1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,760 Not free to worship you. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,840 Hallelujah, Amen. Free to praise. 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,560 Magnify the name that is above every name, the name of Jesus, 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,480 Amen. Just a few things here today. 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,840 Amen. Before we get into our Bible 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,320 study tonight, remember tomorrow night is Power hour. 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,160 Power Hour here at the church from 7:00 to 8:00. 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,960 Prayer at the church. What a great way to begin a camp 9 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:32,080 meeting with prayer leading into Amen that week of camp meetings 10 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,960 succumb be a part of power hour. He made we did such a good job 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,520 last month after being in revival from Wednesday to Sunday 12 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,560 that we had our highest percentage of since tracking 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:48,840 that the people here Amen. So let's let's let's not let's 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,760 follow that line that's going upward and just keep it going 15 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,200 upward that way. My graph. 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,440 I like happy graphs, happy graphs. 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,840 It goes down if it goes back up, then starts make you know, it 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,960 just it's not good, just not good. 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,960 It's a happy graph. Amen. 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,000 So keep that in mind. Also on Sunday, there's just one 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,560 service. There's camp prep. 22 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,160 Well, the Masons after Sunday service, they'll be going to 23 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,960 prep for camp in Frankfurt and there'll be others of you if 24 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:17,560 you've not already started packing. 25 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,960 Some people are like, does it way ahead of time, like they're 26 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:24,120 packed weeks in advance. Then there's others that, you 27 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,320 know, they'll still be putting stuff together on their way over 28 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,200 to put it in the cargo trailer. You know who you are. 29 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,120 But we tried to, we tried to eliminate some of that hurry by 30 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:37,960 providing that Sunday night for you. 31 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,120 And so with those that are going from the church and some others 32 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,800 that are coming under our wing from other churches, we have 30 33 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,800 people going or we've lost a couple because of Sister Brenda, 34 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,680 of course. And Sister Jenna Adams has a job 35 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,000 that she has started that she's not going to be able to go. 36 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,400 But outside of that, a good number of people going. 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,680 And so be a part of that. A man, you may be seated. 38 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,840 I don't want to keep you standing as I'm going through 39 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,000 this. As a result of that, we will be 40 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,080 leaving those who need transportation, we or want to 41 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,120 follow the church van. We will be leaving at 1:00 PM on 42 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,800 Monday, 1:00 PM on Monday, and so if you can get here at least 43 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,840 by 12:30, if not just a little earlier, I'll probably be here 44 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,960 by 12, but 12:30 we can start loading the cargo trailer with 45 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,840 luggage of people needs to go. With that being said, don't let 46 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,880 me forget whenever we close service tonight, if you're not 47 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,560 going to camp, you can go. We'll cut the live feed, but we 48 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,800 probably need to talk about transportation because I had 49 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,760 several people that needed transportation. 50 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,040 However, I, I know that some of them sometimes ride with other 51 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,320 people that are going. And so I need to know exactly 52 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,520 who needs the van for transportation. 53 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,440 All right. And so we'll, we'll get 54 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,320 clarification for that here at the end of this service. 55 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,680 Everybody say tennis tennis shoe Sunday. 56 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:03,000 That is the Sunday after camp because everybody's feet is 57 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,520 screaming after being on concrete floor. 58 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,680 Morning services, night services, walking at the 59 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,280 distance you got to, whether it's just to get food or get a 60 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,800 shower, all right, none the less. 61 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,160 So that's going to be tennis. Tennis shoe. 62 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,400 I almost can't even say that. Tennis shoe Sunday. 63 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,040 I can call it sneaker Sunday. How about that sneaker Sunday? 64 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,920 I can do that one easier. All right, sneak up on you. 65 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,960 All the bad puns. Amen. 66 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,080 Hallelujah. So those are some of the things 67 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,720 that are coming up within the month of July. 68 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,240 We have other things, but I won't overburden you with all of 69 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,600 the details as it goes. Ladies and gentlemen, you have 70 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,400 been a month without the Book of Genesis. 71 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,800 Welcome back. Let's go to the Book of Genesis 72 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,840 chapter #19 that's where we left off, and that's where we're 73 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,640 going to begin again. Amen. 74 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,960 Word of the Lord, Genesis 19. I'm going to read the first 11 75 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,960 verses for your sake. I'll read the first three and 76 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:15,480 then allow you to be seated. All right, so that you're not 77 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,880 continuously standing. The Bible says, and there came 78 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,000 two angels to Sodom. You remember we're all in this 79 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,880 Abraham and Lot visitation of three, realizing two of those 80 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,400 are angels. One of those are the Lord Lot or 81 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,000 Abraham's been interceding for Sodom Gomorrah, because there's 82 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,280 this tendency that the Lord's going to destroy. 83 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:38,320 He's come down to look at the outcry of what's come up to him. 84 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,880 And so these are the angels that are actually now going to the 85 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,360 city of Sodom. There came two angels to Sodom, 86 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,480 and Even and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. 87 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,760 And Lot, seeing them, rose up to meet them. 88 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,360 And he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. 89 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:58,120 And he said, Behold, now, my Lords, turn in, I pray you, into 90 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,560 your servant's house, and tarry all night. 91 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,600 Wash your feet. He shall rise up early and go on 92 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,400 your ways. And they said, Nay, but we will 93 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,760 abide in the street all night. And he pressed upon them 94 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,920 greatly, and they turned into him and entered into his house. 95 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,600 And he made them a feast and did bacon leavened bread, and they 96 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,960 did eat. I'll continue reading here in a 97 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:27,120 moment tonight I've labeled this a soul under siege. 98 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,440 A soul under siege. Let's pray this evening. 99 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,640 Father, I need you tonight. Lord, we need enlightenment, 100 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,760 revelation of your word. God, You're able to help us, God 101 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,320 by it. God, in these Lord's scriptures 102 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,720 are the words of life, words to live by. 103 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,800 Help me, oh Lord, God, to apply him, Lord, to my life. 104 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,760 God to help me live, Lord, to navigate this world below, in 105 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,440 the lovely name of the Lord Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen. 106 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,560 In the church say, Amen, you may be seated, continuing on with 107 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,920 verse #4. But before they lay down, the 108 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:07,080 men of the city, even the men of Sodom, can pass the house round, 109 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:12,000 both old and young, all the people from every quarter. 110 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,160 And they called into lot, and said to him, Where are the men 111 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,520 which came in unto thee this night? 112 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:23,160 Bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 113 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:28,400 And Locke went out at the door unto them, and shut the door 114 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:34,640 after him, and said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. 115 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,520 Behold now I have two daughters which have not known man. 116 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:44,360 Let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them 117 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,000 as is good in your eyes only. And to these men do nothing. 118 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,920 For therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. 119 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,080 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one 120 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,840 fellow came in to sojourn, and he I've just lost my place, and 121 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:06,800 he will needs to be a judge. Now will we deal worse with thee 122 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,040 than with them? And they pressed sore upon the 123 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,080 man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. 124 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,520 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the 125 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,040 house to them, and shut to the door. 126 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,080 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with 127 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:30,640 blindness both small and great, so that they wearied themselves 128 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:35,160 to find the door to begin with tonight. 129 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,440 And we have learned something from Scripture. 130 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,000 And again, this is one of those places in verse #1 where we have 131 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,120 information that Lot doesn't have, brother a trout, something 132 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,560 that we get as a reader, a privilege that he doesn't have. 133 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,160 And that is, we know from verse number one that these two men 134 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,120 that have been long on the journey, even visiting Abraham 135 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,920 and now have come to Sodom, that these two men are indeed angels. 136 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,840 The Scripture tells us that emphatically. 137 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,600 And so while we know that Lot does does not know that. 138 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,560 And so Lot's life up to this point has been one that he has 139 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,280 looked toward. And at the the plains in which 140 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,440 Sodom dwell, the Bible talks about him pitching his tent 141 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:21,680 there. He's lived there. 142 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,280 He's sitting at the gate of Sodom. 143 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:30,200 And Sodom is a a doesn't have the best of reputation when it 144 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:35,039 comes to morals. All right, Lot is is living in a 145 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:40,600 sin ridden environment as he's living in Sodom. 146 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,679 You'll remember as we go backwards a little bit to some 147 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,640 passages we've already looked at, but in Genesis 13, the Bible 148 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,680 tells us that the men of Sodom were indeed wicked and sinners. 149 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:56,440 The Bible says exceedingly. I mean, I don't, I even don't 150 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,240 know how to process that. I mean, it's one. 151 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,240 I mean sinners are simple. It's like sinners exceedingly. 152 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,400 It's like, I guess if they could find themselves getting into it 153 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,760 to be diabolical or diametric to whatever was upholding the 154 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,680 things of God, then they're like, count me in, I'm going to 155 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:17,280 be a part of that. They took sending perhaps to new 156 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,880 heights, or maybe we should say to new depths. 157 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,400 I don't know. Nevertheless, they took it to a 158 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,880 whole new level and the Lord said that their sin, this is the 159 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,200 Lord's take on it, that their sin was a very grievous 160 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,280 according to Genesis 18 said it's very grievous. 161 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,320 And so lot has lived here and we we don't know the exact amount, 162 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:45,160 but he has lived here in Sodom for about 20 or 25 years, but 163 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:52,320 not without it impacting him. The apostle Peter says in the 164 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,080 New Testament and he records looking back on this episode in 165 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,400 Genesis, it says in second Peter 2 verses 6 through 8 and and and 166 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,360 as you read the verses prior to this, it speaks about basically 167 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,120 how you cannot escape the destruction or even the judgment 168 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,520 of the Lord if it is coming to you, so to speak. 169 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,640 And he says in verse 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and 170 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:23,880 Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making 171 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:29,720 them an sample unto those that after should live ungodly. 172 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,640 And so the Bible even tells us that those things that were 173 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,480 written before or written for our learning, right, they were 174 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,520 given to us as in samples or examples. 175 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,200 And so Peter even picks up on that and says what occurred at 176 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:47,600 Sodom tomorrow is there as a in sample or an example to us, to 177 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,200 anybody that would live ungodly, that there is a day of 178 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,880 reckoning, right, that comes. There's always a day of judgment 179 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,120 or a day of reckoning that comes, especially when 180 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,600 repentance has not entered the picture. 181 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,280 Payday's coming, all right. And he says Sodom and Gomorrah 182 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,120 is an example or an example of that very truth. 183 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:11,440 He says in verse 7 and delivered just lot. 184 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,760 Now that word just does not meaning only lot. 185 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,000 It means righteous. Lot delivered righteous lot. 186 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,480 Now the word righteous here is of course, in a very broad 187 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,200 sense, because we know that lot has succumbed, right? 188 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,120 Has been wore down and impacted to certain degrees by the 189 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,800 environment that he was living in, but nonetheless and 190 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:38,440 delivered just lot vexed, right? Vexed with the filthy 191 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,440 conversation. Let's break this down a little 192 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,120 bit. He's vexed or he's wearied with. 193 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:49,840 He is labored down with the filthy conversation of the 194 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,120 wicked. The words filthy conversation 195 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,520 literally mean lasciviousness. That's a fancy word, but the 196 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,520 basic meaning of lasciviousness is unrestricted living. 197 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:05,880 Lot has been wearied. He's been labored down with the 198 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,080 unrestricted living of the wicked. 199 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,440 The Bible says verse 8 in parentheses for that righteous 200 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,680 man Speaking of law dwelling among them. 201 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:24,280 Those of Sodom in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul 202 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:29,400 from day-to-day with their unlawful deeds. 203 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,080 I just want to point something out here. 204 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,400 The word vexed in verse #8 differs from the word vexed in 205 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,760 verse #7 They are two different Greek words that are used in 206 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,200 verse #8 The Greek word that is used is a word that wasn't 207 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:48,360 originally associated with pain or with torment, but it referred 208 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,440 to this. It referred to a testing process 209 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:57,880 involving A touchstone. Now a touchstone was typically a 210 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:03,600 black type durable stone that Jewelers and people of that that 211 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:09,080 that kind of office of of of work would use to test like 212 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,600 metals of gold and silver that they had. 213 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,240 And what would happen is this, they would take a chunk of gold 214 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,680 or silver of a stone and they would strike it. 215 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,840 They would rub it back and forth on the touchstone with friction. 216 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,920 And that that gold or that silver would leave a streak or a 217 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,440 mark on the touchstone. And based upon its color, the 218 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:36,480 jeweler would know that the quality of the metal, it's 219 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:41,840 purity of the metal that he had in his hand, based upon the mark 220 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,200 that was left on the touchstone, or maybe even the lack of purity 221 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,400 that it had. And so the touchstone was used 222 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,640 to determine the condition of the metals and, and whenever 223 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,200 that marker, that streak was left, he could understand then 224 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,920 that that the purity of this is XY or Z. 225 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:02,320 But here's the interesting thing. 226 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,920 The touchstone didn't just test the metal, but it also had a 227 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,000 mark that was left on it from the metal being tested. 228 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,920 So there's something that's taking place here. 229 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,920 It's the vets that's spoken of. Verse #8 Speaking of Lot, being 230 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,160 vexed is as though there's that friction that's happening 231 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,520 between the environment that he is in and the life that he is 232 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,640 trying to live. But the fact of the matter is 233 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,480 this, you can't rub against that. 234 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,720 Yes, you might identify the difference or the purity or 235 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,480 impurity of the environment, but it also has some type of 236 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:45,120 streaking impact of a mark upon the touchstone as well. 237 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:51,920 It doesn't go unscathed, it doesn't go unimpacted. 238 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,640 And so Lot we understand in scripture, we understand from 239 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,240 his story from Peter that he has succumbed to even some of those 240 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,800 vices tomorrow was but Lot saying no, how about this little 241 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,680 one right here again showing the mentality, if you will, of Lot 242 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,160 in all of this. And this has been his mentality 243 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,920 from the very beginning. He's had this tendency. 244 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,480 You can look at Genesis 13 verse 12. 245 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,160 It's from from yesteryear of these lessons, but the Bible 246 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:24,000 said from the beginning that Abram dwelled in the land, 247 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,960 everybody say land of the of Canaan and Lot dwelled in the 248 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:34,720 cities of the plain and pitched his tent towards Sodom to note 249 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,280 that that Abraham, it kind of has this land mentality. 250 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,400 It's here and there and not necessarily a structured edifice 251 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,800 or anything like that. But Lot on the other hand, is 252 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,240 city mentality. I don't want anything that gets 253 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,120 too rough. I want all the pleasantries, if 254 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,080 you will, that the city provides. 255 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,520 And so I think our chapter tonight, chapter 19, and we will 256 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:57,160 not get through all of it, but chapter 19, I think illustrates 257 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,800 that that vexing that touchstone of of Lot with the city of 258 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,400 Sodom, because we have this friction that's constantly 259 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,160 taking place just in the few verses that I read to you of 260 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,560 righteousness and wickedness. And there's the friction between 261 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,560 the two there, there's conviction on one part, but 262 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,000 there's also compromise and there's friction between the 263 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,600 two. There's the hospitality that Lot 264 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:25,120 will show, but then there's the hostility that that that Sodom 265 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,920 will show. There's the friction between the 266 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,960 two. And so Lot as as the guests come 267 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,200 again, he doesn't realize, doesn't know to begin with that 268 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,280 these are angels. And so he's hospitable toward 269 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,680 them, which is a part of their culture, a part of the culture 270 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,920 even being under the umbrella of Abraham. 271 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,200 That's that's what you did. He follows, as a matter of fact, 272 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,600 very closely in the response that Abraham had unto these 273 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,040 individuals. Lot seems to have very close the 274 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:59,000 same response and so although he's not totally sensitive to 275 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,560 exactly who he's entertaining as we looked a few weeks ago, it 276 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:07,119 seemed like Abraham picked up on pretty quickly because he had 277 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:12,160 relationship and visitations. You remember over and over again 278 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,240 with the Lord. But look in Scripture there just 279 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,839 some of the beginning verses. Look how he interacts with these 280 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,119 men when he saw them coming. He rose up to meet them. 281 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:25,119 He went forward to them. He bowed himself down to the 282 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,680 ground. He address them as Lords as a 283 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,680 means of respect to them. He invited them. 284 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,600 This is important here. Later tonight, he invited them 285 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,440 into his house. He provided water for their 286 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,920 feet. He provided A feast that 287 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,080 included unleavened bread. So there's a lot of similarities 288 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,600 between what he had done and what Abraham had done. 289 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,120 And we're not certain. We see that that Lot is sitting 290 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:55,080 at the gate. Some people want to say that 291 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:59,120 he's a magistrate, if you will, or like a judge of the city as a 292 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:03,080 result of this. But could it also be that Lot 293 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:11,160 knows the city in which he dwells and what their tendencies 294 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:16,960 are, particularly for guests? And maybe he's trying to head 295 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:24,280 off any guest or visitor being mistreated and safeguard them 296 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,800 from any abuse. That seems to be the tendency of 297 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:33,880 what Sodom wishes to do to those that show up to their town and 298 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,440 to their city. And not only that, notice that. 299 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,680 And it's it's like modern day. It's it's I smiled at it. 300 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,720 All right. But he's like, what's like come 301 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,440 into my home? And they're like, oh, no, yeah, 302 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,280 come on. And he's like pressing, yeah, go 303 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:50,760 on, come. They're like, OK, we'll go. 304 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,280 Is that not like the total picture of today, you know, come 305 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,600 over to the house. Oh, no, I don't want to. 306 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:56,760 Yeah, come on. OK, I will. 307 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:00,200 It's just, it's just like real life stuff, folks. 308 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,440 I mean, it's real life stuff. You want to go eat with me? 309 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,040 Oh, no, I don't want I don't want to put you out when I go. 310 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,040 Oh no, it won't be no problem. OK, I'll come. 311 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,400 But the Bible, the Bible says in the wording in Scripture is that 312 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:20,120 he pressed on them. He pressed on them to stay And 313 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:23,800 and that's a that almost seems even going beyond a little being 314 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,840 hospitable. But perhaps Lot is urging them 315 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:32,320 to stay in his home again because he knows the danger of 316 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:36,920 staying in the streets of Sodom at night. 317 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:46,920 Listen, if Sodom vexes or troubles a man who has an 318 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:52,120 edifice with house and walls, how much more do you think that 319 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,800 that same city would be troubling or vexing to someone 320 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,240 without the safety and protection of a refuge like a 321 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:05,760 house with walls? And so I'm going to turn the 322 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,800 little corner here because I think through the story of Lot 323 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:15,160 here in chapter #19 we often underestimate how protective the 324 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:22,200 walls of our homes. Have shielded us from the 325 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:27,520 influence of our surroundings. I want to take you to 326 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,760 Deuteronomy Chapter 7. I'm going to spend a little time 327 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,240 here tonight, not necessarily in Deuteronomy, but in this 328 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,440 concept. In Deuteronomy chapter #7 verse 329 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,240 25, the Bible states these words. 330 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,600 And this, of course, is Moses unto the children of Israel. 331 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,520 And at this time the children of Israel are entering a a country 332 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:48,360 occupied by idolterers, those who served idols. 333 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,160 And it says in verse 25, The graven images of their God. 334 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:58,160 Shall ye burn with fire. Thou shalt not desire the silver 335 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:03,920 or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be 336 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:09,200 snared therein. For it is an abomination to the 337 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,120 Lord thy God. Verse 26 Neither shalt thou 338 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:22,360 bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed 339 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:26,760 thing like it. But thou shalt utterly detest 340 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:33,520 it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing. 341 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,760 Israel is getting ready to enter into this land occupied with 342 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,800 idols. And so Moses being directed by 343 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,640 God, it's just giving them a heads up. 344 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:48,000 You're about ready to enter into an environment that does not 345 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,160 align with the principles that you live by. 346 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,600 And he says so whenever you enter into this environment, 347 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,360 there's going to there's going to be idols of gold and silver. 348 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,920 There's going to be some things that will look appealing to your 349 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,200 eye. What's not appealing about the 350 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,360 glistening of gold or the shining of silver? 351 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,120 We just presently got back not too long ago from Washington, DC 352 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:13,600 and we went through one of the many museums we went through and 353 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,320 there was one that had all these gems. 354 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:20,880 Me and Trevor just about Jimmed out, you know, but my wife and 355 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,920 and daughter was in there and they're taking pictures and the 356 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,040 goat and sapphire and all this stuff. 357 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,760 But in essence, Brother Mason, there was some, I mean, there 358 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,440 were some things in there were pretty spectacular that I mean, 359 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,880 whenever you got into that diamond section and then stuff, 360 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,600 it's like, you know, there's a lot of money just beyond that 361 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,840 glass. Gods tell me he said you're 362 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,520 you're coming into an environment. 363 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,520 He said they're going to be some things that cut catch your eye. 364 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,120 But this is what he says, don't be alert by that. 365 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,440 Destroy that. That goes against human nature. 366 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,000 That goes against human nature. He says, destroy that. 367 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,920 And this is essence. God's words destroy that lest it 368 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,360 destroys you. He says if you don't destroy it, 369 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,640 if you don't abort, if you don't detest it, if you want to take 370 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,480 it, He says it will become a snare. 371 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,200 It will become a trap. Huh. 372 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,280 That's what we're talking about when we're talking about a 373 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,800 snare. It'll become a trap to you and a 374 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,960 trap. Listen, let's get real. 375 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:34,160 A trap many times is camouflage, not to look like a trap until 376 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,480 you are snafu by and it's like oh that was a trap. 377 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,040 God's pulling back the cover though. 378 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,880 He's saying it's a trap. Don't, don't take that. 379 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,600 Don't entertain that it's a trap. 380 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,840 For that matter. It's not acceptable into God and 381 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,200 you're God's people, so why would God's people partake of 382 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,800 something that's not acceptable to the one who possesses them? 383 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,840 Huh. So he says don't, don't do any 384 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,680 of that. But then he goes just a step 385 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,360 further, huh. Because it's one thing not to 386 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:13,560 get involved with that out here. But he says don't you dare think 387 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,400 for a moment you and get by with taking it into your house. 388 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,880 What are you saying? Because I mean, in the public, 389 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,000 every Tom, Dick and Harry course would know. 390 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:32,440 But if you could get into the privacy of your house, what 391 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,160 things could we entertain? What things could we touch? 392 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,440 What things could we involve ourselves with that are on the 393 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,800 off list of God as long as we get into the privacy of the 394 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,680 walls of our home? But know what he says? 395 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,000 He says neither. He says lest you be tempted for 396 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,240 that. Neither Bring the abomination, 397 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,040 that detestable adorned thing that's against God. 398 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:58,920 Don't bring it into your house because it'll corrupt you. 399 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,880 If you bring the abomination, if you bring the cursing, if you 400 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,520 bring that in your house, it will corrupt you. 401 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,520 Don't allow it there. Can I ring the bell tonight? 402 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,800 This last year for for the AOJC was family. 403 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,800 Can I ring the bell? Amen. 404 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:23,840 Mothers and fathers have a pulse on what's coming into your home. 405 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,120 Grandmas and grandpas have a pulse of what's coming into your 406 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:31,520 home. Because it may be the 407 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,600 abomination, it may be the thing. 408 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,440 It looks good, it's appealing, but if you allow it there, it 409 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,920 will ensnare you in that most sacred place. 410 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:52,840 Listen, it may be out there, but only you can control what's in 411 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:57,200 your home. It may be running rampant 412 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,440 everywhere else, but you have control what enters and exits 413 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:09,080 your house. Be real, and I realize this 414 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,000 today only as lot folks. I'm sure there was only 415 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,720 sometimes a refuge and a safety that was found in the house, 416 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,720 living in that environment among that society. 417 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,000 I believe even today, Bishop, sometimes the church in my home, 418 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,360 sometimes the only place of refuge that I have in the modern 419 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,400 day world. And I don't need to 420 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,960 underestimate the the the efficiency, if you will, of a 421 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,680 godly home. But there's something else that 422 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,520 caught my attention as he's read these scriptures, and that is 423 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,000 this. The fact that there was a door 424 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,400 to Lot's home seems somewhat important. 425 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,160 As a matter of fact, this door is mentioned frequently just in 426 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,960 the 1st 11 verses of the scripture. 427 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:59,640 Look at verse number six. And Lot went out at the door 428 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,080 unto them, the sodomites, and shut the door after him. 429 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,840 He didn't walk through the door today where they were and leave 430 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:16,480 the door open because listen, there are literally sometimes 431 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:21,080 that you got to shut the door when you walk out because 432 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,120 there's things just beyond your door. 433 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,240 What, what, what, what, what, what did God, what did God tell 434 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:32,920 Cain? I remember back in the New 435 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,680 Testament when we first started all this mess, he said, Cain, if 436 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,400 things be well, they're well. But behold, he said, there is 437 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:46,080 sin that's crouching at the there's some things just beyond 438 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,600 the door. And we got to learn that this 439 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,200 door of our homes and our lives is not a revolving door. 440 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,040 This is a door with locks. This is a door with bars. 441 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,280 This is a door that I have control of opening and shutting. 442 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,880 And I may step out in this world, but I close my door from 443 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:09,600 anything from there menacing getting into my house. 444 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:17,120 Look at verse 9 and they, the sodomites pressed sore upon the 445 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:28,200 man, even Lot, and came near to break the door because they're 446 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,920 wanting the men that's come to visit him. 447 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,200 Fine, say it like this. If you don't bring them out, 448 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:43,240 we're coming in man. I hear a call right now today 449 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,960 that there is adversaries that speak in those very words over 450 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,760 some of our children and grandchildren. 451 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,160 If you don't give them to us, we're coming in after them here. 452 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,960 Oh yeah, hear me, hear me. And the Bible says as a result 453 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,080 of him rebuttal in this and standing against this, no Lord 454 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,000 is still on the outside of the door and the Bible says they are 455 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,400 pressing sore. They're pressing sore upon him 456 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,200 because they're wanting to get to what's on the inside of the 457 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,840 house. They're my God, I feel the Holy 458 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,520 Ghost right here tonight. They're pressing sore upon him. 459 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,800 If he thought he was vexed by living in that city, he for sure 460 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,880 is vexed now. They're pressuring. 461 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,840 He feels the pressure. He feels the clutches, if you 462 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,600 will, of the adversary on him. And the Bible says, if possible, 463 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,960 even if they could break down, even if they could break down 464 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:42,600 the door, our adversary is not just satisfied with pressing 465 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,480 sore upon us, they want to breach your house. 466 00:29:56,010 --> 00:29:58,410 Oh, I feel a witness of the Spirit here. 467 00:30:02,130 --> 00:30:05,650 Look now at verse 10. But the men now Speaking of the 468 00:30:05,650 --> 00:30:08,730 angels, these angelic men that are on the inside the house, and 469 00:30:08,730 --> 00:30:13,560 the men put forth their hand and pulled lot into the house to 470 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:22,320 them and shut to the door. I like that. 471 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,880 So we're going to pull you in to the sanctuary. 472 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,760 What should be a sanctuary, what should be a safe, refuge, 473 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,920 protective place, We're going to pull you back into here. 474 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,320 But we're not leaving the door open. 475 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,560 We're going to shut the door. Listen, there's really two 476 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,320 things right there. Listen to pastor very well. 477 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,000 That's not just about safety. That's about separation. 478 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,240 Matter of fact, let's just blend it together. 479 00:30:54,520 --> 00:31:04,730 Your separation is safety. A lot may have not recognized 480 00:31:04,730 --> 00:31:08,210 this sister Sheila, that these men he invited to his house were 481 00:31:08,210 --> 00:31:10,210 angels. There's some things about ready 482 00:31:10,210 --> 00:31:12,800 to take place. I believe that he'll know 483 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,080 unequivocally that this just isn't a normal man here that we 484 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,680 have in this house. He may not have recognized them, 485 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,560 and this is what's so powerful. He may not have recognized it, 486 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:28,040 but the Bible says from the very onset that he invited them into 487 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,280 his house. And whether knowingly or 488 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,640 unknownly, he invited the angelic into his home. 489 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,680 And even if he didn't know them to be angels, he did know them. 490 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,440 These are definitely men that are better disciplined than the 491 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,280 environment I'm living in. Or he went and went to the links 492 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:52,160 that he was doing to protect and safeguard them, treats them 493 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,240 respectfully, yes. And yes, that's hospitable. 494 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,160 But they seem to be respectable men. 495 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,160 And here's what's fascinating to me. 496 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:07,040 The very ones that lot allowed into his house became the ones 497 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:13,200 to protect him and his family. You got to ask yourself this 498 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,960 question about what you allow into your home. 499 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,800 When the rubber meets the road, will it protect me? 500 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:26,600 Will it protect me or is it going to pull the rug out from 501 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:32,760 under me? Is what I'm allowing to my home? 502 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,920 Is it? Is it going to stand as a 503 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,520 buttress, if you will of strength for me or is it going 504 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,080 to be my undertaking? What he allowed into his home 505 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:49,120 became the very thing that protected him and his family. 506 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,440 Someone say man. So my advice to us tonight only 507 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:01,000 allow into your home what can protect you from danger rather 508 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,040 than what can promote, if you will, danger and upheaval in 509 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,840 your life. Look at verse 11 and they smote 510 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,080 the men that were at the door. They Speaking of the angelic men 511 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,560 inside. They they smoked the men that 512 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,360 were at the door of the house, the sodomites with blindness, 513 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,480 both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find 514 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:27,640 the door. So we have men outside the door 515 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:35,320 and we have men inside the house and they're significantly 516 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:41,240 different. After the men outside the door 517 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,320 were struck with blindness, Please note what the scripture 518 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:52,800 says. They still wearied themselves to 519 00:33:52,800 --> 00:34:00,840 find the door. They were exhausting themselves 520 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:08,159 to find the door to the house folks. 521 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,080 It's that type of diabolical thing that is seeking to find 522 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:21,360 entry into your life and family so that a one off blinding one 523 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,080 off slapping of the hand isn't going to dissuade them. 524 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,159 To the .0. I'll go, I'll just go home. 525 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,520 Struck with blindness wasn't enough to cause them to stop 526 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,800 searching for the door that they wanted access to. 527 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,920 There's reason why we read in Scripture talk about Jesus being 528 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,840 tempted in the wilderness of the devil, right? 529 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,960 So the man, can you make these stones into bread? 530 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,760 Son of man, if I take you to the pinnacle of the temple, Amen. 531 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,880 Will you jump down, Son of man, right. 532 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,480 If you'll bow down and worship me, I'll give you all, all of 533 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,480 the kingdoms of the world, all this stuff. 534 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,120 And the Bible says after that, that that the devil departed 535 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,440 from him for a season and that there were ministering angels 536 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,000 come down to minister to him. Notice though, the devil 537 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:13,160 departed for AI. Wish I could tell you it's one 538 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,280 whip, once whipped, always whipped. 539 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,320 But the fact of the matter is this, you're going to pray 540 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,920 against him. You go do this, you go do that. 541 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,240 And he's still going to try to find your door. 542 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,160 He's going to weary himself. He's going to go to the NTH 543 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,160 degree of trying to find your door. 544 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,680 That's the reason why you can't even perchance leave it open. 545 00:35:40,290 --> 00:35:43,490 He's relentless. He's relentless. 546 00:35:46,050 --> 00:35:49,050 The men verse #4 tells us, and I'm kind of jumping around here 547 00:35:49,050 --> 00:35:52,650 a little bit tonight, the verse #4 tells us that the character 548 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:54,850 of the men who can pass and look, the Bible says they can 549 00:35:54,850 --> 00:36:00,560 pass the house round, right? They're, they're at the door, 550 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,520 they're around the house. They have impure motives. 551 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,160 The Bible says that they desired to know the men on the Ensign 552 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,840 inside, which was a euphemism to know was for sexual relation 553 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:18,960 purposes. Our modern word sodomy origin 554 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:27,160 actually comes from Genesis 19, implying then that the men of 555 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:31,760 Sodom was practicing some, and I don't mean to be crude, but 556 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:39,560 homosexual rape. These men are not just wanting 557 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,080 some type of firm formal introduction. 558 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,720 They're not just wanting to to know, to get acquainted with the 559 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:49,520 men of the house. Because if that was the case, I 560 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,200 don't believe we would have heard Lot say in verse #7 I pray 561 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,520 you, brethren, speaking to the men outside the door, do not so 562 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:02,040 wickedly. This is not a shaking of hands 563 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,280 and rubbing elbows and a hugging of neck to know. 564 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,440 And Lot, of course. Yes, he said, Well, he calls him 565 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:11,040 brethren. Yeah. 566 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,120 I mean, have you ever tried to appeal to someone that was angry 567 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,840 and you did appeal to them in a way that hoping you could 568 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,080 appease them in such a way that you brought them down a little 569 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,800 bit. You were kind of gentle in your 570 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,720 address because you were trying to sway them from their purpose 571 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,840 or anger. He's he's trying to he's trying 572 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,280 to touch and have an appeal to their less evil side, brethren, 573 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,520 Right. He's trying to bring them down 574 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,680 off the perch of their wickedness. 575 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:43,320 Listen to her, McGee tonight. There are some things you just 576 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:53,630 can't reason with. There are some things peering 577 00:37:53,630 --> 00:37:57,070 into our life that you can't strike, if you will, 578 00:37:57,070 --> 00:38:05,670 negotiations with. It's kind of like who wasn't, I 579 00:38:05,670 --> 00:38:07,270 can't remember right now in scripture. 580 00:38:08,390 --> 00:38:12,000 Ben. Hey, Dad, from someone else, he 581 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,080 should have killed the man. But the Bible says after it's 582 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,440 all sudden over, he said, well, you did things for my father. 583 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:17,640 He says I'm just going to release you. 584 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,960 And then the prophet came back, said you should have killed him. 585 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,680 You know why He was basically saying you shouldn't have 586 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,560 negotiated? Because there are some things 587 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,680 that are not up for negotiation. There is no such thing of 588 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:36,080 meeting a compromise with. So you just can't reason with 589 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:37,520 something. Some things you just got to shut 590 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,120 the door on it and you got to keep the door shut. 591 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,360 And so look down. The fact that in verse 4, these 592 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,320 men that surrounded the house, the Bible tells us they were 593 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:49,680 both. And this, this is heart 594 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,200 wrenching. They were both young and old. 595 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:57,880 Scripture says they were both young and old, which speaks to 596 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:07,400 me, the proliferation of this wickedness from old to young, 597 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,720 pervading throughout Sodom, but more importantly pervading 598 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:17,320 throughout generations. It had been generational. 599 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:26,480 There are generational issues at our doors wanting into your 600 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,760 house. I've had the old, I've had the 601 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,080 middle-aged, I've had the, I've had first generation, second 602 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,640 generation, third generation, 4th generation. 603 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,280 I just want to make you 5th generation with the same issue, 604 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,240 right? We hear it all the time. 605 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,160 You know, Grandfather was alcoholic, Dad was alcoholic. 606 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,680 I want to make sure the son's an alcoholic. 607 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,640 That one was an addict. That one was an addict. 608 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:57,240 Uncle was an addict. He wants in your house because 609 00:39:57,240 --> 00:39:59,800 he wants this thing to continue generationally. 610 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,600 But that's no, no negotiations, not given here, not given, if 611 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,720 you will, any life unto that. I got to hurry. 612 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,960 Amen. I know you all been waiting to 613 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,280 hear that in second Peter chapter #2 that we just 614 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,560 referenced earlier. Look, Lot is described as a 615 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,600 righteous man. More simply, though, a righteous 616 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,400 man affected and influenced by his environment. 617 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,720 Brother McGee, listen again. Righteousness doesn't equal 618 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:37,280 perfection. You can be righteous with 619 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,400 faults. I know that's hard for you to 620 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,400 think right, because it's not really your righteousness 621 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,760 anyway. It's our yielding to His 622 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:51,080 righteousness, Our righteousness from the start. 623 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:57,040 Filthy rags, huh? The imputing in the book of 624 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,840 Romans, or Corinthians rather, is that he imputes to us his 625 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:07,080 righteousness. And so I realize, I realize our 626 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,880 our buddy lot, you know, has a few faux pas in his life, right? 627 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,760 Pitching his tent towards Sodom. We even have here the most 628 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,560 gruesome thing you think of here whenever he says, no, you can't 629 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:21,000 have these men, but here's my daughters and he's offering 630 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,440 them. They're virgins. 631 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:23,880 They're not even known to man. Take them. 632 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,680 Do with them what you want. I see that. 633 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,840 I understand that. I understand that later in this 634 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,680 passage of Scripture he lingered when he should have got up and 635 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,920 went at the warning of destruction. 636 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,760 I understand he's taken Zohar whenever he should have went to 637 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,240 the mountains. He has some, some, some toe 638 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,720 Pauls, if you will, some, some, some gaps in his armor, so to 639 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,280 speak. Yet the evidence is still there 640 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,680 of his righteousness, because he's rescued from the 641 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,200 destruction. Do you remember the interceding 642 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:01,200 of Moses to 50 to 45 to 40 to 30 to 20 to 10? 643 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,920 If you'll find such and such righteous, will you not? 644 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:13,120 And yet He does not allow Lot to remain in Sodom, and for that 645 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:18,480 matter, he places him, allows him to be placed in Zoar, which 646 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:22,240 should have been destroyed. But he doesn't destroy Zoar, 647 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:28,240 even for the righteous family of Lot being there. 648 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,840 So in all this, there's still evidence here. 649 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:33,680 He shows hospitality to the visitors. 650 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,480 That's great. Again, he refused to let the men 651 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,880 in to the the the men that were inside his house to have those 652 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,680 sexual relations. There's that. 653 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,920 And I'm sure you know, the Bible talks about, we talked about 654 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:50,880 this, how that Noah was righteous in his generation. 655 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,560 And there is that little phrase in his generation, like in 656 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:59,400 comparison to the time in which he lived, he stood as an 657 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,160 exemplary righteous person in his generation. 658 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,440 I guess what I'm saying is you can take a person and set them 659 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:11,600 in different settings and their righteousness made being more 660 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,040 than other places because of the surroundings that they're 661 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:18,000 setting in, right? You take a white dot of white 662 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,720 out and throw it on the black cloth and it's like it's right 663 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:23,280 there, but you put it in something just a little bit 664 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,200 white, a shred than that. It's going to be harder to 665 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,000 decipher. So I'm sure lot was righteous 666 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,360 compared to the other people inside them because they're 667 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,160 wicked, they're grievous sinners. 668 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:43,560 The Bible says, but his soul that was not untouched by living 669 00:43:44,240 --> 00:43:47,200 the living conditions that the people that was around him 670 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:53,760 again, he was vexed or troubled. Sister Jessica daily and say 671 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:59,000 well my goodness, what's wrong with that guy say a little bit 672 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:07,920 On the contrary and that is this we day when the place and 673 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:22,750 environment in doesn't backs us. Whenever I feel OK with 674 00:44:22,830 --> 00:44:28,310 everything that's going on around me, I feel OK living in 675 00:44:28,310 --> 00:44:30,390 the society. We're seeing the bounds and 676 00:44:30,390 --> 00:44:35,560 continues to abound. And that don't bother me, that 677 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:40,400 don't trouble me. Or even when I start to excuse 678 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:45,600 it, well, I'm just talking to myself right now. 679 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:51,120 If I can say then a little bit. Lots, lots moral discomfort. 680 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,760 That vexing was a good thing because at least it attested to 681 00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,640 the fact, at least partially, Bishop, he had some spiritual 682 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,560 sensitivity still about him. There might have been, if you 683 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,840 will, some rubbing off, some friction and rubbing off on him, 684 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,640 but there was still some sensibilities there that he 685 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,800 wasn't OK with. Everything that was going on 686 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:19,320 with Sodom, huh? Hey man, see the danger lies 687 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,120 whenever there's something biblically wrong and corrupt and 688 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:27,960 that doesn't bother us, especially whenever you spout 689 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,080 out as much it don't bother you that don't bother me. 690 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,200 Oh God. Oh mercy, right. 691 00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,240 One of the Beatitudes, Matthew 5 and 4, the Bible says blessed 692 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:45,400 are they that everybody say mourn for they shall be 693 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,480 comforted it. It's a very peculiar beatitude. 694 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:54,720 Blessed are they that mourn. I'm not feeling too blessed when 695 00:45:54,720 --> 00:46:01,280 I mourn. Feel more like not blessed but a 696 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,240 mess when I mourn. But he said, blessed are they 697 00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:07,560 that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 698 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:12,040 An odd statement, but it's not an odd statement, Brother Trout, 699 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:17,840 where we understand only those who can feel can mourn. 700 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,840 The story was told of years ago there was a missionary that, 701 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,200 that he was a missionary in a, a tribe in a sector of the 702 00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,680 country, an area where leprosy was very much so prevalent. 703 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,960 He served in, in legitimately in, in a leper colony, which is 704 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,480 a very, very contagious disease. And still medicine is scarce in 705 00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,760 certain areas of the country for that, although I know we have 706 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,280 stuff for today, but in certain areas still very scarce. 707 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,320 And he says while he was there one morning, he was boiling some 708 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:52,200 water, and that boiling pot of water, Sister Samantha, fell and 709 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,200 landed on his foot. And it didn't bother him. 710 00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,240 It's then Sister Jen that he understood he had succumbed to 711 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:06,120 leprosy because leprosy impacts all of your nerve endings and 712 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,560 your ability to be able to feel. That's the reason why some don't 713 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,080 have noses or ears. They get infections in the 714 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,760 extremities of their body and their nerves are not telling 715 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,400 them anything about pain or anything that's wrong and they 716 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,640 end up losing them because they cannot feel. 717 00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,880 He said 1000 times would have been better if I felt the pain 718 00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,680 and the agony of the boiling water, then not to have felt it. 719 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,200 So listen, it's okay to feel conviction. 720 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,560 It's okay for what's going on around you. 721 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,640 Doesn't just somehow size up with what you feel in your heart 722 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,600 and spirit and what you stand for. 723 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,200 You better be glad to God. It vexes you. 724 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,640 You better be glad to God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 725 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,240 Blessed are they that can feel. At least you're not past 726 00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:53,160 feeling. At least you're not totally 727 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,200 absorbed in the environment that you're living in. 728 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,720 You still have some sensibility to God's Word and God's precepts 729 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:06,320 and God's principles. But don't get into anything 730 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,600 goes. Don't let first Apostolic Church 731 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,480 ever get into anything goes. Game. 732 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:15,320 Yeah. Come on. 733 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,800 Yeah, we get the mindset of anything goes. 734 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:29,040 We won't be going, but can we? Again, I'm hammering this and I 735 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,360 don't know why I feel burdened about this, but even from the 736 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,360 church house. Amen to your house. 737 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,600 Don't get in the attitude that anything goes. 738 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:37,480 That's OK. I'll endorse that. 739 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,880 That's not a big deal. That's just a little city of 740 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,880 Zohar. That's just close to where Sodom 741 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,640 was, but I'm not in Sodom. Don't push the foot around with 742 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,120 that type of stuff. It's. 743 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,600 This is what Paul said Ephesians 419 I know I'm back, bless the 744 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:02,200 Lord. Ephesians 419 who being past 745 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:07,920 feeling everybody say past feeling who being past feeling 746 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,040 have given themselves over until lasciviousness. 747 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:16,400 Remember our our our decision and restricted living, giving 748 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,960 themselves over to lasciviousness to work all 749 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:24,160 uncleanness with greediness. Paul urging the church at 750 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,440 Ephesus and he tells us and you can read the verses above. 751 00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:32,240 He says don't be like the other gentiles who are past feeling. 752 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:39,000 What's that mean? I'm OK, you're OK, we're OK, he 753 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,240 says. Because when you're past 754 00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:47,480 feeling, you'll begin to indulge in unrestricted living and 755 00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:53,320 uncleanness without a second thought of consideration in 756 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:59,680 doing it, because the senses of right and wrong will have been 757 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:05,960 severed. Your past feeling conviction, 758 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,360 Brother Mason. I don't care how long I've been 759 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:17,440 in the church this week, when I go to camp, I can't wait to sit 760 00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,840 on that Pew and for that minister to say something 761 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:25,480 morning or night that pricks my heart and runs me in such a way 762 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,520 that I got to look at Paul McGee again. 763 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,960 I don't want to be able to sit on the Pew and the preacher 764 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,080 preach and say everything and be there for years and never feel 765 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,600 any more conviction over the way that I live my life or how I 766 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,200 order my life. No, I want to feel it. 767 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,320 I want to be vexed. I want to be vexed for my 768 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,160 house's sake, for my church's sake, for the individual's sake. 769 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:59,960 I don't want to be past feeling. That's the reason why I don't 770 00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:02,960 wag my head as someone that's been in church for 40 years, 771 00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,520 comes to an altar and pray. I know summer's like, well, 772 00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:07,160 bless God, what in the world's going on there? 773 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:12,480 They've been in church for 40 years, yes, but they're not past 774 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,680 feeling. They understand. 775 00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:18,240 Just the same as I understand, we are all still in process. 776 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:22,240 There are still some edges that need to be sanded off by God's 777 00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:26,160 Word and His Spirit in my life, and I want to be open to that. 778 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,560 Instead, I, you know, we'll do something about this. 779 00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:50,060 So yeah, I got to leave you with hope, though, right? 780 00:51:50,060 --> 00:51:53,060 And I've taken through all the despair and slapped you upside 781 00:51:53,060 --> 00:51:57,180 the head about your door and got to leave you with some hope. 782 00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:05,260 Hope is this for the Fred that regardless how deplorable Sodom 783 00:52:05,260 --> 00:52:17,360 was and how compromised Lot may have been, God still sent a 784 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:29,760 couple angelic messengers to his house as deliverers for the 785 00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,040 pending destruction that was coming. 786 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,200 I have great confidence tonight. Covenants tonight then in this, 787 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,400 that if God would be willing to send angels to Sodom to deliver 788 00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:49,440 a lot, then He's certainly reaching for you today. 789 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,240 Because let's get real, we're living in a modern day Sodom 790 00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:00,760 where live sin is rampant, even to the degree of being 791 00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:06,640 celebrated. Things that that the, the years 792 00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,720 gone by, decades gone by, that, that, that, that that would have 793 00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,880 been shamed. Now, now all of that's being 794 00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,040 rebranded. Now we're, we're we're branded 795 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,920 that as our identity, our freedom and our rights. 796 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,440 Living the modern day Sodom today biblical standards. 797 00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,640 Now we look through there and they're just, they're labeled 798 00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,080 people say, well, that's intolerant, or that's outdated 799 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,160 or that's oppressive or that whatever you want to throw in 800 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,960 the blank and even it's Lot and just give me a little more time. 801 00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:39,720 And if you even begin to raise your hand and protest against 802 00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:44,880 any of this out beyond these walls, you're labeled a judge. 803 00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:54,600 You can look at verse #9 that whenever Lot objected to the men 804 00:53:54,960 --> 00:54:00,320 that were at the door, they instantly said you came as a 805 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,240 sojourner. But now we need you to be a 806 00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:06,560 judge to us, Brother Mason. It's where I get then the clue 807 00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:10,840 and understand then why it's the do not judge me generation and 808 00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:15,440 culture. You only get that if you're 809 00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,600 willing to stand and to object. What's diabolical against God. 810 00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,800 That's the only time they'll accuse you of being the judge. 811 00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,000 Other people in Sodom wasn't saying that to other people in 812 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:33,000 Sodom. No, that was only being said to 813 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,320 the one that says I have a door and I'm going to keep it shut. 814 00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,840 And there's only certain things that come in this door and 815 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,720 certain things up, man, I'm feeling the Holy Ghost right now 816 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,840 and certain things I'm not going to allow on this door. 817 00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,880 If you do that, you got to suffer yourself sometimes being 818 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:49,200 called the judgment. But God has the final judgment, 819 00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:52,040 as Abraham said. Will not the judge of all the 820 00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:53,440 earth do that? Which is right? 821 00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,440 And what comes about in chapter 19 is the judge of all the 822 00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:03,240 earth. All right, I got, I got close. 823 00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:05,600 Let me, we got just another verse up there. 824 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,600 Brother two. Hallelujah. 825 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:08,840 Amen. Something like that. 826 00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:10,800 Oh, I'm in here. Something over here. 827 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:11,720 Get out of here. What is that? 828 00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:17,000 I don't know. My iPad is talking to me first. 829 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,880 Peter 4 and verse 3 through 4. He says Peter says Apostle 830 00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:26,080 Peter, for the time past of our life, please watch these words 831 00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,160 very carefully and I'll shut up. For the time past of our life 832 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,360 may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles. 833 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:35,880 Let's stop here. What's he saying? 834 00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:41,400 He's saying there was a time in our past that we acted and we 835 00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:45,520 did our manner of life just after the wheel of the Gentiles, 836 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:52,480 which was notably unbelievers. He says how did we do this? 837 00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,560 He said when we walked in lasciviousness, unrestricted 838 00:55:55,560 --> 00:56:00,960 living, when we walked in lusts, excessive wine, revelings, 839 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,280 banquetings, and abdominal idolatries. 840 00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:13,880 Verse 4, wherein they think it's strange that ye run not with 841 00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,960 them to the same excess of riot. What's happened? 842 00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:24,040 I'm not what I used to be. Now I'm not what I used to be. 843 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,200 And whereas before I had unrestricted living and I had 844 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:32,480 all this diabolical type of life, now those who have not had 845 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:36,440 the same changes I've had, they look at me in question and say, 846 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,480 I don't understand why you don't do the things that we used to do 847 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:44,000 or the things that go into the excess of riot like we used to. 848 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,680 And notice what the scripture says. 849 00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:52,040 What do they do? They speak evil of you because 850 00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:56,160 they don't understand that what, what you once considered right, 851 00:56:56,160 --> 00:57:00,160 you now consider wrong. What you once endorsed, now you 852 00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,480 say, uh, uh, not here. They want you to be the same 853 00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,680 that you've always. Here's even the greater thing, 854 00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,760 folks, listen to me. Well, they want you to be the 855 00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,440 same that you've always been. Although you said you even had a 856 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,920 change. Come on, talk about it. 857 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:18,120 I'm going to lose my mind because modern Christianity is 858 00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,120 except the Lord Jesus in your heart. 859 00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:25,640 And that's the extent of any type of lifestyle alteration. 860 00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:29,920 Yeah, that's right. That I still show up and I still 861 00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,880 cuss and I still smoke and I still chew and I still fornicate 862 00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:34,440 and I still lie and I still cheat. 863 00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,000 If I were someone viewing through the binoculars at the 864 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,280 layout of the land that still looks a whole lot like Sodom, 865 00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,800 but no, I want to be someone with my hand on the door, Amen. 866 00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,600 That's going to try to live in the way that He wants me to 867 00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:53,680 live. Amen. 868 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,880 Work out your own salvation with fear and trebling, for it's 869 00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,680 Christ in you that's working that out. 870 00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,400 It's that spirit that you receive that's causing, if you 871 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,360 will, different lifestyles and different walks and different 872 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,880 talks and different ways of mannerisms of your life. 873 00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,880 I'm not going to run to the same excess in writing that I used to 874 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,640 because I'm not the same person that I used to be. 875 00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,240 So do we feel the friction? You better believe it. 876 00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,680 Is there times in this real life, even as a Christian that's 877 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,520 trying to do right for God that there are marks, if you will, 878 00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,160 left on our life from the yes, there is. 879 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,720 Thank God for a prayer room. Thank God for the, the, the, 880 00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,040 the, the aspect of repentance. That's not just a one time, but 881 00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:44,280 a daily thing in my life. So I don't always make the right 882 00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,640 choices. Sometimes I give in to the 883 00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,520 pressure, Brother Fred, I'd like to say every day I'm successful, 884 00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,880 but it's not the case. Sometimes I give in to the 885 00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:57,800 pressure of the culture that's at my door. 886 00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,160 They're pressing in on it. But you know, in spite of all 887 00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:06,000 that, Mom, God reaches for me none the less. 888 00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:09,920 And perhaps we'll see in weeks to come. 889 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:15,960 And he sends envoys of mercy and grace to try to rescue us. 890 00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,560 It's been good to be back here on Wednesday. 891 00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:30,320 We are souls that are under siege every day of your life, 892 00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,920 every day of your Christian life, whether you're young 893 00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:37,520 convert, whether you're old convert, you're under siege. 894 00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,200 He don't take days off. Neither can we. 895 00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:45,160 Let's pray right now. Father, I love you, God. 896 00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:50,120 I appreciate you this evening. Oh God, who, Lord awakens 897 00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:51,920 something, Lord, in our hearts and minds. 898 00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,360 Help her to be defenders and protectors. 899 00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,000 The Lord of our homes. Help God, those walls, the Lord 900 00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,440 of separation and walls of protection, Lord, to be there, 901 01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:03,160 God, that we would not be ignorant of their purpose or the 902 01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,320 ways. I pray, O Lord, today protect 903 01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:08,120 households and families and children and grandchildren. 904 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,440 Help us, O Lord, not just to lay hands on things because they 905 01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,920 look alluring to our eyes or appeasing God to our natural 906 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,960 man, but help us, O Lord, to be defenders, God, of that which 907 01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:21,040 you have said is as defenders, as children and child of God. 908 01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,600 I pray Lord, that would represent you and showcase you, 909 01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,320 Lord, in the everyday common affairs of our life. 910 01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,240 I pray, O God. Today help us, God, though we're 911 01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:33,880 under siege, Lord, that the Kingdom of God suffer violent, 912 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,560 but the violent take it by force. 913 01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:39,040 Help us to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 914 01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:43,240 God, Lord the stand, Lord, strong, Lord, having done all 915 01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,520 the stand, Lord, in this wicked day, God. 916 01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,440 And I know, Lord Jesus, that you'll help us and you'll aid us 917 01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:51,320 and you'll prosper our way. God, whenever we put forth the 918 01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,840 effort, Lord, and direction that is pleasing God to you in the 919 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,760 name of the Lord Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah, Amen of 920 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,320 the church, say Amen, Amen, Amen. 921 01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,360 Don't leave quite yet. If you can cut the live feed 922 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,480 Brother Alex, and if you're not going to camp or don't need 923 01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:09,640 transportation to camp.