Lot – Part 6 – A Lot Of Trouble For God – For Abraham – And For Himself – Genesis 19 Lot’s Reprobate And Fallen Corrupt Nature - Incest Series

NOW WE COME TO THE MOST DIFFICULT PART - HOW MUST WE CONSIDER LOT?

If you have read all I have written on the account of Lot over 6 Parts, you will have noticed that I examined his motives and behaviour thoroughly. I searched carefully for all the points of commendation and could not find one. I have read what commentators and reviewers said about Lot and some of them I believe are way off the mark in what they say. Some try to attribute honest motives to all that Lot did, ones like Martin Luther, but what they say does not hold water in the analysis.

If there was no New Testament reference to Job, then I am sure that nearly all commentators would see Lot in the worst possible light. The only reason some say all these positive things about him is because of what Peter wrote and they try to backtrack to read something good into what is not good. If you took Peter away then all that Lot did would be utterly condemned. He moved to Sodom because he loved the world and the sin of Sodom. He refused to leave the place and had to be dragged out. He offered his daughters up to be gang raped. He was disobedient to the angels. He had no regard for God at all. He was a drunk with no self control. Lastly his drunken behaviour led to incest and the formation of two of the worst enemies of Israel for about 1000 years.

When I was in school aged maybe about 5 or 6 I remember a lady teacher in the late 1940s telling the class a story that was so arresting to me that I went home and did all these good things I could. This was the story. She said that God has a board for your life and every time you did something good then God put a nail in the board, but every time you did something bad a nail would be removed. If you still had a nail in the board when you died, you would go to heaven. Of course that is no more than salvation by works and man’s humanism.

If that was applied to Lot, then as I study his life, there would be no nails in that board, for none was good, but there would be a huge list of items that would remove nails if they were there!

Now before we leave Lot in the biblical record, a question - “What do you find in the account of Lot in the Old Testament that is commendable? I would love to know what you have found.

Balaam is the complete opposite. When you read his account in the Old Testament he comes over as being very good. You’d think he served the Lord in faith. It is not until you come to the New Testament and read Jude and Peter than you realise God considered him as a false prophet, one who tried to corrupt the people of God for gain. {{Jude 1:11 “Woe to them for they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.”}} {{2Peter 2:14-16 having eyes full of adultery and that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed - accursed children - 2Pet 2:15 forsaking the right way they have gone astray having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 2Pet 2:16 but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a dumb donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.”}}