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Because that's what you're, 
that's what we're here for 

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tonight. 
And Pastor Lewis preached a 

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great message this morning. 
That was a help. 

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And I know he'll do the same 
thing tonight. 

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He's he's up first this evening.
And so get your Bibles out. 

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Pastor Lewis, you coming up here
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OK, take your Bible and turn 
with me to Luke chapter 17. 

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Luke chapter 17. 
I trust that the message this 

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evening will edify the church at
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I know that that is part of my 
responsibility, but if you want 

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to know why I'm preaching the 
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it is largely because of the 
individuals who just left this 

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platform. 
Our youth and this message 

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tonight is directed at the young
people and all of us get to be a

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family on the wall and glean 
from it, I trust. 

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But parents, you know, there's a
reason why you bring your young 

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people to a church like this. 
And I'd like you to turn to Luke

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chapter 17 as we preach tonight 
on Remember Lot's wife. 

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Remember Lot's wife, Lot's wife 
could not tear herself away from

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this world. 
At least she would not. 

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And I think of Spurgeon, not 
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bullmastiff back home. 
And every, every once in a while

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I'll throw him a piece of raw 
meat or some fat and you just 

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try to get it from him. 
He he's not letting it go. 

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And there's a lot of people like
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world. 
Lot's wife was that way. 

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She would not let it go. 
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remember the death of Christ and
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brings. 
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we're taught to remember her 
wickedness in death, not 

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righteousness. 
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this is a command that's not so 
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We're commanded to do it. 
The Lord told us to do it, but 

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it's not really pleasant. 
Luke chapter 17 verse #32 The 

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Lord says, remember Lot's wife. 
And again, not the most pleasant

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thing to do, but we're told to 
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We're going to do that this 
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The Lord helping us. 
Let's pray first. 

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Heavenly Father, would you give 
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Lord, we want Your word preached
today in Your power. 

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I pray for Pastor Shifflett as 
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us. 
I pray that you'll clear his 

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mind and give him liberty. 
I pray that you'll do the same 

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for me now, that You'll 
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Jesus name, Amen. 
Remember Lot's wife in that 

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command. 
We find our need to review all 

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of Scripture, not just the New 
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Testament. 
We also find that through this 

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command we are in danger of 
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we have to be told what's 
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And we read this Remember Lot's 
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Whenever we read this passage, 
we're told to go over Scripture 

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again and again and again. 
Understand, just because you 

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read your Bible last year 
doesn't mean that you don't need

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some more and that you don't 
have to read it again. 

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A life of remembering truth in 
God's word. 

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Remember Lot's wife. 
This command was given by our 

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Lord to His disciples towards 
the latter part of His ministry.

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He was speaking about His second
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that it will be as the days of 
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And the theme to his disciples 
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is to be ready for His coming 
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looking back. 
Lot was a saved man who 

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compromised truth. 
Don't miss that. 

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I can't emphasize it enough. 
He was a saved man, but he 

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compromised truth. 
He is a picture of a worldly 

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Christian. 
The Bible tells us that he 

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pitched his tent towards Sodom. 
I believe I was a college Chapel

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many years ago when a preacher 
said something that I wrote 

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down. 
I'll never forget it. 

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He said men fall the way they 
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He pitched his tent towards 
Sodom. 

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Men fall the way they lean. 
He was leaning towards Sodom. 

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He ended up living in Sodom. 
He ended up learning from Sodom 

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and sitting at the gate leading 
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Young people, men fall the way 
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just lot. 
He's the same man. 

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The New Testament tells us this 
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It says and delivered just not 
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faith, just lot vex with the 
filthy conversation of the 

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wicked. 
Now we don't have to beat around

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the Bush about what that filthy 
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It was a, it was a city filled 
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I'm using the Bible word. 
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call them gay. 
They don't mind if you call them

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queer. 
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They don't mind sodomite and 
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initials ate, all of the 
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But they cringe when you call 
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what God calls them. 
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sodomites and he was a righteous
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The Bible says seeing and 
hearing vexed his righteous soul

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from day-to-day with their 
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Those two I get the I gate and 
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It vexed him and it affected 
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Now, even though she had a saved
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her to make a decision, she 
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Young people, you young men, you
be careful who you marry, and 

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young women, you be careful who 
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Lot's family was told to flee 
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That was just too much for her. 
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Go with me to Genesis chapter 
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Genesis chapter 19. 
Remember Lots wife Genesis 

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chapter 19, verse #13 For we 
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the cry of them is waxing great 
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the Lord had sent us to destroy 
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Verse 15. 
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the angels hasten Lot, saying, 
Arise, take thy wife and thy two

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daughters, which are here, lest 
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And while he lingered, that was 
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God told him what to do. 
And while he lingered, the men 

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laid hold upon his hand, and 
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upon the hand of his two 
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merciful unto him. 
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set him without the city. 
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had brought them forth abroad, 
that he said, Escape for thy 

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life. 
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Look not behind thee, look not 
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in all the plane. 
Escape to the mountain, lest 

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thou be consumed. 
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The sun was risen upon the earth
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Then the Lord rained upon Sodom 
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fire from the Lord out of 
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cities and all the plane and all
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and that which grew up on the 
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But his wife looked back from 
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pillar of salt. 
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city. 
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Be careful when you think you're
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We're told in the text to 
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I've said this before, and I'm 
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redundant. 
I'm saying at the drive home a 

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point it it's not a very 
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And at first you might say 
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I want to remember. 
Not much at all. 

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It's like, remember Lori 
Lightfoot, OK, what is their 

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desirable to remember about that
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What is it about Lot's wife that
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you to see the command. 
The command, the command. 

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It was simple. 
Don't look back. 

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Lot's wife was told not to look 
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19, verse 17. 
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Look not behind thee, the angels
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Don't look back young people, 
you are living in modern Sodom 

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today and I want to exhort you 
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Don't look back this world says 
you have to binge YouTube videos

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and waste your life. 
Don't look back. 

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This world says you've got to go
to ChatGPT for your problems and

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and find out answers about the 
unknown from that source instead

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of the Bible. 
We need young people who will 

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escape the corruptions of this 
world and determine that they're

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not going to look back. 
Looking back first of all showed

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her disobedience. 
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chapter 30 quickly if you will. 
Deuteronomy chapter 30, her 

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disobedience. 
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was just disobedient. 
Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 

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#20 Deuteronomy 3020. 
Scripture That thou mayest love 

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the Lord thy God, and that thou 
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thou mayest cleave unto him, for
he is thy life and the length of

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thy days. 
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He's your life and the length of
your days, that thou mayest 

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dwell in the land which the Lord
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Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
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I heard the true story of a 
young Christian man who was 

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engaged to marry a wonderful 
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They said they wanted to serve 
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certainly the sentiment of the 
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But the young man was tempted. 
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some of his old friends said 
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time. 
And he knew he shouldn't have 

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done it, but he decided to go 
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And he was immoral. 
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godly Christian girl, and he 
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He thought he got away with it 
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that union. 
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God gave them a little girl and 
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He had caught a disease in that 
night of sin and his little girl

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was born with no eyes. 
He went to the doctor both he 

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didn't know what was the problem
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went and got examined and the 
doctor asked him what were there

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any physical encounters before 
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race back to that night. 
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little girl was able to talk and
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And one day in the living room 
she asked her father, Dad, why 

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don't I have any eyes? 
Why don't I have any eyes? 

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He pulled out a gun. 
He walked out into the front 

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yard of his own house and blew 
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What was the problem? 
He looked back, he looked back. 

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Lot's wife was commanded, don't 
look back. 

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And it was an extreme act of 
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Looking back showed her 
disobedience. 

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Secondly, looking back showed 
her direction. 

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If you go back to Genesis 19 and
look there at verse #26 back, 

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she looked back. 
Sin always takes you back. 

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Verse #26 but his wife looked 
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And don't miss this from behind 
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Now that's important. 
She didn't just look back. 

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She looked back from behind him.
That tells us she was the last 

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one in the pack. 
Well, that tells us that there 

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was some that that worldliness 
caused apathy. 

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The point that she didn't care, 
no zip in her step to get out of

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that city that God was going to 
destroy. 

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She was the last one in the 
pack. 

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She looked back from behind him.
Nobody would see her sin of 

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looking back because she was 
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Young person, the devil will 
tell you that lie when it comes 

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to the Internet. 
No one will see me looking back.

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No one would scold her for 
looking back. 

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Why? 
She was in the back of the pack.

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No one's going to scold me. 
I won't get rebuked, young 

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person, and all of us for that 
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We need to stay in the place 
where our sin is rebuked. 

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Keep there, keep yourself in 
holy places where sin is 

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rebuked, and stay away from any 
place that will let you sin 

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without rebuke. 
Remember Lot's wife. 

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No one will be able to stop me 
from looking back because I'm in

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the back of the pack. 
Looking back showed her 

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disobedience. 
It also showed her direction. 

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Thirdly, looking back showed her
desire. 

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It showed where her affection 
was. 

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It showed where her heart was. 
Her body was out of Sodom, but 

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her affections were still in 
Sodom. 

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Why did she look back? 
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Sodom that she wanted to go back
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Why did she look back? 
Her marriage was broken up, her 

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daughters were discouraged and 
committed horrible sin, all 

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because her affections were in 
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If your affections are on the 
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setting yourself up to be 
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Colossians 32 says set your 
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not on things on the earth. 
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her design. 
Are you young? 

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People were really good about 
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this morning. 
That was good. 

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I'm looking for these things. 
I want you to keep these things.

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Don't look back forth. 
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defiance. 
It was a plain command, plain. 

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She was shaking her fist at the 
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How dare he keep this back from 
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She rebelled against God. 
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always lose. 
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also showed her disbelief. 
Her disbelief. 

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Now listen, you don't have to 
stand up and say I don't believe

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the Bible to show that you don't
believe. 

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It's all in your attitude, it's 
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And by looking back, it proved 
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turned into a pillar of salt, do
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back? 
No, she did not believe it would

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hurt. 
It's the age-old concept that 

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you can send without 
consequence, that you can send 

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without judgement. 
Same lie that the devil told Eve

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in the garden and she had to 
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Looking back showed her 
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But then number six looking back
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Her dissappreciation of what or 
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mercy upon that family. 
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One of the angels took her by 
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city. 
Lot's wife should have been so 

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grateful for what God had done 
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And when you look back, what are
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When you look back, what are you
saying to your godly parents who

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kept you in a church like this? 
When you look back, what are you

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saying to the privileges that 
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Looking back says a lot of 
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appreciation. 
It's a command, young person, a 

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command. 
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see the catastrophe, the 
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The catastrophe is that that we 
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We're commanded to remember 
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Not pleasant, but we're 
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The catastrophe is that she 
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She would not lose her life. 
Look back at Luke chapter 17 if 

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you would. 
Luke 17. 

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There in verse #33 Luke 1733. 
Luke 1733. 

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Scripture. 
Whosoever shall seek to save his

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life shall lose it, and 
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shall preserve it. 
It's a wonderful principle. 

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It's like the way up and God's 
economy is down the way to be 

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strong is to be weak. 
We have a small Christian School

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there in Chicago, and we have a 
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hallway. 
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when a young person thinks they 
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long. 
We'll walk through that hallway,

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get a whiff of that thing, and 
know that somebody thought they 

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could keep their lunch. 
And then it's checking the 

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lockers, finding out whose thing
is that roasting in the hallway.

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You tried to keep it and you 
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What a principle. 
The same happens to our life. 

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You will spoil your life and 
your future. 

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If you say it's mine, I'm going 
to keep it. 

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This is also true with 
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Try to hang on to your soul and 
do it your way and you'll lose 

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your soul in hell. 
Fires, flames. 

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This is true in the Christian 
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Lot's wife was captivated by the
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The cesspool wives are normally 
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This wife was Lot's worst half. 
She delighted And Sodom, she 

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said, this life is mine. 
I'm taking it back, young 

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person, God has a wonderful plan
for your life. 

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Wonderful plan. 
And my heart was stirred as I 

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saw the young people on this 
platform singing their heart 

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out. 
Praise the Lord for that. 

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Praise God for that. 
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that that any one of them is 
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heart. 
Make sure you're walking with 

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the Lord and staying close to 
Him and determined by God's 

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grace. 
You're not going to look back. 

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Hanging on to your life ends the
great adventure that God has for

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you. 
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adventure of life in A big part 
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keeping your eyes off of the 
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That was the issue. 
She look back keeping your eyes 

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off of the forbidden. 
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There may be some apps that need
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needs to be changed. 
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blinders on horses in training 
to keep them going in the right 

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direction so that they don't get
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blinders. 
We need to keep us going in the 

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right way. 
We ought to remember the 

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command, remember the 
catastrophe, and then third, 

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remember the cost. 
Remember the cost. 

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What was the cost? 
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Lot's wife lost her very life, 
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Genesis 1926. 
But his wife looked back from 

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behind him, and she became a 
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Now we praise God that there's 
life in the right kind of look 

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that that brass serpent was 
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And we know that pictures our 
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There's life in the right type 
of look, but there's death in 

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the wrong type of look. 
And and she looked back and it 

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cost her her life. 
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You see, the wages of sin is 
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Eve and Adam, they found out 
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cling to disobedience, must pay 
in death. 

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Pillar of salt, a pillar of 
salt. 

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The death reduced her value, 
reduced her value. 

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Now salt is not a worthless 
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case, in that it reduced her 
value. 

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The Bible implies that they just
left her. 

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They left her and they kept on 
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Sin reduced her value. 
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they would have carried her 
right. 

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But salt didn't have much value.
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value, it only cheapens your 
value. 

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She was much more valuable as a 
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pillar of salt, she was 
essentially worthless. 

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The prodigal son wasted his 
substance on riotous living. 

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He cheapened his very life. 
Now listen to me, friend. 

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Listen, Don't let. 
Don't let some boy or girl 

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reduce you to a pillar of salt. 
Cheapen and reduce your value. 

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The death also took away her 
honor. 

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I marvel when we read of the 
honorable death and burial that 

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Sarah had. 
And when we're told, I believe 

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she's the only woman in the 
Bible, we're told the age of her

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her, her death. 
When she died, it was honorable.

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There's no honor in this. 
I don't see anywhere where her 

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daughters went back to bury a 
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There was no honor. 
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If you'll learn that, you'll, 
you'll, you'll have lots of help

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for your journey. 
And then the death hurt others. 

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Daughters knew they'd never see 
her again, affected their life, 

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affected their walk, affected 
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The Bible tells us in Second 
Timothy chapter 4 verse #10 For 

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demons hath forsaken me, having 
loved this present world, and 

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has departed unto Thessalonica 
creations, to Galatia, Titus on 

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the Dalmatia. 
Looking back now, Lot's wife 

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didn't get what God had for her,
nor did she get what she wanted.

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It's the same way with sin 
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You won't get what God has for 
you, and you won't even get what

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you want. 
Philippians chapter 3, verse 13.

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Brethren, I count not myself to 
have apprehended but this one 

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thing I do, forgetting those 
things which are behind, and 

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reaching forth unto those things
which are before I press toward 

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the mark for the prize of the 
high calling of God in Christ 

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Jesus. 
She found out that the love of 

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the world produce death, the 
glance of death. 

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Turn with me to Luke Chapter 9, 
if you would. 

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Luke Chapter 9. 
Young person, don't look back. 

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Luke Chapter 9, verse #62 Luke 
962. 

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And Jesus said unto him, No man,
having put his hand to the plow 

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and looking back, is fit for the
Kingdom of God. 

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This world is so grimy, it's so 
guilty, it produces so much 

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sorrow. 
It doesn't deserve you looking 

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back. 
Lot's wife defied God in her 

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heart and lost it all because 
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Hold this world with a loose 
hand and be ready to leave all 

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and go in the direction that God
points you determining that 

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you're not going to look back. 
Now I want to give you some hope

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if there's any here tonight, you
say in my heart or in my life 

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there has been looking back. 
Well, let me say this tonight 

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you're still here. 
Praise the Lord and you still 

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are under the sound of the word 
of God. 

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God brought you to a place to 
hear His word and, and, and 

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what's better yet, you're not a 
pillar of salt. 

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There's hope you can turn 
around. 

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It will not be easy. 
You will need help. 

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You're going to need the right 
type of church. 

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You're going to need a church 
like this. 

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You need preaching. 
You need your pastor, right 

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friends, right music. 
May it not be in a few years, 

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remember? 
And then and then so and so. 

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Remember so and so in that was 
in this room during this 

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conference. 
Remember them and they become an

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example of what not to do. 
Remember lots, wife master.