sf956 - The High Price Of Sin In A Believers Life (Genesis 19 1-38)
Genesis 19:1-38
Introduction
The place
Sodom is named six times in the OT and four times in the NT.
The picture
The destruction of Sodom is held up as the supreme example of the coming judgment of the world.
Luke 17:28-30 "Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 "but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 "Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
The person
2 Peter 2:7-8 …delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) --
The principle
Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.
James 1:13-15 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
The process…
1A. The Unholy Morality of Sodom (19:1-11)
1B. It was prevalent (19:1-3)
Lot’s compromised position (19:1)
Ø It was an accepted way of life and Lot had grown used to it.
Lot’s concerned plea (19:2-3)
2B. It was perverted (19:4-5)
The depth of their perversion is evidenced.
3B. It was persistent (19:6-9)
Lot’s protest (19:6-7)
Lot’s proposition (19:8)
Sinners’ plan (19:9)
4B. A punishable thing (19:10-11)
The angels intervention (19:10)
The Lord’s protection (19:11)
2A. The Unholy Mentality of Sodom (19:12-38)
1B. Lot’s faith corroded (19:12-26)
Lot’s worthless witness (19:12-14)
Ø The Lord’s sober warning (19:12-13)
Ø The sons-in-laws sad response (19:14)
Lot’s weak will (19:15-23)
Ø His reluctance to start (19:15-17)
Ø His readiness to stop (19:18-23)
Lot’s wayward wife (19:24-26)
2B. Lot’s family corrupted (19:27-38)
What he might have become (19:27-29)
Ø Abraham’s place of blessing (19:27)
Ø Abraham’s perspective of God’s judgment (19:28)
Ø Abraham’s personal relationship with God (19:29)
What he had become (19:30-38)
Ø He adopted Sodom’s philosophy (19:30-32)
Ø He accepted Sodom’s practices (19:33-36)
Ø He suffered God’s judgment (19:37-38)
Application
Compare Lot and the Prodigal (Luke 15)
How they were alike:
Ø Both had great resources.
Ø Both set their eye on a distant country.
Ø Both lost all they had in that country.
How they differed – the prodigal “came to his senses”
Ø The prodigal admitted his condition
Ø The prodigal returned to his father.
Ø The prodigal confessed his sin.
Isaiah 55:6-7 Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.