Genesis 29 Series

Lot’s affinity with the world had cost him almost everything. His home, his business, his daughter’s fiancées’, his wife. All he had left were his daughters – for now.

Lot’s compromise with the world would affect his daughters

[Read Genesis 19:30-36.]

I get the impression here that this wasn’t just a one time thing. That this was something the daughters did until they got pregnant. Sick isn’t it? Even unthinkable. Why in the world was their logic so corrupted? Well look where they grew up. In their culture sex wasn’t something sacred and precious reserved for a husband and a wife. Sex was recreational in their world – the only world they ever knew.

And remember how Lot offered them sexually to the angry mob to save his guests? You know the girls knew what their father had done. Remember, this wasn’t some peaceful negotiation between civilized men. This was a shouting match in the early evening though the front door of the house! So by seeing this the daughters were taught by their own father that sex was just something you did for many reasons other than an expression of love between a husband and a wife. Lot’s compromise with the world’s way of doing things affected his daughters in a horrible way.

[Lacy at BBV story.]

Lot’s unholy union with his daughters affected his daughters in much the same way. Their emotional baggage would probably be something they’d have to deal with the rest of their lives. But the affects of Lot’s compromise with the world still wasn’t over. Finally we see:

Lot’s compromise with the world would affect Israel

[Read Genesis 19:37-38.]

The Moabites and the Ammonites we born in that cave. These would become two of Israel’s worst enemies over the years. Even their names reflected the sin in which they were born. (Moab, “from father”, Ben-Ammi, “son of my kinsman”)

I don’t think Lot ever dreamed of how far reaching the effects of his sin would be. But the ripples of his compromise with the world just kept on going and negatively affecting everyone around him. Could this have been avoided? Did it have to turn out this way?

[Read I Peter 2:6-8, I John 2:15-17.]

We must resists cozying up to the world’s ungodly mentality and way of doing things. Because when we compromise our faith, it affects ourselves and those around us in profoundly negative ways.

[USF girls story.]

Follow the way of faith like Abraham. Avoid the way of compromise like Lot.