1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:13,960 Amen. The Apostle Paul writes the New 2 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,200 Testament of an experience of the presence of the Lord. 3 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:22,520 It's so impacting to him. He said whether in the body or 4 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,440 out of the body, he said it really couldn't tell. 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,720 He says taken up to the 3rd heaven. 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,440 It's the way that he described it, only way that he could couch 7 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,440 the presence of the Lord, that he had experienced a man in 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,400 those particular terms. Maybe it was just so 9 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,520 overwhelming to him. Just a few announcements here 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:48,960 tonight, the 25th. This Friday is game night from 11 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,680 7:00 to 10:00. I am assuming most of us will 12 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,120 probably want to game inside with the heat. 13 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,800 That's going on. Also then just kind of a outlook 14 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,319 looking in the month of August, just remember August the 7th, 15 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:08,080 that first Thursday will be power hour here at the church at 16 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:13,360 7:00 to 8:00. Also there will be the Friday 17 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,440 and Saturday, August the 22nd and 23rd is Women's spree. 18 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,040 Pardon me, Women's Spree conference in Indianapolis sheet 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,280 and Sister me, he needs to know by Sunday if you are going or 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,960 not. The 5th Sunday of August will be 21 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:33,480 guest speaker. Pastor Anthony Wilkes will be 22 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,800 here with us on that 5th Sunday. And then just forecast a little 23 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,240 bit further, in September on Grandparents Day, we'll have 24 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,040 Pastor David or Bishop David Sizemore and Sister Vicki 25 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,160 Seisman will be here. And then on the 12th of 26 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,600 September is a night of Worth. We did a long time ago. 27 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,080 We were scheduled to do it around Covic and everything fell 28 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,240 apart. Well, we're back on the calendar 29 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,760 night of worth with an addiction focus. 30 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,240 We'll have our Police Department here. 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,720 We'll have a doctor, Tony Frederick here, and we'll have a 32 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,960 sister, Stephanie Hughes here, Amen, Sharing her testimony and 33 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,840 her experience and so on and so forth. 34 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,560 And so please get that out there. 35 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,200 That night of work will be taking place on September the 36 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,000 12th, Amen. It is a community pool for an 37 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,040 event, Amen. So and so forth. 38 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,000 So please just keep that in mind. 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,520 Start talking about it among your friends, your neighbors, 40 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,280 your friends, your enemies, whoever talk about it, Amen. 41 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,640 In time past, years ago, we had good success with it, Amen. 42 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:38,840 Within our community. We had good support from our 43 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:45,280 community too as a result of it. Because we live in an area that 44 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,160 addiction or drugs of that matter is a problem. 45 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,520 And as a matter of fact, when we had that night of work where our 46 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,120 Police Department were going to allow them time to kind of give 47 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,000 us a little bit of touch of the proliferation of that within our 48 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,360 area so that we understand where we're at, so on and so forth. 49 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,480 So it should be a good night. Amen. 50 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,040 Amen. Genesis chapter 19. 51 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,680 Genesis chapter 19. You're probably wonderful we'll 52 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,440 ever get out of Genesis 19, but we've had other stuff 53 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,680 interspersed in between here. But we're almost entering into 54 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,720 chapter 20, which means we're 2/5 of the way through the book 55 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,680 of Genesis, 2/5 of the way. Now let me give you the hope of 56 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,720 this. This is like Trevor's listed 57 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:34,080 this tonight as part 36.5 because I didn't finish my 58 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,520 lesson up last week. But in essence, whenever I did 59 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,200 the book of John, which is 21 chapters, it took me 60 parts. 60 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,160 So I'm already doing better than what I was with the Gospel of 61 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,200 John. So to give you hope, Amen. 62 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,160 But not hope. But The thing is, I hope we 63 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,040 learned something. Surely we can say over the past 64 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,040 36 lessons that maybe we've learned something, maybe that we 65 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,160 haven't learned before. A little understanding has been 66 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,640 granted that we haven't had before. 67 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,400 Amen. So I'm going to read Genesis 68 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,000 chapter 19. I'm going to start with verse 69 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,480 #12 and I'm going to read the same set in the Scripture that I 70 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,760 read last week. I'll probably just read, maybe, 71 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,800 I don't know, 3 verses. And I'll be kind to you, and 72 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,560 I'll let you be seated and I'll pray. 73 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,560 Amen. Starting with verse #12 And the 74 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,560 Bible says, the men said in the lot, Hast thou here any besides 75 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:28,400 son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, And whatsoever 76 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,080 thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place, for we 77 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,640 will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxing great 78 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,280 before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy 79 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,720 it. And lot went out spake unto his 80 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,640 sons in law, which married his daughters, and said up, Get you 81 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,440 out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city. 82 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,240 But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. 83 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,200 I'll pause there again. My titles remains the same from 84 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,040 last week. Lead well or lose much. 85 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,760 All right, we're continue with that. 86 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,960 We'll pray here tonight. Father, I thank you God for your 87 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,040 spirit. I thank you, Lord Jesus, for us 88 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,520 to being able to come together, center our lives around your 89 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,200 word. I pray, O God, that you have to 90 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,560 help us in the next little while. 91 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,520 God enlighten us and help us. The Lord Jesus grant us 92 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,120 understanding God, where we can apply this to the Lord Jesus, to 93 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,360 ourselves. God, that we could grow thereby 94 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,120 will not fail to thank you, Lord, for what you do. 95 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,960 In the lovely name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen. 96 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,200 You may be seated, so I'll continue on now with verse #15. 97 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,840 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened a lot, 98 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:43,640 saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are 99 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,080 here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 100 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,160 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and 101 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,600 upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two 102 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,160 daughters, the Lord being merciful unto him. 103 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,920 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 104 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,400 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, 105 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,240 that he said, Escape for thy life. 106 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,400 Look not behind thee, neither stay thou on all the plane. 107 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,920 Escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 108 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:20,400 And Lot said unto them, Oh not so, my Lord, that's interesting 109 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,360 statement. Behold, now thy servant have 110 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,440 found grace, and thy sight he acknowledges that thou has 111 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:31,600 magnified thy mercy, which thou eschewed unto me, and saving my 112 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,040 life. And I cannot escape to the 113 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,760 mountain unless some evil take me, and I die. 114 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,920 Behold, now this city is near to flee in two, and it is a little 115 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,680 10 Let me escape thither, Is it not a little one? 116 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,920 And my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I 117 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,920 have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not 118 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,960 overthrow this city. For that which thou has spoken 119 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,760 haste thee escape thither. For I cannot do anything till 120 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,400 thou become thither. Therefore the name of the city 121 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,880 was called Zoar. The sun was risen up on the 122 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,480 earth when Lot entered into Zoar. 123 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:14,440 I'm just going to do just a real quick recap of last week. 124 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,480 OK, real quick, real quick. Last week we started talking 125 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,920 about how really the weight of a what much is happening here in 126 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:27,440 Genesis chapter 19 is the weight of headship of of Lot being the 127 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,080 man and the spiritual guide and head of his family, both 128 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,120 culturally and spiritually. And how with that there were 129 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,040 some responsibilities that he had. 130 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,520 And one of those was leading his family right in the past that 131 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,160 they should go and ought to go. Remember, Abraham, God knew 132 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,920 would command his children well, but God has some a little 133 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,600 skeptical about lot in the way that he has led his family thus 134 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,840 far because a lot of his choices have brought them to where they 135 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:02,720 presently are, in a city full of wickedness and lewdness and on 136 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:08,320 the verge of being destroyed. And so we also talked about law 137 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:13,080 in his life, how he had some blurred convictions. 138 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,040 It seems like on one hand, he's doing really well. 139 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,920 He's kept and conversation at least, and somehow influenced 140 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,640 that his daughters are still virgins. 141 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,280 But on the other hand, he's allowed them to be betrothed to 142 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,040 men of the city of Sodom, which seems to be a little, you know, 143 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,799 repulsive as far as these two aspects of positive and 144 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:34,240 negative, you know, happening here. 145 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,720 They're repulsing. He seems to get some things 146 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,200 right and the things he don't get so right. 147 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,520 And that seems to be Lot's life. You see that on one side we can 148 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,360 applaud him. On the other side is the Boo 149 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,080 hiss you know on Lot. Has these blurred convictions 150 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,040 but his blurred convictions don't just stay with him, right? 151 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:53,760 Because he's the leader of his family. 152 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:57,920 That's going to permeate, that's going to distill down into his 153 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,520 family and those that are under his care. 154 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:05,000 And we talked about various individuals like Aiken, how his 155 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,600 choices that he may take into the accursed thing cost him his 156 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,760 things and his family and burned and all those things being 157 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,960 destroyed and how that had impact. 158 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,840 And So what Lot does in his life, then we're just looking at 159 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,040 that this has the impact in on his family. 160 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,880 And that there was a call really from God in this, that there was 161 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:30,120 an urgency then for separation or urgency for separation from 162 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,160 Sodom. That there was some recognition 163 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:38,840 that Lot the way that he his makeup, the way that his motives 164 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,240 and mindset was he was not going to successfully live in Sodom 165 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:48,200 and still remain separate from Sodom Blood's only answer was to 166 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:54,400 totally disengage him and his family from Sodom for success. 167 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,720 We looked at other places in Scripture where the Bible talks 168 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,320 about in Jesus high priestly prayer of John 17 talking to us 169 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,400 about leave my disciples in the world. 170 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:03,560 Don't take them out of the world. 171 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:06,240 They're not of the world sanctifying through thy truth, 172 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,720 thy word is truth and all these things of what would be set up 173 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,440 for success for his disciples in the world. 174 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,120 Amen. And that they could succeed in 175 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,360 doing so. And I even make mention, and I 176 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,640 think it might have been toward the closing that I believe that 177 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,200 maybe Locke could have had. He had those motives and those 178 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,480 attitudes and had things more firmed up, if you will, in his 179 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:32,520 wherewithal about being close to God and under the subjection of 180 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:34,560 God. Because when we talk about the 181 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:37,800 headship of the family, that's really derived from the man 182 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,720 being in his right position where he needs to be under his 183 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:45,200 authority to God, right? It all flows down him having his 184 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,080 position under Christ, his wife having her position under him, 185 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,680 the children having their position under them. 186 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,840 And whenever any one of those is out of alignment, the authority 187 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,800 of the high power of God that all should be submitted to is 188 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,200 disrupted. Amen. 189 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,560 And so that's, that's another topic for another day. 190 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:07,080 And I don't need to get into all of that. 191 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,680 But we talked about those things. 192 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,560 We talked about then that separation, even in our real 193 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:14,040 lives, we looked at some New Testament scriptures of Romans 194 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,160 and Corinthians, and we talked about how separation or 195 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,840 sanctification many times is a putting off and a putting on, 196 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,680 right? It's, it's not just leaving the 197 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:25,440 void of what you take off, but it's bringing something else 198 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,880 into that that's godly and righteous and, and separation 199 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,480 unto the Lord and a putting on of things. 200 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,240 We talked, talked about all those things that that light and 201 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,960 darkness don't fellowship. There's no Concorde, there's no 202 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,560 harmony between certain things. We talked about the yokes and 203 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,560 the going in circles, all that stuff. 204 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:46,240 And I'm just trying to just get your mind to thinking about what 205 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,480 we talked about about a week ago of all of these things. 206 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,840 And we finalized it with that. God even told Jeremiah that 207 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,920 whenever he was going to bring destruction upon a city or a 208 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,360 place such as Babylon, he said in order for every man to be 209 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,080 delivered from that and that no one to be cut off in that 210 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,160 iniquity. He said then basically you're 211 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,840 just going to have to flee. You're going to have to 212 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,640 separate, you're going to have to get out and avoid all contact 213 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,560 and connections. And that was the severity of the 214 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:18,720 plan for Lot in his family. Because when we read in verse 14 215 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,800 that he's received this instruction, how there's a cry 216 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,640 against the city, destruction's going to come against the city. 217 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,920 And we're talking to you Lot, because you need to be 218 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:30,680 responsible about disseminating this information to your 219 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:35,680 children and your wife, not just telling them, but showcasing and 220 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:43,240 exampling for them. Not just saying, guys, we need 221 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,440 to get out and you linger and stay, which is what he did. 222 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,120 But by example, it would been great. 223 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,600 Rather than the angels taking the hand of Lot's wife and his 224 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,360 children, that Lot would have taken the hand. 225 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,480 Man, I feel the Holy Ghost already that lot would have 226 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,400 taken the hand of his wife and his children and LED them 227 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:12,440 outside, away from this city. And there's a tragedy, though, 228 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:17,000 that we see in verse #14 and what this is, is the tragedy of 229 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:23,120 living a life that's full of discrepancies, living a life 230 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,520 that's full of blurred convictions. 231 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,600 And that is whenever he went and spake these things to his sons 232 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,640 in laws to be the ones that his daughters are betrothed to. 233 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,680 And he's telling them that we need to get up out of this place 234 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:41,760 because God's going to destroy this place. 235 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,760 The Bible says that they looked at him, they considered, and he 236 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:51,320 seemed as one that mocked unto them. 237 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,160 Because here's the fact, sometimes you can have 238 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,400 discrepancies in your life and you only show people the side of 239 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:05,360 you you want them to see. And sometimes you can play a 240 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,920 real good game about living in 2 worlds. 241 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,720 I'll show this world what I want them to see. 242 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,880 And when I'm out of that context and I'm in this world, I'll show 243 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,880 this other side of me of what I want them to see. 244 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,760 I won't show them that world side. 245 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,600 I'll show them this world side because that's what's acceptable 246 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,840 in this context, and I'll show them what I want them to see in 247 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,320 this side because that's what's acceptable in this context. 248 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,240 But I'll never get it reversed. I want to. 249 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,840 I just want to show them what is acceptable in the context. 250 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,040 I just search, show certain aspects of myself. 251 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,600 But here's the conflict. Whenever you get into the the 252 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:49,120 mesh part of family close relations, it's impossible to 253 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,400 keep both and all facets of your life that you just want to show 254 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,400 certain people it's family knows. 255 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:00,720 All. Family knows the good, the bad 256 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,840 and the ugly. They know the holy and the 257 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:07,800 unholy they they know all aspects. 258 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,160 And so here are some sons and laws to be that are coming along 259 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,480 being you know how it is, you know how it is. 260 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,240 Whenever someones going to be married to another individual, 261 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,160 they start to get intertwoven into your family. 262 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,120 They start seeing your parents as they are. 263 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,880 They don't just see, you know, you know, even during, you know, 264 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,720 dating or whatever. They don't just see the the 265 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,360 brother and sister McGee church brother and sister McGee. 266 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,640 They see the home brother and sister McGee. 267 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:38,040 You understand? What I'm seeing? 268 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,080 And so here are these two guys, the son in law's future 269 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,840 relatives. They have a vantage point of 270 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,840 seeing every aspect of Lot's life. 271 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:54,800 And so knowing this, knowing these sides and facets of of Lot 272 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,480 that are not all congruent, they don't all harmonize. 273 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:04,160 There's discord in his life. They when Lot is trying to be 274 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:10,200 serious about we need to get out of Sodom and we need to leave 275 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,200 here, guys, you need to get up out of here. 276 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:17,080 They're having a hard time taking him serious because they 277 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,840 see a man that chose to live here, that chose to bring up his 278 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:27,560 children here, that allowed his daughters to be engaged to them 279 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,520 when they're men of this sensual and wicked city. 280 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,480 And so they're having a hard time taking him seriously 281 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,240 because you've lived here all these years you've been here, 282 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,800 you've been at the gate, all these things. 283 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:41,880 And so they observed what they observed. 284 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:47,880 They observed the inconsistency of lot, and when you see this in 285 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:49,200 individuals, you know what it is. 286 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:56,960 It's hard to know what's real, what what, what side of them is 287 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,400 real? Who are they really? 288 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,119 In another sense that the boys could even thought we're men of 289 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,760 Sodom, you're telling us to get up from this place that this is 290 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,599 our home. This is our they could even felt 291 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,000 a little ridiculed themselves. You're saying get away from this 292 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,079 place, this we're men of Sodom, this is all we ever known. 293 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,280 You're telling me that the lifestyle here, we need to flee 294 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,760 away from them and see see how confused you're telling us to 295 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,280 flee away from this place. This is all we've ever known. 296 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,839 But this is what you've honored, that your daughters can be 297 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:34,000 married. 2 That's confusing. Can I say is it amazing how 298 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,280 confusing we can make the world by living at this? 299 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,320 Life. With several discrepancies as a 300 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:49,000 Christian. Amen. 301 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,000 So the the point that was demonstrated in the following 302 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,880 few verses here, if I can begin reading again in verse #15 the 303 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:02,400 Bible says when the morning arose, then the angels hastened 304 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,640 Lot. The amplified Bible says the 305 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,280 angels urged Lot to hurry. So he's already got the 306 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,600 information. He knows it's going to take 307 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,160 place. And still the morning of, 308 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,640 they're like, get up Lot, let's move on. 309 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,280 All right, Arise, take thy wife, thy two daughters, which are 310 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:23,800 here, lest thou be consumed of the iniquity of this city. 311 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,920 Amen. I'm just going to go and read 312 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,280 verse 16 and then I'll comment. And while he lingered, this is 313 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,360 just baffling. The men laid upon his hand and 314 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:35,400 upon the hand of his wife. And remember, the men are the 315 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,280 angelic upon the hand of his two daughters, The Lord being 316 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,760 merciful unto them and brought them forth and set them without 317 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,760 the city. So here's Lot, the head of his 318 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,720 household. He's urged by the angelic to 319 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,840 take responsibility for the rest of his family, his wife and his 320 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,560 daughters and the angels there. Of course, they don't want Lot, 321 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,720 right? This, this is a, a connection. 322 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,320 Abraham, you. In other words, you should not 323 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,640 be here. You shouldn't have you. 324 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,920 You should not be here. You've proved that you can't 325 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,840 live here without being vexed and be an influence. 326 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,240 You, you, you've not, you've not just as I said last week, it's 327 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,680 not that you put the accursed thing in your house. 328 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,800 You put your house in the accursed thing. 329 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,720 You've done all these things. So you need to get out here. 330 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,920 So you're not taking in the iniquity of this city. 331 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,880 If you're associated with this, you're going to go down with 332 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,560 what you're communing with you. You need to get out of here. 333 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,000 What are they telling? They're letting light know what 334 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,640 would happen right here would be a needless loss. 335 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:44,000 This can be prevented. This can be prevented. 336 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,400 Can I tell you tonight? I feel my Holy Ghost here 337 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,760 tonight, Can I tell you I have stood by the bedsides and I have 338 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,640 stood in some horrible situations with people through 339 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,040 life that could have been prevented. 340 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:02,560 They suffered in their life needless losses because they 341 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,960 have had the warning, they heard the cry, they knew what to do. 342 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:10,920 They just didn't do it, or they were hesitant about do it, or 343 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,840 they didn't hasten. And do it or they lingered where 344 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,000 they was when they knew where they was, were not where they 345 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:27,140 needed to be. Angels hasten him and the next 346 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:31,460 verts lot lingers. I mean, I don't know what else. 347 00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:37,020 If you got an Angel saying let's go, you're saying give me 5 348 00:20:37,020 --> 00:20:41,780 minutes angelic visitation. Let's go by to get out of the 349 00:20:41,780 --> 00:20:44,500 city and have my morning coffee yet, you know. 350 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,520 And that sounds ridiculous, but that's how ridiculous sometimes 351 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:56,960 we are. We got a strong pull of heaven 352 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,160 on us, and we're saying, just give me a little bit more time 353 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:11,570 where I'm at. So really, Lot's family was 354 00:21:11,570 --> 00:21:19,040 saved by angelic intervention. Light should have been light 355 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,720 should have been the spearhead for it. 356 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,880 But it was really angelic intervention. 357 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:31,040 And the Bible plainly tells us that what those angels did, the 358 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,920 Lord was doing as an act of mercy. 359 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:47,040 It was a manifestation of God's mercy and when we read the 360 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:51,400 scripture in verse 16, the angels taking them out of the 361 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,440 city, I think we start to get a better definition. 362 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,240 What was meant when God says you need to get out, get separate, 363 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:06,920 get sanctified from because the Bible says the angels see this. 364 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,680 This gives definition to what the plan or purpose was. 365 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:17,280 The angels brought him forth and set him without the city. 366 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,080 No one's got to wonder. No one's got to wonder what it 367 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,120 means to bring them out of this place, which was mentioned in 368 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:27,360 verse 12. He said you got to bring them 369 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,280 out of this place. That was the prescription from 370 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,760 the angels to Lot to see what the angels did, that they 371 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,920 brought them out without the city. 372 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,040 Why do you say that? But McGee, because I've just 373 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:47,000 been around too long and often people want to quibble over, 374 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:49,120 well, what does that really mean? 375 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,400 Get All in all the semantics about, well, what, what, what? 376 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,800 What? Oh God. 377 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,600 I feel like I could get in some real big trouble tonight. 378 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,920 What what? What does First Corinthians 379 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:18,440 Chapter 11 uncut really mean? What, what, what, what, what? 380 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,200 What does? Mean come out from among them 381 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,640 really mean. You understand what I'm saying? 382 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,080 And so we, we've become professionals in the world 383 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,520 today. And sadly, it it's entered into 384 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,160 the context sometimes of the church that we've become 385 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,600 professionals of trying to find loopholes and phrases, stretch 386 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,440 word meanings to accommodate our disobedience. 387 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:54,040 The word without in verse #16 and I don't have the. 388 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,840 Picture of it, but it's a. Pictograph in the ancient Hebrew 389 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:04,760 dictionaries indicating a tent wall, and it says the tent wall 390 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,640 divides or separates the inside from the outside. 391 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,880 I know that's deep, folks. Oh, oh, you're going to have to. 392 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,400 But that without is a distinguishing of within or 393 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,440 without, he said. The wall inside the tent divides 394 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,600 even the tent in two separate sections, according to the 395 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,320 Strong's exhaustive concordance. It is from an unused root word, 396 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:34,160 which means to sever. Therefore, for Lot and his 397 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:40,400 family to be set without the city means they were severed 398 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:46,200 from the city. That's a dividing by cutting. 399 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:52,680 Or a dividing by slicing. That sometimes usually is 400 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:57,960 forcible and even sudden. When you talk about Sever. 401 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:06,720 Severing's not casual. Oh God, Severing's not casual. 402 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,480 It's not like going to a loaf of bread, bringing the knife down 403 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,160 and doing one line and scoring it, coming back the same day, 404 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,480 setting the knife on the line, scoring it again, come back the 405 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,920 next day, do it again. No, no, severing is cutting all 406 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:28,600 the way through in the moment, forcibly separating asunder 2 407 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,280 distinguishable pieces set apart. 408 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:41,440 It's not casual, but we get casual with what's not 409 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,720 permissible. And we're like, well, I'll do, 410 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,080 I'll do a little bit there and I'll do a little bit there. 411 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,640 No, no, no, friend, you need to be sanctified. 412 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,440 You need to sever, you need to be cut asunder. 413 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,080 You need to have a distinguishable dividing. 414 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:09,960 The angels made it plain without, without. 415 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,760 Further explanation is given verse 17. 416 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,120 The Bible says when they had brought them forth abroad, that 417 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:19,640 word abroad again from the say Hebrew word, that the word 418 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:25,440 without is from in verse #16 this for lot in his family, 419 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:31,480 this, this separation was, was a element of life and death for 420 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,560 them. He told them in verse #17 The 421 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,520 angels did escape for thy life. He's already brought them out, 422 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:49,040 but he says escape for thy life. Look not behind thee, neither 423 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:54,120 stay thou in the plain. Sodom, Gomorrah, Zohar, 2 other 424 00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:57,400 cities were all the cities of the plain, all cities that were 425 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,480 prescribed for destruction. This is interesting because 426 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,440 Sister Rhonda, it wasn't just without the city, but he said 427 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:13,560 you need to keep going. You need to escape for your 428 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,880 life. What's he saying? 429 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,760 He's saying where you are even right now is not safe. 430 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,000 He said escape for your life. Don't look behind you. 431 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,800 So don't look behind you. Escape for your life. 432 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,360 So whenever you look at these individual phrases like in verse 433 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:39,560 17, escape look not. Stay. 434 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,240 Neither, stay. All of those are emphatic 435 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:47,520 statements, huh. No, this is imperative. 436 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,720 It's emphatic look. Amen. 437 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,720 Whenever we talk about the word look, it says look not behind 438 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,640 thee. That word look is defined as 439 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:03,400 strong defines it as to scan. That is, look intently at by 440 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:11,480 implication to regard with pleasure, favor or care. 441 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:18,880 He says don't look behind you. That's what you're leaving. 442 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:28,080 Don't turn around and look with a intense daze of regarding and 443 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:35,000 have pleasure for where I want you to get away from. 444 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,160 He says don't do it. He said don't direct your your 445 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,280 attention behind you. Don't direct your attention 446 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,960 where you're leaving because it's a common problem to leave a 447 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:53,840 place or even a person. I told you last week and do that 448 00:28:53,840 --> 00:29:01,880 physically, but your heart still yearns and lungs for it. 449 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,560 I told you it was the story of Israel in the wilderness. 450 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,160 Their feet were not on Egyptian soil. 451 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,880 They'd went through the Red Sea. They're in the wilderness. 452 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:20,720 They are by all means severed and separated physically from 453 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:30,840 Egypt, but their heart and mind still got the entanglements. 454 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:39,200 He man of reminiscing the bout Egypt with a forlonging for what 455 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,680 they once had and we got to stop for a moment because here's the 456 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,640 the device of the adversary. He'll make you look pleasurable 457 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,600 upon something that you had that when you was there you did not 458 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:55,840 even like they were slaves in Egypt. 459 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,160 Can you imagine looking back to say, Boy? 460 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,320 Those were the good days. But that's the tactic to the 461 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,840 enemy. Have you looked back on a time 462 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,480 that when you was in it, it was repulsive to you? 463 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,240 But since you're away from it now and looking back, all you 464 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,280 can recall is the physical mental attachments of that 465 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:23,730 moment. So the Lord. 466 00:30:24,170 --> 00:30:25,890 Yes, he wants to bring Lord and his family. 467 00:30:26,290 --> 00:30:27,490 I got to hurry. Don't glory. 468 00:30:27,570 --> 00:30:32,930 Amen. We don't want 36.75. 469 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,520 The Lord has a. Desire to get Lot and his family 470 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,120 from there and particularly again, away from the plains to 471 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,920 the mountain. But This is why I label this 472 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,720 part, this is actually incorrect heading, but this is the way 473 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,920 people thinks there is a peril and partial obedience. 474 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,480 The reason why I say it there it's flawed is because there's 475 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,120 no such thing as partial obedience. 476 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,440 If it's not full obedience, it's complete disobedience. 477 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,720 But the peril is this. He's given all this instruction 478 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,960 about what they need to do. And verse 18, Lot says, oh, not 479 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:22,800 so, my Lord, I don't, I don't know Ed. 480 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,680 I don't know where he was when he was born, behind the door for 481 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,120 brains. I don't know what's going on. 482 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,880 He's just had divine intervention to get him out of 483 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,600 destruction. He's just got plain instruction 484 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,880 what he needed to do. He lingered and they got him up 485 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,640 and got him going. And he says that sounds 486 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,360 wonderful, but not so Lord. Not the mountains, no. 487 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,280 It's the same statement really, that that Peter made when the 488 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,040 blanket came down three times. It had animals that were 489 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,400 uncommon and clean. So I've never hated that. 490 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,640 And the Lord said arise. And he's like, not so Lord. 491 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,800 It's a contradictory statement. How can you tell someone who is 492 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,720 supposedly your Lord? Master? 493 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,600 No. Yeah, Yeah. 494 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,680 Because if he's Lord and master, that means what the Lord and 495 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,960 master says goes no questions, no negotiations. 496 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,400 He's Lord. But when you interject the not. 497 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,440 So how can you call him Lord and still have a say in the matter? 498 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,560 How can you call him master and still have a say in the matter? 499 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,720 But that's the way I want to live life, right? 500 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,240 That's the way I want to do it. I want to do it when it's 501 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,720 appeasing to me. But whenever it's not, I want to 502 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,040 raise my hand of ejection and say, you can be Lord over every 503 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,360 area but this parcel of land that's mine. 504 00:32:46,930 --> 00:32:49,450 That's so Lord. It's a phrase of contradiction 505 00:32:49,690 --> 00:32:51,690 in terms. Amen. 506 00:32:52,130 --> 00:32:56,440 And so nonetheless, again, Lord recognize that God has been 507 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,320 gracious to him that he has saved his life. 508 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,760 This is all here in your Bible. He says that verse 19. 509 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:05,960 He understands that, but it would comes to God's plan for 510 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:11,120 ultimate ultimate safety. So it's not so so lots like 511 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,240 Lord, I know you saved me. I'm gracious. 512 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,320 I know you was merciful, but going to the mountain would be 513 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:23,760 death for me. And again, and I said this last 514 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:33,840 week, if he says I cannot escape to the mountain, I cannot escape 515 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,480 to the mountain. But it's more like I will not 516 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:44,600 escape to the mountain. So the city that he lived in. 517 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:49,160 Sodom going to be destroyed. Fire and brimstone right? 518 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,600 The Lord intends to destroy all the cities of the plains, which 519 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,360 includes Zoar. But God has specified a place 520 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,400 and the mountain as a place they should go so that they won't be 521 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:08,920 consumed. Lord says no, He's refusing to 522 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,760 go totally after the Lord. Between Sodom and the mountain 523 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:22,360 is a place called Zoar. Zoar is said to be located 2 to 524 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,560 5 miles from Sodom. Let's just put it in terms. 525 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,440 It'd almost be, if we go to the extent of it maybe going this 526 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,280 direction, it'd be like Kingsburg. 527 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,520 Kingsburg. And Lot emphasizes it's, it's a 528 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,920 little city, Lord. It's a little city in the 529 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,639 plains. It's a little city that's in the 530 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,199 path of destruction Lord. It's near to flee unto. 531 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,400 He says in verse #20 to the Lord. 532 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,400 It's close to Sodom, Lord. It's not Sodom God, but it's 533 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,440 close to Sodom Lord. I know it's still on the list 534 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,080 for Destruction God, but it's just a little city Lord. 535 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,120 I understand, God, that it's going to face the same fate that 536 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,320 Sodom faces. I understand that's what it's 537 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,760 destined for, but it's not the same town. 538 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,840 God, I know it's just little. It may have some similar 539 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,120 characterizations, but it's just a little city. 540 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,040 It's a small town and I'm just wanting you just to spare it 541 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:31,320 because it's not much. It's going to meet the same 542 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,200 fate. It's what God had planned for 543 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,200 it. But Lot's arguing, it's just 544 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,680 small. Oh, the arguments we can come up 545 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,480 with, God. It's nothing big, Lord. 546 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,640 It's just small. It's not like a real core issue, 547 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,040 God. Let's use this one. 548 00:35:53,160 --> 00:36:04,040 It's not a salvation issue, God. But if it looks like a duck and 549 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,120 it quacks like a duck, eat a duck. 550 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,760 Oh God, help me. And so a. 551 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,480 Lot of reasons, he said. I can't go to the mountain God. 552 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,360 Some evil might happen to me there. 553 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,600 God says that's your place. Some evil might happen to me. 554 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,400 I'll die, the agent told him. You can't stay in Sodom, you 555 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,120 can't stay in the plains because you for sure is going to die. 556 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,560 But a lot begins to reason with the Lord about not being able to 557 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,960 make it to the mountain before the destruction would start. 558 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,000 So I want to resort to somewhere near. 559 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,280 I want to just pause for a moment. 560 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,080 If Lot is really troubled in his mind by not having enough time 561 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:48,440 to make it to the mountain, and that seems like impossible to 562 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,520 him to reach that destiny, then I wonder if he should have 563 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,640 started thinking about that a little bit more when he was 564 00:36:54,640 --> 00:37:07,560 still lingering inside him. Verse 21 God agrees, he 565 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,600 acquiesces. He said haste the escape thither 566 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:17,480 talking about Zohar, go to that little city, go to that little 567 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,640 city. God gives look at this. 568 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:25,560 Oh we're like yes, God gives lot what he wanted. 569 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:33,760 He said I've accepted thee concerning this thing also. 570 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,360 Not only have I been magnified My mercy in getting you out of 571 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:43,080 Sodom, I have accepted thee and this little back and forth thing 572 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,960 over Zoar. I'll spare Zoar and I'll show 573 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:53,280 you the my extreme mercy. O folks, be careful about God's 574 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,040 extreme mercy because there's a fine line between it being mercy 575 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:03,400 and judgement. Look at God's mercy up to this 576 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,840 point of time. He sent angelic warning to 577 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,080 Sodom. He's allowed time for them to 578 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,280 leave Sodom. He allowed the angels to take 579 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,160 them out of Sodom while Lot lingered. 580 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,080 He pointed them the direction and instruction about where they 581 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:25,400 could go for sure to be safe. And then He gives Lot what He 582 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,440 wanted. I've said this statement before, 583 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,200 probably years ago, but you got to be careful when you get what 584 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:40,360 you want when it isn't what God originally told you, because 585 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,560 getting what you want in that moment isn't necessarily God 586 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,000 agreeing with you. God's about. 587 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:55,320 Ready to take you to school? Because it's not about just 588 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,040 getting out of Sodom. Listen to me. 589 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,280 Well, we're talking about his family and those that are 590 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,560 associated and connected to him. It's not about just getting out. 591 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,240 It's about who makes it with you, right? 592 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:10,360 That's. Right, God's saying if you'll 593 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,160 let me go to this city, this closed city, if you'll spare 594 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:19,440 from destroying it, I'll live. God, God's like, all right, I'll 595 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,480 acquiesce. I'm with you on this matter. 596 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,560 Hurry up because I can't do anything to Sodom until you 597 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,360 reach Zohar. Get there. 598 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:27,760 I mean, it shouldn't be difficult. 599 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,680 It's closed, you know, 2 to 5 miles. 600 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,960 It's closer than the mountains. It should be closed. 601 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,520 Settle for Zohar. And the Bible tells us in verse 602 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,040 23 that Lot reached Zohar, and God did. 603 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,200 Then once they reached their rain down fire and brimstone 604 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,880 upon Sodom, Gomorrah and the other plains, the other cities 605 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,520 of the plain, except Zohar. And Lot's probably thinking 606 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,280 himself, man, that was a good deal. 607 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,240 I made with God success. I told you I'd live. 608 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:55,280 I knew I'd make it. It's just a little thing. 609 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,120 Here I am. Yes, you did, Lot, you did. 610 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:05,440 But did you ever think you would make it to Zohar and live with 611 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:12,040 loss? Because verse 26 of this chapter 612 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,360 that I've not read to you tonight yet says this but his. 613 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:20,360 Lot's wife looked back from behind him. 614 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:26,000 Lot, and she became a pillar of salt. 615 00:40:31,380 --> 00:40:35,380 Here's the fact that I know from being a part of the human fabric 616 00:40:35,380 --> 00:40:39,520 and dealt with people. When you get what you want 617 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:44,560 rather than what God deemed for you, it will not be as appealing 618 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,680 to you as you thought it would be. 619 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,800 When you get what you thought you really wanted, it will not 620 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,760 be near as appealing after you get it. 621 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,520 Memorializing Scripture in the New Testament, then as Jesus 622 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,120 saying, remember Lord's wife. There's a lot in. 623 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:10,080 Just those 3 words of remember. Lot's wife because she is a 624 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,840 monument. By all means, to sure a lot that 625 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,160 doesn't fully follow the Lord, but to a man that can't handle a 626 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,600 man, his spiritual and cultural place of headship and leading 627 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,360 his family, it is a testament to not fully separating. 628 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,880 It's a testament to taking sanctification only to the 629 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:37,720 degree where it's comfortable. We stopped short because we 630 00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:40,920 thought we could make it. We stopped short because we 631 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,560 thought it was OK. We stopped short because, like 632 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:44,960 Lot, we felt like we was going to die. 633 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,920 Well, you know what? In real terms, your flesh needs 634 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,120 to die. The Bible speaks in Romans about 635 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,560 mortifying the deeds of our flesh. 636 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,640 That means killing them. It needs to die. 637 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,520 I hope somewhere in this Christian walk, it feels like 638 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,040 we're dying. Dying in the flesh. 639 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:09,240 It's not comfortable. It it's not comfortable. 640 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,200 There's some things my flesh wants to do, but my spirit says 641 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,040 no, there's places my flesh wants to go that God's Spirit 642 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,840 says don't take me. That's uncomfortable. 643 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,480 I need to feel like my flesh is dying. 644 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,640 Lot's thinking about this and he's not considering what might 645 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:36,680 happen if he if he didn't. If he didn't stay right there, 646 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,280 he could stay close and he could suffer the lost end of 647 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,920 something, someone that was close to him. 648 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,600 So in the end, what he gained was a net loss. 649 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:56,680 And when we talk about the context of family, sons, 650 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,600 daughters, Howard Webb of that is we talk about the context of 651 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:06,040 family, we need to remember that when we think we can't make it 652 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,320 to the mountain, there's some that's connected to us that 653 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:16,400 can't even make it to Zoar. They're not even going to 654 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:22,560 survive that trip of compromise because they're too close from 655 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:31,960 where they started from. I don't 2 to 5 miles and there 656 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,040 being four other cities in that area. 657 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,200 Brother Fred landscape in cities on fire. 658 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:45,120 I don't know what the perimeter of non berm burn was from Zoar 659 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:54,300 but there's fire all about and I'm sure you could feel some of 660 00:43:54,300 --> 00:43:55,980 the intensity. The heat and the smoke is 661 00:43:55,980 --> 00:44:03,960 filling the air. I don't, I don't. 662 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:09,200 This is just totally speculation on Pastor's part, but I'm 663 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:14,920 convinced Lot's wife is so close to where she left, with the fire 664 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,800 and the brimstone falling, feeling the intensity of the 665 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,240 heat and the fire and everything all around her. 666 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:27,440 She knew what that meant about for what she just left what she 667 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,920 had called home for however many years. 668 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:38,760 Call it instinctively or with that for lowering of what she 669 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:44,280 had. She turns, she looks that 670 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:50,640 intense gaze and I just asked myself then, Sister Grace, had 671 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,920 they went further Yonder to the mountains? 672 00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,920 Would it had the same impact on her? 673 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:16,740 Had she gotten further away and. Just. 674 00:45:16,740 --> 00:45:22,420 Considering the husband wife dynamic and we want to look at. 675 00:45:23,780 --> 00:45:25,260 That's wife, bless God, she looked. 676 00:45:25,260 --> 00:45:27,100 Back. Well, let's pause. 677 00:45:28,420 --> 00:45:31,300 Should we really be so surprised by that when her husband even 678 00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:32,260 lingered? From the start. 679 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,560 We want to beat her up. She looked back, but he 680 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:48,770 hesitated from the beginning. Bishop I. 681 00:45:48,770 --> 00:45:54,130 Wonder if we sow seeds in our family that manifest themself 682 00:45:54,130 --> 00:45:56,610 later and we're looking at them like what in the world were they 683 00:45:56,610 --> 00:46:00,330 thinking? And it's all we really owed to a 684 00:46:00,330 --> 00:46:06,810 time earlier of discrepancy in our own life that was so thin 685 00:46:07,050 --> 00:46:15,360 but just came to fruition later, she said. 686 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,920 And yet, and this has always caught me, folks, the way that 687 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,880 the Scripture verbalizes this and verse #2 it's always caught 688 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,400 me that. She looked back from behind him. 689 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,040 It's like Lot finally got together. 690 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,120 He's trailing on. Come here. 691 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,200 It's like he's trailing on, right? 692 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,240 He didn't grab his kids hand. He didn't grab his wife's hand 693 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:43,400 to get out of the city. He's finally got to this place. 694 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,080 He's trailing on because the Bible says he fell unsafe 695 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:47,880 finally as though are he's going to go to the mountains. 696 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,960 He's he. And so he's trailing on. 697 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:59,720 She's behind, and from behind him she looks back. 698 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,680 I wonder if the picture. Would have been any different 699 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,920 if, rather than behind him, this was a joint effort. 700 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,840 I know, Hun, we lived there for years. 701 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,000 I, I, I know we, we had our kids back there. 702 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:14,960 But, but there's something better up ahead. 703 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,160 God, God has got something better for us. 704 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,840 It's going to be OK. Those, those days are those 705 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,160 days. But God's got something. 706 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,280 Don't, don't, don't, don't turn your head. 707 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,400 Don't. Don't worry about the heat that 708 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,640 you feel. Don't worry about the vehemence 709 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,640 of everybody. Don't worry about what's behind. 710 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:31,960 Look, look what's ahead. Look. 711 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,680 I wonder what have happened if rather than the trailing, there 712 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,320 was the togetherness of the side by side, If the outcome, The 713 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:43,640 story would have been different if a man would have been a man 714 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,920 and a husband and a father and a leader and a spiritual guide for 715 00:47:47,920 --> 00:48:07,730 those under his care. Stay with me tonight. 716 00:48:07,730 --> 00:48:19,800 I won't. God was given Lot the privilege 717 00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:25,440 since he led his family into Sodom, was given him the 718 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,800 opportunity to lead them out of what he led them into. 719 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:36,720 But his hesitations, his compromises, his missteps, all 720 00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:41,240 this was just just highlighted the sobering weight of headship 721 00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:43,880 that that he really wasn't fit to handle. 722 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,120 And so he has this wavering conviction about several things 723 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:54,760 and he delays and he has obedience that's delayed and a 724 00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,160 distant almost type form of leadership. 725 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,240 And all of this is just just contributing over and over again 726 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:05,200 to the confusion of his family to loss, ultimately death, even 727 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,840 of his own spouse. Listen, when we talk about 728 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,920 spiritual headship, men, we're not talking about just being in 729 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,920 front. It's about being present, 730 00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:22,080 guiding with clarity, walking with integrity, staying close 731 00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:28,880 enough to lift those you love when they have a inkling to turn 732 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:35,560 and look back with forlorn eyes. So I know is that whenever 733 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,720 headship suffers and hesitates, family suffer. 734 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,920 So you got to leave with courage, conviction, 735 00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:49,400 consistency, so on and so forth. And, and, and please understand, 736 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,120 I'm just going to say this. Just kind of the little folding 737 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:56,040 of the envelope, so to speak. And I know that the dynamics of 738 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,960 families are different, right? We have a lot of mothers that's 739 00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,400 raising their children or, or there's even fathers raising. 740 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,880 There's a lot of dynamics. If you don't have the husband in 741 00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:10,400 your life, if that position and aspect is not in your life, then 742 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,160 you're under the subjection of Christ. 743 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:20,400 So you got to fulfill the role. And I know that's unfair. 744 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,040 I know that's unfair in the design of Scripture. 745 00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,800 That is so unfair, but you got to take that role. 746 00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,400 You got to take that responsibility and not settle 747 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,880 for what's near and for what's small just because of the 748 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,000 convenience, as it would seem, other because is it really 749 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:38,880 convenient when it's all said and done? 750 00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,000 Because family legacies are dependent upon it. 751 00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,640 Family legacies are depend upon it. 752 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:53,640 And if we don't lead well, we'll lose much. 753 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,360 Can we just begin to talk to the Lord right now, here on this 754 00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,000 Wednesday night? Father, I love you. 755 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:07,960 God, I pray, Lord, help us, God, the men of this assembly of 756 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,760 homes and families, God, the family structures, the Lord 757 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,560 Jesus that's into individual homes and families. 758 00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,320 Help us God, to be leaders. Help us, God, to lead well with 759 00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,160 clarity, with confidence. With not ambiguity, with not 760 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,480 discrepancy. I pray, O God, today let us not 761 00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,400 be some multifaceted thing Lord, that just shows parts and pieces 762 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,880 of ourselves for the convenience of the moment or the context. 763 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,800 Help us, O Lord, today God, empower us. 764 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,920 Help us Lord to receive the instruction of the Lord and God, 765 00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,800 when you say sever, when you say separate, help us Lord to take 766 00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,040 that to heart. Help us, O Lord, not with a 767 00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:48,400 longing eye, Lord Jesus to constantly look and just Lord 768 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,560 with a pleasurable regard of wanting to to go back to or get 769 00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:55,240 to a spot that in the moment when we were in it, it was it 770 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:57,280 was just Lord falling down around us. 771 00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,680 It wasn't what it it seemed to be. 772 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,760 God is just a deploy a deception of the enemy for us to look back 773 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,200 with a longing eye on something that we want Lord discarded. 774 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:11,440 I pray, O God today, Lord, raise up strength within the fibers. 775 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,640 Lord of the members, Lord of the church. 776 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,600 Help us, O God today, Lord, to be sold out to you and 777 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,440 understand your instruction can be trusted Lord and it's 778 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,400 noteworthy and God just because I get what I want may not be 779 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,040 what I needed. It may cost me more God than I 780 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,440 realized I wanted to pay God. Let there be a spirit of 781 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,880 conviction, Lord, upon our homes and our families, our children, 782 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,640 our husbands, our wives, God, the inner workings of the web 783 00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,640 Lord God of the families of this church. 784 00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,600 God help us Lord to lead with honor. 785 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,680 Lead well, lead well, lead well, Lord, at the very Lord's spoken 786 00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,360 word of God, written word of. God is our guide Lord, and will 787 00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,880 not fail to thank you and praise you Lord for what you can 788 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,720 accomplish through it. In the lovely name of Jesus 789 00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:01,960 Christ that I pray Hallelujah and Amen of the church say Amen, 790 00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:08,560 Amen, Amen, Amen, Hallelujah. Friday night game night, 7:00 to 791 00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:12,000 1:50 service on Sunday. All right, we'll be here. 792 00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,760 Stay cool, Amen. Stay cool, Amen. 793 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:16,960 Don't get overheated. God bless you. 794 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,040 Have a wonderful week this week in Jesus name.