The Danger Of A Lean In The Wrong Direction

Now Lot and his family are settled in Sodom

They are surrounded by sin, and what at one time was repulsive and unthinkable is now the atmosphere they breathe every day.

Gen 18:17-32

You can read one of the greatest passages in the bible as a mere man named Abraham intercedes for the souls of men, as he pleads for the mercy of God he brings God to an agreement ( If I find ten righteous ones I will spare the city for their sakes).

Through Abraham’s intercession, Three angels are sent to Sodom to bring Lot and his family out.

Lot has two daughters and two sons in laws.

Lot warns his sons in law

Gen 19:14 Up get you out of this place for the Lord will destroy this city (but he seemed to them as one that mocked unto his sons in laws).

Gen 19:16-17

16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they (brought him forth, and set him without the city.)

In other words (Lord being merciful unto Lot, the angels took hold of their hands and (pulled) them out of the city.)

I know should get on with my message, but I just can’t go on without taking a minute to thank God for pulling me out, I was stuck in sin and he pulled me out.

Is there anybody here right now who knows if God hadn’t pulled you out, you’d be dead?

Somebody I’m talking to right now (God pulled you out of drug addiction, God pulled you out of alcoholism, God pulled you out of a bad relationship, God pulled you out of homosexuality, God pulled you out of prostitution, God pulled you out of dead religion.

Somebody ought to get on your feet right now and thank God that he pulled you out, your flesh didn’t want to quit, but he pulled you out (he could have just said come out and just kept on walking but he knew my flesh was fighting to stay in Sodom so he PULLED me out.

I was sinking in Quicksand, the harder I fought to get out, the deeper I went and the worse it got, then God in love and mercy reached down his hand and pulled me out.

Touch three people and tell them (He pulled me out, I was stuck pretty good but he pulled me out, I even fought him and resisted him but he pulled me out.

Then look at:

Gen 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

19:24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from heaven

19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt.

This chapter closes with Lots two daughters getting their father drunk and becoming pregnant by him, and out of these incestuous relationships came two of Israel’s greatest enemies (the Ammonites and the Moabites).

Lot lost everything: He lost every temporal blessing that he had in Sodom, he lost his two sons in law, he lost his wife, and finally he lost his two daughters to the spirit of lust and corruption and perversion of Sodom.

And it all started with a lean in the wrong direction.