· GO TO CHURCH WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT

LOTS RIGHTEOUSNESS WAS VEXED BY LIVING IN A CARNALITY

VEXED—SERIOUS CONTRADICTION

RIGHTEOUS LIVING IN A CARNAL WAY CREATES TWO KIND OF PEOPLE

1. LOT

2. LOTS WIFE

1.) LOT—ABLE TO HEAR VOICE OF GOD

BUT WALK AWAY AND CAST HIS VALUES TO THE WIND

LIKE HEROD WHO KEPT PASSOVER WITH INTENTIONS OF KILLING PETER AFTER EASTER

· LOT HEARD FROM GOD

· FLED SODOM

· COMMITS INCEST WITH HIS OWN DAUGHTERS

THAT’S THE SPIRITUAL MONSTER CARNALITY CREATES

· SPEAK IN TOUNGES BUT NEVER CHANGE

FEELING GOD DOSENT CHANGE YOU UNLESS YOU LET IT

HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD DOSNT CHANGE YOU UNLESS YOU LET IT.

· CREATES A SPIRIT THAT SAYS “HOW MUCH CAN I SIN AND STILL BE SAVED”

I’LL LIVE SEPARATE AS LONG AS NOBODY MAKES FUN OF ME

2.) LOTS WIFE

LUKE 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

LAST DAYS WILL BE FILLED WITH “JUST LIVING”

· PEOPLE TO BUSY TO DO ANYTHING FOR GOD

DON’T BELIEVE ME?

· LOOK AROUND AT OUR CHURCH BUILDING

· BATHROOMS STILL NOT DONE

· A LOT OF WORK CAN BE DONE

GOD GIVES A WARNING “REMEMBER LOTS WIFE”

· DAYS FILLED WITH CARNALITY, REMEMBER LOTS WIFE

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF LOTS WIFE? WORLDLY?

· I HEARD ALL MY LIFE THAT SHE WAS A REBELIOUS WOMAN (I STRONGLY DISAGREE)

SHE RAISED VIRGINS IN THE MOST IMMORAL COMMUNITY EVER

THAT MEANS SHE HAD TO HAVE HAD SOME STANDARDS:

· CANT WEAR THAT LOW NECKLINE

· YOUR SKIRT IS TO SHORT

· YOUR NOT GOING OUTSIDE LIKE THAT

BUT WE NEVER READ WERE SHE HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD!

· SHE DIDN’T ACKNOWLEDGE AND ANGEL WAS IN HER HOUSE

I BELIEVE SHE UNDERVALUED THE VOICE OF GOD

THAT’S WHAT LIVING GOOD IN A CARNAL WAY CREATES

ALL THE STANDARDS IN THE WORLD IS NO GOOD IF YOU CANT HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD

HOW VALUABLE IS THE VOICE OF GOD TO YOU?

CARNALITY KILLED LOTS WIFE

CARNALITY WILL KILL YOU SPIRITUALLY

THAT’S WHY JESUS SAID “REMEMBER LOTS WIFE”