Genesis 19- Desctuction and delivery
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In Genesis 19 we see a quick break from Abraham and we see the story quickly shift to Lot. Lot was Abraham's nephew who had been with him since he left his original homeland. God abundantly blesses Abraham but not just Abraham God also blesses Lot too! It get to the point that they have so much stuff, they can’t even live together anymore. They decided to split up. Abraham decides he’ll settle down in Canaan and Lot chooses to face the wicked city of Sodom.(Genesis 13:13) Eventually he ends up not just facing it but living in it. Lot is living in that evil city and little does he know it is going to be destroyed!
Lot’s life can be called a rather crazy one but when it’s all said and done there is so much we can learn from Lot.
2 Peter 2:6-7
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
Jude 7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
There is a Biblical principle:
God will deliver the just from destruction and the wicked will be punished
Psalm 146:9, Isaiah 55:6,- Destruction
The Lord preserveth the strangers;
He relieveth the fatherless and widow:
But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found,
Call ye upon him while he is near:
Acts 2:21, Romans 10:13- Salvation
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Destruction is coming, God is going to punish the world. Are you just?
I- Lot was a just man in an unjust society
He had seen God work and known God
Abraham, War of Kings, Blessings
He lived in the evil town of Sodom
Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
- As a Christian we too live as just people in an evil place.
- John 15:19, John 17:14
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
II- God’s response to wickedness
The City's sin grieved God
Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Sin grieves God
God is just and must punish all sin
Psalm 89:14
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne:
Mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Colossians 3:25
Exodus 34:6-7
God punishes all sin, ours too. He is just and sin just doesn't slide with him
III- God’s deliverance of Lot
Lot didn’t deliver himself God did
God delivers the just! He won’t destroy those who are right!
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
God was willing to deliver more people!
They just had to believe Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
God saved Lot
- Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
God is just. He can and will punish sin.
This world and all people are sinful.
God will punish the world - 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
Are you just? That's the only way to be delivered from destruction.
1 Thessalonians 1:10,
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Are we warning others? God wants to save them.
2 Peter 2:8
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.